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Local Radio,06 Jun 2024,33 mins

SeriesThe Spycops

12. The children

Undercover

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Officers from the ‘Special Demonstration Squad’, known as the SDS, are revealed. This secretive police department has been spying on activists since 1968 and two officers fathered children with their targets. ‘Rosa’, ‘Jacqui’ and Helen Steel talk about their former partners who were later revealed to be Jim Boyling, Bob Lambert and John Dines. Also, activist John from Oxford and Lawyer Mike Schwarz discuss John's appeal after originally being convicted over a planned protest at Ratcliffe on Soar power station.

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