Gary Ruskin, Essential Information - Giant corporations are employing highly unethical
or illegal tools of espionage against nonprofit organizations with near
impunity. ... Corporations hire shady
investigative firms staffed with former employees of the Central
Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, U.S. military, Federal
Bureau of Investigations, Secret Service and local police departments to
target nonprofit organizations.
Many of the world’s largest corporations and their trade
associations — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Walmart,
Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron,
Burger King, McDonald’s, Shell, BP, BAE, Sasol, Brown & Williamson
and E.ON — have been linked to espionage or planned espionage against
nonprofit organizations, activists and whistleblowers.
Many different types of nonprofit organizations have been
targeted with corporate espionage, including environmental, anti-war,
public interest, consumer, food safety, pesticide reform, nursing home
reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control
groups.
Corporations and their trade associations have been linked to a
wide variety of espionage tactics against nonprofit organizations. The
most prevalent tactic appears to be infiltration by posing as a
volunteer or journalist, to obtain information from a nonprofit. But
corporations have been linked to many other human, physical and
electronic espionage tactics against nonprofits. Many of these tactics
are either highly unethical or illegal.
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