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Article

11 Apr 2008

Author:
James Ridgeway, Mother Jones [USA]

Exclusive: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups

A private security company [Beckett Brown International (later called S2i)] organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups...According to company documents provided to Mother Jones by a former investor in the firm, this security outfit collected confidential internal records—donor lists...the Social Security numbers of staff members...—from these organizations and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations involved in environmental controversies...[BBI prepared reports on Greenpeace—based on "confidential sources"—for Ketchum]...[Firm's former officials] Bresett did not respond to a message asking for comment...Neither Bly nor Ward would discuss...any of the work they did for Beckett Brown or S2i...Rakowski, Daron, and Beckett did not reply to requests for comments. Nor did Ketchum...[also refers to Perceptions International]