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Surviving Surveillance – East German Activists and the Stasi

Surviving Surveillance East German activists and the Stasi Written 2014. Download this document as PDF As an activist or campaigner in Britain it’s hard to ignore surveillance and harassment from state and private security services – not to mention the the effect it is having on our work and our lives. This text takes a …

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Snitch-jacketing in our movements: time to stop destructive rumours

Unfounded rumours are destroying the reputations of activists without good reason. In the following statement the Activist Security collective is saying that not only do we need to check this behaviour, but that people who continue to spread unfounded rumours about individuals after they’ve been asked to stop will be publicly named. Over the years …

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Bob Lambert / Robinson

Bob Lambert aka “Bob Robinson” Articles on this page London Greenpeace Press Release outing Bob Lambert as police spy Text of London Greenpeace leaflet Two Guardian articles London Greenpeace response to Lambert’s apology Robert Lambert today Bob Lambert / “Robinson” 15th October 2011 – PRESS RELEASE UNDERCOVER POLICE AGENT PUBLICLY OUTED AT CONFERENCE Campaigners today …

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Toby Kendall / “Ken Tobias”

Original expose from Plane Stupid, July 2008 (Note: C2i was also where Becki Todd started out. They have since disappeared. Links from the following statement have been removed as they are no longer active.) MOLE HUNT: More Austin Powers than James Bond Since late summer 2007, an employee of a corporate espionage agency has been …

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Mark Kennedy

Mark “Stone” / Kennedy The account of Mark Kennedy / Stone has been well documented in the Guardian and in the interviews he gave to the Mail on Sunday. Many of the articles can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/mark-kennedy with key ones being given below. Original expose on Indymedia PowerBase Chronology of known activities Article 1 …

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Simon Brenner

The Case “Simon Brenner” Published by Linksunten Indymedia, 18 Dec 2010 – http://linksunten.indymedia.org/en/node/30880 On Sunday the 12th of December 2010 a undercover agent working for the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Baden-Württemberg was uncovered in Heidelberg, Germany. His aim was to make contact with the Antifa scene via open left structures and to gather information about individuals as …

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Paul Mercer

Corporate spy was active in Nottingham Nottingham Indymedia 8th February 2011. http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/941 The Mark Kennedy case has thrown the world of police and private spying on activists into the spotlight. One of the many revelations about Kennedy is that he can be linked to private spying company Global Open. Kennedy worked as a consultant for …

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Marco Jacobs

Mark “Marco” Jacobs See below for statement from Cardiff Anarchist Network Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of network emerges The Guardian, 15 January, 2011 Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor & Rajeev Syal The unprecedented scale of undercover operations used by police to monitor Britain’s political protest movements was laid bare last night after a …

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Mark Cassidy

  Taken from Big Issue in the North, February 2011. Source: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/02/473378.html We should have seen him coming. Mark Cassidy walked into the Colin Roach Centre in Hackney early in 1995. Within weeks he had thrown himself into virtually every area of the centre’s political life and quickly began writing for our internal bulletin and …

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Jim Sutton / Boyling

Jim Sutton / Boyling Two articles from The Guardian, 19 January, 2011 Authors given as Paul Lewis, Rob Evan & Rowenna Davis   First Article A police spy married an activist he met while undercover in the environmental protest movement and then went on to have children with her, the Guardian can reveal. He is …

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