The pensioner, who has no criminal record, is among thousands of political campaigners recorded on the database by the same covert unit that has been embedding spies such as Mark Kennedy – a police officer who infiltrated environmental protest groups – in political movements for more than a decade.
It's also a place where you can't embed spies, you can't gather communications from across the planet, you can't bug the phones or hack into the emails of world leaders, no drones can fly, and there are no satellite images to study or interpret.
It's like, when I leave my friend's apartment, do I expect him to secretly embed a spy camera on my backpack so that he can keep an eye on my every movement outside of his home?
Verloc, a dullish spy embedded in a circle of ineffectual English anarchists, is tasked by a foreign government (here Germany) to rile a complacent Britain by blowing up the Greenwich Observatory.
If you're a foreign spy embedded in the American Midwest, for instance, you want a boring, unassuming name like "Chris Stephens".
Privately, senior officers claim there are "without question" more corporate spies embedded in the protest movement than police officers.
The Americans is the story of cookie-cutter couple Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who are Soviet spies embedded in the US so that they can complete missions that usually involve having sex with targets, shooting targets in the head, or sometimes a combination of the two.
"Chuck," following the adventures of a computer nerd with a spy database embedded in his brain, has been an embattled series since its 2007 debut.
It involves innovative spy gear embedded deep in the supply chain, highly selective identity theft and new ways of gaining access at all levels of corporations and government.
Among the other drama pickups (the only comedy, The IT Crowd, won't air until later in the season): Journeyman, about a newspaper reporter traveling through time, and Chuck, about a computer geek turned government agent who has spy secrets embedded in his brain.
