According to the newly released FBI documents and a 2011 article in Newsweek, in the aftermath of Ruby Ridge, PATCON assets and operatives were given license to engage in provocateur activities and instructed to make known their “willing[ness] to commit violence,” and “advocate [the] violent overthrow of the U.S. government.” Informants found steady employment for years, traveling the country attending KKK and Aryan Nation meetings, gun shows and paramilitary training compounds, selling illegal weapons and “sitting in church pews with would-be abortion clinic bombers.”
