This is the Guardian.
Today we are rerunning the first of a two part special
that we made back in 2020 about the so called spy cops scandal.
The Guardian revealed this week that
at least 25 undercover police officers formed sexual relationships
with members of political groups without ever disclosing who they really were.
And at least three of the police spies fathered children with women that they met
while using fake identities in the uk.
This week ITV aired a three part documentary, the Undercover Police Scandal.
Love and Lies Exposed.
But here with our former host Anoushka Astana is the
inside track on how the Guardian broke the story.
For many years, the guardians,
Rob Evans
and Paul Lewis have been digging
into the practice of the police going undercover to spy on activists.
For Paul, there's one scene that he keeps coming back to.
A group of officers were drinking together,
sitting on worn sofas in a London apartment that they used as a safe house.
At one of these meetings in the early 90s, shortly after the Berlin Wall came down,