Into the Circle

INTO THE CIRCLE German IM INNEREN KREIS highlights the diverse psychological and political consequences of covert police operations The undercover police officer Iris P investigated the Hamburg left scene as Iris Schneider for nearly six years She had close friendships and she had several years of intimate relations with people who at the same she spied upon After Iris P was publicly unmasked in 2014 two more clandestine investigators were revealed as well However public surveillance can also affect people who would have considered it impossible This is illustrated by the case of the police officer Simon B who enrolled in the University of Heidelberg to spy out peaceful leftwing students