Government Monitoring and Infiltration
According to FOIA documents obtained by the ACLU, VFP was among the peace groups targeted by FBI monitoring and infiltration by the FBI and local law enforcement terrorism task forces that targeted environmental, anti-war and faith-based groups.
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