There's Something About Mary [Warning: Flame Bait]

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/mary-mcfate-sapone-gun-lobby
-nra-spy.html

There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole 

Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a
freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person. A Mother
Jones investigation.

James Ridgeway, Daniel Schulman, and David Corn

July 30, 2008 This is the story of two Marys. Both are in their early 60s,
heavyset, with curly reddish hair. But for years they have worked on
opposite ends of the same issues. Mary McFate is an advocate of
environmental causes and a prominent activist within the gun control
movement. For more than a decade, she volunteered for various gun violence
prevention organizations, serving on the boards of anti-gun outfits, helping
state groups coordinate their activities, lobbying in Washington for gun
control legislation, and regularly attending strategy and organizing
meetings. 

Mary Lou Sapone, by contrast, is a self-described "research consultant," who
for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security
firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For
some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.
 
But these two Marys share a lot in common-a Mother Jones investigation has
found that McFate and Sapone are, in fact, the same person. And this
discovery has caused the leaders of gun violence prevention organizations to
conclude that for years they have been penetrated-at the highest levels-by
the NRA or other pro-gun parties. "It raises the question," says Paul
Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, "of
what did she find out and what did they want her to find out."

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