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UndercoverResearch Portal investigating corporate and police spying on activists
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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
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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 ‘confirmed’ 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