FBI Disavows Internal Memo Warning Against ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’

Law enforcement officers walk past the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on July 21, 2022. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times

The FBI’s national office on Feb. 9 repudiated a reported internal memo that warned about a connection between so-called “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”

The bureau told The Epoch Times that the internally distributed “field office product” about “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI.”