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category: "U.S. State"
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tags:
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- Place
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- USState
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- SpecialForces
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- PioneerFund
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- Accelerationism
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summary: "Southern state of Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, of Jesse Helms's political machine and its Pioneer Fund directors, and of the JAARS air base of the Summer Institute of Linguistics."
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created: 2026-09-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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### Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune
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In February 1962 a team from the [[US Army Special Warfare Center]] at [[Fort Bragg]], under its commander, [[General William P. Yarborough|William P. Yarborough]], visited [[Colombia]] and recommended in a secret supplement that civilian and military personnel be selected for clandestine training to "execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents," and that American assistance "be sterile and covert in nature."[^1] Yarborough died at Southern Pines in 2005.[^2]
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Marines at [[Camp Lejeune]] figure in the prosecutions of the [[Atomwaffen Division]] milieu. The Lance Corporal [[Vasillios George Pistolis]], identified by [[ProPublica]] in May 2018 as a member of the group after the [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], was court-martialed and separated.[^3] The former Lejeune Marine [[Liam Collins (AWD)|Liam Collins]], a leader on the [[Iron March]] forum, was sentenced in the [[Eastern District of North Carolina]] on July 25, 2024, to ten years for a plot with [[Paul James Kryscuk]], [[Jordan Duncan]] and others to attack power facilities.[^4] After a shooting damaged an [[EnergyUnited]] substation in Randolph County on January 17, 2023, [[Dallas Humber]] of the [[Terrorgram Collective]] posted that the "avenue of attack" had "really caught on."[^5]
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### The Helms Organization
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[[Jesse Helms]], a [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] broadcaster whose "Viewpoint" editorials ran on WRAL from 1960, sat in the [[United States Senate]] from 1973 to 2003.[^6] The Raleigh lawyer [[Thomas F. Ellis]], organizer of Helms's political operation, and [[Marion Parrott]] were directors of the [[Pioneer Fund]] in the 1970s; the fund's president, [[Harry Weyher]], was also a North Carolinian. The fund gave Ellis's [[Coalition for Freedom]] 195,000 dollars between 1983 and 1989, and Weyher represented Ellis's [[Fairness in Media]] in its 1985 attempt to take over [[CBS]].[^7] Representative [[Charlie Rose]] of the state's 7th district, in the House from 1973 to 1997, was a congressional supporter of the Army's remote-viewing program.[^8]
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### Other Ties
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[[JAARS]], the aviation and radio arm of [[William Cameron Townsend]]'s [[Summer Institute of Linguistics]], moved its headquarters to Waxhaw in 1961.[^9] [[Edward Snowden]] was born in Elizabeth City on June 21, 1983.[^10] In 2023 [[Felix Bauckholt]] of [[The Zizians|the Zizians]] rented half a duplex in Chapel Hill, and [[Teresa Youngblut]] took a place nearby before the two drove to Vermont, where a Border Patrol agent was killed in January 2025.[^11] [[Prasan Nepal]] of High Point, charged with [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] with running [[764 Inferno]] as a child exploitation enterprise, was arrested in North Carolina on April 22, 2025.[^12]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Warfare School, "Visit to Colombia, South America, by a Team from Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina," February 26, 1962, secret supplement, quoted in Human Rights Watch, *Colombia's Killer Networks: The Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States,* 1996. https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killer2.htm
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[^2]: Arlington National Cemetery, "William Pelham Yarborough, Lieutenant General, United States Army." https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wpyarborough.htm
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[^3]: "U.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups." *ProPublica,* 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups
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[^4]: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina. "Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities." July 25, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
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[^5]: "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." *WGHP Fox 8,* September 2024. https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/
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[^6]: Hall, Bob. "Jesse Helms: The Meaning of His Money." *Southern Exposure,* vol. 13, no. 1, 1985, republished by Facing South, Institute for Southern Studies.
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[^7]: Lynn, Richard. *The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund.* University Press of America, 2001; Mehler, Barry, comp. "Pioneer Fund Grants, 1971-1996," Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, compiled from Internal Revenue Service Forms 990; Edsall, Thomas B., and David A. Vise. "CBS Fight a Litmus Test for Conservatives." *The Washington Post,* March 31, 1985, p. 1.
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[^8]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
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[^9]: JAARS, "Our History." jaars.org/about/history
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[^10]: Snowden, Edward. *Permanent Record.* Metropolitan Books, 2019.
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[^11]: "A timeline of activities of a cultlike group tied to the killing of a Border Patrol agent." Associated Press via PBS NewsHour, 2025. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-timeline-of-cultlike-zizian-group-tied-to-killing-of-a-border-patrol-agent-in-vermont
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[^12]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
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