He told her how he was deeply involved in campaigning for animal rights and the environment.īob confided that he was heavily active in the ALF. He told her that he was also earning a living by driving a minicab, although he was touting illegally for customers.īut politics was really his thing, he said. Bob said he was a gardener, doing cash-in-hand jobs in well-heeled places such as Hampstead.
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Very quickly they were spending most of their free time together. In the 1990s, he drew on the techniques he had learned undercover to become the head of operations in the covert unit, running a network of spies. His aim was to penetrate the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which he says was "then engaged in incendiary device and explosive device campaigns against targets in the vivisection, meat and fur trades". He did so "as part of my cover story" to "gain the necessary credibility to become involved in serious crime".
Lambert admits that in the 1980s, he "first built a reputation as a committed member of London Greenpeace, a peaceful campaigning group ".
"He did what is hands down regarded as the best tour of duty ever," said Black. His skills of deception would earn him legendary status in the elite ranks of the covert unit known as the special demonstration squad (SDS).
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He said there was an informal code in the unit that the spies should not fall in love with the women – or allow the women to fall in love with them.Īn investigation by the Guardian has shown that Lambert was no ordinary police spy. But Pete Black, an undercover officer from the same unit who infiltrated anti-racist groups in the 1990s, said sex was widely used as a technique to blend in and gather intelligence. Police chiefs claim that undercover officers are forbidden from having sex with their targets "under any circumstances" as it is "unacceptable and unprofessional". A growing number of women say they have suffered terrible trauma and damage from the betrayal of having a relationship with a person they later found out was a fake. They have faced claims that they did so to glean intelligence about the activists and the protests they were organising. So far, seven undercover police officers who infiltrated political groups have been exposed – and most have admitted or have been accused of sleeping with activists they were spying on. Today, Lambert admits that "as part of my alter ego's cover story, I had a relationship with 'Jenny', to whom I owe an unreserved apology". The sorry episode has left her wondering if he loved her at all. I feel violated," she said.Īs she was trying to persuade him to set up home and have a family together, he was resisting, claiming he had to flee abroad as he was being pursued by special branch because he was a dangerous radical activist. "I was cruelly tricked and it has made me very angry. She is very hurt that he duped her about who he was. The discovery has left Jenny feeling that he deceived her about the bedrock of any relationship – his identity. Jenny and others only discovered his true identity more than 20 years after they first met him.
The special branch officer was one of a group of police spies in a covert unit who have been infiltrating and disrupting the activities of political campaign groups across Britain for decades. Bob Lambert today admits he was an undercover police officer who had created the fictional persona of Bob Robinson to spy on political activists. It turns out that there was a lot more to Bob Robinson than his impassioned campaigning and shoulder-length hair, which gave every impression of a rebel with many causes. They had an 18-month relationship and one of his characteristics struck her in particular: "I thought he had a high moral code."īut now she feels very different about him. He was very charming and I thought I could take him to meet my parents," she says. He was, she says, "polite, considerate, very romantic, attentive, charismatic". The love she felt for him rolls easily off her tongue.
They fell easily into conversation and before long, Jenny was smitten. Jenny (not her real name), a 24-year-old who had come to the capital to find work, was intrigued by the slim man with the endearing smile, who was slightly older than her. The man she would come to know as Bob Robinson was standing on his own. They met by chance one night at a party in Tottenham, north London.
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