US army veteran wore wire for FBI to expose KKK members

He lived a secret double life. At times the US army veteran donned a white robe and hood as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan in north Florida. He attended clandestine meetings and participated in cross burnings. He even helped plan the murder of a Black man.

One minor mistake, one tell, he believed, meant a certain, violent death.

Before such meetings, he would sit alone in his truck, using deep breathing techniques he learned as an army-trained sniper.

The married father of four would help the federal government foil at least two murder plots, according to court records from the criminal trial for two of the klansmen.

He was also an active informant when the FBI exposed klan members working as law enforcement officers in Florida at city, county and state levels.

Today, he and his family live under new names in a Florida subdivision. Apart from testifying in court, the 50-year-old has never discussed his undercover work in the KKK publicly.

The FBI first asked Moore to infiltrate a klan group called the United Northern and Southern Knights of the KKK in rural north Florida in 2007.