Mark Kennedy says he left the police force last year Ex-undercover officer Pc Mark Kennedy has said he feels he has been made a "scapegoat" after a trial collapsed.
Mr Kennedy told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that his covert work infiltrating green activist groups had "jeopardised" his life.
The case against six activists accused of conspiring to shut down a power station collapsed after Mr Kennedy said he would testify for the defence.
"A lot of operational decisions have been wrong," he added.
Mr Kennedy told the paper he now lived abroad and "in fear of his life". He also confessed to having sexual relationships whilst undercover, but said it was "wrong".
The former Pc led a double life, serving as a Metropolitan Police officer whilst posing as an activist known as Mark "Flash" Stone, involved in the green movement since 2000.
On Monday, the trial of six men allegedly involved in a protest at Nottingham's Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in 2009 was stopped after Mr Kennedy switched sides and offered to give evidence on their behalf.
The men's defence team asked prosecutors to disclose full details of the officer's activities - reportedly prompting the Crown Prosecution Service to drop their case.
Mark Kennedy Former undercover police officer“There is some bad stuff going on. Really bad stuff.”
Several other protesters were sentenced to a mixture of community orders and conditional discharges last week, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to examine whether Nottinghamshire Police disclosed all relevant material.
Mr Kennedy told the newspaper that he believed tape recordings secretly made by him were withheld from the court by police for fear it would destroy the prosecution's case.
"The truth of the matter is that the tapes clearly show that the six defendants who were due to go on trial had not joined any conspiracy," he said.
"The tapes I made meant that the police couldn't prove their case."
Mr Kennedy criticised police procedures for dealing with him.
"There have been a lot of mistakes made, a lot of operational decisions have been wrong... and I think I am being made a scapegoat."
He also said: "The extraction policies for taking an undercover officer out of the activist scene after their deployment has finished is appalling. I had no confidence at all that my safety was ever going to be regarded."
He added: "I want to tell my story and tell how there is a huge mismanagement of staff for the sake of gathering intelligence.
"It has jeopardised my life and it could jeopardise the lives of other officers.
He told the newspaper he had gone to the US amid fears for his safety.
"I can
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