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The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

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University of Michigan students on campus in Ann Arbor. In a statement, the university did not deny the surveillance. Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.

The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.

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