To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his associates

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John Woods and Bob Quackenboss, hired a set of private security firms - HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) - to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, in particular ThinkProgress, the labor coalition called Change to Win, the SEIU, US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.

According to one document

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prepared by Team Themis, the campaign included an entrapment project. The proposal called for first creating a "false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information," to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber's opponents. In addition, the group proposed creating a "fake insider persona" to "generate communications" with Change to Win.

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The security firms hoped to obtain $200,000

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for initial background research, then charge up to $2 million

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for a larger disinformation campaign against progressives. The e-mails ThinkProgress acquired are available online.