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FBI Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide: Sovereign Citizen Violent Extremism (U//FOUO)

Manual · written 2023 · released 29 January 2024

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An FBI reference guide for law enforcement on the sovereign-citizen movement: its pseudo-legal beliefs, paper-terrorism tactics and indicators of violence. It was marked For Official Use Only and never meant for the public. It shows exactly how the Bureau frames a domestic-extremism threat.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation. "FBI Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide: Sovereign Citizen Violent Extremism (U//FOUO)." 2023. Released 29 January 2024. https://publicintelligence.net/fbi-sovereign-citizen-violent-extremism-guide/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0146).

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