Firms consulted blacklist to vet potential workers they believed could be troublemakers
A senior Scotland Yard officer who was involved in monitoring leftwing activists went on to work for a corporately funded blacklist used to deny employment to thousands of trade unionists, a public inquiry has heard.
A former colleague identified Ch Supt Bert Lawrenson as the officer who left the Metropolitan police to work for the secretive blacklisting operation.
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