As many as two thousand paid FBI informers were operating inside the Klan, it later would be revealed.4 This penetration allowed the Bureau to control or influence one of every ten members, or 10 percent of the Ku Klux Klan. This vast government network may well have instigated the Klan’s outreach to the Black Muslims for Hoover’s own ulterior motive, such as the desire to influence or get inside information about the NOI’s plans.