And you can bet the spying on US citizens continues by both corporations and government. It’s pathetic. Think of it—”Lysol wanted details of a New Jersey high school student’s science fair project about cleaning products”. The elite are so greedy for control of our lives, they live in fear even from our children. Check out this web site’s section on “privacy“.
Washington Post
They scavenged through trash and tailed people for hours. They used undercover operatives to infiltrate private meetings. The targets were not agents of foreign powers but advocacy groups that had been critical of corporations. In the 1990s, a Maryland-based private detective agency composed of former CIA agents and law enforcement officers spied on such activist groups as Greenpeace, the firm’s records show.
The agency, Beckett Brown International, had an operative at meetings of a group in Rockville that accused a nursing home of substandard care. In Louisiana, it kept tabs on environmental activists after a chemical spill. In Washington, it spied on food safety activists who had found taco shells made with genetically modified corn not approved for human consumption.
Not all of BBI’s work targeted activists: Lysol wanted details of a New Jersey high school student’s science fair project about cleaning products. Mary Kay executives sought a secret “psychological assessment” of a fellow executive. A consultant working for Nestlé wanted information about rivals Mars and Whetstone Candy. “I always thought they were trying to sabotage me,” said Henry M. Whetstone Jr., who recently reviewed the BBI records. “Everyone thinks that the candy industry is this happy world. It’s not. It has a really dark side.” More
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