How secret state in UK has long policed politics:
MI5, working with #spycops, policing MPs, campaigners and anyone seeking social change, as set out in lengthy opening statement by Rajiv Menon, for some core participants in undercover policing inquiry.
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MI5, working with #spycops, policing MPs, campaigners and anyone seeking social change, as set out in lengthy opening statement by Rajiv Menon, for some core participants in undercover policing inquiry.
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“Undercover policing was severely tainted – corrupted – by political motivations and political bias,” says Matthew Ryder, representing many other core participants in #spycopys inquiry, in opening statement.
A common target for #spycops was anyone who campaigned against racism.
A common target for #spycops was anyone who campaigned against racism.
One #spycop, Mike Ferguson, targeted Peter Hain because he was campaigning against apartheid in South Africa.
He is said by other #spycops to have become Hain’s “right hand man”.
But Lord Hain cannot confirm this because inquiry REFUSES to tell him #spycop’s COVER NAME.
He is said by other #spycops to have become Hain’s “right hand man”.
But Lord Hain cannot confirm this because inquiry REFUSES to tell him #spycop’s COVER NAME.
Undercover policing inquiry urged to investigate extent to which #spycops supplied intelligence to corporations.
For example, inquiry hears, London Greenpeace suspects that #spycops gave sensitive info to McDonalds, which was suing the campaign group for libel.
For example, inquiry hears, London Greenpeace suspects that #spycops gave sensitive info to McDonalds, which was suing the campaign group for libel.
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