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Guardian Video: Undercover Police Officer: ‘How I spied on the Stephen Lawrence campaign’ Title of Programme: Undercover Police Officer: ‘How I spied on the Stephen Lawrence campaign’ Duration: 7 minutes Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/video/2013/jun/24/undercover-policestephen-lawrence-video Synopsis: In extracts from a joint Guardian and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation broadcast on Channel 4, police whistle blower Peter Francis reveals disturbing details about his undercover deployment Transcribed by: Jessi Gutch, 07512204384, jessicagutch@hotmail.co.uk Date finished: 04/01/14 KEY: PL: Paul Lewis PF: Peter Francis DL: Doreen Lawrence

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PF: They wanted any intelligence that could have smeared the campaign, yes, there is this general remit, so had I, through my circles, come up with something along the lines of they, the family, were political activists, someone in the family was involved in demonstrations, drug dealers, anything. What they would have done with the intelligence I can’t call it, but that is our remit, not just for them, that is always our remit when we’re out there PL: My colleague Rob Evans and I have been investigating undercover policing for two and a half years. It’s a story of two secret units and how they use sex, lies and smear tactics against political activists PL: The story began in 2011 when activists revealed how police officer Mark Kennedy had spent seven years spying on them. He had long-term sexual relationships with several women. Since then we’ve established the identities of more undercover police PL: Bob Lambert, undercover in the 1980s, fathered a child with the woman he was spying on. John Dynes; Mike Chitty; Mark Jenner Jim Boyling; Mark O’Jacobs and Lynn Watson; the only known woman police spy. All of them are accused of having sexual relationships with activists PL: But the story doesn’t end there. Earlier this year we revealed how undercover police have been adopting the identities of dead children. One source of that revelation was a whistle blower. He told us that he and fellow undercover police officers had used the identities to create false aliases. He worked for the Special


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