Met Police Agent Provocateurs

[Jan Klimkowski]

Global Open looks to me to be a US outfit with a European (and wider) presence - rather than a British outfit with an American presence.

The Big Daddy may well be American, but note the presence of (former) Scotland Yard Special Branch alongside (former) FBI in the "sister" companies.

Note also that their website suggests Global Open was founded in the UK, rather than the US.

Global Open (Europe)
Global Open Limited was founded in the United Kingdom and is run by former New Scotland Yard Special Branch officers.

Global Open advises our existing base of more than 90 clients about events in Europe and other continents. Our combined experience totals over 165 years of service and offers our clients an unrivalled pool of talent and experience.

Discretion and confidentiality
Intelligence is gathered responsibly and legally from diverse sources.

We are used to handling sensitive information as a matter of routine. We confidently deal with issues necessitating a measure of discretion and confidentiality between company and client.

Global Open (USA)
Global Open (USA) LLC is our sister company, registered and run in the United States of America for the benefit of North American corporations and individuals.

It shares the core aims and objectives of Global Open in Europe. It uses the services of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers and their associates.

Quite apart from explaining why Mark Kennedy got shunted off to the US when his cover was "blown" - he was simply shifting locations - it also points to the international nature of these undercover types operating in widely flung nations such as Iceland.

What I think we're looking at here, is a US led pro-corporation, multi-jurisdictional spy network that targets any sort of anti-corporate activity groups no matter how harmless they may be (a "low residual level of threat" to use their cloying terminology).

The shocking thing, and the reason this has proven to be so sensitive a subject - that the court case was dropped - is that government personnel (police) are used to man a privately owned international spy agency that spies on citizens around the world.

I agree but would take it further.

Kennedy/Stone and his agent provocateur mates were serving police officers, allegedly run by ACPO plc and NPOIU. However, there is the strong suggestion that the "undercovers" were also associated with Global Open.

Global Open is a private company, run by former Scotland Yard Special Branch officers, not serving Special Branch. What did undercovers like Kennedy/Stone do for Global Open?

Did they share intelligence? Did they run operations? Did they incite protestors to perform actions which would "discredit" the protestors, and frame the companies being targeted as "victims" in the public mind?

Remember, Stone/Kennedy and his many mates were funded to the extent of at least £250k pa each by British taxpayer.

This strikes me as prima facie illegal if Global Open were not paying for the services of the ACPO plc undercovers.

And if Global Open were paying for the services of the ACPO plc undercovers, then we're seeing the dimly visible interface of a covert public private intelligence network, funded largely by the state and serving big corporate interests.