oh that made me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Livre_noir_du_Canada_Anglais the secret funding of fascist "separatist" Adrien Arcand by former Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
The FBI used to infiltrate Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on a regular basis, so the SDS intentionally set up a division that taught sabotage, explosive making, etc. — all the stuff that the FBI was hoping to find out about. But the division was never serious. It was a successful scam to attract the agents, so much so that at one point an FBI agent at a meeting of this division looked around at the others in the room and realized that they were all agents too.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 29 May 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
There's no doubt FBI has spied on different organizations, but surely all FBI agents inside a particular organization know about each other, especially in such small groups as the ones this story is attached to. So it is quite unlikely that they'd "suddenly" realize there weren't any genuine members left.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 29 May 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 29 May 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link