By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.comas By any standards, Vincent A. Cefalu was a gutsy guy. Cefala, who is now retired from ATF, spent 30 years with the agency as an undercover agent working criminal organizations including the Symbionese Liberation Army, outlaw motorcycle gangs and splinter groups of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Cefalu has penned a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dargan Frierson, whose career with the FBI included keeping tabs on the Ku Klux Klan, died Saturday. He was 92, the News & Record reports. His son recalls his father working a “tough assignment.” “I remember him getting calls in the middle of the night, having to drive down to the Eastern…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-FBI agent is dismissing allegations by an informant that former Mississippi Ku Klux Klan leader Sam Bowers said he had a tipster inside the FBI during the civil rights movement, who disclosed which Klansmen were talking to the bureau, according to Jackson Clarion-Ledger. The paper reported that, according to FBI…
