Met Police Agent Provocateurs

[Paul Rigby]

Could be, because the Grauniad is the only one really chasing this story.

Worth recalling that many of the Greeny groups targeted by the Met's trained legions of crack leg-over agent provocateurs were furnished with seed (er, pardon the pun) money and premises by offshoots of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a veteran British intelligence front used, for example, to manage and penetrate anti-Apartheid groups (and thus the ANC); and that the connections between The Grauniad and the "philanthropic" empire of JRF run very deep. The CIA famously followed the British intel model rather closely with respect to the utility of Quakers et al.

From the preamble to the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust website:

We are an independent, progressive organisation committed to funding radical change towards a better world.

The JRCT makes grants to individuals and to projects seeking the creation of a peaceful world, political equality and social justice.

We chiefly support work undertaken in the UK and Ireland. The South Africa programme is now closed to new applications.

http://www.jrct.org.uk/

Goodness, only a hardened cynic could conceivably see some sought of overlap between areas of Met undercover activity exposed and (some of) MI6's traditional playgrounds.