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FBI informant identified in the 'Auburn 3' case contacted Anti-G8 2005 medics

Stop Snitches | 09.03.2006 05:03 | G8 2005 | Repression | Social Struggles

An FBI informant identified in the set-up of the Auburn 3 attempted to make contact with the Anti-G8 medics in Scotland 2005. More information needed to determine the extent of her infiltration of the movement...




An FBI 'embedded source'/agent/informant known as 'Anna', has been involved in the arrest and jailing of 3 young people accused of planning an Earth Liberation Front action.

She is known to have emailed the medics intiative at the Anti-G8 protests in Scotland, pasted below is the actual email. More information about her activity in Scotland is needed, if she attended, to assess the infilitration that she made of the protests movement in Europe.

'Anna' entrapped the Auburn 3 by renting an apartment for them to stay in, which was rigged with audio and video recording equipment, drove them to several sites to conduct surveillance on targets and incited them to bomb a dam, amongst other things.

This is NOT a scare, or idle rumour,

More information available here:

 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332740.shtml

www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1798723.php

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The Auburn Three

Lauren Weiner Now released on bail.

Zachary Jenson X-4198632 BKGM, Sacramento County Main Jail, 651 "I" Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Eric McDavid X-2972521 BKGM, Sacramento County Main Jail, 651 "I" Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA


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[Imc-g8-2005] 'Cross the Pond
AnnA annadavies99 [at] yahoo.com
Mon May 9 12:06:00 PDT 2005

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Greetings from America!

My name is AnnA and I've been quite heavily involved
with actions over here. I'm tryign to finance my way
to Scotland for the G8. I was a part of the outreach
and organizing DA committee last year when America had
the G8.

I subscribed to the UK INdymedia VIdeo List a few days
ago. I would like to participate in the G8 in a
variety of ways. I'd like to do some filming
specifically on British and European protest tactics
and organizing strategies for my Amerikan
counterparts, as well as direct participation in DA.
One of my collective partners was planning on coming
to the protest as well, but is currently undergoing
some heavy shit in her personal life.

Is there a way I can plug into some events, do some
filming and have a good time? ;) What would be the
best time to arrive? I fly courier, so I have to try
and be as flexible as possible. Also, is there housing
set up?

Best of Luck to you! If you need anything from us,
give a hollar! :)

Resist,

AnnA

Stop Snitches


Additions

AnnA Mails

09.03.2006 09:03

There were two mails from this AnnA to the public imc lists before the G8 both saying the same thing. There were no public onlist replies to her, and no subsequent mails from the same address/s.

Medic crew should take a look as well. Still, I guess there were quite a few special branch lurking in amongst all those undercover journos at pre g8 meetings anyway!

For more on the story:

 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332735.shtml
 http://community.livejournal.com/anarchists/1483825.html#cutid1
 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060127092651740

info


more

09.03.2006 09:20


slightly over the top analysis of anna's mails, posted here because they relate to mails sent to imc uk lists:
 http://indybay.org/news/2006/01/1798723.php
(though i do disagree with many of this guy's thoughts)

more


Email content and URLs

09.03.2006 13:27

These are the two emails sent to UK IMC lists:


[Imc-g8-2005] 'Cross the Pond
AnnA annadavies99 at yahoo.com
Mon May 9 12:06:00 PDT 2005

Greetings from America!

My name is AnnA and I've been quite heavily involved
with actions over here. I'm tryign to finance my way
to Scotland for the G8. I was a part of the outreach
and organizing DA committee last year when America had
the G8. 

I subscribed to the UK INdymedia VIdeo List a few days
ago. I would like to participate in the G8 in a
variety of ways. I'd like to do some filming
specifically on British and European protest tactics
and organizing strategies for my Amerikan
counterparts, as well as direct participation in DA.
One of my collective partners was planning on coming
to the protest as well, but is currently undergoing
some heavy shit in her personal life. 

Is there a way I can plug into some events, do some
filming and have a good time? ;) What would be the
best time to arrive? I fly courier, so I have to try
and be as flexible as possible. Also, is there housing
set up? 

Best of Luck to you! If you need anything from us,
give a hollar! :)

Resist,

AnnA

[Imc-uk-video] Looking for Videographers from USA G8, Georgia
AnnA annadavies99 at yahoo.com
Sun May 8 12:33:20 PDT 2005

Greetings!

I worked on the American Organization Committee, G8
Planning Committee and G8 Carnival, for the G8 last
year in Georgia. There were a variety of problems, but
we had something. 

I met two Videographers last year, from the UK, who
were workgin on a documentary/training video/info
video/ ?? and shared some drinks with them and partied
one night. They were awesome people and I regret not
getting their contact info. With the G8 is being held
‘cross the pond, I’m trying to locate those two and
maybe set up a reciprocal event. I’d like to try and
get over there and do some filming of my own, and
hopefully plug into some of the activities. 

If anyone knows who those two guys were, could you
please pass them along this e-mail? I'd love to get in
touch with them again. 

Thanks!

AnnA

techie


medic contact

13.03.2006 21:07

Anna did email us (the medics) before the G8. We sent her our standard form and never heard from her again. She didn't turn up - I've checked with a few other medics and no one recognises her.

UK action medics
- Homepage: http://www.actionmedics.org.uk/


Comments

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09.03.2006 09:27

Asking here may be a good start:

 http://georgesxchalkboard.blogspot.com/

M= Big Brother


articles promoted versus articles hidden

09.03.2006 16:18

When a document was published here a week back or so detailing methods that groups can use to help minimise the consequences of infiltration, it was immediately hidden!!!

When a comment detailed a current infiltration by the same BBC responsible for lying over WMD in Iraq, and faking the order of video footage to make the miners look violent during the miners strike, that comment was IMMEDIATELY HIDDEN.

The above article has only been promoted to the formal news list because of those that are interested and watching. When possible, those that censor this Indymedia hide anything that hurts the methods of the government, or those agents that work for it. When the story is already widely available, and publicity here cannot hurt further, the story is promoted to give the impression of being against such acts by the state.

twilight


Twilight on censorship - wot a surprise

09.03.2006 18:34

"When a document was published here a week back or so detailing methods that groups can use to help minimise the consequences of infiltration, it was immediately hidden!!! "

That's a lie. It was not immediately hidden as can be seen from the fact that it attracted many comments. The document contained no news and was simply a repost of some personal rant about 'wreakers' rather than infiltration as such. Predictably for such a document, it was followed by a series of highly disruptive comments before being hidden as falling outside of the editorial guidelines.

The issues raised by the document are obviously important ones but you can't expect to have any kind of useful or constructive discussion about infiltration and disruptive behavior on a forum that allows anonymous posting. These issues are best discussed in face to face situations in workshops and gatherings where you are dealing with real people not cyber-masks.

"When a comment detailed a current infiltration by the same BBC responsible for lying over WMD in Iraq, and faking the order of video footage to make the miners look violent during the miners strike, that comment was IMMEDIATELY HIDDEN. "

I don't know what comment you are referring to but that it hardly news. The BBC were widely exposed in this well documented example and you can find the incident referred to in many books. So what else was in this comment or was it hidden simply because it was a comment on a hidden article?

"The above article has only been promoted to the formal news list because of those that are interested and watching. When possible, those that censor this Indymedia hide anything that hurts the methods of the government, or those agents that work for it. When the story is already widely available, and publicity here cannot hurt further, the story is promoted to give the impression of being against such acts by the state."

Really? You don't think that perhaps it has been promoted because it actually meets the editorial guidelines and is directly relevant to both the indymedia UK network and those who use the sites and the lists?

Twilight (which ever one of many this may be), censorship is the act of changing a message, including the change of deletion (complete elimination of the message), between the sender and the receiver. Indymedia UK is not engaged in censorship as you well know. Rather than deleting posts which breech the editorial guidelines, they are maintained are are visible to anyone who wishes to check. This is a deliberate policy which aims to retain the integrity of the newswire service while remaining accountable and transparent.

AnnA


I too am tired of this censoring shit

09.03.2006 18:51

The Internet is granting astonishing new capabilities to the middlemen, in addition to making the older ways of pre-processing information even easier, and we should not label those all as censorship.

Fortunately, there is a simple criterion we can apply. Do both the sender and the receiver agree to use this information middleman? If so, then no censorship is occurring.

Newspapers often receive a press release, but they may process, digest, and editorialise on the basis of that press release, they rarely simply run the press release directly. Nobody would expect anything different.

Indymedia doesn't ever change the text of contributions and doesn't even prevent publication of things that fall outside of it's editorial guidelines. It does however reserve the right to choose what is displayed on the newswire displayed on it's front page. It doesn't hid this fact and spells it out on the editorial guidelines page where everyone using the site can see what to expect.

Further site, Indymedia has open and publicly archived mailing lists in which the processes are transparent accountable.

So, anyone using the term censorship should really get real and look at some real examples of political censorship before wasting peoples time on here.

Kist


The Twiglet Zone

09.03.2006 21:33

I wouldn't bother wasting yer epithelials with Mr T. Do a search here and you'll quickly see my point.

M= Big Brother


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