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Spies on video- Martin Hogbin and Paul Mercer

Undercurrents | 20.02.2011 11:00 | Sheffield | World

Going through our video archive, undercurrents have found images of the following spies who have infiltrated protest groups

Paul Mercer
Paul Mercer

Martin Hogbin
Martin Hogbin


Going through our video archive, undercurrents have found images of the following spies who have infiltrated protest groups

1.Paul Mercer- a spy for BAe who has infiltrated many protest groups.Mercer was publicly exposed for his role in spying on anti-arms trade campaigners, Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) in 2007. His contract for the operation was finalised through Global Open. We have images of him on M11 link road protests in 1995, surrounded by police looking like he is arguing with them. He has a stills camera with zoom lens around his neck.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-eVP_h1Y4

2.Martin Hogbin- a spy for Bae who worked undercover in CAAT. Images of Hogbin driving a van for Mark Thomas who dumped manure on doorstep of Labour HQ.Also images of Hogbin dumping fake blood on steps of the AMG of BAe with activist Chris Cole. Images of both holding a CAAT banner and both being arrested.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqx94zHd0rI
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkC5UPQ-OVw

3.The car which undercover cop PC Boyling/Sutton drove to block the streets for the carnival against capitalism in 1999. Video images of 5 police pushing it away after the undercover cop 'accidentally' left the window open. This story was reported in the Guardian.

PC Mark Kennedy was at the Big Green Gathering in 2006. If you filmed there please contact us on  info@undercurrents.org
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The Car wich PC Boyling/Sutton dumped in carnval against capitalism

20.02.2011 11:16

Car which PC Boyling was in (still from undercurrent svideo)
Car which PC Boyling was in (still from undercurrent svideo)

We think this is the car which undercover cop PC Boyling/Sutton drove to block the streets for the carnival against capitalism in 1999. Video images of 5 police pushing it away after the undercover cop 'accidentally' left the window open. This story was reported in the Guardian.

Reclaim the Streets was a colourful collective opposed to cars. During its protests, members would block roads and start impromptu street parties. One notorious technique involved either crashing or parking "sacrificial cars" in the middle of traffic, sealing off the road. For police, they clearly constituted a potentially dangerous group of anarchists whose demonstrations had a record of descending into disorder.

Boyling's operation would prove to be so successful that he played a central organising role behind the so-called Carnival Against Capitalism in 1999, one of the major anti-capitalist demonstrations of the past two decades. Those involved in organising the protest recall that he was "navigator" in a car that had been intended to block Upper Thames Street, in central London, kickstarting a day in which thousands of activists would clash with police.

The woman who was driving the car – purchased for £200 – recalls how Boyling made what at the time appeared to be a stupid error. He left the window open, enabling police to open the door, take off the handbrake, and push the car away.

Confronted over his error, Boyling was said to have replied: "Oh, I forgot." The protest went ahead anyway, but it was a setback for the activists.

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  1. To Undercurrents... — Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s
  2. Post them here? — watcher
  3. Carnival Against Capitalism is what it has been generally dubbed — Undercurrents
  4. To the Anarchist from RTS — Undercurrents
  5. To Undercurrents... — Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s
  6. Arrested — Jo
  7. to Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s — experienced activist
  8. Be warned!!! — Sceptic
  9. To 'experienced'... — Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s
  10. To the Anarchist from RTS — Undercurrents
  11. Undercurrents used as pretext — AF
  12. Undercurrent archives — Worried former activist
  13. Absolutely true — Tim
  14. Undercurrents reply... — Undercurrents
  15. Spreading half truths.. — Undercurrents reply to Tim
  16. Undercurrents archive go online – scary! — Another ex-RTS activist
  17. Carnival Against Capital — Anonymous
  18. ‘Could have phoned Undercurrents’ - bollocks — Tim
  19. Proof that we cannot trust Undercurrents — Another ex-RTSer
  20. Sequence of events — CH
  21. Reply to - Undercurrents archive go online – scary! — Undercurrents
  22. A little shocked — Phil King
  23. Late admission — Anon
  24. Undercurrents has perhaps outlived its usefulness — Jo
  25. Plainclothes cop? — Agi
  26. Are you joking? — transmitter
  27. A little too far 'transmitter', perhaps — Anon
  28. Think about it, Undercurrents — Another Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s:
  29. please stop slagging off undercurrents — neil goodwin
  30. Hilarious Neil, hilarious... — Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s
  31. i'd never call myself an anarchist from rts in the 1990's, it just sounds so... — keep it fluffy!
  32. Undercurrents redundant? — Another anon.
  33. Whats good for the goose is good for the propergander — Yet Another Anon
  34. Two reasons good reasons NOT to trust Undercurrents — Old hand
  35. A good reason not to trust 'Old Hand' — nom de plume
  36. Wow, that's some scumbags... — Anarchist from RTS in the 1990s
  37. Other direction — PT
  38. Theres only one George Marshall — George Marshall
  39. It's gets worse!!! — Shocked
  40. It is shocking — Indignant of Indymedia
  41. Jimmy Goldsmith connection — RM
  42. Well documented? — Judge, Jury, Hangman and Reporter
  43. Proof of funding from Sir James Goldsmith — RM
  44. But did Goldsmith also fund Undercurrents? — Passive observer
  45. Not that passive — Judge, Jury, Hangman and Reporter
  46. Laughable comments — Undercurrents
  47. recording history — experienced @