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Undercover Policing Podcast

Podcast series about the secret undercover political police who infiltrated over 1,000 campaign groups in the UK. Stealing dead children"s identities, deceiving women into long term sexual relationships, in some cases fathering children. Tasked with undermining democratic participation in politics, these "spycops" were publicly unmasked by activists in 2010. This led to a police apology, significant disclosure and now a Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing since 1968. Presented by some of the

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Episode 23: Jason Kirkpatrick & the German court case

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2022/01/20

Jason Kirkpatrick is a climate change activist based in Berlin who was targeted by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. He is now taking legal action in Germany over the deployment of British undercover police officers at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007. As mentioned in the episode, you can read reports from Statewatch at

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Episode 22: Informers, Infiltrators & Grasses Part 4:...

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2021/12/28

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. This instalment is an interview by Chris Brien with activist Tilly Gifford, who along with being targeted by undercover police was approached by Strathclyde police in 2009 to become a grass against the group she was involved with Plane Stupid. She made recordings of what happened and spoke out about it in the

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Episode 21: Informers, Infiltrators & Grasses Part 3:...

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2021/12/26

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. Here in part three Tom Fowler concludes his chat with Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group by looking at the professional civilian agents: "infiltrators". Part 4 will be an interview with someone targeted by the police to become a grass and will be available in a day or so. Profile of Adrian

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Episode 20: Informers, Infiltrators & Grasses Part 2:...

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2021/12/24

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. In part two Tom Fowler is once again joined by Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group , this time to look at people who willingly give information on activism to the police: "informers". Part 3 "infiltrators" will be out in a day or so. Bent Coppers: The Inside Story of Scotland Yard's Battle

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Episode 19: Informers, Infiltrators & Grasses Part 1:...

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2021/12/23

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. In part one Tom Fowler is joined by Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group to look at activists that are turned by the police to give them information "Grasses". Part 2 will be out in a day or so. No Comment: the defendants guide to arrest

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Episode 18: SDS Annual Reports 1968-84

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2021/11/24

From the establishment of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968, annual reports were published to justify their continued existence. The first 15 year batch of these were some of the first documents to be released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, you can read them for yourself https://www.ucpi.org.uk/search-results/?fwp_type=annual-report Chris Brian From the Undercover Research Group has read them all, in this episode he tells Tom Fowler the highlights and lowlights covered in the

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Episode 17: Kate Wilson & the IPT Part 3

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2021/09/26

This third part on the legal action taken relating to undercover police officer Mark Kennedy at the Investigative Powers Tribunal. This episode looks at the actual trial of Kate Wilson's Human Right's claim at the High Court. Part 1 (Episode 6): https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-6-kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-1 Part 2: (episode 16): https://soundcloud.com/spycops/kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-2 Look out for the 4th and final part of this mini-series once the judgement of the Tribunal is handed down

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Episode 16: Kate Wilson & the IPT Part 2

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2021/09/22

Kate and Ben return to talk more about the case Kate brought to the Investigative Powers Tribunal, you can hear part one here: https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-6-kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-1 You can learn about her case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal: https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/kate-wilson-case-exposing-institutional-sexism-spycops/ Follow Kate on twitter: https://twitter.com/fruitbatmania Please support the pod by ordering some stickers:

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Episode 15: Activist Media Coverage

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2021/09/15

During the inquiry hearings a number of core participants have used social media to report on developments, in this episode Carolyn who tweeted live reports from https://twitter.com/copscampagin joins regular host Tom Fowler to discuss the challenges of following the inquiry as activists and have a general chat about the state of the whole process. The pamphlet "Was My Friend A Spycop?" you can read online: https://undercoverresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wasmyfriend.vl3_.pdf If you'd

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Episode 14: Conversation With Ben & Kate Wilson

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2021/09/03

Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry Kate Wilson and Ben have a wide ranging chat with their neighbour Brian on the topic. This episode serves as useful introduction to those not familiar with the details of the whole issue. For Kate Wilson's story check out: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/kates-story/ Kate and Ben first appeared in episode 6 talking about the legal case Kate brought to the Investigative Powers Tribunal:

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Episode 13: Media Coverage with Bethany Rielly

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2021/08/23

This episode we are joined by Bethany Rielly, reporter for the Morning Star newspaper, and the only journalist to regularly attend all the hearings of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/tags/spycops We discuss how she came to cover the story, why most of the media coverage of the topic has been so limited, and a lot else besides. You can follow her at: https://twitter.com/b_rielly Starting on Thursday we are going to going live with the #SpyCopsPod on Twitter Spaces

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Episode 12: The Lambert Report

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2021/07/15

"Discussion Paper: SDS targeting strategy and deployment in relation to the Animal Liberation Front" to give it it's full very misleading title is a document authored by former undercover officer Bob Lambert in 1994. https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/discussion-paper-on-sds-targeting-strategy-and-deployment-in-relation-to-the-animal-liberation-front-authored-by-bob-lambert/ "Jessica" returns to the show with Chris Brian and Tom Fowler to discuss the document, marvel at the bare faced hypocrisy

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Series Trailer

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2021/07/09

The Spycops Info Podcast is a weekly series that features the voices of activists, researchers and campaigners who have been targeted by Britain's secret undercover political police. Turning the tables on the units that infiltrated over 1,000 groups from 1968. Visit our website: https://www.spycops.info/spycopspod

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Episode 11: Litigating In Person

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2021/07/04

As well as being a member of the Undercover Research Group, Donal O'Driscoll is also one of very few core participants representing themselves at the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). We discuss what litigating in person is like in practise, chat about the direction of the inquiry, and consider why a bunch of anarchists are engaging with the British legal system like this. You can read everything you need to know about what has happened so far at the UCPI:

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Episode 10: Registry Files

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2021/06/27

The Registry Files are the huge database of secret files Special Branch keep on anything it considers seditions. They are the documents that the undercover officers from the Special Demonstration Squad and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit contributed to. We're joined by Donal O'Driscoll From the Undercover Research Group to chat about how we've long believed these files existed, but that through recent revelations from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, we have been able to learn some

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Episode 9: "Barry Tompkins"

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2021/06/20

Retired #spycops officer HN106 alias "Barry Tompkins" was deployed between 1979 and 1983. He infiltrated the Spartacist League of Britain & Revolutionary Communist Group among others, and even founded his own faction, the "Revolutionary Labour League": https://splitsandfusions.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/revolutionary-labour-league-1980/ Nearly recruited by the USSR and accused of at least one possible relationship with an activist, his reports were some of the most odious, containing explicit

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Episode 8: Legal chat with Paul Heron

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2021/06/13

Paul Heron is one of the lawyers representing activists at the Undercover Policing Inquiry as part of the Public Interest Law Centre https://www.pilc.org.uk/ We discuss the pros and cons of the legal process and what campaigners can get out of it. You can read everything you could ever want to know about the inquiry here: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/ucpi-public-inquiry/

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Episode 7: "Madeleine"

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2021/05/23

"Madeleine" (false name used for privacy) was an active member of Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party during the 1970s. During that time she was deceived into an intimate sexual relationship by the undercover police officer HN354, alias "Vince Miller" https://powerbase.info/index.php/Vince_Miller_(alias) She was the first woman abused in this manner to give oral evidence to the UCPI. You can hear the session of the inquiry when she was questioned: https://youtu.be/K8bxgNaIfY0 You

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Episode 6: Kate Wilson & the IPT part 1

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2021/05/17

Kate Wilson was one of the women deceived into to a relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. Like several others she brought a civil claim against the police about it, unlike anyone else she was able to finally get a day in court about it. You can read her personal story here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/kates-story/ Learn about her case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal

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Episode 5: More Undercover Policing Inquiry

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2021/05/08

The second phase of the first tranche of the Undercover Policing Inquiry is currently ongoing. This episode is two different chats about what's been happening: First Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks to Penny about Day 9, when we heard from HN298 "Michael Scott" & "Mary. Second, Tom Fowler talks to "Lisa" - https://twitter.com/JustLisa2010 about Day 11 when we heard from Celia Stubbs. As ever, find out more at https://www.spycops.info

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