EnglishSergio Gigirey Amado infiltrated groups in Madrid, including the antifascist group Distrito 14, and the Movimiento Antirrepresivo de Madrid (Madrid Anti-Repression Movement). He first infiltrated a food bank before moving on to other groups. He attended meetings and participated in civil disobedience actions. On some occasions, he and another infiltrator, Carlos Pérez Moreno, participated in the same actions. He shared an apartment with some of his targets and was in a romantic and sexual relationship with one of his targets for several years.
He was identified partly because:
- Pictures of him under his cover identity matched pictures of him under his real identity. The latter included a video from his police graduation ceremony and a picture from a race for which he registered under his real name.
- An employer for whom he claimed to work denied employing him.
“Gary Rayner” infiltrated animal rights groups in Oxford. He also attended an event in Norway. He attended meetings and demonstrations, and helped organize events. During the first two years of his infiltration, he lived with a woman who was likely also a police officer.
He was identified because:
- After several infiltrators were identified in the United Kingdom starting in 2011, activists realized he fit the profile of an infiltrator.
- After he vanished, activists failed to find him in official documents, such as electoral registers.
“Marco Jacobs” infiltrated anarchist and anti-globalization groups in the United Kingdom, including in Brighton and Cardiff. He also attended a demonstration in Germany and a meeting in Poland. He was part of the undercover police unit National Public Order Intelligence Unit. He participated in meetings, demonstrations and actions. He had sexual relationships with one of his targets for a few weeks.
Rob Gilchrist infiltrated groups in New Zealand, including environmentalist, animal rights, and anti-war groups. He worked for the police. He attended hundreds of meetings, demonstrations and other events. On several occasions, he accused other activists of being infiltrators. He had romantic and sexual relationships with his targets, including one that lasted four years. He carried out the infiltration under his real name.
He was identified because:
- He asked his activist girlfriend to fix a problem with his computer.
- While trying to fix the computer, his girlfriend discovered that he had been sending suspicious emails containing information about activist groups.
“Lynn Watson” infiltrated environmentalist and anti-war groups in the United Kingdom, including a social center in Leeds. She was part of the undercover police unit National Public Order Intelligence Unit. She attended and helped organize demonstrations and other events. On one occasion, she introduced to other activists a man who she claimed was her boyfriend, and who was in fact likely another undercover police officer. Although she did not have sustained romantic or sexual relationships with her targets, she did have sex with one of her targets on at least one occasion.
She was identified because:
- She exhibited suspicious behavior, such as displaying a poster in her house that was more radical than her apparent beliefs, always keeping one room in her house locked, and preferring to sleep in hotels rather than in friends' spare rooms.
- Activists were unable to verify her claims that her family lived in Farnborough and that her first and second boyfriends were a locksmith from Northampton and a photographer from Coventry, respectively.
- After being identified himself, the infiltrator Mark Kennedy confirmed that she was an infiltrator.
- When confronted with evidence, the police confirmed to journalists that she was an infiltrator.
“Simon Wellings” infiltrated anti-globalization and anarchist groups in the United Kingdom, including Globalise Resistance and “Dissent!” He also attended demonstrations in France, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended meetings and participated in events and demonstrations.
He was identified in 2004 after he accidentally left a voicemail on another activist's phone in which he spoke with police officers. He was expelled from Globalise Resistance but the identification was not made public, and he continued to infiltrate other groups until 2007.
“Dave Jones” carried out two infiltrations. First, in 2001, as part of the undercover police unit National Public Order Intelligence Unit, he infiltrated an anarchist group in the United Kingdom. Then, from 2005 to 2007, as part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad and under the same cover identity, he infiltrated environmentalist groups and social centers in London. He attended meetings and demonstrations and participated in actions.
In 2018, an official inquiry into undercover police operations revealed that he had been an infiltrator.
Iris Plate infiltrated left-wing and queer groups in Hamburg, including the social center Rote Flora. She attended and helped organize political events and demonstrations, and participated in social events. She had an official ID card under her fake name. She had romantic relationships with her targets.
Carlo Soracchi infiltrated a Trotskyist political party and anti-fascist groups in the United Kingdom. He also attended an event in Italy. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended meetings and demonstrations. He had a passport under his fake name but no credit card. He had romantic and sexual relationships with two of his targets.
He was identified because:
- After several infiltrators were identified in the United Kingdom starting in 2011, activists realized he fit the profile of an infiltrator. In particular, no one had met his family, he tended to disappear for long periods of time, and he had completely vanished in 2006.
- Toward the end of his infiltration, he started a relationship with a woman who wasn't politically active. Activists discovered that a “Carlo Soracchi” had registered at the woman's address and found a document indicating that “Carlo Soracchi” was a police officer.
- During his infiltration, he showed an activist a photo album with pictures of his real family. Activists found these same pictures on social media associated with the name “Carlo Soracchi.”
“Ritchie Clark” infiltrated animal rights groups in the United Kingdom, including Bedford Animal Action. He also attended demonstrations in Germany and Norway. He attended meetings and demonstrations, participated in actions, and regularly held information booths about animal rights. On one occasion, he accused an activist of being a spy and demanded that they be evicted from a meeting.
He was identified because:
- After several infiltrators were identified in the United Kingdom starting in 2011, activists realized he fit the profile of an infiltrator. In particular, he completely vanished in 2006.
- Activists failed to find him in Norway, the country he claimed he was moving to before vanishing.
- In 2024, an official inquiry into undercover police operations confirmed that he was an infiltrator.
“Jason Bishop” infiltrated environmentalist and anarchist groups in London. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended meetings and helped organize demonstrations and actions. He shared an apartment with another infiltrator, “Dave Evans”.
“Jackie Anderson” infiltrated environmentalist and anarchist groups in the United Kingdom. She was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad.
In 2018, an official inquiry into undercover police operations revealed that she had been an infiltrator.
Martin Hogbin infiltrated the activist group Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). He worked for the security company Threat Response International on behalf of the arms manufacturer BAE Systems. He participated in demonstrations and helped organize events. He gathered information on activists that was then provided to BAE Systems. He carried out the infiltration under his real identity.
He was identified because:
- In 2003, journalists published an article claiming that CAAT had been infiltrated from 1995 to 1997.
- After the article was published, in an attempt to discover potential infiltrators, CAAT activists analyzed the emails sent from the group's office in 2002 and 2003. They found that Martin Hogbin had sent numerous emails containing sensitive internal information to a suspicious email address.
- When confronted with this fact, Martin Hogbin did not provide a plausible explanation for why he had sent the emails.
“Rod Richardson” infiltrated anarchist, anti-fascist, and animal rights groups in the United Kingdom. He also attended meetings and demonstrations in the Czech Republic, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. He was part of the undercover police unit National Public Order Intelligence Unit. He attended meetings and participated in actions. On a few occasions, he introduced to activists a woman he claimed was his partner, and who was in fact likely another police officer. He used the name and date of birth of a real baby who had died two days after birth, presumably to facilitate administrative processes related to his cover identity.
He was identified because:
- After several infiltrators were identified in the United Kingdom starting in 2011, activists realized he fit the profile of an infiltrator. In particular, he completely vanished in 2003.
- Activists found a birth certificate with his name and date of birth, as well as a death certificate with the same name dated two days later, indicating that he was using the identity of a deceased baby.
James Thomson infiltrated animal rights groups in the United Kingdom, including Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. He also attended a demonstration in the Netherlands. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended demonstrations and participated in actions. He was in a romantic and sexual relationship with one of his targets.
In 2018, an official inquiry into undercover police operations revealed that he had been an infiltrator.
“Kirsti Weiß” infiltrated groups in Hanover, including student and anti-nuclear groups. She attended meetings, participated in actions, and helped organize events. For part of her infiltration, she lived in a shared apartment with other activists. On one occasion, she introduced to other activists a man who she claimed was her brother. She had a passport and other documents under her fake name.
She was identified when, a few months after the end of her infiltration, she revealed to a friend that she was an infiltrator.
“Fernando Pérez López” infiltrated groups in Madrid. He first infiltrated prisoner support groups, before moving on to infiltrate the urban guerrilla Marxist-Leninist group First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO, Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre). He attended and helped organize events and demonstrations. On one occasion, he introduced to other activists a woman whom he claimed was his mother, though she likely wasn't, as well as people whom he claimed were his friends, though they likely weren't. His infiltration led to the arrest of GRAPO members.
“Dave Hagan” infiltrated anti-racist and anarchist groups in London. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad.
In 2018, an official inquiry into undercover police operations revealed that he had been an infiltrator.
Mark Jenner infiltrated anti-fascist and other left-wing groups in the United Kingdom. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended meetings and participated in demonstrations and actions. He was in a romantic and sexual relationship with one of his targets for five years and lived with her for four of those years.
Jim Boyling infiltrated environmentalist groups in the United Kingdom, including the anti-globalization group Reclaim the Streets. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended and helped organize demonstrations. On one occasion, he was arrested and prosecuted under his cover identity for his participation in a civil disobedience action (he was acquitted). He had sexual relationships with three of his targets.
