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Post by amazingates on Dec 5, 2019 14:59:13 GMT -8
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Post by amazingates on Dec 5, 2019 15:39:19 GMT -8
FBI started keeping the Posse under surveillance 1972. Eight months later the FBI concludedthe Posse view were unusual but the group members were not a threat. In April 1973, the Portland FBI issued another classified report surveying Beach's Sheriff's Posse Members. Government referred to then as the SPC. In June 1974 Posse had chapters in 6 Oregon counties and at least eight other chaprs in Idaho, Michigan, Alaska, Washington State, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia and Arkansas. Member Dean Kennedy told a reporter that Hitler's Mein Kampf was on of this favorite books, The FBI ignored them for the most part thinking of them as a racist group but not thinking they were getting arms and explosived or establshing an armed Camp at their Manaseh Ranch. They were however concerned because the group had made threats about arresting government officials and "removing them from office" , and this the FBI said constituted advocacy of violent, terrorism, or intimidation of public officers. This is basically what happened two months later in Wisconsin. State investigators culled names from the local Posse charters and sapped information with the FBI and the IRS to build a comprehensive file on the group.
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