LONDON (Reuters) -- America's white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan is active in Britain and has more than 400 activists, BBC television said Thursday.
"Eyewitness accounts of cross burnings, death threats and violence form part of the growing evidence that the Ku Klux Klan is now operating in Britain," a British Broadcasting Corporation reporter said, who added that the KKK had been infiltrated by anti-racists.
The BBC said the KKK's British operation was being run by Alan Beshella, a Briton who used to be a KKK Grand Dragon in the United States.
Beshella, interviewed in the report, admitted to once being a U.S. member , but said the KKK was not in Britain.
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