Both officers worked for a secretive unit called the Special Demonstration Squad SDSS), which was disbanded in 2008.
He had become the subject of an international sting orchestrated by a secretive unit of the American Drug Enforcement Administration.
Chief Galati's testimony, reported on Tuesday by The Associated Press, offers a detailed picture of the secretive unit, part of the Intelligence Division, which includes hundreds of investigators and analysts.
It is a humbling moment for a secretive unit that earns the company $2 billion to $3 billion annually and has long inspired fear and envy among rival traders.
Catt won a crucial victory in the court of appeal last year when senior judges ruled that the secretive unit had unlawfully recorded his political activities.
Twenty-two Navy SEALs from Team Six, the secretive unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2nd, local time, are among the dead.
Pilots from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the secretive unit that transported SEALs into Pakistan the night of the bin Laden raid, participated in Craft exercises, allowing the company to train people in the art of shooting from aerial platforms.
And is that person still working at the Met?" Boyling's deception in court does not appear to have been an isolated incident – or the decision of one senior officer, according to one former officer from the same secretive unit.
Francis, who worked with Scotland Yard's former special demonstration squad, spoke out about tactics that he said were used by the secretive unit in the 1980s and 90s.
Peter Black, who was undercover for four years, said it would be a "terrific mistake" if Scotland Yard were given control of the secretive unit, which has been running spies in protest groups.
