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lecture, other participants, size of audience, questions from the floor, mood
of the audience, and so forth.
"In some cases, these observers successfully penetrated closed meetings
in which the subject participated. Subsequently, the ADL prepared and
disseminated a short primer on this person, following the 'myth" and "fact'
format, and distributed it to their agents for use at future speaking
engagements." 713
This, of course, is but one example (of many) which demonstrates the
pervasive influence of Israel's ADL and its clandestine efforts to control
public discussion of U.S. Middle East policy on all fronts—particularly in
the American media.
SPY SCANDAL
At the beginning of 1993, however, the ADL's history of covert—and
illegal—domestic spying finally became the topic of widespread public
controversy.
A spy scandal erupted in San Francisco, enveloping the ADL, one of its
longtime paid informants, and a San Francisco police officer who had been
selling classified police intelligence information to the ADL.
A raid by the San Francisco Police Department on the offices of the
ADL in both San Francisco and Los Angeles revealed that those offices of
the ADL were maintaining surveillance on some 12,000 individual
Americans and on the activities of some 950 social and political
organizations of all political persuasions.
It was subsequently revealed that the ADL was conducting similar
spying operations in other major cities around the country, utilizing a
network of paid informants who were charged with the responsibility of
infiltrating organizations targeted by the ADL.
(In Chapter 15 we considered the likelihood that the ADL's New
Orleans spymaster, A. L. (Bee) Botnick, had utilized the good offices of his
fellow anti-communist extremist, ex-FBI man, private detective and CIA
asset Guy Banister, to spy upon left wing groups in New Orleans, taking
advantage of the talents of a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald.)
Ironically, among the targets of the ADL's spying included
organizations that had, over the years, cooperated with the ADL in a number
of joint ventures, including the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.
SPYING ON EVERYBODY
Contrary to popular perception, the ADL was not spying only on socalled
"right wing" or "anti-Semitic" groups. Instead, the ADL appears to
have maintained constant surveillance of a wide variety of groups and
individuals.
Although the ADL sought to maintain silence about the ongoing
investigation, hard-hitting and fact-filled investigative reports by the San