Lady Jane Birdwood

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Jane Birdwood was a right-wing spokeswoman and Holocaust denier, with ties to racist and anti-union organisations including the National Front, the British National Party, the World Anti-Communist League and the Immigration Control Association.

In September 1968, after Birdwood raised public-order concerns with the Metropolitan Police about the London anti-Vietnam war demonstration planned for 27 October, senior SDS officers visited her home to assuage her fears. 

The SDS officers reported that Birdwood was ‘politically well-informed’. The visit to Birdwood is covered in more detail in HN333 Cameron Sinclair’s profile. HN332 Cameron Sinclair Cameron Sinclair joined the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968. He held the rank of detective inspector, so would have been considered a manager, but his roles varied, and included some undercover work in branches of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. Sinclair left the SDS at the end of 1968, but returned as head of the unit between July 1971 and February 1972. He then oversaw the SDS as chief superintendent of S Squad. Full page: HN332 Cameron Sinclair

In 1994 Birdwood was prosecuted for distributing antisemitic literature.