Policías catalanes preparados para infiltrase en una movilización ciudadana.

Policías catalanes preparados para infiltrase en una movilización ciudadana.
No nos parece extraño que de este tipo de personajes –presumiblemente- partan provocaciones y actos violentos que tienen como objetivo desestabilizar la protesta, deslegitimarla ante la opinión pública y favorecer la intervención indiscriminada de sus compañeros antidisturbios.

Stati Uniti - 5 arresti e un infiltrato

Il copione si ripete. In passato, per l'operazione che portò all'arresto e alla condanna di Eric McDavid e di una cellula dell'Earth Liberation Front, un ruolo centrale era stato sicuramente giocato da una giovane infiltrata, nome in codice Anna, che aveva finanziato economicamente un gruppo di amici e amiche ecologisti e anarchici, motivandolo a compiere attacchi e fornendo addirittura i progetti e il materiale per gli ordigni. In queste ultime settimane, a Cleveland, altri 5 compagni sono stati arrestati grazie al ruolo attivo e manipolatorio di un inflitrato. In attesa di maggiori informazioni pubblichiamo un breve articolo dai media mainstream.

fonte: america24

Volevano fare esplodere un ponte a Cleveland, Fbi arresta 5 persone
Non sono mai stati un reale pericolo, erano sotto controllo da tempo

E' stato sventato un complotto per fare esplodere un ponte alle porte della città di Cleveland, in Ohio. L'Fbi ha fermato e arrestato cinque persone, tre delle quali si sono definite anarchiche, sospettate di volere posizionare esplosivo al plastico controllato a distanza al Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Brecksville Station. Secondo fondti del dipartimento di Giustizia, i sospetti non avrebbero legami con il terrorismo internazionale.

"Erano da tempo tenuti sotto controllo e non ci sono mai stati reali rischi" che il piano potesse essere messo in atto, hanno detto fonti dell'Fbi. In una nota, l'agenzia federale comunica cheDouglas Wright, 26 anni, Brandon Baxter, 20 anni, e Anthony Hayne, 35 anni, sono stati arrestati dalla task force antiterrorismo dell'Fbi con l'accusa di cospirazione, tentato uso di materiale esplosivo, mentre le accuse contro Connor Stevens, 20 anni, e Joshua Stafford, 23 anni, sono ancora in via di formulazione.

L'esplosivo da utilizzare nel presunto complotto era stato fornito da un agente dell'Fbi sotto copertura e non era realmente attivo. Tre degli uomini stavano architettando una serie di attacchi nel corso di vari mesi.

http://www.informa-azione.info/stati_uniti_5_arresti_e_un_infiltrato

Mark Kennedy: A mole in Tarnac

described the premises: “It looked like a social centre. We were in a room where concerts sometimes took place.” Nothing secretive about it: all the debates are advertised on posters and on the alternative Website Indymedia. “It was rather open, said our witness, nothing like a clandestine black bloc.” Among the anti-globalization crowd, there were activists from the Dissent! Network and Die Linke (the equivalent of the German Left Party) supporters, who happened to be five people from the “Tarnac group. The strategies relative to the different ways to protest against the G8 summit differed. “Since Seattle and Genoa, we always have this same debate: should we go near the red zone, block access routes to the summit, or do something else?” European police forces, who were accustomed to handling summits each year, had reinforced their security measures. It had become increasingly difficult for militants to come close to the scene, so the five French people from Tarnac came up with a plan B: burst in Hamburg or in Berlin by surprise, far from the summit, where the police have not been deployed as a precautionary measure. In the room, Mark Stone, who had come with English environmental activists, was listening.
“Our only link with Poland is this meeting.”
A year later, in June 2008, the RG administration handed in to the Minister of the Interior a confidential defence report (published in March 2012 by Mediapart) entitled “From the anti-CPE protest movement to the creation of a pre-terrorist international network: a glance on the French and European ultra-left groups”. In this report, three people from the Tarnac group are mentioned, in black and white, as having participated in the Warsaw meeting. The document refers to them as the “first circle” of an “informal ultra-left group of an autonomous type”, whose members were preparing violent actions across Europe.
At the same time, the French police called for the opening of a preliminary investigation into the Tarnac group. In their application to the prosecutor, the policemen expressed their concern about the “anarcho-autonomous circles’ international meetings”, and as a first example, cited Poland.
For the indicted people from Tarnac, Mark Stone has told the French police they would be in Warsaw, that’s for sure. One of them explained:“The beginning of the police investigation had been based on our alleged relations with foreign groups. Our only link with Poland is this meeting, to which Stone attended. Other informants might have told the police we were in Poland, but this has happened repeatedly: every time we met Stone, pieces of information about us ended up in police files.” And he can remember the undercover cop:“You just had to see him once to remember his face. He had a squint, he was a little older than most participants, and spoke English amongst Germans and Poles”
“He had chosen to live with us, he could not be detected!”
Joel*, a French activist from the Dissent! Network, who played an active role in the organization of counter-summits, attended the meeting in Warsaw, and spotted Stone there, for he had already met him during the preparation of the Gleneagles counter-summit in 2005.
“I thought Mark was one of the people who had created Dissent! in England. I met him in a squat that he and some of his friends had opened up in London. I have never really talked to him ; he wasn’t easy to approach : he was very “British”, he kept to himself.”
When he was exposed four years later, in 2010, Joel could not believe it. “To avoid being infiltrated, it is said that one must know people quite well. But he had chosen to live like us, had stayed with us for years, he could not be detected! No one had raised any doubt about him.”
Undetectable and undetected; Mark Stone had made his nest in various small circles of activists who thought they were cautious enough. In January 2008, a year after the meeting in Warsaw, he was in the office of a New Yorker activist woman in Manhattan, with a friend of his, an American anarchist who lived in England. Another American guy, a Japanese man living in the U.S. and two French people – Julien Coupat and his partner Yldune Levy, who were on vacation in New York – joined them. The only person they knew was Mark’s American friend, who had invited them to hang out with he and his friends.
“They are mates of mates from different countries, who obviously share common interests, meet in a place and discuss for a few hours, everyone does that”, explained a close friend of Julian Coupat What memories do they all keep from Mark Stone ? “With his tattoos and piercings, he looked normal, like a fish in water”, said one of them.
According to this witness, the undercover cop had explained that he had come to New York “to see his brother”. During the meeting, Julien Coupat jot down a few notes in his notebook, and especially scribbled the name: “Mark”.
A few days later, Julien Coupat and Yldune Levy returned to France; they crossed the United States / Canada border illegally, into the wild, far from the customs. Why? To enter the United States, they were required to possess a biometric passport, and therefore provide fingerprints. As they refused to do so, they passed through Canada, where fingerprinting was not required, by crossing the border through the woods.
During the outward trip, no problem. During the return one, some of their American comrades drove them as close as possible to the border, then let them cross the border on foot and picked them up on the Canadian side. But before they could meet, they were controlled by Canadian policemen who found Julien Coupat’s backpack, with his driver’s license, his notebook and a few pictures of Times Square. Understanding that the French man had probably crossed the border illegally, the Canadian policemen seized his luggage (which he will get back later).
So who told the RG about the presence of the two French people in Manhattan ?
Four months later, in France, the Sdat (Sous-division antiterroriste / Subdivision anti-terrorist police) requested that the prosecutor open a preliminary investigation into the Tarnac group, whose members had not been arrested yet. The anti-terrorist police substantiated its request by portraying a “clandestine anarcho-autonomous structure maintaining conspiratorial relationships with foreign activists who share the same ideologies”.
To prove it, the police mentioned Julien Coupat’s and Yldune Levy’s trip to the U.S, their smuggling through the border and their participation in a “gathering of American anarchists in New York”. They also cited an incendiary device thrown against a U.S. Army recruitment centre in Times Square. The police never found out who was guilty. However, the American police discarded the participation of French people in the attack, since they had already left the United States.
In their letter to the prosecutor, the Sdat officers maintained that the RG had provided them with these pieces of information. So who told the RG about these two French people who attended an anarchist meeting in Manhattan? The indicted people confirmed that their suspicions had fallen on Mark. One of them added: “The Americans who attended this meeting have been harassed by the police, so they cannot be the ones who notified the French police. Which leaves us with the Japanese activist and Stone. Given what we know about him now, I infer that Stone was the informant.”
At the right place and time. During the summer 2008, three months before they were arrested, some inhabitants of Tarnac saw the arrival of two visitors in their farm. It was Mark Stone and his American mate, the one who was with him in New York. A friendly visit – militant tourism.
“During the summer, plenty of people visit Tarnac, explained someone who lived in the farm “du Goutailloux”, which has been turned into a place of rendezvous and a congregate housing, visitors come and go, stay for two days or two weeks. They sleep in tents or at people’s places. If there is some work to be done, some volunteers participate, others swim, read, cook, walk, or watch movies. Stone has stayed there, just like hundreds of people over the past few years. I don’t remember anything about him, except that he was there. He was not a mate, and he was never clinging on to us.”
“Once again, Stone was among us and the police received a piece of information”
In the end of July, Mark Stone was camping in Tarnac. In Paris, an anti-terrorist policeman drew up an official report:
“The present day, [we] are notified, by a source who requested anonymity, that a key member of the anarcho-autonomous movement, of Italian origin and active at European level, is likely to go, on the 30th of July, 2008, in mid-afternoon, from Paris to the train station in Limoges (Haute-Vienne), and be received there in order to meet the designated Julien Coupat.”
This Italian man, whom the police considers as a “key member of the movement”, is called Marcello Tari. He is an independent researcher, and the author of a book (which was published in France) about the Italian autonomous movement in the 70′s.
Our witness from Tarnac does not think this is a coincidence : “Once again, Stone was with us and the police received a piece of information. The other activists who stayed in the farm did not attract the informant’s attention, but Marcello Tari did. Tari was at the same G8 than Stone, who may have spotted him at the time: like Stone, Tari is a little older than average.”
What were the links between Mark Stone and the DCRI (Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence, following the merger of the RG and the DST)? In February 2011, The French magazine L’Express published a new piece of information about Stone’s activities in France. Throughout a short article, the magazine argued that he had informed the French police about the case of Tarnac: “It is partly thanks to him that the DCRI was able to reconstruct Coupat’s travels abroad.” No word added.
A month earlier, Stone had given a hint to the British newspaper The Daily Mail: “I would never have been abroad without my superiors’ and the local police’s consent.”
His explanations were consistent with those from the English police inspection report released in February 2012. According to the report, “Mark Kennedy visited or served in eleven countries, including fourteen visits to Scotland, on more than forty occasions. The National Public Order Intelligence Unit (accountable for Stone – editor’s note) used to conclude agreements with host countries regarding Mark Kennedy’s travels abroad.”
A few days after the report was submitted, the Home Office (equivalent of the Interior Ministry) developed: “All of Mark Kennedy’s movements were authorized by the United Kingdom, with the agreement of the States concerned and the support from the host nation. (…) The travel authorization was negotiated and facilitated by the appropriate network of liaison officers.” Host country agreement, that is to say from France and its authorities. It will be hard to find out more.
At Scotland Yard, in London, no one wanted to tell us anything: “We do not share information about undercover officers, whether they are still on a mission or not.” In Paris, the DCRI refused to answer our questions. When we contacted Stone in September 2011, he said he was ready to testify: He answered us by email: “I might want to meet you and talk about your article.” But ultimately, he never followed up.
“A foreign undercover cop is more trustworthy than a snitch”
A police lieutenant, who requested to remain anonymous, told us about Mark Stone’s collaboration with the DCRI. He explained that a French officer in charge of the anti-globalisation movements and counter-summits, within the Dissent and Violence Unit of the RG, processed the information Stone provided.
Our source added that in early 2007, the officer showed his colleagues the photograph of a man posing in front of a tent, and described him as an undercover English detective with whom he worked. His colleagues were happy to learn about it: “A foreign undercover officer is a source of high quality“, said the lieutenant, “more trustworthy than a snitch: he is not afraid to betray his friends, he goes wherever he is asked to go and focuses on whatever he is asked to focus on.” According to the police, Mark Stone had two ways to inform the French officers.
“Either he met with an officer from the Intelligence Processing Unit, who passed off his information to the Dissent and Violence Unit, or he sent his reports to his superiors in England, who themselves transmitted useful pieces of information to France through the International Relations Division of the RG.”
Some information suggest that Stone would also have informed the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire / Directorate of Territorial Surveillance), and this time, the man who maintained that was a senior official of the interior ministry of the time, who closely followed the case of Tarnac.
“A DST officer told me that Mark Stone informed them. According to him, the British secret services warned the DST that their officer was working on French territory. As a courtesy, they asked the DST if they wanted to use his information. A French desk officer from the counter-terrorism branch was assigned to him. He briefed him on a regular basis.”
What was Stone talking about to the French officer ?
“According to my contact at the DST, Stone was seen as a brilliant expert in the field of European ultra-left movements. For the French services, since 2005 or so, these movements constitute a new kind of terrorist threat, and with regard to terrorism, there is no insignificant information.”
At the time, any information about the Tarnac activists’ trips abroad had the potential to strengthen the suspicion of a violent and extremist conspiracy.
“In 2008, the DCRI needed a founding act to prove they were efficient in the field of counter-terrorism. Alain Bauer and Michele Alliot-Marie had concurred with the possibility of a far-left attack on French soil. The case of Tarnac provided them with the opportunity they were looking for to strike a great blow.”
“A serious breach of fair trial standards”
For William Bourdon, one of the Tarnac group’s lawyers, Mark Stone’s contribution to the French investigation is problematic.
“If it turned out to be true, this would be as serious as the telephone tapping carried out in Tarnacbefore the legal proceedings. The way the police obtains evidence should be supervised. The notion of terrorism is misguided in order to obtain pieces of evidence that couldn’t be used in the context of other cases. Intelligence agencies probably have a dossier that is much thicker than the legal file, but it was not disclosed to the defence lawyers. This is a serious breach of fair trial standards.”
In 2010, after the indictments in the case of SNCF, Stone kept on hanging out with the Tarnac crowd’s close friends. He spent several days in Germany at an anti-nuclear activist’s place, who was suspected of having committed acts of sabotage on the railway tracks in her country several years earlier, and knew Julien Coupat. Thierry Fragnoli, the investigating judge, was already interested in the Tarnac group’s links with German activists.
In the end of 2010, Stone sent an email to the American anarchist who had put him in contact with the French group. According to one of the people indicted in the case of Tarnac, Stone questioned his friend about the French group’s projects concerning the G8 in Deauville, which was to take place in May 2011. The American man, who does not want to hear about this story any more, never had the chance to reply: a few days later, Mark Stone was unmasked.
In the other European countries where Stone worked, the affair sparked off a scandal. In England, his role as an agent provocateur, which had been established by the courts, caused the cancellation of two activists’ trials. The English police underwent eight different investigations about Stone / Kennedy, bringing about reforms which affected the organisation of the units.
Since the policeman was accused of having been involved in sex and love affairs with some activists, unbeknownst to his superiors, this subject is all the more sensitive. “Something went very wrong”, said the British Home Secretary. Not to mention that by giving rise to distrust among activists and journalists, the case of Kennedy allowed them to expose eight other undercover police officers in extreme left circles.
Germany, Ireland, Iceland
In Germany, a country where Stone used to live for long periods with anti-fascist and anarchists activists, the parliamentary Left peppered the government with questions: Did they know about it? Had Stone broken the law? Was he backed up by the police? The government refused to answer the MP’s questions.
On the 26th of January, 2011, the British newspaper The Guardian revealed – and was not disproved – the contents of a camera meeting at the Bundestag. Jörg Ziercke, the head of the Federal Police, said Stone was invited to Germany to infiltrate the anti-fascist movement. Between 2004 and 2009, he worked under contract for three Landers, during a total of five visits. The English agent has committed at least two felonies, including arson, but the charges were dropped. The head of the German police explained: “The police can only strike at organized and conspiratorial international networks by acting at global level in a conspiratorial way.”
In Ireland, a Senior Labour asked five times the Minister of Justice to clarify the agent’s activities on Irish territory. Along with other activists, Stone allegedly attacked Irish policemen during an EU summit in Dublin.
Finally in Iceland, the Minister of the Interior opened an inquiry. Stone had allegedly established contacts between activists and taught them nonviolent resistance and road-blocking techniques. The case sparked parliamentary debates, brought into question police investigations or led to new trials all over the world. Except in France – though Stone had attended three preparatory meetings for the NATO counter-summit in Strasbourg in 2009. And no one wonders if back there, as in other European cities, the undercover British agent has encouraged violence.

Camille Polloni
Translation: Élodie Chatelais

http://euro-police.noblogs.org/2012/04/mark-kennedy-a-mole-in-tarnac/#more-10129

Docs show NYPD infiltrated liberal groups

AP Press

(AP) NEW YORK – Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.

The infiltration echoes the tactics the NYPD used in the run-up to New York’s 2004 Republican National Convention, when police monitored church groups, anti-war organizations and environmental advocates nationwide. That effort was revealed by The New York Times in 2007 and in an ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit over how the NYPD treated convention protesters.

Police said the pre-convention spying was necessary to prepare for the huge, raucous crowds that were headed to the city. But documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the police department’s intelligence unit continued to keep close watch on political groups in 2008, long after the convention had passed.

In April 2008, an undercover NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People’s Summit, a gathering of liberal groups organized around their shared opposition to U.S. economic policy and the effect of trade agreements between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

When the undercover effort was summarized for supervisors, it identified groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor laws and racial profiling. Two activists — Jordan Flaherty, a journalist, and Marisa Franco, a labor organizer for housekeepers and nannies — were mentioned by name in one of the police intelligence reports obtained by the AP.

“One workshop was led by Jordan Flaherty, former member of the International Solidarity Movement Chapter in New York City,” officers wrote in an April 25, 2008, memo to David Cohen, the NYPD’s top intelligence officer. “Mr. Flaherty is an editor and journalist of the Left Turn Magazine and was one of the main organizers of the conference. Mr. Flaherty held a discussion calling for the increase of the divestment campaign of Israel and mentioned two events related to Palestine.”

The document provides the latest example of how, in the name of fighting terrorism, law enforcement agencies around the country have scrutinized groups that legally oppose government policies. The FBI, for instance, has collected information on anti-war demonstrators. The Maryland state police infiltrated meetings of anti-death penalty groups. Missouri counterterrorism analysts suggested that support for Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, might indicate support for violent militias — an assertion for which state officials later apologized. And Texas officials urged authorities to monitor lobbying efforts by pro Muslim-groups.

Police have good reason to want to know what to expect when protesters take to the streets. Many big cities, such as Seattle in 1999, Cincinnati in 2001 and Toledo in 2005, have seen protests turned into violent, destructive riots. Intelligence from undercover officers gives police an idea of what to expect and lets them plan accordingly.

“There was no political surveillance,” Cohen testified in the ongoing lawsuit over NYPD’s handling of protesters at the Republican convention. “This was a program designed to determine in advance the likelihood of unlawful activity or acts of violence.”

The result of those efforts, however, was that people and organizations can be cataloged in police files for discussing political topics or advocating even legal protests, not violence or criminal activity.

By contrast, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests and in related protests in other cities, officials at the U.S. Homeland Security Department repeatedly urged authorities not to produce intelligence reports based simply on protest activities.

“Occupy Wall Street-type protesters mostly are engaged in constitutionally protected activity,” department officials wrote in documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the website Gawker. “We maintain our longstanding position that DHS should not report on activities when the basis for reporting is political speech.”

At the NYPD, the monitoring was carried out by the Intelligence Division, a squad that operates with nearly no outside oversight and is so secretive that police said even its organizational chart is too sensitive to publish. The division has been the subject of a series of Associated Press articles that illustrated how the NYPD monitored Muslim neighborhoods, catalogued people who prayed at mosques and eavesdropped on sermons.

The AP left phone messages with Cohen and two NYPD press officers last week seeking comment about the undercover operation in New Orleans. They did not return the calls.

The NYPD has defended its efforts, saying the threat of terrorism means officers cannot wait to open an investigation until a crime is committed. Under rules governing NYPD investigations, officers are allowed to go anywhere the public can go and can prepare reports for “operational planning.”

Though the NYPD’s infiltration of political groups before the 2004 convention generated some controversy and has become an element in a lawsuit over the arrest, fingerprinting and detention of protesters, the surveillance itself has not been challenged in court.

Flaherty, who also writes for The Huffington Post, said he was not an organizer of the summit, as police wrote in the NYPD report. He said the event described by police actually was a film festival in New Orleans that same week, suggesting that the undercover officer’s duties were more widespread than described in the report.

Flaherty said he recalls introducing a film about Palestinians but spoke only briefly and does not understand why that landed him a reference in police files.

“The only threat was the threat of ideas,” he said. “I think this idea of secret police following you around is terrifying. It really has an effect of spreading fear and squashing dissent.”

Before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, infiltrating political groups was one of the most tightly controlled powers the NYPD could use. Such investigations were restricted by a longstanding court order in a lawsuit over the NYPD’s spying on protest groups in the 1960s.

After the attacks, Cohen told a federal judge that, to keep the city safe, police must be allowed to open investigations before there’s evidence of a crime. A federal judge agreed and relaxed the rules.

Since then, police have monitored not only suspected terrorists but also entire Muslim neighborhoods, mosques, restaurants and law-abiding protesters.

Keeping tabs on planned demonstrations is a key function of Cohen’s division. Investigators with his Cyber Intelligence Unit monitor websites of activist groups, and undercover officers put themselves on email distribution lists for upcoming events. Plainclothes officers collect fliers on public demonstrations. Officers and informants infiltrate the groups and attend rallies, parades and marches.

Intelligence analysts take all this information and distill it into summaries for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s daily briefing, documents show.

The April 2008 memo offers an unusually candid view of how political monitoring fit into the NYPD’s larger, post-9/11 intelligence mission. As the AP has reported previously, Cohen’s unit has transformed the NYPD into one of the most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies in the United States, one that infiltrated Muslim student groups, monitored their websites and used informants as listening posts inside mosques.

Along with the political monitoring, the document describes plans to use informants to monitor mosques for conversations about the imminent verdict in the trial of three NYPD officers charged in the 2006 shooting death of Sean Bell, an unarmed man who died in a hail of gunfire. Police were worried about how the black community, particularly the New Black Panther Party, would respond to the verdict, according to this and other documents obtained by the AP.

The document also contained details of a whitewater rafting trip that an undercover officer attended with Muslim students from City College New York.

“The group prayed at least four times a day, and much of the conversation was spent discussing Islam and was religious in nature,” the report reads.

Eugene Puryear, 26, an activist who attended the New Orleans summit, said he was not surprised to learn that police were monitoring it. He said it was entirely peaceful, a way to connect community organizers around the issues of racism and the rights of the poor. But he described it as a challenge to corporate power and said the NYPD probably felt threatened by it.

“From their perspective, they need to spy on peaceful groups so they’re not effective at putting out their peaceful message,” he said. “They are threatened by anything challenging the status quo.”

http://denverabc.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/docs-show-nypd-infiltrated-liberal-groups/#more-6663

Gathering intelligence on the recruitment and use of informers

The problem with doing research on informers is that much of the information is kept secret

Louise Tickle

Stories about the controversial use of informers have hit the headlines recently, with the planting of police officers in environmental groups causing serious embarrassment when it was found they’d had relationships and fathered children with activists. Reports of MI5 repeatedly approaching people assumed to be Muslims at UK airports with inducements to inform on their friends and neighbours have also been disastrous for community relations.

The dislike – hatred even – people feel for telltales reflects the trauma that is felt when trust is broken, says Dr Steve Hewitt, senior lecturer in the department of American and Canadian studies at the University of Birmingham, and author of Snitch! A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer. When it’s a matter of deeply felt belief, the trauma is magnified. “It involves betrayal, and it’s a very powerful emotion, whereas technology used for surveillance is impersonal,” he says. (more on guardian.co.uk)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/12/intelligence-recruitment-use-informers-secret

Informant Brandon Darby Infiltrates OWS

Brandon Darby, snitch

No joke, folks, dirt bag Brandon Darby—the snitch who sent the Texas 2 to prison, threw the Common Ground Collective under the bus, and recently bullied one of your very own journalistas at an anti-Arpaio action—has been trolling around Occupy Wall Street with a camera, interviewing people who were upset with the internal order of the encampment. Obviously, misogynist creepo Darby, has made it his goal to sow dissension within the ranks of the Left and then to air the dirty laundry in public (as if anyone really cared).

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/brandon-darby-fbi-informant-and-common-ground-co-founder/Content?oid=1255606

His cohort, Lee Stranahan, is a blogger for the Huffington Post who posts about liberal themes, contrasting the harsh realities of life to the lofty ideas of activists. For instance, he declares that recent military abuses in Egypt should show OWS that the inspirational Arab Spring is really not a movement for democracy, apparently forgetting that the US is backing the military government to suppress the popular mobilizations and protect the investments of Goldman Sachs and friends.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/u_s_arming_egyptian_military_crackdown/
http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-03-04/goldman-sachsn-11-fund-down-6-percent-in-first-month

So, long story short, someone gave this craven couple a camera and now they have an hour long movie documenting activist frustrations. You can watch their scramble to support the right wing by posing as radicals here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy6MCw4PnNc&feature=player_embedded

http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/

Exclusivo: el audio del segundo hombre de inteligencia de carabineros que no sabe si el Mapu y el MIR eran marxistas o anarquistas

Exclusivo: el audio del segundo hombre de inteligencia de carabineros que no sabe si el Mapu y el MIR eran marxistas o anarquistas

Enlace y audio sacado del diario “the clinic“, donde se señala se da a conocer los dichos del segundo hombre de la DIPOLCAR. Sergio Escobar Berrios y su “inteligencia” policial

link:
http://www.theclinic.cl/2011/12/21/exclusivo-el-audio-del-detective-de-inteligencia-que-no-sabe-si-el-mapu-y-el-mir-era-marxista-o-anarquista/


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RESIST Plainclothes COPS

More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th.

The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged.

Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided as scum, with many forced to retreat back behind police lines for protection. Whilst it was great to see the bastards getting a hard time, this is a worrying development and we have to keep up the pressure to ensure hordes of plainclothes cops do not become a regular feature of protests.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-moment-protesters-found-a-plainclothes-cop-in-their-midst-6270908.html?origin=internalSearch

We suspect most, if not all, of the plainclothes cops deployed are regular uniformed TSG officers, and have photographic evidence for some of them. Most readers will remember Ian Tomlinson was killed by a TSG cop not displaying his number, and this, alongside many other violent incidents has led to many recommendations for cops to be clearly identified – something which becomes nigh on impossible when dealing with plainclothes cops. Even when warrant cards have been produced, they have been flashed briefly without time for people to record details.

The selection of cops published here is only a fraction of the number present at the Patton Street kettle – so many that at times it felt as though there were more plainclothes cops than protesters. Fitwatch are continuing to collate photographs and will produce further spotter cards of these cops so they are not able to act anonymously.

http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/2011/11/24/plainclothes-cops-spotter-card/

Although these cops are not acting as agent provocateurs (although as stated in previous posts this doesn’t mean their behaviour is not provocative), it is clear this tactic is being used to cause intimidation and fear. Scared protesters are more passive and people more unlikely to take action when they are worried the person standing next to them might be a cop.

http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/2011/11/18/plainclothes-police-and-agents-provocateurs-hysteria/

We have to act now, continue the resistance, and stop this before it becomes an established and accepted tactic. These cops should not be allowed on our protests, and they should not be able to mingle amongst us. Total policing is about total control, and Hogan-Howe needs to realise we will respond with total resistance.. These measures, taken to quell and quash protests, must be met with anger and defiance, and a refusal to be subdued.

http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/

How police infiltrated groups planning G20 protests

adrian morrow AND kim mackrael

In early 2009, two strangers started mingling with the activist communities of Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph.

The first was a man. Those who crossed paths with him say he ingratiated himself by chauffeuring people to protests in his white van and buying them pitchers of beer at the bar after. The second, a woman, told people she had fled an abusive relationship, acquaintances say.

Both were undercover police officers infiltrating organizations planning protests against the Toronto G20 summit in June, 2010. They were part of the Joint Intelligence Group, an RCMP-led squad with officers seconded from the Ontario Provincial Police and other forces, whose task was to gather information on threats to the summit. (more on theglobeandmail.com)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/how-police-infiltrated-groups-planning-g20-protests/article2244253/

Undercover policeman admits spying on Danish activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis

Mark Kennedy says he infiltrated community centre, obtaining intelligence that helped police storm it and close it down

The controversy over the undercover policeman Mark Kennedy has deepened after he admitted spying on and disrupting the work of activists in another European country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/mark-kennedy

Kennedy has admitted that he infiltrated a Danish community centre that had housed progressive causes for more than a century, obtaining intelligence that helped police to storm it and close it down in violent raids. (more on guardian.co.uk)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/13/undercover-policeman-admits-spying-danish-activists

He told a Channel Four documentary, to be broadcast on Monday, that he was used by police all over Europe to gather intelligence on activists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/europe-news


http://euro-police.noblogs.org/

Plain Clothes Cops On Education Demo - London

These are a selection of the plainclothes cops spotted on the education demo on 9th November. Fitwatchers witnessed the violent arrest or one protester and followed the officers. Other photos have come from various sources.

REMEMBER THESE FACES! THESE COPS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON OUR PROTESTS AGAIN!

Fitwatch will be producing handy printable spotter cards of these officers for use on the streets.

http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/

“Qualitätssicherung” für internationale verdeckte Ermittlungen

Deutschland treibt die grenzüberschreitende Verwendung ausländischer Spitzel munter voran. Biometrische Suchfunktionen im Internet könnten den Ausgeforschten allerdings zukünftig Chancengleichheit verschaffen

Das hatte sich Mark Kennedy anders vorgestellt: Nach heftigen Reaktionen von Klimaaktivisten musste der ehemalige Spitzel seine Reise zum Dokumentarfilmfestival CPH:DOX in Kopenhagen eilig wieder absagen. Der frühere britische Polizist wollte dort morgen der Premiere des Films Undercover Cop beiwohnen, die seine Infiltration internationaler linker Bewegungen nachzeichnet. Regie führte der Filmemacher Brian Hill. Die Ankündigung hatte das dänische “Climate Collective” gegen die Anwesenheit des Spitzels auf den Plan gerufen, das selbst Ziel seiner Unterwanderung gewesen war: “Wir fordern Mark Kennedy auf, sich in Dänemark nicht mehr blicken zu lassen.”


http://www.cphdox.dk/

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/52475-activist-spy-cancels-visit-to-documentary-festival.html

http://www.cphdox.dk/d/film.lasso?ser=1676&s=2011112&e=1

http://www.climatecollective.org/post/186

Während Kennedy sich selbst gern als Opfer der Unfähigkeit seiner Vorgesetzten inszeniert, erinnern die Aktivisten an den Symbolcharakter der Enttarnung Kennedys vor einem Jahr: Das Platzieren von Polizisten sei ein “großes demokratisches Problem”, das die politische Betätigung der Bespitzelten beschränkt.

“Der Langzeit-Einsatz von Kennedy als verdeckter Ermittler in unserer Bewegung hat extreme emotionale und psychologische Störungen nach sich gezogen”, kritisiert das “Climate Collective” weiter. Gemeint sind unter anderem Betroffene, denen gegenüber sich Kennedy als Freund inszenierte oder mit denen er sexuelle Beziehungen einging. (weiter auf heise.de)

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150803

http://euro-police.noblogs.org/

Undercover Cop

Director: Brian Hill | UK 2011 | 75 min

12/11 | 16:40 | 75 DKK | Grand Teatret | Telephone: 33151611 |
Tickets
13/11 | 10:00 | 75 DKK | Cinemateket | Telephone: 33743412

With ‘Undercover Cop’, Brian Hill, one of Britain’s most innovative documentary filmmakers, once again covers one of those topics that are painful far into the democratic soul of the people: the use of undercover police agents. Hill has been given full access to follow Mark Kennedy, the English policeman, who after 7 years as a spy in the British – and European – activist scene was exposed at the beginning of 2011. Part of the film follows Kennedy during the tough period after his exposal, but Hill doesn’t limit himself to the this traditional approach. Instead, the director sets the agent up in front of a green screen and lets him perform his own story, thereby reconstructing the key events during his work as an undercover cop. ‘Undercover Cop’ is a highly topical documentary, which just like ‘Better This World’ (see Amnesty Award) questions how far the state can go in its use of lies and deceit without losing the basic faith of its citizens.

Source:
http://www.cphdox.dk/d/film.lasso?ser=1676&s=2011112&e=1

(en/de)-Undercover police: how 'romantic, attentive' impostor betrayed activist

Bob Lambert posed as a radical activist named Bob Robinson.

I feel angry and violated, says woman apparently used as cover by officer who was trying to infiltrate Animal Liberation Front

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/robevans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paullewis

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 October 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/23/undercover-police-animal-liberation-front

They met by chance one night at a party in Tottenham, north London. The man she would come to know as Bob Robinson was standing on his own. Jenny (not her real name), a 24-year-old who had come to the capital to find work, was intrigued by the slim man with the endearing smile, who was slightly older than her.

They fell easily into conversation and before long, Jenny was smitten. The love she felt for him rolls easily off her tongue. He was, she says, "polite, considerate, very romantic, attentive, charismatic". He smiled a lot and was non-judgmental. And he was cute.

"I thought I had found my Mr Right. He was very charming and I thought I could take him to meet my parents," she says.

They had an 18-month relationship and one of his characteristics struck her in particular: "I thought he had a high moral code."

But now she feels very different about him. It turns out that there was a lot more to Bob Robinson than his impassioned campaigning and shoulder-length hair, which gave every impression of a rebel with many causes.

He was, in fact, the opposite. Bob Lambert today admits he was an undercover police officer who had created the fictional persona of Bob Robinson to spy on political activists.

The special branch officer was one of a group of police spies in a covert unit who have been infiltrating and disrupting the activities of political campaign groups across Britain for decades.

Jenny and others only discovered his true identity more than 20 years after they first met him. The discovery has left Jenny feeling that he deceived her about the bedrock of any relationship – his identity. She is very hurt that he duped her about who he was. "I was cruelly tricked and it has made me very angry. I feel violated," she said.

As she was trying to persuade him to set up home and have a family together, he was resisting, claiming he had to flee abroad as he was being pursued by special branch because he was a dangerous radical activist.

The sorry episode has left her wondering if he loved her at all. Today, Lambert admits that "as part of my alter ego's cover story, I had a relationship with 'Jenny', to whom I owe an unreserved apology".

So far, seven undercover police officers who infiltrated political groups have been exposed – and most have admitted or have been accused of sleeping with activists they were spying on. They have faced claims that they did so to glean intelligence about the activists and the protests they were organising. A growing number of women say they have suffered terrible trauma and damage from the betrayal of having a relationship with a person they later found out was a fake.

Police chiefs claim that undercover officers are forbidden from having sex with their targets "under any circumstances" as it is "unacceptable and unprofessional". But Pete Black, an undercover officer from the same unit who infiltrated anti-racist groups in the 1990s, said sex was widely used as a technique to blend in and gather intelligence. He said there was an informal code in the unit that the spies should not fall in love with the women – or allow the women to fall in love with them.

An investigation by the Guardian has shown that Lambert was no ordinary police spy. His skills of deception would earn him legendary status in the elite ranks of the covert unit known as the special demonstration squad (SDS). "He did what is hands down regarded as the best tour of duty ever," said Black.

Lambert admits that in the 1980s, he "first built a reputation as a committed member of London Greenpeace, a peaceful campaigning group [on environmental issues]". He did so "as part of my cover story" to "gain the necessary credibility to become involved in serious crime".

His aim was to penetrate the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which he says was "then engaged in incendiary device and explosive device campaigns against targets in the vivisection, meat and fur trades".

In the 1990s, he drew on the techniques he had learned undercover to become the head of operations in the covert unit, running a network of spies.

It was May 1987 when Jenny met Bob. Very quickly they were spending most of their free time together. Bob said he was a gardener, doing cash-in-hand jobs in well-heeled places such as Hampstead. He told her that he was also earning a living by driving a minicab, although he was touting illegally for customers.

But politics was really his thing, he said. He told her how he was deeply involved in campaigning for animal rights and the environment.

Bob confided that he was heavily active in the ALF. But she was not interested. "He was always asking me to go to meetings. He introduced me to lots of activists. I did not realise what the ALF was."

But why did Lambert have a relationship with Jenny when she had never been an activist ? "I have no idea. It's a great mystery," she says.

It seems from his admission today that he was using her as his girlfriend so that he could portray himself as a fully rounded person with a private life to the rest of his political and social circle. Activists, eternally on their guard against police spies, are suspicious of people who, for example, turn up at their meetings out of the blue without any discernible evidence of friends or a family. Taking her along to the pub or parties with other activists was a neat way of deflecting those suspicions.

Jenny was working at the time as an administrative assistant at the state-owned Central Electricity Generating Board. But she kept quiet about her job as she feared the activists would take against her because the CEGB was running nuclear power stations.

She was keen to develop her career and have a family. She lived in an east London house with eight other friends, but none of them were politically active, other than having a general antipathy to Margaret Thatcher's government.

They spent most nights together at her house, although he lived in what she called a "grotty flat above a barber's" in Hackney. He had a "single man's room with a shared kitchen" but with very little in it. "He claimed to be not interested in possessions," she said.

A few months into their relationship came the episode that was to seal Lambert's reputation as one of the best undercover operatives the SDS had ever had.

In the summer of 1987, Lambert had been undercover for three years and had worked his way into the inner recesses of the animal rights movement. The Animal Liberation Front operated through a tightly organised underground network of small cells of activists, making it difficult for spies to get among them. Police chiefs were on the hunt for sorely needed intelligence after three incendiary bomb attacks on Debenhams shops in Harrow, Luton and Romford. Activists had planted the bombs because the shops were selling fur products. The attacks had reputedly caused millions of pounds' worth of damage.

Lambert identified the perpetrators to his handlers. The intelligence was so precise that the police caught them red-handed. The Old Bailey heard how police raided a flat in Tottenham and found two activists sitting at a table covered with dismantled alarm clocks, bulbs and electrical equipment for making four more firebombs.

The prosecution told the court that Andrew Clarke, then 25, and Geoff Shepherd, then 31, were wearing gloves to conceal their fingerprints. The bombs were made in large matchboxes, with a warning: "Do not touch. Ring police. Animal Liberation Front." Shepherd was jailed for four years and four months, and Clarke for more than three years.

But his feat also went down in SDS legend because Lambert had skilfully disguised that he was the source of the tip-off, managing to throw the suspicions on to others within the small ring of activists who knew about the attacks. So well had he retained the trust of the activists that Jenny remembers that he went, with her, to visit one of the accused in jail while they were awaiting the trial.

Jenny remembers that after the arrests, Bob would often say that special branch was hot on his and other activists' trails. There was, he says, a "big crisis" because the animal rights campaigners suspected that there was an informer in their midst.

A bizarre incident happened at about that time. By 1988, Jenny had moved into a Hackney flat with two others, who were not politically active. One day, special branch detectives raided Jenny's home, letting slip that they were "looking for Bob". He was not there. She remembers that one of the detectives picked up a pair of shoes and asked who owned them. They belonged to Jenny. The raid, the Guardian understands, was orchestrated by police to bolster Lambert's cover story.

After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her. He had been to see her parents three times. But when she broached the question, he said no, upsetting her hugely. She wrote in her diary that it was a black day. "I remember crying a lot that day. I was just so shocked."

Soon afterwards, she says, Bob began to tell her that he would have to go on the run abroad to escape the special branch. Over the last few months of 1988, they discussed what to do. She said she wanted to go with him, but he said she should not.

According to Jenny, he argued that she should not waste her life on the run, constantly looking over her shoulder, and that she deserved better – a rewarding career and a family. "He said he was not good enough for me."

He left his flat and stayed for a couple of weeks in what she called a "safe house" with one of her friends in London. She remembers meeting him once there: there was "still a lot of electricity between us".

In December 1988, Bob and Jenny spent a week alone together in a friend's house in Dorset to say goodbye. "I was heartbroken. Even when he left, I could not imagine that it had finished because we loved each other so much. I wanted to go on the run with him. I was prepared to do that for him."

But his sacrifice in not taking her with him made her admire him even more.

He said he was going to Spain. In early 1989, she received a long letter from him in Valencia, saying he was not coming back but raising the possibility that she could join him there. "Even then I could not believe it," she says. It was the last she heard from him.

The drawn-out goodbye was a ruse. His trip to Spain and the postmark on that letter was genuine, but the reasons were not. Bob's undercover tour was ending and he needed to leave the activists without arousing suspicions. Using standard tradecraft, he had created the perception of a convincing reason for his departure – that special branch were after him. The Spanish bolthole was far enough away to deter activists from going to see him, and avoid the risk of their bumping into him.


Polizeispitzel belügen Staatsanwaltschaften und Gerichte

Matthias Monroy

Verdeckte Ermittler ließen sich unter falschem Namen verurteilen und forschten dabei die Verteidigungsstrategie von Aktivisten aus. Eine entsprechende Dienstanweisung wurde auch in Deutschland umgesetzt

Nach neuen Enthüllungen über die Machenschaften verdeckter Ermittler hat die britische Polizei die für letzten Donnerstag geplante Vorstellung eines Untersuchungsberichts über den international agierenden Spitzel Mark Kennedy verschoben. Nach dem Willen der deutschen wie der britischen Regierung soll die grenzüberschreitende Spitzelausleihe weiter im Verborgenen ablaufen: Eine klarere juristische Regelung wird torpediert. Die Brandstiftung des britischen Polizisten in Berlin bleibt indes weiter folgenlos.

Der Skandal um den Einsatz britischer Polizeispitzel in europäischen sozialen Bewegungen geht in eine neue Runde: Am Mittwoch hatte die Tageszeitung Guardian enthüllt, dass Undercover-Polizisten in Großbritannien per Dienstanweisung ihrer Vorgesetzten dazu angehalten wurden, sowohl vor dem Staatsanwalt als auch vor Gericht ihre falsche Identität beizubehalten. Dabei geht es um die Verfolgung von Straftaten, die von den Polizisten unter ihrer vorgeblichen Legende ausgeführt wurden. Mindestens in einem Fall hat ein Polizist unter falschem Namen sogar unter Eid ausgesagt. (weiter auf heise.de)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/19/undercover-police-law-men-there
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/19/police-undercover-officers-court-perjury-claim

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35753/1.html

Report into undercover police delayed after new allegations

Official police inspectorate cancels publication of report into police spies after Guardian investigation

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis

A major inquiry into the use of undercover police officers to infiltrate protest groups has been thrown into chaos after the Guardian revealed damaging allegations that police chiefs had authorised undercover police officers to give false evidence in court.

The government’s official police inspectorate dramatically cancelled the planned publication of a report by Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new Metropolitan police commissioner, into the use of police spies.

The announcement came just hours after the Guardian revealed it has obtained documents showing an undercover officer had concealed his identity from a court when he was prosecuted alongside a group of protesters for occupying a government office. Jim Boyling gave a false name and occupation when he was arrested and maintained the fiction even when giving evidence under oath. (more on guardian.co.uk)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/20/undercover-police-inquiry-delayed

Police accused of allowing undercover officers to lie in court

False evidence claim arises from papers suggesting undercover officer Jim Boyling hid identity when prosecuted over protest

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis

Police chiefs are facing damaging allegations that they authorised undercover officers embedded in protest groups to give false evidence in court in order to protect their undercover status.

Documents seen by the Guardian suggest that an undercover officer concealed his true identity from a court when he was prosecuted alongside a group of protesters for occupying a government office during a demonstration. (more on guardian.co.uk)

Undercover police and the law: the men who weren’t there

Jim Boyling was authorised to use his fake name even when under oath in court, and he wasn’t alone say other officers

Paul Lewis and Rob Evans

As Jim Sutton stood up in court he seemed to all the world a committed environmental campaigner. In the witness box, he affirmed under oath his name and address.

Still under oath, he then gave evidence, under questioning from barristers, seeking to clear himself and seven other campaigners accused of disorderly behaviour during a demonstration. He told the court he had wanted to unfurl a banner from the window of a government building to promote their cause. (more on guardian.co.uk)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/19/undercover-police-law-men-there

Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference

The truth about Bob Lambert – leaflet 911K
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2011/10//486878.odt

15th October 2011 – PRESS RELEASE

Campaigners today outed the most-senior-yet police spy responsible for infiltrating environmental and social justice campaigns.

Former Detective Inspector Bob Lambert MBE had just spoken at a “One Society, Many Cultures” anti-racist conference attended by 300 delegates at the Trades Union Congress HQ in Central London. He was then challenged by 5 members of London Greenpeace who called on him to apologise for the undercover police infiltration of London Greenpeace, Reclaim The Streets and other campaign groups – an operation he took part in or supervised over two decades, whilst rising to the rank of Detective Inspector.

Bob Robinson (as Bob Lambert called himself at the time) was a spy in London Greenpeace from 1984 to 1988, and he went on to supervise others agents who continued with infiltration of groups such as London Greenpeace and Reclaim the Streets, along with anti fascist protests, and actions against genetically modified crops. These agents used pseudonyms, and engaged in fraudulent and deceitful long-term intimate relationships with people in the groups before disappearing without trace – a stasi-like tactic involving a gross abuse of trust which has caused great emotional damage to a number of people involved.

As he left the venue Bob Lambert was followed along the street and was challenged again to apologise, but he briskly walked away refusing to talk.

“By publicly exposing this latest scandal, campaigners have demonstrated that the recent police spies outed (such as Mark Kennedy / Mark Stone) were not ‘rogue officers’, but part of an unacceptable pattern of immoral infiltration of environmental groups, condoned at a high level. We demand action to ensure that the full truth is revealed and that justice is done.”
Spokesperson, London Greenpeace

Note 1: The HMIC report on previously exposed police infiltration is due to be published in the coming week.

Note 2: The full text from the leaflet distributed at the conference is below.

Note 3: A copy of the complete leaflet, with photos, is available on Indymedia. The 2 photos from 1984 are copyright London Greenpeace; news outlets are free to use them with credit.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/486877.html?c=on

Mark Kennedy report to rule out monitoring of undercover police

Police failed to supervise officer who spied on green protesters and Kennedy did not tell superiors what he was doing

Sandra Laville and Rob Evans

A long-awaited inquiry is expected to rule out tough independent oversight of the deployment of undercover police officers in the wake of the case of Mark Kennedy and environmental protesters, the Guardian understands.

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) will publish its review on Thursday into what went wrong in the Kennedy affair. The report is one of eight official investigations initiated after allegations about Kennedy’s role during nearly seven years living undercover, during which time he had sexual relationships with at least two campaigners. (more on guardian.co.uk)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/14/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-report?newsfeed=true

Verdict on Mark Kennedy out next week

Police spy Mark Kennedy will hear next Thursday if he has been criticised in an official review

The delayed report into Mark Kennedy and the work of undercover police officers in protest groups is due to be published next Thursday (October 20).

It was due to be published in the summer, but it was pushed back.

The review has been led by Bernard Hogan-Howe, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, in his previous incarnation as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary.

Any advanced word about the contents of the report before next week would of course be gratefully received.

The review was set up in the wake of the revelations earlier this year about Kennedy, who spent seven years infiltrating green campaigns.

Officially, Hogan-Howe has been reviewingthe operational accountability and legality of undercover work conducted by the National Public Order Intelligence Unit. Alongside that work, the Serious Organised Crime Agency has been looking at the conduct of Kennedy himself. Protest groups which were infiltrated have been boycotting the review.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2011/oct/13/verdict-on-mark-kennedy-and-surveillance?newsfeed=true