The Spy Who Was "Plane Stupid"
It’s been an intriguing week for British environmental activists, with the discovery of a spy in the camp at UK aviation protest group Plane Stupid.
Ultimately the spy, an employee of C2i International who specialize in ’special risk management’ (otherwise known as industrial espionage) was little match for Plane Stupid, who described him as “more Austin Powers than James Bond”.
Accounts of the episode reveal that Ken Tobias (real name Tobias Kendall), made a number of basic errors, including:
- Wearing expensive designer clothes (which he attempted to disguise by wearing a Palestinian scarf to give some environmental credibility)
- Turning up to meetings consistently early
- Demonstrating an unusual eagerness to reap mayhem on British airport infrastructure by suggesting the grandest and most aggressive schemes
- Allowing information on planned activities to be published almost immediately in the press
