Act I:
Advertising itself as New Zealand's leading corporate intelligence agency, Thompson & Clark Investigations' speciality is helping controversial companies to spy on their opponents. The Star-Times has documents identifying two young people who were recruited by the private investigators and became trusted members of target poltical groups.
The pair wrote regular reports on the groups' meetings and plans, collected information on special subjects of interest to the clients and helped set up systems to automatically redirect all the groups' internal emails to the private investigator's Auckland offices.
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Ryan, a 25-year-old Canterbury University student, confessed on Thursday when confronted by the Star-Times, admitting Thompson & Clark paid him on behalf of
Solid Energy to infiltrate Christchurch environment group Save Happy Valley. The group opposes plans for a new government-run open-cast coal mine on the West Coast because of climate change and threats to a critically endangered endemic snail.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaystartimes/4074270a6005.html (
Stuff.co.nz)
Act II:
"Solid Energy stands by use of Security advisors"
Sunday, 27 May 2007, 3:10 pm
Press Release: Solid Energy NZSolid Energy stands 100% by its use of security advisors to help protect its people, its property and its business against the ongoing and increasingly illegal activities of environmental activists.
Solid Energy Chief Executive Officer, Dr Don Elder, today hit back hard following an article in the Sunday Star Times: “All businesses gather a wide range of information to protect themselves against risk. We’re no different; one of our significant risks is the illegal activities of these activists, which are specifically designed to cause us maximum economic damage. As part of our security risk management we employ advisors, including Thompson & Clark Investigations Ltd (TCIL), to provide us with information and advice to manage and minimise these sorts of risks to our business.
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Scoop.co.nz" Press Release,
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00575.htmOur Media Tracking Service – NewsAgent – now serves a wide range of clients encompassing
Public Relations agencies, Government Agencies, Foreign Government Missions, Energy Companies, Transport & Infrastructure Organisations, Universities, District Health Boards, NGOs, Unions, Industry Associations and Private Companies
"A Brief Introduction to Scoop.co.nz", as seen in Google cache (
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:kgP3H23GjbUJ:www.prinz.org.nz/site/WebResources.nsf/ee6188e00b9154c74c256893005530c2/82dfca37137ccd14cc256e6d001af41b/%24FILE/Introduction%2520to%2520NewsAgent%2520Scoop.co.nz.doc+scoop.co.nz+%22energy+companies%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a)
Act III:
I'm sorry you got the silent treatment* for asking truthful and/or pertinent questions.
*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=404988&mesg_id=405076http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5275848#5287517http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5275848#5288167
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