Mark Kennedy was an undercover policeman who infiltrated the British anarchist movement for 7 years. In this episode I recount this story, highlighting how Kennedy (under the pseudonym Mark Stone) acted as an agent provocateur in cases that have now collapsed or are under appeal. I also look at how Kennedy and other undercover policeman have formed long term relationships with women within the radical movements they were spying on, and the psychological and legal ramifications of this. I round off with an analysis of possible predictive programming regarding the Kennedy/Stone case, and how the High Court made a key judgment in this case on the basis of the James Bond novels.

Sources:

BBC: Trial Collapses after undercover officer changes sides

Statewatch: EU: State guidelines for the exchange of undercover police officers revealed

Powerbase: Mark Kennedy

Powerbase: Mark Kennedy: a chronology of his activities

Confessions of an Undercover Cop

BBC File on 4: Undercover Cops

Maxwell Knight report on Operations of MS

James Bond a moral standard according to High Court

Spooks S01E04

Mark Stone: Secret Agent

James Bond remix – Camo and Krooked