From: Marc Bell <MARC@wufog.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:57:19 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:00:18 -0500
Subject: Tim Matthews/Aka Tim Hepple


Hi

I recieved this earlier today, I presume its probably connected
with the current debate on 'The Sheffield Incident'?

Does any one know its source?

All the best,

Marc (Woolwich UFO Research Group)

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From: The Terminator <terminator2001@hotmail.com>
To: eotl@west.net <eotl@west.net>
Date: 15 February 1999 00:51
Subject: Tim Matthews/Aka Tim Hepple





THE REAL - LIFE X-FILES

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(The Resurfacing of Agent Provocateur Tim Hepple)
AKA Ufologist Tim Matthews

Tim Hepple infiltrated GA through the Lancaster based Autonomy
anti-poll tax group in 1991 but was exposed by Larry O'Hara in
1993. During this time, he posed as an Eco-teur, wrote the
Eco-defenders Handbook, and laid the groundwork for the Gandalf
prosecution, so militant Greens could be presented as an
'ecoterrorist threat'. Hepple resurfaced as 'Tim Matthew's' in
1997. Despite claims to have been broken with his past, when the
Anti-Deception Committee confronted him on 24th January 1998 at
his 'When Worlds Collide' UFO conference in Stockport, they
found his old Searchlight crony, Ray Hill amongst his heavies.
Attendees were unimpressed by Hepples thuggery when the ADC were
thrown out for leafleting (text below) - a third walked out
immediately.

New Ufology or old MI5 dirty tricks?
Today's conference has been organised by Tim Matthew's who
presents himself as the rising star of the UFO movement. He is
keen advocate of something he term the "new Ufology" which
suggests that the military are behind UFO events.

When listening to Matthew's, we advise you to bear in
mind his extremely violent and suspect past activities
about which, as far as we know, he has not come clean.
It is our concern about his past, and the fact that good
people who he sought to trick are now serving 3 years jail
sentences that explains our presence here today.

Matthew's has written an account of his past, It is called At
War with Society, and it is written under his real name, Tim
Hepple. While containing some outrageous lies (fully dealt with
in Larry O'Hara's book, at War with the Truth) the admissions
are damaging enough. After starting off as a football thug (p.1)
and flirting with he National Front n 1985 (p2) Hepple joined
the BNP in 1986 (p3) and was at that time "a hard-line national
socialist" (p.3). Hepple admitted to being at this time a Nazi
thug "enjoying slagging people off" and getting info fights". If
this is all he ever was, a Nazi loser who has now (1998)
reformed his ways, we couldn't care less - good luck to him we'd
say.

But his activities were not in light of evidence, some of which
is here revealed for the first time, merely those of a political
loser but something far more sinister, a thug seeming to act
under licence from the stare and therefore immune from
prosecution for thuggery.  On 27/2/88 there was a fight between
BNP paper seller and anti-fascists in Sheffield. The police were
(suspiciously) close by the scene, and one of them (PC Rowlands
was set upon by Hepple and two other fascists, Baynes & Thorpe.
According to the police statement by the defendants Baynes,
Hepple & Thorpe... this caused the officer to receive abrasion
to his jaw, swelling and bleeding on the inside of his mouth.

When this case finally came to court in April 1989, while the
other two received six months jail sentences, Hepple
miraculously had his charges dropped! Not surprisingly, even the
BNP (not known for quick thinking) began to suspect that Hepple
was receiving protection from some higher authority, and decided
to hold a Tribunal of Enquiry, which Hepple admits was sorted by
a political ally so that it became "nothing more than a
formality". As for the assault on the police officer, while
elsewhere Hepple happily boasts of beating up anti-fascists in
particular of this incident all he had to say was "considering I
hadn't even been involved this was nonsense"

After being acquitted by the BNP Tribunal the very next thing
Hepple did was attend and play an active part in the BNP
invasion of Dewsbury in June 1989, indeed he boasts that:

"I take a lot of responsibility for the Dewsbury riot... leading
hundreds of young thugs."

He even admits being the provider of the army smoke bomb put in
my bag the morning before the riot". Given this riot led to the
arrest of 82 primarily local Asian youths he has a lot to answer
for and so too do those people within the state who on the
evidence we have outlined above, seem to have decided he was
such a valuable state asset inside the fascist movement that he
was even allowed to beat up police and get away wit it by having
the charges dropped before it came to trial. Isn't that the most
logical explanation? If you doubt it, just ask yourself what
would happen if you decided to beat up your local policeman (or
woman) in full view of their colleague and two passer by. Do you
really think it wouldn't even come to trial? Of course you don't
but then 'agent Hepple' was (and is) no ordinary member of the
public.

Hepple & the Searchlight Gang

Hepple next admits to having contacted the supposedly
'anti-fascist' Searchlight organisation in 1990, a year after
the Dewsbury riot. Searchlight run a magazine of that name, and
hawk stories concerning the far right to the media, as the
'public face' of their activities. In reality, as has been
demonstrated by numerous commentators such as Duncan Campbell,
Lobster magazine and even by Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (in
a leaked 1977 memo) they act as spies of MI5 and in the past
Special Branch, and spreaders of misinformation about a range of
radical causes including Welsh nationalists, animal rights
activists, anarchists, anti-poll tax protesters, indeed anybody
the political police doesn't like. It is our view that Hepple
was working for Searchlight/ the State when he beat up the
policeman as far back as 1988, and organised the Dewsbury riot
in 1989. NO wonder he doesn't want to talk about his past as an
agent provocateur. We do.

Hepple claimed that he was "Witness tot he early event in the
life of (neo-nazi thugs) Combat 18 and I reported back to
Searchlight."

In 1994 Searchlight called for MI5 to be given legal powers to
investigate C18. Yet in 1995, for political reasons, Searchlight
announced that C18 had in fact been set up by MI5.

Hepple even appeared in a World in Action documentary describing
in sickening detail a brutal C18 attack. Clearly 'Agent Hepple '
had been taking part in yet another episode of political
thuggery sanctioned if not organised at the highest level by the
Security Services.

Agent Hepple & the Green Anarchists.

In A lie too far & At War with the Truth extensive information
has been published concerning his infiltration of t hi s group,
as well as his attempt to infiltrate Class War and other
left-wing groups, at the same time as he was supposedly mealy an
"anti-fascists" infiltrating the BNP. Hepple's failed attempt to
turn Green Anarchist into an armed gang which would dance to the
state's tune is proved by extensive correspondence in his own
handwriting which he has not dared to deny is by him. Why not
ask him?

Rather than repeat the overwhelming and damming evidence
contained within those two pamphlets (to which neither he nor
Searchlight have ever dared reply, or respond to O'Hara's
repeated requests for them to sue him), we seek to draw your
attention to some new evidence, as well as one point Hepple
admitted in At War with Society that should be overlooked in
1989 he joined the army intending:

"To work up from the bottom up and try to develop my language
skills and move into an intelligence role."

He writes that he does not intend to "dwell on this experience"
which means he choose not to mention his (backed up by
non-police witnesses) who phoned the police during the fight):

The officer remained on the floor' and suffered indiscriminate
kicking to his body and head, administered"

Surely good reasons for not  "dwelling" on this phase of his
life, those who have been his targets and are now, such as the
Ufologist community would do well to remember this.

In November last, three people associated with the Green
Anarchist newspaper collective - Steve Booth, Noel Molland & Sax
Wood, were jailed in Portsmouth for three years by a judge who
was formerly a military judge, the notorious drunk Judge
Selwood. Their supposed 'crime' was inciting persons unknown to
conspire with others) also unknown) to commit crimes (unknown)
over a five year period. This supposedly constituted a
(indictment, P2)

Conspiracy to incite criminal damage to be caused ... and to
incite actions beyond lawful and democratic means of protest.

The real complaint the state has about them is they published
news of animal rights and other direct actions against injustice
in the Green Anarchist newspaper, and as such had to be
politically crushed. The relevant issues of Green Anarchist they
were persecuted for issues 29-38 inclusive. And you will already
have guessed when it was that Hepple started to infiltrate and
write for Green Anarchist - that's right, issue 29! What a
surprise then (or not) that although the main crux of the
prosecution case was a supposed conspiracy between GA and
supporters of the ALF, one article that appeared in issue 29,
written by Hepple, was not included in the indictment. And yet
this article called upon reader to

Use the ALF as an Example of practical and spontaneous
opposition to animal abuse. Similar methods and organisation
should be utilised for a wider range of activities here and now!

For issue 31, Hepple supplied the addresses of BNP leader John
Tyndall & Fascist printer Tony Hancock, which were both later
attacked. At issue here is not the rights and wrongs of these
attacks but the basic fact that whereas others involved in GA
have been sent down for three years for a supposed conspiracy to
incite others to commit criminal damage there is no proof ever
happened as a result of articles in GA, or happened at all, a
different se of rules appointed to Hepple. In clear echoes of
this Sheffield immunity, while nearly sixty associates of Green
Anarchist were questioned or turned over by the police, and some
repeatedly, not only was Hepple (a key contribution) never
charged as a result of writing these articles, according to a
police report Hepple was never even questioned! According to
this report dated 29/8/95 & written by PC Guy Collyer, Hepple's
then partner (now) Mrs Matthew's) Linda Suggett "said that
Hepple would not speak to meet me and wanted no involvement".
Indeed without (supposedly) questioning him Collyer made the
inspirational deduction (or was he just obeying order?) that
Hepple was "probably not involved in GA's incitement campaign".
He adds "it is not known whether Hepple could have supplied any
useful information". . Can you credit this? DO you really think
the state didn't know he wrote the above articles, at least as
inciting if not more than those for which people are today in
jail? And he wasn't even questioned? Hardly credible again, how
many criminals of any description would ever be convicted if all
they have to do is get a friend or whoever to state they don't
want to speak to the police? It's bullshit, isn't it? But again,
as in the case of Sheffield former (??) Army Intelligence
operative Hepple leads a very charmed life indeed doesn't
he?....

Bringing It Back to Earth

Which explains why we here today to for analysis of his past
activities seems to show three things of relevance:

1) He is thug and proven liar and a voracious gatherer of
intelligence and personal detail of activist of any sort, of
precisely the kind MI5/Special Branch & indeed Army Intelligence
are interested in.

2) Where he is involved, the political police have an interest,
whether it is disclosed sooner or later.

4) Disrupting existing groups, setting up dummy groups and urging

5) others to take 'direct action' (for which they rather than he

6) carry the can) seems never to be far from his mind.

Bearing this in mind, we give all Ufologists this friendly
warning - don't trust this chameleon, don't give him access to
your mailing list, don't listen to him if (as part of his "new
Ufology) he urges you to say invade military bases. Or perhaps
buzz them in his friend's helicopter! We say this not because we
are pacifists, but because Hepple/Matthew's is big trouble, and
in our past experience of him, his involvement in your field s
intended at the very least to sow confusion and dissension. What
better way for MI5/Special Branch or indeed t he Ministry of
Defence to justify spending scarce resources on political
surveillance of the Ufologist community than sending in assets
like we believe Hepple/Matthew's to be  -to lay the ground an
and put people in the frame. And to his current political views
they're anybody's guess - but his uncritical praise of the
mythical achievements of nazi science' in the Sightings article
shows that's one part of his ideological baggage still very near
to and. In the end though, as further extensively detailed in A
lie too far and At War With the Truth, he's a low-life thug
provocateur and spy - and you should boot him out of community
before he succeeds in wrecking it. 'Good research' - that's the
way to do it! Any further information received and acted upon at
the address below in strictest confidence and remember 'Tim, the
Truth is out there, and you're still at war with it!


THE ANTI-DECEPTION COMMITTEE, BM BOX 4769,
LONDON WCIN 3XX.

Reproduced from GA #    with kind permission.

Hanky-panky in the British UFO world

taken from

'Lobster' No 34 Winter 1998, p23

The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now
cruising the British UFO world under the guise of 'Tim Matthews'
 of the 'Lancashire UFO Society'.

A major attempt to spread disinformation through the British UFO
magazines is underway. Kevin McClure wrote about this in the
second editon of his new newsletter 'Abduction Watch'.

Although the content of the stories varies from claims of secret
British operations to cover-up the murder and mutilation of
British citizens by aliens, to more mundane tales of secret
bases and secret military units, tbe seven or eight stories in
the past couple of years all have one thing in common: the
source is anonymous and claims to be in some branch of the
British military.

In what is presumably part of the same operation, Armen
Victorian received a phone-call this October from a man claiming
to be a taxi-driver who had found a briefcase left in his cab
with some official papers in it -- an oldie but a goodie, that
one! This 'taxi-driver' then tried to run part of this
disintbrmation project, the story about alien contact with the
British state, past him. What the purpose of this disinformation
operation is -- your guess is as good as mine (or McClure's).

Update ('Lobster' No 35 Summer 1998, p22)

My two-line squib about Tim Matthews' previous incarnation as
Tim Hepple in Lobster 34 seems to have set the cat among the
UFOlogical pigeons. In response to it Mr Matthews sent out a
document to various 'UFO researchers' , in which he said the
following:

"In late 1991 I undertook to engage in undercover work for an
internationally respected anti-fascist investigative magazine
called Searchlight having previously been briefly involved with
the British National Party in 1988/9 ....the work involved my
joining the British National Party and meeting some very
dangerous individuals. Within weeks of moving to London I was
working at the BNP headquarters where I had access to the names
and addresses of hundreds of fascist activists and sympathisers.
These were passed onto the Searchlight team. In addition, I was
able to expose the birth of a particularly nasty group called
'Combat 18' set up by a group of football hooligans and
organised with the help of an notorious American nazi called
Harold Covington."

As students of Larry O'Hara will know, this is not quite the
whole story. Later in the piece Mr Matthews wrote this:

"Lobster has suggested there is a government conspiracy to
disinform the UFO community about abductions (see issue 34)
partly involving an anonymous "taxi driver" who phoned Mr
Victorian recently ......Any such conspiracy, were it to exist,
could not possibly involve me (I don't have a driving license
for a start!)....".

Mr Matthews is denying something I did not suggest....

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Update...

Since the above feature was posted on this site, I have come
across the following gems which might be of interest to anyone
intrigued by the career of Hepple/Matthews.

Flying Saucers - Secret History
The Real X-Files.

The Terminator (Cleaning House for the ufo community)