The Street Agent: He took on the mob, the Klan and the terrorists-The true story - Softcover

Manis, Wayne

9780996714907: The Street Agent: He took on the mob, the Klan and the terrorists-The true story

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ISBN 10: 0996714901 ISBN 13: 9780996714907

Publisher: Manis Investigations, Inc, 2023

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Within the FBI, the street agent is known as the heart of the Bureau. He or she discovers and detects criminal activity then decides how best to attack it. Once the target is defined and a plan is formulated, the street agent hits the bricks and systematically dismantles and destroys the criminal enterprise. Wayne Manis was known as a street agent and few agents in the history of the FBI have traveled as diverse a course as he did during his career. On the extreme left, he was undercover with the violent faction of The Weather Underground. On the extreme right, he worked with the Ku Klux Klan and investigated the Aryan Nations and somewhere in between with the Mafia and their related organized crime figures. As a team leader of an FBI SWAT Team, he engaged bank robbers, fugitives and terrorists in armed confrontations and participated in his share of shootings and killings; not killings of anonymous or unfamiliar persons but people he knew, some in his community where he knew members of their family. They were people he pursued and investigated for years. Their stories intertwine with his. These stories are personal to the author and compelling. Near the end of his fascinating career, Wayne Manis spearheaded the F.B.I s largest domestic terrorism investigation prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Directed at a white supremacist group known as The Order, he led a team of agents in the search for terrorists who threatened the members of the U. S. Congress and sent them a formal Declaration of War. They assassinated their enemies, committed multiple bombings, and robberies, including a 3.6 million dollar robbery of a Brink s armored truck. With their stolen money, they purchased state of the art weaponry to engage the FBI in armed confrontations. The investigation was the #1 case in the FBI and the Director was briefed daily on its progress. As the case agent in charge of the investigation, author Wayne Manis lived this war between the FBI Agents and the terrorists and survived a fiery gun battle in a secluded hideout with the terrorist group s leader. The Street Agent contains selected stories in which Wayne Manis was the case agent and takes the reader into the fast moving, pulsating excitement of the chase and confrontation with his SWAT Team and the breathtaking life as an undercover operative. Events are related through the author s eyes as they unfolded with terrorists, Klansmen, mobsters, and murderers. The author, now able to tell the tale of these incredible cases, gives the reader a no-holds-barred book providing a view inside the FBI on the street level where courage is an absolute necessity and dedication and resolution never-ending.

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"Wayne Manis was unsurpassed as a Street Agent. He was incredibly courageous and astonishingly effective. Manis was the epitome of the FBI's motto, Fidelity, Bravery
and Integrity. This book is a 'must read' as it provides a stellar insight into the multifaceted mission of the FBI. --Cecil E. Moses, FBI Special Agent In-Charge, Retired

"While I did not have the privilege of working with Wayne in an investigative capacity, I was very much aware of his Bureau-wide reputation as one of our very finest
'Street Agents'. Wayne's peers, his fellow investigators, held him in high regard with respect and admiration. On a personal basis, I know Wayne to be a person of the
highest integrity, honesty and substance with impeccable character. He was the best shot with a rifle that I ever encountered and when together we hunted grizzly bears in the wilds of Alaska, I always knew he had my back." --John E. Otto, Former Director, FBI, Acting, Retired

"FBI Special Agent Wayne Manis serves up true-crime from the driver's seat. As an agent who investigated political extremists in Chicago, the Mob and the Ku Klux Klan in the South, he was ideally equipped to deal with the Aryan Nations and a band of neo-Nazis committing crimes throughout the United States. His stories take you
there." --Bill Morlin, investigative reporter, The Spokesman-Review, 1972-2009 National correspondent, Hatewatch & Intelligence Report, 2010-current

"I have known and worked with Wayne Manis for decades. To this day, I am not sure if he is one of the best FBI Agents ever or if he is the re-incarnate of Rooster Cogburn, U.S. Marshal. Perhaps he is both. By any definition he tells a great story. A great read." --Danny O. Coulson, Deputy Assistant Director FBI, Retired

"Wayne Manis put the special in Special Agent. His years in the FBI, 1966-1994, are the insider history of the Bureau itself. Years he fully and eventfully lived, enlivened by the give and take of life on the street and working undercover, taking down bad people and making it look easy. But it wasn't easy, as I can attest from the time Wayne and I were colleagues on Alabama's first SWAT team in Birmingham in the 70's. Wayne was our leader, inspiring, dead on in his decisions and planning, doing by example and with a rich seam of humor under stress, just the right mix. Wayne was an agent's agent. You should read this book." --Jack Owens, FBI Special Agent, Retired, author of, Don't Shoot! We're Republicans! and Watchman: JFK's Last Ride

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