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In October 2010, Mark Kennedy was exposed as a police spy who had infiltrated environmental and anticapitalist groups for the previous seven years. His was the beginning of a series of public exposures; most resulting from investigations by the people targeted, supported by the work of Rob Evans and Paul Lewis at the Guardian . Growing public pressure led to more than a dozen official - and mostly internal reviews, and eventually to the judge-led Pitchford Inquiry

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into undercover policing which started

autumn 2015 and is to run for three years.'

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The Undercover Research Portal provides easy public access to the stories about the various undercover officers who have been exposed and the groups they spied upon. We also look at the police officers and units involved and how they interconnect with some of the big stories around policing in the past few decades. The portal is set up and edited by the Undercover Research Group, we also write the Undercover Research blog

dedicated to analyse and comment our work on political policing. Both

are overseen by Eveline Lubbers and Peter Salmon. We can be reached by email

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Background

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The undercover operations exposed involve two Special Branch units that focused on protest

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groups and what would in the 2000s be given the

1. Operation Elter

name Domestic Extremism. These were the Special

2. John Graham (alias)

Demonstration Squad, operating since 1968, and

3. Andy Coles AKA Andy Davey

the National Public Order Intelligence Unit. The lack

4. Rod Richardson (alias)

of supervision and oversight of their undercover

5. Andrew Robbins, Head of NDET

police operations has led to more than a dozen

6. Muslim Contact Unit

official inquiries, most of which are internal and

7. Bob Lambert and the Muslim Community

confidential. Convictions of campaigners have

8. Bob Lambert and the Academic

been overturned, and declared unsafe because it

Community

had not been disclosed that undercover police officers were at the heart of activities, and it is highly likely that further convictions will be challenged. A number of court cases have been initiated by women tricked into intimate relationships with undercover agents (and in a few cases having children by them. Hearings in Parliament have questioned the more extreme methods employed, such as the use of death certificates of children to provide a false identity for the spies involved; while using Parliamentary Privilege, Green MP Caroline Lucas has accused

9. Bob Lambert Writing and Speaking 10. Roger Pearce

Undercovers Uncovered List of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;confirmedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; undercover officers in the UK 1. Peter Francis AKA Peter Daley or Pete Black, SDS 2. Mark Kennedy AKA Mark Stone, NPOIU 3. Lynn Watson (alias), NPOIU

one spy of being an agent provocateur, committing

4. Marco Jacobs (alias), NPOIU

arson while an activist with the Animal Liberation

5. Jim Boyling AKA Jim Sutton, SDS

Front.

6. Simon Wellings (alias), SDS

Elsewhere another officer, Peter Francis, came forward with details of how the undercover police were used to smear the Stephen Lawrence family. It has become apparent that a culture of abuse grew up around the units involved in covert

7. Robert Lambert AKA Bob Robinson, SDS 8. John Dines AKA John Barker, SDS 9. Mark Jenner AKA Mark Cassidy, SDS 10. Carlo Neri (alias), SDS 11. "RC" (alias), SDS

policing and how that intelligence was used. So

12. Gary R. & Abigail L. (aliases), NPOIU

much so, that a public inquiry was announced in

13. Rod Richardson (alias), SDS

2014.

14. Mike Chitty AKA Mike Blake, SDS 15. Matt Rayner (alias), SDS 16. Jason Bishop (alias), SDS

Where to Start?

17. N81, SDS Follow the links below to learn about the

18. Roger Pearce, SDS

secretive world of undercover policing, the

19. Andy Coles AKA Andy Davey, SDS

shadowy units and the personalities involved,

20. Rick Gibson (alias), SDS

as well as context for the stories seen in the

21. Douglas Edwards (alias), SDS

news.

22. John Graham (alias), SDS

An A-Z list of articles

on the people, groups

and issues around undercover operations and policing of protest. Undercover Operations in Policing Protest and Dissent The Undercover Officers: profiles of known undercover police. The Covert Police Units: the units which spied on protests and protestors.

23. William Paul 'Bill' Lewis, SDS

Undercover Police Officers & Agents - Abroad 1. Simon Bromma AKA Simon Brenner (Germany) 2. Christian HĂ¸ibĂ¸ (Norway)