The night the FBI killed a white woman (and the KKK) ~ Night Riders Part I
A reflection on "Night Riders: The Inside Story of the Liuzzo Killing"
This year marks the 69th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches that took place in March 1965 during the “Civil Rights Movement.” With it, comes the anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s murder of Viola Liuzzo, an activist white woman that was ostensibly gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan. The government’s involvement, sponsorship, and/or perpetration of acts of violence such as the Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot of 2020, and the “insurrection” of January 6th, 2021 has a long lineage, and the Liuzzo killing is an important keystone to understanding the modern deep state’s use of espionage against American citizens.
The Civil Rights Movement is not only the precursor to the current diversity, equity, and inclusion regime, but also the modern, all-encompassing intelligence operations run against the American people. As conservatives begin to finally reckon with the consequences of “Civil Rights” and the battle between “color-blind equality” and DEI continues to ramp up, we must reevaluate the narratives that have been drip fed to us for the past 40 years. The rare primary source by reporter Bud Gorton, “Night Riders: The Inside Story of the Liuzzo Killing” is an excellent starting point:
I’ve been unable to find any full scans of Night Riders, or really much information about it at all, for that matter. There is a single civil rights website that features a few poor quality pictures and declares: “Possibly the most representative example of Klan propaganda, this may be the worst and most disgusting of the publications by the Klan/Citizens’ Councils.” The scans throughout this piece are from the Dog and Pony Show verboten bibliothek, scanned by your personal jester Ringleader, and I am pleased to announce that I will post a full scan of the book on the Dog and Pony Show substack so that everyone can have the opportunity to access this rare piece of history.
A brief primer on the facts and COINTELPRO
Liuzzo, a 39 year old white woman from California, Pennsylvania (she was born confused), was shot and killed after participating in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Selma to Montgomery March when she was shuttling other protestors to the Montgomery airport. The perpetrators were a group of four Klansmen who had been pursuing her along the route between Selma and Montgomery: Collie Wilkins, William Eaton, Eugene Thomas, and Gary Thomas Rowe. Wilkins, 21 years old; Eaton, 41 years old; and Thomas, 43 years old, were all promptly indicted for incident under Alabama state law and Federal law.
Rowe, 34 years old, however, was not indicted because of his status as an FBI informant.
At the time of the Liuzzo killing, Rowe’s infiltration of the KKK had been ongoing for over five years, since 1959.1 He had previously been involved in the infamous attack on the Freedom Bus Riders in 1961 as well as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham in 1963. He was a valuable asset, and J. Edgar Hoover personally approved the FBI’s payments to him.
The FBI had hired Rowe as an asset under its Counter Intelligence Program which officially lasted between 1956 and 1971, COINTELPRO for short. According to the official Senate Report, the purpose of the program was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order by "disrupting" and "neutralizing" groups and individuals perceived as threats.” COINTELPRO was initially conceived to counter communist efforts in America, which quickly included black “civil rights” groups and leaders who were considered to be communist affiliated.
However, the infamous Ku Klux Klan became a target by at least 1959 when the FBI first hired Rowe. Yet, FBI officially dates its COINTELPRO operations against the Klan to 19642 This discrepancy is curious. Especially when the FBI Section Chief of the “White Hate and Black Nationalist” COINTELPROs considered its operation against the Klan to be “one of the most effective programs” he had ever seen the FBI run.3 A quick survey of the Klan’s history from 1960 onward shows that this rings true—by the end of the 60s, the Klan was fractured more than it had ever been in the 20th century.
While the FBI targeted the Klan ostensibly to prevent violence, a survey of the Klan COINTELPRO effort seems to indicate that oftentimes violence appeared to be the goal. FBI officials admitted that informants regularly participated in active violence, and their official statements are dripping with doublethink. For example, Rowe was supposedly repeatedly told that he was not to participate in any acts of violence, yet, as the Senate Report explains, it was “practically an inherent feature” of his role to participate in violence.4 As Rowe’s handling agent testified: “If he happened to be with some Klansman and they decided to do something, he couldn't be an angel and be a good informant.”5
The FBI would never do that…
I’m starting to think that there’s more to all this than one might believe at first blush. Was COINTELPRO really only about limiting violent lawlessness, or was there more to it? Why was the FBI’s efforts against the Klan so successful in disorienting them, while concurrently several acts of Klan violence were allowed to occur and be seared into the American programming of the subsequent 60 years? The height of the COINTELPRO operation against the Klan was during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s full declaration of a new American paradigm with the Civil Rights Acts. Was this mere coincidence? As we delve deeper into this series using “Night Riders” as a roadmap, I venture that we may discover some core truths about the same deep state that is still in operation today. Stay tuned, and let’s go for a ride to find out what this piece of history can tell us about what we face. As I post new parts, I will continue posting scans of the full “Night Riders” book until the whole piece is available exclusively on dog and pony show.
Copy of official Senate Report pg. 239 https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_III.pdf
Senate Report p. 18.
Senate Report p. 19-20.
Senate Report p. 244.
Senate Report p. 244.
"An undercover police officer used his fake identity to deceive a woman into a 19-year relationship in which they became partners and had a child together."
Hearing stories about undercover agents gives me so much paranoia.