This is The Guardian.

Today we are rerunning the first of a two-part special that we made back in 2020 about the so-called

spy cops scandal. The Guardian revealed this week that at least 25 undercover police officers

formed sexual relationships with members of political groups without ever disclosing who they really were.

And at least three of the police spies fathered children with women that they met while using their fake identities.

In the UK this week, ITV aired a three-part documentary, The Undercover Police Scandal, Love and Lies Exposed.

But here with our former host, Anushka Astana,

is the inside track on how the Guardian broke the story.

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For many years, the guardians Rob Evans and Paul Lewis have been digging into the practice of the police going undercover to spy on activists.

For Paul, there's one scene that he keeps coming back to.

A group of officers were drinking together,

sitting on worn sofas in a London apartment that they used as a safe house.

At one of these meetings in the early 90s, shortly after the Berlin Wall came down,

they had the TV on and there was a news report about the Starzi in Germany.

At Communist Party headquarters, a multicolored wool painting has replaced the drab Stalinist slogans which adorned the façade under Honika.

As investigators and citizens' committees continue their dig through the enormous apparatus of the Starzy secret police.

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