corporate spying on non profit groups

Sparky · 12-18-2013, 03:20 PM

man, i implore you guys to read this thoroughly.

Or just skim it it's crazy

http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf

Sparky · 12-20-2013, 03:07 PM

well, seeing as how nobody can be bothered to read this, not that im blaming anyone-if you posted this i'd very likely not read it either-i'll post my favorite tidbits:

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As a result, spying has blossomed into a
domestic market worth nearly $50 billion a year.”11 In 2010, the Washington Post was able
to identify 1,931 private companies that “work on top-secret contracts.” The Post also
estimated that “out of 854,000 people with top-secret clearances, 265,000 are
contractors.”1

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“spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late
1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting
to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone
records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. According to
company documents provided to Mother Jones by a former investor in the
firm, this security outfit collected confidential internal records—donor lists,
detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members,
strategy memos—from these organizations and produced intelligence
reports for public relations firms and major corporations involved in
environmental controversies.”

BBI is the parent company of Dow

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Use of former Secret Service, CIA, military and police officers. BBI was founded and/or
staffed by former Secret Service, CIA, military and police officers, including:
 David Bresett, former chief of counterterrorism for the Secret Service;
 Vincent Cannistraro, former director of counter-terrorism operations for the CIA;
 Philip Giraldi, former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of
the CIA;
 Jay A. Bly, former Secret Service agent;
 Timothy S. Ward, former sergeant, Maryland State Police;
 Paul Rakowski, former Secret Service agent;
 Michael Mika, former Secret Service agent;

George M. Ferris, former naval special operations officer;22 and,
 Harold “Jim” Grasman, former Secret Service agent, currently Special Agent in
Charge and Chief Technology Officer, Office of Inspector General, US Department of
Homeland Security.

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From the mid-1990s through much of the 2000s, Mary McFate was a prominent volunteer
for gun control groups. She ran for a seat on the board of directors of the Brady Campaign
to Prevent Gun Violence, and worked closely with other national gun control organizations,
such as the Violence Policy Center. She was director of federal legislation for States United
to Prevent Gun Violence. She was deeply knowledgeable about the plans and actions of
these and other national gun control groups. They, however, did not know that her other
identity was Mary Lou Sapone, who since the late 1980s had been paid by corporations to spy on citizens’ groups.
49 For example, she had worked for Beckett Brown International to
infiltrate the Lake Charles, Louisiana environmental organization CLEAN.50 For the U.S.
Surgical Corporation, she had infiltrated animal rights activists who were protesting its use
of dogs in medical training.51 In a 2003 deposition, Tim Ward, former president of BBI, said
that the National Rifle Association had been a client of Sapone’s. Billing records show that
the NRA paid BBI “nearly $80,000” for services rendered between May 1999 and April
2000.
52

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“Create a false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information, and
monitor to see if US Chamber Watch acquires it. Afterward, present explicit
evidence proving that such transactions never occurred.”

 “[C]reate a fake insider persona and generate communications with CtW [Change to
Win]. Afterward, release the actual documents at a specified time and explain the
activity as a CtW contrived operation. Both instances will prove that US Chamber
Watch cannot be trusted with information and/or tell the truth.”59

I'm just copy n pasting without given context but i think the quotes speak for themselves here

please read that ****

Paul Smeenus · 12-20-2013, 04:02 PM

Sparky · 12-20-2013, 04:06 PM

not looking for validation, i'm just surprised by how little interest is garnered.

Think of how many of the occupy people were likely current/former fbi/cia/police etc it's quite astounding.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 12-22-2013, 03:18 AM

stop doing adderall yo

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 12-22-2013, 03:22 AM

NOBODY cares about ur life tho??? like....

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 12-22-2013, 03:26 AM

u r so self centred your interest in this is totally self serving bc u think that ppl are spying on u

Mr. Charlie · 12-22-2013, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sparky

man, i implore you guys to read this thoroughly.

Or just skim it it's crazy

http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf

It's disgusting, but sadly not surprising. Power corrupts.

Sparky · 12-24-2013, 07:43 PM

i'm expanding this thread to cover all forms of corporate espionage

--also if a mod would be so kind as to remove sansa's rather unwarranted, off-topic posts so this thread can get back to form, that would be greatly appreciated--

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/bu...ance.html?_r=0

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A regional court in Versailles, near Paris, is now examining whether Ikea executives in France broke the law by ordering personal investigations — not only of Ms. Paulin but of hundreds of other people over the course of a decade.

it's not like IKEAS buisness model varies dramatically country to country if you catch my drift

Paul Smeenus · 12-24-2013, 07:48 PM

12-18-2013, 03:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	corporate spying on non profit groups man, i implore you guys to read this thoroughly. Or just skim it it's crazy http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf

12-20-2013, 04:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	not looking for validation, i'm just surprised by how little interest is garnered. Think of how many of the occupy people were likely current/former fbi/cia/police etc it's quite astounding.

12-22-2013, 03:18 AM	#5 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	stop doing adderall yo

12-22-2013, 03:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	NOBODY cares about ur life tho??? like....

12-22-2013, 03:26 AM	#7 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	u r so self centred your interest in this is totally self serving bc u think that ppl are spying on u