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29. November 2013, December 2013
11/30/2013
Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against
Non-profits
Giant corporations are employing highly unethical or illegal tools
of espionage against nonprofit organizations with near impunity,
according to a new report by Essential Information. The report,
titled Spooky Business, documents how corporations hire shady
investigative firms staffed with former employees of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), US
military, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Secret Service
and local police departments to target nonprofit organizations.
“Corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations is an
egregious abuse of corporate power that is subverting
democracy,” said Gary Ruskin, author of Spooky Business.
“Who will rein in the forces of corporate lawlessness as they
bear down upon nonprofit defenders of justice?”
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 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.
Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a
Washington, DC-based nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. It is
involved in a variety of projects to promote corporate
accountability, a more just economy, public health and a
sustainable planet. It has published a bi-monthly magazine, books
and reports, sponsored conferences, provided writers with grants to
pursue investigations, published daily news summaries, operated
clearinghouses that disseminate information to grassroots
organizations in the United States and developing countries
worldwide, and has hosted scores of conferences focusing on
government and corporate accountability.
More information about Essential Information is at
www.essential.org, and about the Center for Corporate Policy at
www.corporatepolicy.org.
The Spooky Business report is available at:
http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf.
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