What Is PATCON?

The FBI used undercover agents and an extensive network of informants as part of a secret campaign to penetrate the militia movement during the early 1990s, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE.

The centerpiece of the program was a covert operation code-named PATCON. From 1991 to 1993, at least three undercover FBI agents posed as members of a fictional white supremacist hate group and attempted to forge bonds with established militias in Tennessee, Arizona, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas.

The targets of the investigation "advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government and the establishment of an Aryan nation," according to the documents. Members of the targeted groups were linked to the Iran-Contra scandal, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Olympic Park Bomber Eric Rudolph.

Yet the documents describe no significant arrests resulting from the two-year probe, and the entire operation was shut down a few months after the controversial Waco siege further inflamed the radical right against federal authorities.

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