Although the existence of the FBI’s PATCON operation remained unknown for another 15 years (until 2007), in August 1992, on the heels of Ruby Ridge, the focus of PATCON’s ostensive fact-finding mission was reauthorized and expanded. Rather than seeking incriminating information about any one particular individual for the purposes of criminal prosecution, operatives were now to gather “information concerning a nationwide ‘Alliance’ of white supremacist groups being formed to fight the U.S. government.”
