As The Daily Fetched reported earlier this year, the FBI has been targeting traditional Catholic churches because of suposed “threats of extremism.”
But now they beau are infiltrating Catholic parishes.
Chris Wray’s FBI sent out a memo warning agents of the so-called “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” gaining momentum in the U.S.
The memo was posted at UncoverDC.com by former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin.
Last year, the FBI suspended Seraphin after he blew the whistle, alleging how the FBI is trying to hide how many man-hours they used on the Jan. 6 investigation.
As Newsweek reported last month:
Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray alerting Wray that he was being subpoenaed for an investigation into the agency’s handling of a domestic extremism analysis that proposed developing sources among church leaders to look for signs of radicalization among Catholic parishioners.
The subpoena is the latest development in Jordan’s probe into the FBI’s alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources. House Republicans first accused Wray of exploiting those resources for “political purposes” after a former special agent leaked an eight-paged internal memo.
Jordan said that “based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee,” documents from the agency show that Catholic houses of worship were enlisted as sources to help monitor and report on parishioners.
Now Catholic churchgoers are starting to witness suspicious activity at their parishes.
The Daily Signal reported:
Two parishioners at a Latin Mass Catholic church in rural Northern Virginia say they witnessed suspicious activity from what looked like FBI vehicles in February, a month after the FBI’s Richmond office published a now-rescinded internal memo focused on “radical-traditional Catholics.”
The FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, which monitors the church’s area, denied any knowledge of such activity in a statement to The Daily Signal.
The two witnesses told The Daily Signal that they saw two cars approach the church, drive through the parking lot as if they were writing down license plate numbers, and then leave, on two separate instances outside Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel in Linden, Virginia, some 63 miles west of Washington, D.C., between Feb. 12 and Feb. 26. (The memo had been published on Jan. 23 and rescinded on Feb. 9.)
“I saw a black Ford car with dark tinted windows and a knoblike antenna on the top,” one parishioner, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Signal. “It was driving very slowly by all the cars, and I could see a laptop in the center front.”
“I could not see the person inside, and no one ever got out,” the witness added. “They did leave as soon as they saw me looking at them.”
“I saw a white [Chevrolet] Tahoe car, with very tinted windows and lots of antennas, driving slowly through the parking lot,” the other witness told The Daily Signal, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“Looked like a male. He had an open laptop in the middle of the car; not sure if he was typing, as the window was very dark.”
“He never got out of the car, but by the time I saw him, he was on his way out and drove back towards the highway after pulling through,” the second parishioner added.
“Not sure how long he was out there, as we were all inside. Everyone else was still inside the chapel, so he must have been going around while we were all inside at Mass/catechism.”
“I suspect that it was the FBI,” the witness added. “However, I could not confirm since he never got out of the car.”
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