"The officer, who used the fake name Simon Wellings, jeopardised his own covert deployment by mistakenly recording himself discussing individual campaigners with other special branch officers."
"He looked up her number on his phone, but then mistakenly dialled it. His call was diverted to the activist's voicemail, which recorded him being asked by the other officers to identify campaigners from photographs he was being shown."
"Internal police documents show that, after he was exposed, the police considered whether to leave the anti-capitalist group he had infiltrated intact or whether to mount a destructive operation."
"Wellings said he submitted up to 4,000 surveillance reports on campaigners while he infiltrated Globalise Resistance, the anti-capitalist group, and other leftwing campaigns between 2001 and 2007."
An undercover police officer, using the alias Simon Wellings, was exposed due to a blunder where he accidentally recorded himself discussing activists. This incident occurred while he was infiltrating leftwing groups for Scotland Yard. During a meeting with special branch officers, he mistakenly dialed an activist's number, leading to a voicemail recording of him identifying campaigners. Wellings submitted around 4,000 surveillance reports on activists from 2001 to 2007, detailing their personal and financial information. Activists recognized his voice from the accidental recording.
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