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From 1991 to 1993, the FBI conducted an ambitious infiltration program code-named PATCON, short for Patriot Conspiracy. “Patriot” is an umbrella label for a loosely defined movement of antigovernment, racist, anti-Semitic, and/or Christian extremists. The PATCON program is documented in extraordinary detail in thousands of pages of FBI records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Interviews with people involved on both sides of the infiltration supplement this information.
PATCON consisted primarily of three FBI undercover agents posing as members of a fictional extremist group called the Veterans Aryan Movement. Three Patriot groups were the primary targets of PATCON – Civilian Materiel Assistance, the Texas Light Infantry, and the American Pistol and Rifle Association. PATCON agents roved the country for more than two years collecting intelligence on these and other Patriot organizations and on dozens of individuals, investigating leads on plots from the planned murder of federal agents to armed raids on nuclear power plants to a new American Revolution.
FBI’s sinister anti-Christian ‘PATCON’ program is the internet’s best kept secret. Until now….
May 12, 2024 (4 months ago)
... A decade before 9/11, however, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the same practices against a completely different demographic—Christian Right militants, through a program called PATCON, short for Patriot Conspiracy. Building upon the concept of surveillance as social sorting (Lyon 2013) and surveillance and terrorism (Monahan 2012), this article will compare the histories of surveillance practices as undertaken by the FBI on American Christian Right militants with the tactics used by the NYPD on non-militant Muslim Americans. ...
Andreas Strassmer
Is Paul Wysopal actually Timothy McVey, and part of FIB Operation PATCON?
Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2013
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
Outgoing Director Robert S. Mueller, III named Paul Wysopal special agent in charge of the FBI’s Tampa Division. Mr. Wysopal most recently served as section chief in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, overseeing the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Mr. Wysopal began his career as a special agent with the FBI in February 1997. He first reported to the Minneapolis Division, where he investigated financial institution and securities fraud. He also assisted the Bemidji Resident Agency before transferring there to work violent crimes committed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
In 2002, Mr. Wysopal was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Office of Congressional Affairs at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and was a liaison with members of Congress, their staff, and oversight committees. The next year, he was assigned to the Counterterrorism Division, detailed to a CIA-led working group. He was then promoted to the Los Angeles Division to supervise the al Qaeda squad in 2004.
In 2007, Mr. Wysopal was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the National Security Branch at the El Paso Division. Two years later, he was promoted to inspector in charge at the Criminal Investigative Division, assigned to the El Paso Intelligence Center. He served as the ranking FBI employee and performed the roles of associate deputy director and acting deputy director for the center, which consisted of 500 employees from 26 federal, state, and local agencies.
Prior to his appointment with the FBI, Mr. Wysopal was a military lawyer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps for three years and a civilian attorney for three years.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/tampa/press-releases/2013/paul-wysopal-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-tampa-division