{"id":335,"date":"2023-10-11T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eletron.me\/?p=335"},"modified":"2023-10-11T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:09:33","slug":"decades-before-snowden-this-american-patriot-waged-war-against-illegal-surveillance-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eletron.me\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/decades-before-snowden-this-american-patriot-waged-war-against-illegal-surveillance-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Decades before Snowden, this American patriot waged war against illegal surveillance in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the 1970s, US Army Captain Christopher Pyle blew the lid on government agencies\u2019 domestic spying<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1970, a US Army captain went rogue after he discovered that the military was conducting surveillance on dissidents across the country, thus sparking the first effort in modern times to tame US intelligence.<\/p>\n In 1968, almost half a century before the world heard the name of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who blew the whistle on a US-run global surveillance system, Christopher Pyle, an Army captain who taught law at the Army’s intelligence school at Fort Holabird, Maryland, was about to do something no less memorable.<\/p>\n After Pyle had concluded one of his popular lectures on civil disorder, which focused on how the military could better quell riots in those highly volatile times, a military officer directly involved in such operations approached him with the request for a meeting. Several days later, Pyle was escorted into a large warehouse facility that once had been used to assemble railroad engines. In his 2006 book, No Place to Hide<\/a>, Robert O’Harrow described what happened next.<\/p>\n “Pyle walked into the cage, where an officer showed him books containing mug shots. He looked in the first volume and saw a familiar face. It was Ralph David Abernathy, Martin Luther King’s assistant. Officers called the books the ‘black list.’”<\/em><\/p>\n \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n