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Rep. Jim Jordan said the document reveals that the contents were reviewed and approved by two senior intelligence analysts and the local Chief Division Counse.
null / Credit: Dzelat/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 11, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A new document revealed that the Richmond Federal Bureau of Investigation used at least one undercover agent to obtain information about traditionalist Catholics, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.In response to its inquiry, the committee announced it received from the FBI a heavily redacted 18-page document that uncovered limited information about the agency s efforts to investigate a supposed link between traditionalist Catholics and "the far-right white nationalist movement." The committee had requested information following the leak of an internal memo dated Jan. 23 that originated from the FBI s Richmond division. The memo, which the FBI later retracted, called for such investigations within traditionalist Catholic communities. Titled "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in