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 {{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Robert Lambert|Alias=Bob Robinson|Series=undercover police officers|Image=PX_A_07.016.jpg|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1983 or 1984<ref name="DATE DISCREPENCY">The [[Evans/Lewis book]] states that Lambert first met ‘Charlotte’, AKA Jacqui, in 1983, “the first year of his deployment”. This is slightly contradicted by the account in ''The New Yorker'' piece, which is based upon interviews with Jacqui, in which it is said the two met “in early 1984”. In his 2013 interview with Andy Davies for ''Channel 4 News'', Lambert himself implies that it could not have been 1983, with the words “I must say, in 1984 when I adopted that identity [Bob Robinson]…” In a 2014 article for an academic journal, Lambert himself strongly implies that his undercover tour began in June 1984 and ended in December 1988 (see Robert Lambert, [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2013.847262 ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’]. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rter20/7/1 ''Critical Studies on Terrorism''] Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014)).</ref> until 1988|Targets=Animal liberation and anti-authoritarian movements}}
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	{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar\|Name=Robert Lambert\|Alias=Bob Robinson\|Series=undercover police officers\|Image=PX_A_07.016.jpg\|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad\|DatesDeployed=1983 or 1984<ref name="DATE DISCREPENCY">The [[Evans/Lewis book]] states that Lambert first met ‘Charlotte’, AKA Jacqui, in 1983, “the first year of his deployment”. This is slightly contradicted by the account in ''The New Yorker'' piece, which is based upon interviews with Jacqui, in which it is said the two met “in early 1984”. In his 2013 interview with Andy Davies for ''Channel 4 News'', Lambert himself implies that it could not have been 1983, with the words “I must say, in 1984 when I adopted that identity [Bob Robinson]…” In a 2014 article for an academic journal, Lambert himself strongly implies that his undercover tour began in June 1984 and ended in December 1988 (see Robert Lambert, [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2013.847262 ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’]. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rter20/7/1 ''Critical Studies on Terrorism''] Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014)).</ref> until 1988\|Targets=Animal liberation and anti-authoritarian movements}}		{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar\|Name=Robert Lambert\|Alias=Bob Robinson\|Series=undercover police officers\|Image=PX_A_07.016.jpg\|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad\|DatesDeployed=1983 or 1984<ref name="DATE DISCREPENCY">The [[Evans/Lewis book]] states that Lambert first met ‘Charlotte’, AKA Jacqui, in 1983, “the first year of his deployment”. This is slightly contradicted by the account in ''The New Yorker'' piece, which is based upon interviews with Jacqui, in which it is said the two met “in early 1984”. In his 2013 interview with Andy Davies for ''Channel 4 News'', Lambert himself implies that it could not have been 1983, with the words “I must say, in 1984 when I adopted that identity [Bob Robinson]…” In a 2014 article for an academic journal, Lambert himself strongly implies that his undercover tour began in June 1984 and ended in December 1988 (see Robert Lambert, [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2013.847262 ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’]. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rter20/7/1 ''Critical Studies on Terrorism''] Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014)).</ref> until 1988\|Targets=Animal liberation and anti-authoritarian movements}}
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	'''Robert Lambert''', commonly known as '''Bob Lambert''' and sometimes styled '''Dr Robert Lambert MBE''', born February or March 1952,<ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref><ref name="AMD318">[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/qG6pw3DCdlL13FE5zIoypWs-7vM/appointments ‘ROBERT LAMBERT’], Companies House website, 2016 (accessed 25 May 2016).</ref><ref name="LAMBERT BIRTH DATE">It should be noted that in all his Companies House registrations, Lambert's birth month is given as March 1952, whereas in her ''New Yorker'' article Lauren Collins states very specifically that “Bob’s real birthday is sixteen days earlier” than that of the original Mark Robert Charles Robinson, whose identity Lambert stole, which would put it at 12 February 1952. It is possibly that Collins meant sixteen days ''later'', in which case it would be 16 March 1952.</ref> , is a former [[Metropolitan Police]] officer turned academic.		'''Robert Lambert''', commonly known as '''Bob Lambert''' and sometimes styled '''Dr Robert Lambert MBE''', born February or March 1952,<ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref><ref name="AMD318">[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/qG6pw3DCdlL13FE5zIoypWs-7vM/appointments ‘ROBERT LAMBERT’], Companies House website, 2016 (accessed 25 May 2016).</ref><ref name="LAMBERT BIRTH DATE">It should be noted that in all his Companies House registrations, Lambert's birth month is given as March 1952, whereas in her ''New Yorker'' article Lauren Collins states very specifically that “Bob’s real birthday is sixteen days earlier” than that of the original Mark Robert Charles Robinson, whose identity Lambert stole, which would put it at 12 February 1952. It is possibly that Collins meant sixteen days ''later'', in which case it would be 16 March 1952.</ref> , is a former [[Metropolitan Police]] officer turned academic.

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 In the words of founder Dr Abdul Haqq Baker, the Lambeth-based islamic youth outreach project ‘Strategy To Reach Empower and Educate Teenagers’ (also known as ‘STREET UK’) was set up “to provide alternative and safe environments for young Muslims to interact and comfortably express themselves among peers sharing ideas, aspirations and concerns.”<ref name="AAC026p330">Anthony [Abdul Haqq] Baker, [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.510929''Countering Terrorism in the UK: A Convert Community Perspective''], University of Exeter, University of Exeter, November 2009 (accessed 18 November 2014), p330.</ref> It should be noted that STREET, whilst not officially incorporated until 2008, had been mooted as a project at least as early as 2006,<ref name="AAC026p326">Baker notes at n1121 in his doctoral thesis that the first draft of the proposal outlining what would become STREET was dated 16 June 2006. See: Anthony [Abdul Haqq] Baker, [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.510929''Countering Terrorism in the UK: A Convert Community Perspective''], University of Exeter, University of Exeter, November 2009 (accessed 18 November 2014), p326.</ref><ref name="ART047pp75-76">Rachel Briggs, Catherine Fieschi & Hannah Lownsbrough, [http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Bringing%20it%20Home%20-%20web.pdf?1240939425 ''Bringing it Home: Community-based approaches to counter-terrorism''], DEMOS, December 2006 (accessed 16 April 2014), pp75-76.</ref> and by Baker's account was active from March 2007<ref name="AMD185">Abdul Haqq Baker, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232918/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/staff/baker/ahbaker.html ''Dr Abdul Haqq Baker staff profile page''], -, 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref><ref name="AAC026p160">Anthony [Abdul Haqq] Baker, [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.510929''Countering Terrorism in the UK: A Convert Community Perspective''], University of Exeter, University of Exeter, November 2009 (accessed 18 November 2014), p160.</ref> (though some other sources put STREET's foundation as taking place in 2006).<ref name="ART093">Jack Barclay, [http://globalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/barclay_policybrief_1114.pdf ''Strategy to Reach, Empower, and Educate Teenagers (STREET): A Case Study in Government-Community Partnership and Direct Intervention to Counter Violent Extremism''], Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, December 2011(accessed 21 November 2014).</ref>
-STREET was set up as a company by two Hertfordshire-based business registration services, Qa Nominees Ltd and Qa Registrars Ltd.<ref name="AMD186">Companies House, [http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06584548/STRATEGY-TO-REACH-EMPOWER-AND-EDUCATE-TEENAGERS-STREET-UK-LIMITED/directors-secretaries ''STRATEGY TO REACH EMPOWER AND EDUCATE TEENAGERS (STREET UK) LIMITED''], Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref>. Its business address - both in terms of a registered and a trading address - was given as 54 Anson Road in Cricklewood, north-west London.
+STREET was set up as a company by two Hertfordshire-based business registration services, Qa Nominees Ltd and Qa Registrars Ltd.<ref name="AMD186">Companies House, [http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06584548/STRATEGY-TO-REACH-EMPOWER-AND-EDUCATE-TEENAGERS-STREET-UK-LIMITED/directors-secretaries ''STRATEGY TO REACH EMPOWER AND EDUCATE TEENAGERS (STREET UK) LIMITED''], Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref>. Its business address - both in terms of a registered and a trading address - was given as 54 Anson Road in Cricklewood, north-west London - the house having been owned by Mohamed Ahmed Kagzi since 1985.<ref name="LAMBERT BUSINESS"/>
 Bob Lambert was appointed director<ref name="AMD189">Companies House, [http://companycheck.co.uk/director/913079172 ''ROBERT LAMBERT''], Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref> with Dr Abdul Haqq Baker, the initiator of STREET.<ref name="AMD190">Companies House, [http://companycheck.co.uk/director/905719180 ''ABDUL HAQQ BAKER''], Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref><ref>STREET was set up as a company on 6 May 2008, it was nearly two weeks -  before any directors were appointed: Lambert on 18 May and Dr Abdul Haqq Baker on 19 May.</ref>
 Lambert started this company after his retirement from the Met, but before he took up his posts at either St. Andrews University or the University of Exeter.<ref name="TIMELINE">See [[Bob Lambert Career Timeline|Lambert's career timeline]] for contextualisation.</ref>) A salafi convert from Brixton, Baker worked with Lambert at least as far back as 2002, when MCU made contact with leading members of Brixton Mosque in the wake of the arrest of attempted ‘shoe-bomber’ Richard Reid<ref name="ABK077pp155-156">Robert Lambert, ''Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership'', Hurst & Company, 2011, pp155-156.</ref>, and they subsequently became academic colleagues. This academic partnership began at St. Andrews University, where - like Lambert - Baker lectured on the CSTPV Terrorism Studies course; and continued at the University of Exeter, where Baker was a research fellow in the EMRC run by Lambert.<ref name="AWB239">Palgrave Macmillan, [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/extremists-in-our-midst-abdul-haqq-baker/?K=9780230296541 ‘About the Author: Abdul Haqq Baker’], ''Palgrave Macmillan'', 2011 (accessed 18 April 2015).</ref><ref name="BAKER LAWRENCE">Curiously, Baker himself points towards the failure of the police investigation into the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence (“and ensuing ineptitude”) as highly pre-eminent amongst the “negative pre-conversion experiences” of many black (and some white) British muslim converts, who then “continue to view statutory authorities and governmental agencies with mistrust.” Quite how he now sees Lambert's own involvement in subverting the Macpherson Inquiry and various family and justice campaigns through his work as SDS manager and facilitator of the meeting between Richard Walton and Brixton-based undercover officer ‘N81’ remains to be seen. See: Anthony [Abdul Haqq] Baker, [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.510929''Countering Terrorism in the UK: A Convert Community Perspective''], University of Exeter, University of Exeter, November 2009 (accessed 18 November 2014), p331.</ref>

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-After being pulled out of his SDS undercover tour, Lambert was redeployed elsewhere in MPSB, first finding a new home in E Squad,<ref name="ABK085p55">Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ''Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police'', Faber & Faber, 2013, p55.</ref> which dealt with worldwide terrorist threats<ref name="AMD178/"> (excluding those related to Northern Ireland, which were handled by B Squad).<ref name="ASL304">unknown author, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1511542/Commander-John-Wilson.html ‘Commander John Wilson’], ''Daily Telegraph'', 27 February 2006 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref><ref name="PRO105">Paula Gilford, [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paula-gilford/38/125/122 ''LinkedIn profile of Paula Gilford''], LinkedIn.com website, 2014 (accessed 25 November 2014).</ref><ref name="ABK127p586">Nigel West, ''Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence'', Scarecrow Press, 2005, p586.</ref>
+After being pulled out of his SDS undercover tour, Lambert was redeployed elsewhere in MPSB, first finding a new home in E Squad,<ref name="ABK085p55">Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ''Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police'', Faber & Faber, 2013, p55.</ref> which dealt with worldwide terrorist threats<ref name="AMD178"/> (excluding those related to Northern Ireland, which were handled by B Squad).<ref name="ASL304">unknown author, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1511542/Commander-John-Wilson.html ‘Commander John Wilson’], ''Daily Telegraph'', 27 February 2006 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref><ref name="PRO105">Paula Gilford, [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paula-gilford/38/125/122 ''LinkedIn profile of Paula Gilford''], LinkedIn.com website, 2014 (accessed 25 November 2014).</ref><ref name="ABK127p586">Nigel West, ''Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence'', Scarecrow Press, 2005, p586.</ref>
 In his 2011 book (and elsewhere<ref name="ASL181p298">Richard Jackson, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17539150802184678  ‘Counter-terrorism and communities: an interview with Robert Lambert’], ''Critical Studies on Terrorism'' volume 1 number 2, August 2008 (accessed 16 June 2014), p298.</ref>), Lambert refers to how “in the 1980s Special Branch officers would meet Sikh community representatives in London to discuss the terrorist threat posed by Sikh extremists,”<ref name="SIKHSpp241-242">Robert Lambert, ''Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership'', Hurst & Company, 2011, pp241-242; he references this from ‘participant observation’ of a number of Special Branch officers and an interview with a further officer.</ref> a theme he returned to in a Chatham House lecture where he explicitly noted the involvement of E Squad (“a wonderful department”).<ref name="AMD004">Dr Bob Lambert & Professor Rosemary Hollis, [http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Meetings/Meeting%20Transcripts/210911lambert_Q&A.pdf ''Partnering with the Muslim Community as an Effective Counter-Terrorist Strategy''], Chatham House, 20 September 2011 (accessed 17 April 2014).</ref> However, in neither version is it clear whether he himself was involved in this community engagement work with Sikhs.

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 After divorcing his first wife, Lambert was later remarried to Julia<ref name="CAQxi">Robert Lambert, ''Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership'', C Hurst & Co, 2011, p.xi.</ref> (referred to in the ''New Yorker'' as ‘Katharine’<ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref>).
-As well as the aforementioned Lambert family home in Hertfordshire in the 1980s, by the late 1990s Lambert is described as living in a house in north London.<ref name="ART007p235">Mark Ellison QC, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf ''Stephen Lawrence review: volume 1''], HMSO, 2014 p235 (accessed 16 April 2014). The Ellison Review quotes Richard Walton as saying that he attended a meeting with Lambert and SDS undercover officer ‘N81’ at “Bob Lambert's personal address...in North London.”
+As well as the aforementioned Lambert family home in Hertfordshire in the 1980s, by the late 1990s Lambert is described as living in a house in north London.<ref name="ART007p235">Mark Ellison QC, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf ''Stephen Lawrence review: volume 1''], HMSO, 2014 p235 (accessed 16 April 2014). The Ellison Review quotes Richard Walton as saying that he attended a meeting with Lambert and SDS undercover officer ‘N81’ at “Bob Lambert's personal address...in North London.”</ref>
 Further to his October 2011 exposure as a police infiltrator, in January 2012 he was publicly identified as having fathered a child<ref name="FRANCIS">The son of Jacqui and Lambert has subsequently been identified by ''The New Yorker'' and others as ‘Francis’.</ref> by Jacqui (previously pseudonymised as ‘Charlotte’<ref name="PSEUDO">See page on [[pseudonyms]] for more on the various names used as different times to refer to individuals targeted by police infiltrators.</ref>), an animal rights activist on whom he had spied.<ref name="GN7.022">Rob Evans, Paul Lewis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists  ‘Undercover police had children with activists’], ''Guardian'', 40928 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref> Jacqui only discovered that the man she had known as ‘Bob Robinson’, who got her pregnant in 1984<ref name="UC47">Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ''Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police'', Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p47, (accessed 8 November 2014)</ref> but disappeared in 1988, had in fact been an undercover policeman when she saw a newspaper story with his photograph in it in June 2012.<ref name="GN7.033">Rob Evans, Paul Lewis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/21/anatomy-of-betrayal-undercover-police  ‘Anatomy of a betrayal: the undercover officer accused of deceiving two women, fathering a child, then vanishing’], ''Guardian'', 41326 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref><ref name="MO7.005">Suzannah Hills, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274563/Mother-claims-missing-father-child-undercover-policeman-accused-MP-leaving-bomb-department-store.html?ito=feeds-newsxml ‘Mother claims missing father of her child was undercover policeman accused by MP of leaving bomb in department store’], ''Mail Online'', 6 February 2013 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref><ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref>

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	In October 2011 he was publicly exposed as having been a police spy by some of the [[London Greenpeace]] activists upon whom he had spied.<ref name="IM7.001">London Greenpeace, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/486877.html ‘Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference’], ''IndyMedia UK'', 40831 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref>		In October 2011 he was publicly exposed as having been a police spy by some of the [[London Greenpeace]] activists upon whom he had spied.<ref name="IM7.001">London Greenpeace, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/486877.html ‘Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference’], ''IndyMedia UK'', 40831 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref>
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	The profile of Bob Lambert presented here is the first of a collection, it will supplemented by additional pages covering specific areas of interest over time:		The profile of Bob Lambert presented here is the first of a collection, it will supplemented by additional pages covering specific areas of interest over time:

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 In October 2011 he was publicly exposed as having been a police spy by some of the [[London Greenpeace]] activists upon whom he had spied.<ref name="IM7.001">London Greenpeace, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/486877.html  ‘Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference’], ''IndyMedia UK'', 40831 (accessed 8 November 2014).</ref>
-The profile of Bob Lambert presented here is the first of a collection, it will supplemented by additional pages covering specific areas of interest over the next few weeks:
+The profile of Bob Lambert presented here is the first of a collection, it will supplemented by additional pages covering specific areas of interest over time:
 * [[Bob Lambert as Bob Robinson]]
 * [[Bob Lambert Exposure and Post-Exposure]]
 * [[Bob Lambert and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]]
 * [[Bob Lambert Consultancy]]
-* [[Bob Lambert Gallery]]
+* [[Bob Lambert and the Academic Community]]
+* [[Bob Lambert and the Muslim Community]]
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 {{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Robert Lambert|Alias=Bob Robinson|Series=undercover police officers|Image=PX_A_07.016.jpg|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1983 or 1984<ref name="DATE DISCREPENCY">The [[Evans/Lewis book]] states that Lambert first met ‘Charlotte’, AKA Jacqui, in 1983, “the first year of his deployment”. This is slightly contradicted by the account in ''The New Yorker'' piece, which is based upon interviews with Jacqui, in which it is said the two met “in early 1984”. In his 2013 interview with Andy Davies for ''Channel 4 News'', Lambert himself implies that it could not have been 1983, with the words “I must say, in 1984 when I adopted that identity [Bob Robinson]…” In a 2014 article for an academic journal, Lambert himself strongly implies that his undercover tour began in June 1984 and ended in December 1988 (see Robert Lambert, [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2013.847262 ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’]. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rter20/7/1 ''Critical Studies on Terrorism''] Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014)).</ref> until 1988|Targets=Animal liberation and anti-authoritarian movements}}
-'''Robert Lambert''', commonly known as '''Bob Lambert''' and sometimes styled '''Dr Robert Lambert MBE''' (born February<ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref> or March 1952<ref name="Duedil">Companies House, [https://www.duedil.com/director/913079172/robert-lambert ‘Mr Robert Lambert’ (company director profile)], ''DueDil.com'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref>), is a former [[Metropolitan Police]] officer turned academic.
+'''Robert Lambert''', commonly known as '''Bob Lambert''' and sometimes styled '''Dr Robert Lambert MBE''', born February or March 1952,<ref name="ASL193">Lauren Collins, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2 ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’], ''The New Yorker'', August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).</ref><ref name="AMD318">[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/qG6pw3DCdlL13FE5zIoypWs-7vM/appointments ‘ROBERT LAMBERT’], Companies House website, 2016 (accessed 25 May 2016).</ref><ref name="LAMBERT BIRTH DATE">It should be noted that in all his Companies House registrations, Lambert's birth month is given as March 1952, whereas in her ''New Yorker'' article Lauren Collins states very specifically that “Bob’s real birthday is sixteen days earlier” than that of the original Mark Robert Charles Robinson, whose identity Lambert stole, which would put it at 12 February 1952. It is possibly that Collins meant sixteen days ''later'', in which case it would be 16 March 1952.</ref> , is a former [[Metropolitan Police]] officer turned academic.
 A long-serving officer with the [[Special Branch|Metropolitan Police Special Branch]], Lambert was a key member of its secretive [[Special Demonstration Squad]]. He served both as an undercover officer - using the false identity ‘[[Bob Robinson]]’ to infiltrate the environmental and animal rights protest movement in the 1980s - and then later as an influential manager of the unit in the 1990s.