In 2007, Orlando residents were furious to discover that an FBI informant had organized a neo-Nazi rally through one of the city's mostly black neighborhoods a year earlier.
Thanks to a trove of previously unpublicized law enforcement records and interviews with several players involved, Headline USA can reveal that the Orlando neo-Nazi rally was indeed organized by the FBI. The Orlando event also seems to have been part of a larger program to hold Nazi rallies across the country.
According to FBI records, the bureau sponsored those events despite knowing they led to an increase in the number of card-carrying Nazis in America.
The FBI's Nazi rallies led to a much larger operation to target right-wing groups.
"At the time, the FBI just before that was having me put on Nazi protests, and there were Nazi protests that were handled by the FBI, and operatives like myself," he said.
For starters, there's the fact that the group that Gletty marched with in Orlando, the National Socialist Movement, or NSM, was founded in the 1970s by an FBI informant-a fact revealed by Headline USA last September.
According to former NSM member and current prison inmate Bill White, the FBI sponsored the 2005 Toledo rally, which would be one of the most violent racial protests until 2017 Charlottesville.
"In October 2005, FBI Jeff Schoep asked me to go to Toledo, Ohio, to help organize a 'March Against Black Crime' by what were supposed to be 'local residents,' but were really federal CHSs," White said in an October 2020 sworn declaration, referring to Schoep, who led the NSM from the 1990s until shortly after the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.
While there's no smoking-gun evidence that Schoep was an FBI informant when he led the NSM, numerous other neo-Nazis have accused him of being one.
Along with his accusations that Schoep was a fed, White also described the Toledo rally as being similar to what would happen in Charlottesville 12 years later-with the local cops and FBI allowing the neo-Nazis to clash with the left-wing counter-protestors.
After Gletty staged the 2006 Orlando rally and had his cover blown nearly a year later, the FBI apparently decided to up the stakes by creating a neo-Nazi motorcycle FBI front group.
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