On July 11, a public inquiry in the UK heard that the funeral of Cornelius Cardew, and a memorial event held in his memory, were both attended by an undercover police officer deployed by a specialist police unit to infiltrate revolutionary communist groups. Though it was conveyed to him through a manager at the Special Demonstration Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police, the witness said that the request to attend the funeral came from the Security Service, MI5.
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