Originally Posted by fscpd907

“It’s a little unnerving to find Harvard undercover police spying and taking pictures of Harvard students on public property,” Fam said.

Originally Posted by Kilvinsky

AN UNDERCOVER, PLAINCLOTHES POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT??!?!?!?

I wish this information hadn't been kept from the rank and file, I'm sure most of us would have signed up.

Then again, I've often wondered who those people are that constantly slip in and out of the station. They never show their faces and meet in little groups in the conference room late at night with all the shades drawn and only one small light in the center of the table, all the while 'white noise' is all one can hear from in the hall. I tried to listen in one night and, at least I think I did. Most of that night is a blur and all I remember is waking up and being told I had been in a car accident and had spent two days in the hospital. But I don't remember that either. Hmmmm.

I've also heard strange transmissions on our radio frequency from time to time and rumor has it that the HUPD is actually the parent agency of the CIA, but that's just a rumor. Everyone knows the CIA was started with Yale people!

Originally Posted by fscpd907

HUPD Rebuts ACLU Claims

HUPD says there is no undercover political intelligence unit


By JAMISON A HILL

Crimson Staff Writer


The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) denied allegations that the University maintains an undercover political intelligence unit in the wake of two arrests that attracted the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“Despite what the ACLU asserts, we do not maintain an undercover unit,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in a statement yesterday. But a police report does show evidence of undercover intelligence gathering at a political demonstration.

“I had been photographing the demonstrators for intelligence gathering,” Detective Thomas F. Karns Jr. wrote in a March 3 report of his activities at a human rights protest in the Square. He described himself as “conducting plain clothes surveillance on a demonstration.”

Massachusetts residents Lisa M. Nieves and Patrick J. Keaney were arrested by Karns after the protest.

ACLU attorney John Reinstein, who is representing Keaney, said that the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see if Harvard is sharing the intelligence it gathers with the federal government, specifically with the joint terrorism task forces overseen by the FBI.

The Brown Daily Herald has reported that the Yale University police are part of a terrorism task force in Connecticut.

“The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment,” she said. “What we are interested in are the people who are thwarting or interfering with people who are protesting.”

Originally Posted by Delta784

Careful....that entire post could end up in the next edition of the Crimson as
"proof" of HUPD's secret unit.

Originally Posted by hupd451

Jimmy be careful they may be spying on you....

Originally Posted by RCPD33

Sgt JackO?

Things have certainly changed, eh Jim?

Originally Posted by GreenMachine

He only asked for her ID and she began to yell and draw a crowd She wouldn't have been arrested if she just gave it to him as required and not been so liberal about it.