Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police (41 page)
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Authors: Paul Lewis,Rob Evans
Lynn Watson, the only known woman police infiltrator, who was deployed in Leeds around the same time as Marco Jacobs and Mark Kennedy were undercover. (
Above
) Dressed as a clown at an anti-war protest in 2004.
Mark Kennedy at his 40th birthday party at a farm in Herefordshire. He disappeared shortly afterwards, claiming to be suffering from a breakdown.
(
Above
) The photo of Kennedy uploaded to the Indymedia website in October 2010, shortly after he confessed to friends he was a police spy, and (
Below
) posing for a media interview in 2011, a few weeks after the
Guardian
newspaper first revealed details of his seven years undercover.
R
ob
E
vans
has been a reporter for the
Guardian
since 1999. He has won awards for his work both on corruption scandals and for promoting freedom of information, including the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism. He is also the author of
Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down.
He previously worked for the
Sunday Telegraph
and the
Financial Times
.
P
aul
L
ewis
is Washington correspondent for the
Guardian
. His investigations into undercover policing in the UK took place when he was working as the newspaper’s special projects editor, between 2010 and 2013. Paul has won 10 major journalism awards since joining the
Guardian
as a trainee in 2005. He is currently co-writing a second book about the English riots. He studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University.
First published in 2013
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