Private agency put protest groups under surveillance

Statewatch Bulletin; vol 13 no 5 August-October 2003

A Sunday Times "Insight" investigation has revealed that a numer of private companies, including the defence giant BAE Systems and the security firm Group 4, were supplied with personal details on protestors by a a private agency run by Evelyn Le Chene, is said to have a database of 148,000 activists, peace protestors, environmentalists and trade unionists.

BAE is said by the Sunday Times to have paid the company