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 …
Category: Infiltrators
Nov 24
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 Links from the following statement have been removed as they are no longer active.)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 …
Mar 16
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 …
Mar 12
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 …
Mar 10
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 …
Mar 10
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 …
Mar 08
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 …
Mar 08
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 …
Mar 08
Matthew Gibbons
Matthew Gibbons (Informant) Statement posted 15 September 2009 by the “Central Animal Liberation Intelligence Unit”. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438057.html The Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit has recently discovered information concluding that Matthew Gibbons, (now) formerly of York Action for Animals and York AntiFa, has been acting as a police informant. (For information purposes only, Gibbons’ details are pizzamatic@hotmail.com …
Mar 08
Lynn Watson
ActivistSecurity.org statement on Lynn Watson Earlier this week it was reported in The Guardian [1] that the Leeds based activist known as “Lynn Watson” had been an undercover police officer serving with the CIU/NPIOU – the police unit that places infiltrators in protest movements. As the only public report of this came from a mainstream …
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