Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [p--r--n] at [skndiv.dseg.ti.com] (Dillon Pyron)
Subject: Re: LA skinheads' weapons cache
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 19:54:09 GMT


In article <[1993 Jul 16 165036 8791] at [aplcen.apl.jhu.edu]>, [d d ml] at [visual1.jhuapl.edu] (Dave Libershal) writes:
>I just saw a brief clip on the TV news last night which showed a
>table of what appeared to be STEN guns (among other various weapons).
>I'm interested in WWII weapons - were they actually STENs.

It's an easy enough gun to make.  I think, however (I didn't see it) that they
were TEC-9 derived guns.

>
>BTW, the AM National Public Radio news said that an informant had convinnced
>the skinheads to let him store their weapons cache at his place - he was
>supposedly impersonating some far-right religious minister. This kinda
>reminds me of G.K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday, about how
>anarchist groups in England in late 1800's were so infilitrated by undercover
>agents that the undercover guys were actually planning and doing the bad
>stuff they were supposed to be preventing. How far do these informants
>actually go to convince the bad guys that they are one of them???

Apparently, according to some "experts", too far.  One line of defense already
being discussed in New York is that the informant actually formulated some of
the groups moves, and may have actively participated in the WTC bomb planning. 
It shouldn't take long to see something similar coming out of LA.  Closer to
home, a drug case last year was lost when it turned out that the narcotics
officer traded marijuana for some of his coke buy, and gave one dealer an M16
for another.  Both checked out of the property room, neither accounted for
afterwards.  Said officer was reprimanded, demoted and reassigned.
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