Olympia Spies

In documents obtained through a public records request made by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington a strange exchange is revealed. On March 13th, 2007 a former Masters of Public Administration adjunct faculty named Steve D. Johnson copied and forwarded on to the Washington State Patrol (WSP) a post on TESC Crier advertising a March 15th anti-war protest at the Port of Tacoma rallying against use of ports for military shipments.

If you were gone over the summer or if you’re new to Evergreen, you may not have heard about the biggest scandal to hit the activist community this year: a military spy was discovered to have infiltrated Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) as well as other organizations that are comprised largely of Evergreen students. News outlets have already covered this story, but this article will attempt to catch up the folks who haven’t heard, and also place our spy in the broader context of the burgeoning Surveillance-Industrial Complex.