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fartyshorts ago

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13010819/finders-keeper / https://archive.is/dlCtw

Reading this article right now - very interesting, indeed!

"In appearance, the Finders—mostly middle-aged men, always in dark suits—wouldn’t be out of place managing a local funeral home. But the behavior of the handful of adherents has people wondering whether they arrived by flying saucer. Townspeople say the Finders constantly walk the streets, following people home and taking extensive notes and pictures. They often appear at local council meetings, never saying a word but simply observing the scene. At other times, they plunder the visitor’s center of brochures, maps, and local travel guides. And they haunt the courthouse, scouring land deeds to find out who owns the local real estate."

Two more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/11/finding-truth-about-finders-proves-to-be-no-simple-matter/01c16d17-c301-4894-951f-b87052c9fd4f/ / https://archive.is/vJ9EU

"And police in Florida filed an affidavit in which one of the children is quoted as saying that Finders leader Marion Pettie "tells everyone what to do. He is in charge. We kids slept outside and the mommies slept inside . . . . Mr. Pettie weans the kids from moms.""

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/03/18/two-finders-released/35b2bc13-e56d-4c72-a587-97fe83f9b7da/ / https://archive.is/UkO3z

fartyshorts ago

A pretty good summary: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Finders_Keepers

They also mention some members moving on to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_and_Protective_Order_of_Elks

The talks around the wikispooks article led me to find out that the USCS agent (Ramon J. Martinez) who investigated the Finders was a close friend of Mark Koernke. Source: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134327,00.html / https://archive.is/g2jTA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Koernke / https://archive.is/Ik7R8

"Mark Gregory Koernke (/ˈkɔːrn.kiː/; born 1957), known as "Mark from Michigan," is a prominent militia activist and shortwave radio broadcaster .[1] As an early proponent of the black helicopters, he was largely responsible for popularizing it[2] in appearances on Tom Valentine's radio show and in speeches which were widely circulated on videocassette. He was host of his own radio show, "The Intelligence Report",[3] on WWCR until the station indefinitely suspended his broadcasts.[4] Shortly before his suspension, Koernke had suggested that authorities were setting up Timothy J. McVeigh for assassination.[5] During this time he was interviewed by Sam Donaldson.[6]"

More on him:

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-08/news/mn-63806_1_mark-koernke / https://archive.is/GFEiW

PieInTheEye ago

Interesting ... small world!