Spycops Reseach

Analysis features thematic pages describing issues varying from the tradecraft used by undercovers, sexism and racism in their reporting or the use of deceased children's birth certificates. Start here if you are interested in the broad spectrum of topics arisen from the Inquiry’s investigations.

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SDS surveillance of minors

SDS Annual Reports

Blacklist Support Group (BSG)

Groups listed in SDS Annual Reports

Relationships (overview)

Tradecraft

Police Spies Out Of Lives (PSOOL)

Special Branch (overview)

Security Service / MI5 (overview)

List of SDS and NPOIU undercovers

Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

List of SDS Managers and Staff

National Public Order Intelligence Unit (historical overview)

Decision to Continue the SDS

Background and Foundation of the SDS

Operation Herne

List of HN nominals

SDS (historical overview)

Undercover Research Group (URG)

List of EN Nominals

Home Office (disclosure)

Cover documents

Appearance of undercovers

John Jones (MI5)

BM Day (Cabinet Office)

Martin Furnival-Jones (MI5)

Michael Hanley (MI5)

Harold Wilson

Lawrence Byford

Lady Jane Birdwood

John Hunt (Cabinet Secretary)

James Waddell (Home Office)

Derek Hamblen (MI5)

ED Wright (Home Office)

David Heaton (Home Office)

Conrad Heron (civil servant)

Leslie Glass (IRD)

AS Baker (Home Office)

Befriending Individuals as a tactic

Special Branch Registry

Cover identities

Police ranks

Cover employment

Cover addresses

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)

Nominals

Stephen Lawrence Independent Review

Deceased Children's Identities (overview)

Home Office (overview)

(Domestic) Extremism

Taylor Report

Managers and Back Office Staff

What is an undercover officer?

Home Office (civil servants)

Police and Constabulary Almanacs

SDS and other Special Branch Squads

Photographic surveillance

Blacklisting and Reporting on Trade Unions

True Spies

SDS and MI5