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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport: Corporations use professional spies-for-hire to monitor and undermine nonprofits
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/22/report-corporations-use-professional-spies-for-hire-to-monitor-and-undermine-nonprofits/A newly released report from the watchdog group Essential Information alleges that powerful corporations spy on and sabotage the very nonprofit groups dedicated to keeping them in check.
According to the report, titled Spooky Business, a global network of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) employees work at the beck and call of corporations like Walmart, Monsanto, Coca Cola, Burger King, McDonalds, Kraft, Shell, BP and others, undermining consumer protections and enforcing a pro-business agenda.
Walmart, for example, has an in-house Threat Research and Analysis Group that, according to a former employee, targets citizens groups and critics of the corporations policies. The Wall Street Journal reported that in 2006, the company wired an employee with a hidden microphone and sent him to spy on a meeting of Arkansas activists planning a protest. Operatives reportedly followed around the perimeter with a surveillance van, listening to every word of the meeting.
These espionage tactics are not limited to the United States. Spooky Business details surveillance and sabotage projects carried out in France, the U.K. and India by companies and organizations ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Dow Chemical to Bank of America. A press release on the website CorporatePolicy.org said that the companies have engaged in efforts to undermine groups of all kinds, including environmental, anti-war, public interest, consumer, food safety, pesticide reform, nursing home reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups.
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Report: Corporations use professional spies-for-hire to monitor and undermine nonprofits (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. I'll bet someone from the Walmart “Threat Research and Analysis Group” read this post.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. k&r for exposure. n/t
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WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. HUGE K & R !!!
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)4. kick n/t
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)5. interesting. not surprising. but interesting dug that up.