Badjacketing

Accusing leftists with “funded by CIA”, "paid by Soros" or “FBI informant” without evidence is common and actively harms international solidarity and local activism. The ability to harm social movements was the reason the US government used those tactics during infiltration through COINTELPRO.

### **Badjacketing**

* “Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements” by Feminist Anarchist Border Opposition https://ia802605.us.archive.org/17/items/WhyMisogynistsMakeGreatInformants/misogynists\_great\_informants.pdf [PDF, 472kb, EN]; https://incite-national.org/2010/07/15/why-misogynists-make-great-informants-how-gender-violence-on-the-left-enables-state-violence-in-radical-movements/ [EN]; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/courtney-desiree-morris-why-misogynists-make-great-informants [various formats, EN]
* "Tactics used by the Communist Party of the Philippines to smear their critics" by Alex De Jong https://libcom.org/library/tactics-used-communist-party-philippines-smear-their-critics [EN] (libertarian communist archive)
* "Right-wing media falsely ties Black Lives Matter movement to Beijing" by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian https://www.axios.com/right-wing-media-falsely-ties-black-lives-matter-movement-to-beijing-ea7d1b65-433d-4c03-b0f1-d9b1c586aacd.html [EN] (same kind of logic tankies used to smear other protests right-wingers use; proves why that logic is just BS)
* “No Badjacketing: The State Wants to Kill Us; Let’s Not Cooperate” https://twincitiesgdc.org/badjacketing/ [EN]; https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/no-badjacketing-the-state-wants-to-kill-us-lets-not-cooperate-repost/ [EN]; https://libcom.org/library/no-badjacketing-state-wants-kill-us-lets-not-cooperate [EN] (libertarian communist archive)
* "Accomplices, Not Allies: Abolish the Ally Industrial Complex" http://www.indigenousaction.org/wp-content/uploads/accomplices-not-allies-print-friendly.pdf [PDF, 3.2MB, EN]
* "Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy" https://crimethinc.com/2012/05/29/inside-the-fbi-entrapment-strategy [EN]

#### **Research Articles**

* “Stairway to Hell: The Yugoslav Rock Scene and Youth during the Crisis Decade of 1981–1991” by Ljubica Spaskovska https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/18682853/Spaskovska\_Stairway\_to\_Hell.pdf [PDF, 720kb, EN]
* “Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement“ by Randy Borum and Chuck Tilby https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/10576100590928106 [PDF, 252kb, EN]; https://libcom.org/files/ADA%20fulltext.pdf [PDF, 122kb, EN] (libertarian communist archive)

#### **News Articles**

* “Beijing-loyal DAB admits ties to US group at heart of 'external forces' Occupy debate” by Joyce Ng https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1650230/beijing-loyal-dab-admits-ties-us-group-heart-external-forces-debate [EN] (owned by Alibaba)
* “RCMP reactivated list of flagged activists days before Trans Mountain decision, documents show” by Jorge Barrera https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-project-sitka-list-1.5422152 [EN] (Canadian state-owned media)
* “The Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat” by Alleen Brown https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/ecoterrorism-fbi-animal-rights/ [EN] (owned by First Look Media)
* "Some Officials Find Intelligence Network 'Useful'" by John Mintz https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/01/15/some-officials-find-intelligence-network-useful/acc2d7a5-5337-4e20-9312-d8e39c6d14a1/ [EN]
* "We’re Keeping A Running List Of Hoaxes And Misleading Posts About The Nationwide Police Brutality Protests" by Jane Lytvynenko and Craig Silverman https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/hoax-misleading-claims-george-floyd-protests [EN]
* "With arrests, HBGary hack saga finally ends" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/the-hbgary-saga-nears-its-end/ [EN]

#### **Magazine article****s**

* “How Homeland Security Blurs Jurisdictions” by Ken Klippenstein https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fusion-centers-dhs/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/a6Vnb)

#### **Blog posts**

* "PSL SECTARIANISM: SNITCHJACKETING, VIOLENCE AND CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS" by John Willflow https://johnwillflow.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/psl-sectarianism-snitchjacketing-violence-and-character-assassinations/ [EN]
* “Taking surveillance seriously” by âpihtawikosisân https://apihtawikosisan.com/2020/02/taking-surveillance-seriously/ [EN]
* "CROH Demands Accountability from the Green Party of PA" by Community Research Opposing Hate https://crohlv.noblogs.org/post/2021/07/19/green-party-pa-demands-bad-jacket/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.ph/cdt88)
* "Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!" by CPI Members Speak Out https://medium.com/@cpimembersspeakout/caleb-maupins-former-comrades-speak-out-his-abuses-must-stop-4167bc1c2c [EN] (archived: https://archive.ph/ZpB3h)

#### **Documents**

* “PROJECT SITKA: Serious Criminality Associated to Large Public Order Events with National Implications" https://warriorpublications.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/project-sitka-report.pdf [PDF, 11MB, EN] (declassified RCMP report)

#### **Encyclopedia**

* "Bad-jacketing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad-jacketing [EN]
* “OSS Deer Team” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS\_Deer\_Team [EN]

#### **Books**

* “Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema” by Pavle Levi https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=9194 [EN]
* “The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB” by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3FBC0D039FCC711B5EBC76EA38B9D5A0 [EPUB, 2MB, EN]
* “Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege” by Will Potter http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EFA23CA04E19765E1A625139C36DAAB9 [EPUB, 325kb, EN]; http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=DD6E045DF9278B29D993FD712A8DA898 [MOBI, 604kb, EN]
* "A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974" by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B1114140A9DE1F47D697FC04CA62165E [EPUB, 12MB, EN]
* "Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980" by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagherhttps://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=36204AAE86BA440C3DFCDEE26136146A [EPUB, 3MB, EN]; https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9AC88CF8A0DC01174C191945EEB75CCF [PDF, 6MB, EN]

#### **Videos**

* "Trouble #5: You're Being Watched" uploaded by subMedia https://vimeo.com/227500952 [34:17, EN SUB, CZ SUB, FR SUB], https://sub.media/video/trouble-5-you-are-being-watched/ [34:16, EN SUB, PL SUB, CZ SUB, FR SUB, EN] (see disclaimer in video description about Exile and Sadie being fascists)
* "Abolish the Ally Industrial Complex" uploaded by Saint Andrewism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXNMF1laZJI&t=178s [7:48, EN SUB, EN] (Black Trinidadian solarpunk anarchist)
* "How To Destroy a Movement" uploaded by Saint Andrewism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Gjm\_kg324 [11:21, EN SUB, EN] (Black Trinidadian solarpunk anarchist)
* "Are Grayzone What They Accuse Everyone Else of Being?" uploaded by Punks for Progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWCZxY2QbMM [1:21:33, EN]
* "The Truth about Keaten Mansfield" uploaded by The Yankee Tankie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f4kge5kHXw [49:21, EN]
* "Talking about cult behavior shortly before Caleb Maupin news" uploaded by The Right Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCpnezC1wTo [1:04, EN]
* "Fμck it, we'll do it live pt 2 - Caleb Maupin and the Patsocs" uploaded by Turn Leftist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOII6SH3PtY [1:00:01, EN]
* "CALEB MAUPIN EXPOSED! Cult Tactics and ABUSE Allegations from FORMER ORG MEMBERS (Accounts DELETED!)" uploaded by The Serfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRMLZNgNMU [2:44:54]
* "Caleb Maupin OUTED As Spankaholic Cult Leader, CPI EXPLODES - City Building IN SHAMBLES" uploaded by BadEmpanada 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbRO1vtK94 [15:39, EN]
* "Some thoughts for the people who blew the whistle on Caleb Maupin" uploaded by Untitled Anarchist Seagull Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTw\_tjMAXu8 [4:33, EN]
* "Caleb Maupin's Abuses & Why We All Came Forward" uploaded by The Flame of Liberation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMhTKXvOns [21:54, EN]
* "Caleb Maupin must admit he is guilty fully!" uploaded by The Yankee Tankie https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z3EvgUnWYhk [EN]
* "S4A Livestream #34: Caleb Maupin's Org Goes Down Over Sexploitation Allegations; PFAS Removal & More" uploaded by Socialism For All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMgQzpjSow [2:06:15, EN] (Marxist-Leninist critique)
* "Caleb Maupin exposed for abuses and cult manipulation tactcs" uploaded by Sophie From Mars Streams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPxmVl92K0 [3:43:06, EN]

#### **Websites**

* "COINTELPRO | Democracy Now!" https://www.democracynow.org/topics/cointelpro [EN]

#### **Archived**

* https://archive.vn/Eirdz [EN] - US State Department calls China “Marxist-Leninist”
* https://archive.vn/bYadb [EN] - Red Kahina smears Black abolitionist Mariame Kaba with an antisemitic conspiracy theory about George Soros (translated into English by neo-fascist LaRouche follower F. William Engdahl)
* https://archive.vn/t8gNS [EN] - explains why being funded by the NED is not the same as being funded by the CIA
* https://archive.vn/IKheO [EN] - Max Blumenthal of *The Grayzone* copjackets CNN reporters during the George Floyd uprisings
* https://archive.vn/2yCKL [EN] - Yasha Levine fedjackets an immigrant who works with refugees facing U.S. oppression
* https://archive.is/6wCyh [EN], https://archive.is/Y0dgv [EN] - Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal of *The Grayzone* badjackets a well-known Syrian leftist Leila al-Shami
* https://archive.vn/scw1m [EN] - Max Blumenthal of *The Grayzone* fedjackets a rape survivor
* https://archive.vn/SXnP7 [EN] - importance of listening to local communities instead of upholding celebrities who might be compromised by COINTELPRO
* https://archive.vn/Dw8MM [EN], https://archive.is/QgBsF [EN] - Esha Krishnaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast participates in fedjacketing the Black Socialists in America (BSA)
* https://archive.is/sDY55 [EN] - Esha Krishnaswmy of *historic.ly* podcast fedjackets someone over supporting an ML-involved experiment in Syria
* https://archive.vn/aqOCH [EN] - Richard Medhurst fedjackets someone whose ideology could be distilled down to Chapo Traphouse or r/stupidpol
* https://archive.is/KteZi [EN] - Trotskyist publication *The Militant* newspaper participates in badjacketing summer uprisings in response to police murder of George Floyd
* https://archive.is/SoAio [EN] - Esha Krishnaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets a British communist publisher, *Aufheben*, for having a German name
* https://archive.is/4CnI5 [EN] - Caleb Maupin engages in rape apologia and fedjacketing instead of calling for accountability of sexual and domestic violence
* https://archive.is/l7OX8 [EN] - Caleb Maupin fedjackets Maltese Marxist Joseph Buttigieg with an antisemitic conspiracy theory (originating from Lyndon LaRouche) about Frankfurt School
* https://archive.is/COREn [EN] - Caleb Maupin is fedjacketing because he didn't like Black Marxist, queer Marxist or feminist Marxist theory of "identity politics". Russell Means being tokenized by white Americans and being compromised by FBI and police has nothing to do with Combahee River Collective. It's enough to point out how Russell Means sabotaged the Pine Ridge standoff and the American Indian Movement [AIM] instead of engaging in anti-Black conspiracism
* https://archive.ph/DzpHh [EN] - *Red Lettuce* podcast, with Caleb Maupin enabling the behaviour, fedjackets anonymous author J. Sakai without evidence for writing a book *Settlers*, inspiring many Black and Indigenous writers, which many white communists think is a conspiracy instead of the more logical assumption the book is poorly-sourced or hastily written (addressed in 4th edition)
* https://archive.vn/FwtY9 [EN], https://archive.vn/ZWvk2 [EN], https://archive.vn/Yc5Ml [EN], https://archive.vn/C28t7 [EN], https://archive.vn/elpc4 [FI] - Esha Krishnaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets Soviet-backed Finnish communists, the largest political movement in Europe outside of USSR, because of their ethnicity or nationality over a *New York Times* smear of socialist movements imprisoning fascists and collaborators after signing the Moscow Armistice, lifting the ban on communist organizations and entering the Lapland War against Nazi Germany
* https://archive.ph/bxWZF [EN] - Esha Krishaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets Mymmarese (Burmese) protestors against the junta over a common iconography from the popular *Hunger Games* movie trilogy
* https://archive.ph/WljTL [EN], https://archive.ph/hvhbZ [EN], https://archive.ph/ASDxb [EN], https://archive.ph/m1jjO [EN], https://archive.ph/zUzP4 [EN], https://archive.is/JfG5P [EN] - Tom of *Mango Press,* member of Workers Party of Great Britain [WPGB] (many British Marxists consider George Galloway as anti-Marxist due to xenophobia and other bigotry), has a history of fedjacketing leftists
* https://archive.ph/gkn14 [EN], https://archive.ph/APmfo [EN], https://archive.ph/B0u3I [EN], https://archive.ph/KlM9g [EN], https://archive.ph/LtKzf [EN], https://archive.ph/m6vPE [EN], https://archive.ph/ee30G [EN], https://archive.is/i9DZN [EN] - Esha Krishnaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets and fedjackets a British libertarian Marxist group Solidarity, who are anti-trade union, because she didn't understand the history of Polish trade unionist group Solidarność or that there's a ten years gap between the two groups
* https://archive.ph/gbTys [EN], https://archive.ph/ZRdP3 [EN], https://archive.ph/KVOGK [EN], https://archive.is/KVOGK [EN], https://archive.is/MTAAM [EN], https://archive.is/g0h7g [EN], https://archive.ph/vB2vW [EN], https://archive.is/LGJoc [EN], https://archive.is/wnSCu [EN], https://archive.is/pPbtY [EN] - YouTuber BadEmpanada's history of fedjacketing other leftists without evidence
* https://archive.is/dekqr [EN], https://archive.is/xUNco [EN], https://archive.is/A2Met [EN], https://archive.is/PWLsx [EN], https://archive.is/Gf5hW [EN], https://archive.is/jKJUF [EN], https://archive.ph/A4xHz [EN], https://archive.ph/ObVYB [EN], https://archive.ph/mHHg7 [EN], https://archive.ph/vReD6 [EN], https://archive.ph/vsmT3 [EN], https://archive.ph/ZDppJ [BE], https://archive.ph/AvtFU [EN] - Ben Norton of *The Grayzone* fashjackets journalist Roman Protasevich which both anti-fascist and anti-extremist researchers found no evidence of or has insufficient evidence of at the time of publishing
* https://archive.ph/XCl1v [EN], https://archive.is/6bNBE [EN], https://archive.is/Bk98P [EN], https://archive.is/IWwh2 [EN], https://archive.is/chwo5 [EN] - Esha Krishaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets journalist Patrick Hilsman who came from a French socialist family and the French resistance based on association with Catholicism
* https://archive.is/GsotP [EN], https://archive.is/FCaYh [EN], https://archive.ph/h2nno [EN] - Esha Krishaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fedjackets journalist Patrick Hilsman, who repeatedly called out U.S. misinformation and imperialist actions, because she didn't like his coverage of Syria
* https://archive.ph/LzU4u [EN], https://archive.ph/kitvJ [EN] - Esha Krishaswamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets Raul Hilberg, the founder of Holocaust studies, who was Jewish and fought against the Nazis during WWII
* https://archive.is/u4p2F [EN], https://archive.is/iZGMk [EN], https://archive.is/5zzqW [EN] - Green Party of Lehigh Valley badjacketing anti-fascists for protecting M4M4All from fascist entryism
* https://archive.is/tMXVj [EN] - Esha Krishawamy of *historic.ly* podcast fashjackets Swedish and Norwegian communists without the tact of Stieg Larsson's criticism of Nordic democracies and neglects to mention Venezuelan communists no longer support Maduro
* https://archive.ph/okjkG [EN] - why Marcyists shouldn't be fedjacketing anyone until they resolve their own contradictions
* https://archive.ph/Cnz8f [EN], https://archive.ph/b9SaV [EN], https://archive.is/zrr8Q [EN], https://archive.is/PW33b [EN], https://archive.is/G30P7 [EN], https://archive.is/NVq2Z [EN], https://archive.is/PW33b [EN], https://archive.is/CHl3w [EN], https://archive.ph/PtoUx [EN], https://archive.ph/8yg9N [EN] - double-standard of Amanda Mae Yee [Radio Free Amanda] badjacketing everyone over NED funding while accepting scholarship from the National Security Administration (WARNING!- doxx information came from Red Kahina's camp of Marxist-Leninists)
* https://archive.is/kTf9Y [EN], https://archive.ph/5yhYv [EN], https://archive.ph/K0mXp [EN], https://archive.ph/VPQkO [EN], https://archive.ph/303Az [EN], https://archive.ph/WWhV6 [EN], https://archive.ph/cPoyG [EN], https://archive.ph/SLDdl [EN], https://archive.ph/c9S58 [EN], https://archive.ph/WUvM1 [EN] - double-standard of Party for Socialism and Liberation, Grayzone and Qiao Collective badjacketing everyone over mere thousands from NED funding while People's Forum receives millions of dollars of anonymous donations from Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
* https://archive.is/anIVq [EN], https://archive.ph/K0mXp [EN] - double-standard of Vijay Prashad badjacketing everyone over mere thousands from NED funding while Tricontential receives millions of dollars of anonymous donations from Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
* https://archive.ph/Byjg5 [EN], https://archive.is/WP403 [EN] - Eva Cantor (Renee's) outing their Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) roleplaying account
* https://archive.is/RhyAB [EN], https://archive.is/TWzhB [EN] - Eva Cantor's (Renee's) history of misogynoir, fetishized and oversexualization depiction of Black woman within FInal Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) communities
* https://archive.ph/5QGgI [EN] - Eva Cantor (Renee) being transparent about collaborating with the state handing over antifascists to the police
* https://archive.ph/JE8lb [EN] - reversal of endorsement of Eva Cantor (Renne) to Socialist Rifle Association (SRA)
* https://archive.ph/ZwqG0 [EN] - Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) players coming forward about Eva Cantor's (Renee's) abuses
* https://archive.is/JydTI [EN] - YouTuber BadEmpanada downplays Marcyists' history of collaborating with fascists (eg. neo-confederates, neo-Eurasianists), far-right (eg. paleoconservatives and right-libertarians), COINTELPRO etc.
* https://archive.ph/VNfUq [EN] - white Australian YouTuber BadEmpanada fashjackets a Ukrainian socialist, who lived in Moscow for a decade, with a video about Friedrich Ratzel. The Ukrainian socialist was discussing neo-Eurasianist Aleksandr Dugin, while Dugin himself is heavily inspired by Ratzel
* https://archive.ph/Q3BGx [EN] - Peter Coffin and Angie Speaks shelters FBI informant and alleged serial rapist Laurelai Bailey in their Discord server
* https://archive.ph/yI2Gg [EN] - Jess and Zena from *TransGirl Therapist* shelters FBI informant and alleged serial rapist Laurelai Bailey in their Discord server

#### **Notes**

* Ho Chi Minh accepted assistance from the OSS and re-invited French colonial power to kick out Japanese occupiers then overthrew the French after WW2
* Stalin thought Chiang Kai-shek was a safer bet than Mao Zedong
* Stalin accepted supplies and assistance from anti-Bolshevik FDR and anti-Soviet Churchill Winston
* Lenin was assisted by Imperial German intelligence to end the war against Tsarist Russia
* USA considers anarchists more dangerous than Marxist-Leninists
* George Bush made repressing green anarchists a priority, even though they never killed anyone
* FBI finds anarchist groups and other decentralized groups difficult to infiltrate compared to vanguardist organizations
* Many former MLs became anarchists or libertarian Marxists because of how easy Leninist organizations are to infiltrate
* Yugoslav youths during the punk scene actively stood against the dissolution of Yugoslavia and spoke out against the violence.
* CIA promoting Jackson Pollock has nothing to do with Socialist Realism and engaging in conspiracy theories about the CIA erases the history of Russian Avant-Garde and USSR supporters within the Surrealist movements. Pollock was a Stalinist, and the message in the USA was "In the USSR, dissident artists are sent to GULAG and the USA has greater liberty which allows freedom of speech". With Congress for Cultural Freedom platforming Pollock, USSR would ban Pollock from travelling abroad and having exhibitions within the republics
* In 1970, many Peruvians thought Abimael Guzmán was a CIA plant, because he was the only leftist figure trying to undermine the popular leftist Velasco government. Peruvian organizers were skeptical of Guzmán because the Peruvian Left was repressed by McCarthyist politics and neoliberalism, and Guzmán as well as his cadres were sons of former Gamonales— Peruvian aristocrats who maintained a feudal system. The CIA didn't get involved in Peru until the late 80s and early 90s once the lines were already firmly drawn, and they did it primarily due to the new "War on Drugs" when the Cold War de-escalated. It was extreme sectarianism from Gonzalo and Shining Path massacres which destroyed the Peruvian Left.
* The CIA was actually supportive of anti-colonial movements in Africa in order to transform them into bourgeoise client-states of the USA [see studies on neo-colonialism and post-colonialism], though they were disappointed when many post-colonial Africa nations aligned themselves with the USSR
* The British government supported the Yugoslav communists over the monarchists during Nazi Germany’s occupation of Yugoslavia
* When Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) became a liability, the KGB planted false rumors that the organization was created or supported by the CIA, which led to conspiracy theories about American interventions supporting leftists in Canada amongst liberals and conservatives for decades to come. For more information, see "Anti-government reactionaries".
* Accusing others (Hoxhaists, Maoists, Titoists, Trotskyists, leftcoms, anarchists etc) describing People's Republic of China as capitalist for repeating state department talking point is asinine because US State Department does call PRC a Marxist-Leninist state.