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	* ''For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.''		* ''For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.''
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	==As an SDS officer==		==As an SDS officer==

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 {{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='HN302'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1970s|Targets=unknown}}
-'''HN302''' is the cipher given to a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercover officer deployed in the 1970s into one group via two other groups, none of which currently exist. They admit a fleeting sexual encounter through one of the latter two groups. Mitting states:<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018.</ref> The Inquiry Chair, John Mitting, has ruled that for the purposes of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, HN302 will be anonymous, with neither cover or real name to be released on grounds of risk to HN302.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/> However, they had previously appeared in the True Spies documentary under the pseudonym 'Brian'.<ref name="hn302.additional.info.2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN302-Additional_Text_to_MPS_Gisted_Risk_Asst-1.pdf Additional information to be read with the gisted risk assessment for HN302], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry', 2018, published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref>
+'''HN302''' is the cipher given to a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercover officer deployed in the 1970s into one group via two other groups, none of which currently exist. They admit a fleeting sexual encounter through one of the latter two groups. Mitting states:<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018.</ref> The Inquiry Chair, John Mitting, has ruled that for the purposes of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, HN302 will be anonymous, with neither cover or real name to be released on grounds of risk to HN302.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/> However, they had previously appeared in the ''True Spies'' documentary under the pseudonym 'Brian'.<ref name="hn302.additional.info.2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN302-Additional_Text_to_MPS_Gisted_Risk_Asst-1.pdf Additional information to be read with the gisted risk assessment for HN302], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry', 2018, published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref>
 * ''For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.''
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 ::<u>Interviewer</u>: But you betrayed those friendships.
 ::<u>Brian</u>: I don't regard it as a betrayal.
 Peter Taylor, the director of ''True Spies'', also wrote an article to promote the series for ''The Guardian'', in which Brian featured.<ref>Peter Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy Inside job], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2002 (accessed October 2019)</ref>

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 On cooperation with the security service, Taylor noted: 'Sometimes MI5 was also a recipient of the political intelligence they gleaned. "Occasionally somebody from MI5 would come to a meeting and ask, either individually or generally, if anybody could help with the identity of a photograph," says Brian.'
-* For more on Special Branch cooperating with ''True Spies'', see Eveline Lubbers, [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-story/ BBC True Spies series: Police happt to disclose information when it suits them], SpecialBranchFiles.uk project, 24 March 2016.
+* For more on Special Branch cooperating with ''True Spies'', see Eveline Lubbers, [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-story/ BBC True Spies series: Police happy to disclose information when it suits them], SpecialBranchFiles.uk project, 24 March 2016.
 ==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==

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 ::<u>Brian</u>: I don't regard it as a betrayal.
-Peter Taylor, the director of ''True Spies'', also wrote an article to promote the series, for ''The Guardian'', in which Brian featured.<ref>Peter Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy Inside job], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2002 (accessed October 2019)</ref>
+Peter Taylor, the director of ''True Spies'', also wrote an article to promote the series for ''The Guardian'', in which Brian featured.<ref>Peter Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy Inside job], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2002 (accessed October 2019)</ref>
 The undercover officers were called the 'hairies' because of their new looks: 'As most police officers at the time sported short back and sides, certain adjustments had to be made to fit their new personae. Brian says he looked "outrageous with shoulder-length hair and bushy beard six inches beneath the chin".'

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 ==Appearance in ''True Spies''==
-The officer, under the alias 'Brian', makes a number of appearances in the first episode of ''True Spies'', the 2002 BBC Two documentary series on the Special Demonstration Squad.<ref name="truespies.1">[https://vimeo.com/83980556 True Spies - Episode 1: Subverting the subversives], ''BBC Two'', 27 October 2002; [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html transcripts].</ref> The caption says he was 'Metropolitan Police Special Branch, 1968-92'.
+The officer, under the alias 'Brian', makes a number of appearances in the first episode of ''True Spies'', the 2002 BBC Two documentary series on the Special Demonstration Squad.<ref name="truespies.1">[https://vimeo.com/83980556 ''True Spies'' - Episode 1: Subverting the subversives], ''BBC Two'', 27 October 2002; [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html transcripts].</ref> The caption says he was 'Metropolitan Police Special Branch, 1968-92'.
 On living a new life and adapting a new personality:
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 On cooperation with the security service, Taylor noted: 'Sometimes MI5 was also a recipient of the political intelligence they gleaned. "Occasionally somebody from MI5 would come to a meeting and ask, either individually or generally, if anybody could help with the identity of a photograph," says Brian.'
 ==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==

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 The risk assessor found that there was high likelihood of harm and interference in HN302's life, including media attention if real or cover name was released. They also felt there was not a sufficient 'sterile corridor' between the real and cover name, so if the latter was released it would lead to the former.<ref name="hn302.ra.29Mar2018"/>
-==Appearance in ''True Spies=''=
+==Appearance in ''True Spies''==
 The officer, under the alias 'Brian', makes a number of appearances in the first episode of ''True Spies'', the 2002 BBC Two documentary series on the Special Demonstration Squad.<ref name="truespies.1">[https://vimeo.com/83980556 True Spies - Episode 1: Subverting the subversives], ''BBC Two'', 27 October 2002; [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html transcripts].</ref> The caption says he was 'Metropolitan Police Special Branch, 1968-92'.
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 ::<u>Brian</u>: Know, the ideology, know the language.
-The episode continues to interview Tariq Ali about another undercover, introduced as 'Dan', duplicating the keys of the Black Dwarf office to let others '- presumably MI5 -' intrude the premises. Ali says it's distressing to hear about people you trust, friends 'completely betraying you all the time'. ('Dan' used the cover name [Dick_Epps_(alias)|Dick Epps] and is known in the Inquiry as HN336). ''True Spies'' then cuts to Brian who also talks about friendship and betrayal:
+The episode continues to interview Tariq Ali about another undercover, introduced as 'Dan', duplicating the keys of the Black Dwarf office to let others '- presumably MI5 -' intrude the premises. Ali says it's distressing to hear about people you trust, friends 'completely betraying you all the time'. ('Dan' used the cover name [[Dick_Epps_(alias)|Dick Epps]] and is known in the Inquiry as HN336). ''True Spies'' then cuts to Brian who also talks about friendship and betrayal:
 ::<u>Brian</u>: They would probably feel that I abused the friendship. The fact of the matter is it was a friendship which I valued at the time, and I enjoyed, but the objective was to provide a service.

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	The risk assessor found that there was high likelihood of harm and interference in HN302's life, including media attention if real or cover name was released. They also felt there was not a sufficient 'sterile corridor' between the real and cover name, so if the latter was released it would lead to the former.<ref name="hn302.ra.29Mar2018"/>		The risk assessor found that there was high likelihood of harm and interference in HN302's life, including media attention if real or cover name was released. They also felt there was not a sufficient 'sterile corridor' between the real and cover name, so if the latter was released it would lead to the former.<ref name="hn302.ra.29Mar2018"/>
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		+	==Appearance in True Spies==
		+	The officer, under the alias 'Brian', makes a number of appearances in the first episode of ''True Spies'', the 2002 BBC Two documentary series on the Special Demonstration Squad.<ref name="truespies.1">[https://vimeo.com/83980556 True Spies - Episode 1: Subverting the subversives], ''BBC Two'', 27 October 2002; [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html transcripts].</ref> The caption says he was 'Metropolitan Police Special Branch, 1968-92'.
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		+	On living a new life and adapting a new personality:
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		+	::<u>Brian</u>: I adopted the identity of a Londoner who worked in the engineering field. I lived in a small flat and changed my lifestyle to be that person.
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		+	::<u>Commentary</u>: For Special Branch officers to blend into the alternative society required a complete makeover job.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: What did you all look like?
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: Grew a beard. Long hair. Outrageous.
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		+	Brian confessed that he almost crossed over to the other side, 'going native' in police jargon (the interviewer seems to miss the importance of this confession, focussing on dialectical materialism instead):
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		+	::<u>Archive</u>: Singing of Internationale
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: I wouldn't say I became a revolutionary - but certainly there were times when I became very close to being native...
		+	::<u>Archive</u>:“Ho-Ho Ho Chi Minh!”
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: I seemed to develop, take on board the aims and objectives of the people I was infiltrating,
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: So you became a Marxist revolutionary?
		+	::<u>Brian:</u>: Yeah.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: Take part in debates?
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: Take part in debates, chair meetings.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: You became an expert on dialectical materialism?
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: Almost. Difficult subject to master.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: But you had to.
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: Yeah, the theory.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: You had to read the books, know the language.
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: Know, the ideology, know the language.
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		+	The episode continues to interview Tariq Ali about another undercover, introduced as 'Dan', duplicating the keys of the Black Dwarf office to let others '- presumably MI5 -' intrude the premises. Ali says it's distressing to hear about people you trust, friends 'completely betraying you all the time'. ('Dan' used the cover name [Dick_Epps_(alias)\|Dick Epps] and is known in the Inquiry as HN336). True Spies then cuts to Brian who also talks about friendship and betrayal:
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		+	::<u>Brian</u>: They would probably feel that I abused the friendship. The fact of the matter is it was a friendship which I valued at the time, and I enjoyed, but the objective was to provide a service.
		+	::<u>Interviewer</u>: But you betrayed those friendships.
		+	::<u>Brian</u>: I don't regard it as a betrayal.
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		+	Peter Taylor, the director of True Spies, wrote some articles to promote the series, for the ''BBC'' website and for ''The Guardian'' in which Brian featured.
		+
		+	The undercover officers were called the 'hairies' because of their new looks: 'As most police officers at the time sported short back and sides, certain adjustments had to be made to fit their new personae. Brian says he looked "outrageous with shoulder-length hair and bushy beard six inches beneath the chin".'
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		+	Taylor wrote that Brian infiltrated the Troops Out Movement in the early days of the Irish conflict: 'Being a hairy was nerve-wracking and dangerous. Infiltrating the Troops Out Movement, with its Irish republican connections (as Brian did) or the Anti-H Block campaign (as other hairies did), or working on the fringes of terrorist organisations such as the Angry Brigade or the Free Wales Army was a high-risk and potentially life-threatening operation.'
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		+	On cooperation with the security service, Taylor noted: 'Sometimes MI5 was also a recipient of the political intelligence they gleaned. "Occasionally somebody from MI5 would come to a meeting and ask, either individually or generally, if anybody could help with the identity of a photograph," says Brian.'

	==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==		==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==