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Recently, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joshua Kaplan wrote a piece for ProPublica about his experience with a man who had infiltrated the right-wing militia movement in this country.

Now, it caught our attention for the obvious reasons. This insider, a wilderness survival trainer named John Williams, told Kaplan about the recruiting strategy and the secret training and marketing operations he had uncovered.

But we were particularly taken by the Utah angle to the story and just the cloak and dagger intrigue and how the story played out.

John Williams had been ready for a while that he might possibly need to run at a moment's notice.

He kept a bag in his closet with everything he would need,

which range from three pairs of socks and some cash to lock picking gear and vitamins to these thumb drives that each held more than

100 gigabytes of encrypted documents, which he would plan on quickly getting rid of if he

were about to be arrested or killed.

And on April 1st, 2023,

he grabbed the bag from his closet and rushed to his car.

He left dirty dishes scattered around his apartment.

You know, you didn't know if our men were out looking for him.

More frankly, if he would ever feel safe to come home again.

And he parked his car for the night in the hills outside of Salt Lake City

and he recorded this entry in this voice diary he'd been keeping for a long time

where he lets out this long sigh and starts laying out the crazy events of the past few days

and says that he's been undercover for over two years and that he had accidentally exposed himself,

trying to warn someone that he feared was in danger.

And he was sure at that point that at least one person already knew

that he was a double agent and said, you know,

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