Revealed: Second undercover police officer who posed as enviro activist, played central role in planning demonstration

Paul Lewis, Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd
The Guardian
Jan. 14, 2011

The controversy over a police surveillance network embedded in the environmental protest movement has deepened dramatically after the Guardian identified a second undercover officer who spent years living a double life as an activist.

The woman's name has been known to a group of six activists since Mark Kennedy -- the police infiltrator identified by the Guardian on Monday as having spent seven years inside the movement -- claimed she was also a police officer when confronted by them about his own identity last October. [...]

The second spy spent four years living as an environmental activist in Leeds, gaining the trust of dozens of activists and playing a central role in planning a demonstration to shut down Drax power station in North Yorkshire. [...]

Meanwhile politicians across Europe demanded information about the activities of Kennedy, the first undercover operative identified, who was on Tuesday accused of having had several sexual relationships with activists while undercover. Senior police sources have described these relationships as "unacceptable".

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