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CND granted core participant status in spycops inquiry
Women victimised by undercover officers stage a protest outside the Metropolitan Police’s HQ in London
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ANTI-WAR campaigners have been granted core participant status in the ongoing undercover policing inquiry.
CND will be represented by the Public Interest Law Centre in the inquiry, which is now set to examine evidence that the peace organisation was targeted for infiltration by both the Metropolitan Police’s special branch and its special demonstration squad in the 1980s.
According to files released under a 30-year disclosure rule, special branch officers snooped on a number of CND events, including a national demonstration in October 1983 attended by over 200,000 people.
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