Newly released and declassified records show that the United
States State Department was monitoring media reactions to the Occupy Wall
Street protests as well as the protests themselves.
An October 14, 2011 cable from to American Consulate to the
SecState WASHDC as well as to the National Security Council and the Department
of Treasury reveals that the consulate was monitoring Occupy Toronto which the
consulate called “a spin-off of the anti-corporate protests happening on New
York’s Wall Street.”
In the cable, the Consulate provides background on the
broader Occupy Wall Street movement and the nascent Occupy Toronto effort. While praising Occupy Toronto for
“coordinating itself well through the use of social media,” the consulate
ultimately believed it “doubtful that Occupy Toronto can maintain the same
momentum that Occupy Wall Street has shown so far” because of the “significant differences in the economic
situations between the U.S. and Canada.”
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