There’s nothing like cracking open a book about an FBI agent’s infiltration of an American neo-Nazi group only to discover it stars a homegrown white supremacist.
It would be no great stretch to alter this book’s subtitle to How I Went Undercover To Expose America’s and Manitoba’s Nazis, because there’s a local angle, big time, to this memoir.
Scott Payne’s account of his undercover investigation of American Nazis really only gets going near mid-book. Prior to that, he recounts his earlier undercover-agent stints with America’s second-largest (after the Hell’s Angels) criminal motorcycle gang, the Outlaws, and adventures busting “dirty” (drug dealing) cops in rural Tennessee.
The book’s written “with” former Toronto Star reporter Michelle Shephard — publishing industry code for her major input in the writing and polishing of Payne’s text.
While working undercover in October 2019 in Silver Creek, Ga., Payne encountered a neo-Nazi first exposed by the Free Press.
The guy was no mere foot soldier in a U.S. domestic-terrorist movement, but a major player.
Payne became palsy with a dangerous loogan initially known only by his movement handle, “Dave Arctorum” — but latterly better known as Manitoba-born-and-bred, and former Beausejour resident Patrik Mathews, a Canadian army reservist. (more...)
Infiltrating neo-Nazi ranks reveals local links
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