Internet is very good for the flicaille (pejorative name for cops in french) but i think for me now the struff is to know the border of the law. I put some provocative texte in your website for know your reaction... No reaction, peraps because you are all right with me or because, i don't know... I see you in one month and you can know who i'am. I can know who you are too... The think about the security culture is than what i see now, it's ridiculous. The cops know me better like you. That is the point. I wrote a texte in reaction of this general paranoia...
the texte:
Infiltration, manipulation, blackmailed...
1 - The infiltration of a group or a political organization can have two principal objectives, the search for information or (and) manipulation.
2 - The state does not choose to infiltrate an organization according to its, more or less, radical speech; but according to its own interests.
3 - It is very difficult to prevent an infiltration for a student organization whose members come from different horizons and contexts. It is on the other hand much simpler for a neighborhood organization where everyone knows itself from the primary school.
4 - The fundamental thing to know is that the infiltrating cop never works alone; it forms part of a team. As in any team, there are better elements and worse elements. It is thus necessary to gain awareness of the worst elements, without drawing attention, in order to discover the remainder of the team.
5 - The search for information falls in three categories: to know the future actions of the collective, to index the new militants, and to know the various currents and factions. For an opened, legal or semi-legal organization, the infiltration is not a very serious thing, provided that it is not transformed into manipulation.
6 - They can also infiltrate legally operating organizations in order to infiltrate a clandestine organization: Frequently, clandestine organizations will use mainstream groups as a source for likeminded.
Example: The Spanish police force sent an agent infiltrator in to the xxx anarchistic organization, 123. The agent escalated the infiltration, finally inviting members of 123 to spend the holidays in his (purposed) mothers home in Madrid. This infiltration then enabled him to integrate the organization GRAPO, of communist armed struggle, there by making it possible to stop the principal commandos of this organization.
7 - The manipulation of an organization can have multiple objectives, fluctuating according to the interests of the state and the events. Manipulation does not necessitate an infiltration.
8 - The objective can be the destruction of the organization by creating internal dissensions.
Example: The cointelpro sent inciting letters to the various chapters of the Blacks Panthers. These letters, seminally authentic, created very serious intern dissensions.
9 - The agents will some times incite and/or provoke radical actions until enough evidence is compiled, or until it is most in the states interest to shut down the operation, and destroy the organization. This acts as an example for future organizations. For example: before, or at the beginning of a social movement, in order to warn other organizations from following the same course action.
Example: In the Chicano struggle, during the 70's, police frequently infiltrated the brown berets, among other organizations, and would encourage escalated violence and prospects destruction.
10 - Manipulation can be used to reinforce one organization in order to weaken a concurrent organization that the state judges more dangerous or less controllable.
11 - So, the true danger of the infiltration is to allow or reinforce a possible manipulation.
12 - It is very easy for a legal organization to prevent a manipulation. The membership consists of people who know exactly what they want, and operates more through general assembly; thereby preventing manipulation.
13 - the blackmail. The teams of infiltrated are likened to the commandos of the army, moving in hostile ground. They need guides, the informants.
14 - Frequently petty criminal's are good informants, because the police will offer a pardon for their crimes and a "permit" to continue, as well as financial compensation for information.
15 - Drug dealers are always a potential informant.
16 - A militant can also be blackmailed, however it's much more complicated, especially in a legally operating organizations. Fervently, they'll wait for a drug addict to go through withdrawal, at which time the addict will reveal information of little significance, but still worthy of blackmail.
17 - Police don't trust the treacherous informant; there is always an officer supervising some capacity.
18 - Informants are disposable; therefore informants can change prevalently in order to better establish manipulation of the organization.
Example: During Algerian war. In order to infiltrate OAS, an initial team was imbedded. This team was sacrificed and given up so that a second team could be established, reading to the arrest of top leaders.
19 - A manipulation can be doubled, meaning the manipulated ends up manipulating.
Example: The special K operation, also called blue bird: The French army created a concurrently operating guerilla force in order to drive the population to the breaking point. The French provided money, weapons, and even let the organization take action. Only to the end of the war, did the French army realize that the organization they created was, in fact, controlled and infiltrated by the FLN.
Conclusion.
Legally operations groups shouldn't enter a state of paranoia regarding infiltration. Starting from the moment that our actions become effective, the state will inevitably infiltrate the organization. On the other hand, it is essential to prevent a manipulation, and for this reason it is necessary to maximally raise the political awareness of the group, and to make decisions collectively and act on consensus basis, to prevent any form of formal or abstract leadership. The perfect counterexample is that of Blacks Panthers and the manipulation of Huey Newton. This manipulation was possible because the pyramid power structure of the organization. No leader, no manipulation.
Live anarchy...