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The SpycopsResearch.info database is an Undercover Research Group project. It aims to make the material released during the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) accessible for all.

This soft launch covers the early period of spying, 1968-1982 (Tranche One) and contains all documents from this period in the searchable Document Database.

Additionally, you will find detailed individual profiles of all the undercover officers deployed from 1968 to 1972 and their managers, as well as short pages on the groups they spied on up to 1982. 

A further extensive set of articles explains the jargon and procedures of the Inquiry, and a growing section analysing the tradecraft or the spycops. 

All Articles covers every page and profile we have created to date, presented as tiles. Depending on what you are interested in, you can filter down into one of the categories Spycop, Targets, Police, Inquiry or Analysis.

Use the category’s search box to find articles that mention the topic you’re looking for.

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Spycops
Officer

HN951/TN41 Matthew Dwyer

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Spycops
UCO

HN96 'Michael James'

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Spycops
UCO

HN97

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Spycops
Manager

HN99 Nigel David Short

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Analysis

Homophobia in SDS Reporting

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Target

Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

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Target

International Communist League (ICL)

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Target

International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

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Target

Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front (INLSF)

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IS/SWP Croydon

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Target

Islington Animal Rights Campaign

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Spycops
Manager

J Houchin

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Spycops
Manager

J Lawrenson

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Spycops
Officer

J Troye

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Spycops
Officer

John Cracknell

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Spycops
Officer

Joseph Simpson

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Spycops
Manager

Kenneth Pendered

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Analysis

Kieran Coleman

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Analysis

Legal Privilege and Surveillance

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Target

London Boots Action Group

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Target

London Greenpeace (LGP)

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Target

London Peace Action

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Medical Campaign Against Private Practice

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Spycops
Manager

Mike Davies

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Target

Movement Against the Monarchy (MAM)

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Target

National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)

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Target

National Front (NF)

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Police

National Public Order Intelligence Unit (disclosure)

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Police

National Undercover Working Group

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Target

National Union of School Students (NUSS)

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Target

No Borders

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Target

North London Hunt Saboteurs

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Analysis

Officers' Reasons for Joining the SDS

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Analysis

Persons Unknown

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Spycops
Officer

Philip Knights

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Analysis

Phillip Allen (Home Office)

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Analysis

Police operations

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Analysis

Post-SDS Career

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Analysis

Powis Square

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Analysis

Pre-SDS Career of Undercovers

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Target

Progressive Cultural Association

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Target

Protect Our Woodland (Titnore Woods)

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Analysis

Racism in SDS Reporting

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Target

rampART

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Target

Rebel

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Analysis

Recruitment to the SDS

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Target

Red Circle

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Target

Red Defence Force (RDF)

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Analysis

Red Lion Square; Kevin Gately

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Analysis

Relationship between SDS and MI5

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Analysis

Relationship with Home Office

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Target

Rettendon Protest Camp

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Target

Revolutionary Communist Party

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Target

Revolutionary Communist Tendency (RCT)

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Target

Revolutionary Labour League (RLL)

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Target

Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (RMT)

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Revolutionary Socialist League

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Right to Work Campaign (RtWC)

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Rising Tide

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Analysis

Robert Armstrong (Home Office)

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