This is an excerpt from a profile last updates in 2018. The full profile can be found here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Lynn_Watson_(alias) An updated version of the profile will appear here after the hearings of EN34 and related activist witnesses.
EN34 'Lynn Watson’ was the assumed identity of an undercover police officer who infiltrated activist groups, mainly in the English city of Leeds, between the years of 2002 and 2008. She was tasked by the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) as 'one of the first in a team of 15 spies who would be sent undercover in one six-year period', according to Guardian journalists Rob Evans and Paul Lewis. Subsequent to her deployment within peace, environmental and anti-authoritarian political movements, Lynn was placed undercover elsewhere, targeting serious organised crime networks.
Lynn's role as a long-term police spy in protest movements was publicly confirmed in January 2011 in the wake of the unmasking of Mark Kennedy. Her cover name was later confirmed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, which has ruled in October that her real name as a serving police officer would be restricted.