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     1        reported on at London Greenpeace meetings).  She was
     2        involved in organising the 1990 London Greenpeace fayre
     3        (including making announcements from the stage coordinating
     4        events)  In addition, she had a relationship with somebody
     5        involved with London Greenpeace and she took an active part
     6        in the 1990 international mail out."
     7
     8        Actually you were not involved with the mail out anyway,
     9        but apart from that, does that accord with your
    10        recollection?
    11        A.  Yes.  I mean, I would agree with all that.  She was
    12        very enthusiastic almost from the beginning.  Well, from
    13        the beginning.  I was away for a couple of weeks and by the
    14        time I had come back she was heavily involved in the group
    15        and Hackney and Islington Animal Rights Campaign and with
    16        the Anti-McDonald's pickets outside various branches of
    17        McDonald's.
    18
    19   Q.   You saw her on those pickets?
    20        A.  Yes, at Dalston.
    21
    22   Q.   Did she hand out leaflets?
    23        A.  Yes.
    24
    25   Q.   You were at the 1990 picket of McDonald's head office?
    26        A.  Yes, in East Finchley.
    27
    28   Q.   We saw you on the video yesterday.  Do you remember her on
    29        that picket?
    30        A.  Yes.  I mean, most of the people involved in Hackney
    31        and Islington Animal Rights Campaign were quite keen on
    32        leafleting and she was the same.  She was very
    33        enthusiastic, almost unbelievably so.
    34
    35   Q.   Okay.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  You have said four of the enquiry agents,
    38        infiltrators were considered to be among the regulars at
    39        meetings?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   Q.   And that they asked you about -- did they all ask you about
    43        McDonald's matters, do you remember?
    44        A.  I cannot remember specifically.  I mean, as I said,
    45        Anthony Pocklington expressed an interest in anti-fast food
    46        campaigning.  Maybe I had just assumed, but the
    47        recollection that Brian Bishop had read an A5 leaflet of
    48        ours and Allan Claire answered letters on various occasions
    49        and certainly Michelle Hooker.  They never expressed any
    50        disinterest in the campaign or they never said they did not
    51        agree with the campaign.
    52
    53   Q.   As a result of their involvement in the group, did that
    54        affect you in any way?
    55        A.  I mean, it did, to the extent that London Greenpeace as
    56        a group was not exactly fizzling out but there was less
    57        people from the time when I attended in October 1988, there
    58        would be about 15, 20, maybe more people, at meetings, and
    59        by 1989, by summer 1989 this had dwindled  to maybe 10, I
    60        am not sure, but after the London Greenpeace -- well, it

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