The Document Database presents all documents released by the UCPI, plus a Library of background material - the latest documents first.
The Inquiry documents can be filtered by date, tranche, spycop, group and more, and searched by keyword. For ease of navigation they are in three separate databases:
Disclosure is where you will find all files released by the Inquiry as part of its investigations. This includes the contemporaneous reports of spycops, managerial correspondence and notes of meetings with MI5.
Statements and Transcripts has all witness statements, and opening and closing statements, as well as the transcripts of the hearings.
Procedural includes all documents from the start of the Inquiry in 2015 until the hearings began in 2020.
The Library is a collection of background material to the spycops scandal - essentially relevant reading sourced outside the Inquiry, including the various early reviews.
The filtering fields follow the material: date, author, type, originator/publisher.
Report submitting SWP restricted weekly internal information sheet of 31 Aug 1982 discussing a proposed one day strike in solidarity with hospital workers (attached)
MI5 note for liaison file reporting on meeting between HN68, Dave Short and F6 to discuss MI5's intelligence requests and SDS officers, held at SDS offices on 10 Sept 1982
Report on upcoming public meeting of S London Troops Out Movement to protest against Kenneth Newman becoming Met Commissioner, to be held at Abeng Centre, Gresham Road, Brixton on 27 Oct 1982, inc letter asking for sponsorship of the event (attached)
Report on public meeting of East London Troops Out Movement inc Gareth Pierce and Pat Finucane on the Prevention of Terrorism Act, held at the Hackney Trades Club, 96 Dalston Lane E8 on 20 Sept 1982
Report submitting minutes of a Troops Out Movement National Steering Committee meeting, held at the Prince Albert pub, Wharfdale Road on 13 Sept 1982 and a TOM report on the Ireland visit delegation report back meeting (both attached)
Report on plans by Socialist Workers Party to organise a national mobilisation of their membership to attend the Right to Work Campaign picket of the Tory conference in Brighton on 8 Oct 1982
Report on Troops Out Movement National Delegate Conference (HN96 is membership and affiliation secretary), held at University of Manchester on 11 Sept 1982, inc numerous conference docs (attached)
Report on public meeting of East London Workers Against Racism to discuss the upcoming deportation of Afia Begum, held at the Brady Club, Hanbury Street E1 on 29 Sept 1982
Memo from DCI Short to Chief Superintendent of 'S' Squad requesting reinstatement of HN126's overtime payments on Police Pay Computer, inc list of 13 UCOs with their operational start dates and expected finish dates
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between HN68, Dave Short and F6 to discuss liaison between the two services and progress of SDS officers, held at Curzon St House on 20 Oct 1982
Report on the Right to Work Campaign demo outside the Tory conference, held at Brighton Conference Centre on 8 Oct 1982, inc 49 pages of docs relating to campaign finances and arrests (attached)
Report on public meeting of Newham 8 Defence Campaign discussing the recent arrests of eight Asian youths, held at East Ham Town Hall E6 on 28 Oct 1982
