The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
worked with the FBI to closely monitor the protest activities of the Occupy
Wall Street movement in 2011, according to recently released FBI documents.
The documents — obtained through a
Freedom of Information Act request by the progressive Partnership for Civil
Justice Fund (PCJF) — reveal that the FBI coordinated at length with local law
enforcement, private financial institutions and other government agencies in
their monitoring efforts of the Occupy movement’s activities.
For example, the Federal Reserve of
Richmond — headquartered in Richmond, Va. — instructed its personnel to monitor
Occupy planning sessions, and reported to the local FBI office about their
findings on a number of occasions.
One of the FBI documents — published to
PCJF’s site on Dec. 22, 2012 and dated Oct. 4, 2011 — says that the “Assistant
Vice President [of the] Law Enforcement Unit of the Federal Reserve Law
Enforcement Unit [was contacted] to pass on information regarding the movement
known as Occupy Wall Street.”
“This movement has been known to be
peaceful, but demonstrations across the United States show that other…
Source:
Daily Caller
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