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This FBI Houston file concerns the Aryan Circle, a white supremacist organization that originated in the Texas Department of Corrections prison system. A 1996 bureau memorandum opened separate subfiles for related groups and records, including Texas Aryan Brotherhood, Aryan Reich, Texas Mafia, Fraternal Order of the Aryan Brotherhood, White Knights, and Aryan Circle. The released material includes reporting that describes the Aryan Circle as a splinter group of the Texas Aryan Brotherhood, a jail-seized Aryan Circle handbook, and copies of the group's propaganda, newsletter advertising, membership statements, women's branch material, and patch designs. The documents show the group promoting racial separatism, prison-based organization, recruitment, publications, donations, and symbols for men's, women's, honorary, and task-force branches. Some pages are withheld or redacted under FOIA exemptions.

FBI file number: 100A-HO-44640 | Documents span: 1995-1996 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Mark C., P.L. Payne, T.K., M.G.
Subjects: white supremacism, prison gangs, Texas Department of Corrections, Aryan Circle, propaganda, FBI Houston