HREI to host Manis for book signing

Former FBI special agent Wayne Manis will be the featured guest at a reception and book signing taking place Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Human Rights Education Institute, 414 Mullan Road, Coeur d'Alene.

The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations is hosting the event, which gives center stage to Manis' recently released book: "The Street Agent: After Taking on the Mob, the Klan and the Aryan Nations, he walks softly and carries a .357 Magnum - The True Story."

Manis served with the FBI from 1966-1994. The book details his experiences. Manis penetrated the violent factions of the Political Far Left in Chicago in the 1960s, investigated the Ku Klux Klan in the South, posed as a hit man in a mob-related "murder for hire" case and infiltrated the notorious criminal empire of the New Orleans crime family headed by godfather Carlos Marcello.

Manis spent five years tracking and investigating "The Silent Brotherhood/The Order," a terrorist group, and their connection to the Aryan Nations in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s. They were discovered to have committed assassinations, armored car robberies, bombings and counterfeiting activities.

Preceding his years in the FBI, Manis was a United States Marine Corps captain and acting provost marshall. Today he is the founder and president of OnBelay Security Solutions, a Coeur d'Alene-based company.

Manis' book will be on sale during the signing session and free reception Saturday. The public is invited.