Here\u2019s a dirty little secret you won\u2019t see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.<\/p>\n
Yes, that means using a great array of spycraft and snoopery, including planned electronic surveillance, wiretapping, information warfare, infiltration, dumpster diving and so much more.<\/p>\n
The evidence abounds.<\/p>\n
For example, six years ago, based on extensive documentary evidence, James Ridgeway\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Mother Jones<\/em>\u00a0on a major corporate espionage scheme by Dow Chemical focused on Greenpeace and other environmental and food activists.<\/p>\n Greenpeace was running a potent campaign against Dow\u2019s use of chlorine to manufacture paper and plastics. Dow grew worried and eventually desperate.<\/p>\n Ridgeway\u2019s article and subsequent revelations produced jaw-dropping information about how Dow\u2019s private investigators, from the firm Beckett Brown International (BBI), hired.<\/p>\n