Met Police Agent Provocateurs

[Paul Rigby]

The exposure of a bona fide agent provocateur, and the creation of false flag protest, is politically unacceptable to the deep state.

Unless, of course, a rival member of the deep state wanted to clip the Met's wings; and/or was itself behind the movement penetrated by said rival outfit; and/or had other plans for the movement in question. In which case(s), such exposure would be entirely welcome.

My money's on 5, but impossible to rule out 6. It could even be a joint project. Hence the attention paid to the matter by the deep state Guardian.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Fucking for Queen and Country:

Calls for inquiry into conduct of undercover police officer

Activist says she feels 'violated' by sexual relationship with man unmasked as undercover officer

Paul Lewis, Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 January 2011 21.30 GMT

Scotland Yard was under pressure tonight to explain whether it had authorised an undercover officer to have sexual relationships with environmental activists after a woman came forward to say she felt "violated" following a close relationship with the man unmasked this week as a police spy.

The woman told the Guardian that Mark Kennedy, the Metropolitan police officer at the centre of a growing controversy over the infiltration of peaceful environmental protest groups, had relationships with several women and may have used sex as a "tactic" to glean intelligence.

"He had so many friends and relationships with people in the movement that I'm questioning whether this was a tactic or part of his task to become more trusted or respected within the scene," she said today. "In a general sense, there is the feeling that if somebody was being paid to have sex with me, that gives me a sense of having been violated."

Following questions in parliament over the Kennedy case, a member of the Met's watchdog called tonight for a review into the conduct and handling of the officer known to activists "Mark Stone", who spent seven years living among individuals campaigning against climate change.

"There should be guidance so officers remain focused on what they are doing," said Cindy Butts, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority.

"I don't think 'by any means necessary' should be the modus operandi [for undercover officers] at all. There should be a review. I expect questions on all aspects of this case, including these [sexual] allegations."

The woman who said she had had a sexual relationship with Kennedy now lives abroad and wants to be known only by her first name, Anna. She said she had sex more than 20 times with the undercover officer about five years ago, including at his house in Nottingham, when she was aged just 21. They met at protests around Europe, and it seemed clear to her that Kennedy was "seeing other women" around the same time. "I'm not sure personally if I would be willing to take part in an inquiry that touched on our sexual relationship," she said. "If the Met knew that this was going on, then obviously they should reveal this. There should be an inquiry into whether this is legal."

Kennedy, who joined the police in about 1994, is known to have had a wife and children before going undercover. There have also been unconfirmed reports that Kennedy had a long-term relationship with a woman in Nottingham while posing as an activist.

Questions over the ethics of the Kennedy operation have already been raised in Germany, where the MP Andrej Hunko has tabled questions asking whether authorities authorised the undercover officer to have "sexual relationships" in the country.

A Guardian investigation revealed on Monday that Kennedy had used a fake passport to travel to 22 different countries while posing as a campaigner, earning the trust of activists and feeding back intelligence to his commanders.

Confronted in October about his real identity by friends, Kennedy confessed, and has since expressed remorse. He had quit the Met several months earlier. "I hate myself so much I betrayed so many people," he recently told an activist friend. "I don't want this ever to happen to anyone ever again. What's happened is really wrong."

In an apparent attempt to seek redemption, Kennedy offered to assist six campaigners who had been due to face trial this week for conspiring to invade a power station near Nottingham. The trial collapsed on Monday after allegations emerged of Kennedy having acted as an agent provocateur ahead of the demonstration.

No police force or oversight body has yet commented on Kennedy's case, and it is not known whether the Met or the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, a monitoring agency he had been seconded to, condoned or even knew about his sexual activity.

However, two of Britain's most senior police officers told parliament today that conduct of undercover police officers was supervised and subject to oversight. Responding to questions from the home affairs select committee, Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said: "It is something that is very tightly controlled and it does play an enormous contribution in some very, very difficult investigations."

He added that Kennedy's case, in which the officer appeared to have "swapped sides", was unusual. "Because it is so well managed and tightly controlled and there is a lot of concern about the welfare of these officers this sort of thing we have had over the last couple of days is extremely, extremely rare."

Chris Sims, chief constable of West Midlands Police, said it was too early to comment on the details of the case, but added that in general it was crucial to ensure that the "line is not crossed between infiltration to gather intelligence and the agent provocateur role which is absolutely not part of the system".

Kennedy is living abroad. His unmasking has prompted consternation among protesters, especially since Kennedy told activists friends he was "not the only one by a long shot".

Activists are known to now be suspicious about two individuals a man and a woman who suspiciously disappeared from their movement over the last decade.

Today Melissa Jacob, an activist giving a statement on behalf of climate campaigners, said: "This case gets more murky every day. Did PC Kennedy have sexual relations with Anna to obtain information for the British state? If so, then this looks like state-sponsored sex abuse.

"The Met really cannot stay silent on the role of undercover officers in policing protest. How many more PC Kennedys are there in our movement?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...lationship

[Jan Klimkowski]

The tiny, visible, acknowledged, tip of a huge iceberg.

There are photos at the url:

Spying: undercover operatives' tales revealed
Four people in the frame for spying on activist groups and one who resisted recruitment

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 January 2011 22.12 GMT Article history

Officer A, 1993-1997
For four years, Officer A lived a secret life among anti-racist activists as they fought brutal battles with the police and the BNP. Officer A worked among anti-racist groups in the UK, claiming to have taken part in violence against members of the public and police officers. During his time undercover he said he had sexual relationships with at least two of his female targets as a way of obtaining information. "My role was to provide intelligence about protests and demonstrations, particularly those that had the potential to become violent," he told the Observer last year. His deployment, which lasted four years, ended amid fears that his role within groups protesting about deaths in police custody and bungled investigations into racist murders would be revealed during the public inquiry by Sir William Macpherson into the death of south London teenager Stephen Lawrence.

Martin Hogbin, 1997-2000
Martin Hogbin was national co-ordinator for the Campaign Against Arms Trade. Photograph: Mark Thomas for the Guardian Hogbin was national co-ordinator for the Campaign Against Arms Trade. He joined CAAT as a volunteer in 1997 and in 2000 joined the staff as national campaign and events co-ordinator. He was later accused of supplying information to a company linked to BAE's security department, but denied the allegation. Asked about his past by the Guardian in 2009, Hogbin said: "I couldn't possibly comment." He added that he had attended demonstrations because he thought the arms trade was "wrong".

Chris Penhaligon

Penhaligon (not pictured, not his real name) worked at Greenpeace from 2003-2008, reporting to Special Branch. In his book, One Blood, he reveals how he infiltrated the campaign group and took a leading role in its action unit for almost five years. The ex-paratrooper and police protection officer says he joined Greenpeace's surveillance operations, spending days in hiding outside power stations. He also said he drove a lorry which dumped coal outside Defra in central London. He also took part in his last assignment, attending an international meeting of Greenpeace activists in Turkey, returning with almost 500 photographs of key figures.

Toby Kendall (Ken Tobias), 2008
Toby Kendall was exposed as a corporate spy who volunteered for the environmental group Plane Stupid. The former Oxford student used the name Ken Tobias when he volunteered to help environmental group Plane Stupid. But in April 2008 he was exposed as a corporate spy who worked as "an analyst" for C2-i International, the UK's premier "special risk management" and investigation company. He was also accused of acting as an agent provocateur and of planting stories to discredit activists. Suspicions were aroused because he always turned up first to meetings, always pushed for direct action and was too well dressed. Activists discovered his real name and found a Bebo page with a photo revealing Kendall was 24 and the revelation that he liked war and revenge movies. There was also a link to a corporate networking site, where "Ken" claimed to be an analyst at C2i International, working in "security and investigations". C2i said Kendall worked on his own and infiltration of Plane Stupid was not sanctioned.

Matilda Gifford, 2009
Matilda Gifford, an activist with environmental protest group Plane Stupid. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA Environmental campaigner Matilda Gifford, 24, secretly recorded a three-hour meeting with detectives in which they tried to recruit her as a paid spy. During two meetings, the officers indicated that she could receive tens of thousands of pounds for information about Plane Stupid. They also told her that police had infiltrated a number of environmental groups and were running hundreds of informants.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...r-officers

[Jan Klimkowski]

So, an emergency meeting of ACPO and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) to discuss protecting numerous agent provocateurs working for NPOIU took place today, and was then leaked.

Hmmmmm :horn:

Revealed: Second undercover police officer who posed as activist

Spy spent four years living in Leeds and played a central role in planning a demonstration to shut down the Drax power station

Paul Lewis, Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 January 2011 21.30 GMT

The controversy over a police surveillance network embedded in the environmental protest movement deepened dramatically tonight after the Guardian identified a second undercover officer who spent years living a double life as an activist.

The woman's name has been known to a group of six activists since Mark Kennedy the police infiltrator identified by the Guardian on Monday as having spent seven years inside the movement claimed she was also a police officer when confronted by them about his own identity last October.

Senior police chiefs said tonight that they were concerned for the safety of the second spy, and a major operation involving several UK forces is now under way to identify other operatives whose safety may have been compromised by Kennedy.

The second spy spent four years living as an environmental activist in Leeds, gaining the trust of dozens of activists and playing a central role in planning a demonstration to shut down Drax power station in North Yorkshire.

Her deployment ended in 2008, when she told activist friends she was leaving town for personal reasons. The Guardian has established the identity of the officer, who is from a force in the south-east of England, but has decided, after representations from senior police officers, to refer to her only as Officer A, and to use pixellated pictures of her.

Meanwhile politicians across Europe demanded information about the activities of Kennedy, the first undercover operative identified, who was on Tuesday accused of having had several sexual relationships with activists while undercover relationships denounced as "unacceptable" by senior police sources today.

His UK-based handlers have flown to the US in an attempt to find an agent now accepted to have "gone rogue".

Aside from questions over his conduct while undercover, Kennedy, a Metropolitan police officer, committed a serious breach of protocol when he told friends from the protest movement that Officer A was his colleague. A police chief with detailed knowledge of the deployments of undercover officers in the protest movement said Kennedy's breach of protocol could lead to the "relocation of a considerable number of people".

That included undercover officers currently involved in ongoing police investigations across the UK and their families. "This is serious stuff," the police chief said. "Lots of people are at risk their lives are at risk."

Kennedy, who has expressed remorse over an operation he told friends was "wrong", now appears to have been a key player in a pan-European network of leftwing and environmental groups.

Using a fake passport, he travelled to more than 22 countries from his base in Nottingham. A parliamentarian in Germany said today Kennedy had been "operating on the border of illegality" in the country, and demanded disclosure about the operation. Kennedy's activities in Iceland, Ireland and Italy are also coming under scrutiny.

Documents obtained by the Guardian also suggest that, after quitting the Met last March, Kennedy attempted to continue to use his adopted identity to infiltrate protest groups. In an indication he planned to turn his hand to corporate espionage, Kennedy, who is said to have had money problems, set up two companies. One is connected to an individual who previously worked at Global Open, a private security firm set up by a former special branch detective. The company specialises in keeping a "discreet watch" on protest groups.

Today, police chiefs discussed the unfolding crisis at a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), which has limited company status and to which Kennedy and Officer A were seconded.

It is now believed several undercover police officers have been living long-term in the environmental movement, feeding intelligence back to the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), an Acpo body that runs a nationwide intelligence database of political activists. After concerns were raised about the accountability of NPOIU, police chiefs came up with a plan to move the unit to Scotland Yard. Subject to agreement, the unit will be taken over by Met officers next month.

However, a major review will now be under way into the oversight of officers such as Kennedy. Explaining why he and Officer A had spent so long undercover, the police chief said: "It is simply because of the environment. If you are a deeply ideologically motivated person … then getting close to you to understand your thought processes and some idea of what you're doing takes a lot longer."

He added that Kennedy's numerous sexual relations with women would not have been officially sanctioned. "That is conduct that is not acceptable," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/12...ce-officer

[Jan Klimkowski]

Many convictions may now be overthrown.

The ACPO/Special Branch/SIS use of agents provocateur who, most likely, incited and provided material support to numerous protest actions, is now out in the open.

The exposure of this false flag modus operandi is a blow to the deep state.

Activists challenge convictions in wake of police spy revelations

Lawyers claim possible miscarriage of justice amid police inquiry into whether officer acted as agent provocateur

Paul Lewis, Afua Hirsch and Rob Evans guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011 20.39 GMT

Twenty environmental activists are seeking to overturn recent criminal convictions in the wake of the Guardian's revelations about a network of undercover police officers embedded deep in the movement.

Lawyers for the group claim that a failure to disclose the role of covert police operative Mark Kennedy during their trial may have led to a miscarriage of justice and have written to the Crown Prosecution Service demanding details of his role.

Six other activists walked free from court earlier this week after their lawyer, Mike Schwarz, demanded details of the part played by Kennedy in planning the environmental protest they took part in at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, near Nottingham, in 2009.

However, last month, in a separate trial, the 20 green campaigners were convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass during the same protest, after failing to convince a jury that their actions were designed to prevent immediate harm to human life and property from climate change.

"The police allowed this trial, unlike the later one, to run all the way to conviction," said Schwarz, whose firm, Bindmans, represents both groups of protesters. "In the light of events last week, this must be seen as a potential miscarriage of justice."

Revelations of PC Kennedy's activities by the Guardian this week have triggered a crisis in undercover policing. He is alleged to have played a central role in organising a proposal to break into the power station.

Kennedy used the fake identity "Mark Stone" to live for seven years in the protest movement, infiltrating activist groups in 22 countries. He had sexual relationships with a number of women. He also revealed the identity of another undercover officer to fellow activists, leading to a security operation this week as police tried to ensure all their undercover officers were safe.

An investigation into the collapse of the trial of the six activists is expected to be launched shortly by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The body is also considering widening its inquiry to take into account whether or not Kennedy acted as an agent provocateur during his years undercover. A further review into the wider undercover operation and those organising it may also follow.

The case of Kennedy and the other undercover officer a woman the Guardian is calling Officer A after representations from senior police officers has thrown a spotlight on the role of secretive police intelligence units, overseen by the Association of Chief Police Officers, to which Kennedy and Officer A were seconded.

Today the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, said the handling of undercover officers appeared to be alarming and opaque. "There should be published guidelines," he said. "It is particularly important that the public understands what the principles and what the rules are. The fact this operation is so opaque, nobody knows how it was run, what the objectives were, why it ran for so long. I think that's quite alarming."

The defence used by the 20 convicted activists known as "necessity" is similar to one that has been used successfully in the past by environmental protesters. In 2008, six Greenpeace activists were acquitted of causing criminal damage after scaling a chimney at Kingsnorth power station after convincing jurors that they sought to protect property around the world threatened by climate change.

But the defence relies on convincing a jury that defendants genuinely believed they were acting through "necessity" to prevent death and serious injury caused by carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. During last month's trial of the six Ratcliffe-on-Soar defendants, the prosecution argued that they were not really intending to stop carbon emissions, but instead engaged in a publicity stunt.

But the activists' lawyers now believe that Kennedy, who they say was central to the protest from the moment the idea was hatched, would have been in a prime position to reject that claim.

Kennedy has been described by activists involved in the Ratcliffe action as having been "in the thick of it". His name appeared on receipts for the hire of a 7.5-tonne truck to transport equipment for the protest. He used his fake passport and driving license for the transaction, which cost a £778.

In a letter to the CPS seen by the Guardian, the lawyers have asked for disclosure of material relating to Kennedy "any other undercover officers or informers" that could have undermined the prosecution's case.

"The crown's case to the jury was that the defendants were lying when they told the jury in evidence that the action was about preventing carbon dioxide emissions," the letter said.

"The defendants believe that the undercover officer Mark Stone/PC Kennedy and any other officer involved in the planning and implementation of the proposed action would have been in a position to rebut these assertions. Mark Stone/PC Kennedy was well connected to the organisation of the action and was involved in planning discussions from an early stage."

The letter added: "He was a vehicle driver and present at the school before the arrival of the majority of campaigners. He had a central role in the black conveyor belt team. He had many discussions with individuals about the proposed action. He observed what many of the defendants did, discussed and sought to achieve."

It goes on to request disclosure of "any material, statements, briefing notes, contact logs or similar documents generated" generated by Kennedy or other spies.

Police have claimed that the plan to break into the power station would have endangered lives and was a serious criminal act. However, handing down sentences to 18 activists ranging from 18 months' conditional discharge to 90 hours' unpaid work, Judge Jonathan Teare gave a different view. He described them as individuals with "the highest possible motives".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...undercover

[Jan Klimkowski]

Another long-term ACPO/Special Branch/police agent provocateur - this time spending four years with "a Cardiff anarchist group".

Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of network emerges

44-year-old infiltrated Cardiff anarchist group
Former girlfriend tells of 'colossal, colossal betrayal'


Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor and Rajeev Syal The Guardian, Saturday 15 January 2011

The unprecedented scale of undercover operations used by police to monitor Britain's political protest movements was laid bare last night after a third police spy was identified by the Guardian.

News of the existence of the 44-year-old male officer comes as regulators prepare two separate official inquiries into the activities of this hitherto secret police surveillance network.

The latest officer, whose identity has been withheld amid fears for his safety in other criminal operations, worked for four years undercover with an anarchist group in Cardiff.

Last night a former girlfriend and fellow activist said she felt "colossally betrayed" by "Officer B". The 29-year-old, who had a relationship with him for three months in the summer of 2008 while he was working undercover, said: "I was doing nothing wrong, I was not breaking the law at all. So for him to come along and lie to us and get that deep into our lives was a colossal, colossal betrayal."

The woman, who did not want to be named, said "Officer B" arrived in Cardiff in 2005, becoming a key member of the 20-strong Anarchist network in the city and "one of her best friends". They had known each for three years before their relationship and she said she did not suspect his true identity until after he left Cardiff in October 2009, claiming he had been offered a job as a gardener on Corfu.

According to the woman Officer B's flat was very empty, with no pictures of friends or family and he rarely talked about his past. "He always said he could not tell his family or friends about us because of the age difference ... if it had been anyone else I would have thought that was strange, but because [he] had been such a good friend for so long it really did not enter my mind that he was anything but a stand-up honest man."

Before he left for Corfu he held a goodbye dinner. His former girlfriend said she kept in touch with him for about a month via email, text message and the occasional postcard. Then the contact dried up.

"At first friends started messaging him asking if he was all right, then when there was no response, a few messaged him to say they were worried he was a spy, but we never heard anything."

The woman said that the experience had rocked her confidence and made her suspicious of other campaigners.

"I am incredibly, incredibly angry," she said. "Obviously to do that to anybody is pretty low, but to do that to someone who trusted you and cared about you and did their best to look after you is just unspeakable. I cannot imagine the kind of person who would lie to someone they were having a relationship with for that long and that seriously ... I strongly suspect that he felt very bad about what he was doing, but that is not an excuse."

The latest developments came as the Independent Police Complaints Commission announced it was widening its inquiry to include the controversy surrounding PC Mark Kennedy, who was the first officer unmasked by the Guardian and who also had sexual relations while undercover.

It is understood a second inquiry is to be launched by Her Majesty's Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary on Monday into whether the undercover surveillance was disproportionate.

Last night it was reported that the trial of six campaigners accused of trying to shutdown a power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar collapsed because police had withheld secret recordings featuring Kennedy and the activists.

The Times said the Crown Prosecution Service abandoned the trial when it was informed that Nottinghamshire police had suppressed tapes that "fatally undermined the case against the protesters".

More details on the scale of Kennedy's key role in protest movements across Europe emerged yesterday, with allegations that he acted as an agent provocateur in Ireland, Germany and Iceland. It was also revealed that the second undercover agent "Officer A" was arrested for glueing herself to the Department for Transport during a protest against Heathrow's expansion in February 2008.

In a twist that will further unnerve senior police officers, it emerged that Kennedy has asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/14...py-cardiff

[David Guyatt]

Welsh activists sensed the 44-year old plod was the Bill before he was uncovered by the Guardian yesterday.

Said 29 year old former Green girlfriend: "every time he met someone new, he would say hello three times".

[Jan Klimkowski]

So, Kennedy/Stone was "in the vanguard of militant anti-capitalist protesters who attacked Irish police officers".

There are, no dobut, similar agent provocateurs amongst the student protestors.

Perhaps some of them attacked Charles and Camilla, when their security guards deliberately led them directly into London streets packed with protestors, thus enabling MSM to attempt to discredit the entire notion of popular street protest.

Mark Kennedy 'took part in attack on Irish police officers at EU summit

'Undercover police officer was involved in violent protest and helped train other demonstrators, anarchists claim

Henry McDonald in Dublin guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 January 2011 16.51 GMT

The undercover policeman Mark Kennedy was in the vanguard of militant anti-capitalist protesters who attacked Irish police officers at an EU summit in Dublin marking the accession of eastern European states to the union, Irish anarchists have told the Guardian.

Protesters who took part in actions with him allege that his involvement went further than just observing. They allege that he also made visits to Dublin to help train protesters and encouraged other activists to attack the police. This raises further questions about his role as an undercover officer and backs up suggestions he acted as an agent provocateur.

The latest revelations have prompted one leftwing member of the Irish parliament to brand the UK police's secret operation akin to the illegal activities of British state agents operating on the island during the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Michael D Higgins of the Irish Labour party is demanding that the Irish government seek an explanation from Britain as to why one of its undercover policemen was operating in the republic.

"This kind of activity is totally unacceptable … There are many of us who are familiar with the destructive consequences, in terms of democracy, that have flowed from this kind of activity from the 1970s on in relation to Northern Ireland," the veteran Labour TD said.

Anti-capitalist activists operated with Kennedy, while they believed him to be a fellow protester called Mark Stone, during violent clashes between a small band of demonstrators and the Garda Siochána's riot squad on May Day 2004.

At the time the area around Dublin's Phoenix Park the largest park in any European city was sealed off by a huge security cordon as police sought to protect the heads of EU states who were in Dublin for the ceremony at the Irish president's residence.

One Northern Ireland-born anarchist, who asked not to be identified, said Kennedy had stayed with him in Dublin in the days before the demonstration.

Although the vast bulk of the demonstrators were peaceful, about 500 attacked the gardaí. The focal point for the violence was the gates leading to the Phoenix Park on the Navan road. At one stage the garda deployed water cannon to drive back a spearhead of masked demonstrators.

One of those taking part in the protest recalls being astonished by Kennedy's action on the day. "I saw him taking off his balaclava as he was coming out of the crowd. I was amazed that someone would stand close to police lines and take his mask off."

Before the protest it was clear the police had intelligence on the activities of some anti-capitalist activists who had travelled across the Irish Sea from Britain, suggesting that they had an informant in the protest movement. A unit from the garda's Pearse Street station smashed its way into a flat on Leeson Street in Dublin occupied by English anarchists and arrested several people.

The Irish anarchist who played host to Kennedy said that in the build-up to May Day 2004 the Englishman was in a militant mood. "Some people arrested from the UK were kept here for two months but he did not get nicked for that. He was one of the people who were encouraging a confrontation with the garda up at the Parkgate," the activist said.

He said Kennedy made at least two other visits to Ireland over the next two years. These included acting as a trainer on a programme for anarchist activists later in 2004 on civil disobedience. Two years later he joined the mass demonstration against the visit of George Bush to Ireland.

"I found him very personable, very affable. I never suspected him. Growing up in the north of Ireland you know there are people out there who are informers but I never had any strong doubts about him," said the anarchist.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...it-protest

[Keith Millea]

If you are an activist,and belong to any organized group,and you don't realize that all groups are infiltrated,well then maybe get a better grip on reality.That being said,it must be an awful feeling for these women who trusted and had intimate relations with these agents.I hope they can get some justice..........

[Jan Klimkowski]

If you are an activist,and belong to any organized group,and you don't realize that all groups are infiltrated,well then maybe get a better grip on reality.That being said,it must be an awful feeling for these women who trusted and had intimate relations with these agents.I hope they can get some justice..........

Keith - I agree.

But you are a veteran.

And each generation learns through its own experience.

What better practical and political education than the revelation that the person encouraging your protest to move from peace to violence is an undercover cop?

Or that the person who shared your bed last night, and whispered words of love, is an employee of the deep state and agent provocateur?