were always at the forefront in meetings, protests, actions, and had earned the trust British activists of the environmental movement, to the inner circle. So much to live with it, go to bed and in one case even marry and have kids. In their behavior there was nothing wrong with that. Apart from the fact that eating meat is painstakingly cleaned the shoes. But to push Mark Kennedy, Jim Boyling, Lynn Watson and Mark Jacobs to join the movement was not the outrage the devastation of the planet or the desire to create a world "more just and sustainable." Were working as undercover agents to combat "domestic extremism."
A survey by the Guardian in recent weeks has revealed that from 1995 to 2009 at least four agents, under the command of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (Npoiu), managed to infiltrate deep into the British environmental movement. Tightening relationships and sexual relationships with activists to gather information and enhance their coverage. According to Kennedy, the first agent to be exposed, said he was sorry and that he publicly criticized the work of the police, would not be alone: \u200b\u200bthe infiltrators would be more than 15 in a movement that has a few hundred people. To confirm that the widespread fears among many people involved in the movements are not only "activist paranoia."
With her blond hair long and unkempt, two gaudy earrings, tattoos, beard and smile Gascon Mark Kennedy was considered one of the family among the activists of the Climate Camp movement started in 2006 to stop the "climate criminals" targeting coal plants, airports and banks. He had entered the scene in 2003 appearing as the environmental group Earth First "Mark Stone" a climber who had decided to do something "productive" with his life. Always ready to climb trees, fences or stacks was perfectly placed in the movement. Enough to go to bed with dozens of activists.
Kennedy, who also participated in international protests and anarchist groups visited in Italy, Germany and Spain, was exposed when some suspicious activity put him on the ropes. Among the clues that the police had surprisingly dropped charges against a dozen activists who had participated in action against the coal plant in Ratcliffe-on-Soar in 2009. Among them was Kennedy, who alone among all would not go to trial. After obtaining a confession from Kennedy campaigners have passed the information to the Guardian. And day after day have continued to filter new revelations highlight an Orwellian system of control of social movements.
The last staff member to have been unmasked by the liberal daily English is Jim Boyling. He joined in 1999 in Reclaim the Streets, a group famous for its street party to protest against the intrusion of cars, the infiltrator sent daily reports to police the behavior of people close to him. Among these graduates, which ended in 2005 with Jim even to get married and have two children after he had confessed to being an agent but had repented. Together with his name are two more emerged: Lynn Watson, who had infiltrated the anarchists of Leeds, and Mark Jacobs, who had entered as a mole in the movement against climate change Rising Tide.
For the English police, under pressure after revelations, this is "an operation gone wrong." Jon Smith, an officer of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), admitted that "the police have exceeded all limits." But with regard to sexual activity under observation to obtain information, merely say that "it is inevitable that this kind of things happen," suggesting that agents are exposed victims of Stockholm syndrome. Two official investigations have been opened on this story. And in the coming weeks several environmentalist groups in the galaxy could see some members disappear unexpectedly from those who first attended meetings regularly.
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