TL: GREENPEACE FACT SHEET: BARRY CLAUSEN SO: Greenpeace International (GP) DT: May 1995 Barry Clausen, a private investigator, claims to have worked under cover in the radical environmental group Earth First! for a year in 1989-1990. He was reportedly hired to investigate and infiltrate the group by Montana timber, mining, and ranching interests.[1] Clausen owns North America Research, a private investigation company in Montana. He has been a strident "anti-environmentalist" for years. On several occasions, Clausen has attempted to discredit Greenpeace's widely known policy and reputation of non-violence by attempting to link it to violent activities such as the deliberate sabotage of property.[2] Clausen is closely affiliated with the anti-environmentalist Wise Use movement.[3] The Wise Use movement in the USA is a loose coalition of anti-environmentalist interest groups, which derives its funding from sources such as: off-road motoring clubs; oil, timber and chemical corporations; and right wing think tanks.[4] Since the demise of Communism, the environmentalists have been deemed the new enemy by the right wing in the US. Ron Arnold, one of the founders of the Wise Use movement, has proclaimed to want to 'destroy the environmental movement by taking their money and their members'. In the eyes of Ron Arnold and his partner, Alan Gottlieb, the environmental movement has become 'the perfect bogeyman' to fundraise on.[5] Barry Clausen is a close associate of Ron Arnold.[6] Ron Arnold works for the Center For the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), a right wing, anti-environmentalist think tank in the USA. Alan Gottlieb, who founded the CDFE in 1976, spent a year in jail in 1984 for filing false tax returns.[7] Arnold is also on the speakers list of the American Freedom Coalition, which is a political front group for the Unification Church of Rev. Sum Myung Moon (a.k.a. the Moonies), a religious sect based in the US, which aspires to rule the world. The Moonies were famous in the '70s for anti-Communist efforts, brainwashing, and reported sponsoring of Latinmeicn death squads, but nowadays operates much more behind the scenes.[8] In June 1994, Clausen published a book about Earth First! entitled "Walking the Edge". An article by Clausen and advertisment for this book appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine,[9] which is affiliated with the US right wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche.[10] Because of it's pro-nuclear, pro-military technology stand, 21st Century Science & Technology is a platform for anti-environmentalist views. The magazine works with the Wise Use movement wherever it can in its quest to get LaRouche's anti-Semitic conspiracy world-view into the main stream. The magazine has supported and sponsored several attacks against Greenpeace and other environmental organisations.[11] Barry Clausen recently joined efforts with Roger (Rogelio) Maduro, one of the editors of 21st Century Science & Technology. In November 1994, the duo brought out the first issue of their newsletter "Ecoterrorism Watch". Maduro, through his articles in 21st Century Science & Technology and speaking tours, is one of a small band of people who try to inject confusion into the debates about ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect by using incomplete scientific arguments to claim that these are not caused by man-made substances. Maduro's book "Hole in the Ozone Scare: The Scientific Evidence that the Sky Isn't Falling" has been called "a good job of collecting all of the bad papers [in the field] in one place" by Dr. Sherwood Rowland, chemist at the University of California and retired President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who has been involved in research on the depletion of the ozone layer for 20 years.[12] "Ecoterrorism Watch" is full of paranoid rethoric about groups in the environmental and animal rights movement, painting them as one big, highly organised, subversive terrorist movement out to destroy society as we know it. However, Clausen and Maduro conveniently omit the fact that environmentalists are very often at the receiving end of acts of violence and intimidation. The use of violence against environmental activists is incited by those who think they have something to gain from installing fear of environmentalism in the public: some of the large companies which exploit natural resources; PR agencies who make huge amounts of money devising strategies against the environmental movement for their clients; the Wise Use movement, part of which started as one of those PR strategies; and individuals like Barry Clausen who find a way of making a living out of all of this. For example, in April 1994, a community meeting was heldin Potlach, Idaho, which is a logging area targeted by environmental activists who protest against unsustainable logging practices. The Gold Hill Resource Coalition, a Wise Use-type group, sponsored by farmers, ranchers, timber workers, miners and recreationists, organised the meeting.[13] Barry Clausen and Bob Taylor, a high-risk security consultant and former Army expert on security operations, were listed as two of the speakers. The aim of the meeting, according to the announcement, was to 'discuss security concerning Earth First!'[14] According to some people who attended it, the meeting was more designed to incite fear and hatred towards Earth First![15] Clausen repeated several times that "they" -environmentalists, and Earth First! in particular- wanted loggers to lose their jobs, that "they" are terrorists. Taylor talked through several security tactics loggers might want to use when they go out to the woods to scare off the "terrorists". Two other speakers had been announced -Dave F. Chatelier and Thomas J. Carter, both former Army and now security experts- but did not show up: Clausen stated that their identity would be kept unknown, 'in case something serious happens' in the area, in which case they could [transmission error] e rg in'.[16] In order to make a living as a security agent, one needs employers who feel they need protection from something. Ever since his stint as under cover agent in Earth First!, Barry Clausen has been appearing in public, discrediting Earth First! and Greenpeace, and attempting to brand the environmental movement as a whole as "terrorist". However, he gives confusing definitions of what he means by terrorism, and in the end has to admit that only "a very small portion" of Earth First! activists take part in what he calls "terrorist" activities.[17] There are numerous incidents of forestry industry workers dying on the job because of bad safety conditions in the workplace, but so far only one injury as a result of tree-spiking has ever been reported.[18] As far as known, no Earth First! activist has ever been convicted for attacking or injuring anyone in their actions. Many environmental groups, including some Earth First! groups and Greenpeace, have a strict policy of non-violence and denounce tree spiking. Should forest workers hire people like Barry Clausen to fight environmentalists? Bringing an end to destructive forestry practices is far more likely to ensure long term employment guarantees - and protect the forests too. Greenpeace Communications, May 1995 Sources: [1] Spokesman Review, (Spokane, Washington) 10 April 1994 - "Fighting Ecoterrorism" by J. Todd Foster [2] For example "Man in the Rainbow", TV2 Denmark, 14 November 1993; Town meeting, Potlach, Id. 12 April 1994 [3] Chicago Tribune, March 3, 1994 - "Fringe Groups Find Niches in Colorful Political Spectrum" by John Margolis [4] The Greenpeace Guide To Anti-Environmentalist Organisations, by Carl Deal, Odonian Press, USA, April 1993 [5] New York Times, December 19, 1991 - "Fund-Raisers Tap Anti-Environmentalism", by Timothy Egan [6] Urban Spelunker, February 1994 - "Don't Believe Your Radio" by David Newman [7] Toronto Star, 21 December 1991 [8] The Vancouver Sun, 8 July 1989 [9] Inside the League - Anderson and Anderson, 1986 [10] 21st Century Science & Technology, Spring 1994 - "Inside Earth First!: A True Story About Terrorists" by Barry R. Clausen [11] Dennis King - "Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism". Doubleday, 1989, Pg 322 [12] Science, June 11, 1993 - "The Ozone Backlash", by Gary Taubes, quoting Dr. Sherwood Rowland [13] Lewiston Morning Tribune 13 April 1994 - "Words Fly At Talk On Earth 1st", by David Johnson [14] Gold Hill Resource Coalition invitation to meeting in Potlach, Idaho, on 12 April 1994[14] [15] Moscow-Pullman Daily News, 4 April 1994 - "Activists say Earth First! meeting designed to incite hatred" by Ken Olsen [16] Moscow-Pullman Daily News, 4 April 1994 - "Activists say Earth First! meeting designed to incite hatred" by Ken Olsen [17] Transcript from tape of interview on Idaho radio on 11 April 1994 in KUOI News: Interviewer: What is your working definition of terrorist, how do you define terrorism? Clausen: ....... [silence] I'd just as soon not answer that question. I bet that if you look it up in the dictionary, it would be spelled E-A-R-T-H-F-I-R-S-T. Interviewer: How many people in Earth First take part in these terrorist activities? Clausen: A very small portion of them. [18] ABC Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer, July 12, 1990