ADL FOUND GUILTY OF SPYING BY CALIFORNIA COURT
By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News, 4/25/2002
arabnews.com
WASHINGTON, 25 April - The San Francisco Superior Court has awarded former
Congressman Pete McCloskey, R-California, a $150,000 court judgment against
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
McCloskey, the attorney in the case, represented one of three civil
lawsuits filed in San Francisco against the ADL in 1993. The lawsuit came
after raids were made by the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI on
offices of the ADL in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, which found that
the ADL was engaged in extensive domestic spying operations on a vast
number of individuals and institutions around the country.
During the course of the inquiry in San Francisco, the SFPD and FBI
determined the ADL had computerized files on nearly 10,000 people across
the country, and that more than 75 percent of the information had been
illegally obtained from police, FBI files and state drivers' license data
banks.
Much of the stolen information had been provided by Tom Gerard of the San
Francisco Police Department, who sold, or gave, the information to Ray
Bullock, ADL's top undercover operative.
The investigation also determined that the ADL conduit, Gerard, was also
working with the CIA.
Two other similar suits against ADL were settled some years ago, and the
ADL was found guilty in both cases, but the McCloskey suit continued to
drag through the courts until last month... |
