White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse

<p>How did a small town Canadian boy allegedly become a narco kingpin? Ryan Wedding was once a promising young athlete, a snowboarder who went all the way to the Olympics. Now captured after a decade on the run, he’s accused of running a deadly international drug trafficking empire.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In <strong>Uncover: The Most Wanted Olympian</strong> from CBC and the Toronto Star, host Michelle Shephard and reporter Calvi Leon trace Wedding’s descent into a violent criminal underworld. F

<p>We return to Scott’s time with The Base, the neo-Nazi accelerationist group bent on sparking a race war. Taking down this violent cell of white supremacists takes everything he’s learned in his decades-long undercover career.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And then… retirement. For someone who has spent his whole life pretending to be someone he’s not: who is Scott Payne?&nbsp;</p>

<p>Scott re-enters the life of an undercover agent with a new assignment: infiltrate a chapter of the KKK. With white supremacist violence on the rise, he finds himself in the middle of a field in Alabama - about to join the Klan.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Scott is deep undercover in the Outlaws, becoming close friends with members of the dangerous biker gang. But you can only get so deep for so long. And now Scott is at risk of losing everything: his marriage, his body and his mind.</p>

<p>Scott Payne is a big, intimidating, Harley-riding guy. He’s the perfect choice to infiltrate the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. For him, it’s a dream assignment - getting inside an international criminal organization whose arch-rival is the Hell's Angels.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Then, things go bad. Really bad.&nbsp;</p>

<p>How does a young, self-proclaimed redneck end up becoming one of the most storied undercover agents of our time? We trace Agent Payne’s path from a satan-worshiping southern high school student, all the way to becoming a “Hillbilly Donnie Brasco.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>After chatting online, it’s FBI undercover Special Agent Scott Payne's first in-person meeting with The Base. Alone. Now he just needs to convince the international neo-Nazi network that he's one of them.</p><p><br></p><p>To hear all episodes of White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse right now, ad-free, subscribe to <a href="https://apple.co/cbctruecrime" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts</a>.</p>

<p><strong>Coming March 25, 2025</strong>. FBI undercover agent Scott Payne’s job was to infiltrate the most dangerous gangs of our times: outlaw bikers, drug cartels and the international neo-Nazi networks hellbent on inciting a race war. In the second season of White Hot Hate, host Michelle Shephard gives you an unvarnished view of a life undercover. Because after a 28-year-long career pretending to be somebody else, Agent Payne is ready to tell his side of the story.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>