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Undercover officer Mark Kennedy ‘beaten’ by colleagues

9:00am Monday 17th January 2011

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A FORMER undercover policeman claims he was beaten by fellow officers while on a protest at Drax Power station, near Selby.

Mark Kennedy hit national headlines last week when it was revealed he had offered to give evidence on behalf of the environmental activists he was sent by his police bosses to infiltrate.

In an interview with a national newspaper on his double life, he told how in 2006 he was beaten by five uniformed officers, who were unaware of his undercover status, at the perimeter fence of Drax. He said: “A young petite woman I knew as Cathleen began to crawl through a hole in the fence.

“Then I saw a uniformed police officer start to strike her very hard on her legs and lower back with his baton.

“I tried to stand between her and him.

“I didn’t do anything aggressive. That’s when I got jumped on by five officers who kicked and beat me. They had batons and pummelled my head. They punched me. One officer repeatedly stamped on my back.”

Mr Kennedy said the beating left him with a head wound, a broken finger and prolapsed disk.

He also told how he was unhappy that his police bosses would not consider compensation for his injuries because it would have blown his cover.

Mr Kennedy, who has now left the Metropolitan Police, infiltrated the group in the guise of a long-haired climber called Mark Stone.

The father-of-two said his life had become a “living nightmare” after his secret role was revealed when a crown court trial of six people, accused of planning to invade Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, collapsed when prosecutors dropped charges.

The protesters’ legal team claimed the decision was made after Mr Kennedy offered to give evidence on their behalf.

 

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千萬年薪臥底警 慘遭女友出賣
聯合 更新日期:"2011/01/17 10:26" 編譯王麗娟／報導

潛伏環保團體八年的英國臥底警察甘迺迪（Mark Kennedy），16日向每日郵報吐露過著「無間道」生活的辛酸。雖然他年薪破千萬台幣，壓力卻大到要看心理醫生，臥底身分被交往5年的女友揭發，現在連兒子都不想見他，如今過的是朝不保夕的逃亡生活。

2009年離開警界後，41歲的甘迺迪去年逃到美國。他聲稱他的數名前上司已到美國找他，而他臥底的環保團體也對他發出死亡威脅，他現在睡在以沙發抵著門的房間內，日夜難眠，時刻緊張。

甘迺迪和妻子早已分居，但因妻子是天主教徒，因此遵守教義並未離婚。他有12歲的兒子與10歲的女兒，但媒體報導他是警界叛徒後，兒子不願再見他。

1996年，甘迺迪加入警界，先當毒品密探，2002年轉任環團臥底警察，和他從事相同工作者約有15人。臥底的薪資不差，年薪5萬英鎊（230萬台幣）匯入他真名戶頭，每年還有20萬英鎊（920萬台幣）匯入化名「史東」的帳戶，他因此出手闊綽，捐錢給環團。

但臥底的辛酸猶如電影情節，他有一次參與環團抗議活動時，被不知他是自己人的5名警察痛毆。而他的臥底身分，是被交往5年的美麗紅髮女友揭露。兩人一起到歐洲旅遊時，她發現他護照上的真名，馬上告訴環團的人。

甘迺迪過去一周是英國媒體的頭條人物，報導稱他從警界叛變，讓一宗環團陰謀破壞發電廠的審判突遭撤銷。

但甘迺迪說，他始終謹守警察本分，案件撤銷是因他提供給警方的錄影帶可證明被告無罪。他不理解警方為何不根據證據辦案，還對媒體放消息說他多次騙女性上床挖情報。

 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/12/mark-kennedy-policeman-corporate-spy

Mark Kennedy: secret policeman's sideline as corporate spy

Former undercover officer apparently also worked privately as a corporate spy using the same false identity



Kingsnorth power station Mark Kennedy is a former director of Global Open, who appear to have access to well-sourced intelligence regarding plans to attack Kingsnorth power station. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

The undercover police officer whose unmasking led to the collapse of a trial of six environmental protesters on Monday apparently also worked as a corporate spy, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

Details of how Mark Kennedy went from police officer to businessman reveal the extent to which shadowy corporate firms appear to have developed links with the police. It also reveals something about Kennedy himself: with an apparent view to making money out of his access, the undercover officer used cryptic names derived from a science fiction television series, Stargate.

From 2003 until around March last year, Kennedy lived in the midst of the protest movement with the fake identity Mark Stone. Remarkably, he appears to have used that same undercover identity – which according to him cost the taxpayer £1.75m – to venture into private practice.

It is not known why Mark John Kennedy – born in Camberwell, south London on 7 July 1969 – quit his police job. However, he was apparently affected by the controversial police operation to arrest 114 people in Nottingham in April 2009 before protest action at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. He later offered to give evidence for the defence in the trial.

Documents seen by the Guardian suggest Kennedy put careful thought into what he would do after leaving the police. In February 2010 – a month before resigning – he set up Tokra Limited, at an address in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

The fanciful name could have derived from a science fiction television series, Stargate. Kennedy might well have seen parallels between his company's mission and the plot, which features the Tok'ra as an alien race symbiotically inhabiting human hosts. In their human guise, the Tok'ra fight a powerful, evil race who seek to control and destroy the planet.

Calling himself a logistics officer, Kennedy registered himself as sole director of the company. Intriguingly, the address he used is the work address of Heather Millgate, a solicitor specialising in personal injury, and a former director of Global Open, a private security firm.

Global Open was set up in 2001 by Rod Leeming, a former special branch officer. The company keeps a "discreet watch" on protest groups for clients including E.ON.

It first came to public attention in 2007 when it was implicated in the case of Paul Mercer, a friend of the then Conservative shadow defence minister, Julian Lewis, who was exposed by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade of spying for the arms firm BAE.

Until Leeming left the police in 2001, he admits he regularly infiltrated undercover operatives into protest groups in his role as head of the Animal Rights National index. But he insists Global Open does not infiltrate activist groups. He told the Guardian the company only advises firms on security. However, Global Open appears to have access to well-sourced intelligence.

A confidential document produced by Global Open for another company interested in plans to attack the E.ON-owned power station at Kingsnorth in Kent dismissed the idea there would be violence.

"The aim of the protests is to cause economic damage to ensure that the cost of building more coal-fired power plants becomes prohibitive," it stated. "There is no threat of violence to persons from any of the groups concerned, despite newspaper reports to the contrary."

Leeming told the Guardian the company had never employed Kennedy. He did, however, confirm that Tokra was set up for a "reason" but he could not say what it was – only that it was a confidential matter between Kennedy and Millgate. Today, Millgate declined to comment when asked why Tokra had been set up.

Leeming added that Millgate left Global Open last year on good terms because she wanted to set up her own business. A flurry of official paperwork followed.

In February last year, Millgate went from being a marketing manager to a director of Global Open. On 31 March, Tokra changed its address from Millgate's work address to one in Basingstoke.

Last spring, Kennedy set up a second firm – Black Star High Access Limited – in east London. That company name also appears to have been taken from a television science fiction programme: Black Star is the name of a spaceship in Babylon 5.

On 12 April, Kennedy applied for Tokra to be dissolved. Within a few days of that application, he resigned from the police. Tokra was finally dissolved on the 17 August. On 31 August, Millgate resigned as director of Global Open. Black Star High Access has not yet filed any records to reveal whether it is a viable, financial concern, but it is still active.

Another friend of Kennedy said the implication he went on to work for private security firms "fits perfectly" with his behaviour. Kennedy was becoming agitated and, unusually for someone who earned the nickname "Flash" for his impressive wealth, he started running out of money around the time he resigned.

"He asked to borrow money – and that was after we now know he resigned from the Met," the friend said.

But if Kennedy was seeking to use the fake identity provided by police to continue his life as a spy, there was one crucial obstacle: he would almost certainly have had to hand in his fake driving licence and passport, meaning he would need to travel abroad under his real name.

This explains why, after maintaining his cover for seven years, he made such an amateur error of allowing friends to find his real passport, bearing the name Kennedy. "Mark must have known he had a ticking timebomb in his pocket when he travelled abroad," the friend said.

His curious activities in Italy recently also point clearly to his having obtained a new employer. In September, Kennedy – a meat eater who had never previously shown an interest in animal rights campaigns – confounded friends by attending a gathering of interested activists in Milan.

Alex Long, a former member of the Wombles, an anti-capitalist group, received his last contact from Kennedy around this time, after sending him a text message to raise funds for the legal campaign for a fellow activist.

"The last time I spoke to Mark was in September 2010, a few weeks before he was outed," said Long. "I texted him to try to raise money for the legal costs of a friend who is facing jail. He just replied: 'I'm in Milan at an animal rights gathering – I'll donate €50'."

 

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Undercover police officer accused Icelandic police of 'brutality'

Mark Kennedy claimed authorities incited 'potentially fatal' violence towards people protesting against construction of a dam

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Mark Kennedy Mark Kennedy accused Icelandic police of acting with 'ignorance and [a] complete disregard for the safety of people around them'. Photograph: Guardian

Mark Kennedy, the undercover policeman who posed as an environmental activist for seven years and helped found the protest movement in Iceland, accused the country's police of brutality and inciting "potentially fatal" violence towards protesters.

Kennedy made the accusations in an article he wrote for a book about the 2005 protest in Iceland against the Kárahnjúkar dam. It was so powerful that activists later used it in evidence against the police in a court case.

In the article, Kennedy accused police of acting with "ignorance and [a] complete disregard for the safety of people around them".

He added: "Their inability to address the situation could have been potentially fatal and certainly encouraged acts of violence by the security guards without fear of retribution.

"The police's ignorance and inabilities is to our advantage," he warned. "Their lack of understanding is our element of surprise.

"In effect they and their governmental and corporate puppet masters are startled and confounded by the tide of protest and direct action," he added. "The environmental destruction that is happening throughout Iceland and beyond will continue to be protested and fought against whatever police tactics or corporate intimidation."

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament for the Movement party, was a co-editor of the book. "There were discussions about the book and who would or could write about different bits and pieces among the activists. Kennedy wanted to write about police brutality against the activists," she said. "I thought his piece was honest and was happy to include it."

In an email Kennedy wrote to Jónsdóttir when he sent her the article, he explained why he felt compelled to write it: "I have not really done this before but really wanted to give my interpretation of the collusion between police and Impregilo [the construction company] and the subsequent danger that their actions brought to people on the second blockade."

A campaigner who was at the 2005 protest and knew Kennedy well said the article was "very much in tune with the general feeling among the people in the camp at the time. But," he added, " I find it interesting how little attention he brings to … the reasons for taking this action."

Ólafur Páll Jónsson, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland and author of a book on issues concerning the environment and democracy, said the article accurately describes the "utter inability of the police to deal decently with the situation".

"It also draws out the close relation between the police and the private security guards that may be questionable," he added. "But I find it having little bearing on what I find to be the main issue, which is the relation to the UK police and their reasons for sending someone to Iceland."

 

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Mark Kennedy: In hiding after blowing £2million undercover police operation

Mark Kennedy: In hiding after blowing £2million undercover police operation

The story of Mark Kennedy is in many ways a sad one. Several years of pretending to be someone else have left him marked for life.

All his old loyalties, to family and colleagues, have been wrecked or compromised. He cannot ever again be the person he once was.

Those who thought they knew him, in any of his guises, now realise that they did not really know him at all.

This is very much the world of John le Carré, of double and triple agents, of elaborately faked identities, layer upon layer, with the truth forgotten somewhere at the bottom of it all.

Le Carré’s spy novels often cast doubt on the value of such tricks and twists, even for the sake of national security in the midst of a vast global conflict.

There must be even greater doubts when the target is a group of eco-activists, or even animal liberation militants.

This is not just because the stakes are smaller. Nor is it because in this case it failed hopelessly, though it did.

Ultimately, a British police officer is sworn to uphold the law. The spy or the security agent has no such clear duty. Yet Mark Kennedy constantly

witnessed breaches of the law, or was present at the planning of lawless actions. He can be accused – at the very least – of condoning lawlessness by failing to act against it.


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If the authorities believe that the threat from any group is so serious and dangerous that it should be infiltrated, then we have a large and well-funded Security Service which is much better-suited to the task.

Why do we even have such a body as the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, which turned Mr Kennedy into a spook?

The police sometimes give the impression of having watched too much TV, and so fallen in love with a glamorous image of law enforcement, which has little to do with the real world of unsafe streets, burglary and low-level disorder.

While the public want George Dixon, too many police officers want to star in Spooks or to be James Bond – and too many of their bosses want to be M.

They should be brought back down to earth, for their own sakes as well as for ours.


BP forced into a corner


BP’s new deal with Russia is bound to cause alarm.

The Kremlin’s behaviour towards the oil industry and those who run it has been ruthless and predatory.

Vladimir Putin’s government does not inspire much trust and has shown itself quite capable of using its oil and gas resources to buy influence and to blackmail weaker neighbours.

American politicians have been quick to condemn the agreement.

They would be wise to recall that BP is already badly damaged by Washington’s attacks upon it after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

And it may well be that US oil companies will one day follow suit, as the new fields of the Russian Arctic open up.

BP has always been a pioneer in its industry, venturing where others hesitated to go.

No doubt this project is fraught with risks – physical, commercial and political.

But it is unlikely that the company, bold as it is, would have taken this step if it had not been pushed into a corner by the crowd-pleasing, anti-British rhetoric of Barack Obama.

 

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