Paul Mercer - Revision history

Eveline at 14:47, 10 April 2018

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Eveline at 10:35, 19 May 2015

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Josh Leeson at 09:33, 4 May 2015

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Josh Leeson at 09:19, 4 May 2015

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Tom Griffin: intro

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Melissa Jones at 12:08, 31 August 2014

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Melissa Jones: /* BAE */

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Melissa Jones: typo

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Tom Griffin: /* =BAE */

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=BAE

Tom Griffin: BAE etc

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BAE etc

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==The Vision of St Kinnock==
According to [[Brian Crozier]], ''The vision of St Kinnock'', a pamphlet attributed to Mercer which appeared in the run-up to 1987 election, was actually an initiative of Crozier's secretive private intelligence network, [[The 61]]. Crozier describes Mercer as "one of the best of our activists."<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993, p.278.</ref>

===BAE==
It emerged in 2007 that Mercer was involved in monitoring the [[Campaign against the Arms Trade]] (CAAT) for defence firm [[BAE]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>

BAE's head of security [[Michael McGinty]], and a colleague, [[Martin Carroll]], ran the operation through another company [[Global Open Ltd]], which contracted Mercer's company, [[LigneDeux Associates]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>

Mercer obtained a CD with details of CAAT's confidential legal advice, which he passed to McGinty at the end of 2006. This came to light when it was disclosed to CAAT by BAE's lawyers, [[Allen & Overy]] in legal proceedings.<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>

Following the disclosure the ''Guardian'' interviewed MP [[Julian Lewis]] about his relationship with [Mercer:
::Mr Lewis, Conservative MP for New Forest East, denied last night having any knowledge of Mr Mercer's work for BAE. He said: "I worked closely with Paul in the 1980s. He became a Conservative councillor and he did a lot of good work exposing the far left."

::Asked if he had been in touch with Mr Mercer during his recent undercover BAE work, Mr Lewis said: "I am in social contact with him. I regard him as a friend."<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>

==External Resources==
*Campaign Against the Arms Trade, [http://www.caat.org.uk/issues/sfo/CAATvMercer-briefing.pdf Campaign Against the Arms Trade v Paul Mercer & Lignedeux Associates - Briefing (pdf)]
*[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/02/473761.html Corporate Spy was active Nottingham], 9 February 2011.
*Richard Bartholomew, [http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/paul-mercer-the-spy-who-came-into-the-spotlight/ Paul Mercer: The Spy Who Came into the Spotlight], Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 12 February 2011.

==Notes==
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 <td align="center">30/05/2013</td>
 <td align="center">Paul S Mercer</td>
-<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
+<td align="center">£2,000.00</td>
 <td align="center">[[Conservative Party]]</td>
 <td align="center">Loughborough</td>

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	[[Paul Mercer]] has been decribed by the ''Guardian'' as 'a corporate investigator with a history of spying on political campaigners'.<ref>Johnny McDevitt, Rob Evans and Meirion Jones, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/01/nicky-morgan-accepts-donation-from-corporate-spy-paul-mercer Cabinet minister accepted donation from corporate spy], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2015.</ref>		[[Paul Mercer]] has been decribed by the ''Guardian'' as 'a corporate investigator with a history of spying on political campaigners'.<ref>Johnny McDevitt, Rob Evans and Meirion Jones, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/01/nicky-morgan-accepts-donation-from-corporate-spy-paul-mercer Cabinet minister accepted donation from corporate spy], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2015.</ref>

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	::Asked if he had been in touch with Mr Mercer during his recent undercover BAE work, Mr Lewis said: "I am in social contact with him. I regard him as a friend."<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>		::Asked if he had been in touch with Mr Mercer during his recent undercover BAE work, Mr Lewis said: "I am in social contact with him. I regard him as a friend."<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
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		+	==Political donations==
		+	Donations recorded by the Electoral Commission:<ref> Electoral Commission [http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/?currentPage=1&rows=10&query=Paul%20Mercer&sort=AcceptedDate&order=desc&tab=1&et=pp&et=ppm&et=tp&et=perpar&et=rd&prePoll=false&postPoll=true Search: 'Paul Mercer'], accessed 4 May 2015.</ref>
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		+	<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Date</th>
		+	<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Name of donor</th>
		+	<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Amount</th>
		+	<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Donated to</th>
		+	<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Subsidiary (parties only)</th>
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		+	<td align="center">30/05/2013</td>
		+	<td align="center">Paul S Mercer</td>
		+	<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
		+	<td align="center">[[Conservative Party]]</td>
		+	<td align="center">Loughborough</td>
		+	</tr>
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		+	<tr>
		+	<td align="center">28/10/2013</td>
		+	<td align="center">Paul S Mercer</td>
		+	<td align="center">£1,220.00</td>
		+	<td align="center">[[Conservative Party]]</td>
		+	<td align="center">Loughborough</td>
		+	</tr>
		+	</table>
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	==External Resources==		==External Resources==

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		+	[[Paul Mercer]] has been decribed by the ''Guardian'' as 'a corporate investigator with a history of spying on political campaigners'.<ref>Johnny McDevitt, Rob Evans and Meirion Jones, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/01/nicky-morgan-accepts-donation-from-corporate-spy-paul-mercer Cabinet minister accepted donation from corporate spy], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2015.</ref>
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	==The Vision of St Kinnock==		==The Vision of St Kinnock==
	According to [[Brian Crozier]], ''The vision of St Kinnock'', a pamphlet attributed to Mercer which appeared in the run-up to 1987 election, was actually an initiative of Crozier's secretive private intelligence network, [[The 61]]. Crozier describes Mercer as "one of the best of our activists."<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993, p.278.</ref>		According to [[Brian Crozier]], ''The vision of St Kinnock'', a pamphlet attributed to Mercer which appeared in the run-up to 1987 election, was actually an initiative of Crozier's secretive private intelligence network, [[The 61]]. Crozier describes Mercer as "one of the best of our activists."<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993, p.278.</ref>

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 It emerged in 2007 that Mercer was involved in monitoring the [[Campaign against the Arms Trade]] (CAAT) for defence firm [[BAE]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
-BAE's head of security [[Michael McGinty]], and a colleague, [[Martin Carroll]], ran the operation through another company [[Global Open Ltd]], which contracted Mercer's company, [[LigneDeux Associates]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
+BAE's head of security [[Michael McGinty]], and a colleague, [[Martin Carroll]], ran the operation through another company [[Global Open]] Ltd, which contracted Mercer's company, [[LigneDeux Associates]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
 Mercer obtained a CD with details of CAAT's confidential legal advice, which he passed to McGinty at the end of 2006. This came to light when it was disclosed to CAAT by BAE's lawyers, [[Allen & Overy]] in legal proceedings.<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>

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 Mercer obtained a CD with details of CAAT's confidential legal advice, which he passed to McGinty at the end of 2006. This came to light when it was disclosed to CAAT by BAE's lawyers, [[Allen & Overy]] in legal proceedings.<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
-Following the disclosure the ''Guardian'' interviewed MP [[Julian Lewis]] about his relationship with [Mercer:
+Following the disclosure the ''Guardian'' interviewed MP [[Julian Lewis]] about his relationship with Mercer:
 ::Mr Lewis, Conservative MP for New Forest East, denied last night having any knowledge of Mr Mercer's work for BAE. He said: "I worked closely with Paul in the 1980s. He became a Conservative councillor and he did a lot of good work exposing the far left."
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 ==External Resources==
 *Campaign Against the Arms Trade, [http://www.caat.org.uk/issues/sfo/CAATvMercer-briefing.pdf Campaign Against the Arms Trade v Paul Mercer & Lignedeux Associates - Briefing (pdf)]
-*[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/02/473761.html Corporate Spy was active Nottingham], 9 February 2011.
+*[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/02/473761.html Corporate Spy was active in Nottingham], 9 February 2011.
 *Richard Bartholomew, [http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/paul-mercer-the-spy-who-came-into-the-spotlight/ Paul Mercer: The Spy Who Came into the Spotlight], Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 12 February 2011.
 ==Notes==
 <references/>

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 According to [[Brian Crozier]], ''The vision of St Kinnock'', a pamphlet attributed to Mercer which appeared in the run-up to 1987 election, was actually an initiative of Crozier's secretive private intelligence network, [[The 61]]. Crozier describes Mercer as "one of the best of our activists."<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993, p.278.</ref>
-===BAE==
+==BAE==
 It emerged in 2007 that Mercer was involved in monitoring the [[Campaign against the Arms Trade]] (CAAT) for defence firm [[BAE]].<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
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 ::Mr Lewis, Conservative MP for New Forest East, denied last night having any knowledge of Mr Mercer's work for BAE. He said: "I worked closely with Paul in the 1980s. He became a Conservative councillor and he did a lot of good work exposing the far left."
 ::Asked if he had been in touch with Mr Mercer during his recent undercover BAE work, Mr Lewis said: "I am in social contact with him. I regard him as a friend."<ref>Rob Evans and David Leigh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/19/bae.armstrade?INTCMP=SRCH BAE spy named by campaigners is friend of leading Tory], The Guardian, 19 April 2007.</ref>
 ==External Resources==