289: Scott Payne – Undercover White Supremacist

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Retired agent Scott Payne reviews his undercover role in the investigation that resulted in averting a mass shooting at a synagogue by a copy-cat white supremacist who said he wanted to do something similar to the June 17, 2015 massacre of church attendees in Charleston, SC, only bigger. Fortunately, the person he asked to get him a gun was UCA Scott Payne. Scott served in the FBI for nearly 23 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 289 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.0	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does.
0:19.2	Through my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues, today we
0:25.4	get to speak to retired agent Scott Payne, who served in the FBI for 23 years.
0:33.2	In this episode, Scott reviews his undercover role in the investigation that resulted
0:39.2	in averting a mass shooting at a synagogue by a copycat white supremacist who said he
0:46.0	wanted to do something similar to the June 17th, 2015 massacre of church attendees
0:53.2	in Charleston, South Carolina, only he wanted to do something bigger.
0:58.2	Fortunately, the person he asked to get him a gun to use was FBI undercover agent, Scott
1:04.3	Payne.
1:05.5	During his FBI career, Scott was assigned to the New York Field Office, the San Antonio
1:11.1	Field Office, at the McAllen resident agency, and the Knoxville division.
1:16.3	During these assignments, he led investigations targeting drug trafficking organizations, special
1:22.9	interest alien smuggling organizations, gangs, violent crime, criminal enterprises, public
1:29.6	corruption, and domestic terrorism.
1:32.2	Throughout his FBI career, Scott was the primary undercover agent in numerous long-term
1:38.2	undercover operations.
1:40.1	These undercover operations included violent crime, motorcycle gangs, public corruption,
1:46.6	murder for hire, drug trafficking organizations, and domestic terrorism groups with international
1:52.8	ties.
1:54.4	Scott was also an FBI SWAT team operator for over seven years, participating in numerous
2:00.6	arrests of violent criminals and execution of search warrants.
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