AZ Central
One of the most decorated undercover agents in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has won a key ruling in a civil complaint against his own agency, only to be hit with a government countersuit claiming his autobiography and a planned movie have harmed the United States.
Jay Dobyns, an ATF agent in Arizona for 22 years, contends in U.S. Court of Claims papers that his bosses failed to uphold an agreement to protect him after he received death threats from the Hells Angels.
However, federal lawyers filed a counterclaim accusing Dobyns of harming his country by publishing an autobiography, “No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels,” and entering a deal to sell the book’s movie rights.
The counterclaim argues that Dobyns violated federal rules by failing to get a supervisor’s approval before publishing a book based on information he gathered while working as an ATF agent.
Working with informants and other agents who posed as bikers, Dobyns infiltrated the Hells Angels so thoroughly that he was invited to become a member before the probe ended. The case resulted in charges of murder, conspiracy, weapons violations and narcotics offenses against 16 bikers in Arizona.
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