He therefore would have been intimately acquainted with the case of the Anti-Defamation League, which spied on anti-Apartheid and pro-Palestinian demonstrators in California in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ADL's San Francisco chief spy, Roy Bullock, was also an agent of the racist Apartheid government of South Africa. The ADL spied on US citizens, compiled dossiers on them, and shared those dossiers with the Israeli and South African governments, as well as trying to pass them to SF law enforcement. Their activities contravene California's strict privacy laws (at the very least), and they were busted in 1992. The case dragged on, however, and was only settled in 2002 when ADL paid damages to some of the plaintiffs.