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Revealed: How police tried to cover-up spying operation on fracking protesters – but didn’t realise that changing text colour on report…

Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:28
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Police spied on protesters at Britain’s biggest anti-fracking demonstration, using bugging devices and infiltrating them with undercover ‘covert human intelligence sources’, an official report has revealed.

The incendiary revelation emerged only because blundering police failed to properly redact the highly sensitive report.

When a computer user changes the colour of the type, the missing text appears.

The existence of ‘spies’ in the frackers’ camp in Balcombe, Sussex, is meant to be a closely guarded secret. Sussex chief constable Martin Richards reportedly ‘went ballistic’ when told of the mistake.

A local private sector security source said: ‘Next time there’s a fracking protest, activists will know what to expect – to say nothing of the consequences if the intelligence source is discovered.’

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