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19 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Today’s #SpyCopsInquiry hearing runs from 11:00-15:30, & is the last until 2021. We're live tweeting it (as is @tombfowler) & we'll post a report on our site tonight. It looks like it's going to be a really interesting day today.
Today's #SpyCopsInquiry starts with four 5-minute summaries from written statements of #spycops, then from 11:30 there's live evidence from officer HN345 ‘Peter Fredericks’, who had something of an unusual career path.
#spycops officer HN345 ‘Peter Fredericks’ wasn’t deployed against any 1 group but reported on several inc the Black Power movement, Operation Omega & Young Haganah for 6 months in 1971.
#SpyCopsInquiry docs say ‘Fredericks’ had his #spycops probationary period terminated. "There is a difference between his recollection of the reason for termination & that recorded in his personnel file”. He left the Met soon after. 3 hours of him today.
ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
The brilliant women at @out_of_lives will be doing a #SpyCopsInquiry live readalong on their YouTube channel, to counter the exclusion of the Inquiry's text-only stream. Yesterday they had Maxine Peake reading. Who will it be today?
youtube.com/channel/UC9vFz…
It’s the last day of the #SpyCopsInquiry for a while – these last 3 weeks have been looking at the period from 1968 (when #spycops unit the Special Demonstration Squad was founded) to 1972. The next hearings, expected in March/April 2021, will cover the SDS from 1973 to 1982.

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19 Nov
This afternoon at the #SpycopsInquiry
we hear more from 'Peter Fredericks', #spycops officer HN345....
Join @out_of_lives
over on youtube for their read-along with another special guest: youtube.com/channel/UC9vFz…
@out_of_lives In regard to the Black Power activists
HN345 says he never witnessed any violence, or public disorder. He has no memory of the group committing criminal offences.
@out_of_lives Did they encourage disorder?
HN345 said this was “difficult to answer”, and seemed unable to give a coherent reply.
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19 Nov
This is outrageous. Earlier today we wondered if a lawyer reading a summary of a #spycops statement without anyone questioning what was said. @PeterSalmon7 has been over the full statements & found the #SpyCopsInquiry is glossing over important facts [thread]
This morning the #SpyCopsInquiry said officer HN339 'Stewart Goodman' was 'involved in a road traffic accident... which necessitated the involvement of his supervisors... [&] suspects this may have been a catalyst for the end of his deployment' [23:12]
The mention of the 'road traffic accident' was immediately preceded by the statement that, apart from flyposting, 'Goodman' was not involved in any other criminal activity while undercover. This is a lie. His own statement says he was driving drunk & wrote off his car. Image
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19 Nov
Only one officer, 'HN345, is giving live evidence at the #SpycopsInquiry today.

He was only deployed by the SDS for a short time, about six months, in 1971. He used the name 'Peter Fredericks'.

There will be a ten-minute delay in place.
He is being questioned by the Counsel for the Inquiry, David Barr QC.
HN345 joined the police in the mid 60s, and when first offered the opportunity to do undercover work “thought it sounded more interesting than road traffic duties”
This was before he joined Special Branch. He was trained 'on the job' to do this undercover work.
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19 Nov
The #SpyCopsInquiry starts today with a reading of 'summaries of evidence' from 4 different #spycops deployed between 1968 & 1974
HN333 - served 9 months from late 1968. Real & cover names are withheld, as is the name of the group he infiltrated. Worked in Special Branch before. Hadn't been undercover before the SDS, then went to the Oct 1968 Vietnam War demo.
HN333 had cover name, employment & address. Unusually, he spent most evenings at cover address. Infiltrated a left wing group that doesn't exist any more. It was 'a loose association'
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19 Nov
The #SpyCopsInquiry starts at 11am today with 'summaries of evidence' from 4 #spycops, because the Inquiry reckons that having a lawyer read out abbreviated versions of events without anyone being able to ask questions of the officer is a good way to get to the truth.
The summaries of evidence - 11:00-11:20am - will be live streamed on the @ucpinquiry Youtube channel, after which it's back to their live transcript - but there's going to be a better option
Yesterday, the women from @out_of_lives did a read-a-long of the #SpyCopsInquiry transcript, with Maxine Peake reading one of the #spycops. They're doing another read-a-log today, but who will be with them? Tune in at 11:30am
youtube.com/channel/UC9vFz…
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18 Nov
The afternoon session of the #SpyCopsInquiry is starting now.
The 'live' transcript should appear in 10 mins....
We recommend watching the @outoflives version, on their youtube channel.

Today's special guest is none other than the legendary @MPeakeOfficial
reading as #spycops Sandra
@outoflives @MPeakeOfficial You can read more about HN348's deployment in her written statement: ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
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