Undercover
The Secret World of Police Surveillance
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2012
Guardian Books (Verlag)
978-0-85265-268-8 (ISBN)
Guardian Books (Verlag)
978-0-85265-268-8 (ISBN)
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Exposes the world of private investigators, surveillance units, vehicle tracking devices, and secret government databases that list forensic details about all citizens who take part in peaceful protests. This title tells the human stories of six police spies, who for four decades have had license to break the law and sleep with the enemy.
"Undercover" lifts the lid on police surveillance, and a programme to covertly monitor political activists that has been one of the government's best-kept secrets since 1968. It exposes the world of wire taps, private investigators, surveillance units, vehicle tracking devices, and secret government databases that list forensic details about all citizens who take part in peaceful protests. It tells the gripping human stories of six police spies, part of a covert team of agents that for four decades have had license to break the law and sleep with the enemy. Chief among them is PC Mark Kennedy, whose audacious seven years living a double-life as an environmental activist were made public in January 2011, in the worst scandal concerning undercover policing in British history. This is the definitive account of Mark Kennedy and undercover policing, written by the award-winning investigative journalists who brought the scandal to the world's attention. They are the only people to have spoken extensively with Kennedy while he was in hiding in the United States, as well as to his close friends and lovers.
Between them, they have uncovered secret databases of 'domestic extremists', getting hold of files that reveal the seemingly banal information about protesters being accumulated by police. Their investigations have spanned the use of private investigators and attempts to recruit informants. The journalists' knowledge and expertise will be deepened with the assistance of Pete Black, who - in contrast to Kennedy - will give an authentic insider account of the trials and tribulations of an undercover officer at the heart of the protest movement, and the psychological feat of pulling that off.
"Undercover" lifts the lid on police surveillance, and a programme to covertly monitor political activists that has been one of the government's best-kept secrets since 1968. It exposes the world of wire taps, private investigators, surveillance units, vehicle tracking devices, and secret government databases that list forensic details about all citizens who take part in peaceful protests. It tells the gripping human stories of six police spies, part of a covert team of agents that for four decades have had license to break the law and sleep with the enemy. Chief among them is PC Mark Kennedy, whose audacious seven years living a double-life as an environmental activist were made public in January 2011, in the worst scandal concerning undercover policing in British history. This is the definitive account of Mark Kennedy and undercover policing, written by the award-winning investigative journalists who brought the scandal to the world's attention. They are the only people to have spoken extensively with Kennedy while he was in hiding in the United States, as well as to his close friends and lovers.
Between them, they have uncovered secret databases of 'domestic extremists', getting hold of files that reveal the seemingly banal information about protesters being accumulated by police. Their investigations have spanned the use of private investigators and attempts to recruit informants. The journalists' knowledge and expertise will be deepened with the assistance of Pete Black, who - in contrast to Kennedy - will give an authentic insider account of the trials and tribulations of an undercover officer at the heart of the protest movement, and the psychological feat of pulling that off.
PAUL LEWIS, the Guardian's Special Projects Editor, is the journalist behind revelations about police involvement in the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests. He is the winner of the Bevins Prize for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and was voted Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010. ROB EVANS, a Guardian reporter since 1999, has won awards for exposing corruption such as BAE's corrupt payments and for his freedom of information work. He is the author of Gassed, a book published in 2000 revealing British chemical warfare experiments on soldiers.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85265-268-2 / 0852652682 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85265-268-8 / 9780852652688 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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