EnglishMohamed El Berkal infiltrated anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anarchist groups in France. He also attended an event in Germany. He was recruited as an infiltrator by the police after he was arrested and threatened with prison time if he didn't become one. He attended meetings and participated in actions. He took pictures of faces, meetings, and living and organizational spaces.
Astrid Oppermann infiltrated groups in Hamburg, including anti-fascist and anti-repression groups. She also attended an event in Denmark. She attended and helped organize demonstrations and events, and co-founded an anti-fascist group. On a few occasions, she introduced friends to other activists who were likely her actual friends under her real identity. She had an official ID card under her fake name.
Maria Böhmichen infiltrated anti-racist and anti-fascist groups in Hamburg. She also attended events and demonstrations in Belgium, Denmark, France, and Greece. She attended and helped organize events and demonstrations. She also attended social events in public places and private homes. She had sexual relationships with two of her targets.
Christian Høibø infiltrated left-wing groups and a social center in Norway. He also attended demonstrations in Denmark and Germany. He initially began the infiltration for his own purposes — to gather information for his work as a journalist — and, in 2002, was recruited by the police to work as an infiltrator for them. He attended meetings and participated in demonstrations.
In 2013, he publicly revealed that he had been an infiltrator. The police confirmed that he had indeed worked for them as an infiltrator.
“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.
Simon Bromma infiltrated left-wing and anti-fascist groups in Heidelberg. He also attended an event in Belgium. He first infiltrated a student group before moving on to other groups. He participated in demonstrations.
He was identified because:
- Before the infiltration began, while on vacation in France, he told a person that he was a police officer.
- In 2010, this person traveled to Heidelberg to visit a friend from left-wing circles. They met Simon Bromma by chance at a party, and warned their friend that he was a police officer.
- The next day, when confronted with the accusation that he was a police officer, he admitted to being an infiltrator.
Mark Kennedy infiltrated many environmentalist, anti-capitalist, and anarchist groups in the United Kingdom and abroad. He participated in demonstrations, actions, and other events in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Spain, and the United States. He worked for the police as part of the undercover police unit National Public Order Intelligence Unit. In 2010, he also worked for a security company. He first infiltrated a social center in Nottingham, United Kingdom, before moving on to other groups. He had credit cards, bank accounts, a passport, and a driver's license under his fake name. On one occasion, he introduced two people he claimed were his childhood friends to his roommates, and who were in fact likely other undercover police officers. On one occasion, he used a modified watch to record his targets' conversations. He had many romantic and sexual relationships with his targets, including one that lasted six years.
His targets were unaware that he was married and had children under his real identity. He was identified because:
- One day, his long-term partner found his real passport under the name “Mark Kennedy,” as well as emails indicating that he had children.
- His long-term partner and other activists then found evidence of his real identity:
- Electoral records for his birth year did not include an entry for “Mark Stone” but did include an entry for a “Mark Kennedy” who was married.
- A genealogy website included an entry for a “Mark John Kennedy” who was listed as being married and having children.
- The birth certificate of the son of “Mark Kennedy” listed the father's occupation as police officer.
- The birth certificate of “Mark Kennedy” listed the father's occupation as police officer, despite his claims that his father was an accountant.
- The marriage certificate of “Mark Kennedy” listed his occupation as police officer.
- When confronted with evidence, he admitted to being an infiltrator.
“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.
“Danielle Durand” infiltrated animal rights groups in Austria, including Verein gegen Tierfabriken (VGT, Association Against Factory Farming). She also attended events in the Netherlands and Switzerland. She attended meetings, demonstrations, and other events, and participated in civil disobedience actions. She formed friendships with her targets. On one occasion, she took two water bottles used by activists and gave them to the police so that they could collect the activists' DNA on the bottles. She had a sexual relationship with one of her targets. Her infiltration contributed to the prosecution of 13 activists, though they were all ultimately acquitted.
“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.
“Rob Harrison” infiltrated left-wing and anarchist groups in London, including social centers. He also attended a demonstration in Germany. He was part of the undercover police unit Special Demonstration Squad. He attended meetings and demonstrations and organized events. He had sexual relationships with one of his targets.
In 2018, an official inquiry into undercover police operations revealed that he had been an infiltrator.
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.
Alfonso Collado Corrales infiltrated groups in Madrid, including anti-globalization groups and social centers. He also attended a demonstration in Italy.
The infiltration case was made public in 2025 when a journalist published a book about it. The journalist intended to keep the infiltrator's real name secret but, in interviews to promote the book, let details slip that allowed activists to find the name.
“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.
Manfred Schlickenrieder infiltrated a wide range of left-wing and environmentalist groups in Germany, as well as in Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In particular, he infiltrated various levels of left-wing revolutionary organizations, including the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy. He worked for both State intelligence agencies and private companies throughout his career, including German domestic and foreign intelligence services and the security company Hakluyt, which had close links with British foreign intelligence services and provided information to the multinational oil and gas companies Shell and BP. He posed as a militant archivist, filmmaker, and translator, which allowed him to attend secret meetings, collect documents, and film interviews, meetings, demonstrations, actions, and other events. He gathered information on hundreds of activists. On one occasion, he offered to sell firearms to members of a clandestine communist party, and asked in exchange to know what the firearms would be used for.
