Timeline of SDS undercover officers
It’s difficult to get an overview of how many groups were targeted over time. And how many undercover officers have been active through the years. To help understand the scale of the operations, we have put together a detailed timeline. It shows the deployment of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad between 1968 and 2008. (Information on the later NPOIU officers is not available yet.)
Statements from the Inquiry and Metropolitan Police indicate that there were 118 police deployed as undercover officers by the SDS.
While we have (also) compiled the most complete list of SDS officers to date, this timeline is not complete. For some spycops the official Inquiry has not released any dates at all yet. Many of the dates are approximate for now, as the Inquiry is known to have made mistakes. Due to the – very – limited information released, we have no way of checking everything.
Sources: the Undercover Policing Inquiry’s list of cover names and associated anonymity rulings and material from URG’s profiles of undercovers at Undercover Research Portal.
See our Who’s Who of Spycops Targets for an overview of the groups spied on over the years.
List of undercovers who have a full profile:
- Andy Coles a.k.a. Andy ‘Van’ Davey
- Bob Lambert a.k.a. Bob Robinson
- Christine Green (alias)
- Dave Hagan, N81/HN81 the undercover who spied on the Lawrence family and other family justice campaigns.
- Dave Robertson (alias)
- Gary R. & Abigail L. (full aliases withheld)
- John Dines a.k.a.John Barker
- John Graham (alias)
- Lynn Watson (alias)
- Mark Jenner a.k.a. Mark Cassidy
- Marco Jacobs (alias)
- Mark Kennedy a.k.a. Mark Stone
- Matt Rayner (alias)
- Mike Chitty a.k.a. Mike Blake
- RC (full alias withheld)
- Rod Richardson (alias)
- Roger Pearce a.k.a. Roger Thorley
- Rick Gibson (alias)
- Simon Wellings (alias)
- William Paul “Bill” Lewis (alias)
Adrian Radford a.k.a. Ian Farmer (corporate spy, also working for the police)
