Former FBI Informant Sounds Alarm on Rising Far-Right Violence in New Book
A former FBI informant, who spent years infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, warns in a new book that far-right violence could impact America’s contentious presidential election.
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FBI Spied on Civil Rights Group Over Suspected ‘Conspiracy’ to Deny KKK of ‘Rights’
The FBI investigated a popular civil rights group in 2016 because agents believed the left-wing group may have been involved in a “conspiracy” to deny the “rights” of the KKK and other white supremacists.
New Legislation Will Help Prosecutors Bring Justice to Civil Rights-Era Killings
Prosecutors have struggled for decades to bring justice to victims of civil rights-era killings.
FBI: Louisiana Governor in 1960s Gave KKK Money to Quell Racial Violence
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Louisiana’s governor in the mid-1960s doled out privately raised money to Ku Klux Klan members in hopes of avoiding racial violence, FBI records show. The Advocate reports that Klan members were promised money after the 1964 gubernatorial election in exchange for peace. FBI agents believed that Gov. John J. McKeithen, who…
FBI: Reputed Klansman Planned to Attack Muslims with Mobile, Radiation-Spewing Weapon
A reputed Klansman from Saratoga County in New York believed he was capable of making a mobile device that would decimate Muslim towns with radiation.
FBI: Fire Not Intentionally Set in Church Previously Burned by KKK
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities were immediately suspicious when fire broke out inside a black church that the KKK had burned down in South Carolina 20 years ago. After all, the fire came amid a string of suspicious fires at black churches following the shooting at Charleston’s historic African Methodist Episcopal Church less than a…
Flood Wipes Out Significant Portion of FBI Documents on Civil Rights, KKK
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A flood has wiped out a good portion of the FBI’s documents on the civil rights era. IO9 reports the discovery was made recently after a professor had requested documents related to the Ku Klux Klan. Those documents – and many more – were destroyed when the FBI’s archives in Alexandria, Va.,…
Two Florida Cops Accused of Being KKK Members Were Forced to Step Down
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Florida police officers are without a job after a confidential FBI report showed they were members of a local branch of the KKK, the Daily Mail reports. Fruitland Park Police dismissed Officer George Hunnewell, while Deputy Chief David Borst, 49, resigned. Borst also was the city’s fire chief. While Fruitland Police…