Bob Lambert Career Timeline

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Robert Lambert
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Alias: Bob Robinson
Deployment: 1983 or 1984[1] until 1988
Unit:
Targets:
Animal liberation and anti-authoritarian movements

This article gives a précis of the career of former Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer Bob Lambert, a notable undercover officer and subsequently manager in the Special Demonstration Squad, as well as his academic and other activities on leaving the Met.

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Bob Lambert police career timeline

1977-1980 - early years in the Met[2]

  • Between 1980 and 1984: Reputedly recruited into SDS, “soon after” having joined MPSB.[3]
  • September 1983: The month Lambert implies he is recruited into SDS.[7]


1983/1984-1988 - undercover with SDS

1983 - 1984

  • 28 February, told Belinda this was his birthday.[8]
  • 1983[3] or 1984:[9][10] Deployed undercover as ‘Bob Robinson’ tasked with infiltrating animal rights, environmental and other political activists.
  • June 1984: The month when Lambert himself implies his undercover deployment begins.[7][11]
  • To start with, Lambert just turned up at the kinds of publicly advertised demonstrations that rarely attracted more than a handful of uniformed police. He began on the fringes of radical protest, made friends, persuaded activists that he was useful, and then began the gradual process of working his way into the heart of the action.[12]
  • 1984[9][10] (or less likely) 1983[3]: Meets 22 year old activist Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) outside Hackney Town Hall during an animal rights demonstration; they soon start a relationship.
  • From 1983[3] or 1984[9][10] until at least 1986: Lambert living in a bedsit on Talbot Road in Highgate, North London.[13][14][15]
  • 6 September 1984: Takes part in an animal rights demonstration against dairy company Unigate taking place outside a company shareholder meeting at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane in London's upmarket Mayfair district.[12] ‘Robinson’ hand writes a flyer - headed “UNIGATE MURDERS ANIMALS” - which is duplicated and handed out at the protest.[19]
  • Christmas 1984: Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) conceives son by ‘Robinson’.[20]

1985

  • Christmas 1984 to Autumn 1985: ‘Robinson’ said to be “caring and supportive throughout the pregnancy.”[20]
  • Autumn 1985: ‘Robinson’ insists on visiting his dementia-stricken father in Cumbria even though Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) is due to give birth; actually he is most probably visiting wife and other children in Herefordshire. He arrives back just as Jacqui is going into labour. He is said to have been present throughout the 14 hour labour.[21]
  • Late 1985?: Attends picket of Murray's Meat Market butcher shop in Brixton, south London, where graphic leaflets are handed out. He is arrested under his false identity of ‘Bob Robinson’, and is understood to have made at least one appearance under that name at Camberwell Magistrates' Court.[17] Geoffry Sheppard remembers talking to Bob at this demonstration, so already knew him in 1985.[22]

1986

  • January 1986 (or December 1985) held up at knife point while urinating in a public loo at Brixton. Lambert wrote this to his friend Martyn Lowe who was horrified at the time, but now wonders if it there was any truth in the story other than having an excuse to visit a police station without suspicion.[23]
  • 1986 Lambert often went to pickets at Wapping, east London, with Jacqui. (1986 was a year of strikes and pickets, newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch took on the print unions by sacking 6,000 workers. There were regular confrontations between police and supporters of the strike – more than 1,200 people were arrested).[24]
  • 1986?: Authors A5 leaflet You Are The ALF! and a booklet called London ALF News.[16][25]
  • 1986?: Organises a benefit concert in aid of the ALF Supporters Group; uses some of the proceeds to buy etching fluid (or paint stripper[12]), which he subsequently claimed to have used to damage a car belonging to the director of an animal testing laboratory.[16]
  • 1986: Co-authors the What's Wrong With McDonald's? fact sheet[26] - which later precipitates the ‘McLibel’ case - with others in London Greenpeace.[27].
  • Summer 1986: Lambert hosts a party at his Talbot Road bedsit.[14]
  • July 1986: Appears as a sworn witness under his false ‘Bob Robinson’ identity at the retrial of Steve Curtis in relation to a demonstration at Grosvenor Square in April against the bombing by the USA of Libya.[28]

1987

  • January - February 1987: Attends trial of Ronnie Lee and the ‘Sheffield Cell’ of the ALF, with Geoffrey Sheppard and Paul Gravett.[29]
  • 1987: Estrangement develops between ‘Robinson’ and Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’).[30]
  • May 1987: Meets 24 year old non-activist Belinda Harvey (AKA ‘Karen’) at a party in Tottenham; they soon embark on a sexual relationship. He starts to spend most of his time at the east London house she shares with seven others.[31]
  • Summer 1987: Sleeping with Belinda Harvey (AKA ‘Karen’), Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) and his wife.[32]
  • 1987 Has “grotty” flat over a barber's on Graham Road in Hackney.[33] Belinda remembers staying there with him from summer 1987[8]
  • 11 July 1987: ALF cell comprising Lambert, Geoff Sheppard and Andrew Clarke plants incendiary devices in three Debenham's department stores around south-eastern England, located in Luton, Harrow and Romford as part of a firebombing campaign against stores selling furs. The devices are primed to go off after hours and to set off the sprinkler systems, damaging the stock. The Luton store's system was switched off for repair, and so a blaze took hold, at a reported cost in damage alone of £6.7 million. Together the three attacks were said to have cost anything up to £9 million.[34][35]
  • Late 1987: After around eighteen months together, ‘Robinson’ claims that Jacqui is “neglecting their sex life.”[30]

1988

  • Feb 1988 Belinda moves into the flat in Seaton Point - Nightingale Estate with two of ‘Robinson’s friends.[8]
  • March 1988 In a letter to another activist, Lambert explained how he was desperate to ensure that enough supporters were visiting Sheppard, who was on remand. ‘I just had a feeling that no one would be visiting him on the Sunday and I was getting very frustrated,’ he wrote.[36]
  • Spring 1988 Supporting Geoff and Andrew, visiting Geoff while he was on remand and in Wandsworth jail, bringing him a book on philosophy.[36]
  • May 1988: Bob moves in with Belinda (moving out of the Graham Rd flat - though he may have kept it on).[8]
  • Around June 1988: Brushes off the subject of parenthood with Belinda Harvey (AKA ‘Karen’) when she broaches it with him.[33]
  • 13 - 17 June 1988 Bob sets off daily to attend the trial of Geoff and Andrew for the Debenhams fires.[8]
  • Autumn 1988: flat on the Nightingale Estate in Hackney is raided early one morning by police officers from Special Branch, who say they are looking for ‘Robinson’. [37] [8] This is now understood as being part of Lambert's exit strategy.
  • October 1988 Belinda moved out of Seaton Point (the raid being one of the main reasons, but Bob stayed there for a few months longer.[8]
  • December 1988: Lambert cements his exit strategy with a ‘farewell’ weekend in the company of Belinda at the house of a friend in Dorset, before apparently leaving the country to evade capture by the police.[38][7]
  • Decenber 1988: Kept seeing Jacqui and their son until he left; Jacqui did not know of Belinda until 2012, when she found out about Lambert having been an undercover officer (see below) .[39]

1989

  • Early 1989: Belinda receives a postcard from ‘Robinson’ postmarked as having been sent from Valencia in Spain. Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) receives a similar one.[38]

1989-1993 - E Squad

  • Between June and December 1992: Tasked with secret investigation into former SDS undercover officer Mike Chitty by superiors within Special Branch.[41]
  • October 1993: Attends the 25th anniversary SDS reunion at the Victory Club near Marble Arch, along with around fifty other former and serving officers and managers.[42]


1993-1998 - Controller of Operations, SDS

  • May 1994: Finishes confidential report on Mike Chitty after almost two years of investigating.[41]
  • 1995: Receives a First from the Open University for his ‘Interdisciplinary’ BA Honours undergraduate degree.[49]
  • 1995: Present at meeting to discuss the sharing of intelligence product between the MI5 case officer responsible for monitoring Militant, Peter Francis and other SDS managers, held at the SDS safe house at Beaumont Road in Chiswick.[50]
  • Summer 1995: Acts as handler or cover officer on the first ever overseas SDS deployment when Peter Francis attends a YRE camp in a Bavarian forest. He spends most of his time in a hotel on expenses.[51]
  • 1997: Writes an SDS document entitled Withdrawal Strategy.[52]
  • September 1997: Signs Peter Francis' leaving card.[53]
  • January 1998: Writes a debriefing note following “a nice lunch at a nearby tandoori” with recently-exfiltrated undercover officer Peter Francis.[54]
  • 18 August 1998: Makes a file note of N81/Walton meeting for his senior managers.[55]

Late 1998-late 2001 - the ‘missing years’

  • 1998-2001: Lambert's ‘missing years’. If you have any information to share on Lambert's activities during this period, please get in touch.


2002-2007 - Muslim Contact Unit

  • 2003: Receives First from Birkbeck College, University of London, for his MA on Early Modern European Culture.[49]
  • 26 April 2007: Delivers a presentation to ‘Radicalisation in Denmark - Opportunities for Early, Co-ordinated Efforts’ counter-terrorism conference hosted by Danish intelligence agency PET.[64][65][66]
  • 27 September 2007: Attends small ceremony at New Scotland Yard to present Peter Francis with the commendation he had previously been cited for but never received. Also present is “the then head of the Yard's counter-terrorism intelligence command”[67], and one other unnamed person.[68] (It should be noted that in his account of this meeting to Mark Ellison QC, Peter Francis refers to the “Commander of Counter-Intelligence”.[69]) Lambert invites Francis to the 40th SDS anniversary reunion the following year.[70][71]
  • 11 November 2007: presented with an award for his work by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Shortly before his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in December 2007, Lambert was invited to the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, where he was presented with an award for his work with IHRC and the wider Muslim community. The award was inscribed “In appreciation for his integrity and commitment to promoting a fair, just and secure society for all, which, is a rarity and will be greatly missed”.[72]
  • December 2007: Retires from the Metropolitan Police after thirty years' service, with the rank of Detective Inspector.[73][74]


Bob Lambert post-police career timeline

2008-2011 - academic career (up until exposure)

  • 18 May 2008: Appointed director of Abdul Haqq Baker's salafi youth outreach project STREET.[75]
  • 7 June 2008: Presents paper entitled ‘Community Based Approaches to Counter-Terrorism in London’ at weekend-long ‘Muslim-Government Relations in Changing Security Contexts: Prospects for Transformation’ conference.[76]
  • 13 June 2008: Awarded MBE “for Services to the Police”.[77]
  • 2008-2011: Research Fellow at University of Exeter[78] in its Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.[79][49]
  • 23 July 2008: Attends the launch of the Islam Channel's 2008 Global Peace & Unity Event at the House of Lords.[80]
  • 27 October 2008: Presumed to have attended the 40th anniversary SDS reunion (from which Francis was blackballed).[70]
  • 18 November 2008: Extended ‘special thanks’ by academic Basia Spalek “for his significant help and support in his role as consultant and facilitator” on the publication of her report, Police-Muslim Engagement and Partnerships for the Purposes of Counter-Terrorism: an examination.[82]
  • 15 December 2008: Mentioned in stories highlighting the presence of Islam Channel founder Mohamed Ali Harrath[83] on Interpol's ‘Red Notice’ international extradition request list (in connection with his role in setting up the Front Islamique Tunisien in 1986 prior to claiming asylum in the UK in 1995) for his having written Harrath a letter of endorsement.[84][85] Similarly mentioned as supporting Harrath is Metropolitan Police Special Branch's Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Mitchell,[86] who had previously worked as a line manager for the NPOIU, the intelligence gathering and infiltration unit which first coexisted alongside Lambert's SDS, and by 2008 had supplanted it.[87] Harrath is claimed by some newspapers to have been an ‘advisor’ to the Muslim Contact Unit, though the Met denies this, no evidence is proffered, and no source cited. The claim is subsequently recycled elsewhere.[88][89][90][91][92][93][94] One notable supporter of Harrath through this is Telegraph and Spectator journalist Peter Oborne.[95][96]
  • 6 January 2009: Becomes director and company secretary of Siraat Ltd.[97]
  • 1 November 2009: Resigns as director of STREET.[75]
  • Early 2010: Awarded PhD from University of Exeter for his research dissertation The London Partnerships: an Insider’s Analysis of Legitimacy and Effectiveness.[98][99][49]
  • 28 January 2010: Launch of first major piece of research by Lambert and principal EMRC collaborator Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study.[100] In his foreword Peter Oborne calls it a “very powerful study”.[101]
  • 29 January 2010: Release of the Islamic Human Rights Commission report on the policing of protests in London in 2008-2009 against Israel's invasion of Gaza.[102] Lambert provides a positive review, calling it “precisely the kind of perspective the Met should engage with as it seeks to restore confidence in its unique tradition of public order policing in the capital”. He claims that the Met “is generally at its best when listening to its sternest critics”, and evokes the willingness of John Grieve (“who led the Met's radical and effective response to Lord Macpherson's stinging criticism at the conclusion of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry”) to do just that.[103]
  • 5 June 2010: Invited to speak on the platform of the ‘Stop Islamophobia: Defend the Muslim Community’ conference organised by Stop the War Coalition.[105][106] Other speakers include Daud Abdullah (Muslim Council of Britain), Mohamed Ali Harrath (Islam Channel), Anas al-Tikriti (Muslim Association of Britain/Stop the War Coalition/British Muslim Initiative/Cordoba Foundation), Moazzam Begg (CAGE), Lindsey German (SWP/Stop the War Coalition), Muhammad Habibur-Rahman (Islamic Forum of Europe), Salma Yaqoob (Respect Party), Kate Hudson (CND), Lawrence family lawyer Imran Khan and journalists Peter Oborne and Seumas Milne. Supporting organisations are listed as CND, Cordoba Foundation, Federation of Student Islamic Societies, Islam Channel, Islamic Forum of Europe, Islamophobia Watch, London Welfare House, National Union of Journalists, North London Central Mosque, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Unite.[107][108]

2011 presentation of book - exposure and aftermath

  • 7 September 2011: Appears on Radio 4 breakfast news programme Today to discuss his concerns with current government policy, and to plug his book, which is released later the same day.[109]
  • 7 September 2011: Lambert's book, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership,[110] is released. A launch reception is held at the Houses of Parliament, hosted by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Cordoba Foundation and the Council for Arab-British Understanding, organised by the “sophisticated and focused public affairs company” Raitt Orr & Associates.[111] Speakers include Ibrahim Hewitt (Interpal), Anas al-Tikriti (Muslim Association of Britain/Stop the War Coalition/British Muslim Initiative/Cordoba Foundation) and Chris Doyle (CAABU).[112][113][114]
  • 15 October 2011: Outed as a police spy by former London Greenpeace activists at a Unite Against Fascism/One Society Many Cultures conference held at Congress House in central London, the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress.[118][119][120]
  • 20 October 2011: SpinWatch publishes an open letter to Lambert calling on him to respond to the allegations that he infiltrated and spied upon London Greenpeace in the 1980s.[121] Also see: Bob Lambert and Spinwatch.
  • 20 October 2011: Lambert responds to the allegations about him in The Guardian with a ‘Comment Is Free piece’ in The Guardian. He refutes the notion that MCU is a Special Branch spying operation, and issues a notably narrow denial that he “did not recruit one Muslim Londoner as an informant nor did I spy on them.”[122][123]
  • 23 October 2011: Lambert responds to SpinWatch's open letter to him.[124][125] The Guardian also publishes excerpts.[126]
  • October 2011: According to journalist Rob Evans, Lambert quietly resigns from the University of Exeter in a move publicised by neither party.[127]
  • 16 December 2011: Eight women deceived into long term intimate relationships by Lambert and four other male undercover police officers begin legal proceedings against the Met.[128][129] [130]
  • 20 January 2012: The Guardian reveals that Lambert fathered a son with a woman activist whilst he was undercover in the 1980s.[131][123]
  • 1 February 2012: Publishes his “preliminary commentary” document, ‘Rebuilding Trust and Credibility’.
  • 7 February 2012: Delivers ‘Countering al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership’ lecture at Cardiff University's Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, “organised in conjunction with the Universities' Police Science Institute”.[132][133][134]
  • 9 February 2012: Animal rights activists disrupt a talk by Lambert at a public seminar entitled ‘Overcoming Obstacles: Counter-Terrorism Police and Community Engagement’ hosted by the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews.[135]
  • 13 June 2012: Lambert named under Parliamentary privilege by Caroline Lucas MP as the third person in an ALF cell targeting Debenhams department stories near London. She also reports on Geoff Sheppard's accusation that ‘Bob Robinson’ was the person tasked with planting the Harrow device, and that as it successfully set off the sprinkler system there, causing some £340,000-worth of damage, then Lambert must have been responsible.[123][139][140] In a statement to The Guardian Lambert denies that he committed “serious crime such as 'planting an incendiary device at the [Debenhams] Harrow store'“.[141]
  • 14 June 2012: The Daily Mail runs a front page story about Bob Lambert with a photograph him in the 1980s as ‘Bob Robinson’, following the accusations made the previous day by Caroline Lucas MP.[142] Jacqui (AKA ‘Charlotte’) sees the article with his photograph and finds out the father of her child had in fact been an undercover policeman. She telephones Lucas and explains she is the mother of Lambert's undercover baby; Lucas gives her the contact details of the lawyers acting for other women who had been in relationships with undercover officers.[143]
  • 15 June 2012: Lambert speaks to Jacqui for the first time in nearly 24 years since abandoning her and their son in late 1988, after she contacts him through St. Andrews University.[144]
  • September 2012: Takes up post as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the undergraduate Criminology & Law course at London Metropolitan University, working in the John Grieve Policing Centre.[49][145][146]
  • 1 July 2013: Appears on Channel 4 News to deny allegations made by Peter Francis that SDS undercover officers were tasked with finding “dirt” that could be “used against members of the Lawrence family and friends”.[44][45][46]
  • 7 April 2014: Publishes article in Critical Studies on Terrorism in which he defends his record as an academic, discusses (in broad terms) his work in Special Branch, and denies the “pejorative account” of him by Evans and Lewis.[7]
  • 24 June 2014: Siraat Ltd officially dissolved.[97]
  • 21 August 2014: The Crown Prosecution Service decides not to proceed with charges in relation to “alleged sexual misconduct”, such as rape, against former SDS undercover officers (including Lambert).[147]
  • 13 January 2015: Interview with French news magazine Le Point published.[148][149]
  • 23 December 2015: Lambert quit his jobs at both his academic posts, after campaigners had written to St Andrews' principal Louise Richardson.[150]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 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, ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’. Critical Studies on Terrorism Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014)).
  2. ↑ The accuracy of these years are in dispute. See the section entitled Robert Lambert, ‘Bob Robinson’, ‘Geoff’ and ‘Steve’ on the main Bob Lambert page for further discussion.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p27.
  4. ↑ Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, p6.
  5. ↑ Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, pxv.
  6. ↑ Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, pix.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Robert Lambert, ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’. Critical Studies on Terrorism Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Email from Belinda to URG, 2 May 2015
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 ‘Charlotte’, ‘Written evidence submitted by Tuckers Solicitors on behalf of their client “Charlotte” (UP 02)’, Home Affairs Select Committee, 28 February 2013 (accessed 16 March 2014).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Andy Davies, ‘I'm sorry, says ex-undercover police boss - video’, Channel 4 News, 5 July 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014).
  11. ↑ This approximate start date has been partially confirmed by a former London Greenpeace activist who has told us that ‘Robinson’ did not appear at the group's meetings until some time after the second ‘Stop The City’ demonstration - which took place on 29 March 1984.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p32.
  13. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p29.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p31. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "UC31LIFE" defined multiple times with different content
  15. ↑ According to a letter penned by ‘Robinson’ in early 1985 and seen by the author, Lambert's field address was 16 Talbot Road, London N6 4QR.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Paul Gravett, How Special Branch Spied on the Animal Rights Movement, self-published (via Buro Jansen & Janssen), September 2013 (accessed 16 March 2014).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p30.
  18. ↑ Eveline Lubbers, ‘McSpy - Bob Lambert’, Secret Manoeuvres In The Dark blog, 23 June 2012 (accessed 16 March 2014).
  19. ↑ Copy of leaflet supplied by former London Greenpeace activist.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p47.
  21. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p45.
  22. ↑ Email from Geoffry Sheppard, 26 November 2015
  23. ↑ Lambert, letter to Martyn Lowe, 7 January 1986
  24. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p168-169.
  25. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p35.
  26. ↑ London Greenpeace, ‘What's wrong with McDonald's? Everything they don't want you to know’, London Greenpeace (via McSpotlight), 1986 (accessed 16 March 2014).
  27. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p73
  28. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p169.
  29. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p34
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p49.
  31. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p50.
  32. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p52.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p51.
  34. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, pp35-39.
  35. ↑ David Henshaw, Animal Warfare, Fontana Paperbacks, 1989, pp111-112.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p40.
  37. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p53.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p54.
  39. ↑ Communication from Jacqui to URG, 7 December 2015
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p55.
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p82.
  42. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, pp24-25.
  43. ↑ Mark Ellison QC, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review: Volume One, Home Office, March 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014), p235.
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 Andy Davies, ‘Interview: Ex-Met's Bob Lambert on Stephen Lawrence smear’, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, 2 July 2013 (accessed 15 April 2014).
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Andy Davies, ‘I'm sorry, says ex-undercover police boss’, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, 5 July 2013 (accessed 15 April 2014).
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 Andy Davies, ‘Police ‘smear campaign’ into Lawrence family’, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, 18 September 2013 (accessed 15 April 2014).
  47. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p81.
  48. ↑ Mark Ellison QC, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review: Volume One, Home Office, March 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014), p213.
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 49.4 Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Robert Lambert, London Metropolitan University (accessed 3 April 2014).
  50. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p146-147.
  51. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p131-134.
  52. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p158.
  53. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p160.
  54. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p161.
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 Mark Ellison QC, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review: Summary of Findings, Home Office, March 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014), p23.
  56. ↑ Mark Ellison QC, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review: Volume One, Home Office, March 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014), p232.
  57. ↑ 57.0 57.1 Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence staff page, ‘Dr Robert Lambert - Lecturer in Terrorism Studies’, University of St. Andrews website (accessed 15 March 2014).
  58. ↑ Note that in their book, Evans and Lewis claimed MCU was set up by Lambert and ”two other former SDS spies” - see Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p56. However, no other known source mentions a third co-founder of MCU, and subsequent correspondence between the author and Rob Evans indicates that the ‘third man’ claim in the book was a production error of some kind.
  59. ↑ Martin Bright, When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries, Policy Exchange (via archive.org), July 2006 (accessed 18 March 2014).
  60. ↑ Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, p31 plus notes 2-5, p308.
  61. ↑ Catriona Mackie, ‘City Police launch 'Guide to Islam'’, City of London Police, July 2006 (accessed via Archive.org 18 April 2015).
  62. ↑ unknown author, ‘Police officers issued with guide to Islam’, Daily Mail, 5 July 2006 (accessed 9 March 2015).
  63. ↑ Press Association, ‘Police given 'Guide to Islam' to improve relations with London Muslims’, 24dash.com, 5 July 2006 (accessed 22 March 2015).
  64. ↑ Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (Danish Security and Intelligence Service), Annual Report 2006-2007, PET website, 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015), p70.
  65. ↑ Getty Images, ‘Robert Lambert, from the Muslim Contact...’, Getty Images, 26 April 2006 (accessed 4 May 2015).
  66. ↑ Mediafax Foto, ‘DENMARK-ANTI-TERRORISM-CONFERENCE’, Mediafax Foto, 26 April 2006 (accessed 4 May 2015).
  67. ↑ Possibly Peter Clarke, who then led Counter Terrorism Command (SO15).
  68. ↑ Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p166.
  69. ↑ Mark Ellison QC, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review: Volume One, Home Office, March 2013 (accessed 1 April 2014), p190.
  70. ↑ 70.0 70.1 Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber/Guardian Books, 2013, p167.
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