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People (28)

  • August Kreis III August Kreis III was the director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction who made public overtures to al-Qaeda, an action reportedly instigated by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, before being convicted of VA benefits fraud in 2011.
  • Ben Wagner Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S.
  • Bill Moser Bill Moser is the FBI Special Agent at the Columbia, South Carolina field office who served as Joshua Caleb Sutter's primary handler throughout the Atomwaffen Division infiltration.
  • Brad Kenneth Spafford Brad Kenneth Spafford was a Virginia private pilot and machinist arrested by the FBI on December 17, 2024, at his Isle of Wight County property where 150 pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, and related materials were found.
  • Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS) Christopher Jackson is the FBI confidential human source designated CHS-1 in the 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy case, whose testimony was central to Brandon Russell's 2025 conviction and whose undisclosed pre-testimony payment became the basis for Russell's denied new-trial motion.
  • Dexter Leitenen Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols.
  • Frank Church Frank Church was a Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the 1975-1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities that documented COINTELPRO, Operation CHAOS, assassination plots against foreign leaders, and illegal domestic surveillance by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.
  • Fred Hampton Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, killed in a December 4, 1969, police raid whose FBI informant infiltrator provided the floor plan of Hampton's apartment in advance under COINTELPRO.
  • George Vinson Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.
  • Guy Banister Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans at 531 Lafayette Street - the same building whose 544 Camp Street entrance was stamped on Lee Harvey Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in summer 1963, a coincidence that placed him at the intersection of Oswald's activities and the city's anti-Castro intelligence networks.
  • Igor Kurganov Igor Kurganov is a Russian-born former professional poker player who gained operational influence over Elon Musk's charitable giving during the COVID-19 pandemic, slept in Musk's Austin home, and was the subject of FBI preliminary inquiries into foreign interference before being removed from Musk's inner circle by wealth manager Jared Birchall in May 2022.
  • J. Edgar Hoover J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as FBI Director for 48 years, creating COINTELPRO in 1956 and maintaining secret files on political figures that sustained his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations.
  • Jonathan Buma Johnathan Buma is a former FBI special agent who specialized in Russian counterintelligence at the Los Angeles field office, who handled Peter Thiel as a confidential human source from summer 2021, who originated the FBI's first Hunter Biden tax inquiry in January 2019, who worked the Giuliani-Ukraine investigation, who publicly accused the FBI of pro-Trump political bias, and who was arrested at JFK on March 17, 2025 and charged with unlawfully disclosing confidential records.
  • Joseph Garofalo Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA.
  • Joshua Caleb Sutter Joshua Caleb Sutter was a paid FBI informant from 2003 through at least 2021 whose handler directed him to infiltrate Atomwaffen Division while he simultaneously operated Martinet Press, publishing O9A texts that AWD required members to read.
  • Ken Mattheys In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department.
  • Kenneth Lanning Kenneth V. Lanning was an FBI Behavioral Science Unit supervisory agent whose 1992 monograph debunking organized satanic cult abuse allegations became the primary law enforcement document shaping institutional skepticism toward claims like those in the Franklin Credit Union and Finders investigations.
  • Lucky Jordan Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office.
  • Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King Jr. was the preeminent leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Campaign, and the 1963 March on Washington, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was subjected to an extraordinary FBI surveillance and harassment campaign under COINTELPRO, and was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
  • Marvin Rudnick Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA.
  • Michael DeFeo DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989.
  • Raymond Jenkins Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park.
  • Richard Stavin Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation.
  • Robert E. Coyle In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault.
  • Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen (1944-2023) was an FBI supervisory agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence from 1979 to 2001, betraying approximately 50 human assets and thousands of pages of classified material before pleading guilty to 15 espionage counts in 2001.
  • Robert Maheu Robert Maheu was a former FBI agent who became the CIA's primary cutout for sensitive operations requiring criminal networks, recruited Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Santo Trafficante Jr. into the CIA's anti-Castro assassination program in 1960, and simultaneously served as Howard Hughes's most trusted executive managing his Nevada operations from 1966 to 1970.
  • Stanley Levison Stanley Levison was a New York attorney and businessman who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors and who had Communist Party USA ties in the early 1950s - providing the FBI's legal justification for wiretapping King and the SCLC beginning in 1962, despite the FBI's own evidence that Levison had severed his Communist Party ties before he became associated with King.
  • William Sullivan William C. Sullivan was the FBI's Assistant Director for Domestic Intelligence who architected COINTELPRO, drafted the 1964 anonymous 'suicide letter' to Martin Luther King Jr., was fired by Hoover in 1971, and was shot in a ruled hunting accident on November 9, 1977, the day before he was to testify to congressional investigators.

Organizations (6)

  • British Security Coordination British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation (1940-1945) established by William Stephenson at Rockefeller Center, New York, serving as a wartime umbrella for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE conducting propaganda and counterintelligence across the Western Hemisphere.
  • Esalen Institute Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.
  • Fair Play for Cuba Committee The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro political organization founded in 1960 whose primary historical significance is that Lee Harvey Oswald distributed its leaflets in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, raising unresolved questions about whether his activities were genuine political expression, an intelligence operation, or an attempt to establish a pro-communist cover identity before the Kennedy assassination.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
  • Meridian International Logistics Meridian International Logistics was a holding company associated with Robert Booth Nichols, who was a principal in the organization.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the civil rights organization founded in 1957 with Martin Luther King Jr. as president that coordinated the major nonviolent direct action campaigns of the 1960s - the Birmingham Campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches - while being subjected to systematic FBI surveillance and COINTELPRO disruption operations.

Programs (2)

  • COINTELPRO COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution, and coordination with local law enforcement, exposed by the 1971 Media FBI office break-in.
  • HTLINGUAL HTLINGUAL was the CIA's covert mail-opening program that operated from 1952 to 1973, intercepting and photographing approximately 215,000 pieces of first-class mail between the United States and the Soviet Union at the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.

Events (6)

  • 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an Atomwaffen Division leadership gathering in Las Vegas organized by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, notable for James Mason's first in-person appearance with AWD and for triggering Operation Erste Saule.
  • Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was the Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and HTLINGUAL illegal mail opening, producing S. Rept. 94-755, the foundational primary source for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.
  • FBI Seizes Largest Ever Explosive Cache On December 30, 2024, the FBI raided Brad Kenneth Spafford's Isle of Wight County, Virginia farm and seized more than 150 homemade pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, a vest loaded with pipe bombs, HMTD explosive, and an unregistered short-barrel rifle - what the bureau described as the largest explosives cache in FBI history.
  • Media FBI Office Break-In The Media, Pennsylvania FBI office break-in on March 8, 1971, by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI removed approximately 1,000 documents whose distribution to the press exposed COINTELPRO and triggered Hoover's formal termination of the program.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the 381-day campaign (December 5, 1955 - December 21, 1956) in which the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus system following Rosa Parks' arrest, launched Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence, and ended when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
  • United States v. Shea et al. (2020) United States v. Shea et al. is the 2020 federal case in the Western District of Washington in which Atomwaffen Division members were charged with conspiring to threaten journalists and activists, and through which Joshua Caleb Sutter's FBI informant status was first publicly revealed.

Concepts (3)

  • FISA Section 702 Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorizes warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. service providers, with documented application to Americans' communications through 'backdoor searches' that courts have found to require Fourth Amendment scrutiny, including in at least one domestic extremism prosecution.
  • Nihilistic Violent Extremism Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) is an FBI and DOJ classification for extremist violence driven by misanthropy and network status-seeking rather than unified ideology, applied to the 764 network and Com-adjacent groups to distinguish them from ideologically motivated violent extremism.
  • Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.