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> That's the Mark Jenner who also spent years having a relationship with the environmental activists he was spying on. It reminds me of a story about, after th
by baud147258 9y ago
> That's the Mark Jenner who also spent years having a relationship with the environmental activists he was spying on.
It reminds me of a story about, after the 2015 terrorist attacks in France, a police group was created to infiltrate and spy on racists and anti-muslims hate groups. In one occasion, all the members were the cops...
- 77pt77 9y ago>In one occasion, all the members were the cops... Were those cops also undercover agents or genuine members?
- toyg 9y agoWell, after it was discovered, of course they would all have been undercover... even if they weren’t before, so to speak.
- baud147258 9y agoI wasn't clear, all the cops were part of the same police group, working undercover to foil any racist/anti-muslim attack.
- Joeboy 9y agoOn a similar note, the UK's longest ever trial[1] was a libel case about a leaflet that was discovered, 16 years later, to have been co-written by an undercover cop. One of the defendents unwittingly had a two year relationship with another undercover cop. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
- pjc50 9y agoI missed that detail when it came out! The whole thing was an extraordinary business.