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Investigative journalist Rob Evans discusses the secret group of police spies and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage monitoring British protest groups. They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today.
This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British ‘subversives’ – environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners.
Police stole the identities of dead people to create fake passports, driving licences and bank accounts. They then went deep undercover for years, inventing whole new lives so that they could live incognito among the people they were spying on.
They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today.
Undercover reveals the truth about secret police operations – the emotional turmoil, the psychological challenges and the human cost of a lifetime of deception – and asks whether such tactics can ever be justified.
Rob Evans has been a reporter for the Guardian since 1999. With a colleague Paul Lewis, he wrote a book, Undercover, about the infiltration of undercover police officers into political groups over the past 40 years. He is also the author of Gassed: British chemical warfare experiments on humans at Porton Down (House of Stratus, 2000). Undercover will be available on day from Newham Bookshop.
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2018-10-14 2018-10-14 Europe/London Undercover – The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police Rob Evans discusses the secret group of police spies and forty years of state espionage monitoring British protest groups. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2018/10/14/undercover-the-true-story-of-britains-secret-police-180908 Conway Hall,25 Red Lion Square,London,LondonLocation
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