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Spying by French nuclear company?

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UN Dispatch Morning Coffee – 21 April 2009

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–> Lindsay Beyerstein – April 21, 2009 – 6:30am

• Morning Coffee

– A judicial inquiry in France is trying to determine whether the state-run electricity generation and distribution company, EDF, broke the law by paying spies to infiltrate anti-nuclear groups across Europe.

A security officer testified that he organized surveillance of Greenpeace and other groups starting around 2002, but did not seek to hack into their private networks. This is a particularly sensitive issue in France as memories are still fresh from the 1985 sinking of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior by French intelligence officers. Brits likely perked up at the news too, as EDF just bought British Energy, the UK’s nuclear operator. Link

Morning Coffee – 21 April 2009 | UN Dispatch

April 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, secrets,lies and civil liberties