This was huge...9 years ago.
Robert I. Friedman, "The Anti-Defamation League is Spying on You," Village Voice, 5/11/93, pp. 27-32;
Jane Hunter, "Who Was the ADL Spying For?" Israeli Foreign Affairs, May, 1993;
John M. Crew, A Conspiracy of Silence: San Francisco's Failure to Address Police Intelligence Abuses, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Police Practices Project, August 30, 1993;
Kim Malcheski, "Summary of the 700+ pages released by the San Francisco District Attorney's office regarding spying activities of R. Bullock, Fact Finder for the Anti-Defamation League and Tom Gerard, retired police officer from the San Francisco Police Department," litigation research memo for civil lawsuit, no date, on file at PRA.
Dennis King and Chip Berlet, "ADLgate," Tikkun magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1993, p. 31.
Dennis King and Chip Berlet, "The A.D.L. Under Fire: It's Shift to Right Has Led to Scandal," The New York Times, May 28, 1993, p. A29 (Op-Ed).
Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "Defaming the Anti-Defamation League," Moment, August 1993, pp. 38-43, 62-64.
Abraham H. Foxman, "It's a Big Lie, Hailed by Anti-Semites," The New York Times, May 28, 1993, p. A29 (Op-Ed);
Irwin Suall, Mira Boland, "Anti-Defamation League Investigates Extremists of All Stripes," Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, June 19, 1993, p. 20;
Abraham H. Foxman, "The Big Lie," The Jewish Journal, May 21-27, 1993.
Abraham H. Foxman, "L'Affaire San Francisco," The Jewish Journal, November 19-25, 1993, p. 6;
Dennis J Opatrny and Scott Winokur, "DA Drops Spy Case Against ADL: Jewish rights group accepts injunction, denies misconduct.," San Francisco Examiner, 11/16/93, p. A1.
-Chip Berlet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chris Kromm
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:39 PM
> To: chris kromm
> Subject: ADL spied on behalf of South Africa gov't in aparthaid era
>
>
> This is huge -- but it's likely to get buried (besides this excellent
> coverage in San Fran Chronicle).
> CK
>
> SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - A lawsuit accusing the
> Anti-Defamation League of
> spying on local activists -- the last court action stemming from San
> Francisco police raids on the Jewish organization's office 10
> years ago --
> has been settled for $178,000, lawyers said. The money will
> be divided among
> the remaining three plaintiffs in a suit that was filed in 1993 by 19
> people, all involved in pro-Palestinian or anti-apartheid
> activity. At the
> time, Israel was an ally of South Africa's white-supremacist
> government, and
> the ADL's chief intelligence-gatherer in the Bay Area, Roy
> Bullock, later
> admitted he was also being paid by South Africa. The suit
> claimed the ADL,
> founded almost 90 years ago to combat anti-Semitism, was
> working to suppress
> domestic criticism of Israel by compiling dossiers that it shared with
> police, the Israeli government and its own supporters. The ADL denied
> providing information to Israel and said it was legally
> monitoring hate
> groups and political extremists. After Bullock and a San
> Francisco police
> inspector were seen talking to South African agents in 1992,
> police seized
> more than 10,000 files from the two men and ADL offices in
> San Francisco and
> Los Angeles. The files contained information on organizations and
> individuals at both ends of the political spectrum. The inspector, Tom
> Gerard, later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of illegally
> accessing government information that he allegedly supplied
> to Bullock. The
> ADL settled a suit by the city of San Francisco and another filed by
> political activists in Los Angeles, but the suit by Bay Area
> activists --
> Arab Americans, Jewish dissidents and anti-apartheid organizers -- was
> delayed by years of wrangling over access to ADL files, which had been
> quickly sealed.
>