Thread by @Lowkey0nline

The world learned the name Rachel Corrie when an Israeli army bulldozer crushed her to death in Gaza on March 16, 2003.

However, few know the story of how both Caterpillar and the British state then spied on her grieving family and friends to protect Israel from accountability.

The justice for Rachel Corrie campaign was led by her parents Cindy and Craig.

Caterpillar, the company that manufactured the bulldozer that killed Corrie, hired the intelligence firm C2i International (now known as Lynceus) to infiltrate the campaign and spy on them.

While Rachel's parents travelled to the Caterpillar offices and asked to meet the chairman, they even purchased shares in the company so they could have a chance of talking to the board, but the company refused and was paying C2i to spy on the middle-aged, bereaved couple.

C2i International was founded by former helicopter pilot in the British Special Forces, Justin King.

His company illegally garnered information about the Corries legal strategy by posing as sympathisers and infiltrating their meetings.

At the same time as Caterpillar was infiltrating Rachel Corrie's campaign, the British state had been infiltrating her political organisation, the International Solidarity Movement, through a spy cop under the alias Rob Harrison.

Harrison was dispatched by the Special Demonstration Squad to infiltrate Corrie's organisation, the ISM.

He was known for always offering lifts in his car and rarely expressing a political opinion. The undercover officer tricked a woman involved in the political campaign into a sexual relationship.

An inquiry found that Special Demonstration Squad agents were "permitted or encouraged" to engage in romantic relationships with the campaigners they were spying on in order to gather information.