{"id":1291,"date":"2018-03-19T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/?page_id=1291"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:09:55","slug":"1968-protest-and-special-branch-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/","title":{"rendered":"1968 &#8211; Protest and Special Branch part 4: Infiltration by the Special Demonstration Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-3\/\">3. Contemporary Special Branch files in context<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-0\/\">Return to Intro<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-5\/\">5. Additional Material<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e4c35d46a07\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e4c35d46a07\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/#Introduction\" >Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/#Local_branch_structure\" >Local branch structure<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/#SDS_infiltration_of_the_Vietnam_Solidarity_Campaign\" >SDS infiltration of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/#Kilburn_and_Camden_VSC_branches\" >Kilburn and Camden VSC branches<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-4\/#Police_line_of_command\" >Police line of command<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As noted in previous sections, the main groups involved in the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations were controlled by relatively tight political cadres. Thus, to gain access to their targets, the newly deployed undercover officers of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) would have attended public events, protests and the meetings of the local branches of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) or similar organisations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1300\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vsc-bulletin-issue_18_1968_cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1300 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vsc-bulletin-issue_18_1968_cover-1-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vsc-bulletin-issue_18_1968_cover-1-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vsc-bulletin-issue_18_1968_cover-1.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the VSC Bulletin, Issue 18, 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of the undercover officer details released to date (April 2018) by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, all those from 1968 appear to relate to VSC branches aligned with the main Trotskyist groups. This material, though slim, can nevertheless be given\u00a0 more context by examining the VSC local group structure. For this reason we will set out what is known of the London branches before getting into the undercover deployments.<\/p>\n<p>Saying this, it is likely the list of radical left wing groups set out by Conrad Dixon in his 3 October report (see <a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-3\/\">part 3<\/a>) were his main targets for infiltration.\u00a0Certainly, given his discussions of the tactics of the Maoists and anarchists and also their involvements in the actual clashes with police, it would be very surprising if these groups were not also targeted in some way, including by undercovers.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Local_branch_structure\"><\/span>Local branch structure<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A reading of the sources indicate that VSC branches were generally inactive until spurred into action by the necessity of preparing for an upcoming protest. For example, in the run up to the 17 March protest, local VSC groups were formed in Camden, Hackney, Kilburn and Richmond<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Local V.S.C. Activities, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulliten<\/em>, Issue 11, February 1968 (accessed via the Richman papers, <em>vide infra<\/em>). The Hackney branch existed in May 1968, when it and the North West Kent branches registered for the VSC National Conference &#8211; see Minutes of VSC Executive Committee meeting of 2 May 1968, Richman papers (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> but subsequently disappear or are recorded as reforming ahead ofthe 27 October demonstration. Thus, the branches come in and out of existence as needed and had a fluid nature. Mention of them in contemporary material from the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign is sparse, so we rely to a large degree on the material in Conrad Dixon&#8217;s Special Branch reports, augmented with contemporary sources where possible.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 August, Dixon lists the active VSC branches in London as Earls Court, Hampstead, Kilburn, Notting Hill Gate, Fulham, Lambeth, Walthamstow, Hornsey and Highgate &amp; Holloway.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487406-30th-august-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Report on Vietnam Solidarity Campaign<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 30 August 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> On 10 September he adds in the Hackney branch and says four ad hoc committees have been formed to coordinate local activity:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487404-10th-sep-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Report on Vietnam Solidarity Campaign &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 10 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North London ad hoc committee<\/li>\n<li>North West London ad hoc committee \/ North-West London Action Group<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n17-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Diary of Forthcoming Events: September-October<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No. 17, 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/li>\n<li>West Middlesex Vietnam ad hoc committee<\/li>\n<li>Libertarian ad hoc committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On 3 October he reported a new VSC branch had been established in Havering, while a &#8216;South West London ad-hoc committee is in the process of being formed&#8217;. He also claims that:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f3ecfd; width: 95%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The [International Socialists] have almost had the field to themselves in creating the present structure of the V.S.C. Their followers dominate the V.S.C. at every level: executive, regional ad-hoc committees and local branches. Almost every existing V.S.C. is an I.S. branch in another name.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the same report, Dixon wrote of the British Vietnam Solidarity Front:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f3ecfd; width: 95%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Their influence in V.S.C. branches is not strong though they control two of London&#8217;s best-attended and most active branches, namely Earls Court<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Minutes of the VSC Executive Committee of 2 May 1968 note that &#8216;Attemt to form a Branch in Earls Court swamped by opponents of V.S.C.. [Executive Committee] declares that meeting was null and void. Only V.S.C. supporters can form a branch&#8217;. See Richman papers (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> and Notting Hill. The South East London V.S.C. Ad Hoc Committee is also a puppet of Manchanda&#8217;s, but it and the two branches mentioned above have officially been disowned by the V.S.C. executive.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The VSC&#8217;s newsletter provides it own list of Ad Hoc Committees in and around London in October 1968 as <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[8]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n18-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">List of Local Ad Hoc Committees In\/Around London<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No. 18, October 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North London (N6), East London (E8), Kentish Town (NW5), South Essex (Brentwood), Southeast London (SE1), West Middlesex (W4), Northwest London (NW6), Croydon, Surrey (SW8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On 16 October, Dixon states the South East London ad hoc committee is controlled by the Maoists and not recognised by the VSC. This time he also gives the name and address of its secretary.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[9]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494420-16th-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">V.S.C. &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;, weekly summary<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 16 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SDS_infiltration_of_the_Vietnam_Solidarity_Campaign\"><\/span>SDS infiltration of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The officers revealed to date (February 2018) by the Undercover Policing Inquiry as having infiltrating the VSC are <em>John Graham (alias)<\/em>, <em>Bill Lewis (alias)<\/em>, <em>Dick Epps (alias)<\/em>, HN322<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_10');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_10');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_10\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[10]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_10\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">The HN number (also called nominals or ciphers) system has been adopted by operation Herne and the Undercover Policing Inquiry to refer to police officers when discussing them in the first instance. Many have restriction orders over their real names, and in other cases, the cover names also remain unpublished. For more on this, see Undercover Research Group, <a href=\"http:\/\/powerbase.info\/index.php\/N_officers\">N Officers<\/a>, <em>Powerbase.info<\/em>, 2018.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_10').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_10', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>, <em>Don de Freitas<\/em>, and <em>Margaret White<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;John Graham&#8217; (HN329) is said to have targeted the Kilburn branch and have reported on the Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation. Given the importance of the Kilburn branch it is discussed in more detail below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Don de Freitas&#8217;\u00a0 (HN330) infiltrated the Havering branch. Dixon had reported the founding of this branch in his 30 October report. While in the final report of 22 October, he writes:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_11');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_11');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_11\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[11]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_11\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494419-22nd-oct-1968-assessment-on-upcoming-demo-of.html\">V.S.C. &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; weekly report<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 22 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_11').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_11', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Untitled Note (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494419\/annotations\/411939\/?embed=1&amp;pdf=0&amp;onlyshoworg=0&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;embed=1\" width=\"384.2\" height=\"79.89999999999999\" style=\"border: 1px solid #d8dee2; border-radius: 0.5rem; width: 100%; height: 100%; aspect-ratio: 384.2 \/ 79.89999999999999; max-width: 780px; max-height: 1000px;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/embed\/dc-resize.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>According to his Risk Assessment in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, &#8216;Don de Freitas&#8217; attended some of the Havering branch&#8217;s meetings, both public and private, and ceased his deployment following the march of 27 October.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_12');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_12');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_12\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[12]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_12\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8217;HN330&#8242;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN330-Open-personal-statement.pdf\">HN330 Open personal statement (redacted)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 15 Nov 2017 (accessed 10 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_12').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_12', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> For several months in 1968, SDS undercover officer &#8216;Margaret White&#8217; (HN334) attended these events with him as his girlfriend; after which she remained in the SDS back office until 1972.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_13');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_13');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_13\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[13]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_13\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Sir John Mitting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf\">In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad \u2018Minded to\u2019 note 2<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_13').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_13', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Risk Assessment conducted on behalf of the Inquiry for &#8216;John Graham&#8217; states that this VSC meetings he attended were held at the Durham Arms, Kennington (4.8).<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_14');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_14');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_14\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[14]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_14\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-risk-assessment-from-the-MPS.pdf\">HN329 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, Metropolitan Police Service (via UCPI.org.uk), 31 May 2017 (accessed 3 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_14').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_14', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This pub was at 41 Harleyford Road, SE11, and is now closed.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_15');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_15');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_15\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[15]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_15\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.closedpubs.co.uk\/london\/se11_kennington_durhamarms.html\">Durham Arms, Kennington<\/a>, <em>ClosedPubs.co.uk<\/em>, undated (accessed 8 August 2017)<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_15').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_15', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The Durham Arms is an unlikely venue as it was a considerable distance away from Kilburn, and in an area with its own local VSC branch, the Lambeth one. This indicates there is an as yet unnamed undercover who targeted Lambeth VSC.<\/p>\n<p>HN322 appears to have spent September to December 1968 in South East London VSC.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_16');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_16');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_16\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[16]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_16\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David Walker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20171221-HN322-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">HN322 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 15 Nov 2017 (accessed 10 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_16').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_16', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Given Dixon&#8217;s comments on the Maoist control of this group, it is possible some of this material came from this undercover officer, though they have denied infiltrating any group.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_17');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_17');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_17\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[17]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_17\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">For a breakdown on what is known of HN322 from material released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, see the Undercover Research Group profile of him at <a href=\"http:\/\/powerbase.info\/index.php\/HN322\">HN322<\/a>, Powerbase.info, 2018.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_17').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_17', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a judgment restricting publication of HN322&#8217;s real name, the Inquiry Chair, John Mitting, wrote:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_18');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_18');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_18\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[18]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_18\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Sir John Mitting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf\">In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad &#8211; Ruling<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_18').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_18', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f9f4f4; width: 80%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Documents&#8230; show that he attended a small number of public meetings held to prepare for the anti-Vietnam war demonstration in London on 27 October 1968 in the company of another officer in the Special Demonstration Squad and reported on them to the founding head of the Squad, Conrad Dixon. His recollection that he was not deployed may, therefore be wrong; but the nature of his reporting suggests that it was a traditional Special Branch deployment, not an infiltration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HN321, who used the cover name &#8216;Bill Lewis&#8217;, was deployed 1968-1969. According to the Undercover Policing Inquiry: &#8216;He may have been encountered by individuals involved with the International Marxist Group or the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in London at that time.'<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_19');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_19');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_19\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[19]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_19\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Undercover Policing Inquiry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171005-press-release-HN321.pdf\">Press Notice: No cover name anonymity sought in respect of HN321<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 5 October 2017 (accessed 10 October 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_19').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_19', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>While HN336, as &#8216;Dick Epps&#8217;, targeted the VSC and International Marxist Group from 1969 to 1972, as well as the British Communist Party.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_20');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_20');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_20\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[20]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_20\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Sir John Mitting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf\">In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad \u2018Minded to\u2019 note 2<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_20').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_20', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is the following line from the obituary of Conrad Dixon, that in October 1968:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_21');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_21');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_21\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[21]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_21\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20428456-ucpi0000034083\/\">Conrad Dixon (obituary)<\/a>, <em>The Times<\/em>, 28 April 1994 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_21').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_21', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f9f4f4; width: 80%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Dixon lead from the front, and when the London School of Economics was occupied by revolting students, he was first up the steps &#8211; and in text-book style &#8211; promptly took charge of the telephone exchange so as to control communication with the press.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This hints that Dixon took the role of an undercover officer himself focusing on the RSSF group at the LSE.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kilburn_and_Camden_VSC_branches\"><\/span>Kilburn and Camden VSC branches<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Undercover HN329 targeted the Vietnam Solidarity Group as &#8216;John Graham&#8217;. According to the risk assessment for him, and presumably relying on contemporary notes, HN329 infiltrated the Kilburn and Willesden branch of the VSC &#8211; the NW6 &amp; NW10 postcodes in north London. Several references to the Kilburn group can be found in contemporary material. The February 1968 <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em> noted the branch had recently formed,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_22');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_22');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_22\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[22]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_22\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n11-feb-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Local V.S.C. Activities<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Campaign Bulletin<\/em>, No. 11, February 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org, 8 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_22').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_22', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> while in July 1968 a member of the Kilburn VSC co-authored a pamphlet entitled <em>Background to the Vietnam War<\/em>.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_23');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_23');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_23\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[23]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_23\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><em>Background to the Vietnam War<\/em>, July 1968, Papers of Marie and Geoff Richman, <em>Bishopsgate Institute<\/em>, (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_23').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_23', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Dixon also listed it as one of the active VSC branches is August 1968.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_24');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_24');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_24\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[24]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_24\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487406-30th-august-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Report on Vietnam Solidarity Campaign<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 30 August 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_24').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_24', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>An examination of materials from the time, the north west branches played a leading role in the VSC and were part of the North London Ad Hoc Committee &#8211; which in August 1968 put forward the proposal that the march of 27 October should avoid Grosvenor Square.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_25');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_25');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_25\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[25]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_25\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n17-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">The October Mobilisation: Proposals of the North London Ad Hoc Committee<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No.17, August 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_25').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_25', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This appears to have been the motion discussed at the September VSC Ad Hoc Committee public meeting and which was subsequently accepted.<\/p>\n<p>On 10 September Dixon reported that the North West London ad hoc committees was one of those which had formed to co-ordinate local activity ahead of the 27 October protests, in this case via the North-West London Action Group.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_26');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_26');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_26\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[26]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_26\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487404-10th-sep-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Vietnam Solidarity Campaign &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 10 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_26').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_26', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> While the VSC Bulletin of October 1968 listed contacts of the ad hoc committees for NW6 \/ Northwest London and NW8 \/ Kentish Town.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_27');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_27');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_27\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[27]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_27\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n18-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">List of Local Ad Hoc Committees In\/Around London<\/a>, Bulletin of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, No. 18, (October) 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org, 8 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_27').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_27', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note: <em>The evolution of the branches are unclear, but it appears that as increased interest in the protests brought caused the size of the branches to grow, they sub-divided to accommodate the numbers, though this needs confirmation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 23 September report says that the North West London ad hoc committee planned to follow the decisions of the VSC national committee,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_28');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_28');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_28\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[28]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_28\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487403-23rd-sep-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 23 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_28').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_28', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> While his report of 16 October notes:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_29');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_29');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_29\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[29]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_29\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494420-16th-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">V.S.C. &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;, weekly summary<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 16 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_29').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_29', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f3ecfd; width: 95%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The North west London ad-hoc Committee of the VSC intend to assemble at Henrietta Street in Covent Garden at 1.30pm on the 27th. They are expected to be about 150 strong.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kilburn group appears to have declined after October 1968 as no further mentions of the group have been found. In December 1968, the Hampstead group renamed itself the Camden group, the first mention we have found in contemporary material of a specific Camden VSC branch.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_30');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_30');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_30\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[30]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_30\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Letter announcing formation of Camden Vietnam Solidarity Campaign branch, circa December 1968, Papers of Marie and Geoff Richman, <em>Bishopsgate Institute<\/em>, (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_30').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_30', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> &#8216;John Graham&#8217; in his personal statement recalled that he attended the Camden branch meetings.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_31');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_31');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_31\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[31]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_31\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8217;HN329&#8242;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-personal-statement-from-the-MPS.pdf\">Impact \/ Personal Statement by HN329 (open version)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 29 March 2017 (accessed 5 August 2017 via ucpi.org.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_31').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_31', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Another source also noted that the Camden branch had grown out of the North West Ad Hoc Committee which had formed to organise for the 27 October demonstration.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_32');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_32');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_32\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[32]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_32\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Geoff Richman, &#8216;On Strategy&#8217;, document in Maria &amp; Geoff Richman papers; also referenced by Hughes (p. 193), <em>vide infra&#8221; on both.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_32').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_32', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Camden branch was active into 1969, being mentioned then as doing stalls in London (as was the North West Kent branch)<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_33');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_33');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_33\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[33]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_33\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n20-jan-1969-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Locals<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, no. 20, January 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_33').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_33', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The VSC bulletins in the latter half of 1968 and early 1969 contain various articles on the future of the organisation by members of the Camden branch, including discussing future strategy of the organisation. The February 1969 issue of the IMG&#8217;s <em>International<\/em> newsletter notes the Camden folk as being unaligned:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_34');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_34');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_34\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[34]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_34\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/international-uk\/intl-v02n02-february-1969.pdf\">All out for March 16<\/a>, <em>International<\/em> (newsletter of the International Marxist Group), Vol. 2, No.2, February 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_34').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_34', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> and later writings consider the group as Maoist influenced<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_35');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_35');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_35\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[35]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_35\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Celia Hughes, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrap.warwick.ac.uk\/49428\/7\/WRAP_THESIS_Hughes_2011.pdf\">The Socio-Cultural Milieux of the Left in Post-War Britain (PhD Thesis)<\/a>, Warwick University, 2011 (accessed 8 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_35').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_35', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> (albeit appear to be different from Manchanda&#8217;s group).<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_36');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_36');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_36\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[36]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_36\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">The degree to which the Camden VSC group can be regarded being Maoist-influenced needs further clarification.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_36').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_36', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The branch evolved in 1969, reconstituting itself into the Camden Movement for People Power and published the Red Camden newsletter, and became active in the Women&#8217;s Liberation movement.<\/p>\n<p>The January 1969 issue of the <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em> reported that London VSC committees had taken over a pro-Vietnam War meeting at Kensington Town Hall on 3 December 1968. Singled out for special mention is Geoff Richman, a central figure in the Camden group<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_37');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_37');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_37\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[37]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_37\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Geoffrey Crossick, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n20-jan-1969-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">London V.S.C. captures Saigon propaganda meeting<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, no. 20, January 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_37').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_37', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>, and is likely to be the doctor referred to by &#8216;John Graham&#8217; as one of those he got close to.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_38');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_38');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_38\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[38]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_38\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Celia Hughes, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrap.warwick.ac.uk\/49428\/7\/WRAP_THESIS_Hughes_2011.pdf\">The Socio-Cultural Milieux of the Left in Post-War Britain (PhD Thesis)<\/a>, Warwick University, 2011 (accessed 8 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_38').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_38', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_39');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_39');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_39\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[39]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_39\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-risk-assessment-from-the-MPS.pdf\">HN329 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 31 May 2017 (accessed 3 August 2017, via ucpi.org.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_39').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_39', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though it is not clear the extent to which &#8216;John Graham&#8217; monitored the Camden group, it does place him close to the heart of the VSC organising in north London and leading campaigners around the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>The Camden branch \/ North West London ad hoc committee also shared leading members with Australians and New Zealanders Against the Vietnam War (ANZAVW) and also the Revolutionary Socialist Student&#8217;s Federation.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_40');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_40');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_40\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[40]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_40\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Unpublished research, cross referencing names from contemporary documents. In a number of cases, leading activists of the VSC, RSSF and ANZAVW appear as contacts for various of the branches and local ad hoc committees in the run up to the demonstration of 27 October.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_40').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_40', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Material from the Undercover Policing Inquiry note that John Graham reported back on the RSSF. Mention is made in HN329&#8217;s statement of an incident in which he was assaulted by a security guard at the Australian High Commission.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_41');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_41');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_41\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[41]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_41\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8217;John Graham&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-personal-statement-from-the-MPS.pdf\">Impact \/ Personal Statement by HN329 (open version)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 29 March 2017 (accessed 5 August 2017, via ucpi.org.uk).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_41').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_41', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> It is likely this gives context for the following material from Dixon&#8217;s report of 3 October:<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_42');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_42');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_42\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[42]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_42\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_42').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_42', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: auto; border: 0px solid #3D0002; background-color: #f3ecfd; width: 95%; text-align: left; font-style: italic;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation continues to emphasise the importance of Australia House as a symbol of Commonwealth complicity in the Vietnam War and is calling for militant action there. Members of the group Australians and New Zealanders Against the Vietnam war attempted to disrupt a social event at Australia House on 27.9.68: Police had advance warning of their intentions, and about a dozen people who tried to create a disturbance were escorted from the premises. All the indications are that a further attempt will be made at this building.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Police_line_of_command\"><\/span>Police line of command<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Waldron, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police<\/strong>. Deputy Commissioner, he acceded on the sudden death of his predecessor Joseph Simpson on 20 March 1968.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_43');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_43');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_43\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[43]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_43\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">See Wikipedia articles: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Simpson\">Joseph Simpson<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Waldron_(police_officer)\">John Waldon (police officer)<\/a> for further details &amp; sources (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_43').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_43', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Peter Ewan Brodie, Assistant Commissioner &#8220;C&#8221; (Crime)<\/strong>, head of CID between April 1966 and 1972.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_44');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_44');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_44\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[44]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_44\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Brodie_(police_officer)\">Peter Brodie (police officer)<\/a>, <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, 2017 (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_44').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_44', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ferguson &#8216;Fergie&#8217; Smith, Commander of Special Branch<\/strong> 1966 to 1972, with rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_45');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_45');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_45\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[45]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_45\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/10324224\/Ferguson-Smith.html\">Obituary: Ferguson Smith<\/a>, <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, 2013 (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_45').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_45', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ch. Supt. A[rthur]<\/strong><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_46');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_46');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_46\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[46]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_46\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Tentative identification of first name only based on material from the Wilson &amp; Adams history of Special Branch (page 240, <em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_46').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_46', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><strong> Cunningham<\/strong>. Name appears as signing a number of Special Branch reports submitted by Conrad Dixon in 1968, though he is seemingly replaced by 3 October that year by an Acting Chief Superintendent.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_47');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1291_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_47');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_47\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[47]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_47\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_47').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1291_1_47', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Det. Ch. Insp. Conrad Dixon<\/strong>, founding head of the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968 onwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special Branch reports from 1968, authored by Conrad Dixon and under the authority of Ch. Supt. A. Cunningham, were regularly submitted to one J. M. Clift of F.4 Division in the Home Office. In later years, F.4 is listed as having responsibility for overseeing counter-terrorism and related matters.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-3\/\">3. Contemporary Special Branch files in context<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-0\/\">Return to Intro<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/specialbranchfiles.uk\/1968-protest-and-special-branch-5\/\">5. 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class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_1291_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_1291_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_1291_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_1291_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Local V.S.C. Activities, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulliten<\/em>, Issue 11, February 1968 (accessed via the Richman papers, <em>vide infra<\/em>). The Hackney branch existed in May 1968, when it and the North West Kent branches registered for the VSC National Conference &#8211; see Minutes of VSC Executive Committee meeting of 2 May 1968, Richman papers (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_2');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_24\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_24');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>24<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487406-30th-august-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Report on Vietnam Solidarity Campaign<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 30 August 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487404-10th-sep-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Report on Vietnam Solidarity Campaign &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 10 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n17-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Diary of Forthcoming Events: September-October<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No. 17, 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_5\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_5');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_6\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_6');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_42\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_42');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>42,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_47\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_47');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>47<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_7');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_7\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>7<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Minutes of the VSC Executive Committee of 2 May 1968 note that &#8216;Attemt to form a Branch in Earls Court swamped by opponents of V.S.C.. [Executive Committee] declares that meeting was null and void. Only V.S.C. supporters can form a branch&#8217;. See Richman papers (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_8');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_8\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>8<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n18-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">List of Local Ad Hoc Committees In\/Around London<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No. 18, October 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_9\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_9');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>9,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_29\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_29');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>29<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494420-16th-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">V.S.C. &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;, weekly summary<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 16 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_10');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_10\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>10<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">The HN number (also called nominals or ciphers) system has been adopted by operation Herne and the Undercover Policing Inquiry to refer to police officers when discussing them in the first instance. Many have restriction orders over their real names, and in other cases, the cover names also remain unpublished. For more on this, see Undercover Research Group, <a href=\"http:\/\/powerbase.info\/index.php\/N_officers\">N Officers<\/a>, <em>Powerbase.info<\/em>, 2018.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_11');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_11\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>11<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2494419-22nd-oct-1968-assessment-on-upcoming-demo-of.html\">V.S.C. &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; weekly report<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 22 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_12');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_12\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>12<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">&#8217;HN330&#8242;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN330-Open-personal-statement.pdf\">HN330 Open personal statement (redacted)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 15 Nov 2017 (accessed 10 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_13\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_13');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>13,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_20\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_20');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>20<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Sir John Mitting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf\">In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad \u2018Minded to\u2019 note 2<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_14');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_14\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>14<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">David Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-risk-assessment-from-the-MPS.pdf\">HN329 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, Metropolitan Police Service (via UCPI.org.uk), 31 May 2017 (accessed 3 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_15');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_15\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>15<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.closedpubs.co.uk\/london\/se11_kennington_durhamarms.html\">Durham Arms, Kennington<\/a>, <em>ClosedPubs.co.uk<\/em>, undated (accessed 8 August 2017)<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_16');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_16\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>16<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">David Walker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20171221-HN322-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">HN322 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 15 Nov 2017 (accessed 10 February 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_17');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_17\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>17<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">For a breakdown on what is known of HN322 from material released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, see the Undercover Research Group profile of him at <a href=\"http:\/\/powerbase.info\/index.php\/HN322\">HN322<\/a>, Powerbase.info, 2018.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_18');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_18\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>18<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Sir John Mitting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf\">In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad &#8211; Ruling<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_19');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_19\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>19<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Undercover Policing Inquiry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171005-press-release-HN321.pdf\">Press Notice: No cover name anonymity sought in respect of HN321<\/a>, <em>Undercover Policing Inquiry<\/em>, 5 October 2017 (accessed 10 October 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_21');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_21\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>21<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20428456-ucpi0000034083\/\">Conrad Dixon (obituary)<\/a>, <em>The Times<\/em>, 28 April 1994 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_22');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_22\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>22<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n11-feb-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Local V.S.C. Activities<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Campaign Bulletin<\/em>, No. 11, February 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org, 8 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_23');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_23\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>23<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><em>Background to the Vietnam War<\/em>, July 1968, Papers of Marie and Geoff Richman, <em>Bishopsgate Institute<\/em>, (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_25');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_25\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>25<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n17-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">The October Mobilisation: Proposals of the North London Ad Hoc Committee<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, No.17, August 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_26');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_26\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>26<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487404-10th-sep-1968-sb-report-on-vietnam-solidarity.html\">Vietnam Solidarity Campaign &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 10 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_27');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_27\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>27<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n18-1968-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">List of Local Ad Hoc Committees In\/Around London<\/a>, Bulletin of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, No. 18, (October) 1968 (accessed via Marxists.org, 8 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_28');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_28\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>28<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Conrad Dixon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2487403-23rd-sep-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html\">VSC &#8220;Autumn Offensive&#8221; (weekly report)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Special Branch<\/em>, 23 September 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.UK).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_30');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_30\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>30<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Letter announcing formation of Camden Vietnam Solidarity Campaign branch, circa December 1968, Papers of Marie and Geoff Richman, <em>Bishopsgate Institute<\/em>, (<em>vide infra<\/em>).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_31');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_31\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>31<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">&#8217;HN329&#8242;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-personal-statement-from-the-MPS.pdf\">Impact \/ Personal Statement by HN329 (open version)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 29 March 2017 (accessed 5 August 2017 via ucpi.org.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_32');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_32\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>32<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Geoff Richman, &#8216;On Strategy&#8217;, document in Maria &amp; Geoff Richman papers; also referenced by Hughes (p. 193), <em>vide infra&#8221; on both.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_33');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_33\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>33<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n20-jan-1969-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">Locals<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, no. 20, January 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_34');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_34\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>34<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/international-uk\/intl-v02n02-february-1969.pdf\">All out for March 16<\/a>, <em>International<\/em> (newsletter of the International Marxist Group), Vol. 2, No.2, February 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_35\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_35');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>35,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_38\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_38');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>38<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Celia Hughes, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrap.warwick.ac.uk\/49428\/7\/WRAP_THESIS_Hughes_2011.pdf\">The Socio-Cultural Milieux of the Left in Post-War Britain (PhD Thesis)<\/a>, Warwick University, 2011 (accessed 8 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_36');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_36\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>36<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">The degree to which the Camden VSC group can be regarded being Maoist-influenced needs further clarification.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_37');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_37\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>37<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Geoffrey Crossick, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/newspape\/vsc\/n20-jan-1969-vsc-bulletin.pdf\">London V.S.C. captures Saigon propaganda meeting<\/a>, <em>Vietnam Solidarity Bulletin<\/em>, no. 20, January 1969 (accessed via Marxists.org).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_39');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_39\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>39<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">David Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-risk-assessment-from-the-MPS.pdf\">HN329 Open Risk Assessment<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 31 May 2017 (accessed 3 August 2017, via ucpi.org.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_40');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_40\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>40<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Unpublished research, cross referencing names from contemporary documents. In a number of cases, leading activists of the VSC, RSSF and ANZAVW appear as contacts for various of the branches and local ad hoc committees in the run up to the demonstration of 27 October.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_41');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_41\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>41<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">&#8217;John Graham&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HN329-Open-personal-statement-from-the-MPS.pdf\">Impact \/ Personal Statement by HN329 (open version)<\/a>, <em>Metropolitan Police Service<\/em>, 29 March 2017 (accessed 5 August 2017, via ucpi.org.uk).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_43');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_43\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>43<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">See Wikipedia articles: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Simpson\">Joseph Simpson<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Waldron_(police_officer)\">John Waldon (police officer)<\/a> for further details &amp; sources (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_44');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_44\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>44<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Brodie_(police_officer)\">Peter Brodie (police officer)<\/a>, <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, 2017 (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_45');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_45\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>45<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/10324224\/Ferguson-Smith.html\">Obituary: Ferguson Smith<\/a>, <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, 2013 (accessed 10 August 2017).<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1291_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1291_1_46');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1291_1_46\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>46<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Tentative identification of first name only based on material from the Wilson &amp; 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