POLITICO Account of a "Private Spy Ring"

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December 6, 2018

Politico account of a "private spy ring"


Zach Dorfman's article this week at Politico recounts an example of a private spy network in America.
In the case described, local and federal law enforcement officials were feeding information to a private, right-wing political organization.

Dorfman provides some historical context:
"Private spy rings can be traced back all the way to the 1920s," said Darren Malloy, a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University and an expert on radical political and social movements, " or even back to Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency at the end of the 19th century."

The tradition picked up during the 1950s, Malloy says, reportedly with the likes of anti-communist groups like the American Security Council and the John Birch Society.

Such groups "perpetuated conspiracies by gathering so-called intelligence in an effort to discredit people (and) to try and link them to grand and dastardly schemes," Seth Rosenfeld, author of 'Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power' told me.
"So whether it was a communist conspiracy then, or a 'deep state' plot now, these are attempts to undermine people who are dissenting from the powers of the movement."

In 1979, a congressman, Larry McDonald, established an organization called 'Western Goals,' as "his own private intelligence agency."

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Politico account of a "private spy ring"