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Infiltrating The Anti-War Movement

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publication date: Feb 29, 2008 

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February 29 - March 2, 2008 -- Return to the past: infiltrating the anti-war movement

WMR has been investigating a covert operation involving active duty and reserve U.S. military personnel who infiltrate anti-war groups in the United States, particularly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans groups opposed to the Bush administration's war policies.

The move by the Bush administration appears to be a resurrection of Operation Garden Plot, a 1960s program that saw the use of National Guard units to quell civil disturbances in the United States, in addition to the infiltration of anti-war groups by National Guard and Reserve intelligence personnel.

On April 11, 2002, Major General (ret.) Richard Alexander, the executive director of the National Guard Association of the United States, tipped his hand on Garden Plot when he testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Homeland Defense. Alexander stated, "Oversight of these homeland security missions should be provided by the National Guard Bureau based on the long-standing Garden Plot model in which National Guard units are trained and equipped to support civil authorities in crowd control and civil disturbance missions."

The governing directive for Garden Plot is Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, Garden Plot. The Air Force implements Garden Plot in United States Air Force Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, Garden Plot, dated July 11, 1984, while the Army implements Garden Plot with Department of the Army (DA) Civil Disturbance Plan - GARDEN PLOT, dated March 1, 1984.

Acting in coordination with the FBI's Domestic Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), military intelligence agents infiltrated anti-war groups like the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).

WMR has learned that a revised Garden Plot continues to target anti-war and anti-Bush administration groups and individuals in the United States. Some of this infiltration has taken the form of veterans, particularly those from the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force infiltrating anti-war groups as activists. The actual infiltration is mainly conducted by the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), created as a new COINTELPRO-like surveillance activity on February 19, 2002. CIFA collected data on some 129 peace groups through a system in which "Threat and Local Observation Notices" (TALONs) were collected in a centralized database under the control of then-Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone.

WMR is aware of one individual, an Iraq veteran with past or current links to Blackwater USA and the Israeli Defense Force, who has infiltrated a large anti-war group. In addition, another Iraq veteran with ties to an arms manufacturer that is, in turn, tied to CIA activities in Jordan and Namibia, has infiltrated the same anti-war group.

The use of "plants" and infiltrators, in all their various forms, was commonplace with Garden Plot and COINTELPRO in the 1960s and 70s. The practice has been renewed by the Bush administration, and with the state of current technology, in ways that could only have dreamed about by the original Garden Plot/COINTELPRO planners.

Comments

Bill Wade (Exeter)

I guess one can conclude from this that the war is going to be around for a good long while and the authorities will do what they can to stave off a popular uprising.

liberty antigone (?)

I know of which you speak, Mr. Madsen. Thanks for confirmation of something I described to others for a few years, and now see you have the goods, and the "facts" to support my sense. You never cease to amaze me.

George LoBuono (Davis CA)

When protesters can be herded into barbed-wire enclosures (as potential terror nuclei) during national conventions, when the growing, globally crucial anti IMF movement was declared enemy after 9-11, when people accept that the regime will monitor them IN THEIR HOUSES, and when RFID's follow you home and place you in potential cross hairs like that Syriana video, isn't it time to _______?

David Currie (Portland, OR)

I'm sure they probably monitor this website along with others considered "alternative" (alternative to MSM brainwashing). I've long since disguarded the tactic of trying to hide my identity behind fake-names, firewalls and proxy servers, or using public internet access for anonymity. We still have freedom of speech, and we should use it while we still have it. The truth needs to be exposed and we shouldn't be afraid to discuss it - I like to think the people who are monitoring us learn something. Big-brother has a problem of watching its watchers to make sure they don't lose their brainwashing while being exposed to us disidents. If you are not advocating violence there should be no topic that is "off-limits". In many countries they now have laws designating certain topics illegal to discuss, and that may happen here in the USA soon - especially if martial law is declared.

wmrsubscriber (.)

Plants and infiltrators --- thanks for the reminder, Wayne.

sysiphus (Melrose, WA)

People dont remember but much of what was destroyed of the antiwar and anti-imperialism movements in the 70s occurred because of these low-life plants and infiltrators. Yes, George, it has been time to ________ for a long time now. When the military-industrial complex was first denounced by Eisenhower in 1960 it should have happened then and the assassinations and the coup d'etat in America would never have happened nor the rise of the drug barons Bush. We would now be in a totally different reality with a planet in progressive beneficial evolution instead of being one of the last holdouts of Satan in the galaxy.

There is still time but it is now hundreds of times harder than it would have been in 1960. Some of us have become non-violent which messes with our heads when we see that the only way forward is to _______. Maybe the cosmos didn't let it happen because the ______ has to be Gandhian in nature; I can handle that since the result of violence will only generate its multiplicatory effect But in either case there is no solution in just sitting and watching it all happen on TV. The time has come, the walrus said...

 

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