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Worth watching this - MPS has been stonewalling on Operation Riverwood, which came about after the parents of a dead child, Rod Richardson, complained about his identity being stolen by an undercover officer. It's now with the ICO.

The police has set and breached numerous deadlines for its response. Entirely without irony, it is running with the excuse that it's taking so long because...Wait for it...

“...the requested information also contains personal data...”!

Publication of Operation Riverwood report - a Freedom of Information request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
The (redacted) report has finally been released.

Guess what - the use of stolen dead child identities by the supposedly kitemarks-bells-and-whistles new NPOIU came about thanks to the recruitment revolving door that also allows spycops to slide into lucrative corporate security work.

In this instance NPOIU hired a former SDS officer to run its training programme - and that former SDS officer was unaware that his old unit was actually discontinuing the whole ‘Jackal Run’ process (on the grounds that there were more effective and less problematic ways of creating legends).

That ex-SDS officer?

None other than current Tory councillor, celebrity vicar's sibling and accused long term sex-pest Andy Coles.

Publication of Operation Riverwood report - a Freedom of Information request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
 
Not 100% under the remit of this thread:

1968 – Protest, Special Branch and the founding of the Special Demonstration Squad

Today we are releasing through SpecialBranchFiles.uk the first stage of our study of undercover officers in 1968, assembling what is known and piecing together the fragments on policing we have of this important period. As well as being a fascinating history of the groups that helped channel and spark the radicalism of the time, this in-depth overview of the groups involved in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign is the first in a series aimed at putting into context the evidence that is being released by the Inquiry into Undercover Policing .

This overview of protest and Special Branch in 1968 is still a work in progress. It will expand as we learn more. While we have focused on the Trotskyist groups dominating the protests at the time, more needs to be done on profiling other leading players such as Manchanda’s Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist League, the anarchists, Young Communist League, as well as the smaller factions.

1968 – Protest and Special Branch at SpecialBranchFiles.uk
Table of Contents

List of groups covered to date: Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, British-Vietnam Solidarity Front, International Marxist Group, International Socialists, Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation, New Left Review.

SDS undercovers active in 1968: John Graham, Bill Lewis, Dick Epps, HN322, Don de Freitas, and Margaret White (all cover names).
 
Not a very good article, given bloopers like this:

“My nation needed me, I was told,” said Neil Woods, an undercover-officer-turned-whistleblower who infiltrated the Animal Liberation Front and the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign on behalf of the NPOIU. “If the group of businesses that relied on animal testing left the UK, then we could lose 5 percent of GDP overnight.”
 
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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.
 
Movement for Justice was targeted more for its relationship to Duwayne Brooks than to the Lawrence family direct. Brooks has talked about MfJ being the only group he felt truly supported by throughout everything (including the time when he was banged up on remand for something unrelated).

(From very early on a number of groups came forward to offer their support to the Lawrence family, notably GACARA, the Labour-connected ARA (before Marc Wadsworth and Ken Livingstone fell out), and (SWP-affiliated) Panther UK. However, the Lawrences settled on support and gatekeeping from the lawyer Imran Khan, who offered his services within days.)

Bear in mind MfJ was fairly high profile amongst the smaller groupuscules on immigration and asylum issues at the time - the 1995 paint/flour attack on Mawhinney etc. It was also very vocal in the public phase of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - presenting submissions at the Tower Hamlets session. Of course, Hagan was not the Met's first bite of the cherry: Peter Francis was the original infiltrator aimed at MfJ and its associated cadres (KAF, RIL etc), before being shunted on to SPEW/YRE. It was during this period that spurious stories were planted in the press about students connected with this milieu being recruited by Irish Republicans for bomb-planting missions(!)

The use of an infiltrator within MfJ came at a time when the Met wanted to know about submissions that would be presented to Macpherson before his panel presented its findings - that is what the meeting between Hagan and Richard Walton, hosted by Bob Lambert at his own home - was about.

It should also be noted that (sanitised) intelligence from Hagan about MfJ activists' intentions at various protests and public events (besides the Lawrence Inquiry) was likely passed on to local police chiefs - such as Br*an P*dd*ck, formerly of this parish, who was Borough Commander of Lambeth from late 2000 until late 2002.

Older readers may recall the rather heated debate on here which originally attracted The Commander to start posting his ‘hey guys I might be a cop but I'm just like you guys’ screeds that eventually attracted the interest of the papers... It was about violent police actions at a Movement for Justice march “in protest at the murders of 4 people by police in Brixton in the last few months” which wended its way from Brixton Town Hall to Brixton nick in December 2001. It was the second high profile MfJ event in Brixton in six months. Subsequent to the enthusiastically policed winter event, there was to be no big third such event in the area.

It being a funny old world, P*dd*ck later became a Lib Dem hack, and mentored Duwayne Brooks who was himself elected as a Lib Dem local councillor in 2009. Duwayne Brooks then worked on P*dd*ck's 2012 London Mayoral campaign team.

P*dd*ck doesn't like talking about this stuff. “It’s between me and Duwayne,” he says. “I have worked with Duwayne to try to get to the truth about what happened. I am not going to jeopardise that work by making public statements to satisfy you. Duwayne is a friend of mine. I don’t know you.”

Guess that's alright then.
 
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Duwayne Brooks on MfJ:

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‘Tony’ is Tony Gard from RIL/MfJ; ‘Alex’ is Alex Olowade from MfJ - who lost his job with Lambeth Council for his political campaigning (as alluded to on here by Br**n P*dd*ck back in 2002: “I do not know why Alex lost his job. I know nothing about that...”)
 

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From Boyling's statements to the press he seems to feel he's been thrown under the bus by the met, fired for doing what he was told to basically. I doubt even the met ever told him to go to such sickening lengths of deception and abuse as he did but still he's outside the tent now, and with a major grievance and presumably a lot of dirt on senior people. Watch this space...
 


This afternoon the Undercover Policing Inquiry released three more cover names of Special Demonstration Squad officers.

"Kathryn Lesley (‘Lee’) Bonser" infiltrated: Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Socialist Workers Party; 1983-87.

“Michael James” infiltrated Socialist Workers Party, Troops Out Movement; 1978-83

“Graham Coates” infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective, Libertarian Anarchist Group; 1976-79

We now have the cover names of 63 #spycops out of a toal of at least 144. The Inquiry intends to keep 30-40% entirely secret. We've updated our list, and there are links to Undercover Research Group profiles where they exist.

http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/…/how-many-s…/
 
No they don't

yes it does moonbats that value bunnies over humans can fuck off and want to play at terrorist deserve all they get.
most of the police actions were pointless at counterproductive that one wasn't
Greenham common and cruise watch fair one your hanging around military bases.
Stephen Lawrence was Evil and stupid and completely unjustifiable.
was being ordered to infiltrate the SWP punishment duty?:hmm:
 
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