Barry Croft, Jr. on FBI "CHSs" and "OCEs" and their Suggestive Behavioral Manipulation
Croft explains how the FBI uses Confidential Human Sources and Online Covert Employees to surround a target and influence them, and talks about "harmless error."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 7, 2025 - I received a letter from Barry Croft, Jr. dated July 14, 2025 wherein he discusses a number of aspects of case, and how he was targeted and set up. Barry is one of a number of men that were targeted by the FBI in the now infamous Gov. Whitmer “kidnap plot” case. Croft is currently serving a 19 and a half year sentence at Florence Supermax which he is appealing to the United States Supreme Court.
Croft writes:
I feel the need to expand on what I call “suggestive behavioral manipulation.” First you have the target (me, the Baltimore target). What needs to be understood is that “CHSs” (confidential human sources) are used in tandem with “OCEs” (online covert employees). Both are for the most part used anonymously and covertly.
It is very possible that “Stephanie Stigall” and “Curtis Hansen,” the 2019 messages used against me, were either “CHSs” or “OCEs.” In total, CHS Robeson and CHS Plunk had 650 phone calls with me between December 2019 and October 2020. That’s 10 months (roughly 300 days), that’s at least a phone call daily from each of them, and all of which took place while I was under full investigation, so all of them were monitored.
Let’s not forget that CHS “MJ” and CHS Gary Hunt have been coordinating focus on subjects that create paranoia, as well as inserting other “CHSs” and “OCEs” who surround a target with hopelessness. It is not an accident, it is calculated, practiced, and then implemented.
I met CHS Hubert Kaminski in the summer of 2019, at a militia gathering that a man named “Terry” invited me to in lower Delaware. CHS Kaminski attached to me like a tick. CHS George Little came in November of 2019.
This is why the DOJ wiped my cellphones, so you can’t see how they encircle you with people and influence all aimed at radicalizing a target! Remember Frank Butler’s (Virginia target) words, “They were brainwashing me,” and to my knowledge he was only dealing with CHS Chappel, Robeson, and Plunk, not to mention “OCEs.”
All paid for, and put in place by “federal law enforcement” and tax dollars. I need to know how these measures of instigation are necessary if the “targets” (not suspects) are predisposed?
At our trial, only one “CHS” and one “OCE” testified, and the FD-1023’s do not cover all the “OCEs” activities. In fact, the only reason the “OCE” testified was because of her direct messaging and influence with Adam Fox.
The DOJ, FBI, and the courts allow the government to conceal how much pressure they put on “targets.” CHS Angela Balch sent me like 150 pictures of KC Massey, and his family, to my email in April of 2019. She would disappear when KC went on the run in May. But the reason she did that was to create the appearance of more interaction between KC and I.
How else could the FBI justify launching a full investigation on a guy who met KC once, as a potential suspect to aid and abet him while on the run? CHS Terry B. picked KC up in Texas, she was from PA. The whole thing is a continuous operation to instigate “right-wing extremism” in order to villainize America patriots.
Look at how many American patriots were prosecuted in the “Bundy ranch standoff” who did years in prison and lost their gun rights. Ask Stuart Rhodes about “Operation Mutual Defense,” which CHS Gary Hunt contributed to the concept to draw in militia from all across the country.
Ask Jeremy Delemus what drew him in, and cost him 6 years of his life (ex-marine, American patriot)! CHS Terry B. from Pennsylvania bragged about CHS Christian Yuengling (from Charlottesville) cheating on his wife with her. CHS Terry B. and CHS Yuengling would send each other nudes, she was drinking one night and got carried away on a conference call with KC and I and just unloaded all this freaky FBI funded stuff.
See, CHS Yuengling would show her off in front of the militia guys to create the façade of being a stud. KC would call me with her on a 3-way about once a week, from mid 2018 up until be absconded in May of 2019. When KC was released from prison, she sent him cookies. To KC, it was an act of kindness and he never thought twice about trusting her.
She was on that end of April conference call that KC was asking for advice on. I will never forget that phone call, there was a lady from Texas, I cant remember her name, and her and I were urging KC to turn himself in for the probation violation, CHS Angelia Balch and CHS Terry B. were stoking his paranoia and urging him to go on the run.
Has anyone sought the evidence used against me to secure the warrant by FBI special agent Kristopher Long? My trial lawyer said it didn’t matter, but if it was fictitious, fabricated BS, it would show that the FBI was doing exactly the same thing to me that they did against President Trump in that “Steele Dossier” scam.
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I take issue with the Sixth Circuits claim of “harmless error” in my case. One aspect of this is that CHS Chappel, Plunk, and Robeson were attempting to foment a plot with Frank Butler (VA target) to fly an explosives laden drone into the beach home of the Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
The courts rulings allowed the government to disavow and conceal nearly all of the evidence pertaining to that FBI plot! In our criminal complaint, the government admits that CHS Robeson “is not in a position to testify,” in October of 2020, and by 2021 in pre-trial filings they are calling him a “double agent” in bad faith.
They knew he was not at all a “double agent,” but they had to keep as much of CHS Robeson’s involvement off the record as they could. Aside from trying to instigate Frank Butler to blow up his Governor’s home, Robeson had also promoted violence among a group known as “ The Midwest Coalition.”
In trial one, we had like 8 or 9 witnesses plead the fifth amongst threats of being charged as “conspirators,” same as trial two, Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris (our acquitted co-conspirators) were threatened with state charges if they testified in our defense.
The government narrative is that I am an “anti-government rebel trying to start a civil war,” but as of the weekend of August 6, 2020, CHS Robeson and CHS Plunk are telling Frank Butler that I “may not have the stones (balls) to help him in his bomb plot,” and “that I’ve been pulling away from them” and their associations.
I was not interested in Frank Butler or the Michigan people. The court sites messages of two people (Stephanie Stigall and Curtis Hansen) in 2019, from me as “predisposition,” but neither of these people attended a single “meeting,” nor had any involvement at all in this case!
In fact, it shows that the government was surveilling me, because someone I knew was a “fugitive,” so they incorporated meaningless messages from me to two people I had never met in real life, into reality, using paid actors, confidential human sources, or more appropriately labeled paid agents provoceteurs’’.
The private investigator hired by my defense lawyer discovered that the 3 rooms used at the “Drury Inn” in Dublin, Ohio, were reserved a week in advance (my room, Robeson’s, and Frank Butler’s), but without a warrant they wouldn’t disclose the payment method used to reserve them.
Had that been anyone but a “CHS,” the government would have assuredly used it as evidence. A “CHS” was literally tasked with ensuring my attendance at the Cambria FTX, where another CHS (Chappel) texts his handling agent (SA Jayson Chambers) “I have Croft coming to Michigan to train.”
The Appeals court cites a social media message between Pete Musico and I, I never met him in real life, all I knew was he lived in Michigan and he talked about training. So, when Adam asked if I knew of anyone in Michigan who trained, I directed him to Pete Musico.
But, Joe Morrison and Pete Musico did not like Adam Fox at all! CHS Chappel was 2nd in command of Morrison’s “Wolverine Watchmen,” and even with CHS Chappel’s influence, CHS Plunk and Robeson had to create a fake, FBI made militia that incorporated the 3% in order to use my 2017 tattoo as a connecting piece of evidence.
I was never in Fox’s Facebook militia, nor was there any messages between Fox and I between July-October of 2020, how is that even possible? At oral arguments the three judge panel cited 6th circuit precedent for association between government assets and potential defendants, but apparently concealing 11 out of 12 paid instigators (CHSs), and their interactions with the accused is “harmless.”
If a prosecutor conceals exculpatory evidence it is known as prosecutorial misconduct, if a judge’s rulings keep exculpatory evidence off the record, how is that considered a “harmless error”?