“A shocking story of how a special squad of Britain’s Metropolitan Police, in collusion with MI5 – the domestic ‘security’ service – secretly infiltrated hundreds of UK political and campaign groups, and the question of whether the spying continues.”
“Industrial-levels of police infiltration of progressive campaign groups began during anti-Vietnam war movement in 1968.”
“Justice campaigns led by families of people killed in police custody were a particular target of so-called “spycops”. The victims were mostly black men.”
“Undercover police spied on Labour politicians and nearly every group to party’s left.”
“Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter believed to be the most likely targets of current undercover police infiltration.”
“The all-pervasive nature of spycops surveillance brings to mind similar government programmes against domestic dissent across the Atlantic.”
“Throughout much of the Cold War, domestic intelligence and police agencies in the United States operated various programmes dubbed Cointelpro– “counterintelligence” programmes.”
“This was a euphemism for a massive national programme – begun under notorious FBI director J Edgar Hoover – of police infiltration, spying on and sabotage of political parties and popular movements, especially the Black Power movement.”
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