Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 11:35 PM Subject: FBI manipulation-Squillacote case > >Time is short. The trial is only two weeks away on Oct. 7th. > >Be careful to include the full text below. > >NOTE: There have already been some good replies and additional >information shared on the background of this case, much of >which will come out during the trial. > >Arrangements can be made for mental health professionals, >especially representatives of organizations to see a copy of >the original BAP document. > >--------------------------------- CUT ---------------------------- > >Psychological Warfare Alert > >FBI used unlawfully intercepted Psychotherapist/Patient Conversations to >manipulate patient into "Spy Crimes." > > The October 1997 arrest of Theresa Squillacote for espionage crimes has >been revealed to be based on the FBI's manipulation of Ms. Squillacote's >emotional issues and treatment for severe depression and post trauma >stress. In early 1996, using a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance >Act warrant, the FBI began 24 hour round the clock surveillance of Ms. >Squillacote, her husband Kurt Stand and their two small children. This >included , without legal authority, FBI taped conversations between Ms. >Squillacote and her husband talking to her doctors, close relatives and >friends about her illness, including calls for emergency psychiatric >medical assistance. This surveillance started after their names were >ID'ed in former East German Stasi files from the early 90's. While, the >FBI uncovered no evidence of criminal conduct, past or present, they did >discover that she was in the midst of a profound bout of Clinical >Depression, a problem that had plagued her family for many years >(including her eldest sister who committed suicide some 8 years >earlier). > > Using these wire taps and other psychological sources, the FBI >developed a Behavioral Analysis Profile (BAP) which outlined her >perceived emotional problems and weaknesses and recommended specifically >how to construct an effective "sting" operation, custom made to exploit >these vulnerabilities. (The defense has a copy of this document.) For >example, the FBI noted that it needed to execute the operation quickly, >to "exploit the vulnerable state" she was then in due to a break-up of a >personal, "highly dependent" relationship with a German man. The FBI >also worked to specifically execute this trap before she left her >government position, as she was then contemplating. The gist of the >"sting" operation involved sending a purported South African emissary to >her, ostensibly as a follow-up to a political analysis she had sent a >South African official and author the year before. The undercover agent >(UCA) was instructed to play upon her low self-esteem and weak sense of >identity by complimenting her efforts and making her to understand that >she was uniquely gifted. By further playing upon her sympathies for a >socially progressive government in South Africa, and upon her innate >fears of abandonment, the UCA cajoled her into providing government >documents, ultimately leading to the arrest of her and her husband. > > This psychologically manipulative FBI "sting" raises issues for all of >us. Psychotherapist/patient privilege should never be violated, least of >all by a government agency intent on building a crime where none existed >before. If, in the post Cold War environment the "cold warriors" of the >National Security establishment must resort to such dirty tricks to >continue to justify their existence, what boundaries will they ever come >to respect? This profound invasion of privacy threatens all of us. If we >tolerate exploiting the most vulnerable amongst us, then ultimately none >of us are safe. > > Prepared by: Metro DC Committee of Correspondence > P.O. Box #11109, Washington, DC 20008-0309 > >What can you do? (Please freely copy this post and send it on.) > >1. Please copy and repast this letter on all lists and to whomever you >think should hear about it. >2. Protest to your Congressional Representatives and the U.S. Dept. of >Justice. >3. Send donations to help their two children to the: Stand Childrens >Family Trust Acct. No. 209357355 Crestar Bank, 1700 Elton Rd., Silver >Spring, MD 20903 >4. Contribute to their defense: Fund for the Fourth Amendment P.O. Box >5685, Washington, DC 20016 (For more information on FISA and the case >check: http://www.igc.org/criddiough/ks.htm) > >---------------- END --------------------- > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Walter D. Teague, LCSW-C, LICSW >Clinical Social Worker in Maryland and DC >Tel. 301-439-6755 Fax 301-439-2436 >
