Albert Beale

• I WAS pleased to see your coverage of the latest phase of the public inquiry into undercover policing, (How ‘spy cops’ posed as activists to infiltrate group behind peaceful environmental protests, April 22).

However the reference to me in the strapline on the story was inaccurate.

As you reported, I was one of the founders of London Greenpeace (which was later infiltrated by Spycops) in 1971/1972, and I was an editor of the pacifist paper Peace News (which “gave birth to” London Greenpeace) in the 1970s and 1980s.

However your headline writer erred in conflating these two things and suggesting that I was a founder of Peace News.

Far from it; the paper was launched in 1936, and hence is marking its 85th anniversary this year. I might be looking a bit long in the tooth these days, but…

ALBERT BEALE
Little Russell Street, WC1