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From the establishment of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968, annual reports were published to justify their continued existence. The first 15 year batch of these were some of the first documents to be released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, you can read them for yourself https://www.ucpi.org.uk/search-results/?fwp_type=annual-report

Chris Brian From the Undercover Research Group has read them all, in this episode he tells Tom Fowler the highlights and lowlights covered in the documents, from the death of Kevin Gately https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/today-in-london-anti-fascist-history-1974-the-death-of-kevin-gately-opposing-national-front-demo/ to the Grunwick strike https://grunwick40.wordpress.com and a great deal more besides.

These documents represent the link between the grubby role of the secret undercover political police with the civil service and politicians. Chris mentions a PHD on this topic, which you can read here:

https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/thatchers-culture-of-conformity-the-disintegration-of-partystate-

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This third part on the legal action taken relating to undercover police officer Mark Kennedy at the Investigative Powers Tribunal. This episode looks at the actual trial of Kate Wilson's Human Right's claim at the High Court.

Part 1 (Episode 6): https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-6-kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-1

Part 2: (episode 16): https://soundcloud.com/spycops/kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-2

Look out for the 4th and final part of this mini-series once the judgement of the Tribunal is handed down. hopefully before the end of 2021.

Kate and Ben return to talk more about the case Kate brought to the Investigative Powers Tribunal, you can hear part one here: https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-6-kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-1

You can learn about her case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal: https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/kate-wilson-case-exposing-institutional-sexism-spycops/

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During the inquiry hearings a number of core participants have used social media to report on developments, in this episode Carolyn who tweeted live reports from https://twitter.com/copscampagin joins regular host Tom Fowler to discuss the challenges of following the inquiry as activists and have a general chat about the state of the whole process.

The pamphlet "Was My Friend A Spycop?" you can read online: https://undercoverresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wasmyfriend.vl3_.pdf

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Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry Kate Wilson and Ben have a wide ranging chat with their neighbour Brian on the topic.

This episode serves as useful introduction to those not familiar with the details of the whole issue.

For Kate Wilson's story check out: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/kates-story/

Kate and Ben first appeared in episode 6 talking about the legal case Kate brought to the Investigative Powers Tribunal: https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-6-kate-wilson-the-ipt-part-1

This episode we are joined by Bethany Rielly, reporter for the Morning Star newspaper, and the only journalist to regularly attend all the hearings of the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/tags/spycops

We discuss how she came to cover the story, why most of the media coverage of the topic has been so limited, and a lot else besides. You can follow her at: https://twitter.com/b_rielly

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"Discussion Paper: SDS targeting strategy and deployment in relation to the Animal Liberation Front" to give it it's full very misleading title is a document authored by former undercover officer Bob Lambert in 1994.

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/discussion-paper-on-sds-targeting-strategy-and-deployment-in-relation-to-the-animal-liberation-front-authored-by-bob-lambert/

"Jessica" returns to the show with Chris Brian and Tom Fowler to discuss the document, marvel at the bare faced hypocrisy of the contents, and get disgusted with the cast of unpleasant characters.

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As well as being a member of the Undercover Research Group, Donal O'Driscoll is also one of very few core participants representing themselves at the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI).

We discuss what litigating in person is like in practise, chat about the direction of the inquiry, and consider why a bunch of anarchists are engaging with the British legal system like this.

You can read everything you need to know about what has happened so far at the UCPI: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/ucpi-public-inquiry/

The Registry Files are the huge database of secret files Special Branch keep on anything it considers seditions. They are the documents that the undercover officers from the Special Demonstration Squad and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit contributed to.

We're joined by Donal O'Driscoll From the Undercover Research Group to chat about how we've long believed these files existed, but that through recent revelations from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, we have been able to learn some specifics about them.

You can read more about the Registry Files here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Special_Branch_Registry