New Documents Prove U.S. Army Actively Targeted Leftist Protesters, Group Says

[Purveyor]

New records obtained by the Defending Dissent Foundation prove that the United States Army used a multi-agency spy network to gather intelligence on nonviolent, antiwar protesters and to disseminate their findings to both the FBI and local police departments.

Activists filed a lawsuit against Thomas Rudd and John Towery — Panagacos v. Towery — in 2007, alleging that the U.S. Army had directed operatives to infiltrate and collect information about the activist movement in the Washington area.

According to the newly released documents, the U.S. Army paid Towery, a Criminal Information and Systems Officer, to spy on the antiwar group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR), as well as the Students for a Democratic Society, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

In an email from November 2007, Towery wrote to a number of people he had met at a Domestic Terrorism (DT) conference in Spokane, Washington that “it would be a good idea to develop a leftist/anarchist mini-group for intel sharing and distro.”

Towery seemed very concerned that existence of this “mini-group” would become public knowledge. “[W]e will need to look at the third party rules and each individuals [sic] agency policy about email,” he wrote, because “[e]ven open source information and files should not be distributed, because it might tip off groups that we are studying their techniques, tactics and prcedures.”

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[WillyT]

1. K & R !!!

[Adam051188]

2. not quite who's on first, but almost.

the fbi says talk to the army. the army says talk to the cia. the cia says talk to the navy. the navy says talk to the nsa. the nsa says fuckoff.

[PoliticalPothead]

3. It's been forty years since COINTELPRO was exposed and this shit is still going on. n/t