Breaking: Report Of High Level DNC Infiltration In N. Carolina Sanders Campaign

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150. Infiltration happens in all radical groups.

Whether it's by opposition, or the police, each and every organization that I have been involved with over the past 45 or so years has been infiltrated by opposition. They try to incite violence, to detract from peaceful demonstrations, and try to rise through the power structure of the group to positions near the leadership, where they can influence those leading the group.

I first realized this in the 1970s when we tried to keep them from opening the Shoreham nuclear plant on Long Island. Several undercover police had got involved with the group, attended meetings, and often made good suggestions on how to proceed. Once they had our confidence, they had gotten involved more and more with organizing actions. Then they suggested that we just use violent techniques to get our points across. Of course, we were against it, and went on to find out that these folks were detectives with the NYPD who apparently had been assigned to secretly infiltrate the group, and report back to the big brass who were the leaders of the group and report back on any actions that the establishment might find against their goals.
We managed to thwart their actions, by holding our own secret meetings, which were against our best principles, but they had to be done if the group was to survive. We managed to keep them from being too involved, as to not let people know what actions we would take, until only a couple of days before.

Since then, I have seen these sort of folks infiltrate all sorts of peace, justice, anti-war, and environmental groups that I have been involved with in one way or another. They always are aggressive in their actions, and try to influence the leaders of the group in one way or another. Sometimes they are harder to figure out, and other times easy.
All I can say to this matter, is that I am only surprised that there has not been reported infiltration of the establishment into Bernie's campaign earlier. I guess that after all his experience, Bernie knows what he is doing with his core group. It can be harder with outlying groups affiliated with him.

Anyone who thinks that this is only a theory, only lacks the experience of having been infiltrated by outsiders in their groups. They should learn from this, and other movements which have also been compromised by outsiders.