OMFG-Undercover police had children with activists

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists
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Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal.

In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers – whom they have not seen in decades – were police officers who had adopted fake identities to infiltrate activist groups. Both men have concealed their true identities from the children's mothers for many years.

One of the spies was Bob Lambert, who has already admitted that he tricked a second woman into having a long-term relationship with him, as part of an intricate attempt to bolster his credibility as a committed campaigner.

The second police spy followed the progress of his child and the child's mother by reading confidential police reports which tracked the mother's political activities and life.

The disclosures are likely to intensify the controversy over the long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups.
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i have no words

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Your Tax Dollars At Work!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. I believe this happened in the UK...

[Bruce Wayne]

9. Your Stamp Act duties at work...

[font face="Baskerville Old Face" size="4"]By Rum, I'll be d_______d if I'll pay one Farthing for Quartering those ne'er-do-well Lobsterbacks in my own Barne![/font]

[pinboy3niner]

13. LOL!

[Zalatix]

12. If it happened in the UK it happened here, too.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Good point.

If it had been here, those dollars would have gone into outfitting million dollar SWAT teams to kick down doors and drag cancer grannies off to prison for smoking pot.

But, yeah, after I posted that I noticed the .uk thing. My bad.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Parasites stealing the taxpayers dollars.

[Capitalocracy]

3. This is a very serious human rights violation.

Not to mention the fact that they're total deadbeat dads.

[Starry Messenger]

5. That's about as low as you can sink.

[RZM]

6. The Stasi did something simliar during the Cold War

Traditionally, sex had been often used in espionage through 'honey traps,' which was the practice of using attractive women to sleep with a target in the hope that he would reveal sensitive information to her.

But the East German secret police (Stasi) came to the conclusion that you could engage in longer-term operations by planting male moles who would seduce and then enter into long-term relationships with women who worked in fields of interest to the Stasi. This was less likely to produce bombshell finds (since relatively few women occupied high positions in government and intelligence during the Cold War), but it was more likely to produce a steady stream of less sensitive information over a much longer period of time. One problem they found was that after years of life like that, the Stasi plants often developed genuine feelings for their partners and were reluctant to betray or use them.

It's interesting what this says about gender roles and how intelligence agencies perceived them. When tricking a man, they used sex. When tricking a woman, they used love and commitment.

[Octafish]

7. It's how the game is played.

Real pros really would walk over their own mothers.

If that's how they treat their children, think what they would do to someone to whom they are not related?

[malaise]

15. That's the sad truth

[jeff47]

8. You apparently have 4 words.....

/snark

(and kick)

[valerief]

10. Psychopathia Incorporated. nt

[Zalatix]

11. Oh, dear. Where's my mother ship?

Get me off this planet, now. This world is just too sick and I lost my cell phone to call for my ride back to Planet Sanity...

[Louisiana1976]

17. I'm with you. Beam me up, Scotty--there's no intelligent life here.

[Solly Mack]

14. K&R

[JackRiddler]

18. How the hell is this not rape?