Let’s start by acknowledging one thing – Michael Kenney is the world’s worst infiltrator. He’s been hanging around the fringes of the Pittsburgh anarchist scene, being awkward, asking intrusive questions, and contributing nearly nothing for well over a year. He has never concealed his name, his affiliation with Pitt, or the fact that he’s doing research, although he doesn’t necessarily volunteer that information. Any anarchist in Pittsburgh could have outed him at any time just by looking at his faculty page on the Pitt web site, but until this week no one bothered.
Pitt Antiterrorism Researcher Infiltrating Pittsburgh Anarchist Projects
Torchlight has received the following communique form a local anarchist that we trust.
A person named Michael Kenney has been hanging out at the Big Idea Bookstore and attending events who works for the FBI and has done work with DHS and the Office of Naval Intelligence to research extremism in social movements. For the past year he has been attending prisoner letter writings and when he came to a protest I was at he gave me his name and I looked him up. The following is a link to his GSPIA (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at Pitt) page which has his resume and picture.
If you see this person at a demonstrations or events, definitely make folks aware and call him out. We think he is doing intelligence gathering work for the federal government on movements in Pittsburgh although we aren’t sure what role GSPIA plays in all of this.
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