On the matter of “new trends,” Coppersmith would ask me from time to time if I could ask my Klan “sources” about this or that issue, things that the ADL in Denver had developed information on or been asked by other ADL offices around the country to check into. I would then place a telephone call to either Ken O’dell or Fred Wilkens or both and steer the conversation to that particular issue. I would relay their response and on a couple of occasions phoned David Duke and spoke with him, and he unwittingly cooperated with his archenemy—an organization he more than once told me he despised—by
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