Details
Targeted by:
HN106 'Barry Tompkins' (1982 - 1983)
At least spied on:
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Overview

The Irish Freedom Movement was a Revolutionary Communist Party front-organisation. Launched in 1982, it campaigned against British rule in Northern Ireland, a successor to the Smash the Prevention of Terrorism Act Campaign. 

Wound down in 1994, the Irish Freedom Movement was listed as a main target in the 1982-1985 SDS annual reports. The group was spied on by HN106 ‘Barry Tompkins’, HN19 ‘Malcolm Shearing’ and HN25 ‘Kevin Douglas’, but was not a main target for any of these undercover police officers.

Reports

CSV
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
MI5
UCPI0000027519
MI5 note for liaison file after discussion between Dave Short, Martin Gray and F6 listing current SDS officers with RF numbers and the groups they're infiltrating, held at the SDS office on 11 March 1982, inc MI5 briefings on the SWP (attached)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000018243
Report submitting Revolutionary Communist Party's report of the North London Irish Freedom Movement delegation to Derry and Belfast at Easter 1982 titled 'What We Saw of the Irish War' (attached)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS_0747794
Special Branch Annual Report 1982
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0748355
Huge report entitled ‘Political Extremism and the Campaign for Police Accountability within the Metropolitan Police District’
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0730904
SDS Annual Report 1982, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000019211
Report on upcoming street meeting organised by the Irish Freedom Movement to celebrate the RCP's election 'success', to be held outside Camden Tube on 18 June 1983
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0730902
SDS Annual Report 1984, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000010194
Report on a meeting held at Lambeth Town Hall by the Time To Go campaign regarding the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland.