{"id":5794,"date":"2011-12-29T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2011-12-29T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:36:19","slug":"undercover-police-cleared-to-have-sex-with-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/undercover-police-cleared-to-have-sex-with-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Undercover police cleared &#8216;to have sex with activists'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/jan\/22\/undercover-police-cleared-sex-activists\">From The Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of &#8220;promiscuity&#8221; with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups.<\/p>\n<p>Sex was a tool to help officers blend in, the officer claimed, and was widely used as a technique to glean intelligence. His comments contradict claims last week from the Association of Chief Police Officers that operatives were absolutely forbidden to sleep with activists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the cops don&#8217;t know is that this is how activists can identify the cops!!!!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of &#8220;promiscuity&#8221; with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years. The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/undercover-police-cleared-to-have-sex-with-activists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Undercover police cleared &#8216;to have sex with activists&#8217;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[276],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}