Police Watch Energy Critics

A secret report on critics of the energy industry - compiled by a private research firm in Washington, D.C. - has been sent to police intelligence agencies around the United States.

The Dallas Times - Herald states it has received a copy of the 26-page report which lead to a police investigation in Texas of critics of nuclear power plants.

The Times-Herald does not reveal the name of the firm that drafted the report; but the newspaper says the 26-page document blames "communist-directed radicals" for most of the protests against energy policies in the United States.

The report is entitled "Energy Industries Under Radical Attack." It alleges that a meeting, critical of the energy industry, was held in Atlanta last year and staged by "communists," "Maoists," and "Trotskyist groups."

According to the report, some of the groups attending that meeting included Liberation News Service, The American Civil Liberties Union, The National Lawyers Guild and Environmental Action.

The report states: "The forces ranged against the energy industry represent a wide spectrum of revolutionary communist groups working with ecology and minority organizations who are filling the role defined by Lenin as 'willing dupes'."

As a result of this report, Texas State Police intelligence agents compiled a comprehensive dossier on a Continental Airlines pilot in Dallas who had been identified as being a public critic of nuclear power plants.

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