Contact
Alex Pacheco
Atlantis 9 - P
1000 South Ocean Blvd.
954 464 9331 & 954 942 5020
AlexPacheco2005@yahoo.com
www.AllAmericanAnimals.com
Internationally known
for leading the unprecedented
campaign known in Congress as
The Silver Spring Monkeys
.....part of a landmark 15 year battle
to rescue a band of high profile primates
who were crippled in laboratory experiments.
Pacheco recruited Republican Congressman Robert Smith of New Hampshire who introduced federal legislation designed to force the federal government to release these mutilated animals; legislation which was co-sponsored by over 200 Members of Congress, but killed each year by Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California.
At the same time Pacheco was the central plaintiff in civil litigation against the federal government over custody of the animals, litigation which received hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court...twice...winning one and losing one.
Perspective:
Laboratory experiments on animals
began in earnest the 1950's
with thousands upon thousands
of laboratories in operation today,
employing hundreds of thousands
of individual experimenters,
using in excess of an estimated
100 million animals annually........
in experiments that involve killing the animals
after they have been experimented upon.
Pacheco worked undercover
in the federally funded Institute for Behavioral Research
and for the first time in history,
a laboratory was shut down
because of cruelty to animals.
Pacheco performed grisly undercover work
posing as a research assistant,
covertly documenting the suffering of the animals
covertly documenting the suffering of the animals
after they had been intentionally crippled.
He clandestinely brought in medical experts,
produced sworn affidavits from those experts,
and lobbied Congress to pressure law enforcement officials to, over the vehement objections of federal agencies,universities and biomedical associations,
carry out the world's first police raid
on a research laboratory because of cruelty,
and executing a search and seizure warrant.
This produced the world's first and only
police confiscation of laboratory animals.
Followed by the first arrest warrant,
criminal trial and conviction of a research scientist
on cruelty charges,
spawning a series of front page
political and legal events
that is credited by many
with launching the
animal rights movement.
In the process, producing many landmarks such as:
The 1st time an experimenter had ever been arrested for cruelty.
The 1st time an experimenter had ever been prosecuted and convicted of cruelty.
The 1st time a federally funded research grant had ever been terminated because of cruelty.
The 1st time an entire laboratory had been forced to shut down because of cruelty.
The 1st time the rights of laboratory animals were ever argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The undercover work,
damning photographs and evidence,
arrest, confiscation
and multiple criminal and civil trials
shook the mammoth multi-billion dollar
international biomedical and pharmaceutical industries
as never before.
Hot-Iron Face-Branding of millions of fully conscious animals, a government practice exposed and stopped in a campaign spear-headed by Pacheco.
Investigative Skills
Over the course of many investigations
Pacheco has developed a proven ability
to successfully handle high pressure jobs,
remain calm,
think fast under fire,
under difficult
and dangerous
conditions.
Proven ability to handle complicated problems
in rapid succession
in unknown territory.
Twenty-plus years experience in directing
and executing hard hitting, successful short term
and long term investigations.
Learning the Laws
Skilled at rapidly learning and absorbing
a sufficient knowledge of and the understanding
of many applicable federal, state and local
laws, regulations and ordinances,
relevant to the project of the day;
proven ability to rapidly
determine the critical Do's and Don't's.
Skilled at effectively working in partnership
with federal, state and local law enforcement
agencies, knowing how they operate and
securing their assistance to accomplish
the mission of the day.
Effective in the successful recruitment of
reporters, media editors, lay witnesses,
scientific witnesses and experts.
Proven record in meeting difficult deadlines,
helping witnesses research and prepare sworn
affidavits, municipal, state and federal complaints,
including administrative complaints
to a variety of regulatory agencies
at various levels of government
and usually under
very difficult circumstances.
Learning the Issues
Proven ability to rapidly evaluate and comprehend complicated and critical new subject material in detail in time for confrontational news conferences,media interviews and government investigations
covering an extremely wide range
of subjects.
Strangling Wildlife, Literally, in Hawaii
Pacheco worked undercover during an investigation
in the rainforests of uninhabited mountain ranges
next to the infamous leper colony
on the island of Molokai (and Maui), Hawaii
fighting the State of Hawaii
and a billion dollar non-profit organization
who were using inhumane wire neck snares
in attempt to kill
all of the wild boars and wild deer
inhabiting the islands.
Mission accomplished.
Actively involved in investigations resulting in penalties levied by the federal government against facilities such as the...
University of Pennsylvania
New York University
Wright State University, and many more.
30,000 Horses Slaughtered Each Year.....until......
Pacheco worked undercover risking life and limb in a lengthy,
complicated and dangerous investigation outside of Waco, Texas;
physically pitting him against scores of cattle ranchers,
and the Falls County Sheriff and all his Deputies.
In the end successfully closing down the largest horse slaughter operation
in the world where over 30,000 horses a year were slaughtered,
many of them suffering from abuse and inhumane treatment
before being slaughtered.
Mission accomplished.
Uncounted Millions of Wild Birds Killed by Oil Companies
Pacheco worked undercover in lengthy, dangerous investigations in the oil fields of
Texas, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. The investigation into oil giants such as Exxon,
Mobil, Phillips Petroleum and Texaco, produced a campaign against these companies,
with the objective of forcing the oil industry into changing their equipment and practices.
Before this, unknown to the rest of the world, these oil giants were using equipment and
oil extraction practices which were causing the prolonged and painful deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of wild animals not only in Texas, Colorado, Utah and Texas, but literally world-wide.
Pacheco documented the prolonged deaths of virtually every bird species found in the Midwest, from endangered hawk and owl species to many migrating species.
Mission accomplished.
Learning the Equipment
Proven ability to rapidly learn and then teach others how to operate complicated
state-of-the-art low tech and high tech equipment ranging from
electronic surveillance equipment
to counter-surveillance equipment,
including concealed body video cameras,
concealed audio recorders, transmitters, receivers and power sources;
clandestine long distance photography and videography, night vision photo
and video cameras, night vision goggles
and a wide array of identification and
communication equipment.
Domitian,
a crippled
Silver
Spring
Monkey
fighting
back
against
an acute
pain test
which was
performed
on each
animal each
quarter.
Clandestinely
documented
and exposed
by Pacheco.
Pacheco
during a
covert
investigation
holding
skull and
bones
of recent
victims of
inhumane
wire
neck snares
on the
islands of Molokai
and
Maui; with
an assistant
they
defied arrest
and sought
out
and
destroyed
over 1,000
snares.
Firefighter Rusty Shaw with a rescued pal on the set working with Pacheco.
DRAFT NOT FOR PUBLICATION
A Florida Firefighter volunteering on a fundraising project directed by Pacheco.
Firefighter Steve Bell with a rescued friend on the set of a Pacheco project.
Despite these millions of animals being killed each and every year,
before Pacheco...
Not a single researcher had ever been charged with cruelty to animals, and
Not a single laboratory had ever been ordered closed due to cruelty.
Undergoing "scientific research" and
photographed by Pacheco working
undercover; this intentionally crippled monkey was later seized by the police who used the evidence collected by Pacheco, to confiscated the abused animals.
Learning the Techniques
The ability to rapidly learn and teach effective investigative field techniques, methods and strategies from high-security corporate settings to physically dangerous uninhabited mountain ranges, how to accomplish the repeated clandestine replenishment
of power and data for and from concealed receivers, etc.
An arena where creativity is at a premium,
the ability to create new on the spot investigative
techniques and strategies with constant refinement.
Sample Investigations...
