The Ugly Truth about the ADL, Różne
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//-->Since theFirst Printing:ADL in Middle ofA Spy ScandalToo Big to BuryOn January 15, eight days after the publica-tion of the first edition of this book, The San FranciscoChronicle shocked the public with the revelation thatthe office of the ADL in San Francisco was at the centerof a scandal involving a San Francisco police officer anda Bay Area art dealer/self-described private eye who weresuspected of selling illegally obtained information toagents of the South African government.The two men, Sgt. Tom Gerard of the San FranciscoPolice Department, and Roy Bullock, a longtime paidundercover operative for the local office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), had been undo:Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) scrutiny sinceviiviiiSINCE THE FIRST PRINTING1990, when federal agents discovered that secret Bureaurecords on American black Muslims had been obtainedby South African spies.The trail pointed to Bullock, who, in addition to hisfulltime paid work for the ADL, had been "moonlighting"as an undercover snitch for the Bureau. On at least oneoccasion, Bullock received a 1500 cash payment fromthe FBI for infiltrating meetings of two Bay Area groups.Bullock had access to confidential Bureau files, andbecame a suspect when FBI files stowed up in the handsof the South African government at the same time hewas regularly meeting with two South African spies andpassing confidential data to them. Bullock received cashpayments that eventually totaled over $16,000.The early meetings between Bullock and the twoSouth African agents, identified as Humphries" and"Louie,' included policeman Gerard. Later, Bullockwould meet with the South Africans alone. According toone version of the Bullock-South Africa story, it was ADLofficials who put him in touch with the foreign agents.Nearly three years later, that FBI probe of SouthAfrican spying has mushroomed into one of the biggestespionage scandals in years. And the center of the scandalhas shifted from cops and art dealers to an alleged com-mand center. The central target is how the ADLOn April 1, 1993, San Francisco Assistant District-Attorney John Dwyer told reporters: "The ADL is thetarget. Their involvement is just so great. People havecalled this the Gerard case. Now, it's the ADL case. Ge-rard is fust their guy in San Francisco. The ADL is doingthe same thing all over the country. There is evidencethat the ADL had police agents in other cities. The casejust gets bigger every day. The more we look, the moreSINCE THE FIRST PRINTINGixwe find people involved."The San Francisco probe soon proved that the pro-file of the ADL contained in this book is right on themark.Far from living up to its thoroughly undeserved andself-promoted reputation, the Anti-Defamation Leaguehas been caught by San Francisco police investigators:• illegally spying on at least 950 political organiza-tions, including the National Association for the Ad-vancement of Colored People (NAACP), the RainbowCoalition, Greenpeace, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, theUnited Auto Workers, the Christic Institute, New JewishAgenda, Operation Rescue, the Liberty Lobby, the Nationof Islam, the United Farm Workers, Act-Up, the AmericanCivil liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild, the BoGritz Presidential Campaign and the political movementled by Lyndon LaRouche;• infiltrating countless police and sheriff depart-ments across the country, bribing police officers andillegally obtaining classified government data on at least20,000 American citizens;• selling information on anti-apartheid groups toagents of the South African government;• passing surveillance and classified police data onArab-Americans to Israeli authorities who then used theADL data to illegally detain American citizens visitingIsrael;• passing off Israeli intelligence propaganda as ADL-generated research in an effort to sway American publicopinion and government policy, while never beingforced to register as foreign agents and while even en-joying tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Ser-vice (IRS).xSINCE THE FIRST PRINTINGA Nationwide OperationThe San Francisco district attorney and police investiga-tors have concluded that the pattern of illegal spyingthat they unearthed in California is a small part of anationwide spy operation run centrally out of the ADL'snational headquarters in New York City under the directtion of its "fact finding" director Irwin Suall.In the San Francisco probe alone, police uncoveredevidence that the ADL had illegally penetrated 20 differ-ent police agencies in California alone, and had also gainedaccess to classified police files in Chicago, St. Louis, At-lanta, and a half dozen other cities across the country.On April 8, 1993, San Francisco police releasednearly 800 pages of documents, providing previouslyclassified details of the ADL's nationwide criminal opera-tions. Those documents were released as attachments toa search warrant affidavit which police executed thesame day. In raids on the San Francisco and Los Angelesoffices of the ADL, police obtained "a mountain" of newevidence of the spying and agent-provocateur operationsof the League.The April 8 search warrant actions, which garneredfinancial records and internal ADL correspondence be-tween Suall and West Coast regional ADL officials, werethe second raids on ADL offices in four months. On Dec.10, 1992, San Francisco police raided the San Franciscoand Los Angeles ADL offices, as well as the residences ofBullock and Gerard.Damage Control FailsShortly after the April raids and document disclosures,the ADL launched what local San Francisco newspaperslabeled a massive "damage control" effort They sent outseveral delegations of national officials from New York
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