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	'''Rick Gibson''' is the alias of a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) undercover police officer. He was active for two years between 1974 - 1976, when he infiltrated the South East London branch of the Troops Out Movement (TOM) and took on roles at the national level in the organisation. He then sought to become a member of Big Flame, but his lack of political background caused suspicion. Big Flame found out that Gibson had lied about his background and was using the identity of a deceased child. Confronted with these finding in 1976, ‘Gibson’ disappeared; and the story was never published.		'''Rick Gibson''' is the alias of a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) undercover police officer. He was active for two years between 1974 - 1976, when he infiltrated the South East London branch of the Troops Out Movement (TOM) and took on roles at the national level in the organisation. He then sought to become a member of Big Flame, but his lack of political background caused suspicion. Big Flame found out that Gibson had lied about his background and was using the identity of a deceased child. Confronted with these finding in 1976, ‘Gibson’ disappeared; and the story was never published.

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	''Note from Undercover Research Group: if anyone recalls 'Rick Gibson' from his time in the Troops Out Movement or Big Flame,'' [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net ''please get in touch'']. ''We appreciate that these events took place 45 years ago, and we also welcome corrections on how we have portrayed the history of the organisations mentioned.		''Note from Undercover Research Group: if anyone recalls 'Rick Gibson' from his time in the Troops Out Movement or Big Flame,'' [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net ''please get in touch'']. ''We appreciate that these events took place 45 years ago, and we also welcome corrections on how we have portrayed the history of the organisations mentioned.
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 On 26 February 2020, the Undercover Policing Inquiry granted 'Mary's application to become a core participant in the Inquiry.<ref name = ucpi.rlrruling.26Feb2020>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200126-rulings-CP_34-RLR_28-costs_27-san.pdf Core Participants Ruling 34 / Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 28 / Costs of legal Representation Awards Ruling 27], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 February 2020.</ref>
-''Note from Undercover Research Group: if anyone recalls 'Rick Gibson' from his time in the Troops Out Movement or Big Flame,''  [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net ''please get in touch'']. ''We appreciate that these events took place 45 years ago, and we also welcome corrections on how we have portrayed the history of the organisations mentioned.''
+''Note from Undercover Research Group: if anyone recalls 'Rick Gibson' from his time in the Troops Out Movement or Big Flame,''  [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net ''please get in touch'']. ''We appreciate that these events took place 45 years ago, and we also welcome corrections on how we have portrayed the history of the organisations mentioned.
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-{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Rick ? / HN297|Alias=Rick Gibson|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1974-1976|Targets=Troops Out Movement, Big Flame}}
+{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Richard Clark / HN297|Alias=Rick Gibson|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1974-1976|Targets=Troops Out Movement, Big Flame}}
 '''Rick Gibson''' is the alias of a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) undercover police officer. He was active for two years between 1974 - 1976, when he infiltrated the South East London branch of the Troops Out Movement (TOM) and took on roles at the national level in the organisation. He then sought to become a member of Big Flame, but his lack of political background caused suspicion. Big Flame found out that Gibson had lied about his background and was using the identity of a deceased child. Confronted with these finding in 1976, ‘Gibson’ disappeared; and the story was never published.
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 '''Update February 2018.'''
-Mary, one of the women who had been in a relationship with Gibson, came forward and delivered [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-statement-from-Mary.pdf a powerful statement] on what had happened to her. The Inquiry has [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180130-ruling-anonymity-Mary.pdf granted Mary anonymity]. At the 6th February 2018 hearing, the Chair decided he is going to release Gibson's real name to 'Mary' because she has the moral right to know. More detail below.
+Mary, one of the women who had been in a relationship with Gibson, came forward and delivered [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-statement-from-Mary.pdf a powerful statement] on what had happened to her. The Inquiry has [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180130-ruling-anonymity-Mary.pdf granted Mary anonymity]. At the 6th February 2018 hearing, the Chair decided he is going to release Gibson's real name to 'Mary' because she has the moral right to know. His real name, she got to hear in May 2018, was Richard Clark - he is deceased. More detail below.
 * Eveline Lubbers, [http://undercoverresearch.net/2018/01/30/mary-sexual-targeting-was-always-part-of-the-spycops-tactics/ ‘Mary’ proves: sexual targeting was always part of spycops’ tactics], URG blog post, 30 January 2018.
-* Rob Evans, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/31/woman-reveals-police-spy-tricked-her-into-relationship-in-1970s Woman reveals police spy tricked her into relationship in 1970s], The Guardian, 31 January 2018.
+* Rob Evans, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/31/woman-reveals-police-spy-tricked-her-into-relationship-in-1970s Woman reveals police spy tricked her into relationship in 1970s], ''The Guardian'', 31 January 2018.
 ''Note from Undercover Research Group: if anyone recalls 'Rick Gibson' from his time in the Troops Out Movement or Big Flame,''  [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net ''please get in touch'']. ''We appreciate that these events took place 45 years ago, and we also welcome corrections on how we have portrayed the history of the organisations mentioned.''
 == Deployment as 'Rick Gibson' ==
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 As more than 25 years had passed since Richard had last seen the person he had known as Rick and 'Brian's' face was partly covered in ''True Spies'', Chessum approached the BBC for confirmation and to ask if he could meet his former friend again. He wrote a long letter to Taylor with detailed memories of Gibson and the investigation into the suspicions (the six-page letter is used to compile the first draft of this profile).<ref name = RichardBBC/> It was months before Taylor answered (he claimed the letter never reached him the first time) and only to deny that the officer called ‘Brian’ in the series was Rick Gibson. He also wrote: '[W]hat you describe bears no relation to what I understand to be the experience of any of the undercover Special Branch officers I interviewed or met in the making of ''True Spies''’.<ref>Letter from Peter Taylor, reply to Richard Chessum, 13 March 2003</ref>
 * The first episode of ‘’True Spies’’ can be watched here: [https://vimeo.com/83980556 Subversive, my ass], (Brian appears at 14:00 min, then again a few times starting from 16:10); also see [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html the full transcripts].
 * For more on Peter Taylor's close cooperation with the MPS, its commissioner and Special Branch, including their correspondence, see [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-story/ The ''True Spies'' Story] at the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/ Special Branch Files Project] website, which also includes links to the other episodes and their transcripts.
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 :: I refuse to make a restriction order in respect of the real name unless, HN297 by 4pm on Thursday 8 March 2018, the Inquiry receives evidence which casts serious doubt on the evidence contained in the witness statement of 'Mary'.
-The Inquiry has subsequently said that 'no evidence casting doubt on 'Mary's witness statement was received' so the Chair did not review his decision. Gibson's real name has been released to 'Mary',<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> though as yet not further published.
+The Inquiry has subsequently said that 'no evidence casting doubt on 'Mary's witness statement was received' so the Chair did not review his decision. Gibson's real name has been released to 'Mary',<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> just to her, which was reported and critisized in this [https://undercoverresearch.net/2018/05/07/mary-received-the-real-name-of-spycop-rick-gibson/ Undercover Research Group blogpost] in May 2018. Also in the blog is 'Mary' response to the Inquiry,  questioning why it was send to her personally, and why the burden was put on her to decide whether to publish it or not.
 Issues relating to the application for anonymity of Rick Gibson's real name were also addressed in: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf the NPSCP submissions] by Phillippa Kaufmann, QC &amp; Ruth Brander of 5 October 2017<ref>Phillippa Kaufmann, QC &amp; Ruth Brander, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Submissions on behalf of the Non-Police, Non-State Core Participants re the Chairman's 'Minded To' note dated 3 August 2017 concerning restriction order applications], 5 October 2017 (accessed 3 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement] of Tamsin Allen, 18 December 2018.<ref>Tamsin Allen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement of Tamsin Allen], ''Bindmans Solicitors'', 18 December 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS submissions] of 5 February 2018.<ref>Jonathan Hall, QC, Amy Mannion &amp; Reka Hollos, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS Submissions Hearing 5 February 2018], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 February 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>
-''For more detail see:'' URG blogpost: [http://undercoverresearch.net/2018/01/30/mary-sexual-targeting-was-always-part-of-the-spycops-tactics/ ‘Mary’ proves: sexual targeting was always part of spycops’ tactics], 30 January 2018.
+''For more detail see:'' Eveline Lubbers, [http://undercoverresearch.net/2018/01/30/mary-sexual-targeting-was-always-part-of-the-spycops-tactics/ ‘Mary’ proves: sexual targeting was always part of spycops’ tactics], URG blogpost, 30 January 2018; and [https://undercoverresearch.net/2018/05/07/mary-received-the-real-name-of-spycop-rick-gibson/ ‘Mary’ received the real name of #spycop ‘Rick Gibson’], 7 May 2018.
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	Issues relating to the application for anonymity of Rick Gibson's real name were also addressed in: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf the NPSCP submissions] by Phillippa Kaufmann, QC & Ruth Brander of 5 October 2017<ref>Phillippa Kaufmann, QC & Ruth Brander, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Submissions on behalf of the Non-Police, Non-State Core Participants re the Chairman's 'Minded To' note dated 3 August 2017 concerning restriction order applications], 5 October 2017 (accessed 3 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement] of Tamsin Allen, 18 December 2018.<ref>Tamsin Allen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement of Tamsin Allen], ''Bindmans Solicitors'', 18 December 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS submissions] of 5 February 2018.<ref>Jonathan Hall, QC, Amy Mannion & Reka Hollos, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS Submissions Hearing 5 February 2018], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 February 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>		Issues relating to the application for anonymity of Rick Gibson's real name were also addressed in: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf the NPSCP submissions] by Phillippa Kaufmann, QC & Ruth Brander of 5 October 2017<ref>Phillippa Kaufmann, QC & Ruth Brander, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Submissions on behalf of the Non-Police, Non-State Core Participants re the Chairman's 'Minded To' note dated 3 August 2017 concerning restriction order applications], 5 October 2017 (accessed 3 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement] of Tamsin Allen, 18 December 2018.<ref>Tamsin Allen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement of Tamsin Allen], ''Bindmans Solicitors'', 18 December 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS submissions] of 5 February 2018.<ref>Jonathan Hall, QC, Amy Mannion & Reka Hollos, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS Submissions Hearing 5 February 2018], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 February 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>
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		+	The Inquiry has subsequently said that 'no evidence casting doubt on 'Mary's witness statement was received' so the Chair did not review his decision. Gibson's real name has been released to 'Mary',<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> though as yet not further published.

	''For more detail see:'' URG blogpost: [http://undercoverresearch.net/2018/01/30/mary-sexual-targeting-was-always-part-of-the-spycops-tactics/ ‘Mary’ proves: sexual targeting was always part of spycops’ tactics], 30 January 2018.		''For more detail see:'' URG blogpost: [http://undercoverresearch.net/2018/01/30/mary-sexual-targeting-was-always-part-of-the-spycops-tactics/ ‘Mary’ proves: sexual targeting was always part of spycops’ tactics], 30 January 2018.

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 However, after the hearing [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171205-anonymity-ruling-SD-Dec-2017.pdf Mitting decided] 'to wait for further information on HN297 from the non-state core participants' - from those spied upon.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171205-anonymity-ruling-SD-Dec-2017.pdf Ruling], Undercover Policing Inquiry,5 December 2017 (accessed February 2018)</ref> This means that instead of releasing the real name to allow others to come forward, such as possible former colleagues who might know more about Gibson's career, indications that something 'went wrong' are not enough for the Inquiry to take action. And despite the 'moral obligation' to deceived women, the latter first need to come forward to ask for disclosure in person. (By implication, this means that indirect evidence - in this case that of  Richard Chessum who had spoken to two of the women - is not enough for Mitting.) And the Inquiry does not actively look for women deceived by undercovers until now.
-In January 2018, Mary, one of the women who had been in a relationship with Gibson, came forward and delivered [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-statement-from-Mary.pdf a powerful statement] on what had happened to her. The Inquiry has [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180130-ruling-anonymity-Mary.pdf granted Mary anonymity], and at the 5th February 2018 hearing, the Chair decided he is going to release Gibson's real name to 'Mary' because she has the moral right to know. He also said that not granting n anonymity order does not 'automatically follow that the Inquiry will publish the real name'. It just means that if there is no restriction order their names will not be redacted if and when documents will be released in the evidence phase of the Inquiry.<ref>https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180502-transcript.pdf Draft transcript Hearing 5 February 2018], 5 February 2018, p98-99 (accessed February 2018)</ref> The MPS has been given until February 15 to make a submission for the family of the undercover officer, but Mitting has already made it clear that he is not minded to change his mind on releasing the name.<ref>https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180502-transcript.pdf Draft transcript Hearing 5 February 2018], 5 February 2018. p104-107 and 115 (accessed February 2018)</ref>
+In January 2018, Mary, one of the women who had been in a relationship with Gibson, came forward and delivered [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-statement-from-Mary.pdf a powerful statement] on what had happened to her. The Inquiry has [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180130-ruling-anonymity-Mary.pdf granted Mary anonymity], and at the 5th February 2018 hearing, the Chair decided he is going to release Gibson's real name to 'Mary' because she has the moral right to know. He also said that in not granting an anonymity order it does not 'automatically follow that the Inquiry will publish the real name'. Rather, it means that if there is no restriction order their names will not be redacted if and when documents will be released in the evidence phase of the Inquiry.<ref>https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180502-transcript.pdf Draft transcript Hearing 5 February 2018], 5 February 2018, p98-99 (accessed February 2018)</ref> The MPS were given until February 15 to make a submission for the family of the undercover officer, though Mitting made it clear that he is not minded to change his mind on releasing the name.<ref>https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180502-transcript.pdf Draft transcript Hearing 5 February 2018], 5 February 2018. p104-107 and 115 (accessed February 2018)</ref>
 Issues relating to the application for anonymity of Rick Gibson's real name were also addressed in: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf the NPSCP submissions] by Phillippa Kaufmann, QC &amp; Ruth Brander of 5 October 2017<ref>Phillippa Kaufmann, QC &amp; Ruth Brander, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Submissions on behalf of the Non-Police, Non-State Core Participants re the Chairman's 'Minded To' note dated 3 August 2017 concerning restriction order applications], 5 October 2017 (accessed 3 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement] of Tamsin Allen, 18 December 2018.<ref>Tamsin Allen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180123-WS-Tamsin-Allen-re-HN297-amended.pdf Witness Statement of Tamsin Allen], ''Bindmans Solicitors'', 18 December 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS submissions] of 5 February 2018.<ref>Jonathan Hall, QC, Amy Mannion &amp; Reka Hollos, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180201-MPS-submissions-for-hearing-on-5-Feb-2018.pdf MPS Submissions Hearing 5 February 2018], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 February 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 3 February 2018).</ref>

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 'N297 returned to the SDS later in his career in a non-undercover role.' He also worked in close protection duties at some point after ending his deployment as an undercover.<ref name="HN297.RA"/>
-'''Update November 2018'''
+'''Update November 2017'''
 At the November hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the Undercover Research Group revealed that Gibson had been in at least two, but maybe four relationships with women. It was clear that the Inquiry nor the police knew anything about this. The Chair immediately understood the importance of evidence that targeting women had been a practice from very early on. More detail below.