Right Wing Shock Jock Paid to Incite Hate Groups by FBI
On Nov 29, 7:59*pm, wrote:
Records show feds used ultra-right radio host for years
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Last updated: Sunday November 29, 2009, 9:21 AM
BY MIKE KELLY AND PETER J. SAMPSON
The Record
STAFF WRITERS
They called him "Valhalla."
But it was more than a nickname.
For more than five years, Hal Turner of North Bergen lived a double life.
The public knew him as an ultra-right-wing radio talk show host and
Internet blogger with an audience of neo-Nazis and white supremacists
attracted to his scorched-earth racism and bare-knuckles bashing of public
figures. But to the FBI, and its expanding domestic counter-terror
intelligence operations in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Turner was
"Valhalla" — his code name as an informant who spied on his own
controversial followers.
Forget the details but there was a propagandist for Nazi Germany who
turned out to be an English agent. Tehre was some debate as to
whether he did more damage in his role as a Nazi than his work for the
English made up for.
In the Vietnam war days, it was not uncommon for someone to stand up
at a public meeting and advocate violence and have whispers go through
the crowd that this was a government plant. i'm not sure how many (if
any) were really government plants and how many were just whack. I'm
guessing some of both.
Mick
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