Prosecutors Claim SPLC Paid Operatives Within Targeted Groups

By Mia Cathell | Washington Examiner

The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid operatives embedded within the Aryan Nations, after effectively suing the extremist organization out of existence two decades ago, as part of what prosecutors say was a self-enrichment scheme to justify the law center’s purported bigot-fighting work.

Federal investigators are alleging that the SPLC has been operating a covert network of “field sources,” known as “Fs,” who either were associated with various violent extremist groups or had infiltrated them at the law center’s direction.

To pay for the on-the-ground operations, the SPLC is suspected of secretly spending donor money, meant to go toward dismantling such “hate groups,” instead on infiltration efforts that actually helped the white supremacist cause.

SPLC accused of paying Aryan Nations associates

The Aryan Nations, which believed that white Aryans were superior beings, was one of the organizations whose leaders or foot soldiers allegedly accepted funding from the SPLC while engaged in the active promotion of white nationalism.

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