Met Police Agent Provocateurs

[Paul Rigby]

There may be something in this - but I doubt that a German anti-fascist group is sponsored "by offshoots of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation".

It's not much of leap from Rowntree serving as an MI6 money conduit for projects in NI to MI6 funding for groups of interest on mainland Europe:

[/Appendix 4: the Conflict Between MI5 and MI6 in Northern Ireland
[Lobster #11 (Apr 1986)]
... Special Branch officer. A bomb attempt on Enoch Powell MP by the security forces. The Miami Showband killings by Protestants linked to the security forces. The smearing of the Joseph Rowntree Trust which was the conduit for money from MI6 to the political organisations it supported in Northern Ireland. 'The Ulster Citizens' Army'- a 'black' operation ... set up by Wallace and Information Policy. The assassination of Catholics in 1975 by Protestant groups linked to the security forces. The increased killings were designed to break the Provisional IRA truce arranged with the help of MI6. Last| Contents| Next ...
Terms matched: 2 - Score: 79 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online....htmquote]

Meanwhile, ACPO plc's professional "infiltrators" (undercover assets) are being transferred to line management by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch. No meaningful change there then.

So far. But this story hasn't yet run its course.

Also, there has been a fair amount of coverage of the story in other British newspapers, eg:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthne...ement.html

The overt house-organ of MI6. The one below is now run, nominally at least, by a Russian with holdings back home - of extreme interest to MI6:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...92787.html

And the Daily Mail printed a sympathetic puff piece cum exclusive interview (for which Kennedy/Stone was allegedly paid a lot of money). It can be seen - deconstructed - earlier in this thead.

It is natural, if arguably naive, that members of protest movements would tell their stories to The Guardian. And as a result, Guardian hacks have the best first hand accounts of Kennedy/Stone and other agents provocateurs. Access to first hand testimony enables a newspaper to lead coverage of a story.

This is how newspapers and MSM work. No conspiracy there.

Well, it's certainly a useful, if thin, cover, but it hardly detracts from the deep political agenda: MI6 curtails activities of turf rival. Moreover, The Grauniad has such deep ties to MI6 - consider the roles of a number of MI6-Grauniad correspondents during the engineered revolution in Russia in 1917 - it would pretty extraordinary for this affair to be coincidental/spontaneous.

My judgement remains that this is a very embarrassing story for the British deep state because it establishes, unequivocally, for the public domain record, that dozens of undercover assets have been "infiltrated" into protest groups during the past decade, and that these undercover assets have both incited, and provided material support, to criminal actions.

But we've been here many times before: Police infiltration of, for instance, anti-Vietnam war movements was notorious, and available to any media org that wanted to explore the story. There is also the small matter of who, within the higher media, is going to raise the point - Frank "Spooky" Gardner? Gordon Careerist?

The next time a spooky correspondent turns up on the BBC or Sky, and claims "this not the kind of thing our chaps would get up to nowadays", their utterances will be demonstrably false.

I wish your point were true: History suggests nothing of the sort will happen.