A new report details how corporations are increasingly spying on
nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. The corporate
watchdog organization Essential Information found a diverse groups of
nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental,
antiwar, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun
control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups. The
corporations carrying out the spying include the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft,
Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald's, Shell, BP, and others.
According to the report, these corporations employ former CIA, National
Security Agency and FBI agents to engage in private surveillance work,
which is often illegal in nature but rarely — if ever — prosecuted.
Gary Ruskin, author of the report, "Spooky Business:
Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations," and director of
the Center for Corporate Policy, a project of Essential Information talks to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now here.
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