In Chapter 2, The Fairshake Files investigates "The Good Lie"—the narrative shield J. Edgar Hoover used to protect his secret war.
We examine the one COINTELPRO operation that history deems a success: the destruction of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. But beneath the surface of this victory lies a disturbing reality.
We reveal how the FBI’s massive infiltration created a dependency on illegal tactics, protected violent informants, and inadvertently forced the Klan to evolve from a regional vigilante group into a revolutionary "White Power" network.
This is a story about the cost of victory, the ethics of espionage, and the law of unintended consequences.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- Force Majeure: The federal "invasion" of Neshoba County to find the bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
- The Informant Dilemma: The moral cost of the FBI paying 20% of the Klan's membership and the protection of violent asset Gary Thomas Rowe.
- The Mutation: How destroying the Klan’s hierarchy birthed the "Leaderless Resistance" strategy and the modern White Power movement.
SOURCES & CITATIONS- The MIBURN Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- United States v. Price (1966 Supreme Court Ruling)
- The Church Committee Report, Book II (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)
- Bring the War Home (Kathleen Belew, Harvard University Press)
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