Two new #spycops profiles. 1/17 Wilf Knight.

He appeared in the documentary #TrueSpies in 2002, talking freely about the SDS, how it was set up. “We called them the 'hairies' because they all grew their hair long down to their shoulders.”
powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #spycops profiles. 2/17 Wilf Knight.
At #TrueSpies, he was first to reveal #spycops were getting a completely new identity: “They just were wiped off the face of the earth as far as police identification went. They were ‘true spies, true spies.'” powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #SpyCops profiles. 3/17 Wilf Knight.

At #TrueSpies 2002, he said “they had a complete new personality created, new names, new addresses, new apartments, new driving licenses, new social sec numbers.”
Helped women w. suspicions in their search. powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #SpyCops profiles. 4/17 Wilf Knight.

Wilf Knight in #TrueSpies had more beans to spill about the early #spycops days. How Special Branch engaged in illegal bugging activities. Spotting ‘subversives’ at the #Grunwick strike @Grunwick40

powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #SpyCops profiles. 5/17 Wilf Knight.
He revealed a widespread phone tapping & electronic bugging operation against political campaigners. He also suggested @TariqAli_News deserved to be bugged just due to his roles in radical politics. #TrueSpies
powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #SpyCops profiles. 6/17 Wilf Knight.

1981 #Brixton Uprising, he served at Community Relations in the Met to improve race relations. However, at the Scarman Inq, he stated that the riots were caused by 'outsiders’, conspiring against the police.
powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #spycops profiles. 7/17 Wilf Knight.
After Brixton, Cambridge MPhil: police racism. “The results of his survey of racist attitudes amongst his colleagues at the Met were appalling and disturbing” - his supervisor Prof Colin Sumner. Thesis secret.
powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #spycops profiles. 8/17 Wilf Knight.
At #TrueSpies, he named Mike Ferguson as the #spycops who infiltrated the anti-apartheid Stop The Seventies Tour. Some at Special Branch were not amused.
specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-sto…
powerbase.info/index.php/Wilf…
Two new #spycops profiles. 9/17 Mike Ferguson.
Wilf Knight used the full name of Mike Ferguson #TrueSpies. Quite unusual, as most officers were in disguise using pseudonyms. The BBC had permission from the Commissioner and Head SB.
specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-sto…
powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 10/17 Mike Ferguson.
One of the first SDS infiltrators to target the anti-apartheid movement, he infiltrated the Stop The Seventies Tour in 1969-1970, to “become @PeterHain’s no 2”. The latter can’t remember him though.
Read: powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 11/17 Mike Ferguson.
At a Twickenham match smoke bombs would be thrown onto the field. With Ferguson's intelligence, police stood ready to put them out. “Players never knew”, Knight claimed #TrueSpies; photos proof him wrong.
powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 12/17 Mike Ferguson.

Ferguson’s daughter wrote a trilogy of novels (2015-2017) starting from her childhood memories about her dad as an undercover officer. Part of what she wrote is true, but which part? Help us find out, read powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 13/17 Mike Ferguson.

Ferguson’s daughter wrote an article in The Guardian about her dad as an undercover officer. She describes his character, his old van (like many #spycops had) and his ‘bushy beard’. powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 14/17 Mike Ferguson.

At a Twickenham match smoke bombs were thrown onto the field. An activist remembers 'bushy beard' handing out smoke pellets: "I lit them and he threw them." The person unknown got away; agent provocateur?
powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 15/17 Mike Ferguson took his family to the Orkneys for holiday in the early 1970s, a fact used in his daughter’s novels. Coincidently or not, this is where Stuart Christie went to live, after the Angry Brigade trial. Connected?
powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 16/17 Mike Ferguson.
In the official Inquiry, he is the only #spycops whose cover name was not revealed, while his real name was known, via #TrueSpies. Now we’ve put together everything found on him. undercoverresearch.net/2019/11/18/wha… powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…
Two new #spycops profiles. 17/17 Mike Ferguson.
In the official Inquiry, he is the only #spycops whose cover name was not revealed, while his real name was known, via #TrueSpies. Was Ferguson trying to infiltrate anarchist groups? undercoverresearch.net/2019/11/18/wha… powerbase.info/index.php/Mike…

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