Wisdom Quarterly; Gary Ruskin (CorporatePolicy.org, Nov. 20, 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. More
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