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I would be quite interested in how they approach this, but I understand that some of it may be well guarded information. I think British orgs in particular have a very rough time with it. We have evidence of reading circles with as few as 4 members being infiltrated by full blown intel agency spies, let alone cops. The approach here seems to be to get in as early as possible so that they have early-bird trust.
What's the evidence, or how was that found out? If you can say
Court cases with information about when the spies joined the groups. I don't remember the exact case right now, I suspect it was an environmental org that spun off a small marxist reading group, one of the big cases had spies sleeping with and even having children with members of orgs.
I remember listening to an interview with a guy who was spied on in one of those groups, I forget which podcast though... Maybe TrueAnon or QAA?