Scotland Yard told MI5 they had deployed ‘bearded and unwashed’ officers to spy on leftwing groups in late 1960s
The security service MI5 worked closely with undercover police officers to infiltrate the campaign against the Vietnam war, documents released to a public inquiry have disclosed.
Senior Scotland Yard officers told MI5 that they had deployed what they called “bearded and unwashed” male officers and “scruffy” female officers to spy on the campaign in the late 1960s.
