Blacklist Support Group seeks judicial review over the inquiry into undercover policing.

 

Dave Smith - Blacklist Support Group

I gather that Dave Smith of the Blacklist Support Group (BSG), will not be called to give evidence before the Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing. Dave says that the inquiry has told him that he has nothing to say.

Many blacklisted construction workers and trades unionists, were spied upon by undercover Special Branch police officers of the SDS. I understand that the BSG are seeking a judicial review over the inquiry's decision not to call Dave Smith to give evidence. It is known that these undercover police officers as well as MI5 officers, shared intelligence they had gathered on people with employers, that led to some construction workers being blacklisted.

The undercover police officer, John Dines, used the alias, John Barker, to spy on members of London Greenpeace. I believe that London Greenpeace had been infiltrated by that many private investigators, that Dines had to tell them to fuck off. When the beef burger chain, McDonald's, sued two London Greenpeace members, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, for libel, they were given pro-bono legal advice by the young socialist lawyer, Keir Starmer. Dines attended some of these meetings with Starmer and intelligence was shared by the police, with McDonald's.

Helen Steel and Dave Morris were sued because of a leaflet they had distributed called "What's Wrong With Macdonald's?" What they didn't know at the time, was that the leaflet, had been largely written by another undercover Special Branch officer called Bob Lambert, who used the alias, Bob Robinson. Both Lambert and Dines, entered into sexual relationships with female activists. One of those women, described Lambert as “very seductive.” Another activist described Lambert as an “expert on anarchism.”