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Overview

True Spies is the three-part BBC documentary aired in 2002 that revealed the existence of secret undercover UK police body ‘The Hairies’, also known as the Special Demonstration Squad. 

Journalist Peter Taylor interviewed former Special Branch officers, including some former SDS undercover officers. Although the Special Branch hierarchy consented to officers speaking on camera, some former SDS officers were appalled, feeling that their unit’s secrecy had been compromised.

True Spies, Episode 3.

Reports

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MPS-0009971
Transcript of 'True Spies' extract relating to Ali and Tomlinson
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Tariq Ali
UCPI
MPS-0527568
True Spies: The Guardian article ‘Inside job’ by Peter Taylor
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Tariq Ali
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MPS-0527571
BBC News article: 'True Spies - Subverting the subversives'
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Tariq Ali
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MPS-0527578
Guardian article: 'How the hairies spied on the lefties' by Richard Norton-Taylor
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Tariq Ali
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UCPI0000031845
Transcript of True Spies Episode 1
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Peter Hain
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UCPI0000031845
True Spies Transcript Episode 1
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Sir Charles Pollard
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UCPI0000034224
True Spies Transcript Episode 2
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Sir Charles Pollard
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UCPI0000034225
True Spies Transcript Episode 3
Exhibit to the Witness Statement of Sir Charles Pollard

References

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BBC
True Spies - Ep2 - Transcript
Undercover Research Group
Richard Norton-Taylor
How the hairies spied on the lefties
The Guardian
Peter Taylor
Inside job
The Guardian
Daniel Foggo, David Bamber
BBC accused of putting MI5 agents' lives at risk
The Telegraph
Undercover Policing Inquiry hears Workers’ Revolutionary Party evidence
Hodge Jones & Allen