Although we have heard the story - and in a sense always known it; the existence of police spies in activist groups is assumed to be true as a basic security princple - to read the first hand accounts of the way a selection of women were targetted and gaslit by undercover cops and the detail of their emotional involvement in a fake person was quite shocking.

The persoal become highly political, and in the context of what has happened since in terms of the drift into an authoritarian state pretty unsettling.