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16 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
It's the 3rd week of the #SpyCopsInquiry. Hearings are currently scheduled for today, Wednesday & Thursday (though unfinished stuff might happen tomorrow &/or Friday). We'll be live tweeting the hearings (as will @tombfowler), & posting daily reports on our site every night. Schedule for the spycops public inquiry, 16 November 2020. 1
Today's hearing will be from #SpyCops officer HN336 'Dick Epps' this morning from 10am, & HN340 'Alan Nixon' this afternoon from 2pm
powerbase.info/index.php/Dick…

'Dick Epps' infiltrated the International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, & British Communist Party 1969-72.
#SpyCops officer 'Dick Epps' appeared in the 2002 BBC documentary True Spies under the name 'Dan'. vimeo.com/159535823

'Alan Nixon' was also a #SpyCops officer 1969-72, infiltrating the International Marxist Group & Irish Solidarity Campaign.
After this week, which covers the Special Demonstration Squad #SpyCops 1969-72, the #SpyCopsInquiry will take a break to assess what it's heard, & will be back next year for another batch of hearings covering the SDS 1973-82. That's currently expected to be around April 2021.
#SpyCopsInquiry hearings concerning the Special Demonstration Squad #SpyCops 1983-1992 are expected in the 1st half of 2022, & SDS 1993-2007 in the 1st half of 2023. Later there'll be hearings on the other main #SpyCops unit, the National Public Order Intelligence Unit 1999-2011
After examining the undercover #SpyCops, the #SpyCopsInquiry will then look at other undercover policing, then mid & senior rank officers, other agencies & government departments. There's no end in sight, but 2026 is a reasonable guess.

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17 Nov
The #SpyCopsInquiry is now holding a hearing with barrister Ruth Brander, Rajiv Menon, Oliver Sanders, & Skelton about non-state core participants' barristers get to ask more questions of witnesses in the hearings
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17 Nov
Today was scheduled as a day off at the #SpyCopsInquiry, but there will now be 2 things. Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist, blacklisted trade unionist & core participant at the Inquiry, was due to give his opening statement last week but contracted Covid. Image
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After that, a procedural hearing on lawyers questioning witnesses after Counsel to the Inquiry has finished the main questioning
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16 Nov
The #SpycopsInquiry will be starting again soon.

This afternoon we are due to hear from 'HN340' - who infiltrated various groups - including the International Marxist Group (IMG), North London Red Circle & Irish Solidarity Campaign.
He was deployed between 1969-72, and is now known to have used the cover names 'Alan Bailey' & 'Alan Nixon'.
More about him: powerbase.info/index.php/Alan…
Ms Hummerstone is asking the questions from the @ucpinquiry today.
She will be referring to this afternoon's witness as 'HN340' but understands that he used the cover name 'Andy Bailey' [nb: not Alan]
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16 Nov
We are about to start the 4th day of 'evidential hearings' at the #SpyCopsInquiry
This morning we have a former officer, HN336 (who used the cover-name 'Dick Epps'), giving evidence, so there will be a ten-minute delay.
Watch the transcript via
Counsel to the Inquiry David Barr started by asking N336 some questions.

Barr: Your general police training, pre-Special Branch – did it cover entering private dwellings?

HN336: yes. it covered search warrants etc.
Barr: what about training once you joined Special Branch?
HN336: No, there was nothing specific about attending political meetings
He did this before joining the SDS & like other SB officers learnt 'on the job'
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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…
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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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