Police agent Mark Kennedy was active throughout Europe

[Hannah Bell]

Mark Kennedy, the police agent who worked undercover in the environmental movement for eight years, was active in his undercover guise as Mark Stone throughout Europe. Kennedy’s real identity came to light in January, when the trial of six environmental campaigners at Nottingham Crown Court, England, collapsed. The case failed because Kennedy had offered to give evidence on behalf of the six.

Kennedy is just one of an unknown number of undercover police officers attached to the shadowy National Public Order Intelligence Unit that have infiltrated protest movements for years at a time. He has admitted that, under his Mark Stone alias, he played a leading role in organising, financing and directing campaigns and protests.

But his activities were not limited to Britain. On January 28, Der Spiegel revealed that a secret sitting of the Internal Affairs Committee had been held at the Bundestag (German parliament) over Kennedy’s activities in the country. At the sitting, Jörg Ziercke, chief of Germany’s federal police (the BKA), told parliamentarians that Kennedy had infiltrated the anti-fascist movement at the request of the German authorities...

The BKA chief’s admission underscores Kennedy’s role as an agent provocateur...Kennedy was involved in organising protests and mounting a string of provocations across Europe...In Iceland, Kennedy played a leading role in helping to develop the country’s fledgling environmental movement...“But the Guardian has seen private emails suggesting Kennedy was at the same time trying to drive a wedge between the group’s members..."

...Kennedy’s activities indicate a high degree of coordination between the various states in Europe as regards the undercover penetration and subverting of protest movements across the continent.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/kenn-f03.shtml

[Toon Me Out]

1. interesting!

thanks for posting Hannah.

[xchrom]

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