Publisher's Synopsis
For voyeurs and animal rights historians only: A rare look inside the FBI investigation of six Animal Liberation Front raids on fur farms in 1997, as told through over 500 pages of FBI & court documents.
In 1997, two activists drove across the country, releasing 8,000 to 12,000 mink and foxes in a three-state campign to free as many animals from fur farms as possible before pelting season.
Two animal rights activists were arrested and the first charged & sentenced for "Animal Enterprise Terrorism."
This book documents that investigation, as told through FBI documents released to lawyers during the prosecution.
Included:
- Fur farm surveillance notes.
- FBI maps documenting the path of the fur farm campaign.
- Rare ALF newspaper articles.
- FBI forensic lab reports connecting wire cutters to fences at raided farms.
- Interview synopses with fur farm neighbors reporting "suspicious activity."
- Interview synopses with fur farmers after ALF raids.
- Search warrant evidence logs.
- Grand jury transcripts of an arrested suspect-turned-informant.
- Police sketches of fur farm layouts.
- Fur farm addresses.
- Fur Commission USA security bulletins.
- Fur farmer witness statements.
- Circumstantial FBI evidence incuding tow truck records, police stops, more.
- News clippings on "vegan vandalism" around Seattle.
- Arrest warrants.
- Vehicle search warrants.
- House search warrants.
- Informant interview synopses.
- Court transcripts.
- Police reports on the arrest of two suspects.
- Letters to the judge from fur farmers.
- Much more...
For animal rights historians, or those with a voyeuristic interest in FBI "ecoterrrorism" investigations, this collection documents the first investigation and prosecution of animal rights activists on charges of "Animal Enterprise Terrorism."
