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+category: "Authors & Journalists"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Journalist
+  - Russia
+  - InvestigativeReporting
+  - IronMarch
+  - InternetResearchAgency
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifying Iron March founder Alisher Mukhitdinov."
+---
+
+Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist whose career spans independent local press, the [[BBC News Russian|BBC Russian Service]], and [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]'s Russian investigative unit. His two major investigations (the exposure of the [[Internet Research Agency]] in St. Petersburg and the identification of [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] as [[Iron March]] founder "Alexander Slavros") represent the primary source record for both subjects.
+
+### Internet Research Agency Exposure
+
+Soshnikov began investigating the [[Internet Research Agency]] (IRA) while working as a reporter for Moy Rayon, a St. Petersburg local newspaper. He and Novaya Gazeta reporter Garmazhapova posed as job applicants and entered the IRA's office in 2013, producing the first published descriptions of its internal organization. Soshnikov's report documented that the IRA photocopied applicants' passports but made no effort to verify identities; that trolls were divided into specialized teams; and that individual operatives were assigned quotas of approximately 100 posts per day with designated themes including Russian state-approved framing on the G20 St. Petersburg summit in September 2013.[^1]
+
+In February 2015, Soshnikov published a follow-up from an unnamed IRA whistleblower that included photographs, videos, and copies of "technical tasks" distributed to trolls, establishing the IRA's operational methodology in significantly greater detail.[^1]
+
+After joining BBC News Russian, Soshnikov continued IRA-related investigations, using social engineering methods to identify individual operatives behind accounts on Twitter, VKontakte, and Telegram.
+
+### Iron March / Mukhitdinov Investigation
+
+Soshnikov authored the investigation that established Alisher Mukhitdinov as the real identity of Iron March founder "Alexander Slavros," published by [[BBC News Russian]] on January 30, 2020 under the title "«С самого детства я осознавал, что я русский»" ("Since childhood I understood I was Russian"). The investigation built on WHOIS-based speculation that had circulated since before the [[SPLC]] Hatewatch May 2019 profile and on the December 2019 [[Bellingcat]] investigation, both of which stopped short of physical confirmation.
+
+Soshnikov physically located Mukhitdinov in southwest Moscow; Mukhitdinov declined to comment. The investigation documented his educational trajectory (expelled from both [[Moscow State University]] and [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]]), his self-description as a "metanationalist," his family's background including the connection to [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]], and the BBC's failure to confirm circulating theories about Russian government pressure related to alleged [[Azov Battalion]] fundraising. Soshnikov's investigation is the primary evidential basis for the identification as accepted in academic and journalistic literature.[^2]
+
+### RFE/RL Systema
+
+After BBC News Russian, Soshnikov moved to [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] as editor-in-chief of Systema, an RFE/RL Russian-language investigative unit launched in 2023. He subsequently announced his departure from RFE/RL on social media and stated he was seeking work in journalism, investigations, OSINT, and editing.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Global Investigative Journalism Network. "How They Did It: The Real Russian Journalists Who Exposed the Troll Factory in St. Petersburg." https://gijn.org/stories/real-russian-journalists-exposed-troll-factory-st-petersburg/
+[^2]: Andrei Soshnikov, "«С самого детства я осознавал, что я русский»: Как москвич Алишер Мухитдинов создал главный фашистский форум в интернете," *BBC News Russian*, January 30, 2020. Archived at Meduza: https://meduza.io/feature/2020/01/30/s-samogo-detstva-ya-osoznaval-chto-ya-russkiy
+[^3]: Sota News / X post citing Soshnikov's social media announcement of departure from RFE/RL. https://x.com/sotanews/status/2032238257858077012; Muck Rack profile: https://muckrack.com/andrei-soshnikov
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - NationalAction
+  - O9A
+  - UK
+  - TerroristConviction
+  - VettingFailure
+  - LawEnforcementEntryism
+  - Yorkshire
+location: "Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Ashley Podsiad-Sharp was a 42-year-old HMP Armley prison officer and former National Action member convicted in 2023 at Sheffield Crown Court of possessing the White Resistance Manual, sentenced to eight years plus five years extended licence."
+---
+
+Ashley Podsiad-Sharp, 42, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was a serving prison officer at [[HMP Armley]] in Leeds when he was investigated by [[Counter Terrorism Policing]]. He was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court by a jury of one count of possessing terrorist material under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], after the jury acquitted him of a second count of disseminating terrorist material. He was sentenced on 31 August 2023 by Judge [[Jeremy Richardson KC]] to eight years' imprisonment plus five years' extended licence. The sentencing remarks are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^1]
+
+### Evidence
+
+The terrorist material for which Podsiad-Sharp was convicted was the White Resistance Manual, a 200-page publication containing detailed guidance on: committing arson; poisoning people; sabotaging public utilities and communication systems; bomb-making; knife techniques for killing; building improvised firearms; and evading police identification and capture. The document opened with a white supremacist manifesto calling for armed resistance to the "threat to the white race" from Jewish people and non-white communities.
+
+Police recovered the manual on Podsiad-Sharp's computer devices during a search. He had, in the judge's assessment, gone to "considerable lengths" to conceal the document on his devices.[^2]
+
+### National Action History and White Stag Athletics Club
+
+Podsiad-Sharp had been a member of [[National Action]] before its proscription in December 2016. Following National Action's proscription, he founded or operated what Judge Richardson described as "a cauldron of self-absorbed neo-Nazism masquerading as a low-grade, all-male sports club": the [[White Stag Athletics Club]], based in South Yorkshire. The club required prospective members to hold white-supremacist views; its vetting process asked candidates whether they were homosexual, mixed race, or had Jewish or Muslim heritage. Richardson characterised the club as "a recruiter of disillusioned white men" for racially motivated purposes.[^2]
+
+### Prison Officer Employment
+
+Podsiad-Sharp was a serving prison officer throughout the period relevant to the offence, employed at HMP Armley, a Category B local prison in Leeds. His employment as a prison officer while holding these materials and running the White Stag Athletics Club is an instance of far-right extremist entryism into a law enforcement or custodial context, structurally analogous to the [[Benjamin Hannam]] case in the Metropolitan Police, though Podsiad-Sharp's O9A connection is less directly documented than his National Action history.
+
+Judge Richardson stated that Podsiad-Sharp displayed "not one iota of remorse."[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: R v Ashley Podsiad Sharp, Sentencing Remarks, Sheffield Crown Court, 31 August 2023. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/R-v-Ashley-Podsiad-Sharp.pdf
+
+[^2]: ITV News Calendar. "Leeds Prison officer Ashley Podsiad-Sharp jailed over 'white supremacist murder manual'." August 31, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-08-31/prison-officer-had-white-supremacist-murder-manual; The Jewish Chronicle. "White supremacist prison officer jailed for 'terrorist murder manual'." August 2023. https://www.thejc.com/news/white-supremacist-prison-officer-jailed-for-terrorist-murder-manual-gn6n2er2; HOPE not hate. "More National Action Jailings." June 27, 2023. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2023/06/27/more-national-action-jailings/
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NationalSocialistOrder
+  - FBIInformant
+  - USA
+  - Mississippi
+summary: "Aubrey Sakai Suzuki was a Mississippi member of the National Socialist Order who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to interstate threatening communications after FBI monitoring of NSO chats, in which FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter's alias 'swissdiscipline' appeared, contributed to his identification."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+born: 2001
+location: "Nesbit, Mississippi"
+---
+
+Aubrey Sakai Suzuki (born approximately 2001), of [[Nesbit, Mississippi]], was a member of the [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO), the successor organization to [[Atomwaffen Division]], who was charged and convicted for posting online threats calling for the killing of Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ Americans.
+
+### Case Overview
+
+The NSO is the name Atomwaffen Division members adopted in July 2020 after AWD's public leadership collapsed following the federal arrests of 2020. Suzuki participated in NSO's online community and in 2020 posted to an NSO website that he wanted to "take part in a revolution and be on the forefront killing Blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals" and "blowing up the system."[^1]
+
+The [[FBI]] began following Suzuki in September 2020 and arrested him on July 19, 2021, when he arrived to pick up a Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle he had purchased online from a gun store in [[Sevierville, Tennessee]].[^1]
+
+### Sutter's Alias in NSO Chats
+
+The case is notable in the context of [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]'s informant history because Sutter's operating alias "swissdiscipline" continued to appear in encrypted [[Wire]] chats from the NSO's network after Sutter transitioned from AWD to its successor organization. Rolling Stone reported that these chats, and Sutter's presence within them, contributed to identifying Suzuki as a member and tracking his activity.[^2] The precise degree to which Sutter's informant role drove the Suzuki case versus standard FBI surveillance of NSO communications has not been specified in court documents available to the public.
+
+### Charges, Plea, and Sentence
+
+Suzuki pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, in the [[Northern District of Mississippi|U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi]], to one count of transmitting a threatening communication through interstate commerce. Prosecutors dropped two additional counts of posting threatening messages online and a count of threatening a federal law enforcement officer as part of the plea agreement.[^1]
+
+The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney [[Clayton A. Dabbs]]. Suzuki was sentenced to two and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.[^3]
+
+### Sutter's Active Informant Status at Time of Arrest
+
+The Suzuki case is one of the few documented instances where Sutter's continued presence inside the AWD/NSO ecosystem, as an active informant, generated a prosecutable lead that resulted in a federal conviction after the public revelation of his informant status. Because the revelation came in August 2021 and Suzuki was arrested in July 2021, the investigation of Suzuki predated the revelation by approximately one month, suggesting the FBI was still operating Sutter as an active source inside the NSO at the time the Cole motion was filed.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NDMS. "Nesbit Man Sentenced To Prison for Racist Threats." October 20, 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/nesbit-man-sentenced-prison-racist-threats
+
+[^2]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/
+
+[^3]: Magnolia State Live. "Mississippi man admits he threatened to kill Blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals, then tried to buy an assault rifle." July 6, 2022. https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2022/07/06/mississippi-man-admits-he-threatened-to-kill-blacks-hispanics-and-homosexuals-then-tried-to-buy-an-assault-rifle/
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - SiegeCulture
+  - Accelerationism
+  - NetworkFounder
+  - FederalCase
+  - FISA
+  - Section702
+  - USA
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists."
+born: 1994
+location: "Tampa, Florida"
+---
+
+[[Brandon Russell]] is the founder of [[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD), which he announced on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist forum on October 12, 2015, while a student at the [[University of South Florida]] and a member of the [[Florida National Guard]]. He has been convicted of federal crimes twice: first in 2018 for illegal possession of explosive device components following the murders of two AWD members by his roommate [[Devon Arthurs]], and again in 2025 for conspiring to attack the [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) electrical power grid as a prelude to a race war. He is serving a 20-year federal sentence.
+
+### AWD Founding on Iron March
+
+Russell's October 2015 Iron March announcement introduced AWD as an explicitly [[Siege Culture|Siege]]-influenced, accelerationist neo-Nazi organization committed to the collapse of American society through cascading violence. He had been organizing members since at least 2012, but the Iron March post gave the group a public identity and an international recruitment pool. AWD drew its foundational ideology from [[James Mason]]'s collected essays, treating lone-wolf violence and leaderless resistance as spiritual imperatives rather than tactical options.
+
+Russell developed AWD as a cell-based organization with regional chapters across the United States, emphasizing fitness culture, weapons training, and real-world operations alongside ideological study. At its height AWD had documented members in multiple states and several foreign countries. [[Tempel ov Blood]] leader [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] joined AWD in the spring of 2017 under the alias "swissdiscipline," beginning the organization's transformation from a purely [[Siege]]-focused group into one steeped in [[Order of Nine Angles]] occultism.
+
+### Tampa Apartment and Devon Arthurs
+
+Russell shared a Tampa apartment with several AWD members, including Devon Arthurs, [[Jeremy Himmelman]] (22), and [[Andrew Oneschuk]] (18). On May 19, 2017, while Russell was away at a National Guard training exercise, Arthurs shot and killed Himmelman and Oneschuk inside the apartment. Arthurs had converted to Islam and subsequently left AWD; he later told police he killed the two men partly because they had desecrated his Quran and partly because he feared they would expose his past AWD membership. After the killings, Arthurs drove to a nearby smoke shop and held customers hostage at gunpoint before surrendering to police.
+
+When Tampa police searched the apartment, they discovered explosive materials belonging to Russell: components for constructing explosive devices including the precursor chemicals for HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine). Russell was arrested on explosives charges unrelated to the murders themselves.
+
+### First Federal Conviction: Full Record
+
+Russell's 2018 conviction arose from case number 8:17-cr-00283, [[U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida]], presided over by Senior U.S. District Judge [[Susan Bucklew]]. The sentencing hearing took place January 9, 2018. [[U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez]] appeared for the government. Russell had pleaded guilty on September 27, 2017, to two counts: possession of an unregistered destructive device (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)) and unlawful storage of explosive material (18 U.S.C. § 842(j)). Prosecutors sought approximately 11 years; Judge Bucklew imposed five years, to be followed by three years of [[supervised release]].[^1]
+
+The supervised release conditions imposed at sentencing did not include restrictions on association with extremist organizations or former AWD members. [[Pete Simi]], a sociology professor at [[Chapman University]] who has studied the American far right for more than two decades, later stated that the conditions "imposed no restrictions on the young extremist's ability to associate with his former comrades" and that Russell "could've restarted the Atomwaffen Division without violating the conditions of his release."[^2]
+
+The case simultaneously exposed AWD to federal law enforcement scrutiny that had not previously existed and drew national media attention to the organization Russell had built.[^3]
+
+### Prison Period: Publications and Correspondence (2018-2021)
+
+While incarcerated, Russell remained organizationally active. He collaborated with other imprisoned AWD veterans to produce the [[White Prison Newsletter]], a neo-Nazi accelerationist publication distributed to incarcerated persons. The newsletter was endorsed by [[Robert Gregory Bowers]], the [[2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting|Pittsburgh synagogue shooter]]. The [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO), the AWD successor organization that emerged in July 2020, published essays authored by Russell from prison and announced a recruitment push in March 2021 that cited him as a key figure.
+
+Russell and [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] began corresponding by letter in approximately 2018 while both were serving separate sentences in different facilities. The [[FBI]] monitored Russell's communications and phone traffic during his incarceration, and was aware of the Russell-Clendaniel correspondence at least as early as 2018.[^4]
+
+### Release: August 23, 2021
+
+Russell was released from federal prison on August 23, 2021, having served approximately three years and eight months of his five-year sentence (with credit for time served and good-time reductions). He relocated to [[Orlando, Florida]] and entered three years of court-supervised release under the [[U.S. Probation Office]] in [[Tampa, Florida]]. Requests for comment about Russell's supervision made by journalists to that office went unanswered.[^2]
+
+### Post-Release Activity (August 2021 - February 2023)
+
+Between his August 2021 release and his February 2023 arrest, Russell maintained a substantial online presence across encrypted neo-Nazi Telegram networks under three documented pseudonyms: "Ouroborus," "Homunculus," and "Raccoon." He operated within invite-only chats and contributed to [[American Futurist]], the propaganda platform run by [[Ryan Hatfield]] (alias "Ryan Arthur"), the Colorado Springs-based former AWD cell leader who had founded the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) through the NSO lineage. In fall 2022, Russell attempted to recruit an FBI informant into NSRF, describing prospective members as coming from Maryland and the Carolinas.[^5]
+
+Russell shared material from the [[Terrorgram Collective]], including "Make It Count," one of four publications the Terrorgram network released between 2021 and 2022 containing explicit instructions for attacking electrical substations: "LOCATE SUBSTATION. RANGE FIND. SHOOT TRANSFORMERS. FLEE UNDETECTED." He operated in at least three private Telegram channels: "Freedom Club," "Cat Enjoyers Anonymous," and "Don't Do Anything Illegal." Russell also circulated links to open-source infrastructure maps identifying substation locations and, in August 2022, promoted materials that purported to identify undercover FBI officers.[^5]
+
+Archived messages show Russell interacting with accounts tied to [[Dallas Humber]], who led the Terrorgram inner collective from 2022 to 2024, with the pair appearing to coordinate the release of Terrorgram propaganda. Prosecutors presented this material at trial in January 2025 as evidence of Russell's role within the Terrorgram network.[^6]
+
+### The FBI Informant and the Conspiracy
+
+In June 2022, approximately ten months after his release from prison, Russell made contact through encrypted channels with [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)]], an FBI [[confidential human source]] (CHS) who worked professionally as a researcher specializing in extremism and domestic terrorism and had been recruited through an FBI agent acquaintance. Jackson became the FBI's primary source inside the conspiracy.
+
+Between November 2022 and February 3, 2023, Russell and Clendaniel, communicating by phone and through encrypted messaging monitored by Jackson, finalized their operational plan to destroy five BGE transformer substations simultaneously. In a recorded conversation on January 29, 2023, Clendaniel described the targeted sites as substations near [[Norrisville, Maryland|Norrisville]], [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]], and [[Perry Hall, Maryland|Perry Hall]], plus two additional substations in the vicinity of Baltimore City. She told Jackson: "it would permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully."[^7]
+
+Russell provided the operational concept and ideology, attempted to procure a firearm for Clendaniel through Jackson (Clendaniel was prohibited from possessing weapons as a convicted felon), and coordinated the timing of simultaneous attacks intended to prevent BGE grid operators from rerouting power around disabled nodes. Federal prosecutors later estimated the intended monetary loss would have exceeded $75 million.[^8]
+
+### Case: United States v. Russell, D. Md.
+
+Russell and Clendaniel were arrested on February 3, 2023. The government filed an initial criminal complaint; a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging both defendants with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility (18 U.S.C. § 1366(b)). Russell's case was docketed in the [[District of Maryland]] under case number 1:23-cr-00029; Clendaniel's companion case was 1:23-cr-00056. Both were assigned to Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]].[^8]
+
+### FISA Section 702 Issue
+
+Before trial, defense attorneys [[Kobie Flowers]] and [[Ian Goldstein]] filed a motion on June 10, 2024, arguing that the government had used [[Section 702]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA) in its investigation of Russell and had failed to provide the statutorily required FISA notice. The defense grounded its inference in a specific government document: the [[ODNI]]'s "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes," released February 14, 2024, at intelligence.gov, which included a vignette describing a 2023 FBI investigation in which a warrantless U.S. person query of Section 702 databases revealed that "a person located inside the U.S. was in regular contact with an unspecified foreign terrorist group, had acquired the means to conduct an attack and had already identified specific targets in the U.S." The vignette stated the FBI disrupted a "potentially imminent terrorist attack" against critical infrastructure in less than a month, using "iterative U.S. person queries" as the subject shifted communications platforms. The defense argued Russell's was the only open case matching all those disclosed particulars.[^9]
+
+Three attorneys from the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]] joined the defense for the limited purpose of challenging the Section 702 issue. Lead ACLU attorney [[Ashley Gorski]] stated publicly: "Based on the government's own disclosures, the ACLU has good reason to believe that Mr. Russell was subjected to Section 702 surveillance and his case is a rare and important opportunity to challenge the government's practice of conducting warrantless 'backdoor searches' of its Section 702 databases to locate the communications of Americans."[^9b]
+
+The government agreed to a classified ex parte briefing before Judge Bredar. That hearing occurred on July 23, 2024. On August 9, 2024, Bredar issued a public order stating he was "satisfied" the government would not use Section 702-derived evidence at trial and that "there is no basis on which to believe or suspect that the rights of the defendant have been violated in any way with respect to any government activities authorized by FISA." Bredar held Russell was "not entitled to notice" of FISA surveillance under the applicable standard. The order was deliberately narrow: it addressed only whether FISA evidence would be used at trial, leaving unresolved publicly whether Section 702 collection had occurred at an earlier investigative stage that shaped the case's initiation. No appeal of Bredar's Section 702 ruling produced public Fourth Circuit docket activity before Russell's February 2025 conviction.[^9]
+
+### Trial
+
+Russell's trial commenced January 28, 2025, before Judge Bredar. The government's evidentiary case rested on three cooperating sources: Christopher Jackson (CHS-1, who testified under light disguise and pseudonym), a second confidential human source (CHS-2, also in disguise), and one FBI employee. All three had been members of the private neo-Nazi Telegram channels alongside Russell.
+
+In September 2024, Bredar had ruled that the three covert witnesses could testify in "light disguise" (altered hairstyle or facial hair) and use pseudonyms, and that the courtroom would be partially closed during their testimony, with audio and video piped to an overflow room. Bredar acknowledged the court "strongly disfavors" anonymous witnesses but found the exception warranted given what he characterized as an "unusually heightened threat of danger to societal institutions and witnesses seen as cooperating with those institutions." Russell's defense attorney [[Ian Goldstein]] argued the ruling created "a huge impediment to investigating and presenting a defense."[^10]
+
+The jury was selected January 27, 2025. Jackson testified January 29 and disclosed in testimony that he had received "about $70,000," comprising approximately $40,000 in direct payments and $30,000 in reimbursements for plane tickets and travel expenses across several investigations. On January 27, the night jury selection occurred and two days before Jackson testified, the government paid Jackson an additional $7,180.11, bringing his total FBI compensation to approximately $80,000. The [[Department of Justice]] disclosed the additional payment on March 19, 2025, six weeks after the guilty verdict.[^11]
+
+Russell was convicted on February 4, 2025, of one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility after a six-day trial.
+
+### New Trial Motion
+
+Following the government's March 19 disclosure, Russell moved for a new trial, arguing that Jackson had committed perjury by testifying to an incomplete compensation figure and that the undisclosed payment constituted a [[Brady v. Maryland|Brady]] violation. On April 29, 2025, Bredar denied the motion. Bredar found the non-disclosure "unfortunate" and acknowledged "the timing of the payment...raises some concern" but held the error insufficient to undermine the verdict given Jackson's limited scope of testimony, the corroborating evidence independent of Jackson's testimony, and the jury's awareness of Jackson's compensation from the disclosed amounts.[^11]
+
+### Sentencing: August 7, 2025
+
+Bredar sentenced Russell to the statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, on August 7, 2025. Bredar rejected defense arguments that Russell was less culpable than Clendaniel, calling him "the brains" behind the operation and the source of its "intellectual horsepower." The judge characterized Russell as "profoundly dangerous" and said he "seeks to destroy the very fabric of society." Bredar also noted that Russell had "significant mental health issues." The lifetime supervised release conditions included close monitoring of Russell's electronic devices.[^12]
+
+The sentence reflected Russell's status as a recidivist: his 2018 conviction for illegal explosive possession in the Middle District of Florida was counted as a prior offense. The combined effect of both convictions means Russell will not be eligible for release until his mid-forties at the earliest.
+
+### AWD Organizational Continuity
+
+The Baltimore conspiracy's relationship to AWD organizational continuity is factually complex. By 2023, AWD had formally dissolved; the National Socialist Order (NSO) had itself transitioned into the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) in September 2022 under Ryan Hatfield. Russell's fall 2022 NSRF recruitment activity suggests he understood himself as operating within the AWD successor network rather than as an isolated individual.
+
+Neither the NSRF nor any other successor organization was charged as a co-conspirator in the Baltimore case. Russell's collaboration with Clendaniel, a Maryland woman with no documented prior AWD membership, illustrates the movement's shift from formal organizational structure to informal network-based radicalization: Clendaniel's introduction to Russell came through prison correspondence, her ideology was self-developed through her own history of white nationalist beliefs dating to 2001, and her recruitment into the operational conspiracy was personal rather than institutional.[^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: United States v. Russell, 8:17-cr-00283 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 9, 2018). CourtListener docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6072023/united-states-v-russell/; Tampa Bay Times. "Neo-Nazi Florida National Guard soldier gets five years in prison on bombmaking charges." January 9, 2018. https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/Neo-Nazi-Florida-National-Guard-soldier-gets-five-years-in-prison-on-bombmaking-charges_164309905/
+
+[^2]: The Baltimore Banner. "How neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell came to be accused of targeting Baltimore substations." 2023. https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-sarah-clendaniel-power-substation-CH6ZNB2FVVDYREOUJEMGTODDCM/
+
+[^3]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
+
+[^4]: Vice. "Inside the Neo-Nazi Prison Magazine Radicalizing Americans in Their Cells." https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order
+
+[^5]: SPLC Hatewatch, Hannah Gais. "Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder's Path to Terror Plot." February 2023. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot/
+
+[^6]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi network 'Terrorgram' goes to court over planned attack on substation." January 2025. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-network-terrorgram-court-planned-attack-substation/
+
+[^7]: CBS News. "Baltimore power grid attack plot: Sarah Beth Clendaniel and Brandon Russell arrested, officials say." February 6, 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-power-grid-attack-plot-fbi-suspects-arrested-sarah-beth-clendaniel-brandon-russell/; ABC News. "Suspected white supremacists arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore." February 6, 2023. https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-arrested-plot-attack-power-stations-destroy-baltimore/story?id=96923380
+
+[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Federal Indictment Returned Charging Maryland Woman and Florida Man for Conspiring to Destroy Energy Facilities." February 14, 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/federal-indictment-returned-charging-maryland-woman-and-florida-man-conspiring-destroy
+
+[^9]: ODNI, "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes," February 14, 2024. https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702-documents/FISA_Section_702_Vignettes-20240214_Final.pdf; Baltimore Sun. "Prosecutors will say in secret whether they used controversial spying tool against neo-Nazi accused in Baltimore power grid plot." June 27, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/06/27/prosecutors-will-say-in-secret-whether-they-used-controversial-spying-tool-against-neo-nazi-accused-in-baltimore-power-grid-plot/; Baltimore Sun. "Feds will not use evidence from spying program at trial of neo-Nazi accused in Baltimore power grid plot, judge finds." August 9, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/09/feds-evidence-spying-program-neo-nazi-accused-baltimore-power-grid-plot/
+
+[^9b]: Baltimore Banner. "ACLU Signs On to Defend Neo-Nazi Charged with Power Grid Plot." https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/neo-nazi-baltimore-power-grid-aclu-national-security-defense-PA277N47ANCLPAMBKAFHXNZ45U/; WMAR Baltimore. "Man accused of plotting to destroy Baltimore's electrical grid has new defender." https://www.wmar2news.com/local/man-accused-of-plotting-to-destroy-baltimores-electrical-grid-has-new-defender
+
+[^10]: U.S. District Court, D. Md. Opinion re: Witness Disguise, Case No. 23-0056. September 2024. https://www2.mdd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Opinions/23-0056%20Russell%20Opinion%20re%20witness%20disguise.pdf; The Daily Record. "Disguised witnesses to testify against neo-Nazi accused of planning MD power grid attack." September 2, 2024. https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/09/02/disguised-witnesses-to-testify-against-neo-nazi-accused-of-planning-power-grid-attack/
+
+[^11]: The Daily Record. "Neo-Nazi who plotted to destroy BGE substations denied new trial." May 2, 2025. https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/05/02/neo-nazi-baltimore-substation-trial-denial/
+
+[^12]: CNN. "Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack." August 7, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/us/neo-nazi-maryland-power-grid-plot-sentencing; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Florida Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiring to Destroy Baltimore Region Power Grid." August 7, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/florida-man-sentenced-20-years-conspiring-destroy-baltimore-region-power-grid
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Camden
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Camden
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - GreggyCult
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - CSAM
+  - FederalCase
+  - Colorado
+  - USA
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Camden Rodriguez, aliases 'oHare' and 'carroteater,' was a Longmont, Colorado leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
+born: 2003
+location: "Longmont, Colorado"
+---
+
+[[Camden Rodriguez]], aliases "oHare" and "carroteater," is a resident of [[Longmont, Colorado]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 2003 and was 22 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
+
+### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
+
+A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Rodriguez alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Zachary Dosch]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], and [[David Brilhante]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]], conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^1]
+
+Rodriguez was identified in one local news report as an "alleged leader" of Greggy's Cult. The group recruited minor victims through gaming platforms and social media and coerced them into producing [[CSAM]], using that material to compel continuing compliance including self-harm. Members of Greggy's Cult later became "prominent members" of the [[764 Network]], per DOJ's characterization in the December 2025 press release.[^1]
+
+No guilty plea or sentencing outcome for Rodriguez was publicly reported as of May 2026.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; KDVR. "Longmont man, alleged leader of 'Greggy's Cult,' charged with sexually exploiting children." December 2025. https://kdvr.com/news/local/longmont-man-alleged-leader-of-greggys-cult-charged-with-sexually-exploiting-children/; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Cameron
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Cameron
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - HateCrime
+  - FederalCase
+  - Washington
+  - USA
+  - TerroristConviction
+born: 1996
+location: "Redmond, Washington"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Cameron Brandon Shea, alias 'Krokodil,' was Atomwaffen Division's national recruiter and co-organizer of the Operation Erste Saule intimidation campaign, sentenced to 36 months in federal prison in 2021."
+---
+
+[[Cameron Brandon Shea]], operating online under the alias "Krokodil," served as [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s primary national recruiter and co-organized "Operation Erste Saule" (Operation First Pillar) alongside AWD's Washington State chapter leader [[Kaleb Cole]]. The operation involved identifying journalists and advocates who had reported on or tracked antisemitism and white nationalism, then delivering threatening posters featuring Nazi imagery to their homes and workplaces. Shea pleaded guilty on April 7, 2021, to two federal counts and was sentenced to 36 months (three years) in federal prison on August 25, 2021, by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in the [[Western District of Washington]].[^1]
+
+### National Recruitment Operations
+
+Shea served as AWD's principal national recruiter, operating from [[Redmond, Washington]] and recruiting members across multiple states through encrypted messaging applications and AWD's online presence. His recruitment work made him one of the most organizationally significant AWD members outside its Texas-based leadership structure, which was centered on AWD's propaganda chief [[John Cameron Denton]] and founder [[Brandon Russell]].
+
+His co-organization of Operation Erste Saule with Cole placed both of them at the center of AWD's harassment campaign against journalists and civil rights organizations, connecting his Washington-based recruiting operation to the national intimidation strategy.
+
+### Operation Erste Saule
+
+[[Operation Erste Saule]] targeted journalists who had written about AWD and organizations including the [[ADL]] that had monitored AWD's activities. The campaign involved researching targets' home and workplace addresses and delivering threatening printed posters, which depicted masked figures with guns and Molotov cocktails alongside neo-Nazi imagery, to those locations across multiple states.
+
+The operation ran alongside [[John Cameron Denton]]'s separate swatting campaign, which targeted a different set of individuals through false emergency reports, representing two concurrent AWD harassment strategies operating in 2018-2019. The two campaigns were prosecuted separately: Shea and Cole in the Western District of Washington, and Denton in the Eastern District of Virginia.[^2]
+
+### Guilty Plea and Sentencing
+
+Shea pleaded guilty on April 7, 2021, to two counts: (1) conspiracy to commit three federal offenses (interference with federally-protected activities because of religion, mailing threatening communications, and cyberstalking) and (2) interference with a federally protected activity because of religion. On August 25, 2021, Judge John C. Coughenour sentenced him to 36 months in federal prison.
+
+The 36-month sentence compared to [[Kaleb Cole]]'s sentence for the same operation in the same court and to Denton's 41-month sentence in the EDVA for the parallel swatting conspiracy.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDWA. "Leader of Atomwaffen Conspiracy Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Threatening Journalists and Advocates." August 25, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-atomwaffen-conspiracy-sentenced-3-years-prison-threatening-journalists-and
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDWA. "Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime and Conspiracy Charges." April 7, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-and-conspiracy-charges
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - UK
+  - CombatEighteen
+  - BloodAndHonour
+  - SpecialBranch
+  - Murder
+  - Informant
+born: 1963
+location: "England, United Kingdom"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Charlie Sargent co-founded Combat 18 in 1992, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 for the stabbing death of Christopher Castle, and was publicly identified by ITV's World in Action and a Statewatch investigation as a Special Branch informant, though he never confirmed the allegation."
+---
+
+Charlie Sargent co-founded [[Combat 18]] in 1992 and led the organisation through its most violent period of the mid-1990s, maintaining documented ties to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] and overseeing a brutal internal culture that ended in murder. He was convicted of the murder of [[Christopher Castle]] at [[Chelmsford Crown Court]] in January 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In the months following his conviction, an ITV documentary and multiple investigative reports identified him as a [[Special Branch]] informant, though no official confirmation has ever been provided and Sargent himself did not confirm the allegation.[^1]
+
+### Founding of Combat 18
+
+In early 1992, the [[British National Party]] formed Combat 18 as a stewarding group to protect its events from anti-fascists. The organisation's name refers to the initials of [[Adolf Hitler]] (A=1, H=8). Sargent was among the founding figures alongside [[Wilf Browning]]. C18 split from the BNP in 1993 when Sargent rejected the party's electoralist strategy in favour of open paramilitarism. Following the death of [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]], frontman of the neo-Nazi band [[Skrewdriver]] and Sargent's former flatmate, in a car crash in September 1993, C18 took control of [[Blood and Honour]], Donaldson's neo-Nazi music promotion network, and its affiliated label, [[ISD Records]]. Blood and Honour's lucrative white-power music business became a significant source of C18's income.[^2]
+
+### UDA Connections and Paramilitarism
+
+C18 developed documented ties to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] during the early 1990s. Sargent was acquainted with [[Johnny Adair]], the UDA's [[Lower Shankill Road]] commander, who attended Combat 18 events in England. C18 provided manpower to counter demonstrations by Irish republican supporters and maintained weapon-related contacts with loyalist networks in [[Northern Ireland]]. According to a Statewatch investigation, the World in Action documentary that exposed Sargent as an informant reported that his information supplied to Special Branch related specifically to C18's UDA connections.[^3]
+
+C18 was also linked to a 1997 campaign in which parcel bombs were sent from Denmark to anti-fascist activists and celebrities in the United Kingdom. The Danish dimension connected C18 to the European neo-Nazi network around [[Blood and Honour Scandinavia]] and [[White Aryan Resistance]] networks on the continent.
+
+### Internal Feud and the Castle Murder
+
+A factional dispute between Sargent and Browning emerged in the mid-1990s centred on control of the Blood and Honour music revenues and mutual accusations of police informing. The rival faction led by Browning sought Sargent's expulsion and demanded the return of the C18 membership list. The confrontation escalated fatally in October 1997 when [[Christopher Castle]], a [[Blood and Honour]] supporter acting as an intermediary between the two factions, went to Sargent's home. Sargent's associate [[Martin Cross]] stabbed Castle to death with a nine-inch knife in what the court described as "a violent and cowardly attack." Sargent was convicted as a principal in the murder. Both Sargent and Cross were convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment.[^1]
+
+### The Informant Allegations
+
+Anti-fascist researchers had documented suspicious patterns in C18 from the early 1990s: following street clashes in central London, several senior C18 activists were observed being driven away in unmarked police cars.[^3] The allegations crystallised publicly in April 1998 when ITV's [[World in Action]] programme, "Playing with Fire," broadcast evidence of Sargent's role as a Special Branch informant. The timing placed the broadcast a few months after his January 1998 murder conviction.
+
+The programme presented two specific evidential items. First: during the planning of the 1997 Danish letter-bomb campaign, C18's leadership withheld an updated target list from Sargent because they suspected him of leaking information; an outdated version of the target list subsequently appeared in the press. An undercover police officer who had infiltrated C18 confirmed to the programme that the names could only have come from Sargent. Second: the programme showed that C18 was allowed to operate through its campaign of arson and terror attacks because Sargent was working for Special Branch and providing intelligence on the UDA's English mainland contacts.[^3]
+
+The historian and researcher [[Larry O'Hara]] of [[Notes From The Borderland]] has argued that the confirmed state asset in C18 was not Sargent but [[Darren Wells]] (alias McKenzie), who co-authored the C18 booklet with Browning and acknowledged in 2002 that he had been working as a Searchlight/Special Branch informant, handled through [[Nick Lowles]] of [[Searchlight Magazine]]. O'Hara's analysis holds that the genuine asset (Wells) helped create conditions of mutual suspicion between Browning and Sargent, in a dynamic consistent with the FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] disruption playbook, and that this suspicion was what escalated into the murder of Castle. On O'Hara's account, Sargent and Browning were both manipulated rather than either being a state agent themselves.[^4]
+
+The [[Observer]] newspaper's [[Henry Macdonald]] published an article on 5 April 1998 alleging that Sargent was a paid informer, adding to the documentary record. No evidence has been produced to definitively prove or disprove the allegation against Sargent personally. It has never been confirmed by any official body and Sargent has not spoken publicly about it.[^5]
+
+### State Intelligence and the Myatt Non-Prosecution
+
+The Sargent informant question is directly relevant to the broader question of why [[David Myatt]], C18's attributed "ideological heavyweight," was never prosecuted for terrorism. If Sargent was indeed supplying Special Branch with intelligence on C18 and UDA activities, he would have reported on Myatt's role and activities within C18's circles throughout the mid-1990s. That reporting would constitute inadvertent documentation of Myatt's conduct by state agents with knowledge of events. The absence of any prosecution of Myatt despite that presumed intelligence record has not been officially explained. It may reflect a prosecutorial decision that the available evidence did not meet the standard for terrorism charges, or it may reflect operational considerations about which intelligence assets and methods would be exposed in a trial. The public record does not resolve the question.[^4]
+
+### Aftermath
+
+Sargent and Cross remained in prison following their life sentences. The C18 organisation fragmented after their convictions. Sargent's brother [[Steve Sargent]] remained in the neo-Nazi movement and co-founded the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]] with [[David Myatt]] in June 1997, while Charlie Sargent's case was still proceeding through the courts.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leaders get 'life' for murder," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leaders-get-life-for-murder/
+[^2]: Lowles, Nick. *White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18.* Milo Books, 2001.
+[^3]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leader was police informer," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leader-was-police-informer/
+[^4]: Notes From The Borderland (Larry O'Hara). "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." https://borderland.co.uk/combat-18-mi5-some-background-notes/
+[^5]: Macdonald, Henry. "C18 leader 'was paid informer.'" Observer, 5 April 1998.
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dylann
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dylann
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - WhiteNationalism
+  - SouthCarolina
+  - USA
+  - MassShooter
+born: 1994-04-03
+location: "Lexington, South Carolina"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015, received death sentences in both federal and state proceedings, and was explicitly named as inspiration by Brenton Tarrant, founding the saint-citation chain."
+---
+
+[[Dylann Roof]] (born April 3, 1994, [[Lexington, South Carolina]]) killed nine Black parishioners at [[Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]] on June 17, 2015, during a Wednesday evening Bible study session. Roof had sat with the group for approximately an hour before opening fire. He was arrested the following morning in [[Shelby, North Carolina]], after a tip from a passing motorist who recognized him from surveillance footage. He was convicted in federal court on 33 counts including hate crimes and obstruction of religion, and in state court on nine counts of murder, and was sentenced to death in both proceedings. [[Brenton Tarrant]] explicitly cited Roof's attack as an inspiration in his 2019 Christchurch manifesto, beginning the documented chain of "saint" citations that runs through [[Payton Gendron]], [[Juraj Krajčík]], and [[Nikita Casap]].[^1]
+
+### The Charleston Attack
+
+On June 17, 2015, Roof drove to Emanuel AME Church, one of the oldest and most historically prominent Black churches in the American South, and joined the mid-week Bible study group. After approximately an hour, he opened fire. The nine people killed were [[Clementa C. Pinckney]] (the church's senior pastor and a South Carolina state senator), [[Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd]], [[Susie Jackson]], [[Ethel Lee Lance]], [[Depayne Middleton Doctor]], [[Tywanza Sanders]], [[Daniel Simmons]], [[Sharonda Coleman-Singleton]], and [[Myra Thompson]].
+
+Roof stated to several survivors that he intended to start a race war and that Black people "were taking over the country." He allowed some individuals to survive the shooting explicitly so they could describe what happened.
+
+### Radicalization and Manifesto
+
+Roof described his radicalization in a manifesto he posted online in the months before the attack. He stated he had been radicalized by reading [[Council of Conservative Citizens]] material online, particularly fabricated and distorted statistics about interracial crime. His manifesto framed the attack as a necessary provocation: he believed a high-profile act of racial violence against Black people would trigger a violent white nationalist response and accelerate the collapse of multiracial American society.
+
+The manifesto described white South Africa as a model, cited historical grievances, and explicitly invoked the concept of white victimhood that characterizes much accelerationist writing. Roof did not identify with any specific organized movement before the attack and had no prior criminal record.
+
+### Conviction and Sentencing
+
+In federal proceedings, Roof was convicted on 33 counts including hate crimes resulting in death, obstruction of religion resulting in death, and use of a firearm to commit a violent crime. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel sentenced him to death in January 2017. He subsequently waived his right to counsel and represented himself, continuing to deny the validity of the proceedings.
+
+South Carolina state court convicted him on nine counts of murder. He was sentenced to death on each count.[^2]
+
+### Accelerationist Succession
+
+Tarrant's 2019 Christchurch manifesto stated that Roof's attack had demonstrated the possibility of a lone individual shifting the political landscape through targeted violence. By naming Roof as an inspiration, Tarrant placed him retroactively within the "saint" framework that the Christchurch attack then formalized for the global accelerationist movement. The documented chain - Roof inspires Tarrant, Tarrant inspires Gendron, Gendron named as "final nudge" by Krajčík, Krajčík's writings cited by Casap - runs directly through the [[Terrorgram Collective]] prosecution record and into the most recent cases.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Jury Convicts Dylann Roof on All Counts in the Federal Hate Crimes Trial for the Emanuel AME Church Shooting." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-dylann-roof-all-counts-federal-hate-crimes-trial-emanuel-ame-church-shooting
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death for Federal Hate Crimes in Emanuel AME Church Shooting." January 2017. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dylann-roof-sentenced-death-federal-hate-crimes-emanuel-ame-church-shooting
+[^3]: ICCT. "Christchurch Attacks and the Role of Online Propaganda." https://icct.nl/publication/christchurch-attacks-and-the-role-of-online-propaganda/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jack
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jack
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - O9A
+  - UK
+  - TerroristConviction
+  - ViolentExtremism
+  - Accelerationism
+  - CountyDurham
+born: ~2003
+location: "New Brancepeth, County Durham, England"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish community venues among his planned targets in Durham."
+---
+
+Jack Reed, of Woodbine Terrace, New Brancepeth, County Durham, was convicted at [[Manchester Crown Court]] in November 2019 of six terrorism offences committed between October 2017 and March 2019, when he was aged 14 to 16. He was sentenced in January 2020 by Judge [[David Stockdale QC]], the former Recorder of Manchester, to six years and eight months' detention in a Young Offenders' Institute with a five-year extended licence, with the Parole Board prohibited from considering early release until he had served two-thirds of his sentence. Reed became one of the youngest persons convicted of terrorism offences in the United Kingdom at the time of his trial.
+
+### Offences and Evidence
+
+Police searched Reed's family home in New Brancepeth and recovered a handwritten manifesto, which Reed had titled "Storm 88 - A Manual For Practical And Sensible Guerrilla Warfare Against The Kike System In The Durham City Area, Sieg Heil." The manifesto listed "areas to attack" in Durham, including schools, pubs, council buildings, and post offices, and outlined planned arson attacks on local synagogues using Molotov cocktails.[^1]
+
+An [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) symbol was hand-drawn in the manifesto. The prosecution described Reed's stated ideology as "occult neo-Nazism," making him one of the first UK terrorism defendants where a specific link to O9A was publicly cited in court proceedings.[^2]
+
+Computer and phone forensic analysis uncovered extensive internet searches on firearms, explosives, and knives, together with downloads of extreme right-wing material. Reed had described himself in writing as a "natural sadist" and expressed admiration for [[Adolf Hitler]].[^1]
+
+The six counts at conviction were: preparation of terrorist acts (section 5, [[Terrorism Act 2006]]); disseminating a terrorist publication (section 2, Terrorism Act 2006); possessing an article for a terrorist purpose (section 3, Terrorism Act 2006); and three counts of possessing a document containing information useful to a terrorist (section 58, [[Terrorism Act 2000]]).
+
+### Sentencing
+
+Judge Stockdale QC described Reed as "highly intelligent, widely read, quick-thinking and articulate" and told him it was "a matter of infinite regret that you pursued at such a young age a twisted and, many would say, a sick ideological path."[^3]
+
+On 23 December of the same year, Reed received a separate concurrent sentence: an 18-month Detention Training Order for five sexual assaults against a schoolgirl, run concurrently with the terrorism sentence already being served.[^3]
+
+### Anonymity and Naming
+
+Reed was initially subject to a reporting restriction order under section 45 of the [[Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999]], which prohibited identification. In January 2021, a judge rejected a bid to maintain his anonymity, and he was publicly named in media reports.[^4]
+
+### O9A Context
+
+Reed's case is among the most explicit in terms of the O9A symbol's direct presence in a terrorism evidence file. In the core eight cases [[HOPE not hate]] cited in its "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter (State of Hate 2020), Reed's case is described as involving a terror manual with an O9A symbol "hand-drawn" on it.[^5] This distinguishes his case from those where O9A links were inferred from associated materials rather than from documentary evidence within the charged terrorism material itself.
+
+Reed was not charged with O9A membership or any offence connected to O9A as an organisation; the O9A symbol in the manifesto was cited as evidence of ideological orientation rather than as a standalone charge.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Enfield Independent (PA). "Nazi terrorist named after judge rejects anonymity bid." 2021. https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/19002125.nazi-terrorist-named-judge-rejects-anonymity-bid/
+
+[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020.* https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
+
+[^3]: ITV News. "Teenage terrorist claims he was 'tipped off' about police raid." January 6, 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-01-06/teenage-terrorist-claims-he-was-tipped-off-about-police-raid; Far-Right Criminals. "Terror plot: Durham teenage neo-Nazi named as Jack Reed." January 12, 2021. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/01/12/terror-plot-durham-teenage-neo-nazi-named-as-jack-reed/
+
+[^4]: US Sun. "Boy who became UK's youngest terrorist at 16 with neo-Nazi plot unmasked after losing bid to keep anonymity." 2021. https://www.the-sun.com/news/2122465/teen-neo-nazi-durham-named-anonymity/
+
+[^5]: ISD Global. "The Order of Nine Angles." Explainer, August 2022. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/the-order-of-nine-angles/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jarrett
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jarrett
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - FeuerkriegDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Military
+  - FederalCase
+  - Kansas
+  - USA
+  - TerroristConviction
+born: 1999
+location: "Fort Riley, Kansas"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents."
+---
+
+[[Jarrett William Smith]] was a [[U.S. Army]] Specialist stationed at [[Fort Riley]], [[Kansas]] who was arrested on September 21, 2019 for distributing bomb-making instructions to undercover FBI agents. He was an admirer of [[Atomwaffen Division]] and a member of [[Feuerkrieg Division]], a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network. Online communications documented by investigators showed him discussing potential attacks on targets including presidential candidate [[Beto O'Rourke]] and [[CNN]] offices. He pled guilty on February 10, 2020 and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on August 19, 2020, by [[U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree]] in the [[District of Kansas]], case number 5:19-cr-40091-DDC.[^1]
+
+### Investigation and Arrest
+
+Smith communicated with undercover FBI agents posing as fellow extremists in an online chat group, using the moniker "Anti-Kosmik 2182." The FBI undercover engagement occurred on September 20, 2019, from Fort Riley, the day before his arrest. Over several months he distributed detailed instructions for constructing improvised explosive devices, including guidance on building car bombs. In online conversations he discussed attacking Beto O'Rourke, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination at the time, and discussed attacking CNN offices. He framed prospective violence in accelerationist terms consistent with [[Siege Culture|Siege-influenced]] ideology, treating mass casualty attacks as catalysts for societal collapse.
+
+Early news coverage reported that Smith had discussed these targets and used language indicating murder solicitation. These statements appeared in the criminal complaint affidavit but were not carried into the formal indictment or plea: the two-count indictment covered the IED and napalm instruction distribution, not the discussed attack planning. FBI agents arrested him at Fort Riley on September 21, 2019. He was still on active duty at the time of arrest.[^2]
+
+### Feuerkrieg Division Connection
+
+[[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded in 2018, structured as a decentralized franchise operating through encrypted messaging applications. It recruited from AWD-adjacent online spaces and had documented members in the United States, United Kingdom, Estonia, and other countries. Smith's membership placed him in an international network of accelerationist cells operating simultaneously with the AWD prosecutions of 2018-2019. FKD's Estonian founder, a teenager known as "Commander," was identified by Estonian authorities in January 2020 but could not be criminally prosecuted due to his age (13); three other FKD members were convicted by a Harju County Court in January 2025 for membership in and recruitment for a terrorist organization.
+
+AWD membership or association was never charged as a separate count or element in Smith's case. DOJ press releases and [[Anti-Defamation League]] reporting describe Smith as "associated with" Feuerkrieg Division and as an AWD admirer, but no court document formally charged AWD membership. The FBI investigation centered on his FKD network activities.[^3]
+
+### Guilty Plea and Sentence
+
+Smith pled guilty on February 10, 2020 to two counts of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(p)(2)(A). The maximum sentence on each count was 20 years. On August 19, 2020, Judge Crabtree sentenced him to two concurrent 30-month terms in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, well below the statutory maximum. No terrorism enhancement was applied at sentencing, which accounts in part for the 30-month term. At sentencing, prosecutors described Smith as a "Satanist" and argued that his goal was to overthrow the U.S. government, drawing on Smith's broader ideological communications.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. "Army Soldier Pleads Guilty to Distributing Information About Explosives." February 10, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/army-soldier-pleads-guilty-distributing-information-about-explosives; United States v. Smith, 5:19-cr-40091-DDC (D. Kan. 2020).
+[^2]: ProPublica. "An Active-Duty Soldier Was Arrested for Allegedly Planning Terror Attacks." September 23, 2019. https://www.propublica.org/article/an-active-duty-soldier-was-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terror-attacks; CNBC. "US Army Soldier Arrested After Talking About Bombing News Network, Attacking Leftist Groups." September 23, 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/23/us-army-member-arrested-after-talking-about-bombing-news-network.html
+[^3]: ADL. "U.S. Army Specialist with Links to Neo-Nazi Group Pleads Guilty." February 2020. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/us-army-specialist-links-neo-nazi-group-pleads-guilty; ICSR. "Feuerkrieg Division: From Online Trolling to Real-World Violence." 2020. https://icsr.info/2020/01/feuerkrieg-division-from-online-trolling-to-real-world-violence/
+[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D.Kan. "Former Fort Riley Soldier Sentenced For Distributing Info on Napalm, IEDs." August 19, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/former-fort-riley-soldier-sentenced-distributing-info-napalm-ieds; Kansas City Star. "Army soldier at Fort Riley who wanted to blow up CNN, kill Democrats sentenced to prison." August 19, 2020.
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jeffrey
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NVE
+  - NihilisticViolentExtremism
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - Canada
+  - Quebec
+  - FederalCase
+  - TerroristConviction
+born: 2000
+location: "Quebec City, Quebec, Canada"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Jeffrey Roussel is a Quebec City resident charged in April 2026 under Canadian terrorism statutes for promoting 764 via Telegram, among the first prosecutions under Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation of 764."
+---
+
+[[Jeffrey Roussel]] (born approximately 2000, [[Quebec City]] area, [[Quebec]], Canada) was arrested on April 22, 2026 and charged with three counts under the terrorism provisions of the [[Criminal Code of Canada]] for operating and promoting a [[Telegram]] group that disseminated the violent ideology and content of the [[764 Network|764]] network. The arrest was conducted by the [[RCMP]]'s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET). Roussel's prosecution is among the first, and may be the first, under Canada's December 2025 formal designation of 764 as a terrorist entity.[^1]
+
+### Charges
+
+Roussel was charged under three provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada:
+- Section 83.18: Participation in the activity of a terrorist group
+- Section 83.19: Facilitating terrorist activity
+- Section 83.2: Commission of an indictable offense for a terrorist group
+
+The charges relate to his alleged operation of a Telegram group through which he published and distributed graphic, violent, and highly disturbing content with the intent to inspire and recruit others to the 764 network. His documented victims were primarily teenagers.[^1]
+
+### Canada's 764 Terrorist Designation
+
+Canada designated 764 as a terrorist entity in December 2025, making it one of the few countries to formally classify the network as such. The December 2025 designation followed a series of international enforcement actions against 764 and [[The Com]] ecosystem in 2024-2025, including the U.S. federal indictment of [[Baron Cain Martin]] in October 2025 (which included a terrorism count) and the arrests of 764 Inferno leaders [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] in April 2025.
+
+The RCMP press release explicitly cited Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation as the basis for bringing terrorism charges rather than the child exploitation and cybercrime statutes that had governed prior 764-related prosecutions in Canada. The Crown opposed bail at Roussel's initial hearing.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: RCMP. "RCMP arrests man linked to violent extremist network 764." April 2026. https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2026/04/4352326; CBC News. "Quebec man faces terrorism charges linked to 764 violent extremism group." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-man-terrorism-charges-764-violent-extremism-9.7173346
+[^2]: Globe and Mail. "Quebec man arrested in connection with 764 terror group." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-764-terror-group-recruit-arrest/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joshua
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joshua
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - O9A
+  - TemplovBlood
+  - FBI
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Satanism
+  - MartinetPress
+  - FBIInformant
+  - AryanNations
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Joshua Caleb Sutter was a paid FBI informant from 2003 through at least 2021 whose handler directed him to infiltrate Atomwaffen Division while he simultaneously operated Martinet Press, publishing O9A texts that AWD required members to read."
+born: 1981
+location: "Lexington, South Carolina"
+---
+
+[[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] (born 1981, also known under the alias Wulfran Hall) is an American neo-Nazi, Satanist, and leader of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]], who was simultaneously a paid [[FBI]] informant from 2003 to at least 2021. During that period the FBI paid him more than $140,000 for work that included infiltrating [[Atomwaffen Division]] from the inside, while Sutter used those funds in part to operate [[Martinet Press]], a publishing house he ran with his wife [[Jillian Hoy]] that produced the O9A texts subsequently distributed to AWD members and, through [[Terrorgram]] channels, into the broader accelerationist radicalization ecosystem feeding the [[764 Network|764]] network. His identity as an FBI informant was publicly confirmed in 2021 through court documents obtained and published by investigative journalist [[Ali Winston]] in the federal case against Atomwaffen Division leader [[Kaleb Cole]].[^1]
+
+### Original Criminal Case
+
+Sutter was arrested on February 12, 2003, in [[Uwchlan Township]], Pennsylvania, by the [[Philadelphia JTTF|FBI's Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force]]. Undercover agents had met him in a parking lot and sold him a Glock 40 with a destroyed serial number and a separately charged unregistered silencer. This was a joint operation that simultaneously targeted [[David Wayne Hull]], the Imperial Wizard of the [[White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]], who was arrested the same day.[^2]
+
+The original criminal case is [[United States v. Sutter (2003)]], Crim. No. 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 ([[Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]), before Judge [[Eduardo C. Robreno]]. Sutter entered a not-guilty plea on March 27, 2003, then reversed to a guilty plea on May 14, 2003. Sentencing was held in August 2003. He was released from federal prison in 2004, reportedly early as a result of his agreement to cooperate.[^3]
+
+### Early Life and Aryan Nations
+
+Sutter was born in 1981, the son of a white supremacist activist. He became involved in the Christian Identity movement and the far right at an early age. By the early 2000s he was serving as a Pennsylvania-area leader of [[Aryan Nations]], one of the most prominent neo-Nazi organizations in the United States at the time.
+
+### FBI Recruitment and Informant Work
+
+During or shortly after his 2003 arrest, Sutter agreed to become an FBI informant. He served a brief period of federal prison time in Georgia, then was released early in 2004 as a direct result of his cooperation. At trial in September 2021, Sutter testified under oath about his recruitment. His exact words, as obtained by USA TODAY from trial transcripts: "It was proposed that I could act in a deep-cover capacity. I was instructed to continue the relationships that I had in the right wing."[^4] This language confirms that the FBI did not retask him out of the far right; it explicitly directed him to maintain and deepen those relationships.
+
+His primary FBI handler was Special Agent [[Bill Moser]] of the [[FBI Columbia Field Office]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]]. Moser directed Sutter to join [[Atomwaffen Division]] and later directed his participation in AWD events including the [[2018 AWD Death Valley Hate Camp]] (February 2018) and the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] (September 2019).[^5] Rolling Stone reporting confirmed Moser as handler. No other named FBI agents associated with Sutter's informant work have been publicly confirmed.
+
+From 2003 to at least 2021, Sutter received a total of more than $140,000 from the FBI, including $78,133.20 plus an expense advance of $4,378.60 beginning February 7, 2018, a period that court documents in the Cole case noted "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole" and the broader Atomwaffen Division probe.[^1]
+
+### Prior Operations: Aryan Nations and the North Korea Front
+
+Sutter's informant history before the AWD period involved two distinct operational strands.
+
+The first was within Aryan Nations. Sutter had served as the "Minister for Islamic Liaison" for Aryan Nations, a role in which he claimed to pursue alliances with international Islamist movements. After his 2003 conviction, he was positioned to report on [[August Kreis III]], then director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction. Sutter and Kreis worked together out of Sutter's Lexington home. According to contemporaneous reporting, Sutter talked Kreis into publicly pledging support to [[al-Qaeda]], a stunt that drew FBI investigation to Kreis.[^2] Kreis was subsequently charged in 2011 with VA benefits fraud (collecting nearly $193,000 in military pension benefits he was not eligible to receive) and sentenced to six months served in [[U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina|U.S. District Court in Columbia, S.C.]][^6]
+
+The second strand was the [[Rural People's Party]] (RPP), a pro-[[North Korea|DPRK]]/[[Juche]] front group that Sutter founded and ran from his Lexington home. The RPP promoted North Korea, idolized the [[Kim dynasty]], and distributed DPRK propaganda. According to secondary reporting, the FBI purchased Sutter's family home and used it as the base for this operation, which was directed at surveilling and targeting pro-DPRK Americans.[^7] Sutter was also described as the main propagandist for the [[Songun Politics Study Group USA]], a separate DPRK-affiliated network, before later migrating to [[Hindu esotericism]] and then to O9A.[^5]
+
+### Tempel ov Blood and Martinet Press
+
+After his 2004 release, Sutter married Jillian Hoy, who served as director of Martinet Press, a publishing house specializing in occult neo-Nazi literature. Through Martinet Press, Sutter authored and published the central texts of the American O9A tradition, including:
+
+*[[Iron Gates]]* (2014, 406 pp.): A novel set seventy years after a nuclear war, depicting a gang of Satanists committing acts of extreme violence including infanticide, cannibalism, rape, sodomy, torture, and pedophilia, framed as spiritual instruction for O9A adherents. The book is available in its full text through the Internet Archive. It became required reading for Atomwaffen Division members under [[John Cameron Denton]] and was distributed through Terrorgram channels into the broader accelerationist network.[^8]
+
+*Liber 333*: An O9A text published by Martinet Press.
+
+*Bluebird*: An O9A text published by Martinet Press.
+
+Sutter used FBI informant payments to fund Martinet Press operations. The financial flow, as documented through the Cole court filings, means that the U.S. government materially subsidized the production and distribution of the O9A texts that radicalized Atomwaffen Division members and, through the subsequent distribution pipeline, contributed to the broader accelerationist ecosystem.[^1]
+
+Whether the FBI explicitly authorized founding Tempel ov Blood and operating Martinet Press has not been confirmed in any available public document. The FBI declined to comment on Sutter's publishing activities when asked by Rolling Stone.[^5]
+
+### Infiltrating Atomwaffen Division
+
+Sutter joined Atomwaffen Division in the spring of 2017, operating under the online alias "swissdiscipline." His entry into AWD came after AWD's Texas leader Denton, fascinated by Tempel ov Blood's combination of National Socialism and Satanic occultism, invited ToB members into the group. Sutter rapidly became an important figure within AWD's leadership structure, and through him, at least nine Tempel ov Blood members held key positions in the organization at the peak of this relationship.[^5]
+
+Sutter attended AWD's "Hate Camp" paramilitary training sessions in 2017 and 2018. These camps combined firearms training, physical conditioning, and ideological instruction. He organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in Las Vegas, Nevada in September 2019, AWD's national leadership gathering, using his FBI-provided funds to cover member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], the author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented in-person appearance with AWD at the Nuclear Congress, delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks.[^5]
+
+Denton made Sutter's books (*Iron Gates*, *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members. The ideological shift provoked substantial internal controversy: members who had joined AWD as National Socialists objected to the incorporation of Satanism, and several left the group. Those who remained were exposed to the O9A framework in which murder was construed as spiritual service and transgressive violence as a form of initiatory development.
+
+### The Cole Case and Public Revelation
+
+Sutter's identity as an FBI informant was first publicly established through documents obtained by journalist Ali Winston from federal court proceedings in the case against Kaleb Cole in [[United States v. Shea et al.]], 2:20-cr-00032 ([[Western District of Washington|W.D. Wash.]]), before Judge [[John C. Coughenour]]. Motion-to-suppress filings in the Cole case described a confidential informant without using Sutter's name, but the details were sufficiently specific that identification was apparent to those familiar with the AWD network.[^1]
+
+### Payment Specifics and the Cole Case Timeline
+
+The Cole defense motion, filed August 13, 2021, established the following payment structure from court-disclosed figures:
+
+- Total paid since 2003: over $140,000
+- Specific amount from February 7, 2018 onward: $78,133.20 in direct payments plus an expense advance of $4,378.60
+- The motion noted that the February 7, 2018 start date "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole" and the broader AWD probe
+
+The [[2018 AWD Death Valley Hate Camp]] took place February 2018, the same month the intensified payment period began. Photographs obtained during the investigation confirmed Sutter attended under his alias "swissdiscipline."[^9]
+
+Cole was convicted September 2021 and sentenced to 84 months in January 2022.
+
+### The Suppression Motion and Government Response
+
+Cole's defense argued that the search warrant affidavit was defective under the doctrine established in [[Franks v. Delaware]] (1978) because it failed to disclose the CI's criminal history and paid status. The motion described the CI, without naming Sutter, as: "a convicted felon and currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings." It further stated: "The CI began his long career as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer."[^10]
+
+The DOJ's response acknowledged the deficiency but contested its legal significance: "Although the defense is correct that certain potential impeachment information about the informant was not included in the affidavit, that omission is hardly fatal."[^10] Judge Coughenour sided with the government: "The FBI's longstanding relationship with the informant and the compensation it paid to him, approximately $140,000 over a sixteen-year period, does not impugn his credibility."[^11] The motion was denied without a Franks hearing.
+
+Critically, neither the government's brief nor the judge's ruling addressed whether the FBI authorized or was aware of Sutter's operation of Martinet Press during the informant period. The revelation provoked immediate controversy. Critics from the far right charged that the FBI had effectively subsidized the radicalization of AWD through Sutter's continued operation of Martinet Press. Critics from civil libertarians and researchers argued the FBI had failed to adequately supervise an informant who was simultaneously producing extremist material while being paid to gather intelligence on extremist networks. From the government's perspective, Sutter's informant work was credited as "instrumental in the prosecutions" against Atomwaffen Division members.[^1]
+
+### Downstream Prosecution: the NSO / Suzuki Case
+
+After AWD rebranded as [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO) in July 2020, Sutter's alias "swissdiscipline" continued to appear in the group's encrypted communications. In 2022, these records contributed to the prosecution of [[Aubrey Sakai Suzuki]], 21, of [[Nesbit, Mississippi]], who had posted on an NSO website about killing Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ people and "blowing up the system." Suzuki pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, in the Northern District of Mississippi, to one count of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.[^12] The Suzuki case represents a confirmed downstream prosecution in which Sutter's active informant presence inside the group generated a prosecutable lead.
+
+### FBI Authorization of Publishing Activities: What the Record Shows
+
+The public record on whether the FBI explicitly authorized Sutter's Martinet Press operations is as follows:
+
+- The court documents describe him as "currently" operating a publishing company distributing white supremacist writings, present tense, during his active informant period
+- The government's suppression brief did not contest this characterization and did not assert that the publishing activities were authorized
+- Judge Coughenour's ruling did not address the publishing activities
+- The FBI declined to comment when asked by Rolling Stone whether it knew about or approved Sutter's publishing role
+- No document in the public record shows explicit FBI authorization of Martinet Press
+- No document shows an explicit FBI prohibition on the publishing activities
+
+The gap between these two absences, no authorization and no prohibition, is the unresolved core of the legal and political accountability question. Rolling Stone cited journalist [[Jake Hanrahan]] on this point: "to not check in on the material he's publishing, which promotes murdering children and pedophilia, that's not doing your fucking job."[^5]
+
+### Congressional Oversight
+
+No congressional committee, senator, or representative has filed a formal oversight letter, held a hearing, or made any indexed floor statement specifically demanding that the FBI account for its informant relationship with Sutter or its concurrent funding of Martinet Press. The 117th Congress (2021-2022) Judiciary Committee's FBI oversight hearings do not reference Sutter, Martinet Press, or the Cole case. This absence appears to be genuine rather than a search artifact.
+
+### Post-Revelation Status
+
+Sutter was not charged with any crime connected to his Martinet Press activities following the 2021 revelation of his informant status. Rolling Stone's 2022 follow-up noted: "Joshua Sutter, the FBI informant and leading O9A proselytizer, is a free man and still selling Satanist books."[^13]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Vice. "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/; Ali Winston (journalist). August 2021. https://x.com/awinston/status/1429086087830515717
+
+[^2]: Religion News Blog / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Federal investigators infiltrate extremist groups." February 2003. https://www.religionnewsblog.com/2476/federal-investigators-infiltrate-extremist-groups
+
+[^3]: United States v. Sutter, 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 (E.D. Pa., Judge Eduardo C. Robreno). CourtListener docket 8143981. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8143981/united-states-v-sutter/
+
+[^4]: Trial testimony of Joshua Sutter, United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), September 2021. DocumentCloud document 22056395. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22056395-trial-testimony-of-joshua-sutter/ Quote also reproduced in Yahoo News / USA TODAY, September 2021.
+
+[^5]: Winston, Ali. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
+
+[^6]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi Leader August Kreis Sentenced for Fraud." December 2011. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-leader-august-kreis-sentenced-fraud/
+
+[^7]: Secondary reporting aggregated from multiple sources including TRAC Insight and archived blog reporting. No primary document confirms the FBI purchased Sutter's home; the claim appears in secondary sources but has not been confirmed in court filings.
+
+[^8]: Internet Archive. *Iron Gates* (Tempel ov Blood / Martinet Press, 2014). https://archive.org/details/tempel-ov-blood-iron-gates-text
+
+[^9]: Pahrump Valley Times. "Neo-Nazi group conducts weapons training near Death Valley." 2018. https://pvtimes.com/uncategorized/neo-nazi-group-conducts-weapons-training-near-death-valley/
+
+[^10]: Defense motion to suppress and government response, United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), August 13, 2021. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress-1
+
+[^11]: Order Denying Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Case No. CR20-0032-JCC (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021). Leagle.com: infdco20210901708.
+
+[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NDMS. "Nesbit Man Sentenced To Prison for Racist Threats." October 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/nesbit-man-sentenced-prison-racist-threats
+
+[^13]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Justin
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Justin
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+---
+category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - DOJ
+  - NationalSecurityDivision
+  - NVE
+  - TerrorismProsecutor
+  - FederalCase
+summary: "Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the lead federal prosecutor on 764 Network terrorism cases, including the first-ever terrorism charge against a 764 member in United States v. Martin."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+location: "Washington, D.C."
+---
+
+Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney assigned to the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] National Security Division's [[Counterterrorism Section]], where he has served as the lead government attorney on the [[764 Network]] prosecution portfolio, including the prosecution of [[Baron Cain Martin]] in [[United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190)|United States v. Martin]], 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), D. Ariz., the first federal case in which a 764 member was charged under a terrorism statute.
+
+### 764 Prosecution Portfolio
+
+Sher's involvement spans multiple 764 and [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism]] (NVE) federal prosecutions across districts, coordinated through the [[National Security Division]] in Washington. Alongside [[James Donnelly]], who serves as DOJ's designated NVE domestic terrorism coordinator, Sher represents the National Security Division's institutional investment in treating 764 not as a child exploitation enterprise but as a terrorist network subject to the full range of national security charging tools.
+
+In the Martin indictment, Sher advanced the theory that [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]] (conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists) is available against 764 operators without any [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] designation from the State Department, by anchoring the charge to an [[18 U.S.C. § 956|18 U.S.C. § 956(a)]] conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located outside the United States.[^1]
+
+Sher was also the attorney of record on the [[United States v. Nepal]] and [[United States v. Varagiannis]] prosecutions (D.D.C., case 1:25-cr-00304), which charged [[764 Inferno]] leaders [[Prasan Nepal]] and [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] with participating in a child exploitation enterprise and related offenses but did not include terrorism counts.[^2]
+
+### Public Statements
+
+At a panel hosted by the [[GWU Program on Extremism]] on December 18, 2025, titled "Holding 764 Accountable," Sher described 764's stated objective as "to cause the downfall of society, cause the downfall of the U.S. government," and characterized the network's ideology as a desire for "a Darwinian society, one that is survival of the fittest." He stated that the conduct documented in 764 cases was so extreme that "I don't think Stephen King is dark enough to come up with some of the stuff that these kids are coming up with."[^3]
+
+In a subsequent appearance cited by [[ABC News]], Sher and Donnelly together offered what were described as "rare public comments" for career DOJ prosecutors, characterizing 764 as a threat equal in seriousness to any the department had faced, and noting that network members are increasingly directing victims toward mass-casualty attacks including school shootings.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Baumgartner, Luke, and Barry Jonas. "How the DOJ is Prosecuting Nihilistic Violent Extremism as Domestic Terrorism." *Just Security,* December 9, 2025. https://www.justsecurity.org/126226/prosecuting-nihilistic-violent-extremism-domestic-terrorism/
+
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
+
+[^3]: ABC News. "In rare public comments, career DOJ officials offer chilling warnings about online network 764." 2026. https://abcnews.com/US/rare-public-comments-career-doj-officials-offer-chilling/story?id=128526657; GWU Program on Extremism. "Holding 764 Accountable." December 18, 2025. https://extremism.gwu.edu/holding-764-accountable
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Kristopher
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Kristopher
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Canada
+  - Ontario
+  - TerrorismCharges
+  - ActiveClub
+summary: "Kristopher Erik Nippak is an East York, Ontario Terrorgram Collective and Atomwaffen Division member arrested December 8, 2023, charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, and awaiting a judge-alone trial scheduled to begin in Toronto in January 2026."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+location: "East York, Ontario, Canada"
+---
+
+[[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] of [[East York, Ontario]] was arrested on December 8, 2023, alongside [[Matthew Althorpe]] of Thorold, Ontario, following an 18-month [[RCMP]] investigation that covered alleged offenses dating from April 2018 through the arrest date. Nippak faces one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group under the Criminal Code of Canada in connection with his creation of propaganda videos for [[Atomwaffen Division]] and manifestos for the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was granted bail (with conditions) following initial detention, in contrast to Althorpe, who was denied bail twice. A judge-alone trial in Toronto was scheduled to begin in January 2026.[^1]
+
+### RCMP Investigation and Alleged Conduct
+
+The RCMP investigation covered alleged offenses beginning in April 2018, corresponding to the early period of both AWD's international expansion and the pre-Terrorgram accelerationist Telegram ecosystem. Prosecutors presented the court with manifestos, videos, thumbnails, photos, and documents contained on hard drives seized from Althorpe's computer during the investigation, with Nippak's alleged contributions to that shared material base forming the basis of his participation charge.
+
+Specifically, Nippak was alleged to have participated in the creation of recruiting videos for Atomwaffen Division and in the creation of a series of manifestos and terrorism manuals for the Terrorgram Collective. The reference to AWD videos placed his alleged conduct in the pre-Terrorgram period (2018-2019) through the Terrorgram publication era (2021-2022).
+
+Separately from the terrorism case, investigative reporting by Vice World News exposed Nippak as a significant figure within [[Active Club Canada]], the Canadian branch of the far-right physical fitness and organizing network associated with American white nationalist Robert Rundo. Nippak traveled extensively to network with European white nationalist organizations and Active Club chapters. This public exposure preceded his arrest.
+
+### Charges, Bail Proceedings, and Trial Status
+
+The RCMP charged Nippak with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, significantly fewer charges than the eight-count indictment facing Althorpe. Nippak's bail was contested on multiple grounds. Unlike Althorpe, who was detained pending trial after two denied bail applications, Nippak was ultimately granted bail with conditions.
+
+Nippak elected to proceed by judge-alone trial rather than jury. A six-week judge-alone trial in Toronto was scheduled to begin in January 2026. As of May 2026, no verdict had been reported.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: CBC News. "Ontario men arrested on terrorism charges linked to neo-Nazi movement." December 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-terror-charges-1.7053162; Global News. "2 Ontario men accused of belonging to neo-Nazi terrorism group." December 2023. https://globalnews.ca/news/10157791/ontario-terrorism-charges/
+[^2]: Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Alleged Canadian Terrorgram Author Denied Bail On Terrorism Charges For A Second Time." https://www.antihate.ca/alleged_canadian_terrorgram_author_denied_bail_terrorism_charges_for_a_second_time; Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Alleged Terrorgram Author Will Remain In Detention While Co-Accused Granted Bail." https://www.antihate.ca/alleged_terrorgram_author_remain_detention_atomwaffen; Scribd. "Charges Against Althorpe and Nippak." https://www.scribd.com/document/690868778/Charging-documents-Kristoffer-Nippak-and-Mathew-Althorpe
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Kyle
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - TheCom
+  - HarmNation
+  - CSAM
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - AnimalCrushing
+  - FederalCase
+  - USA
+  - Tennessee
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Kyle William Spitze, alias 'Criminal,' is a Maryville, Tennessee 764/Harm Nation member who pleaded guilty in December 2024 in the Eastern District of Tennessee to CSAM production and animal crushing charges, facing 30 years to life at sentencing."
+born: 1998
+location: "Maryville, Tennessee"
+---
+
+[[Kyle Spitze|Kyle William Spitze]], known online as "Criminal" and "CRIMINALOLI," is a 26-year-old resident of [[Maryville, Tennessee]] (Blount County) who was a member of both the [[764 Network]] and its splinter group [[Harm Nation]]. He is the most publicly documented Harm Nation prosecution as of mid-2026. Spitze pleaded guilty on December 16, 2024, before U.S. District Judge [[Thomas A. Varlan]] in the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee]] (Knoxville) to federal charges of producing child pornography, distributing animal crushing videos, and possessing child sexual abuse material.[^1]
+
+### Criminal Conduct
+
+Spitze operated across [[Telegram]] and related platforms under aliases including "Criminal" and "CRIMINALOLI," using these handles within 764 and Harm Nation spaces to produce, distribute, and receive child sexual abuse material.
+
+Court documents describe two categories of conduct. In the first, Spitze shared sexual videos of young children to a Telegram channel; some of these videos included variations of his online username written in blood or carved onto the bodies of minor victims. In the second, Spitze filmed the mutilation of a chicken in a bathtub, with the animal's intestines arranged to spell out his username, and distributed this content as "animal crushing" material within the network.
+
+Spitze was also accused of enticing a minor and possessing child sexual abuse material with intent to view it.
+
+### Arrest and Charges
+
+Spitze was initially charged at the state level in Blount County. A federal superseding indictment was returned on March 2, 2024, in the Eastern District of Tennessee, charging eight counts:
+
+1. Production of child pornography (Count 1)
+2. Production of child pornography (Count 2)
+3. Production of child pornography (Count 3)
+4. Enticement of a minor (Count 4)
+5. Distribution of animal crushing videos (Count 5)
+6. Distribution of animal crushing videos (Count 6)
+7. Distribution of animal crushing videos (Count 7)
+8. Possession with intent to view child pornography (Count 8)
+
+Spitze was held in custody pending proceedings.
+
+### Guilty Plea
+
+On December 16, 2024, Spitze entered a guilty plea before Judge [[Thomas A. Varlan]] to Counts 1, 6, 7, and 8 (one production count, all three animal crushing distribution counts, and the possession count). Counts 2, 3, 4, and 5 were dropped pursuant to the plea agreement.
+
+The two production of child pornography counts carry a statutory sentencing range of 15 to 30 years each. The plea agreement subjects Spitze to a potential aggregate sentence of 30 years to life in federal prison, plus mandatory supervision restrictions.[^2]
+
+### Sentencing
+
+A sentencing hearing before Judge Varlan was scheduled for January 8, 2026, then cancelled by court order signed December 23, 2025. No new sentencing date had been publicly set as of mid-2026. The case docket is United States v. Spitze-TV1, 3:24-cr-00025 (E.D. Tenn.).
+
+### Father's Prosecution
+
+Spitze's father, [[Michael W. Spitze]], 60, of [[Maryland]], was separately charged in connection with the case. Michael Spitze contacted a 12-year-old victim of his son's crimes and sent her a message reading "Please delete anything you think might not help him. And encourage anyone else to delete in his behalf," constituting witness tampering. He pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a witness. His sentencing before the United States District Court in Knoxville was scheduled for May 20, 2026.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: WBIR. "Blount Co. man signs plea deal after being accused of violent, sexual crimes against children." December 2024. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/kyle-spitze-pleads-guilty-blount-county/51-f6ba606c-479d-4c74-aa11-bf839732a437; Ali Winston / X. March 21, 2024. https://x.com/awinston/status/1770949384538087652
+[^2]: CourtListener. "United States v. Spitze-TV1, 3:24-cr-00025, Eastern District of Tennessee." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68361688/united-states-v-spitze-tv1/; The Daily Times (Maryville, TN). "Federal judge reschedules Spitze sentencing hearing." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/federal-judge-reschedules-spitze-sentencing-hearing/article_ca8a75c8-8325-48a4-91c1-be09520f478f.html
+[^3]: WBIR. "Dad who tried to get child victim to delete evidence against his son faces May sentencing." 2026. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/dad-who-tried-to-help-blount-co-son-accused-in-online-sex-case-reaches-plea-agreement-with-feds/51-57106d7b-af46-46a8-9b71-e6f7ede631d9; The Daily Times. "Michael Spitze joins son in facing federal charges." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/michael-spitze-joins-son-in-facing-federal-charges/article_f16ca3f7-7058-4315-a7c1-22be4092a50f.html
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - SonnenkriegDivision
+  - O9A
+  - UK
+  - TerroristConviction
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Leeds
+location: "Leeds, West Yorkshire, England"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Michael Szewczuk was a 19-year-old Leeds resident who co-founded the Sonnenkrieg Division and was sentenced in June 2019 to four years and three months at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism and possessing terrorist manuals including imagery targeting Prince Harry as a 'race traitor' for execution."
+---
+
+Michael Szewczuk, 19, of Leeds, West Yorkshire, was a co-founder of [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the British neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation that emerged from the post-proscription milieu of [[National Action]] and was modelled on [[Atomwaffen Division]] with explicit [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) philosophical content incorporated into its ideology. He was sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] on 18 June 2019 by Judge [[Rebecca Poulet QC]] to four years and three months in a Young Offenders' Institute after pleading guilty to seven terrorism offences.[^1]
+
+### Offences
+
+Szewczuk operated a personal account on the [[Gab]] social media platform under a pseudonym and shared administrative control of SKD's Gab page. He pleaded guilty to:
+
+Two counts of encouraging terrorism under section 1 of the [[Terrorism Act 2006]].
+
+Five counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], including the White Resistance Manual and the Al Qaeda Manual.
+
+The Gab content Szewczuk produced and posted included an image of [[Prince Harry]], Duke of Sussex, with a gun to his head on a blood-spattered background, captioned to identify the Duke as a "race traitor" who should be shot because of his relationship with [[Meghan Markle]]. Other content glorified [[Anders Behring Breivik]], the Norwegian mass murderer responsible for the 2011 [[Utoya]] and Oslo attacks that killed 77 people, and included material calling for ethnic cleansing.[^1]
+
+### Sentencing Remarks
+
+Judge Rebecca Poulet QC, sentencing both Szewczuk and [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]] on the same day, described the content as "abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts."[^2]
+
+### Sonnenkrieg Division and O9A
+
+Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] after his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN), incorporating O9A philosophy heavily into SKD's ideological framework. Szewczuk's role was as a co-founder and Gab operator. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD under the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2019, after Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski had been charged but before their sentencing.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Washington Post. "Two British teens just convicted for promoting far-right terrorism online." June 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/18/two-british-teens-just-convicted-promoting-far-right-terrorism-online/; CNN. "Far-right teen who branded Prince Harry 'race traitor' jailed for four years." June 18, 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/uk/teenager-szewczuk-prince-harry-jailed-far-right-extremism-terrorism-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
+
+[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed neo-Nazi Satanists were a legacy of National Action." June 18, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/06/18/jailed-neo-nazi-satanists-legacy-national-action/; Yorkshire Post. "Far-right Leeds extremist jailed for 'abhorrent' post branding Prince Harry a 'race traitor'." 2019. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/far-right-leeds-extremist-jailed-for-abhorrent-post-branding-prince-harry-a-race-traitor-479920
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michele
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michele
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+---
+category: "Authors & Journalists"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Brazil
+  - Accelerationism
+  - CounterExtremism
+  - StopHateBrasil
+location: "Bahia, Brazil"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher and founder of the NGO Stop Hate Brasil who since 2022 has monitored Terrorgram Collective channels operating in Brazil, submitted reports to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice, and documented the online radicalization pipeline connected to the wave of Brazilian school attacks from 2022 onward."
+---
+
+Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher based in [[Bahia]] and the founder of [[Stop Hate Brasil]], a non-governmental organization focused on combating far-right online extremism in Brazil. She also serves on a voluntary consulting basis to Brazilian public security agencies, civil society groups, and the federal government on online extremism prevention. She has received support from the [[Social Change Initiative]] and has collaborated with Brazilian federal institutions including [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]].[^1]
+
+### Stop Hate Brasil
+
+Stop Hate Brasil (also written Stop Hate Brazil) is a Brazilian NGO founded by Prado to identify, document, and counter far-right extremist content on social media platforms, with particular focus on the radicalization of children and adolescents. By 2024, Prado had documented more than 40 violent incidents in Brazilian school settings with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. Stop Hate Brasil's research found that at least two [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels operating in Brazil had been created by adolescents, pointing to the network's exploitation of youth as both targets and participants in its infrastructure.[^2]
+
+### 2023 ABIN Report
+
+In 2023, Prado submitted a formal report to ABIN and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil. The report documented the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym, used by an as-yet-unidentified individual who posted surveillance footage from the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] to a major Terrorgram channel approximately two days after the attack and who contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," a core Terrorgram propaganda publication. The report also documented channels linked to [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]], subsequently designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) by the US government in January 2025.[^2]
+
+### Terrorgram Monitoring
+
+Prado documented that [[Terrorgram Collective]] had been operating in Brazil since approximately 2021 or 2022. Her analysis identified the network's use of mainstream platforms including gaming environments such as [[Roblox]], [[Fortnite]], and [[Minecraft]] as entry points for recruitment, with extremist content introduced via YouTube algorithmic recommendations adjacent to gaming content. She noted the network's "ironic" use of Nazi and fascist memes as a normalization strategy targeting youth audiences. This methodology was subsequently corroborated by the Lancet Regional Health (Americas) analysis published in March 2024 and by GNET's November 2024 assessment of the Brazilian accelerationist landscape.[^2][^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Social Change Initiative. "Michele Prado." https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/michele-prado
+
+[^2]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/; Raw Story. "'The Hard Reset': Here's how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
+
+[^3]: The Lancet Regional Health (Americas). "The rise of school shootings and other related attacks in Brazil," March 27, 2024. PIIS2667-193X(24)00051-6. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(24)00051-6/fulltext
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Natalie
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Natalie
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NVE
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - TrueCrimeCommunity
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - Wisconsin
+  - USA
+  - MassShooter
+born: 2009-11-07
+location: "Madison, Wisconsin"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Natalie Rupnow was a 15-year-old Madison, Wisconsin student who killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in December 2024 before dying by suicide, having radicalized through WatchPeopleDie, 764-affiliated, and Terrorgram-adjacent content."
+---
+
+[[Natalie Lynn Rupnow]] (also called "Samantha" in some accounts; born November 7, 2009, [[Madison, Wisconsin]]) attacked Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on December 16, 2024, killing substitute teacher [[Erin M. West]] (42) and fellow student [[Rubi P. Vergara]] (14) and wounding six others before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot while being transported to hospital. She was 15 years old. Investigators recovered a manifesto titled "War Against Humanity" from her home describing humanity as "filth" and expressing admiration for past mass shooters. The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) documented that her radicalization pathway ran from the WatchPeopleDie gore website through 764-affiliated and [[Terrorgram Collective]]-adjacent content. She had joined the [[Telegram]] group that [[Arda Küçükyetim]] created to livestream his August 2024 Eskisehir mosque stabbing. Her account on the WatchPeopleDie website traced to June 2023, the same month that Nashville's [[2025 Antioch High School Shooting|Antioch High School]] shooter [[Solomon Henderson]] created his own account on the same platform; the two had followed each other on [[X (Twitter)|X]].[^1]
+
+### Radicalization Pathway
+
+Investigators and ISD researchers documented that Rupnow held 16 social media accounts, nearly all containing references to past mass shooters. The ISD classified her primarily as a [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism|nihilistic violent extremist]] motivated by participation in the True Crime Community (TCC) fandom and the SAVF (Soyjak Attacker Video Fandom) subculture, both of which treat mass killers as cultural figures for consumption and glorification.
+
+Her documented extremist network engagements included the WatchPeopleDie gore website (joined June 2023), 764-affiliated content, and a Telegram group connected to Küçükyetim's August 2024 Eskisehir attack livestream, which was itself affiliated with Terrorgram Collective. The ADL documented that her radicalization pathway ran from WatchPeopleDie through white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic online spaces.
+
+The shared June 2023 WatchPeopleDie registration dates and mutual follow between Rupnow and [[Solomon Henderson]] placed both individuals in the same online milieu approximately 18 months before their respective attacks. PBS Wisconsin reported that their online presence overlapped in at least the WatchPeopleDie and X contexts. Nashville Metropolitan Police Department's January 2026 investigation into Henderson found no evidence of co-conspirators or direct coordination between them.[^2]
+
+### Attack and Weapons
+
+The attack occurred in a mixed-grade study hall at Abundant Life Christian School during school hours on December 16, 2024. Rupnow used firearms owned by her father, [[Jeffrey Rupnow]] (43), who kept them in a safe but had shared the combination with her. The day before the attack, he removed a Sig Sauer pistol from the safe and asked her to clean it. Six students and one teacher sustained additional wounds beyond the two who were killed.
+
+Two students were hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Rupnow died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to hospital.
+
+### Legal Outcomes
+
+Because Rupnow died at the scene, she faced no criminal proceedings. In May 2025, Dane County prosecutors charged her father Jeffrey Rupnow on two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A Dane County Court Commissioner ordered him to stand trial on July 24, 2025. The charges carry a combined maximum of 18 years in prison.
+
+Rupnow's mother died of an apparent suicide following the shooting.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ISD. "Terror without ideology: The rise of nihilistic violence." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/terror-without-ideology-the-rise-of-nihilistic-violence-an-isd-investigation/; ADL. "From Gore to Hate: How WatchPeopleDie Serves as a Gateway to Extremism." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/gore-hate-how-watchpeopledie-serves-gateway-extremism
+[^2]: PBS Wisconsin. "Madison and Nashville school shooters appear to have crossed paths in online extremist communities." https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/madison-and-nashville-school-shooters-appear-to-have-crossed-paths-in-online-extremist-communities/; Raw Story. "Horrifying website revealed as gateway that linked school shooters." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/watchpeopledie-teen-school-shooters-both-used-gateway-gore-site-new-report-warns/
+[^3]: PBS Wisconsin. "Judge orders Abundant Life shooter's father to stand trial." https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/judge-orders-abundant-life-shooters-father-to-stand-trial/; WPR. "Mother of Abundant Life shooter dies of apparent suicide." https://www.wpr.org/news/mother-abundant-life-christian-school-shooter-apparent-suicide
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Prasan
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Prasan
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - 764Inferno
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - NVE
+  - FederalCase
+  - NorthCarolina
+  - USA
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses."
+born: 2005
+location: "High Point, North Carolina"
+---
+
+[[Prasan Nepal]], known online as "Trippy," (born approximately 2005, [[High Point, North Carolina]]) co-led [[764 Inferno]] alongside [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] ("War"), directing the subgroup's child exploitation enterprise against minor victims across multiple jurisdictions. Nepal was arrested in High Point on April 22, 2025, eight days before the [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] announced charges against both defendants on April 30, 2025 in the [[District of Columbia]]. The charges include production and distribution of [[CSAM]], coercion and enticement of minors, extortion, and conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise. He faces a potential life sentence in federal prison. He was also named as a co-conspirator in the October 2025 federal indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in the District of Arizona.[^1]
+
+### 764 Inferno Operations
+
+Nepal and Varagiannis co-led 764 Inferno's operations using [[The Com]] ecosystem's coercive methods: grooming vulnerable young people through encrypted applications, coercing victims into producing explicit and degrading material through psychological manipulation and threats, ordering self-harm documentation ("cut signs" and "blood signs" - photographs of victims cutting symbols into their own skin), and building "Lorebooks" - curated collections of victim abuse content that functioned as internal currency and status markers within the [[764 Network]]. DOJ documents confirmed at least 8 minor victims, some as young as 13, across multiple jurisdictions.
+
+As a U.S. resident arrested in North Carolina, Nepal faces direct federal prosecution in the District of Columbia with no extradition complications, in contrast to Varagiannis, who was contesting extradition from Greece before the Greek Court of Appeals as of mid-2025.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise; Carolina Journal. "High Point man charged with operating international child exploitation network." April 2025. https://www.carolinajournal.com/high-point-man-charged-with-operating-international-child-exploitation-network/
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rinaldo
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rinaldo
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - TheBase
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Paramilitary
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Russia
+  - USA
+  - DefenseContractor
+  - GovernmentEmployment
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+born: 1973
+location: "St. Petersburg, Russia"
+summary: "Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation."
+---
+
+[[Rinaldo Nazzaro]], operating under the alias "Norman Spear," is a New Jersey-born American who worked in U.S. government intelligence and national security roles before founding [[The Base]] in 2018. He built the network as a clandestine paramilitary organization explicitly modeled on jihadist cell structures, using encrypted platforms to recruit, vet, and organize members across the United States and internationally, while directing operations from [[St. Petersburg, Russia]]. His identity remained publicly unknown until January 2020, when The Guardian published an investigation identifying him as Nazzaro following the FBI's first wave of arrests of Base members. He has not been publicly charged in the United States as of 2026.[^1]
+
+### Biographical Background
+
+Nazzaro was born in 1973 or 1974 and raised in [[New Jersey]]. He attended [[Delbarton School]], a Catholic preparatory school in Morristown, NJ, graduating in 1991. He enrolled at [[Villanova University]] as a philosophy major in 1991 and withdrew before graduating in 1994, using the name Ronald Nazzaro in university records. In 1999, he completed an internship at the [[National Defense Council Foundation]], a Washington, D.C., defense policy organization. He held an address in North Bergen, NJ, and later a New York City address associated with his contracting firm. In 2012 he married a Russian national. He relocated to Russia with his family in 2017 or 2018 and obtained Russian citizenship in approximately 2017.[^18]
+
+### National Security Background
+
+The [[Department of Homeland Security]] confirmed that Nazzaro worked within DHS Intelligence Analysis from 2004 to 2006, coordinating anti-terrorism initiatives. A departmental letter on record thanks him for his "personal work" on DHS Intelligence Analysis operations. The [[U.S. Marine Corps]] issued a letter recognizing his work as an intelligence professional, crediting him with "impressive understanding of the insurgency in [[Afghanistan]]" and responsibility for thirteen enemy casualties.
+
+Nazzaro also claimed, in encrypted communications later obtained by investigators, that he completed "multiple tours in [[Iraq]] and Afghanistan over five years" as a private contractor, working at [[Victory Base Complex]] near [[Baghdad]] Airport and [[Camp Speicher]] in northern Iraq, and that he served as "a targeteer" who "did target packages" and "supported deliberate clearing ops." He described himself as having briefed special forces officers on military targeting and counterterrorism in 2014 in connection with [[Special Operations Command]] (SOCOM). The Pentagon declined to confirm the SOCOM claim when queried.[^3]
+
+Before moving to Russia, Nazzaro registered a company in [[New York]] called [[Omega Solutions International]], described in its own marketing as offering access to "a network of security professionals" with expertise in intelligence, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations; the company was cleared by the federal government for defense contracting. After responses to The Guardian's investigation, Nazzaro stated: "I can neither confirm nor deny my work experience."[^3]
+
+### Omega Solutions International: Corporate Record
+
+Nazzaro operated a New York limited liability company called [[Omega Solutions International]] LLC, doing business as OSI Division, from at least 2009. The company was registered in [[New York]] and holds state entity number 3860294 in the NY Department of State database. OSI obtained federal [[Commercial and Government Entity]] (CAGE) code 61PL9 on June 24, 2010, and maintained a [[System for Award Management]] (SAM) vendor profile under [[DUNS]] number 962794702. The company's address was 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite N230, New York, NY 10001. Nazzaro registered OSI as a foreign entity in the [[District of Columbia]] as well.
+
+OSI marketed a proprietary software product called [[WATCHTOWER]], described in its [[USPTO]] trademark filing (serial number 86974351, registration number 5370774) as "downloadable cloud-based and client-based server software for providing unified operational intelligence awareness to command centers and intelligence analysts via automated information sharing and data processing." OSI's first use of the WATCHTOWER mark in commerce was December 1, 2008. The CAGE code expired February 15, 2022 and was not renewed.
+
+No prime contract awards appear in public contracting databases for OSI or DUNS 962794702. A series of six FOIA requests filed by journalist Jason Wilson in January 2020 to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[Defense Contract Management Agency]], [[Department of Defense]], [[Department of Justice]] National Security Division, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], and [[State Department]] returned no responsive contract documents from any agency. [[Special Operations Command]] (SOCOM) public affairs officer [[Ken McGraw]] specifically stated SOCOM could find no record of a contractor named Nazzaro briefing special forces leaders in 2014 and confirmed SOCOM held no contracts with Omega Solutions. The absence of DCMA and SOCOM prime contracts does not rule out subcontract arrangements routed through prime contractors, which are not indexed in public databases.[^2]
+
+### DHS Intelligence Analysis Employment
+
+The [[Department of Homeland Security]] confirmed, through an unnamed spokesperson, that "Rinaldo Nazzaro worked at DHS from 2004 to 2006." Nazzaro posted a letter he attributed to DHS that referenced his work in "DHS/Intelligence Analysis," language consistent with the [[Office of Intelligence and Analysis]] (I&A), the DHS component responsible for terrorism-related intelligence analysis and information sharing. DHS would not authenticate the letter he displayed. No FOIA-released DHS personnel file or position description has appeared in open sources. No specific job title has been publicly disclosed by DHS, and no congressional oversight record confirms the specific component or clearance level associated with his employment there.[^19]
+
+The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis was formalized following the Second Stage Review reorganization of DHS in July 2005; Nazzaro's employment (2004-2006) spans the period of the office's initial standup and early operations under the [[Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004]]. Congressional oversight of I&A during this period was active but focused on information-sharing architecture and coordination with the [[National Counterterrorism Center]] rather than individual personnel.[^20]
+
+### SOCOM Contractor Claims
+
+In encrypted communications later obtained by investigators and reviewed by journalists, Nazzaro described himself as completing "multiple tours in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]] over five years" as a private contractor, working at [[Victory Base Complex]] near [[Baghdad]] Airport and [[Camp Speicher]] in northern Iraq, serving as "a targeteer" who "did target packages" and "supported deliberate clearing ops," and briefing special forces officers on military targeting and counterterrorism in 2014. The [[Pentagon]], when queried, responded only that it could not comment on ongoing investigations. SOCOM's Ken McGraw provided the more specific denial noted above.[^5]
+
+A [[U.S. Marine Corps]] letter Nazzaro displayed credited him as an "intelligence professional" with "impressive understanding of the insurgency in [[Afghanistan]]" and attributed responsibility for thirteen enemy casualties to his work. DHS confirmed employment; the Marine Corps letter's authenticity was not independently verified by press outlets.
+
+### The Base and Operational Direction
+
+Nazzaro designed The Base to function as a disciplined vetting-based organization rather than a loose ideological movement. Prospective members contacted the network through encrypted channels and underwent vetting interviews, in which Nazzaro or senior members assessed ideological commitment and willingness to commit violence. Members who passed were expected to attend in-person training events, described in FBI documents as "hate camps", where they practiced firearms handling and survival techniques.
+
+Nazzaro operated under the alias "Norman Spear" and directed recruitment through The Base's encrypted channels. He communicated directly with members across the United States about both organizational matters and operational planning, including discussions of targeting and violence. His direction from Russia (and the explicit framing of The Base as preparing for an inevitable race war) made the network unusual among American white supremacist organizations in its combination of disciplined tradecraft and remote international leadership.[^2]
+
+### Identity Exposure and Legal Status
+
+In January 2020, as the FBI executed simultaneous arrests of Base members in Georgia, Maryland, and other states, The Guardian published an investigation confirming that "Norman Spear" was Rinaldo Nazzaro - an American with a background in U.S. government national security contracting then residing in St. Petersburg. Nazzaro publicly confirmed portions of his identity following the exposure.
+
+His residence in Russia has complicated potential U.S. prosecution. No extradition request or indictment has been made public as of 2026. Counterterrorism researchers have noted the parallel between his operation of a U.S.-targeted extremist network from Russia and the structural patterns of Russian-origin influence operations, though no direct state connection has been publicly established.[^1]
+
+### Legal Status and Why No Charges
+
+As of 2026, Nazzaro has not been publicly indicted or charged in the United States despite directing a U.S.-targeted white supremacist paramilitary network from Russia for eight years.
+
+FBI: Supervisory Special Agent [[Christopher Tarrant]] of the FBI's [[Detroit]] domestic terrorism unit confirmed in 2022 that the bureau had an open investigation into Nazzaro. A State Department source told VICE News in 2021 that Nazzaro was a [[Department of Justice]] "matter," suggesting a live DOJ criminal referral or grand jury proceeding. Nazzaro told journalists he was "not surprised" the FBI was investigating him and denied wrongdoing.[^6]
+
+Structural constraint on designation: The Base, as a U.S.-founded and largely U.S.-based organization, cannot be designated as a [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B because that statute applies only to groups designated by the Secretary of State as foreign organizations. The [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) [[Specially Designated Nationals]] list likewise has no entry for Nazzaro or The Base. This means that, unlike al-Qaeda or ISIS financiers who can be sanctioned regardless of location, Nazzaro cannot be sanctioned through the standard foreign terrorism financial tools available to Treasury. No domestic terrorism statute in U.S. law creates a stand-alone charge for leading a domestic terrorist organization: federal charges against Base members were brought under existing statutes (firearms, civil rights, illegal alien transport) rather than any terrorism-specific charge.[^7]
+
+Extradition: No U.S.-Russia extradition treaty exists. Russia has provided sanctuary to Nazzaro since at least 2018. He confirmed residency in St. Petersburg on multiple occasions. No Red Notice (Interpol arrest warrant request) for Nazzaro appears in publicly accessible records.
+
+Allied designations: [[Canada]] listed The Base as a terrorist entity under Order in Council P.C. 2021-31 (February 2, 2021), published in the Canada Gazette Part 2, Vol. 155, No. 2, alongside [[Atomwaffen Division]], the [[Proud Boys]], and the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]. [[United Kingdom]] proscribed The Base under The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021 (SI 2021 No. 1318), debated in the House of Lords on July 15, 2021. [[Australia]] announced The Base's designation as a terrorist organization on November 24, 2021, the country's second far-right designation after [[Sonnenkrieg Division]]. [[New Zealand]] designated The Base in June 2022. The [[European Union]] designated The Base under Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055 and Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056 on July 26, 2024 (the EU's first ever far-right terrorist designation), under its CP 931 sanctions framework. The United States has made no equivalent designation.[^8]
+
+### Russia Connection: Assessments
+
+Nazzaro appeared on Kremlin-controlled [[Rossiya-24]] state television on October 31, 2020, in a segment of nearly thirty minutes aired as part of Russian election coverage, in which he denied any contact with Russian security services and described himself as a "family man." His appearance on state television is itself treated by analysts as significant given that Russian state media access implies at minimum tolerance from Russian authorities.[^9]
+
+Nazzaro obtained Russian citizenship in approximately 2017, before founding The Base. Russian citizenship requires vetting by the [[Federal Security Service of Russia]] (FSB). Former Base members circulating testimonies in 2025 alleged that Nazzaro was observed texting in fluent Russian, inconsistent with the limited Russian proficiency one would expect of someone who had relocated recently. Analysts [[Colin Clarke]] of the [[Soufan Center]] and [[Steven Rai]] of the [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) both assessed, without claiming definitive proof, that The Base's shift to Russian-owned platforms ([[VKontakte]] and [[Mail.ru]], the latter linked to [[Yuri Kovalchuk]], a Putin-aligned oligarch), combined with an apparent bot-driven follower campaign and Nazzaro's Russian citizenship and sanctuary, raises strong suspicion of state support.[^10]
+
+The [[Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center]] (MCAC), a [[Department of Homeland Security]]-affiliated state fusion center, published an advisory in April 2025 describing Nazzaro as having "for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset" and noting that FBI resource reallocation away from domestic terrorism had contributed to the group's resurgence.[^11]
+
+No U.S. government agency has publicly released an assessment definitively attributing The Base to Russian state direction. The structural parallel, an American operating a U.S.-targeted violent network from Russia, using Russian infrastructure, holding Russian citizenship, appearing on state television, and offering cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that align with Russian military objectives, has been noted repeatedly by analysts but has not resulted in a public intelligence community judgment as of 2026.
+
+### 2025-2026 Operational Activities
+
+In approximately March 2025, The Base's Ukrainian cell, operating as [[White Phoenix]], began posting videos showing members spray-painting The Base symbol in [[Kyiv]], [[Odesa]], [[Mykolaiv]], and [[Kharkiv]]. In April 2025, Nazzaro posted offers via Telegram of cash payments to volunteers for attacks on Ukrainian power stations, military and police vehicles, government buildings, and officials. This was described by analysts as the first time The Base had openly aligned itself with Russian geopolitical objectives.[^12]
+
+On July 10, 2025, White Phoenix claimed responsibility for the targeted killing of [[SBU]] Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. Voronych was shot multiple times with a silenced pistol and died at the scene; he was the highest-ranking SBU officer killed in a targeted assassination in Kyiv since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The SBU subsequently announced it had killed two alleged Russian operatives, a man and a woman, who it said were directed by Russia's FSB to surveil Voronych and had been directed to a weapons cache. Whether White Phoenix's claim was credible attribution or a false-flag claim remains contested; counterterrorism sources told the Kyiv Independent they considered the claim credible, but the SBU did not confirm The Base's involvement.[^13]
+
+In February 2026, The Base's Ukrainian branch claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Odesa, stating the target was a border service officer assisting Russia. Law enforcement attribution was not confirmed.
+
+On November 25, 2025, the [[Spanish National Police]] General Commissariat of Information, supported by [[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]], arrested three suspected Base members in Madrid and Valencia during a three-day operation that included five house searches and seizures of firearms, bladed weapons, ammunition, military tactical gear, and neo-Nazi propaganda. Investigators stated the suspects were in contact with Nazzaro, who had urged "consolidation of international cells and selective attacks to destabilize Western democracies."[^14]
+
+In the Netherlands, three individuals (ages 16, 18, and 26 at time of arrest, from Westerhoven, Veenendaal, and Hengelo) were arrested August 20, 2024, on charges of incitement to terrorism and membership in The Base. The Dutch [[Openbaar Ministerie]] (OM) announced prosecution demands on March 3, 2025, seeking conditional prison sentences and community service. In Italy, two individuals were arrested in September 2024 on charges of Base membership, inciting violence, and extorting minors for [[child sexual abuse material]].[^15]
+
+### Congressional Record
+
+The House Subcommittee on Military Personnel (Committee on Armed Services) held a hearing titled "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" on February 11, 2020 (116th Congress, CHRG-116hhrg42962). Subcommittee Chairwoman [[Jackie Speier]] (D-CA) cited The Base in her opening remarks, describing it as seeking to "use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States." Witnesses included [[Heidi Beirich]] of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] and [[Mark Pitcavage]] of the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Nazzaro was not named by name in the publicly available transcript; the hearing focused on military recruitment by white supremacist groups generally rather than on The Base's leadership's government background.[^16]
+
+### Property: Base Global LLC
+
+Nazzaro used a Delaware-registered limited liability company, [[Base Global LLC]], to purchase three 10-acre parcels of undeveloped land in [[Ferry County]], [[Washington state]] for $33,000 in December 2018. The parcels are located less than three miles north of Republic, WA, and two abut [[Washington Department of Natural Resources]] land. Deeds of sale listed a New Jersey post office as the company's address; separate tax affidavits provided the address of a New Jersey apartment belonging to a member of the Nazzaro family since 1988. No confirmed use of the land for Base training was documented; it was intended as a training camp site.[^17]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: The Guardian. "Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group." January 23, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/revealed-the-true-identity-of-the-leader-of-an-american-neo-nazi-terror-group
+[^2]: BBC News. "The Base: Inside a neo-Nazi terror group." January 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51281532; NATO CAGE Program, 61PL9 record. https://cage.report/NCAGE/61PL9; MuckRock FOIA multi-request, Jason Wilson, January 30, 2020. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/multirequest/omega-solutions-international-llcrinaldo-nazzaro-contracts-80373/; Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/
+[^3]: VICE News. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/; Truthout. "Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Previously Worked for Department of Homeland Security." https://truthout.org/articles/leader-of-neo-nazi-group-previously-worked-for-department-of-homeland-security/
+[^4]: Congressional Research Service, "The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise: Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress," R40602. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40602.html
+[^5]: Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/
+[^6]: Wilson, Jason. "He Founded an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group. But Will Rinaldo Nazzaro Ever Face US Justice?" *VICE News*, October 2022. https://www.vice.com/en/article/american-terror-rinaldo-nazzaro/
+[^7]: Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Combat white supremacist violence using sanctions," May 30, 2022. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/05/30/combat-white-supremacist-violence-sanctions/; Valensglobal, "America Drops the Ball on White Supremacist Terrorist Groups." https://valensglobal.com/america-drops-the-ball-on-white-supremacist-terrorist-groups/
+[^8]: Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 155, No. 2, "Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities," SOR/2021-8, February 3, 2021. https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2021/2021-02-03-x2/html/sor-dors8-eng.html; Hansard, House of Lords, "Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021," July 15, 2021. https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-07-15/debates/69D5AEF9-060F-4315-B0E5-FE694C2EDF9B/TerrorismAct2000(ProscribedOrganisations)(Amendment)(No2)Order2021; Council of the EU, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055, July 26, 2024. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/07/26/sanctions-against-terrorism-council-renews-the-eu-terrorist-list-and-designates-a-new-entity/
+[^9]: MEMRI, "White Supremacist Leader Rinaldo Nazzaro On Russian TV: Hitler Was The Result Of Past Circumstances." October 31, 2020. https://www.memri.org/tv/white-supremacist-leader-base-rinaldo-nazzaro-nationalism-solution-liberal-globalism; Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader on Russian TV: 'I'm a Family Man.'" *VICE News*, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/rinaldo-nazzaro-neo-nazi-terror-leader-on-russian-tv-im-a-family-man/
+[^10]: The Guardian, "Neo-Nazi Base cell members accuse leader of being a Kremlin spy," April 26, 2025. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-851559; The Soufan Center, "Russia's Links to Neo-Nazi Terrorist Groups Demonstrates its Hybrid Warfare Toolkit," May 8, 2025. https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2025-may-8/
+[^11]: Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), "US Neo-Nazi Group with Russia-Based Leader Calls for Targeted Ukraine Attacks," April 2025. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2025/04/us-neo-nazi-group-with-russia-based-leader-calls-for-targeted-ukraine-attacks/
+[^12]: Euromaidanpress, "US neo-Nazi leader based in Russia offers payment for attacks on Ukrainian officials," June 4, 2025. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/06/us-neo-nazi-leader-based-in-russia-offers-payment-for-attacks-on-ukrainian-officials/
+[^13]: Kyiv Independent, "US-founded extremist group claims killing of SBU Colonel in Kyiv," July 2025. https://kyivindependent.com/us-founded-extremist-group-claims-killing-of-sbu-colonel-in-kyiv/; CBS News, "Ukrainian spy agency officer shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-spy-agency-officer-killed-kyiv-reports-ivan-voronych/
+[^14]: OCCRP, "Spain, With Europol Support, Disrupts Far-Right Terrorist Group 'The Base,'" November 25, 2025. https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-with-europol-support-disrupts-far-right-terrorist-group-the-base
+[^15]: Openbaar Ministerie (Netherlands), "OM eist voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraffen en werkstraffen voor aanzetten terrorisme en deelname aan The Base," March 3, 2025. https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/03/03/om-eist-voorwaardelijke-gevangenisstraffen-en-werkstraffen-voor-aanzetten-terrorisme-en-deelname-aan-the-base; Counter Extremism Project, "EU Arrests Members of Newly-Designated Terrorist Group The Base." https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/counterpoint-brief-eu-arrests-members-newly-designated-terrorist-group-base
+[^16]: U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee on Military Personnel, "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" February 11, 2020. CHRG-116hhrg42962. https://www.congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-116hhrg42962/CHRG-116hhrg42962.pdf
+[^17]: The Spokesman-Review, "Report: Leader of neo-Nazi terrorist group owns land in Ferry County," January 23, 2020. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-of-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-owns-lan/
+[^18]: Gambino, Lauren, and Stephanie Kirchgaessner. "Extremist neo-Nazi leader is a former Villanova student, N.J. resident, reports say." *Philadelphia Inquirer*, January 24, 2020. https://www.inquirer.com/news/the-base-neo-nazi-rinaldo-nazzaro-villanova-delbarton-white-supremacist-20200124.html; Counter Extremism Project, "Rinaldo Nazzaro." https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/rinaldo-nazzaro
+[^19]: Wilson, Jason. "Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work For It." *VICE News*, February 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/department-of-homeland-security-confirms-neo-nazi-leader-used-to-work-for-it/
+[^20]: Congressional Research Service, "The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise: Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress," R40602. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40602.html
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rohan
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - CVLT
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - CSAM
+  - NetworkFounder
+  - France
+  - India
+  - FederalCase
+  - OrderOfNineAngles
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Rohan Rane is an Indian national who as a 23-year-old business school student in Antibes, France founded CVLT in 2019, the Discord-based child exploitation network that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently replicated by 764."
+born: 1996
+location: "Antibes, France"
+---
+
+[[Rohan Rane]] (full legal name Rohan Sandeep Rane, born 1996) is an Indian national who, while attending a top business school in [[Antibes, France]], founded [[CVLT]] in 2019 at approximately 23 years of age. CVLT was the Discord-based child exploitation network that developed the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently transmitted to the [[764 Network|764]] network through a single encounter in a [[Minecraft]] server between a CVLT member and 764 founder [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]]. Rane was arrested in France on April 6, 2021, and in February 2025 was charged by U.S. prosecutors in [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)|United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040]] (C.D. Cal.), with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise. As of May 2026 he remains in French custody pending extradition to the United States.[^1]
+
+### CVLT and Its Methods
+
+Rane founded CVLT in 2019 as a community initially numbering a few hundred members, centered on [[Discord]]. CVLT espoused neo-Nazism, nihilism, and pedophilia as its core principles. Rane recruited underage girls from around the world into the community through social engineering, obtained compromising sexual photographs and videos from them, and used that material as leverage to compel victims into escalating acts of self-harm up to and including suicidal behavior. The acts were recorded on webcam and broadcast live within the CVLT server. DOJ press releases document specific coercion acts: compelling victims to cut themselves, drink their own urine, punch themselves, use racial slurs against themselves, carve CVLT members' names into their skin with razor blades, and at the terminal extreme, kill themselves on a live video stream.[^2]
+
+CVLT operated from at least 2019 to 2022. The network targeted particularly vulnerable girls, including those with mental health histories or prior abuse, and exposed them first to extremist and violent content before beginning direct coercion. The core mechanism CVLT established, which 764 replicated, was the use of initially consensual intimate imagery as a blackmail lever to compel victims into acts they would not otherwise perform, with coercion escalating until victims escaped or were pushed to self-harm or death.[^2]
+
+### French Investigation and Arrest
+
+An [[FBI]] agent investigating a 15-year-old American girl who had attempted suicide under coercion in spring 2020 passed findings to French authorities. The [[OCRVP]] (Office Central pour la Répression des Violences aux Personnes, a French national police unit) initiated a judicial investigation on October 6, 2020. Rane was arrested on April 6, 2021. In France he was charged with "acts of torture and barbarity," "corruption of minors in an organized gang," and "extortion in an organized gang," and has been held in [[French custody]] since 2022, reportedly in solitary confinement while awaiting trial.[^3]
+
+### United States Federal Case
+
+A federal grand jury in the [[Central District of California]] returned an indictment on January 17, 2025 in United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040, charging Rane alongside [[Kaleb Merritt]], [[Clint Borge]], and [[Collin Walker]] with one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. The indictment was unsealed approximately February 4-5, 2025. The statute requires proof of underlying felony violations against children, a pattern of three or more separate incidents, more than one victim, and commission of the offenses in concert with three or more other persons. The four named defendants and two unnamed minor co-conspirators (one also described as a victim) together constituted the enterprise.[^4]
+
+The enterprise charged covered conduct from at least 2019 to 2022. Rane, Walker, and Merritt were charged as leaders and administrators who hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership. The indictment alleged at least 16 minor victims worldwide, with at least two in Southern California.[^4]
+
+As of May 2026, Rane has not entered a U.S. plea. His extradition from France is pending. The sentence exposure upon conviction is a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Four Members of Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Minors Charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse; United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040 (C.D. Cal.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69613728/united-states-v-rane/
+[^2]: Rolling Stone. "Violent Online Group CVLT Coerced Kids to Self-Harm, DOJ Says." February 2025. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/violent-online-group-cvlt-indicted-1235258786/; HSI press release, February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo
+[^3]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn; CBS News. "International investigation targets online group leaders accused of child sex abuse and torture." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/online-group-leaders-cvlt-the-com-arrests-investigation/
+[^4]: HSI press release, February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo; DOJ OPA press release, February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse
--- a/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Skyler
+++ b/PEOPLE/(N-S)/Skyler
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NationalAlliance
+  - FederalCase
+  - Tennessee
+  - USA
+  - InfrastructureSabotage
+  - WeaponOfMassDestruction
+summary: "Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 against a Nashville-area electrical substation."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+born: 2001
+location: "Columbia, Tennessee"
+---
+
+[[Skyler Philippi]] (born approximately 2001, [[Columbia, Tennessee]]) pleaded guilty on September 9, 2025, to two counts in the [[Middle District of Tennessee]]: attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction under 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, and attempting to destroy an energy facility. His plot involved attaching what he believed to be C-4 plastic explosive to a drone and flying it into a Nashville-area electrical substation. FBI undercover employees and confidential human sources disrupted the plot during its November 2024 operational phase, arresting Philippi on-site as he prepared to attach the explosive device to the drone. Sentencing was scheduled for January 8, 2026, with a maximum penalty of life in prison.[^1]
+
+### Prior Extremist Affiliations
+
+In August 2024, Philippi told an undercover employee that he had written a "manifesto" outlining his desire to attack "high tax cities or industrial areas" and disclosed prior affiliation with [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the [[National Alliance]]. The National Alliance, founded by [[William Luther Pierce]] and the original publisher of *[[The Turner Diaries]]*, had undergone multiple leadership transitions after Pierce's 2002 death; its surviving membership in the early 2020s overlapped significantly with Terrorgram-adjacent online communities. Philippi's path from AWD-adjacent ideology to Terrorgram-era infrastructure targeting mirrored that of other defendants in the [[Terrorgram Collective]] network, though his case was charged separately, not within the [[United States v. Humber]] prosecution.
+
+### Planning and Operational Conduct
+
+In June 2024, Philippi communicated to a confidential human source (CHS) that he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a [[YMCA]] facility near Columbia, Tennessee. He subsequently shifted his focus to infrastructure attack, researching previous attacks on electrical substations and concluding that firearms-only attacks were insufficient. He planned instead to use a drone with explosives capable of causing damage sufficient to knock out power to thousands of homes and critical facilities including hospitals.
+
+Philippi researched self-built drone construction to reduce detection risk and identified TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide) and C-4 as preferred explosive materials. In November 2024, in a staged operation, Philippi and undercover FBI employees drove to his intended Nashville launch site; he was arrested as he prepared to attach a device he believed to contain 3 pounds of C-4 explosive to the drone.
+
+The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney [[Josh Kurtzman]] of the Middle District of Tennessee and Trial Attorneys [[Justin Sher]] and [[James Donnelly]] of the [[National Security Division]]'s Counterterrorism Section.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Attempting to Destroy an Energy Facility in Nashville." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-attempting-destroy-energy; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-MDTN. "Columbia Man Pleads Guilty." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/columbia-man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-destroy-energy
+[^2]: CNN. "Skyler Philippi pleads guilty to charges that he meant to blow up a Nashville power site with a bomb-laden drone." September 9, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/us/nashville-power-substation-bomb-plot-plea; ABC News. "Man pleads guilty to neo-Nazi-inspired plot to bomb Nashville energy facility: DOJ." September 9, 2025. https://abcnews.com/US/man-pleads-guilty-neo-nazi-inspired-plot-bomb/story?id=125401895
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+---
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Military
+  - Charlottesville
+  - USA
+  - CourtMartial
+born: 1996
+location: "Camp Lejeune, North Carolina"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Vasillios George Pistolis was a U.S. Marine Lance Corporal and Atomwaffen Division member who participated in the 2017 Charlottesville rally, was found guilty at a summary court-martial in June 2018, and was administratively separated from the Marine Corps in July 2018."
+---
+
+Vasillios George Pistolis was a Lance Corporal in the [[United States Marine Corps]], assigned to [[Combat Logistics Battalion 8]], Combat Logistics Regiment 2, [[2nd Marine Logistics Group]], based at [[Camp Lejeune]], North Carolina, and a documented member of [[Atomwaffen Division]]. He participated in the August 12, 2017 [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], where he was photographed striking a protester with a wooden flagpole, and later bragged in online communications about assaulting another protester. [[ProPublica]] identified him as an AWD member in May 2018, triggering a Marine Corps investigation that resulted in a summary court-martial and administrative separation.[^1]
+
+### Military Assignment and AWD Membership
+
+Pistolis served in Combat Logistics Battalion 8, a rear-area logistics unit at Camp Lejeune. His AWD membership was documented through his activity on AWD-affiliated online platforms, where he identified himself as a member and expressed support for the organization's accelerationist ideology. AWD's presence at Charlottesville was notable as an early example of the organization's members participating in public far-right events.[^2]
+
+### Charlottesville and the ProPublica Investigation
+
+Pistolis marched in the [[2017 Unite the Right Rally]] alongside other neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups. A news photographer captured him striking a protester with a wooden flagpole during the violence that accompanied the rally. He reportedly bragged in online communications about assaulting [[Emily F. Gorcenski]], an activist, during the same event. ProPublica identified Pistolis in May 2018 as part of a broader investigation into AWD's presence in the military, and published its findings along with the photographic evidence.[^1]
+
+### Court-Martial and Separation
+
+Following ProPublica's publication, Marine Corps leadership opened a formal proceeding. On June 19, 2018, Pistolis was found guilty at a summary court-martial on two charges under the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]]: failure to obey an order or regulation, and making a false official statement. These charges likely related to his denial of extremist affiliations and his attendance at the rally in violation of [[DoD]] policy. The summary court-martial imposed: 28 days' confinement, reduction in rank from Lance Corporal (E-3) to Private (E-1), and forfeiture of two-thirds of one month's pay.
+
+Pistolis was released from confinement and administratively separated from the Marine Corps on July 11, 2018. Marine Corps spokesman Major Brian Block confirmed the separation, stating "He is not a Marine anymore," but declined to release the characterization of discharge. No civilian criminal charges were filed.[^3]
+
+### Enforcement Gaps
+
+The case illustrates a recurring pattern in military extremism enforcement: the summary court-martial addressed violations of orders and false statements rather than the underlying extremist affiliation, and the administrative separation left no public criminal record. The [[PBS Frontline]] 2018 investigation found that the Marine Corps had received an "alarming tip" about Pistolis months earlier but the initial response was uncertain.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ProPublica. "U.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups
+
+[^2]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-hate-group-active-duty-military
+
+[^3]: Marine Corps Times. "Neo-Nazi Marine Found Guilty at Summary Court-Martial." June 19, 2018. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/06/19/neo-nazi-marine-found-guilty-at-summary-court-martial/; Military.com. "Lance Corporal with Alleged Neo-Nazi Ties Is Now a Former Marine." August 2, 2018. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/08/02/lance-corporal-alleged-neo-nazi-ties-now-former-marine.html
+
+[^4]: PBS Frontline. "An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then An Uncertain Response." 2018. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response/