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Ex-Undercover Reveals Police Targeted Stephen Lawrence's Family

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...It was in the climate of “new authoritarianism” that less than one year into his post, commissioner Paul Condon took the decision to set up a covert operation to develop “a strategic intelligence picture of corruption” in Scotland Yard.1

The setting up in late 1993 of a Ghost Squad [later the Metropolitan Police's Complaints Investigation Bureau Intelligence Cell/CIBIC] to develop that intelligence picture was carried out with unprecedented secrecy...

...The Ghost Squad, it is true, was the brainchild of two senior officers, commander John Grieve and his number two, detective chief superintendent Roy Clark. At the time, they ran the very secretive Directorate of Intelligence (SO11), which was at the forefront of a new type of policing. “Intelligence-led policing” was a significant departure from the past, in that targeting local and major criminals now took precedence over investigating crimes. The targeting was achieved by a greater reliance on phone-tapping and bugging criminals’ premises and cars, combined with the use of informants and sting operations...

...Clark concedes that the covert nature of the Ghost Squad was far from ideal. However, he contends that his natural democratic tendencies were “hogtied by the need for secrecy”.

This is open to question. For if the old CIB [Complaints Investigation Bureau, the Met's 'Internal Affairs' department] couldn’t be trusted, then why weren’t the public it was supposed to protect told? Instead, thousands were encouraged to continue to use the internal system when the commissioner knew it was severely compromised. If CIB was too leaky, in that officers posted there were more likely to tip off their friends under investigation than investigate the alleged misconduct, then why wasn’t the commissioner seeking to reform the system? After all, just a few years before [Det Ch Supt Roger] Gaspar’s presentation to Condon, a 1991 Home Office study of police deviance displayed a widespread dissatisfaction from those members of the public who’d bothered to go through the internal complaints system.

Another unanswered question concerns the selection of Ghost Squad members. Who guaranteed its members weren’t really poachers turned gamekeepers? Well, quite simply, the handful of detectives who made up the secret intelligence cell were selected by the bosses, and they in turn selected themselves.

There is no external or internal accounting for this selection process. On what basis were John Grieve, Roy Clark and Bill Griffiths, for example, considered any more honest or of greater integrity than the then head of SERCS, Roy Penrose, who according to Clark was not someone they felt they could bring into the Ghost Squad circle?11This was a strange statement for Clark to make given that his last posting at Stoke Newington had been mired in allegations of corrupt practices in the drug squad and unanswered questions about severe management failures...
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Untouchables by Laurie Flynn & Michael Gillard (pp46-47, 53-4)
 
SpookyFrank said:
The way they consistently make undesirable CCTV footage disappear into the aether never ceases to amaze.
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Such as the hillsborough CCTV tapes which disappeared from a locked and alarmed room at the ground between midnight and 6am. A time when Bettison is recorded as being there to collect them.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Round where I lived as a teen, they made most of the distilled contents of an off licence disappear in a matter of minutes after the window was put through.
After the local paper printed a story about (to paraphrase) "off licence looted by local youth", I wrote a letter to the editor asking how local youth would have been able to loot an off licence when it was "cordoned" by 6 uniformed coppers and 2 panda cars, and wasn't it at least feasible that the booze had gone into the boots of those cars? He sent me a reply that basically said "I can't print your letter because it'll have an adverse effect on the paper" (the office was only about 30 yards from the local copshop).

So, not only are coppers good at making things disappear, they're also good at mesmerism/getting people to do things they wouldn't usually do, too.
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mumping. Some of them must practicall go on shit with a shopping trolley
 
Larry O'Hara said:
...The other side of the coin is that those doing the 'outing' get kudos out of it: Paul Lewis/Rob Evans/The Guardian...
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Apropos of nothing more than I can't remember if it's been mentioned on here already, have you seen that Paul Lewis is 'curating' a 'Guardian Masterclass' on investigative journalism later this month, with guest speakers including (drumroll, please...) your very own favourite seeker after truth, Mr Donal MacIntyre!

A snip at on £139 :)
 
DaveCinzano said:
Apropos of nothing more than I can't remember if it's been mentioned on here already, have you seen that Paul Lewis is 'curating' a 'Guardian Masterclass' on investigative journalism later this month, with guest speakers including (drumroll, please...) your very own favourite seeker after truth, Mr Donal MacIntyre!

A snip at on £139 :)
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Rather proves my point about him and Macintyre..
 
DaveCinzano said:
Mick Creedon - who lest we forget is meant to be investigating the undercover units and their possible use of illegal methods - is now shaking down Channel 4 for unaired material from its interviews with Peter Francis, apparently with a view to seeing whether he may have committed an offence under the Official Secrets Act through his whistleblowing.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/13/police-channel-4-stephen-lawrence-undercover-spying
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This is so fucked up it's (almost) unbelievable, even by the woeful standards of the OB.

I really hope that someone advises Francis to use his immunity to spout out all the C4 stuff in the inquiry.

However, Francis is due to give evidence this week to an associated official inquiry that has been asked by the home secretary, Theresa May, to examine the undercover infiltration of the Stephen Lawrence campaign and other allegations. Although i don't know quite what is meant by 'limited' in this context.

He is doing so as Mark Ellison, the barrister heading this inquiry, secured from the attorney-general, Dominic Grieve, limited immunity to enable him to speak to his inquiry.
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FYI:

Did police spy Mark Jenner help prevent justice in the David Ewin murder case?
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Mark Jenner, AKA ‘Mark Cassidy’, was an undercover police spy deployed in north London in the mid-1990s. He had a particular interest in construction workers (i.e. blacklist-related stuff), police accountability campaigns such as that run by Hackney Community Defence Association, Irish republicans and Anti-Fascist Action.

From Mark Metcalf's blog

Cross-posted because this cuts across various threads
 
Listen to the met.
The Metropolitan police have said they still believe corruption played no part in shielding Stephen Lawrence's killers from justice, despite an independent review ordered by the home secretary saying there was reason to suspect a detective in the original murder investigation.
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Assistant commissioner Martin Hewitt said on Tuesday he stood by the Met's long-held public view that corruption was not a factor. "There is no new information or evidence that I have to change that position," he said. "At this point there is no reason for me to change the position we have had."
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Not the "we have had" - it means a whole group briefing (it also suggests it could turn v easily). A collective position. Let's see.
 
butchersapron said:
Why have the guardian only read the march published ellison report this weekend?
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TBF, it looks as though they've been trying to get a reaction out of the Met for three months and, oddly enough, not got a rise.

I'm not at all clear that the remark they report was made to them. Was Hewitt at some kind of public or consultative meeting yesterday?
 
It's a conflation of two things, it would seem - the Telegraph's reporting of Hewitt's remarks in relation to wider investigations into corruption in the Met, and the May announcement from the previous week, which by implication is related to the possibility of the original Lawrence murder investigation being tainted by corrupt officers. (That is her announcement last Thursday that she has agreed with the Attorney-General the terms for the examination of convictions which may now be considered unsafe due to the involvement of undercover police officers from NPOIU and SDS, which will be coordinated by Ellison as a “multi-agency review”, in line with Ellison's own Lawrence review recommendations.)

It seems that the Telegraph and the Guardian are the only two papers reporting Hewitt on Tuesday, with the latter following the former. There doesn't appear to be anything on the Met Press Bureau site.
 
DaveCinzano said:
It's a conflation of two things, it would seem - the Telegraph's reporting of Hewitt's remarks in relation to wider investigations into corruption in the Met, and the May announcement from the previous week, which by implication is related to the possibility of the original Lawrence murder investigation being tainted by corrupt officers.
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Ah, thanks. So the Guardian is miffed that he didn't talk to them. But the Telegraph doesn't say who he was talking to, either :confused: You'd expect them to crow if it was them.
 
butchersapron said:
Lawrence spy cops don't have to talk, IPCC warns
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Whilst it's always good to see Corke pursuing the story, that's a bit of a place-holder - it's hardly news that the IPCC doesn't have leverage to compel ex-police officers to co-operate. Black and Lambert (both career-long professional guardians of secrets and tellers of lies) each have their own post-police work to keep them more than just financially solvent.

Lambert in particular continues to be ably assisted in his cushy pseudo-academic sinecures by the good offices of cuddly John Grieve and a raft of (less high-profile) Portsmouth/CSTPV alumni well dug into the ‘terrorism studies’ gravy train, many of them his senior officers from his operational days.

So what possible reason would either of them have in ‘revealing’ anything other than that which has been previously corroborated by other means, or in offering more than bland but meaningless ‘sorrow’?
 
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This (on the left) is "Dave Hagan", also known as "N81". As part of the Metropolitan Police's campaign to reduce public support for the family of Stephen Lawrence, he infiltrated the family's campaign to find and prosecute Stephen Lawrence's murderers via an organisation called "Movement For Justice".

The 2014 Stephen Lawrence Independent Review by Mark Ellison QC found that "Dave Hagan", also known as N81, had produced:

•Material on the relationship and intention of the target group (now known to be Movement For Justice)

•Decisions by the Lawrence family on whether to allow demonstrations outside the (Macpherson) Inquiry venue

•Reports of protests;

•Who was and who was not supporting what the Lawrence family wanted, including the call by Doreen Lawrence for the resignation of the (Metropolitan police) Commissioner (Paul Condon) in August 1998

•The internal working of the Lawrence family campaign

•Personal details of the Lawrence family

He is welcome to share full details of his activites here.
 
ska invita said:
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This is N78, Trevor Morris, AKA ‘Anthony Fitzgerald Lewis’ AKA ‘Bobby McGee’, who was deployed to spy on the SWP/ANL plus sundry others such as HCDA and the Justice for Joy Gardner Campaign.

Morris joined Special Branch in July 1986. He started off in P Squad (covering ports-of-entry, the standard SB entry-level squad), then E Squad (described internally as covering “Aliens, Commonwealth and Colonial communities, and racial or ‘colour’ problems”, but in later years more generically as “International Terrorism”), C Squad (communist groups and industrial organisers; later a remit more widely given as ‘domestic extremists’ of a left-wing persuasion), S Squad (which supported various undercover operations and units, including SDS) and another unit, before he was groomed for recruitment to SDS by Bob Lambert, and joined in January/February 1991.

(This was in the period after Lambert's field deployment ended in 1989 but before he returned in November 1993 to run it as Operations Controller - i.e. when he was in E Squad in the wake of the ‘Rushdie Affair’, which is where he first made the contacts that allowed him to later set up the Muslim Contact Unit. Towards the end of Morris' undercover deployment, Lambert asked him to stay on to “infiltrate an extremist Islamic organisation”.)

Morris began in SDS as a Detective Constable, but made Detective Sergeant in July 1991. Morris's undercover SDS deployment ended in July 1995.

After his SDS deployment Morris was transferred to Heathrow as a Temporary Detective Inspector in P Squad; elsewhere he describes being promoted to DI
in June 1999. He performed an unspecified role 1997-2002.

In late 2001 Morris joined National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), where he set up the Strategic Analysis Unit (SAU). He left NPOIU in mid-2002, but may have later returned to it in some capacity. After the NPOIU posting, he returned to a Special Branch Squad in 2003, and stayed in it, even after 2006 - when SB was disbanded and subsumed into Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) - until his retirement in February 2012.

Bonus LOL:
Chris BAMBERY I got to know well. He was the leading activist who tried to set up a team of ‘hitters’, SWP/ANL activists who could look after themselves and would be prepared to use violence to achieve their aims. He was the instigator and leader of the advance party that planned to set fire to the BNP bookshop in the Welling demonstration in 1993.
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DaveCinzano said:
This is N78, Trevor Morris, AKA ‘Anthony Fitzgerald Lewis’ AKA ‘Bobby Gee’, who was deployed to spy on the SWP/ANL plus sundry others such as HCDA and the Justice for Joy Gardner Campaign.

Morris joined Special Branch in July 1986. He started off in P Squad (covering ports-of-entry, the standard SB entry-level squad), then E Squad (described internally as covering “Aliens, Commonwealth and Colonial communities, and racial or ‘colour’ problems”, but in later years more generically as “International Terrorism”), C Squad (communist groups and industrial organisers; later a remit more widely given as ‘domestic extremists’ of a left-wing persuasion), S Squad (which supported various undercover operations and units, including SDS) and another unit, before he was groomed for recruitment to SDS by Bob Lambert, and joined in January/February 1991.

(This was in the period after Lambert's field deployment ended in 1989 but before he returned in November 1993 to run it as Operations Controller - i.e. when he was in E Squad in the wake of the ‘Rushdie Affair’, which is where he first made the contacts that allowed him to later set up the Muslim Contact Unit. Towards the end of Morris' undercover deployment, Lambert asked him to stay on to “infiltrate an extremist Islamic organisation”.)

Morris began in SDS as a Detective Constable, but made Detective Sergeant in July 1991. Morris's undercover SDS deployment ended in July 1995.

After his SDS deployment Morris was transferred to Heathrow as a Temporary Detective Inspector in P Squad; elsewhere he describes being promoted to DI
in June 1999. He performed an unspecified role 1997-2002.

In late 2001 Morris joined National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), where he set up the Strategic Analysis Unit (SAU). He left NPOIU in mid-2002, but may have later returned to it in some capacity. After the NPOIU posting, he returned to a Special Branch Squad in 2003, and stayed in it, even after 2006 - when SB was disbanded and subsumed into Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) - until his retirement in February 2012.

Bonus LOL:


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I should add that there is reason to believe that his account is in some respects rather opaque, and that he obfuscates certain other roles he carried out in MPS as well as organisations other than MPS. I understand that there will be more on this coming soon.
 
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