New America

[castlebravo92]

Originally Posted by ToughOmbres

Good points from all as usual.

CB-when you mention "stolen from armories" do you mean "stolen" (wink wink, off inventory but actually surreptitiously supplied) or actually stolen outright?

Yes and yes ;-).

I'm stealing / modifying a narrative arc in James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy to build a deeper narrative arc for New America / Carl Hughes where a neo-fascist faction within the CIA clandestinely supplies extremist right-wing groups with weapons starting in the late 60s / early 70s when anti-war social upheaval is at it's apex with the intent of having a domestic anti-communist cadre if a social revolution occurred and official US organizations were co-opted or nullified by Marxists.

Because it's a faction and not the entire CIA, it's entirely off-books. The CIA and Hughes use drug money (in the same manner that they did to fund the arming of the Contras), and leverage facilitated theft to supply the militias.