October 27th Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam

Founded by Abhimanyu Manchanda, this Maoist splinter group from the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) held its inaugural meeting on 15 September 1968. 

Manchanda’s committee opposed the VSC’s tactics for the 27 October 1968 anti-Vietnam war march, arguing for the march to target the US embassy in Grosvenor Square. The group was infiltrated by HN218 Barry Moss ‘Barry Morris’ HN218 Barry Moss 'Barry Morris' HN218 is the nominal given to SDS officer Barry Moss 'Barry Morris', who spied on the October 27th Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam and Vietnam Solidarity Campaign during his short deployment in 1968. He later returned as Detective Chief Inspector in charge of SDS operations in February/March 1980, eventually rising to become Commander of Special Branch in October 1996. He retired in 1999. Full page: HN218 Barry Moss 'Barry Morris'  and HN335 Michael Tyrrell. HN335 Mike Tyrrell HN335 Michael 'Mike' Paul Tyrrell was an early SDS undercover who infiltrated the Earls Court branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign; Britain Vietnam Solidarity Front; Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation; West London Palestine Solidarity Campaign and connected Maoist groups from September 1968 to February 1970. Now dead, he has been given the nominal HN335 in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. His cover name is unknown and was not recalled by other undercovers. Full page: HN335 Mike Tyrrell