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Gun Control Lobby Group Expels NRA Spy

HeadlineAug 14, 2008

The gun control advocacy organization CeaseFire Pennsylvania has expelled a member of its board after she was identified as a paid operative for the National Rifle Association. Mother Jones magazine recently revealed Mary Lou Sapone infiltrated several gun control advocacy organizations over the past decade while using her maiden name Mary McFate. So far, neither the NRA nor Sapone have commented on the report. Meanwhile, Mother Jones reports Sapone’s son, Sean McFate, has recently resigned from his position as the program director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a national security think tank in Washington. Mother Jones had revealed that Sean, as well as his wife Montgomery McFate, once worked for Sapone’s domestic intelligence-gathering business.

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