Project Megiddo
Project Megiddo (the term derived from Armageddon, which literally means the "hill of Megiddo") was a 1999 report released by the FBI, alerting of alleged danger due terrorism by millennialist right-wing groups in association with the 2000 date. It gave particular focus to groups with White nationalist associations, such as Christian Identity and strangely also to non-Christian groups such as Odinists. The report was widely distributed to law enforcement agencies countrywide. The new millennium date arrived without such terrorism occurring.
The report has been stated have had a striking resemblance to a similar report by the Anti-Defamation League.[1]
"Laird Wilcox, author of two comprehensive books on extremist groups on both the left and the right, as well as "American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others," charges that the FBI, in the process of infiltrating potentially dangerous organizations, gets infiltrated itself. "The most troubling aspect of watchdog opportunism is their infiltration of law enforcement," Wilcox told WorldNetDaily. "Watchdog organizations feed law enforcement agencies information in order to prompt them to go after their enemies, real or imagined. By alleging 'dangerousness' on the basis of mere assumed values, opinions and beliefs, they put entirely innocent citizens at risk from law enforcement error and misconduct." Wilcox authored "The Watchdogs: A close look at Anti-Racist 'Watchdog' Groups," to document this phenomenon. [...] the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center had significant roles in the completion of Project Megiddo. Although those groups did not write the final draft of the document, information they provided to the FBI was compiled and essentially rewritten to create the report, he said. [...] The underlying purpose of Project Megiddo and Anti-Defamation League documents, said Wilcox, is to condition law enforcement officials to view certain "conservative, right-wing Christian" groups and individuals as dangerous. [..] Wilcox complained that, were the watchdog groups to conduct surveillance of black organizations there would be a public uproar, but because the groups are predominantly white, conservative, and Christian there is little concern in the press."[1]
External links
- Expert: Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck
- FBI and Project Megiddo - at the Center for Studies on New Religions.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Expert: Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001yhl
