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+<xml><p>Downloaded from <ent type='ORG'>AMNET</ent> (312) 436-3062 <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent>'s Civil Liberties BBS
+PROOF OF NATIONWIDE POLICE POLITICAL SPYING NETWORK
+REVEALED IN <ent type='GPE'>CHICAGO</ent> LITIGATION</p>
+
+<p> by Chip Berlet</p>
+
+<p> The belated production of a set of correspondence files from
+the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> Police Department Intelligence Unit (CPD/ID) has
+confirmed suspicions that an informal nationwide network for
+sharing political dossiers among police and private intelligence
+agencies existed for several decades prior to 1975.</p>
+
+<p> The documents were assumed to have been destroyed as part of
+an attempt by the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> Police Department to sanitize their
+intelligence files after a police informant warned superiors
+in 1974 that a lawsuit against political spying was planned by a
+<ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> coalition group called <ent type='ORG'>the Alliance</ent> to End Repression and
+other activist groups.</p>
+
+<p> "All of the agencies received from, or sent to, the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent>
+Police Department Intelligence Division information regarding the
+lawful political activity of citizens," said plaintiff's attorney
+<ent type='PERSON'>Richard Gutman</ent>.</p>
+
+<p> The existence of the "Transmittal Files" was inadvertantly
+discovered in September of 1984 - seven years after a <ent type='ORG'>Federal</ent>
+Judge had ordered their production in pre-trial discovery
+proceedings. The files show that 159 agencies in 33 states
+throughout the nation received political spying files from, or
+sent such files to, the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> Police Department Intelligence
+Division. </p>
+
+<p> The agencies include 100 municipal police departments, 26
+state <ent type='ORG'>law enforcement</ent> agencies, 16 county sheriffs offices, and
+17 other public and private agencies.</p>
+
+<p> "While many concerned civil libertarians have been convinced
+of the existence of politically-motivated activity by their local
+police, they have frequently been frustrated by the need for
+concrete proof." said <ent type='PERSON'>Frank Donner</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Donner</ent>, author of The Age of
+Surveillance (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1980), the definitive work on
+political surveillance in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, called for a
+"remedial campaign to abolish such abuses."</p>
+
+<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Gutman</ent>, has been providing the police reports to lawyers
+pursuing litigation against local police agencies for illegal
+political surveillance. He says he is willing to discuss the
+terms of a court protective order covering the material with
+legitimate legal representatives of individuals or groups
+contemplating such litigation. So far eleven attorneys or
+representatives of legal groups have contacted <ent type='PERSON'>Gutman</ent> for copies
+of relevant documents. Numerous named individuals have asked for
+and received copies of their files as well.</p>
+
+<p> According to <ent type='PERSON'>Gutman</ent>, the following examples are typical of
+the material discussed in the Transmittal Files:</p>
+
+<p> *The Texas Department of Public Safety ("<ent type='ORG'>Texas Rangers</ent>")
+sought "any pertinent information related to subversive
+activities or affiliations" regarding <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> attorney <ent type='PERSON'>Terry Yale</ent>
+Feiertag. The <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> police responded that attorney Feiertag was
+employed by an organization whic provided legal aid to low income
+groups and in civil rights cases;</p>
+
+<p> *<ent type='ORG'>The Indianapolis Police Department</ent> sought "any data"
+regarding Clergy and Laity Concerned About <ent type='GPE'>Vietnam</ent>. The <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent>
+police in response sent information about the group's lawful
+anti-war activities;</p>
+
+<p> *<ent type='ORG'>The Detroit Police Department</ent> sought information regarding
+<ent type='PERSON'>Lucy Montgomery</ent>. in response the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> police sent <ent type='GPE'>Detroit</ent> a
+four-page report detailing Mrs. Montgomery's lawful political
+activities.</p>
+
+<p> Although the federal district court on May 4, 1977, ordered
+the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> Police Department to produce all such transmittal
+files, the files were not produced for inspection until September
+25, 1984, seven years after the order. The plaintiffs in the
+lawsuit filed a motion to have the <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> Police Department held
+in contempt for failing to obey the court order. <ent type='ORG'>Federal</ent> Judge
+<ent type='PERSON'>Susan Getzendanner</ent> denied the motion. </p>
+
+<p> It is almost certain the files originally were intentionally
+withheld to prevent discovery by the plaintiffs. However it is
+unclear at what point in the lengthy litigation, which saw
+defendants take several different legal postures regarding what
+documents were covered by the discovery order, that the fact of
+the files existence became lost in the mountains of paperwork. </p>
+
+<p> <ent type='ORG'>The Corporation Counsel</ent> for <ent type='GPE'>the City</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> sought to
+block <ent type='PERSON'>Gutman</ent> from providing the documents to plaintiffs
+litigators in other cities. This is ironic because the current
+Mayor, <ent type='PERSON'>Harold Washington</ent>, was for many years an outspoken critic
+of <ent type='ORG'>the CPD Intelligence Unit</ent> and its civil liberties violations.
+While still a Congressional Representative and while running for
+the Mayoral post, he described himself publicly as a victim of
+illegal police spying. </p>
+
+<p> Now, in a recent court proceeding, attorneys representing
+<ent type='GPE'>the City</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> tried unsuccessfully to block paralegals
+working on an <ent type='ORG'>ACLU</ent> spying case in <ent type='GPE'>California</ent> from having access
+to CPD/ID materials already provided to the <ent type='ORG'>ACLU</ent> attorneys in
+that case. </p>
+
+<p> <ent type='GPE'>The City</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> attorneys successfully blocked release
+of files relating to <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent> state representative
+<ent type='PERSON'>Perry Bullard</ent>. Bullard, Chairperson of the <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent> House
+Judiciary Committee, had requested access to the files to
+evaluate "the necessity for new state legislation regulating
+surveillance by <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent> state and local <ent type='ORG'>law enforcement</ent>
+agencies." Judge <ent type='PERSON'>Getzendanner</ent>, who has expressed thinly-veiled
+displeasure from the bench that the case remains on the docket,
+ruled that a subpoena from the <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent> legislative body would be
+required.</p>
+
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