An undercover cop planted an incendiary device in a department store??

[Tim Gier]

Ministers have been asked to investigate the police infiltration of a cell of animal rights activists responsible for a firebombing campaign, after questions were raised about the ethics of an operation that, it was alleged, may have involved an undercover spy planting an incendiary device in a department store.

The MP who raised the case, which dates back to the 1980s but surfaced only after recent disclosures about the clandestine unit of police spies, suggested it may constitute a case in which "a police officer crossed the line into acting as an agent provocateur".

Please read the whole thing here.

[Carolyn Bailey]

Actions like this are so foreign to me. I think it would have been completely different being an advocate in the 1980's, particularly in the UK. 

ARZone spoke with some highly prominent advocates from this period recently together in this interview, which might be of interest: 

http://arzonepodcasts.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/arzone-podcast-32-bri...