New COINTELPRO: Same old tactics targeting American Indians
New COINTELPRO is same old targeting of American Indians and environmental groups
By Brenda Norrell.jpg)
Anonymous hacked the files of Stratfor global security firm, revealing that a photo of the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee was a focus of US spies in November.
The photo and Indian movements were on a website of the Deep Green Resistance, which US spies focused on, as they targeted the Occupy Austin movement and the Indigenous role in the Occupy, and DeOccupy, movements.
The private Stratfor worked together with Texas DPS to infiltrate the groups. The results, as the emails reveal, were false reports.
As usual with US spy files, the hacked e-mails of the security firm reveal a distortion of facts, misinformation, unreliable informants, confusion, and self-serving exaggeration that keeps funds flowing to security firms and intelligence operations.
The e-mail, released in what Anonymous called a "teaser" of more to come, is signed by the Watch Officer for Stratfor and states:
Early on in the Occupy movement, they got the group to support some
document called, "Indigenous Struggle Solidarity Statement" calling
Austin an occupied territory. It includes a picture of armed native
Americans.
Occupy Austin’s Indigenous Struggle Solidarity Statement was reported by Stratfor:
Deep Green Resistance’s Lierre Keith and Aric McBay responded to the violation of rights and false statements in the e-mails.
“Stratfor and law enforcement not only violated activists’ constitutional rights, they also were grossly incompetent. Their report is full of hasty generalizations and inaccuracies. They confuse members of the DGR action group in Austin (which does exist) with another group they call the ‘Phoenix commune’ (which may or may not exist). And they allege a conflict between members of the DGR Austin group and Occupy Austin that doesn’t seem to have happened. It’s not clear if this is part of the strategy counterintelligence groups have used in the past to try to provoke conflict between different social movements—the FBI used this very effectively against groups like the Black Panther Party—or whether Stratfor is simply relying on unreliable or incompetent sources.
In addition, their claim that DGR is inspired by Nazism and philosopher Martin Heidegger is outrageous and obviously wrong. As is their claim that DGR ‘is focused on creating a situation where violent confrontation will be the ultimate outcome.’ It doesn’t require an agent to get simple facts correct. Both of these assertions are just plain false.”
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