We found out about a lot of the spying on citizens long ago, but it always touches a nerve with me. A friend who was a leader in Vietnam Veterans Against the War told me that a majority of the antiwar group reps in any meeting would be undercover cops.
Way back in HS for Boys' Day in Business and Government I was 'Captain-Commander of the Intelligence Division' of the LAPD for the day. I spent the day with the man who held that position, who drove me around in his souped-up, unmarked surveillance car with its hidden police radio and shotgun, and took me to the Police Academy for lunch.
That guy was Daryl Gates, before he rose to Chief. He was very involved in the spying, and in creating the first SWAT team in the country. We didn't stay buddies, though. 
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