Met Police Agent Provocateurs

[Paul Rigby]

Courtesy of Indymedia, these are presumably the police undercover assets that The Guardian declined to identify.

There are unpixellated photos at the url:

Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements

ABC Anarres / IMC UK Features | 19.01.2011 00:51 | Repression | World

Update: 4th Spy: "Jim Sutton" | 5th Spy: Peter Black | 6th Spy: Mark Cassidy

"Mark Stone", "Lynn Watson" and "Marco Jacobs".

Oh dear, not true. In fact, photographs of "Watson," "Sutton," & "Jacobs," complete with biographical sketches, are to be found in the Grauniad edition of Thursday, 20 January 2011, pp6-7.

And I bloody loathe the paper.

Paul - you're simply wrong.

The IndyMedia piece is from January 19 - the day before The Guardian piece.

The photos on the IndyMedia link I provided are unpixellated, clearly showing faces.

No, Jan, you are.

In fact, the picture of "Watson" which accompanied the Grauniad piece in its edition of Jan 20 is, by some distance, a better one than that which appeared in the IndyMedia link, where "Watson" appears to have entered an unofficial Tara Palmer-Tomkinson look-alike gurning-while-tongue-pulling competition. Readers can judge for themselves:

Here's the IndyMedia one:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472363.html

And now the Grauniad one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/19...intcmp=239

The difference in the photos suggests that The Grauniad had better sources - MI6? - than the Greenies at IndyMedia.

I note with amusement that your claim has less than subtly shifted from the original one - Guardian suppression of the undercover legover merchants' photos - to an all-new improved one, to wit the Greenies beat the Grauniad to the punch in publishing the photos. Hey-ho. As we can see, the truth is much more interesting: The Grauniad went one better.