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

Retired #spycops officer HN106 alias "Barry Tompkins" was deployed between 1979 and 1983.

He infiltrated the Spartacist League of Britain & Revolutionary Communist Group among others, and even founded his own faction, the "Revolutionary Labour League": https://splitsandfusions.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/revolutionary-labour-league-1980/

Nearly recruited by the USSR and accused of at least one possible relationship with an activist, his reports were some of the most odious, containing explicit personal details of his targets. Read more about him here:

https://powerbase.info/index.php/Barry_Tompkins_(alias)

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http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2021/05/14/ucpi-daily-report-12-may-2021/#barry-tompkins

Paul Heron is one of the lawyers representing activists at the Undercover Policing Inquiry as part of the Public Interest Law Centre https://www.pilc.org.uk/

We discuss the pros and cons of the legal process and what campaigners can get out of it.

You can read everything you could ever want to know about the inquiry here: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/ucpi-public-inquiry/

"Madeleine" (false name used for privacy) was an active member of Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party during the 1970s.

During that time she was deceived into an intimate sexual relationship by the undercover police officer HN354, alias "Vince Miller" https://powerbase.info/index.php/Vince_Miller_(alias)

She was the first woman abused in this manner to give oral evidence to the UCPI. You can hear the session of the inquiry when she was questioned: https://youtu.be/K8bxgNaIfY0

You can also read the reports from that day and the next, when HN354 was giving his evidence: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/tag/madeleine/

Kate Wilson was one of the women deceived into to a relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. Like several others she brought a civil claim against the police about it, unlike anyone else she was able to finally get a day in court about it.

You can read her personal story here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/kates-story/

Learn about her case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal here:

http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2021/04/24/kate-wilson-case-exposing-institutional-sexism-spycops/

And follow her on twitter here:

https://twitter.com/fruitbatmania

This is just part one of what is likely to be a very long running series, look out for part two in the months ahead.

The second phase of the first tranche of the Undercover Policing Inquiry is currently ongoing.

This episode is two different chats about what's been happening:

First Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks to Penny about Day 9, when we heard from HN298 "Michael Scott" & "Mary.

Second, Tom Fowler talks to "Lisa" - https://twitter.com/JustLisa2010 about Day 11 when we heard from Celia Stubbs.

As ever, find out more at https://www.spycops.info

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has returned for Phase 2 of the first tranche of evidence. Here is a mixed bag of reflections on the first week.

You can read detailed daily and weekly reports on what is happening at the inquiry: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/ucpi-public-inquiry/

You can also tune in to live reaction videos whenever the inquiry goes to a break: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spycops

Referred to as HN345 at the inquiry, the undercover officer who went by the alias "Peter Fredericks" as not deployed against any one specific group but reported back on an number, including the Black Power movement, Operation Omega and Young Haganah for six months in 1971.

You can read more about him here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Peter_Fredericks_(alias)

Referred to as HN2 at the inquiry, Andy Coles went by the alias "Andy Davey" when he infiltrated animal rights and anti war groups in London between 1991 to 1995. Whilst deployed, despite being 32 and married with a baby daughter, he used his undercover role to manipulate and deceive a 19 year old woman who now uses the alias "Jessica" into a year-long intimate sexual relationship.

You can read more about him here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Andy_Coles

You can find "Jessica"'s story in full here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/jessicas-story-2/