Episode 21: Informers, Infiltrators & Grasses Part 3: Infiltrators

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent.

Here in part three Tom Fowler concludes his chat with Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group by looking at the professional civilian agents: "infiltrators".

Part 4 will be an interview with someone targeted by the police to become a grass and will be available in a day or so.

Profile of Adrian Radford: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Adrian_Radford

"Battling Big Business: Countering greenwash, front groups and other forms of corporate deception" Edited by Eveline Lubbers: https://www.evel.nl/pandora/bbb.htm

True Spies 2002 BBC TV documentary: https://vimeo.com/159535823

"Infiltrators, Informers and Grasses: how, why and what to do if your group is targeted" https://www.csrc.link/download/infiltrators-informers-and-grasses/infiltrators-informers-and-grasses.pdf

Podcast series about the secret undercover political police who infiltrated over 1,000 campaign groups in the UK. Stealing dead children's identities, deceiving women into long term sexual relationships, in some cases fathering children.

Tasked with undermining democratic participation in politics, these "spycops" were publicly unmasked by activists in 2010. This led to a police apology, significant disclosure and now a Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing since 1968.

Presented by some of the activists affected, joined by large rotating cast, this weekly series covers all aspects of the issue. With profiles of officers, reports from legal hearings, discussions with researchers, lawyers and other activists.

• No. of episodes: 39
• Latest episode: 2025-03-25
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