This is an excerpt from the Lynn Watson profile at the former Undercover Research Group wiki, last updated in 2018. A new version of the profile will appear 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.
Before moving to Leeds in 2004, Lynn was deployed briefly to investigate a woodland preservation protest campaign in East Sussex in 2002. The following year she infiltrated anti-nuclear groups at Aldermaston in Berkshire. In Leeds, she spied upon a broad range of campaigns including the Climate Camp movement and Dissent!, which was coordinating protest and direct action against the UK-hosted 2005 G8 summit.
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 became public in January 2011 in the wake of the unmasking of Mark Kennedy who named her when he was confronted. Her cover name was later confirmed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, which has ruled in October 2018 that her real name as a serving police officer would be restricted.