NUCLEAR BIG BROTHER

...self-styled private subversive-hunters, come from a broad segment of society...

...In his office, the NRC chief of reactor safeguards, Robert A. Clark, is willing to concede that "there's no protection system that's absolute...

...Widespread reports of police wiretapping against Clamshell Alliance organizers surfaced in 1978...

...Clark worked at a nuclear weapons lab for seventeen years before joining the nuclear power program of the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agency, the NRC...

...Local, state, and Federal agencies, joined by private and quasi-private groups, coordinate their surveillance and share information, misinformation and opinions...

...HEntry control systems...

...The public relations firm Reddy Communications, Inc., developed the symbol—a cartoon character with a body of lightning bolts, electric sockets for ears and a light bulb nose...

...Shortly before his recent death, Comey concluded that nuclear power "represents a threat to our civil liberties as great as any other this country has faced...

...Taylor told NBC News that Georgia Power places into a "subversive category" citizens "who for any reason would be against the rate increases or would have some type of critical opposition to the operation of the power company...

...According to a July investigative article in The Texas Observer, some employes still on the job agree with Swayze's contention that he was dismissed for insisting on correction of faulty construction work...

...As she drove, her car was bumped from behind and forced off the road into a concrete piling...

...and the Pinkerton Agency hold security contracts with utilities and the nuclear industry (as is now the case...

...The last big demonstration cost Columbia County more than $22,000...

...The forum had been arranged as a debate between Safe Energy Alternatives Alliance representatives and JCP&L officials^—but, ironically, the Three Mile Island accident four days earlier caused JCP&L, one-quarter owner of the nuclear plant, to withdraw from participation in the forum...

...With'many billions of dollars on the line, atomic power interests around the country are stepping up repressive tactics against the anti-nuclear movement...

...Some of the millions are going to suspect quarters...

...The suit says the company is pursuing "an apparent attempt to unjustifiably smear people who openly and non-violently oppose nuclear power on principled grounds...

...EAF, which provides detailed information on electricity consumer rights and nuclear power economics to activists throughout the country, showed the usually endearing Reddy in a different light: stealing money from elderly of Reddy citizens, carousing with big bankers, and generally thumbing his bulbous nose at the public interest...

...Utility arrangements with guard companies also have ominous implications, as Donna Warnock pointed out in the Citizens' Energy Project report, Nuclear Power and Civil Liberties...

...There are always agitators in a crowd like this who come to disrupt things," DiPasquale told a reporter...

...Clary told United Press International that his dismissal occurred because "I continue to express these safety concerns, despite their attempts to shut me up...

...The man, dressed in coat and tie, described himself as a detective...

...Inclusion of the word 'foreign' is significant," observes Tim Butz, a researcher for the Washington-based Repression Information Project...

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...This 'intelligence' activity remains largely uncontrolled, and poses a grave threat to constitutional rights of freedom of expression, due process, and privacy Nuclear power steadily erodes the entire social context within which civil liberties and security "tradeoffs" will be evaluated, with the rationale that more extreme measures are necessary to protect citizens from nuclear decimation brought about by terrorists...

...The belief that civil liberties can prevail side by side with nuclear energy is a delusion...

...after a year-and-a-half of active involvement in meetings and demonstrations, Bell's affiliation was discovered when her name was found on a roster of police academy graduates...

...Opening of mail is often done in such an obvious fashion that the purpose seems to be more intimidation than mail screening," says Lanny Alan Sinkin, a coordinator of Citizens Concerned About Nuclear Power, a Texas organization battling STNP licensing in Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings...

...Robinson, president of the Association of American Cartoonists, said the Reddy Kilowatt graphic "represents an industry and enables a cartoonist to comment on it...

...it is also the holder of the old files of former Senator Joe McCarthy...

...is a halt....' States, police are spying on anti-nuclear activities...

...The township detective, it turned out, had been asked by the New Jersey State Police to record all license plate numbers of vehicles at the forum...

...More repression appears in the guise of further safety precautions...

...The NRC's director of nuclear material safety and safeguards, Kenneth Chapman, later issued a memo declaring that team members would be "responsible for the effective compilation and evaluation of all pertinent intelligence data concerning domestic licensed nuclear facilities and material, whether the adversary is U.S...

...The nuclear industry has come to depend on arguments like those which defended continuation of the Vietnam war: Authorities are presumed to "have all the information" to which mere citizens cannot be expected to have access...

...Despite such public criticism, utility snooping programs continue unabated...

...Two Operational Systems directors, Richard Velde and Paul Wor-meli, formerly were high-level administrators of the U.S...

...The FBI maintains close liaison with both the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," says Donald W. Moore, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations, who declines to provide details...

...She was carrying files on working conditions at the plant—files documenting, among other things, the inexplicable disappearance of forty pounds of plutonium from the facility...

...Two years ago the director of the NRC's OfNorman Solomon, a free-lance, writer based in Portland, Oregon, has written frequently for The Progressive and other publications on nuclear topics...

...fice of Planning and Analysis, Barrett Riordan, resigned with a verbal blast: "I view the increasing involvement of the NRC in Executive Branch national security and intelligence affairs, with their attendant need for secrecy, as basically at odds with the goal of regulation conducted openly and with full public participation...

...You talk too much," an assailant declared as he struck Austin activist Todd Samusson, who was returning to his car from giving a speech on nuclear power at the University of Texas campus...

...in the past those services have included at least seventeen break-ins to assist in collection of information on utility opponents...

...UNuclear facility security...

...State police later admitted the van was theirs...

...The current director of security for Portland General Electric Co., Jim Street, was hired away from a longtime job as an agent at the Portland FBI office when the Oregon utility's Trojan nuclear power plant went into operation...

...Mindful of the prior incident when utility employes had impersonated photojournalists, Colt asked to see police identification...

...Treasury Department, Army intelligence, the FBI, and the state government's Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Power "security department" stocks elaborate cameras, walkie-talkies, nighttime telescopes, fingerprint kits, drug-analysis material, videotape machines, and wiretapping equipment...

...PSE&G may defend itself with high-sounding platitudes about security—but then so did disreputable government officials...

...The poll, obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act, was commissioned by the Government...

...HRelated areas of basic science and novel applications...

...The data are then circulated to utilities around the country...

...After the identity of its employes was uncovered, the LAPD rejected demands for an investigation...

...No arrests have been made, and the motive for the shots is not certain...

...The photographers claimed to be working for newspapers, and supplied phony telephone numbers and addresses...

...The Buffalo Police Department has a standard policy of photographing demonstrators—with photos routinely going into dossiers maintained by the city police "Anti-Subversive Squad...

...Significantly, Oregon and Washington legislative moves to crack down on anti-nuclear demonstrators came soon after utilities in both states failed to obtain wide-ranging court injunctions to head off civil disobedience...

...We have our own facilities for receiving and conveying intelligence to the local utilities," Clark adds with some evident pride...

...With about 500 people inside Bayville's Central Regional High School where the program was under way, Colt questioned the man writing down license plate numbers...

...The targets, defined by Security through technology A Conference on Security Through Science and Engineering will be held at West Berlin Technical University in West Germany September 23 through 26 in cooperation with the University of Kentucky, which annually sponsors such events...

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...Hal Stroube, former public af'Surveillance...

...The threat to constitutional rights comes not only from government agencies, but also from electric utilities running wild with intelligence units of their own that sometimes provoke the envy of Federal snoopers...

...Asked from which Federal agencies the NRC receives information, Clark responds, "It would be a little sensitive to give all of them, but I can describe them as the intelligence community—I guess that covers most of them...

...Approved by committees in both houses before being stopped by a coalition of anti-nuclear and civil liberties organizations, the bill would have conferred blanket police powers on the 150-member "security force" of the Washington Public Power Supply System, which is presently building five nuclear reactors...

...Deneen formerly worked in the Philadelphia office of the FBI...

...Last summer, a few days before a pre-announced civil disobedience demonstration at the Glen Rose nuclear power plant site near Fort Worth, the Texas legislature passed a bill drastically increasing penalties for trespass on utility property—and creating a new felony for interference with utility operations...

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...Spent Power Reactor Fuel, issued a year ago, discusses dangers that high-level nuclear waste could be targeted for theft or "sabotage to disperse radioactive material or otherwise interrupt operations...

...In effect, "civil liberties" will exist only for those whose actions unquestionably remain non-threatening to continuation of nuclear projects...

...And, just as fire hoses, police dogs, and worse did not deter the civil rights movement, violence against anti-nuclear activists does not seem likely to be persuasive...

...The scale and complexity of centralized grids not only make them politically inaccessible to the poor and the weak but also increase the likelihood and size of malfunctions, mistakes, and deliberate disruptions," says energy researcher Amory Lovins...

...Also in California, two sheriffs from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties infiltrated the Abalone Alliance to participate in planning sessions and implementation of nonviolent civil disobedience at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in August 1977...

...After more than two years of litigation, U.S...

...William Wilkerson, imperial wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the KKK, told reporters "the Seabrook nuclear plant is the kind of issue that will draw people to the Klan...

...Politically motivated beatings, tire slashings, ransacking of files, threatening phone calls, and the like are frequent experiences for vocal anti-nuclear activists in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and rural Texas communities near atomic power sites...

...After two years of monitoring concrete pourings at the troubled South Texas Nuclear Project, quality control inspector Dan Swayze was fired following his insistence on replacing substandard construction at Reactor Unit Number 1. Swayze's actions were costing contractor Brown & Root and the project's lead utility, Houston Lighting & Power Co., millions of dollars...

...In the past, nuclear power has been purveyed as a symbol of progress, siphoned off from the terrifying undercurrents which entered human consciousness with the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6,1945...

...lion dollars annually for such efforts— at least a hundred times the amount budgeted by comparable numbers of utilities without nuclear power...

...Georgia Power's James Bond fixations have received some national publicity—boosted by public statements of disenchanted former employes—but its surveillance programs are not original...

...The "call for papers" lists these topics: UPolice systems...

...The shots that killed anti-nuclear organizer Michael Eakin in Houston last April 14 marked the most brutal event in a long and continuing series of attacks on safe energy activists in the state...

...Liaison with local, state, and Federal police agencies is such that, according to former Georgia Power security employe William Lovin...

...Developed in Manhattan Project secrecy during World War II, nuclear energy is a technological, economic, and social offspring of war, cradled in the police powers of the state...

...Nuclear Big Brother The seeds of repression have begun to sprout Norman Solomon In a suburban Washington office building of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a guard is stationed at the reception desk under a poster showing a monkey wrench and the slogan, "A Security Leak Can Be A Wrenching Experience...

...Today it continues to expand, under the cloak of national security...

...Was it an accident, or was she murdered...

...This bill would discourage people from having these demonstrations...

...Friends say Eakin was uncovering financial improprieties and construction defects at the South ,Texas Nuclear Project, a multi-billion-dollar undertaking designed to provide an eventual 5,000 megawatts of electricity...

...provides a good example of how utilities—supposedly in existence to serve the public interest—have been mounting intensive investigative programs against citizens critical of utility policies...

...A lawsuit filed by Swayze alleges that Brown & Root supervisors "had expressed to Mr...

...That more affluent liberal groups are now becoming more vocally critical of nuclear policies is a welcome shift—but their orientation generally lags behind, remaining cautious, more equivocal about the gravity of nuclear dangers, and less vulnerable to the kinds of harassment being used against the less-funded, more militant alliances active in virtually every state...

...Now, electric companies with nuclear investments are going through hard times...

...Largely because of strong anti-nuclear sentiment in Oregon, the bill didn't get far...

...Representative Henry B. Gonzales has called for a Federal investigation...

...took pictures of participants and their cars at an anti-nuclear teach-in...

...The U.S...

...An extensively researched report by the American Friends Service Committee, The Police Threat to Political Liberty, issued in 1979, concludes that "surveillance and record-keeping for political reasons exist on a large scale...

...Pinkerton has become infamous for its history of union-busting activity...

...You can't use a symbol which no one understands...

...Several Texas nuclear opponents report their mail is being pre-opened on a regular basis...

...has engaged in, and continues to engage in, collection, maintenance, processing, and dissemination of surveillance and intelligence information concerning opponents of nuclear power and others who differ with PECO's policies...

...Centerfor National Security Studies, 122 Maryland Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C...

...As the movement has grown stronger, so has government surveillance...

...And it has developed its own special "enemy"—the citizen-terrorist—whose opportunities for widespread destruction are provided, ironically, by nuclear power itself...

...or foreign...

...The jury found New Hampshire officials guilty of deprivation of civil rights...

...In high places there was a yearning for still greater Government control over news...

...Yet, as professional electricians, pipefitters, and construction workers, they say that fear of losing their union cards—and future employment—prevents them from going public with their information...

...Meeting with top officials during the Three Mile Island crisis, NRC head Joseph Hendrie offered a revealing comment which was tape recorded and later made public: "Which amendment is it that guarantees come able to turn off a country...

...Dissenting citizens bore a heavy burden of suspicion: for ignorance, alarmism, and possible lack of patriotic confidence that Government officials privy to atomic secrets really knew what they were doing...

...A recent survey of Federal inspectors of nuclear reactors found that 60 per cent believe their NRC bosses have a don't-rock-the-boat attitude...

...This year Oregon Representative Caroline Magruder introduced a bill to subject "trespassers" at the Trojan nuclear plant to sentences of up to-ten years in prison and fines of $2,500...

...is way ahead of them in surveillance capabilities...

...Samusson has been assaulted five times, the first when he approached a man tearing an anti-nuke bumper sticker from his car...

...So when the Environmental Action Foundation recruited Reddy Kilowatt five years ago, Reddy Communications took offense...

...FBI alumni sometimes end up on security department payrolls of companies operating nuclear facilities...

...To eliminate certain symbols would limit editorial comment," syndicated cartoonist Jerry Robinson testified in Federal court last summer...

...Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism," wrote Huxley...

...Domestic paramilitary maneuvers have already made long strides in tandem with nuclear energy programs— which neatly fit into President Carter's hundreds of reactor malfunctions in the United States every year— frequently involving unplanned releases of radiation into the environment—utilities and government remain the public's only direct sources of information...

...20002...

...Securities and Exchange Commission records show nuclear energy utilities are paying several milContacts Here are some organizations active in documenting surveillance and harassment of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States: ^Campaign for Political Rights, 201 Massachusetts Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C...

...Since it could be disquieting to the public for utilities and Government intelligence units overtly to collect information for each other, the NRC acts as a convenient go-between...

...A recently filed motion before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission urges suspension of Georgia Power's permit to build the Vogtle nuclear power plant because of the company's past false statements in Federal licensing hearings in which the utility denied its widespread involvement in surveillance of anti-nuclear groups...

...At the outset, officials screen atomic workers with background investigations and psychological testing...

...When Colt touched the pad, the man pulled handcuffs from a pocket and snapped them on Colt, who was charged with "assault" and taken to Ocean County Jail...

...now it harasses and bedevils the anti-nuclear movement...

...Nowhere has this become more apparent than in the states of Texas and New Hampshire, where retaliation against the progress of the anti-nuclear movement has taken some ugly twists...

...capital is scarce, while cost overruns soar...

...A cute Reddy Kilowatt, licensed to about 150 utilities in the United States, frequently appears on electric bills and utility advertisements...

...As was the case in Oregon, the utility-inspired repressive legislation also met last-minute opposition from union officials who feared enactment would infringe on labor's rights to organize and picket...

...Documented police spying programs, aimed at anti-nuclear citizens, exist in dozens of states...

...An Oklahoma jury later found Kerr-McGee liable for injury to Silkwood by plutonium contamination off the job, but the circumstances of her death remain unclear...

...Not all NRC officials have been pleased by the agency's steady drift toward a police-state mentality...

...Charles Pickett, senior security supervisor for Stone & Webster Engineering Corp...

...many citizens were present to testify against the nuclear project...

...N.S...

...Plainclothes officers often pose as news photographers, interested bystanders, or demonstrators...

...The story of his dual role became public in September, three months after 120 people were arrested for civil disobedience at the North Anna plant...

...So, for utility image-makers it's back to the drawing boards...

...Inspectors and other employes at nuclear plants are known to have lost their jobs for making safety complaints...

...Swayze's continuous addressing of construction defects...

...The document adds, "The originators of such threats can be classified into twelve groupings: individuals, ad-hoc organizations, criminals, dissident employes, sociopathic groups, domestic revolutionary groups, reactionary extremists, violent issue-oriented groups, domestic anarchists, domestic separatists, foreign separatists, and foreign revolutionaries"—a catch-all for almost every shading of anti-nuclear opinion...

...Utilities provide dossiers on their critics to pro-nuclear trade associations...

...And the fragility of nuclear "safety" is ripe for use as an excuse for repression...

...at the plant, posed as a self-employed landscaper named Charles Martin while attending strategy sessions of the Virginia Sunshine Alliance and the Charlottesville-based Piedmont Alliance for Safe Energy...

...That is the case with Reddy Kilowatt, the establishment symbol of friendly corporate-supplied electricity...

...The electric power industry is running into more and more satire...

...Research West, which has defied a Congressional subpoena for its records on anti-nuclear activists, has kept up a sixteen-year contractual relationship with California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co...

...There is certainly cause for concern," Warnock wrote, "as long as firms like Wackenhut Corp...

...What we're trying to do is make the penalties stiffer for this sort of thing," said Magruder...

...So when, on April 1,1979, Clay Colt noticed someone in the parking lot at a nuclear power forum systematically jotting down license plate numbers, he had a disturbing sense of deja vu...

...Societies may therefore be tempted to discourage disruption through stringent controls akin to a garrison state...

...We rely heavily, of course, on help from local law enforcement," he says, and the NRC routinely "interfaces" with Federal investigative agencies such as the FBI...

...20005...

...During Rationales reminiscent of wartime censorship were invoked by the NRC and the White House as officials sought to prevent panic and save face for the nuclear industry...

...Virginia Electric Power Co...

...The greatest potential threat to civil liberties lies in the possibility that security forces will perceive civilians outside the nuclear industry as dangerous," said David Dinsmore Comey, who was president of Citizens for a Better Environment in Chicago and long a critic of the nuclear industry...

...the Wackenhut Corporation, meanwhile, is supplied with information apparently by the right-wing Church League of America which considers itself 'the largest private research organization and information center on operations of the Communist Party and the New Left Movement in the entire U.S.A.' Wackenhut has an estimated six million files containing unverified materials on authors, speakers, and petition signers...

...I tried to convey to him the fact that many people attending would not appreciate having their license plate number recorded and traced for future reference by either the police or the utility company—just because they were concerned about the problems of nuclear power and cared enough to attend a public forum on the subject," Colt recalls...

...We have too long been subjected to varying degrees of government surveillance to be smug about the 'innocence' of such tactics," editorialized the Morris County Daily Record two years ago, after a spying episode involving Public Service Electric & Gas Co...

...A guy came up to us and asked us for credentials and we didn't have any...

...When EAF refused to curb its irreverent cartoonists, Reddy Communications went to court, accusing EAF of "defaming" the electric character...

...Atomic industries present critics with unacceptable choices couched as the only "realistic" options...

...Contacted by a newspaper reporter who had obtained a copy of the memo, Portland General Electric public relations manager Steve Loy referred to the complaining reactor operator as "a fink...

...Since 1977, more than 5,000 arrests for nonviolent civil disobedience have taken place at nuclear sites in the United States...

...More domestic militarization is offered to counter charges of nuclear laxity...

...In hopes of turning the atomic tide, a new wave of activism is learning to combine such tactics as civil disobedience, educational outreach, lobbying, media work, and grassroots organizing...

...After the man's continued refusal to show a badge or police ID, Colt reached for the notepad...

...Brown & Root maintains Swayze was fired for failure to cooperate with a probe into bribery charges against him...

...UCommand, control, and communications systems...

...In Buffalo, when more than 200 area residents gathered in Niagara Square for a legal protest against nuclear power last spring, city policeman Nelson DiPasquale was there taking pictures...

...the company modeled its spy unit on those of other utilities such as Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Alabama Power...

...The man refused...

...Operating since 1973 on an annual budget of at least $750,000, Georgia Power's spies function under company directives to keep tabs on individuals and organizations if they oppose company rate increases, nuclear power projects, or general corporate practices...

...The Abalone Alliance later learned, through documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, that the FBI had been actively monitoring its activities for more than eighteen months...

...A small fault, or a few discontented people, be"energy war" rhetoric and proposals for an Energy Mobilization Board with sweeping powers...

...sonic, magnetic, microwave...

...The four-billion-dollar Georgia Power Co...

...Because the nuclear industry emanates from the centers of corporate power in the United States, activists vowing to create a "non-nuclear future" are viewed by their adversaries as dangerous plotters...

...ing anti-nuclear militancy has spurred a number of attempts to codify reaction into law...

...In the early 1970s, this group called itself the National Caucus of Labor Committees and took pride in visiting leftist meetings with lead pipes and frequent physical assaults...

...After a cursory investigation, state officials denied the charges...

...In August, a state public utility commission hearings officer ruled PECO would be required to answer interrogatories in connection with the complaint...

...Favorite USLP tactics include denouncing explicitly nonviolent alliances as "terrorist organizations...

...At one point, the memo said, a control room shift supervisor was listening to a basketball game broadcast when radioactive water spilled from a tank and flooded the reactor's auxiliary building...

...The files she had gathered vanished...

...in 1978 to assist the New Hampshire utility's attempts to stymie opponents of the Seabrook nuclear plant...

...As the domestic byproduct of a military program, nuclear power offers a benefit that must be protected, even at the expense of civil liberties...

...Swayze their dissatisfaction with regard to the cost overruns and delays occasioned by Mr...

...Staffed by personnel recruited from the U.S...

...conveying personal life data and ludicrous but inflammatory "information" about anti-nuclear organizers to police...

...Concerned about cracks in the facade of official certainty, promoters of nuclear development have been utilizing systematic intimidation of employes, a tactic which has the additional benefit of silencing workers' complaints about potentially catastrophic sloppiness in quality control...

...Government agencies as well as utilities are increasing surveillance and harassment efforts in an innocent-sounding "safeguards" program that bears the tell-tale signs of 1984...

...When the Three Mile Island nuclear accident assumed emergency dimensions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission stepped in to control the flow of information about an event jeopardizing the health of millions of people...

...At trial, Colt was found guilty and fined $50...

...I'd give a sheriff a list of names and he'd tell me if there was anything on them anywhere, no matter who they were...

...In attempts at prior restraint also tried by utility lawyers in other regions of the country, WPPSS and Portland General Electric went to court seeking to prevent the nonviolent occupations that resulted in several hundred arrests at Oregon's Trojan nuclear plant and Washington's Satsop nuclear construction site...

...We just panicked, I guess," one of the photographers, Louis Wheeler, told reporters after the deception came to light...

...John H. Taylor, a former senior member of the Georgia Power security division, characterizes the company's clandestine activity as "a dirt-gathering operation...

...FBI agents, for instance, have told reporters that Georgia Power Co...

...Other right-wing organizations backing nuclear expansion include the Ku Klux Klan, which initiated a recruiting drive in New Hampshire to support nuclear power...

...Given the NRC's own Big Brother proclivities, a favorable ruling is highly unlikely...

...But available evidence suggests links to the victims' anti-nuclear activities...

...The Los Angeles Police Department sent a videotape crew and photographer into the press gallery for a 1978 city council hearing on whether to endorse construction of the Sun-desert nuclear power plant...

...Automatic identification and authentication of voice, handwriting, fingerprints, and other signatures...

...In the private sector, nuclear workers undergo routine indoctrination and threats from management...

...At one meeting, "Martin"—who claimed to have participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations elsewhere— urged that those arrested agree to pay bail immediately rather than remain in jail to maintain "bail solidarity...

...In Virginia, a security official at the North Anna nuclear power plant assumed a false name and took part in several planning meetings about civil disobedience...

...20010...

...An indication of the utilities' attitudes toward employe feedback came last May, when a leaked memo from an operator at the largest functioning nuclear power reactor in the United States, the Trojan plant in Oregon, revealed that reactor operation supervisors "can be observed doing crossword puzzles, reading magazines, novels, sleeping . . . playing games, tying flies . . ." while on duty...

...nuclear plant (where reactor malfunctions resulted in release of radioactive gases in late September...

...The consulting firm recently added Georgia Power to the list of clients enjoying its services...

...Dila Davis, an Austin resident who works on nuclear waste issues, was wounded in the gunfire that killed Eakin...

...When attending a public meeting results in surveillance against innocent citizens," says Colt, "our Bill of Rights is in serious jeopardy...

...Sponsors say the conference is designed to "stimulate the individual to consider the social impact of his work, provide a center for the cataloging of state-of-the-art information, with a provision for its dissemination, and provide a basis for long-range support and assistance of law-enforcement agencies in the use of available technology...

...In every section of the United c...

...In the Pacific Northwest, state legislators have considered similar measures...

...A complaint filed with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, on behalf of numerous anti-nuclear organizations and individuals, charges that Philadelphia Electric Co...

...Burgeoning corporations have found nuclear technology means huge profits and tightened social control...

...Increasc You talk too much' Along with intensified surveillance of anti-nuclear activists in the United States, more overt forms of retribution are coming to the fore as nuclear struggles escalate...

...disrupting anti-nuclear demonstrations with bullhorns...

...The many other drawbacks and hazards of nuclear power have become obvious in recent years...

...Philadelphia Electric Co., conducting extensive surveillance of anti-nuclear activists, employs Robert J. Deneen as security director...

...The NRC recently fired structural engineer Ronald G. Clary, a five-year employe who has persevered in raising issues about possibilities of a deadly chain reaction accident during rail transport of naval propulsion reactors...

...In Washington, new legislation also zeroing in on anti-nuclear activists nearly made it to the desk of Governor Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...

...For Samusson, it was not the first physical attack, nor was it to be the last...

...Nuclear energy—lauded as cheap, clean, safe, reliable, and socially humanizing— arrived on local landscapes wrapped in the American flag...

...the only real safeguard...

...Anti-nuclear demands are unthinkable within the corporate-sponsored framework of Government policies...

...Nuclear power and democracy are like oil and water," observes Friends of the Earth legal director Andrew Baldwin...

...District Court Judge Howard Corcoran ruled in favor of EAF...

...He had apparently gained access to hush-hush information about the tangled finances and severe construction woes of the STNP nuke—which has earned such a foul reputation for dangerously sloppy quality control and summary discharges of conscientious inspectors that U.S...

...exists on a large scale' fairs director for the Washington area's Potomac Electric Power Co., has confirmed that the utility routinely sends information it has gathered on its foes to the Atomic Industrial Forum and the Edison Electric Institute...

...Silkwood On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a laboratory analyst and union activist at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant near Oklahoma City, died in a car crash while on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter...

...The PR firm sought a court order preventing unkind cartoon depictions of the Reddy "trademark...

...A spokesperson for Texas Utilities, owners of the Glen Rose project, was the only witness to testify in favor of the legislation, which was signed into law by the governor...

...The dimming of nuclear power's future has made investors skittish...

...I am somewhat surprised, to put it mildly, that the ratepayer's money would be spent on such an operation," commented Pennsylvania Utility Consumer Advocate Mark Widoff in response to the company's surveillance program...

...Technocratic secrecy and authoritarian control, continually reinforcing one another, portray any nuclear risk as necessary for "national security"—a rubric expanded to include energy needs, real or imagined...

...One of them is Coral Ryan, organizer of a San Antonio group, Moms and Others Mobilizing for Survival...

...With law-enforcement agencies frequently acting as servants of private electric companies, the close utility-police cooperation makes surveillance even more difficult to unravel or counteract—as New Jersey anti-nuclear activist Clay Colt found out last spring...

...Operational Systems Inc.—which produced a 1976 report on "Establishing a Tactical Intelligence Function" for the NRC—hired itself out to Public Service Co...

...Government's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration...

...Well, I'm against it...

...During a crucial meeting of the Clamshell coordinating committee in Portsmouth before a major demonstration in June 1978, an unmarked van across the street contained a man with tripod and camera pointing through a narrow strip of window...

...Georgia Power's regular sources include the FBI's National Crime Information Center, which also provides its data to Alabama Power Co...

...In 1976, the NRC formed an in-house Information Assessment Team...

...liCommunication privacy and security, including advanced modulation techniques...

...Eakin, a member of Austin Citizens for Economic Energy, was a free-lance writer and former editor of the University of Texas daily newspaper...

...But on civil liberties grounds alone, nuclear power deserves to be abandoned...

...Not content with merely developing their own surveillance units, utilities are also contracting with private investigative firms...

...Nuclear engineer James Conran, transferred out of the NRC's safeguards division in 1977, said his involuntary reassignment was "retribution" for criticisms of nuclear management policies...

...Ellen Wipperfurth freedom of the press...

...Electromagnetic spectrum conversation...

...In August 1978, two men working for Jersey Central Power & Light Co...

...In times of social stress, when grids become a likely target for dissidents, the sector may be paramilitar-ized and further isolated from grassroots politics...

...The best you can do is increase the degree of difficulty...

...11 Alarm devices and systems: lAutomatic vehicle monitoring...

...But after a Federal investigation the NRC was unable to back up Brown & Root's claim, and Swayze's pending $2 million lawsuit charges the company with libel and slander in addition to wrongful discharge...

...Last summer, a Federal court jury awarded damage payments of $1,300 to each of three activists arrested for leafletting at one of New Hampshire's state-run liquor stores, which had begun displaying pro-nuclear petitions...

...USearching aids: x-ray...

...Consistent with the national trend, New Jersey's utilities have been photographing anti-nuclear residents and jotting down their license-plate numbers for several years...

...It opens the door for the NRC to gain access to information from the CIA, NSA [National Security Agency], DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency], and other sources that have no statutory authority to investigate violations of the Atomic Energy Act"—which is routinely cited as authorization for FBI involvement...

...The "logic" of nuclear expansion relies on increasing central authority—a danger anticipated by Aldous Huxley more than three decades ago when he warned of the symbiosis of atomic energy and totalitarianism...

...Department of Energy document, Storage of U.S...

...Electric utilities were perceived as necessarily aligned with the country's military and police forces, against persons unknown whose activities could threaten national security and hold entire populations hostage...

...In another state, several interviewed workers tell of seeing major flaws built into safety system piping and walls of a nuclear power plant that has been in operation more than three years...

...The companies, which frequently employ former law-enforcement officials, are not subject to statutes which ostensibly regulate government intelligence-gathering agencies...

...Box 3278, Washington, D.C...

...Among anti-nuclear activists, the case symbolizes the ultimate hazards faced by whistle-blowers in the nuclear industry...

...In New Hampshire, where the nation's largest-scale anti-nuclear civil disobedience has taken place at the Seabrook construction site, state government officials make a regular habit of intimidating anti-nuclear activists...

...The nuclear hothouse is growing seeds of repression...

...Federal officials are evasive about specifics...

...Centralization of capital and electrical generating facilities has been paralleled by restrictions on information, particularly in times of crisis...

...One of the undercover sheriffs, who had unsuccessfully urged protesters to cut through the plant fence instead of going over it, also participated in legal meetings to prepare courtroom defense of the forty-seven demonstrators who had been arrested for trespassing...

...including, specifically, the development of working liaison with all agencies which might serve to provide intelligence...

...Repression Information Project, P.O...

...Despite the personal risks of physical harm and other retaliation, the anti-nuclear movement clearly remains on the upswing in the United States...

...Yet the only real safeguard against nuclear disaster is a halt to nuclear development...

...A lawsuit seeking an injunction against further surveillance by Los Angeles police was recently amended to include charges that LAPD officer Cheryl Bell infiltrated several anti-nuclear organizations in Southern California...

...has dismissed employes for pointing out construction problems at the North Anna The liberation The carefully cultivated image of "public" utilities as paragons of altruistic virtue has seriously deteriorated in recent years...

...Wormeli is known to have met with New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson about methods of counteracting the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance...

...Moore refused to respond to questions about the presence of several FBI agents at the North Anna, Virginia, nuclear power plant during nonviolent demonstrations there last summer...

...aiding utilities in nuclear licensing proceedings, and launching campaigns to eliminate student funding of Public Interest Research Groups at universities...

...Research for this article was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism...

...Citizens' Energy Project, 1413 K Street N.W., Washington, D.C...

...Labor Party, a well-bankrolled and tightly regimented international organization, augments its propaganda adulating nuclear power with smears of anti-nuclear groups and assistance to police intelligence-gathering operations...