{"id":23484,"date":"2011-01-14T04:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=23484"},"modified":"2011-01-15T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:59:02","slug":"mark-kennedy-and-officer-a-karen-sullivan-and-officer-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=23484","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kennedy and &#8216;Officer A&#8217; \/\/ &#8220;Karen Sullivan&#8221; and Officer XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><strong>Update<\/strong> : Everybody Hates A Tourist Loves Spies. <a href=\"http:\/\/everybodyhatesatourist.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/13\/more-on-undercover-cops-in-the-direct-action-movement\/\">Lyn Watson<\/a> is one; <a href=\"http:\/\/everybodyhatesatourist.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/15\/another-cop-outed\/\">Mark Jacobs<\/a> aka \u2018Marco\u2019 is another. <em>The Guardian<\/em> is moar coy, but still.<\/ul>\n<p>Tricksy police spies have been coming unstuck lately. Well&#8230; a couple of &#8217;em, anyway. Like, in a few places: the US, and one of its satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, state agencies get very upset when citizens organise to do stuff like protest war, or raise funds to assist women&#8217;s groups, or take direct action to stop pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iSBOPUk6ZDs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=19424\">August 2010<\/a>, Australian authorities launched an investigation into some local Kurdish associations for alleged links to the PKK. Buggered if I know what&#8217;s come of it. Big ups to Turkish courts for sentencing Kurdish journalist Emine Demir of the daily <em>Azadiya Welat<\/em> (Independence of Homeland) to <a href=\"http:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/90001\/90777\/90854\/7247280.html\">138 years in jail<\/a> but, throwing the gauntlet down at the feet of worried spooks Down Under.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Kennedy and &#8216;Officer A&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schnews.org.uk\/images\/745-mark-kennedy-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exposed back in October by activists, last week the story made it into the <em>The Guardian<\/em>, accompanied by further revelations regarding another undercover with the exciting name of &#8216;Officer A&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/jan\/12\/second-undercover-police-officer-unmasked\">Second police officer to infiltrate environmental activists unmasked<\/a>, Paul Lewis, Rob Evans and Martin Wainwright, guardian.co.uk, January 12, 2011). According to Paul, Rob and Martin, Officer A <em>lived in a house in the student quarter of Leeds, showed a keen interest in protest and had an anarchist poster of the Queen Mother with punk hair on her wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The moral of this story?<\/p>\n<p><em>Never trust a punk!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other <em>Schnews<\/em>, like Mehmet Ersoy\/Osman in Australia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/jan\/12\/mark-kennedy-policeman-corporate-spy?intcmp=239\">Mark Kennedy also worked for the corporate sector<\/a> while he was protecting the state and British industry from terrorism; like Rob Gilchrist in Aotearoa\/New Zealand, he also fuct about, raising a whole series of other, rather peculiar ethical questions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/jan\/11\/undercover-officer-sexual-tactics\">apparently<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>See<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1828\">E.On police kick terrorist arse: 114 criminal conspirators arrested<\/a> (April 14, 2009).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Karen Sullivan&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/KarenSullivan2-thumb-200x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the heart of Empire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopfbi.net\/2011\/1\/12\/anti-war-and-international-solidarity-activists-denounce-fbi-infiltration\">Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists Denounce FBI Infiltration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DCt9Vszkq38\">Then again, don&#8217;t they always?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The exposure of an FBI infiltrator (for further details <em>see<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightbacknews.org\/2011\/1\/12\/fbi-infiltration-anti-war-movement-uncovered-minneapolis\">FBI infiltration of anti-war movement uncovered in Minneapolis<\/a>, Fight Back!, January 12, 2011) follows closely on the heels of the decision by local police in Richmond, Virginia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/newsitems\/index.php?i=11674\">not<\/a> to prosecute <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchymo.wordpress.com\/\">anarchists in Richmond, Virginia<\/a> after they <a href=\"http:\/\/wingnutrva.org\/richmond-police-department-documents\/\">published<\/a> on the Interwebs some of the dox they obtained from the police under an FOI request.<\/p>\n<p><em>See<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=20878\">Long Road to Freedom or FBI ~versus~ FRSO<\/a> (September 26, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>On police and spies, <em>see also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1673\">Suspicious Minds &#038; Barking Dogs: Canada, France, Russia (&#038; Australia)<\/a> (February 3, 2009) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1617\">\u201cMy name is Brandon, and I\u2019m an FBI informant.\u201d \u201cHi Brandon!\u201d<\/a> (January 20, 2009) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1563\">Moaron Rob Gilchrist<\/a> (December 17, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1551\">Rob Gilchrist : Police Informant<\/a> (December 14, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1520\">Amanda is in your extended network<\/a> (December 7, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1446\">Victoria Police denounce McDonald\u2019s (Kinda sorta)<\/a> (November 5, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1420\">Mehmet Ersoy\/Osman : Former officer hired to spy<\/a> (October 17, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1417\">The Age of Spies<\/a> (October 16, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1415\">\u201cWelease Wodewick!\u201d, Or; The Continuing Adventures of Hakluyt &#038; Co.<\/a> (October 16, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1410\">The Downer Age : Hakluyt &#038; Co<\/a> (October 14, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1402\">Hakluyt dons fishnet stockings!<\/a> (October 13, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1492\">Anarchy! Spies! Private eyes! Libraries!<\/a> (September 26, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1346\">\u201cQuestions emerge\u201d: RNC 2008 &#038; The Spectre of Anarchism\/Terrorism<\/a> (September 17, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1297\">\u201crevolutionaries into secret agents and secret agents into revolutionaries\u201d<\/a> (August 12, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1291\">Hakluyt (Spies Like Us)<\/a> (August 5, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=739\">Tricksy ASIO wants the nasssty anarchisssts<\/a> (June 26, 2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update : Everybody Hates A Tourist Loves Spies. Lyn Watson is one; Mark Jacobs aka \u2018Marco\u2019 is another. The Guardian is moar coy, but still. Tricksy police spies have been coming unstuck lately. Well&#8230; a couple of &#8217;em, anyway. 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