This is an excerpt from a profile last updated in 2020. The full profile can be found here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Rick_Gibson_(alias) 'Mary', a woman who he decieved into a realtionship submitted a written statement to the Inquiry in 2018. Richard Chessum, who Clark also spied-upon, gave live evidence to the Inquiry in 2021. HN297's updated profile will appear here.
HN297 Richard Clark ('Rick Gibson' ) was a Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) undercover police officer. He was active for two years between 1974 - 1976, when he infiltrated the South East London branch of the Troops Out Movement (TOM) and took on roles at the national level in the organisation. He then sought to become a member of Big Flame, but his lack of political background caused suspicion. Big Flame found out that Gibson had lied about his background and was using the identity of a deceased child. Confronted with these finding in 1976, ‘Gibson’ disappeared; and the story was never published.
In the BBC series True Spies, Peter Taylor interviewed an undercover in disguise about infiltrating the TOM. Watching it in 2002, Richard Chessum, who had founded the South East London chapter of the organisation with Gibson amongst others, thought he recognised his former 'comrade'.