Life Inside the White Wolves

The Donnie Brasco of white supremacism reflects

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Joe Anastasio
Photo:New Haven Independent Photo

 Below the Nazi symbols in his east side New Haven living room, they predicted the assassination of the president. They discussed rolling a homemade bomb toward black kids in a city playground. Then Joe Anastasio moved in to buy guns and grenades—with a secret camera hidden inside his jacket.

He’s worn that jacket since the Army issued it to him at Fort Knox in the mid-1970s. This time Anastasio was on a different government mission: going undercover to help put allegedly violent white supremacists behind bars.

Anastasio has plunged into missions like that for the past 15 years. He has frequented New Haven bars to score drugs or place bets to help the government bust dealers and bookies.

His work in this latest white supremacist undercover mission produced results.

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