Marco Jacobs Bibliography
This article is part of the Undercover Research Portal at Powerbase - investigating corporate and police spying on activists
This page collects together references on the undercover police officer known only as ‘Mark’ or ‘Marco Jacobs’ (last updated 1 March 2015).
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Contents
Printed media
Books and book chapters
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber, 2013.[1]
- Tom Anderson, ‘Infiltrated, Intimidated and Undermined: How Police Infiltration Can Mute Political Dissent - An Interview with Verity Smith, from Cardiff Anarchist Network’ in Rebecca Fisher (ed.), Managing Democracy Managing Dissent, Corporate Watch, 2013 (accessed 17 June 2014).
Journal articles
- unknown author, ‘Undercover cop: Brighton's very own pig in a blanket’, Rough Music #25, February/March 2011 (accessed 28 August 2014).
- Matthias Monroy, ‘Using false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial police operations’, Statewatch Journal Volume 21 Number 2, 2011 (accessed 23 April 2014).
- Chris Jones, ‘Secrets and lies: undercover police operations raise more questions than answers’, Statewatch Journal Volume 23 Number 2, 2013 (accessed 25 April 2014).
Newspaper articles
These newspaper articles are sorted by title and then chronologically.
The Guardian and The Observer
- Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor & Rajeev Syal, ‘Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of network emerges’, The Guardian, 15 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rajeev Syal, ‘Undercover police: Officer B identified as Mark Jacobs’, The Guardian, 19 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Lewis, Rob Evans & Rowenna Davis, ‘Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on’, The Guardian, 19 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ‘Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence’, The Guardian, 7 June 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Lewis & Rob Evans, ‘Mark Kennedy case: independent inquiry ordered over CPS claims’, The Guardian, 9 June 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Lewis & Rob Evans, ‘Undercover – the book and the blog’, The Guardian, 20 July 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Lewis & Rob Evans, ‘Met facing mounting crisis as activist spying operation unravels’, The Guardian, 20 October 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans, ‘A year of revelations flow from unmasking of Mark Kennedy’, The Guardian, 9 January 2012 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans, ‘Cross-border undercover networks are a 'global puzzle'’, The Guardian, 31 August 2012 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ‘Political activists sue Met over relationships with police spies’, The Guardian, 21 November 2012 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ‘Judge to rule whether police spy case should be held in open’, The Guardian, 17 January 2013 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ‘Women who had relationships with police spies win partial legal victory’, The Guardian, 17 January 2013 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Lewis & Rob Evans, ‘Police spies court case suggests sexual relations with activists were routine’, The Guardian, 17 January 2013 (accessed 11 May 2014).
The Independent and Independent On Sunday
- Jerome Taylor, ‘Undercover police tricked women into sex like James Bond – judge’, The Independent, 17 January 2013 (accessed 11 May 2014).
Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday
- Rebecca Camber & Colin Fernandez, ‘Undercover policeman wed activist he was sent to spy on’, Daily Mail, 21 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Paul Bracchi, ‘As a third police officer is exposed for sleeping with the enemy, we reveal the reckless excesses of the 'under covers' squad’, Daily Mail, 23 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Steve Robson & Chris Greenwood, ‘Ten women sue Scotland Yard over claims they were tricked into sexual relationships with undercover officers including activist spy Mark Kennedy’, Daily Mail, 22 November 2012 (accessed 11 May 2014).
The Times and The Sunday Times
- Sean O'Neill, ‘Police infiltrator in fear for her life after gang cover is blown’, The Times, 20/04/11 (accessed 10 May 2014).[2]
Online media
Blog posts, forum postings & non-mainstream website articles
- Really Fit, ‘'Marco' confirmed as undercover cop in Cardiff’, FITwatch blog, 14 January 2011 (accessed via 20 March 2011 archive.org cache, 11 May 2014).
- Really Fit, ‘More pictures of undercover cop 'Marco'’, FITwatch blog, 18 January 2011 (accessed via 4 May 2011 archive.org cache, 27 August 2014).
- Cardiff Anarchist Network, ‘Statement on the infiltration by Mark ‘Marco ’ Jacobs’, South Wales Anarchists website, 19 January 2011 (accessed 27 August 2014).
- infiltrators, ‘Marco Jacobs’, Infiltrators & Informers blog, 10 March 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
Indymedia posts and comments
- Fitwatch, ‘Officer 'B' revealed as Cardiff based 'Marco' Jacobs’, Indymedia UK, 15 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Cardiff Anarchist Network, ‘Statement from Cardiff Anarchist Network (CAN) on the infiltration by Mark 'Marco' Jacobs’, Indymedia UK, 19 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Dick Tracy, ‘An account of Marco Jacobs' time in Brighton’, Indymedia UK, 19 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- ABC Anarres, ‘Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements’, Indymedia UK, 19 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- @rchie, ‘Hey stroppyoldgit and folk from brighton.’, Indymedia UK, 20 January 2011 (accessed 13 June 2014).
- acrosthechannel, ‘Mark and Marcos were at a dissent meeting in Strasbourg in January 2009’, Indymedia UK, 17 January 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- alsoacrossthechannel, ‘marco was at 2 meetings in strasbourg’, Indymedia UK, 18 January 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- Courtnee Brantley, ‘Marco information’, Indymedia UK, 24 January 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- Nachtermittlungen, ‘Schweine in zivii’, Indymedia UK, 15 January 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- someone from paris, ‘please forward evidence..’, Indymedia UK, 15 January 2011 (accessed 19 August 2014).
- Jens Kitzler, ‘Britischer V-Mann mit Kontakt nach Freiburg?’, Linksunten Indymedia, 30 January 2011 (accessed 28 August 2014).
- Stroppyoldgit, ‘@ @rchie’, Indymedia UK, 3 February 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- a source, ‘Another under-the-covers-cop’, Indymedia UK, 30 January 2011 (accessed 18 August 2014).
Online-only mainstream media articles
- Paul Lewis, Rob Evans, Paddy Allen & Simon Jeffrey, ‘Police spies and corporate infiltrators - an interactive guide to what we know so far’, The Guardian, 3 May 2011 (accessed 27 August 2014).
- Matt Prodger, ‘Undercover police officer ‘attended family funeral’’, BBC News website, 21 November 2012 (accessed 28 August 2014).
- Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, ‘Undercover police spies unmasked - in pictures’, The Guardian, 24 June 2013 (accessed 27 August 2014).
- Hannah Waldram, ‘Cardiff today’, The Guardian, 24 January 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
- Hannah Waldram & Tony Bishop, ‘Q&A: Your questions answered by city centre police chief Tony Bishop’, The Guardian, 14 February 2011 (accessed 11 May 2014).
Audio/video material
Radio programmes
- Oliver Hides, ‘Interview with Tom Fowler about police infiltration of Cardiff Anarchist Network (package)’, Good Morning Wales, BBC Radio Wales, 6 November 2013 (accessed via Tumblr 13 August 2014).
Legal & legislative documents
This section includes court judgments and evidence before Parliamentary committees.
- The Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat, AKJ and others -v- Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and others, High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, 17 January 2013 (accessed 23 April 2014).
- Andrej Hunko, ‘Information on sexual relationships by British undercover investigators in Germany/information for the individuals affected’, written evidence to Home Affairs Committee, Parliament.uk, February 2013 (accessed 18 August 2014).
- Home Affairs Committee, ‘Undercover Policing: Interim Report’, The Stationery Office Limited, 1 March 2013 (accessed 4 June 2014).
- Home Affairs Committee, ‘Undercover policing: follow-up - Oral and written evidence’, The Stationery Office Limited, 28 October 2013 (accessed 4 June 2014).
Notes
- ↑ Almost all of the material about ‘Jacobs’ is contained in chapter 13, ‘The Clown and the Truck Driver’, between pages 226 and p234. All further references to him outside these pages are generally alongside ‘Watson’ and for the purposes of a yardstick against which to measure the actions of Mark Kennedy.
- ↑ Note that whilst this article does not explicitly reference ‘Marco Jacobs’, it seems reasonable, on the balance of probabilities, to infer from the context that he is the male officer referred to “whose identity was compromised [and who] has been moved for security reasons”. ‘Watson’ and ‘Jacobs’ were essentially ‘outed’ publicly at the same time, to the extent that they were initially referred to as ‘Officer A’ and ‘Officer B’.
