N officers 3

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Part of a series on the Undercover Policing Inquiry
N Officers list
Description:	A list of N & HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)

Police officers cited in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry Operation Herne which investigated the activities of the Special Demonstration Squad undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by Mark Ellison for his Review and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.

• For a general introduction into the cypher system, see N Officers (main page).
• For N officers with numbers <100, see N officers part 1.
• For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see N officers part 2.
• For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see N officers part 4.

• Updated 3 August 2018

N series officers part 3 (300-399)

Cypher	Name (italics for cover name only)	Position	Notes
HN300	Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford	SDS undercover	Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.
HN301	Bob Stubbs	SDS undercover	Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.
HN302	restricted	SDS undercover	Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in True Spies. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.
HN303	Peter Collins	SDS undercover	1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.
HN304	Graham Coates	SDS undercover	1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.
HN306	to come	SDS back office / management	20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively. No application for restriction order made so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN307	to come	SDS back office / management	20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively. No application for restriction order made so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN308	to come	SDS back office / management	April 2018: no application made. 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team. so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN311	to come	SDS back office / management	20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team. April 2018: no application made. so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN314	to come	SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.	11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018. No application made so real name will be published. No cover name. Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessment of HN30.
N315	unknown	other	Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).
HN318	Ray Wilson	SDS back office / management	Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course. No cover name.
HN321	Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis	SDS undercover	Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.
HN322	cover name lost	SDS undercover	Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.
HN323	Helen Crampton	SDS undercover	Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made so real name to be used in due course. so real name will be published.
HN325	Conrad Dixon	SDS back office / management	Real name to be published in due course. No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN326	Douglas Edwards	SDS undercover	1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.
HN327	Dave Fisher	SDS undercover	Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.
HN328	Joan Hillier	SDS back office / management	No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course. No cover name.
HN329	John Graham	SDS undercover	Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.
HN330	Don de Freitas	SDS undercover	Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.
HN331	cover name lost	SDS undercover	Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. Application made over real name. Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow): HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace. May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.
HN332	restricted	SDS manager	Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.
HN333	restricted	SDS undercover	Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.
HN334	Margaret White	SDS undercover & back office	Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of Don de Freitas (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.
HN335	Michael Tyrell, cover name lost	SDS undercover	No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name. which will be used in due course. Deceased.
HN336	Dick Epps	SDS undercover	Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.
HN337	restricted	SDS undercover and manager	Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.
HN338	cover name lost	SDS undercover	Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. 27 September 2017: Application over real name made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'. May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.
HN339	Stewart Goodman	SDS undercover	Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement & International Socialists. Real name restricted.
HN340	Alan Nixon	SDS undercover	Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.
HN341	restricted	SDS undercover	Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.
HN342 / 299	David Hughes	SDS	Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement. 13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote: HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche. 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May. July 2018: application delayed. Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released. 21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019. MPS open application to restrict real name 17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted. The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.
HN343	John Clinton	SDS undercover	Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974. Real name restricted.
HN344	Ian Cameron	SDS undercover	Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League. Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.
HN345	Peter Fredericks	SDS undercover	Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.
HN346	Jill Mosdell	SDS	Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published. It is unclear if she was an undercover or simply management.
HN347	Alex Sloan	SDS undercover	Deployed into the Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front 1971. Real name restricted.
HN348	Sandra	SDS undercover	Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.
HN349	restricted	SDS undercover & back office	Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.
HN350	to come	SDS back office	No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.
HN351	Jeff Slater	SDS undercover	1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.
HN353	Gary Roberts	SDS undercover	1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.
HN354	Vincent Harvey a.k.a. Vince Miller	SDS undercover	1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Had sexual relationships
HN355	restricted	SDS undercover	Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.
HN356/124	Bill Biggs	SDS undercover	Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.
HN358	to come	SDS back office / management	Apr 2018: no application made so real name will be published. No cover name.
N367	unknown	other	SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253). Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application. 30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.
HN371	Phil Saunders	SDS management

• Numbers <100
• Numbers 100-299
• Numbers 400 and higher