Since the UK spycops scandal was leaked in the UK, where undercover agents had long term relationships with female activists, have any women in other countries suspected anything similar?
Basically from 1968 - 2010, a branch of UK spycops were sent by M15 to undergo a covert, long term operation to spy on left-wing activists and pose as one of them. Many of the men began dating some of the women in these groups long term, with one man even going on to brag about how he had a child with one of the women and abandoned them once the job was done. Many of the men were already married with children themselves, the whole thing is just disgusting, and we will likely never know the full scale of the operation as they had fake passports and all.
Examples of the groups they infiltrated were environmental, animal rights, anti-fascist, feminist and marxist/anarchist/socialist groups. So no groups that are a threat to national security, just people with a sense of justice that challenge the states harm.
The whole thing is sickening, and the fact that it was only uncovered because a couple of women had connections to find background information that wouldn't be accessible to the public regularly, is frightening. Even worse is that one of the disgraced officers now has a job in Australia teaching the next gen of police officers.
By now I imagine intelligence agencies around the world have done a cover up of evidence since it's been revealed in the UK, but it got me thinking if women in other countries have had past relationships with male activists that were similarly suspicious. The whole thing is under intelligence agencies, so unless it gets uncovered irrefutably and there's enough evidence and media backlash, nothing will come of it. For a long time the UK Police/MI5 were just blatantly denying it despite an undercover agent whistleblowing on his role.
The main things all women in the documentary seemed to have in common were:
-The breakup was abrupt, the cop leaving before the women had gotten home, leaving only a letter after they disappeared, most of them sounded roughly the same, spoke of feeling empty and needing to move, but that they still love them.
-They often had "troubles" going on in their life that could pull them away at any moment.
-Family members were often dead, estranged or living abroad.
-One woman found a bank card in her partners jacket pocket with a different surname, another found a passport with a different surname, but both men provided very convincing stories and they believed it as they'd been dating for so many years at this point.
-Most men were living with the women while undercover.
-All engaged in activism and seemed passionate, and they often provided a car/van for the other activists to use.
-Most women often felt like the man was hiding parts of himself in some way.
-Oh and none seemed to be all that remorseful for the harm they had done to the women.
-From reading the unredacted parts of the training manual, they were made to do extensive research into the history of the movement, left-wing theory, and learn politically correct language.
Did any women outside of the UK in left-wing activist groups or even adjacent to these people have a relationship where a lot of these things listed resonates with your experience? Some of these men didn't even just date activists, they dated women who were friends with activists to gain access and credibility in these groups.
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC