Adrian Radford. A hoax, diversion and paid by Cancer Research UK?
Eye Spy on the Spies | 15.02.2010 02:04 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | Social Struggles | South Coast | World
The farce that is the "Adrian Radford" story. Adrian Radford claimed that he infiltrated SHAC who he describes as the ALF. He runs a "surveillance instruction" outfit and claims that he was working for MI6 [SIS]. He came out publicly and claimed that he was "responsible" for the info given to police about SHAC [leaving the real moles to carry on]. We think his real employer was Cancer Research UK.
In his publicity photos Adrain Radford poses next to a Cancer Research UK shop with Cancer Research UK propaganda in the window behind him.
We don't believe that he was [solely at any rate] working for NETCU never mind MI6. If he was it is unlikely that he would come out so publicly and put not just himself but his colleagues and handlers at risk. We don't think there is any way that the police or security services would advise or allow this.
He claimed that he had cancer and other people who have been suspected of being AR infiltrators have come out with a remarkably similar line, that they have "recently lost someone to cancer so joined AR". Now many of us know that Cancer Research is fraud in many cases but the Adrain Radford thing is a gigantic piss take.
He was never at Sandhurst as he has claimed. He was never in the SAS / MI6 /SIS as he has claimed. He has never been employed as a "security advisor" for the police or MI5 or MI6 a she has claimed. He is a scam artist.
He has told lie after lie and aimed for publicity and money. Why pose next to Cancer Research UK paraphernalia? How many more oddballs from Cancer Research are there? If he is / was indeed working for Cancer Research UK then they should be prosecuted for fraud and deception.
We don't believe that he was [solely at any rate] working for NETCU never mind MI6. If he was it is unlikely that he would come out so publicly and put not just himself but his colleagues and handlers at risk. We don't think there is any way that the police or security services would advise or allow this.
He claimed that he had cancer and other people who have been suspected of being AR infiltrators have come out with a remarkably similar line, that they have "recently lost someone to cancer so joined AR". Now many of us know that Cancer Research is fraud in many cases but the Adrain Radford thing is a gigantic piss take.
He was never at Sandhurst as he has claimed. He was never in the SAS / MI6 /SIS as he has claimed. He has never been employed as a "security advisor" for the police or MI5 or MI6 a she has claimed. He is a scam artist.
He has told lie after lie and aimed for publicity and money. Why pose next to Cancer Research UK paraphernalia? How many more oddballs from Cancer Research are there? If he is / was indeed working for Cancer Research UK then they should be prosecuted for fraud and deception.
Eye Spy on the Spies
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Why has he been mentioned again - is there a book launch?
15.02.2010 08:34
Cynical
Adrian was an informant - it's pretty straight forward..
15.02.2010 08:50
Yes he did infiltrate SHAC, so I don't know where this "we don't believe he was working for NETCU" comes from.. he was paid by a pharmaceutical company, I believe. Pretty much the same thing these days.
I don't really see the purpose of this post. Of course a lot of his stories wouldn't check out, he was working undercover, and won't be going around dishing out real information about himself!
I think it would be better rephrased - if this post is genuine - to raise questions regrading Adrian, rather than stating that "we" (implying activists / animal rights people) unanimously don't believe he even existed or infiltrated any groups. It's good to ask questions, discuss, learn from it, but not really much point denying something that is totally black and white.
NETCU
Re "He was paid by a pharmaceutical company"
15.02.2010 17:18
If you agree that he was paid by a pharmaceutical company then why do you not think it "matters" which one?
anon
Adrian Radford a fraudster, dangerous fantasist & liar. SHAC trials were unjust.
15.02.2010 17:51
anon
He "existed" but not in the way he claims. SHAC were fitted up.
15.02.2010 17:59
If he was a plant paid by a pharmaceutical company then they too should be invesitgated for fraud and prosecuted.
If it ever turns out that ity was CR-UK then they should be prosecuted.
anon
Who pays SHACWATCH and why?
15.02.2010 19:08
They are hired thugs, paid to lie, bully, threaten, slander, blackmail and harass aninmal rights activists.
?
Shacwatcher
16.02.2010 02:53
GSK - HLS' largest client
GSK - Bradford's largest funder
2 + 2 = 4!
GSKKK
Bradford Animal Lab is not HLS so why SHACWATCH it? Radford is a scammer.
16.02.2010 03:23
P.S. What's the obsession with Bradford that SHACwatch have? It's nothing to do with HLS.
An
Adrians evidence not used in SHAC trial
16.02.2010 11:56
Reading Resident
Walter Mitty
16.02.2010 13:27
His advertising model is to keep putting his name in AR circles to try to drum up business. Most of the posts that mention him are the ones he wrote himself! What a sad little shit.
ex-squaddie
Yep! He's Walter Mitty ans a piece of shit.
16.02.2010 18:58
anon
What do you mean "regrade Adrian"?
17.02.2010 08:02
ARA
Was he paid by Novartis?
02.03.2010 18:06
not noorvelloooo
Where "Adrian Radford" might really have come from
12.03.2014 23:40
Radford does seem to have trained the new intelligence officers in something or other, but lots of people, from all walks of life, are brought in to teach them how to do all sorts of ordinary jobs in a convincing way, so he could have been teaching them to pick up litter the way a proper park keeper would for all I know.
The most important thing about a place like Chicksands, is to protect the identity of the people being trained. Even the people teaching them how to tie their shoelaces, need to be trustworthy, because the trainers aren't going to being playing spies with the animal rights movement, they are going to be spying for real with real life FSB officers or IRA volunteers trying to spot them and kill them. The risk posed by someone like Radford in such a setting would be so extreme that you'd expect whoever employed him, to want to deny it.
If he were one of those unfortunates corrupted by the local druggies, then his subsequent life would have been spent pretending to give the police useful information whilst trying to get information useful to the druggies whose bitch he now was, and that would mostly have been along the lines of "when is the next surprise dawn raid going to happen in Bilberry Close or Pinemead?"
John Bingham