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12 Nov, 7 tweets, 4 min read

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Today the #SpyCopsInquiry will hear from its first #SpyCops.
We will be live tweeting the hearing, as will @tombfowler, & we'll post a summary on our website tonight.

Today's schedule:
10:00am Officer HN 329 aka 'John Graham'
2:00pm Ernest Tate, anti-apartheid activist (written statement read in full by Nick Stanage)
2:30pm Officer HN 218 aka 'Barry Morris' (summary of evidence)
2:35pm Officer HN 334 aka 'Margaret White' (summary of evidence)

@UndercoverNet

'John Graham' was a #spycops officer 1968-9, infiltrating a north London branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign & reported on the Revolutionary Socialists Students Federation.
Here's the @UndercoverNet profile of him
powerbase.info/index.php/John…

@realspycop

'Barry Morris' was a #spycops officer in 1969, infiltrating the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. He is believed to be Barry Moss, who went on to be an SDS manager. Whistleblower Peter Francis @realspycop says N218 talked to him re withholding info from the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

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'Margaret White' was deployed into the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as supposed girlfriend of officer HN330 'Don de Freitas'. She then worked in the SDS back office 1968-1972.
Here's the @UndercoverNet profile of her: powerbase.info/index.php/Marg…

Here's the #SpyCopsInquiry page for today's hearing, where you can try to follow the live transcript service, & where documents referred to will be published later (but not yet, in case it makes it too easy for you to understand what they're talking about) ucpi.org.uk/hearing/eviden…

As well as being on the #SpyCopsInquiry website, you can also watch the transcript of the hearing (as hard as they are to follow) on youtube:

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13 Nov

Released today - #Spycops secret report on the 1969 International Marxist Group's summer camp in Dunbartonshire, proving the Special Demonstration Squad were spying in Scotland much earlier than previously thought ucpi.org.uk/publications/s…

#Spycops were in Scotland dozens of times, over decades. They undermined campaigns & violated human rights. It cannot be right that victims in England & Wales get a pubic inquiry while those targeted by the very same officers in Scotland get no answers & no redress.

We have long campaigned for the truth about #SpyCops in Scotland. The Scottish Government, backed by every party in Holyrood, repeatedly asked the Home Office to include Scotland in the #SpyCopsInquiry. They were refused. They should hold their own inquiry.

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13 Nov

This afternoon's hearing at the #SpyCopsInquiry is about to start....

there will be a 10-minute delay on the 'live' transcript feed - see

Today we are hearing from former spycop HN326, who used the cover name 'Doug' or 'Douglas Edwards'.
He has already provided two witness statements to the Inquiry, in 2018, and a further relating to photographs, in 2019.

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13 Nov

We are starting the #spycops inquiry again - Day 10 of these hearings - and Mitting is setting out the schedule for today

Ms Monahan is reading out a short summary about one of the #spycops HN330, who used the cover name 'Don de Freitas'
You can read more about him on pages 105-107 of Appendix 2 ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Now she is reading a summary about HN321, who used the cover name 'Bill Lewis' - you can read more about him on pages 108-111 of the same document. He was part of the first #spycops unit, for just one year, from Sept 1968-1969

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12 Nov

Non state core participants were shocked and disgusted by Sir Mitting's treatment of Rajiv Menon QC today.
Menon asked the Chair for permission to ask a few questions of the former spycop who was giving evidence today...

Using the cover name 'John Graham', he had infiltrated the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968.
Today was the only opportunity for non state core particpants (via their lawyer) to ask him questions about his time with the #SpyCops

However, when Menon tried to raise some of these issues, Mitting interrupted him, very rudely, and told him that only one of his questions could be asked . When Menon asked for clarification, he was interrupted again by a visibly bad-tempered Chair.

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12 Nov

The #spycopsinquiry has uploaded lots of documents today, including gisted summaries & what they call 'pen portraits' of various former #spycops - today short summaries of the deployments of HN218 and HN334 were read out loud

see ucpi.org.uk/publications/ for the list.

Barr explained that: some of the douments relate to 6 officers "from whom we have not been able to obtain a witness statement":

There is more information about these six in Appendix 2 of his Opening Statement: ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
(and the page numbers are indicated below)

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12 Nov

We are starting again at the #spycopsinquiry - with a return to *live-streaming* - as Nick Stanage QC reads out the contents of Ernest Tate's statement

Ernest Tate is now 85 years old, and lives in Canada. He was living in Britain between 1965-69, and during the time heavily involved in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign

He was also involved in the 'International Marxist Group' (IMG), and since his return to Canada, active in the trade union movement
He was asked to file this witness statement by 31st Jan 2020 [yet today is the first time it's been shared with most non state core participants]

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