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You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.
You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.
Andrea Stanley Cosmopolitan Aug 2019 15min Permalink
A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.
Nellie Bly New York World Oct 1887 2h25min Permalink
An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all.
Mike Kessler, Frank Dalesio Medium Oct 2018 25min Permalink
For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.
Margaret Coker New York Times Aug 2018 20min Permalink
When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover, testing her sanity, her marriage, and the justice system.
Christopher Ketcham Vanity Fair Jan 2009 Permalink
The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.
Trevor Aaronson The Intercept May 2017 25min Permalink
He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.
Ben Goldfarb Mother Jones Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Oct 2016 55min Permalink
“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Jun 2016 2h20min Permalink
A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.
Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Going undercover with David Sullivan, cult infiltrator.
Nathaniel Rich Harper's Nov 2013 30min Permalink
An undercover cop infiltrates a group of British activists, befriending and then betraying them.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Mar 2012 Permalink
The inner workings of a surprisingly amiable Holocaust denial conference.
A weekend at a Christian gay-to-straight sexual reorientation retreat.