FBI Infilitrated Antiwar Group Before Raid, Agent Chaired Meetings, Joined Delegation to Palestine

[Puregonzo1188]

From Democracy Now:

There are major new developments in the case of the peace activists targeted by FBI raids last September. Lawyers for the activists in Minnesota and St. Paul have learned a government agent infiltrated their group and conducted extensive spying. Going by the name "Karen Sullivan," the agent began attending organizing meetings of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee in the lead-up to the Republican National Convention. Sullivan then took an active role in the group, chairing meetings, handling bookkeeping, and communicating with dozens of other organizations. Anti-War Committee activist Jess Sundin spoke to Democracy Now! on Wednesday.

Sullivan even accompanied two activists when they tried to visit the Occupied Territories in 2009. But upon landing in Israel, Israeli agents were already aware of their trip and refused to grant them entry. The activists’ attorneys have also learned prosecutors are focusing on a small donation the two activists wanted to give to their host in the Occupied Territories, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees. The group is not listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. and is a registered NGO with the Palestinian Authority. Sullivan left the Twin Cities last fall, shortly before the raids of September 24th.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/13/headlines#15

More information from one of the groups infiltrated:

Sullivan’s spying was local and national in scope. She was present in Detroit, at the 2010 United States Social Forum, where she spoke on Plan Colombia. She was also present at the School of the Americas protests, at Fort Benning, Georgia, where she claimed to have met her partner, who goes by the name ‘Daniela Cardenas.’

Sundin states, “Unfortunately, Officer Sullivan took a special interest in the Anti-War Committee’s coalition work. She represented our committee at meetings of the Iraq Peace Action Coalition and the Coalition for Palestinian Rights. She also represented us in national venues - the Latin America Solidarity Coalition, at the School of the Americas Watch protests and at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit last summer. About a year ago, she also joined Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which is talked about by the government in this case, in a manner reminiscent of the McCarthy era political witch hunts.”

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2011/1/12/fbi-infiltration-anti-war-movement-uncovered-minneapolis

[thaddeus_flowe]

1. How long until I wake up in a cell?

How many antiwar comments does take to get on the FBI's naughty list?
How many stories like this until it is not safe to be a pacifist?

[Poll_Blind]

2. Fascinating. Is this the new face of Cointel Pro?

PB

[Webster Green]

3. Obama's DOJ is every bit as fucked as the chimp's.

Maybe even worse. I'm so weary of this fascist crap.

[Puregonzo1188]

4. If it started before the RNC than it started under Bush.

Which just means its a continuation of the same old policies--Palmer Raids, Cointelpro, Surveillance of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Earth First!, etc.--The FBi, from its inception, is America's political police.

[Webster Green]

5. Indeed.

I figure I must be on the no fly list from my activities with Earth First.

I have no plans to fly, so I guess I won't know.

[Puregonzo1188]

6. Oh wow. I figure I most be on someone's list. I organized an event at my campus for a speaker from

Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall among many others.

[Puregonzo1188]

7. Kicking.