Ah, An Agent Provocateur

Doesn't this remind you of Israel's own experience with Avishai Raviv, well, except for the fact that our Left still believes in him?

Reported:

Charges Dropped Against British Protesters

The unmasking of an undercover police officer who spent seven years infiltrating environmental protest groups in Britain and more than 20 other countries caused the collapse on Monday of a trial involving activists..It cast a harsh spotlight on an elite undercover unit at Scotland Yard

The protesters were accused of planning to halt power production at the plant for a week, stopping operations that would have pumped 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...six of the activists refused to admit to planning the break-in and were prepared to argue that the undercover officer, Mark Kennedy, had acted as an agent provocateur and had “actively encouraged participation in the action,”

...The Guardian’s account, published on the newspaper’s Web site and in its Monday editions, said that Mr. Kennedy had been assigned to infiltrate various protest groups, including environmentalist ones, beginning in 2003, when he was said to have been 33.

It said he was given a new name, Mark Stone, and equipped with a false passport and driver’s license. He also grew his hair long and sported earrings and tattoos. The paper said he traveled widely at home and abroad, chaining himself to the gates of a British nuclear power station, halting a coal train, scaling a dam in Iceland and volunteering to be one of two climbers who would chain himself to the coal conveyor belt at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.

The paper said he had become a popular figure at almost every environmental protest in Britain, renowned for two things that were uncommon in those circles — providing transport for protesters, including a heavy truck for the coal station protest, and having generous amounts of money, which the paper said earned him the nickname “Flash Stone.”

...In a secretly made video released by the protesters, Mr. Kennedy expressed his remorse. “I hate myself so much, I have betrayed so many people,” he said.

Anyone know where Avishai Raviv is today?