Leaked Document Reveals Secret Conference on “Animal Rights Extremists”

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Private security firm holds secretive conference on “animal rights extremists”, a leaked document reveals

Animal Liberation Front-line has been provided with a document, marked “CONFIDENTIAL”, detailing an invite-only meeting for animal abuse industries on the “threat” of the animal rights movement and the A.L.F.

The document was leaked by a client of security firm INA, and provides the schedule for their “security roundtable” titled “Managing Threats from Activist Groups“. The invite-only event is to be held on Tuesday, September 14th in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In attendance will be representatives of animal abuse industries who presumably consider themselves potential targets of the Animal Liberation Front, and other militant groups.

The event is organized by INA (Information Network Associates), a shadowy private company which has its niche investigating the animal rights movement. In future posts, I will cover this company’s nefarious history infiltrating and reporting on the movement, including the posting of more leaked documents never meant to be seen by activist’s eyes.

The Agenda

Here is the agenda for “Managing Threats from Activist Groups” (view the original document here):

“8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Opening Remarks / Introductions

8:45AM – 9:45 AM
Current Issues and Trends in the Animal Rights Movement
The INA staff will provide an intelligence briefing on current activities, recent events and trends within the animal rights movement.

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Primate Products Exposed: Anonymous Activists Release Photos

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Anonymous activists leak gruesome photos from inside Primate Products

According to Bite Back, this week the recently-formed Animal Liberation Investigation Unit claimed responsibility for releasing horrific photos from inside Primate Products, a dealer of primates for vivisection.

The photos show numerous mutilated primates. The communique did not specify the source of the photos, but it is clear they were not intended for public release. The images will prove to provide more problems for a company that is already experiencing weekly demonstrations, and has had its trucks and an office set on fire.

View the photos here (Warning: graphic).

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit communique is as follows:

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit has obtained damning
photographs from within Primate Products, Inc. (www.primateproducts.com) in Miami, Florida. The photographs reveal the true faces of vivisection and the global primate trade.

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit appears to be a recently formed leg of the underground movement, having claimed three actions (all in Europe) this year. I was unable to find a record of the ALIU prior to 2010.

In December I wrote about the new “intelligence unit” model, where activists are anonymously releasing incriminating or otherwise damaging information on animal exploiters.

In August, the previously unknown Fur Farm Intelligence Unit released the location of the Canada Mink Breeder’s Association Annual Meeting, the hotel check-in and check-out dates of each registrant, and addresses of fur farms owned by several attendees (likely to be vacant and unguarded during the conference). Months later, the FFIU disclosed the address of a previously unknown Oregon mink farm.

With the birth of the Animal Liberation Investigation Unit, anyone with damming information on animal absuers now has a title under which to claim and release such information. The ALIU title can now be used by employees inside labs, activists who break in and confiscate data, or anyone who obtains sensitive whistleblower information and wishes to release it anonymously.

I expect with the recent publicity surrounding whistleblowing generated by Wikileaks, combined with the new “Animal Liberation Investigation Unit” title under which to claim such leaks in the animal rights movement, we will see an increase in sensitive information on animal abusers being made public.

– Peter Young

Fur Farm Intelligence Unit’s Second Communique: Activists Release More Sensitive Data

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Fur Farm Intelligence Unit releases its second communique

In what may be an emerging trend, anonymous activists have made public even more sensitive fur industry info.

Just after The Blueprint was released, an anonymous communication surfaced on the internet from “The Fur Farm Intelligence Unit”, publicizing the address of “Cascade Farms“, a previously unknown Oregon mink farm. This information did not turn up in the 5-month Fur Farm Intelligence Project (see previous post), and is a crucial addition to the fur farm address database.

This week I will be adding this new info to an updated edition of The Blueprint.

This is the second communique from the Fur Farm Intelligence Unit, and may signal the birth of a new angle for clandestine animal liberation activity: leaking or otherwise exposing damaging intelligence on animal abuse industries. While the Animal Liberation Front focuses on liberating animals from imprisonment, The Fur Farm Intelligence Unit appears to focus on the dissemination of sensitive data which will have an indirect, but ultimately no less powerful impact on animal exploitation industries.

Why is this tactic important, and what is the value of an underground “Intelligence Unit”?

To date, the Fur Farm Intelligence Unit have issued two communiques: (more…)

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