Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis by Scott Payne

Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

by Scott Payne

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Memoir & Biography

In 2019 an FBI undercover agent using the alias Pale Horse got inside the Base, and ended up at a neo-Nazi ritual in the Georgia backwoods trying to stop a goat sacrifice without blowing his cover. Payne, writing with journalist Michelle Shephard, builds to that from 28 years in law enforcement, and you see what deep cover took from his family.

Core ideas
  • Accelerationism: The Base believed that hastening society's collapse would open the way to a white ethnostate.
  • Before the Base: The career ran through the Outlaws motorcycle club in Massachusetts, opioid investigations in Tennessee and an infiltration of the Klan in Alabama.
  • What it costs: The assignments strained his marriage and family, and he presents his Christian faith as what carried him through the danger.
Published2025
Pages256
ISBN9781668032909
ReadJun 2025

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