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Remember Blackkklansman? The movie? Well, that happened in real life, except the main character is white and was undercover in the Ku Klux Klan for way longer.
Joseph Moore, a U.S. Army veteran, spent 10 years living a double life as an FBI informant and a Klansman in North Florida. He was involved in meetings, cross burnings and planning the murders of Black men. But, in the process, he also recorded conversations with Klansmen, helped prevent the deaths of two Black men and helped uncover Klansmen who were working in Florida law enforcement on the city, county and state level, according to the Associated Press.
Not an usual discovery …considering Florida’s prison system is filled with White supremacist guards.
From the Associated Press:
“I had to realize that this man would shoot me in the face in a heartbeat,” Moore said in a deep, slow drawl. He sat in his living room recently amid twinkling lights on a Christmas tree, remembering a particularly scary meeting in 2015. But it was true of many of his days.
Before such meetings, he would sit alone in his truck, his diaphragm heaving with the deep breathing techniques he learned as an Army-trained sniper.
Don’t blame him.
As a result of his work, Moore and his family have changed their names and address and now live in a Florida subdivision, according to the Associated Press.
But after not discussing his work as an informant with the FBI publicly with anyone, Moore decided to share his story after the revelation from the Associated Press that white supremacists were littered all over the Florida prison system.
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Article URL : https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/us-army-veteran-worked-undercover-201000591.html