Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist's plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News.

Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said.

Agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices, the two sources with close knowledge of the probe told The Buffalo News

The two sources did not identify the agent by name and could not confirm what federal agency he worked for.

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's hard to diagnose American Gladio because a Gladio operation would be indistinguishable from how America is all the time.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah...there's a part of me that just thinks "oh, so a retired alphabet agency ghoul hung out in a white supremacist chatroom? You mean like many of them probably do just to shitpost/stir the pot while active?"

    • knifestealingcrow [any]
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      2 years ago

      My stance on this when people first started talking about the possibility of it being something like a gladio operation was that it was probably unintentional, because why would the feds have to put in the effort if shits gonna happen anyway

      The last few days, and all the new information that's come out in those few days, have me seriously rethinking that stance

      • Discopanda [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Gladio was also about not letting Europe have any close relationship with Soviet Union, infiltration of radical left movements etc. It was similar to Condor in many ways. The accidental part I would assume, is that white supremacy is the basic moral value that this country was built on, The Great Replacement theory, Qanon and other bullshit fascist rhetoric is prevailent among law eforcement. But I doubt it was a plot carried by FBI, like Cointelpro or infiltration of muslims after 9/11 to justify new anti-terrorist policies. But maybe I'm wrong, it's just my feeling.

    • usa_suxxx [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Wild Hogs but except of retired old men reliving their youth by riding motorcycles, it is retired old cia agents reliving their youth by recreating gladio in their back yard

  • Discopanda [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    But why would you even need Gladio in America? Just to give them more and more power and money? How much is too much and it will lead to inevitable collapse?

    • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      America is kind of stuck in the "Common Ruin of the Contending Classes" trajectory; as was ancient Rome. It's likely not actually ever going to "collapse" internally, either to revolution, or mismanagement. Rather, institutional rot is going to become so pervasive that the US would simply not be able to defend itself from a foreign aggressor. It's already not really able to exert itself militarily (in a "productive", goal-oriented sense that is) against the world anymore.

    • usa_suxxx [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I posted it wrong because I am tech illiterate at small tasks. Posted a working link at the bottom.