Journalism has a long and much debated history of articles reported either undercover or without complete representation — one came to light this month involving some BBC reporters and a trip to North Korea.
In the petition, the campaigners demand that the home secretary give him authorisation under the official secrets act so that he can "provide a full and frank account" of his undercover work without fear of prosecution.
It is perhaps some solace that Mark's parents never lived long enough to discover how the identity of their son may have been quietly resurrected by undercover police without their knowledge.
To make matters worse, Rockcoons launched Bitcointopia while on pretrial release after allegedly running an unlicensed money transmitting business through which he exchanged more than $10,000 for bitcoin with an undercover agent without reporting the transaction.
The first of Anderson's productions to use live actors, Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover and without the support of his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hijackers.
Bell, a former communications adviser to Margaret Thatcher, is furious about the methods used to secure the story and has filed a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission which claims that there was no proof of impropriety, and that the same information could have been established without undercover reporting.
Think Point Break, an undercover thriller but without Patrick Swayze, amazing action sequences and surfing, set it in France over a century ago and you're in the right ballpark for the film The Anarchists.
Moreover, one bartender sold an undercover cop alcohol without first checking for I.D.
He was placed on medical probation in 2004 when the board found that he had issued marijuana recommendations to undercover police officers without a legitimate medical reason.
Without undercover videos and photos, there's pretty much zero chance you would ever see or hear about abuse of factory-farm animals.
