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pinboy3niner

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7. Both informants and undercover LEOs have been around for a long time

Reply to freshwest (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:03 PM

Jul 2013

A friend in Vietnam Veterans Against the War was involved in planning large protests in D.C. back then, and along with reps of other peace groups attended pre-protest meetings with law enforcement reps. In the next few years, my friend said, he learned that more than half of the protesters' reps actually were undercover law enforcement officers from various agencies.

I suspect that even my friend turned informant at one point. He was set up for a drug bust by undercover agents, but the one thing he didn't explain, either in his published memoir or in talks with those who knew him, was how he got out of the charges.

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Both informants and undercover LEOs have been around for a long time pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #7

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