by Kurt Nimmo, Global Research:
On Independence Day, around 400 masked “white nationalists” from the Patriot Front marched in DC. “Dressed in khakis, white face coverings, sunglasses, and caps bearing the logo of white supremacist group Patriot Front, the members were seen gathering near Union Station and marching through Capitol Hill,” The Hill reported. It is said the group emerged after the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally when it broke away from Vanguard America, described as a neo-fascist organization.
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“With chapters around the country, Patriot Front continues to be the most visible white supremacist group operating in the U.S. today,” according to the ADL. “Since 2019, the group has been responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributions in the U.S., using fliers, posters, stickers, banners and the internet to spread their hateful ideology.”
Patriot Front Infiltrated by the FBI
Ken Silva, an author and editor for Headline USA, posted a heavily redacted FBI document that reveals the Patriot Front was infiltrated by an FBI CHS, or Confidential Human Source, an FBI term for undercover informant. “Though almost the entire FBI file on the Patriot Front is redacted, it includes one record confirming that the bureau had at least one spy embedded with the group,” Silva writes. He believes the informant, or possible agent provocateur, Michael Alan Jones,
may have been the CHS discussed in the above-mentioned FBI memo, given that he lives close to Charlotte—the office that received information from a Patriot Front CHS in 2019. If that’s the case, it would be the first public confirmation that Jones was acting as an informant while in the Patriot Front—court records only confirmed that he spied on the Proud Boys.
“The notion of agents provocateurs perhaps gained most of its notoriety in connection with controversial tactics used by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation over the course of 20th century,” the Toronto Star reported in 2007. “FBI agents have been accused in countless books of posing as radicals in various organizations—from the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party to the Communist Party and civil rights groups.”
On August 15, 1975 The New York Times reported that the “Federal Bureau of Investigation made public today documents revealing how it used counter‐intelligence tactics in the nineteen‐sixties to disrupt and combat the Ku Klux Klan, the Communist party and other extremist groups in America.”
The documents, obtained by reporters under the Freedom of Information Act, disclose how the F.B.I. infiltrated the Klan with some 2,000 informants, issued bogus news reports about Klan officials, established fictitious counter groups and sent anonymous mailings to make trouble for Klan members and other extremist organization.
However, Brian Glick, the founder of Fordham Law’s Community Economic Development Clinic, writes that the FBI’s so-called “white hate” program “functioned mainly as a cover for covert aid to the KKK and similar right-wing vigilantes, who were given funds and information, so long as they confined their attacks to COINTELPRO targets.”
COINTELPRO and the Ku Klux Klan
COINTELPRO, or Counterintelligence Program, was a covert initiative by the FBI from 1956 to 1971 aimed at surveilling and disrupting political organizations the federal government considered subversive, including groups associated with the civil rights and antiwar movements.
According to the anti-fascist ce399 research archive, the FBI used the KKK and other reactionary groups to attack leftist targets.
In the guise of a COINTELPRO against “white hate groups,” the FBI subsidized, armed, directed and protected the Ku Klux Klan and other right-wing groups, including a “Secret Army Organization” of California ex-Minutemen who beat up Chicano activists, tore apart the offices of the San Diego Street Journal and the Movement for a Democratic Military, and tried to kill a prominent anti-war organizer. Puerto Rican activists suffered similar terrorist assaults from anti-Castro Cuban groups organized and funded by the CIA.
Also in 1975, the ACLU issued “a report for Senate investigators alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recruited a band of right‐wing terrorists [the Secret Army Organization,] and supplied them with money and weapons to attack young antiwar demonstrators.”
According to the A.C.L.U. report, the Secret Army Organization was setup “on instructions of F.B.I. officials” to serve as agents provocateurs, inciting disorders as a means of exposing “domestic radicals,” particularly campus leaders of the New Left protesting the war in Southeast Asia.
The ACLU said the Nixon White House allegedly maintained a liaison with the Secret Army Organization. Donald Segretti, a political operative with then President Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President during the early 1970, and later convicted for his role in the Watergate break-in,
told the Secret Army that any potential troublemakers at the 1972 Republican convention would be “gotten rid of,” an apparent reference to the so-called [G. Gordon] Liddy plan described during the Senate Watergate hearings, whereby the leaders of anti‐Nixon elements would be kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
The case of Hal Turner, a white supremacist radio talk show host, reveals the FBI was involved in agent provocateur activity against political enemies well after the government declared it shut down COINTELRP0 in 1971.
