THREAD: An FBI informant recorded the planning of a KKK plot to kill a Black man in Florida in 2015.

Recordings obtained by @AP provide a detailed look inside the investigation that exposed a murder plot - and the klan’s link to law enforcement.

FBI’s Jacksonville office wanted a confidential informant who had the talent and connections to get inside a violent klan cell, the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK.

They found him.

The informant was an Army vet and trained sniper, and like many informants he was a risky choice.

He’d had psychotic episodes and ongoing mental health issues, and was fired previously by an FBI agent for blabbing about his work on another case.

But he was a skilled operator.

After making contact with the klan, he signed a blood oath and was “naturalized” into the Invisible Empire of the KKK.

The FBI OK’d him to begin secretly recording.

He professed a background as an elite assassin, and the klan elevated him to “Grand Night Hawk” in charge of group security.

That’s when three klansmen who were current and former prison guards approached him about the murder.

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