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At 01:11 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>As the new board audits the books, gems like this are coming out about what
>kinds of scum the old Pacifica board was using against their grassroots
>opposition. On top of union-busting lawyers, they were hiring ex-spooks and
>police to spy on the activist community-- all billed at over $230,000 in
>listener money payed over to the military-intelligence establishment.
>
>-- Nathan Newman
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "siddharta5" <siddharta5 at yahoo.com>
>To: friendswbainj at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [FRIENDSWBAINJ] Old PNB's Internet Spies
>Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:01:38 -0000
>
> From Rafael Renteria, a Free Pacifica activist, this commentary on
>information provided by the Pacifica Campaign -- so that you know the
>type of people who were involved in the destruction of the Pacifica
>Network --:
>
>The old guard PNB spent a quarter million dollars, it seems, spying on
>the plaintiffs and on the movement via the web and by accessing data
>in more than questionable ways.
>
>I'm sure there are any number of us who would like to know which
>computers may have been raided, and to have full details of any and
>all spying and disruptive techniques used against us as a movement and
>as individuals. It's our right to know all of this, and the iPNB
>should make this information available to us in full detail at the
>earliest possible moment.
>
>More below;
>
>Rafael Renteria
>
>The Pacifica Campaign Wrote:
>
>In an extraordinary development, we have learned that a firm called
>Decision Strategies has a bill due for $230,000. Decision Strategies
>is a high-end corporate security and "intelligence" firm, which touts
>its use of "multijurisdictional online and onsite searches with the
>involvement of overt and covert field operatives." According to a USA
>Today article, the firm hires "ex-FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, and Secret
>Service agents; former police, prosecutors, customs agents, federal
>marshals and military intelligence experts; veterans of Britain's MI6,
>Europe's Interpol or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and lawyers,
>forensic accountants, database specialists and journalists."
>
>Pacifica's use of this firm points to even deeper corruption
>and total abandonment of the network's mission than heretofore
>understood.
>
>See the firm's site at http://decision-strategies.com
>
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