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For those who do want to contact Century Films

Brian Hill | 12.04.2011 08:06 | Repression

The following email has been circulated privately, but in light of the on-going debate, perhaps there is a point to telling Century Films to back-off from doing a documentary based on Mark Kennedy's story. Sometimes it is not enough to ignore, sometimes a clear response is needed - but it does not always have to be dressed up as a well-written press release...

Mark Kennedy / Stone - contact film company

Mark Kennedy is one of the most notorious undercover policemen outed in any protest
movement in recent history. Going back seven years, he started with the
environmental movement and sought entry into both anti-fascist and animal rights
movements. This included going to various national and international AR gatherings,
seeking intelligence which he could sell on. Even when he was booted out of the
police he sought to work with Global Open, a private intelligence firm which has
been selling information on animal rights activists for a decade now - and was
founded by former head of ARNI, Rod Leeming. For Mark, his involvement with animal
rights was a cynical cover to continue his exploitation of friends and colleagues to
support his own lifestyle.

In the wake of his seven years undercover left a lot of damage and some very hurt
people, and it is they who deserve our sympathy.

Not content with having creamed the state for huge expense claims while
infiltrating, or with the six figure sum he got from selling his story to the Hate
Mail, he now wants to profit more by making a documentary film about his undercover
work. This will drag up more pain and upset, while no doubt painting everyone but
him in an appalling light.

Enough is enough.

Century Films Ltd have purchased the rights and have already started to contact
people. It is known that their top people such as the head of programmes and of
production are among those doing the contacting, so this is a serious project. As
well as wanting to discourage people from talking to them, we think that Century
Films and Mark Kennedy should not be profiting from infiltrating and abusing
movements. Please contact them politely and ask them to have nothing more to do with
Mark Kennedy and his cynical self-promotion.