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Police provocateur allegedly co-wrote McLibel leaflet & fire-bombed a Debenhams

Gianfranco Sanguinetti | 21.06.2013 18:25 | Animal Liberation | Policing | Repression

Police agent-provocateur allegedly co-wrote McLibel leaflet & fire-bombed a branch of Debenhams

Bob Lambert then... & now
Bob Lambert then... & now


"An undercover police officer who posed as an environmental activist reportedly co-wrote a libellous leaflet that attacked McDonald’s and triggered the longest civil trial in English history. One of the authors of the so-called McLibel leaflet is former police officer Bob Lambert according to a book on undercover policing by Guardian journalists Paul Lewis and Rob Evans... Mr Lambert used the alias Bob Robinson during his five years infiltrating the London Greenpeace group, when he was with the Special Demonstration Squad... A raft of allegations have been made against undercover police in recent months including claims officers used dead children's identities and that some had sexual relationships with the targets of their operations... Mr Lambert, who now works as a lecturer in terrorism studies at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, has also been accused by an MP of leaving a bomb in a Debenhams store in London in the 1980s..."

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345994/Police-spymaster-posed-environmental-activist-wrote-McLibel-leaflet-triggered-longest-civil-trial-English-history.html

"Lambert, who rose through the ranks to become a spymaster in the SDS, is also under investigation for sexual relationships he had with four women while undercover, one of whom he fathered a child with before vanishing from their lives. The woman and her son only discovered that Lambert was a police spy last year. The internal police inquiry is also investigating claims raised in parliament that Lambert ignited an incendiary device at a branch of Debenhams when infiltrating animal rights campaigners. The incident occurred in 1987 and the explosion inflicted £300,000 worth of damage to the branch in Harrow, north London. Lambert has previously strongly denied he planted the incendiary device in the Debenhams store..."

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds

Gianfranco Sanguinetti

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why you worried ...

21.06.2013 18:57

... according to the grundoid article, its all in the past, they've cleaned up their act, nothing to see here, move along ...

diamat


Inspector Gadget blog

21.06.2013 19:03

Personally I reckon the once-notorious Police Inspector Blog, aka Inspector Gadget, with it's relentless attacks on demonstrators and it's bullshit about how it must have been other protestors who brained Alfie Meadows (!), threw in the towel and went off-line after the verdict on the kid the Met nearly KILLED proved Inspector Gadget was an absolute fucking liar

 http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Inspector_Blog

Oh yeah, that and claiming protestors display a "sense of entitlement" started to ring hollow after the police themselves were forced to march in protest about having been fucked over a barrel by the govt about their fucking pensions

Served cold.......


@diamat

21.06.2013 19:06

Police provokateurism increased with the introduction and proliferation of the internet, on-line and on the streets, obvious

999


Quirra ir el dogg

21.06.2013 20:25

"... according to the grundoid article, its all in the past, they've cleaned up their act, nothing to see here, move along ... "

It was at a time when political activism was a mere shadow of what dwarfs it now.

Ergo, the police are now everywhere and most likely ALL acts of terrorism are probably being carried out by state agents.

The police are incapable of cleaning up their act because to them, this kind of behaviour is never wrong...and so it is for the politicians too.

anonymous


Why are we complaining!?

21.06.2013 22:37

AR activists know that there are undercover filth in our midst, in fact quite a few of us know full well who they are. They'll always be there, the only difference here was that this fucker did something useful!

Any cops out there who wanna 'infiltrate' animal rights by burning out an animal abusing business, I say go ahead; it'll be the only truely good thing you do in the worthless mess you call a life.

Fuck this cop.
Fuck all cops.

South Coast Sab


Something else good about this

22.06.2013 10:33

The Daily Heil are reporting this. That's strange, they usually tell their large number of readers how wonderful the police are. Let's hope it sows some seeds of doubt about the police in Heil readers.

A N Other


Media Strategy?

22.06.2013 17:36

Is there anyone that can work on developing a proper Communications and Media Strategy on these topics of undercover cops? Seems like the police are the only one with a communications strategy, albeit a bad one.

When even the Daily Mail criticises cops, we know we are winning!

a


@South Coast Sab

23.06.2013 21:42

The fact that you reckon Bob Robinson did something "useful" means that you agree with the tactics and modus operandi used by undercover police to discredit radical groups. You're a genius, carry on son

The likes of Bob Robinson are still very active in radical politics - except nowadays they're jobs even easier - they just post incitements on Indymedia, using names like Conspiracy Cells of Fire, and wait for gullible nutters to step forward and do their dirty work for them, thereby not even having to take the risks entailed by traditional false-flag attacks and agent-provocateurism themselves. You mug

tictac


@tictac

24.06.2013 10:42

Or maybe I just agree with non-violent property destruction as a means of economic sabotage?
Don't see Debenhams selling fur anymore do you?

Good work on the name-calling though, it TOTALLY makes you seem intelligent...

South Coast Sab


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