In a 500-page report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) called for urgent improvements in the accountability of undercover firearms operations after finding that a lack of audio or video material "made it difficult, and on occasions impossible, to know with absolute certainty what happened".
Novak told the undercover employees that he took classified materials from Fort Bragg and would share the materials with them, the document said.
In Athens, news of the undercover tax agents was quick to spark ridicule and widespread disbelief.
In a lengthy rebuttal, Dannatt said he had made it clear to the undercover reporters that "I would need to meet the manufacturer and verify for myself whether the product was viable.
The commander in chief of the Royal Navy fleet until March this year, Soar told the undercover reporters he knew "all the ministers" at the MoD.
Just before Christmas the German government refused to answer a series of parliamentary questions Hunko had tabled about Germany's co-operation with undercover police officers from other countries, and Kennedy in particular.
The group of women claim the undercover officers' actions breached their human rights as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 3, which prohibits inhumane and degrading treatment, and Article 8, which protects private and family life.
"Talkin' The Hardest" is a self-marketed undercover hit.
Otter and his team put forward 49 recommendations to improve the "policies, systems, training and leadership of undercover operations which if implemented should address the unacceptable inconsistencies and shortcomings that we have found".
"The thinktank route is a very good one," said ex-minister Patricia Hewitt to undercover reporters seeking lobbying advice.
The HMIC report into the current control of undercover officers was commissioned by the home secretary, Theresa May, following revelations in the Guardian that undercover officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager, Stephen Lawrence.
