Peter Riley<p>S P Y C O P S <br>The Graphic Novel<br>An introduction & historical context<br>By Glenn Hustler <br>Publisher Ko-Fi <br><a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/e8649c46b3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ko-fi.com/s/e8649c46b3</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Review<br><a href="https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/03/06/spycops-burn-after-reading/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/06/spycops-burn-after-reading/</span></a></p><p>Undercover Policing Inquiry <br><a href="https://www.ucpi.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ucpi.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Police Spies Out Of Lives <br><a href="https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Campaign opposing Police Surveillance<br><a href="https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">campaignopposingpolicesurveill</span><span class="invisible">ance.com/</span></a></p><p>Undercover Research <br><a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php/UndercoverResearch_Portal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">powerbase.info/index.php/Under</span><span class="invisible">coverResearch_Portal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BooksOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BooksOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spycops</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graphicnovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphicnovels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlennHustler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlennHustler</span></a></p>
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COPS campaign<p>More than 100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry has delayed its next hearings by 7 months, but is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines</p><p><a href="https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/03/10/treat-us-fairly-demand-spycops-inquiry-participants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">campaignopposingpolicesurveill</span><span class="invisible">ance.com/2025/03/10/treat-us-fairly-demand-spycops-inquiry-participants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ucpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ucpi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicinquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicinquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policecorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policecorruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infiltration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infiltration</span></a></p>
CND UK<p>...These <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> systematically targeted women activists—not just to infiltrate groups, but also as cover for their surveillance of over 1,000 organisations, including the anti-nuclear movement. </p><p>CND gave evidence to the inquiry last year. Read more:<br><a href="https://cnduk.org/cnd-spycops-and-the-secret-state/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cnduk.org/cnd-spycops-and-the-</span><span class="invisible">secret-state/</span></a></p>
Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯<p>new 3-part ITV documentary series 'The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed' premieres tomorrow Thursday 6 March at 9pm</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/itv-documentary-undercover-police-scandal-newsupdate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">radiotimes.com/tv/documentarie</span><span class="invisible">s/itv-documentary-undercover-police-scandal-newsupdate/</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>Is the public about to catch on to the spycops scandal? Alison from Police Spies Out of Lives - which represents women deceived into relationships by undercover police officers - is interviewed in this new podcast from Standard Issue.</p><p><a href="https://podfollow.com/standard-issue-podcast/view" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">podfollow.com/standard-issue-p</span><span class="invisible">odcast/view</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truecrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truecrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policecorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policecorruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>
Jurre || DrWhax<p>Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
Jennifer Moore 😷<p>"At least 25 undercover police officers who infiltrated political groups formed sexual relationships with members of the public without disclosing their true identity to them ... nearly a fifth of all the police spies who were sent to infiltrate political movements.</p><p>"Four of the police spies fathered, or are alleged to have fathered, children with women they met while using their fake identities"</p><p>Thinking of those kids & their mums.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SpyCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpyCops</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>Here's a rundown of the 25 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> known to have deceived people they spied on into sexual relationships since the Special Demonstration Squad was founded in 1968.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/undercover-cops-deceived-people-sexual-relations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/02/undercover-cops-deceived-people-sexual-relations</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>Three great spycops articles from the Guardian today:</p><p>At least 25 spycops deceived women they spied on into sexual relationships, 4 of them having kids. The true figure is likely much higher - the public inquiry has granted most of them anonymity, we only have full details on the ones we unmasked ourselves.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infiltration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infiltration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexualabuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexualabuse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policecorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policecorruption</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: <a href="https://archive.ph/fRIw2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/fRIw2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newdocumentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newdocumentary</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>5 women deceived into relationships by spycops have joined forces to tell their stories. </p><p>On 6 March - Thursday next week - ITV premieres the 3-part series, The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed. </p><p>In the build-up, here's a feature in yesterday's Daily Mirror:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newdocumentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newdocumentary</span></a></p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>Unfortunately the live feed drops out immediately after this so we don’t get to find out any more….</p><p>The broadcast has been suspended and as usual we are not told why.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>Angela Nicolaou points out how the Met Police opening statement this time made a number of important admissions which were responded to be NPNSCPs, this may be the case again. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>He says that Lambert was ‘probably acting in good faith’ at all times.</p><p>Going on to add that he’d be ‘greatly disappointed’ if it’s proven that Lambert did the things that have been alleged.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>Still loyal to his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> all these years later, he goes on to say:<br>‘There is a point where you have to believe in their judgement’.</p><p>It seems that he put a lot of faith in his officers, and relied on what Lambert and the others told him.</p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>In his statement MacLeod has said that according to Geoff Sheppard, Bob Lambert’s actions amounted to acting as an agent provocateur. </p><p>MacLeod is still unwilling to take Sheppard’s word for it, but now admits that Lambert ‘put himself at peril’.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
#SpyCopsBot (free the tweets!)<p>‘This was a different ball game altogether’<br>He repeats what he said about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> making great sacrifices.</p><p>Asked about the undercovers who deceived women into relationships, hesays that this constituted ‘unacceptable behaviour’, potentially ‘disreputable’.</p>
quangobaud<p>Q: What's Word and Press and Lying all over? <br>A: It's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> ! </p><p>(nb: Wordpress isn't the only service that throttles my internet reach.) <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a></p>
pasttense<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in London <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> history, 1975: Builders working on the Communist Party HQ in King Street find a bugging device hidden in a wall they’re taking down.</p>
If you thought the drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office exposed one of the state’s biggest secrets, wait til you see new ITV series "The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed"
Made with women from #PoliceSpiesOutOfLives and based on the book #DeepDeception
"this powerful documentary highlights how we fought back against dehumanising #spycops intrusion and abuse, which was sanctioned by the state for decades to undermine progressive campaigns for change.
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