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Man recounts in interview how he infiltrated a right-wing militia for the FBI
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2214-6-things-i-learned-infiltrating-militia-fbi.htmlHe operated an army-surplus-store in Alaska. His customers were right-wing extremists, so he started pretending to be one of them to keep them as good customers.
The FBI asked him to infiltrate a militia.
Yeah, Cox's plan was to arrest and execute a bunch of government employees on behalf of a new government they were going to form right there in the living room. "He's like, if we do this, we'll start a revolution. And I have my own militia, and it's like 3,500 guys. And I'm like, OK, I'm going to need another beer."
These guys wanted to buy machine-guns, hand-grenades and pistols with silencers from the guy running the arms-store. Because they wanted to start an armed revolution by killing some cops.
Luckily, the FBI has a props-department full of non-functioning, guns, rifles, grenades, rocket-launchers...
The sting worked... except that the ringleader cannot be put on trial. And the infiltrator lost his business and is now in the witness-protection program.
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