Chicago Police officers infiltrated five protest groups in 2002. The investigations came after a court ruling expanded the department's intelligence-gathering powers.
Undercover officers were assigned to attend meetings, rallies and fund-raisers of the American Friends Service Committee and four other anti-war groups. Police targeted the groups because protesters were threatening to disrupt the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, a meeting of international business leaders held in Chicago in 2002.
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