New documents prove U.S. Army actively targeted leftist protesters, group says

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New documents prove U.S. Army actively targeted leftist protesters, group says
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, February 24, 2014 13:49 EST

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.”



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Yet another reason to cut the Pentagon budget. (They obviously have too much money and time on their hands.)