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An activist who has called the assassination of scientists a legitimate approach to advancing animal rights recently refused an FBI invitation to share his insights as an animal rights leader.

According to United Press International (UPI), activist Jerry Vlasak was contacted in June by the FBI to make a presentation on activist groups at agency headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. Vlasak declined the request to help law enforcement officials, claiming “I have no intention of aiding and abetting your agency by providing information and insights that might be used against activists.”

Andy Bringuel, an instructor at the FBI Academy whose name is at the bottom of the letter, told UPI that he could not confirm or deny whether he wrote the letter.

Vlasak is a press officer for the Animal Liberation Front, an organization identified by the FBI as one of the most active domestic terror threats. In 2004, he was reported by The Observer, a major British newspaper, to have said “I don’t think you have to kill too many (researchers). I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.”

Recently, Vlasak and his wife Pamelyn Ferdin were convicted of illegally demonstrating outside the home of a Los Angeles city animal service employee. Vlasak was released on his own recognizance pending an appeal of the verdict, and Ferdin received a 90-day sentence. She served less than 40 hours of that due to overcrowding in the jails.

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