Michael German (terrorism)

Michael German is an American retired FBI agent, scholar, and writer.

In his 16-year career in the FBI, German spent a total of 20 months undercover, first among supremacists and then among right-wing militants. He then wrote Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent, and joined writer and director Daniel Ragussis in creating the screenplay for Imperium, starring Daniel Radcliffe as an informer working under an FBI case agent. He is also a fellow of the Brennan Center for Justice.