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ARA laugh when we warn them they will be caught #1228398
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Subject: ALF infiltrator speaks on UK arrests, campaign (Sunday Times)
>
> The Sunday Times
> Animal terrorist group foiled by informant dressed as a beagle
> An undercover agent tells how he infiltrated the heart of the Animal
> Liberation Front to sabotage attacks and glean intelligence on its
> leaders
> Jack Grimston
> March 1, 2009
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5821799.ece
>
> ONE November night in 2005 a Jaguar saloon carrying two animal rights
> activists and their getaway driver turned into an estate of executive
> homes in Surrey. Their target: a comfortable, mock-Tudor house behind
> a screen of trees.
>
> Within five minutes, the pair had wrecked three vehicles. They had
> also daubed abuse all over the front of the property. It was a raid
> like countless others carried out by the Animal Liberation Front
> (ALF).
>
> On this occasion, however, the man waiting in the car was not the
> loyal fellow member the attackers believed him to be. He was a former
> soldier and intelligence services trainer who had infiltrated the
> ALF’s tight-knit leadership and was reporting every detail of its
> activities to the police.
>
> Speaking for the first time last week, Adrian Radford described his
> three years inside the group that terrorised scientists and suppliers
> linked to animal laboratories in a relentless onslaught.
>
> Radford, who is in his late thirties, said that from 2004 to 2007 he
> supplied his police handlers with detailed information on hardcore
> extremists.
>
> Their attacks were financed with cash raised at street stalls for
> ostensibly peaceful animal welfare causes, he said.
>
> Radford gave detailed accounts of three attacks in which he
> participated. He also disclosed that he disrupted some and prevented
> others, often by giving the police information that allowed them to
> warn potential victims.
>
> One of the attacks he forestalled was against Lord Sainsbury, the
> former science minister. Activists intended to ambush his car near his
> home in Buckinghamshire, jumping out of roadside bushes firing
> high-pressure paint sprayers.
>
> Radford was nicknamed “Captain Nancy” because of his flamboyant
> character and past work as a gay rights activist. He was widely known
> for the trade-mark beagle costume he wore at demonstrations. This had
> been supplied by the police.
>
> In collaboration with Nick Fielding, a former Sunday Times journalist,
> the infiltrator is now writing a book based on his experiences.
>
> “I have 100% sympathy with people genuinely concerned at the plight of
> animals,” said Radford, who worked at the ALF under the name of Ian
> Farmer. “They were giving money for this cause and did not know the
> money was being used to spray-paint cars and hurl abuse at people’s
> children.”
>
> Radford, who is now based in Gran Canaria, believes the intelligence
> he provided from the ALF’s headquarters at a cottage in Hampshire
> helped the police to target its leaders and protect potential victims.
>
> In a series of trials in recent months, four of the “godfathers” of
> animal extremism who were befriended by Radford have been jailed.
>
> Gregg Avery, 41, and his wife Natasha, 39, were each sentenced to nine
> years for conspiracy to blackmail for their part in the campaign.
>
> Heather Nicholson, Avery’s former wife, was sentenced to 11 years. In
> a separate trial, her boyfriend Mel Broughton, 48, was convicted of
> fire-bombing a sports pavilion as part of a protest against an Oxford
> University animal research laboratory.
>
> Radford was inside the ALF while it was in the midst of a campaign
> that had begun in 2001 against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a
> company based in Cambridgeshire that tests new medicines on animals on
> behalf of pharmaceutical companies.
>
> Firms across Britain and Europe with any links to HLS were targeted.
> In the most notorious attack, Brian Cass, the managing director of
> HLS, was beaten with pickaxe handles and sprayed with CS gas.
>
> Other victims had their cars blown up or received threatening e-mails.
> In another case, a dead woman’s bones were dug up. As a result of the
> campaign, more than 270 businesses cut links with HLS.
>
> As well as being leaders of the ALF, the Averys were spokesmen for
> Shac, the outwardly legitimate anti-HLS pressure group. Radford’s
> infiltration suggested they were using it as a front.
>
> The raid in which he took part on the house in Surrey in 2005 was the
> last target of five in what the group called its “big night”. The
> owner was an executive at BAA, whose airports were being used for the
> import of laboratory animals.
>
> Radford remembers buying large quantities of paint stripper and paint
> at a Homebase store in Croydon, south London, incongruously paying
> with bags full of coins taken from an ALF stash.
>
> As the team drove between targets, the ALF “action anthem”, Sandstorm,
> a techno trance hit by the Finnish producer Darude, pumped from the
> Jaguar’s stereo.
>
> The raiders wore black track-suits with torn-up black T-shirts as
> masks and orange washing-up gloves. Radford said the combination, as
> they were creeping around, “made them look strangely like blackbirds”.
>
> Slogans such as “scum” were spray-painted over the house. The calling
> card of the ALF, the letter A inside a circle, was painted on the
> front door.
>
> Tyres on the three cars in front of the home were pierced with a
> bradawl and their paint-work wrecked. Expanding foam was sprayed into
> the tail-pipes to wreck their exhaust systems.
>
> It was not the first time Radford had been engaged in conflict. His
> army career included work with the Intelligence Corps in Northern
> Ireland.
>
> After being told to leave the forces in 1994 because of his sexuality,
> he became involved in gay rights. He was alongside the activist Peter
> Tatchell during a raid on the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral in 1998.
>
> Radford then worked for private security firms as well as the
> government. In 2004, with his 20 years of experience as an
> intelligence field operator, he was detailed by a security firm to
> gather information undercover on the threat posed by animal rights
> extremists.
>
> He came to know senior activists and was asked to offer his services
> to the police and was released from his government work to do this.
>
> The infiltrator met Natasha Avery for the first time in 2004 at an
> animal sanctuary convention in Kent.
>
> He decided to play up the camp side of his character - a contrast with
> the down-at-heel characters typical of the animal-rights movement.
>
> Radford passed an unfriendly, greasy-bearded attendant called Max and
> entered the tent where senior figures were gathered.
>
> “I walked in in a pair of white chinos, walked straight over to them
> and said, ‘Hi, my name is Ian.’ I was saying things like, ‘Oh God,
> this is so grungy, it’s so doom and gloom’.”
>
> Gregg Avery looked dumb-founded but, said Radford, “Natasha took to me
> straight away”. They had lunch at a stall called the Anarchist’s
> Teapot.
>
> “She is the most lovely person - beautiful, warm, nurturing,
> compassionate, powerful, eloquent, charming, funny. It’s just that she
> is also a nutcase who attacks people. Gregg was far quieter and more
> standoffish.”
>
> His friendship with Natasha is shown by a picture of them embracing
> and smiling.
>
> Radford gradually worked his way into the organisation’s trust, taking
> part in demonstrations and manning street stalls.
>
> His first opportunity to take part in a raid came when he became aware
> of a plan to blow up a haulage depot at Faversham, Kent, from which
> trucks carried gases manufactured by BOC to the Huntingdon site.
>
> “The idea was to place multiple incendiary devices under the lorries.
> It would have been their worst attack ever, and it could not be
> allowed to happen,” said Radford.
>
> He told Natasha Avery he was determined to attack the site alone to
> prove himself. He then pretended to the ALF he had vandalised a
> vehicle owned by one of the haulier’s staff. In fact, he had bought a
> clapped-out car and had himself filmed covering it in paint and
> stripper.
>
> “This ‘proved’ I could not be a covert human intelligence source,” he
> said. “They knew police sources are not permitted to break the law.”
>
> In November 2004, Radford was allowed on another night-time raid - the
> liberation of hundreds of ducks from a farm in Kent. It turned into
> farce when the activists freed only nine chickens before being chased
> across fields by a shot-gun-wielding farmer.
>
> It was enough to show that Radford could be useful, and a few months
> later he graduated to the raid on the five houses, although he was not
> told of the targets in advance.
>
> Shortly after this, Radford had an operation for a bowel tumour.
> Instead of pulling out of the ALF, he used this as a pretext to switch
> to working at the group’s headquarters.
>
> It was a rented cottage occupied by the Averys and five dogs in Little
> Moorcote, Hampshire. Here he had access to financial and membership
> details. He was present at planning meetings where lists of targets
> were drawn up for circulation to activist cells.
>
> Under rules governing informers, Radford was strictly forbidden from
> committing, encouraging or initiating anything criminal without
> high-level police authorisation. He was also obliged to give officers
> any information he discovered that they could use to prevent crimes
> being carried out.
>
> He said he met his handlers at least daily, sometimes giving them
> dozens of documents.
>
> “I was supposed to be burning them in the lavatory, but I would burn
> other bits of paper instead and stuff the real ones down my front,”
> said Radford.
>
> “If something came up in conversation, I would go to the loo and write
> it on my body. Later I’d pull up my shirt and show it to a handler.”
>
> The information he gleaned showed the ALF, at its peak, was receiving
> £750,000 a year from donations, mainly small amounts from street
> collections. He was also able to show that local cells of the ALF drew
> funding from - and often had the same leaders as - ostensibly peaceful
> groups such as Shac and Speak, an animal rights body in Oxford led by
> Broughton.
>
> Radford’s inside knowledge warned the police of targets for attack.
> Sometimes, he sabotaged operations, diverting blame on to others.
>
> Often he blamed errors on Gavin Medd-Hall, 45, a computer expert whose
> job for the group included helping locate targets’ homes. “I used to
> call Gavin a fat, bumbling, useless old [Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot] whenever I had
> sabotaged anything,” said Radford.
>
> The infiltrator was present in June 2006 when the ALF held its first
> international targeting meeting round a camp fire at the Kent
> sanctuary at 5.30am.
>
> In January 2007, the police finally pulled Radford out to allow them
> to round up the group’s leadership without arousing suspicion. They
> put him under surveillance so that it appeared to the ALF that he was
> compromised and being panicked into leaving.
>
> Officers did not use his intelligence in court. They protected their
> sources by using it instead as leads to gather their own evidence
> during the investigation.
>
> Other sources confirmed Radford had passed information out of the ALF.
>
> Attacks have fallen sharply in recent years thanks to a combination of
> arrests, tighter laws and court injunctions protecting HLS and other
> companies.
>
> “I am immensely proud. What we have done will allow people concerned
> about welfare to speak out without having their views tarnished by
> these people’s actions,” said Radford.
>
> A police source said he could not confirm or deny anything to do with
> information allegedly passed to officers.
>
> Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, a lawyer who has worked for numerous
> clients against animal extremists, said he was glad many of the
> leaders were in jail. “There are just enough out of prison to keep the
> climate of fear going,” he warned. “People have good reason to remain
> worried.”
>
> Leading extremists
>
> Gregg Avery, 41 Leader of ALF and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
> (Shac). Often likened to cult leader, giving purpose to malleable
> followers who carried out raids on his orders. Sentenced to nine years
> for conspiracy to blackmail
>
> Natasha Avery, 39 Wife of Gregg, co-leader of ALF and Shac, also
> serving nine years
>
> Heather Nicholson, 42 Former wife of Gregg Avery. She acted as
> courier, transporting sacks of coins to fund regional extremist cells.
> Serving 11 years
>
> Mel Broughton, 48 Boyfriend of Nicholson and co-ordinator of Speak,
> campaign against an animal lab in Oxford. Sentenced to 10 years in
> February this year for fire-bombing university sports pavilion
>


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