This morning, I posted my interview with Christa Hazel.
Christa Hazel was born in Alabama and moved to North Idaho when she was 10, when her father, FBI agent Wayne Manis, was assigned there.
Hazel has been a Republican in North Idaho all her adult life. She holds a Juris Doctor from the Idaho School of Law and is an alumna of North Idaho College, where she served as the Associated Students of North Idaho College (ASNIC) president from 1993 to 1994
As the daughter of an FBI agent who worked on such high-profile cases, Christa Hazel learned from a young age about the dangers associated with her father’s work. She recalled learning as a child that her family was on a white supremacist hit list due to her father’s involvement in cases against extremist groups.
This background likely influenced Hazel’s perspective on extremism and her later involvement in local politics and education in North Idaho. She is the founder of the citizen’s watchdog group SaveNIC and organizer of a breakaway Republican group that challenges more extreme elements within the Republican party in Idaho.
WAYNE MANIS
Manis and his team were in a shootout with Bob Mathews, who founded the white supremacist domestic terrorist group The Order in 1983. The Order’s members had conducted armored truck robberies, murdered Jewish talk show host Alan Berg and were building up their army to overthrow the government to create a whites-only America.
The movie “The Order,” released in December, was inspired by the events during Manis’ time in Idaho and surrounding states. Jude Law played a character based on the FBI agent. Manis wrote about his experiences in the book, “The Street Agent.”
Here is what Amazon says about Manis:
“Wayne Manis served for more than 28 years as an FBI Special Agent. Preceding the FBI, Wayne was a United States Marine Corps Captain and acting Provost Marshal in charge of the Criminal Division of Forced Troops, Fleet Marine Force Pacific. During Wayne’s FBI career, he spearheaded the FBI’s undercover program, being the first agent to go undercover following WW ll.
While working undercover, Wayne penetrated the violent factions of the New Left in Chicago, posed as a hit man in a mob-related murder-for-hire case and infiltrated the notorious criminal empire of the New Orleans Crime Family after receiving the blessing from the family’s Godfather, Carlos Marcello.
Wayne also served as a team leader of an elite FBI SWAT Team and was engaged in several deadly shootouts while serving in this capacity. Wayne has been featured in several episodes of the T.V. series FBI-The Untold Stories, Turning Point produced by ABC, Discovery Channel’s Angry America, and The FBI Files. He has been a news commentator for CNN and a speaker on Domestic Terrorism throughout the United States and Canada.”
My interview with Christa Hazel
