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Extremism & Violent Networks
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MartinetPress
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Jillian Hoy Sutter
Jillian Hoy is described in press reporting as director or co-founder of Martinet Press, publisher of Order of Nine Angles texts, and as the wife of FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter. Lexington, South Carolina 2026-05-21 2026-10-15
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head_of Martinet Press director, per Vice (August 2021); run with Sutter, per USA Today (June 2022) 1
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founded Martinet Press co-founder with Joshua Caleb Sutter, per Rolling Stone (June 2022) 2
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head_of Tempel ov Blood co-leader with Sutter, per the Mapping Militants Project; addressed as the Blood-Mistress, per communications surfaced by Nate Thayer 10
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spouse_of Joshua Caleb Sutter 2008 Lexington County, South Carolina marriage licence, per Bellingcat (June 2023) 6

Jillian Hoy is named in press reporting as the director of Martinet Press (Vice, August 2021) and as its co-founder with Joshua Caleb Sutter (Rolling Stone, June 2022), and as Sutter's wife.12 USA Today reported in June 2022 that "a variety of extremism experts" said Sutter runs the press with her.3 Martinet Press published the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) texts of the American Tempel ov Blood nexion, including Iron Gates.

The Press

The imprint page of Iron Gates, a novel issued in 2014, carries the line "MARTINET PRESS" beside an ISBN of 978-0692306581 and the notice "© Copyright by Tempel ov Blood (2014)."4 Rolling Stone reported that members of RapeWaffen, the Telegram channel where Melzer contacted other O9A adherents, were assigned a reading list that included Iron Gates, Liber 333 and Bluebird, "books authored by an American O9A 'nexion,' called the Tempel ov Blood, and distributed by Martinet Press, a publishing house run by Sutter," and that "Martinet Press titles were introduced as required reading for new O9A recruits."2 Vice described the press as a publisher of "Atomwaffen Division-approved books such as Iron Gates and Liber 333."1 USA Today quoted an open letter, posted online by a former Atomwaffen member, stating that John Cameron Denton and others in the group "started to promote 'Iron Gates'" and that it was "REQUIRED READING to join AWD."3

The press's About page states that it concerns itself with "publishing texts that reflect the darkness that is endemic to real antinomian spirituality" and that it makes available "texts that instruct, rather than entertain."5 USA Today quoted the press describing itself as "a decidedly darker spiritual press," selling merchandise such as "TOB support patches."3

Bellingcat found Martinet Press listed in the Global Register of Publishers at an address in Lexington, South Carolina, with the contact person listed as Sutter's wife. Bellingcat also reported that an email address registered to Martinet Press was attached to a post in an O9A Yahoo Group email chain titled "[o9a] Is The ONA Fake?" in May 2013, a link first reported by The Empire Never Ended podcast. In June 2023 Bellingcat counted at least 19 Martinet Press books on sale at Amazon.com and 22 active links to Amazon.com on the press's website.6

Library catalogue records list Martinet Press as publisher of titles including Choronzon I (2015), Purushamedha (2015), False Prophet (Tempel ov Blood, 2015), Liber Rudra (2016), Quimbanda (2016), Shitty Occult Comics (2016), Scithain (A.A. Morain, 2017) and Choronzon IV (2019).7 USA Today reported that the press printed books by Ryan Fleming, a neo-Nazi from Leeds, England, who published under the name A.A. Morain.3

Patrik Hermansson, a senior researcher at Hope Not Hate, told Bellingcat: "Martinet Press is an outlet for Temple ov Blood and therefore a part of the O9A network. Its books are all in line with O9A/ToB's ideas and mythology."6 Hermansson's own report for Hope Not Hate of June 23, 2020 concerned the O9A Telegram channel "RapeWaffen," with which the soldier Ethan Melzer, indicted the previous day, had engaged.8 The Southern District of New York later stated that Melzer sent details of his unit's location, movements and security to O9A members, "in particular, a sub-group of O9A known as the 'RapeWaffen Division'."9

The Marriage and Her Titles

Bellingcat reported that a search of Lexington County, South Carolina marriage licences showed Sutter married the press's registered contact in 2008; the licence record on which the report is based has the name and date blurred.6 Vice wrote that after leaving federal prison in 2004 Sutter returned to South Carolina and "married a woman named Jillian Hoy," whom it called "the director of Martinet Press."1 Rolling Stone wrote that Sutter became the main propagandist of the Songun Politics Study Group USA "before migrating to Hindu esotericism with a woman named Jillian Hoy, whom he married," and that Martinet Press was "co-founded with Hoy."2

The Mapping Militants Project (Stanford University, with Rice University) profile of Tempel ov Blood states that the group "is co-led by Joshua Caleb Sutter and his wife Jillian Hoy, who are based in South Carolina" and that "the couple also operates the extreme-right Martinet Press."10 Rolling Stone reported that the independent journalist Nate Thayer surfaced communications between Sutter and another satanist in which Sutter labeled himself "Master of the Tempel" and Hoy the "Blood-Mistress."2 Thayer had published an investigation of pro-North Korean American groups, tagged to Sutter and the Songun Politics Study Group USA, at NK News on May 6, 2013.11

The Informant Case

Sutter's federal firearm case opened in March 2003 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under docket 2:03-cr-00158 and closed in August 2003.12 Vice reported that he served a brief term in federal prison in Georgia and was released in 2004.1

The defense motion to suppress filed on August 13, 2021 by lawyers for Kaleb Cole in the Western District of Washington (United States v. Cole, 2:20-cr-00032-JCC, Dkt. 194) described a confidential informant without naming him. It stated that the informant "has been paid over $140,000" since 2003, "$78,133.20 plus an expense advance of $4,378.60, since February 7, 2018, which almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole and Atomwaffen," that he "was the source of almost all of the information implicating Mr. Cole," and that he "currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings."13 Vice, writing on August 25, 2021, identified the informant as Sutter and the publishing house as Martinet Press, reporting the sum as "more than $100,000."1

The government's response of August 20, 2021 (Dkt. 200), signed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Thomas M. Woods and Seth Wilkinson, stated that the informant had provided information to the FBI since approximately 2003 and had received about $140,000 "which included both compensation and reimbursement for expenses," and argued that paying him for about sixteen years "tends to suggest that the informant is reliable."14 On August 30, 2021 Judge John C. Coughenour denied the motion to suppress and for a hearing under Franks v. Delaware, writing that the compensation of "approximately $140,000 over a sixteen-year period" did not impugn the informant's credibility and "suggests that he demonstrated reliability in the past."15

Sutter testified at Cole's trial in Seattle in September 2021. USA Today, citing a transcript, reported that he said federal agents first approached him in the early 2000s while he was serving a sentence for possessing a pistol with an obliterated serial number, that "It was proposed that I could act in a deep-cover capacity," and that after his 2004 release he worked for the FBI doing "surveillance, attending in-person meetings and traveling around the country." Asked what he did for a living, he answered "Publishing." He also testified that Denton introduced him to Atomwaffen Division and that he went by "Swissdiscipline" online.3 Rolling Stone reported that Denton contacted Sutter in spring 2017.2 Rolling Stone reported that his handler was Special Agent Bill Moser of the FBI's Columbia, South Carolina field office.2

A jury convicted Cole on September 29, 2021, after 90 minutes of deliberation, on five counts.16 The Justice Department stated that he was sentenced to seven years on January 11, 2022 and that the jury had convicted him "in September 2021."17 Rolling Stone wrote in June 2022 that Cole was sentenced to seven years "after a jury convicted him in January."2

Rolling Stone reported that the FBI declined to respond to questions about Sutter's role as a paid informant, about Martinet Press's role in spreading O9A ideology, and about whether the bureau had been contacted by foreign law enforcement regarding Sutter or Tempel ov Blood.2 USA Today reported that the FBI "declined to address specific questions about Sutter or the relationship he detailed in testimony," and quoted Ariel Koch of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, who said that the O9A practice of the "insight role" meant it had to be considered whether Sutter's work as an informant was such a role.3 Hannah Gais of the Southern Poverty Law Center told USA Today that Sutter "was really the one who basically took them in that direction towards Satanism."3

Public Statements and Correspondence

Rolling Stone quoted Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate: "What was, if any, the FBI's interest in the satanist stuff? Was Sutter genuinely into this ideology and allowed to be involved in it as long as he spied on what they considered to be the real threats?"2 Hope Not Hate's State of Hate 2019 chapter on the O9A, by Lowles, stated that the order "is intrinsically intertwined with Nazism" and that O9A influence "has also been seen in the Atomwaffen Division."18

Rolling Stone reported in July 2022, after Melzer pleaded guilty on June 24, 2022, that Angel Almeida, a Queens man, had been found with a Tempel ov Blood banner and patches "the proceeds of which would benefit FBI informant Joshua Sutter."19 USA Today reported that Almeida was arrested in November 2021 for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and that prosecutors alleged a poster bearing an image used on the cover of Liber 333, published by Martinet Press, appeared in the background of at least two of his social media posts.3

Footnotes

  1. Matthew Gault. "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." Vice (Motherboard), August 25, 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/ ↩︎

  2. Ali Winston. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." Rolling Stone, June 5, 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/ ↩︎

  3. Will Carless and Kevin Johnson. "The FBI informant who helped white supremacists, Joshua Caleb Sutter" (also headlined "He publishes books on satanism and torture to inspire neo-Nazis. The FBI has paid him $140,000"). USA Today, June 9, 2022. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2022/06/09/fbi-informant-white-supremacist-atomwaffen/7237901001/ ↩︎

  4. Tempel ov Blood, Iron Gates (Martinet Press, 2014), imprint page, ISBN 978-0692306581. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/tempel-ov-blood-iron-gates-text ↩︎

  5. Martinet Press, "About." https://martinetpress.wordpress.com/about/ ↩︎

  6. "The Mainstream Publishers, Distributors and Bookshops Selling Satanist Neo-Nazi Books." Bellingcat, June 30, 2023. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/06/30/the-mainstream-publishers-distributors-and-bookshops-selling-satanist-neo-nazi-books ↩︎

  7. Open Library catalogue records, publisher search "Martinet Press" (titles, years and ISBNs, including 978-0-9978363 and 978-0-9997680 prefixes). https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22Martinet+Press%22 ↩︎

  8. Patrik Hermansson. "The Rapewaffen Telegram Channel." Hope Not Hate, June 23, 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/ ↩︎

  9. U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush," March 3, 2023 (Melzer pleaded guilty June 24, 2022, in United States v. Melzer, 20-cr-314, S.D.N.Y.). https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service ↩︎

  10. "Tempel ov Blood." Mapping Militants Project, Stanford University and Rice University. https://mappingmilitants.org/node/534/ ↩︎

  11. Nate Thayer. "Pro-DPRK Americans Revealed," NK News, May 6, 2013, reposted at nate-thayer.com (Internet Archive capture, January 11, 2015). https://web.archive.org/web/20150111192633/http://www.nate-thayer.com:80/joshua-sutter/ ↩︎

  12. United States v. Sutter, No. 2:03-cr-00158 (E.D. Pa.), docket 8143981, filed March 11, 2003, terminated August 20, 2003. CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8143981/united-states-v-sutter/ ↩︎

  13. Defense motion to suppress evidence, United States v. Cole, No. 2:20-cr-00032-JCC, Dkt. 194 (W.D. Wash., August 13, 2021), pp. 2 and 8-9. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365.194.0.pdf ; Internet Archive mirror: https://archive.org/details/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress-1 ↩︎

  14. Government's Response to Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Dkt. 200 (W.D. Wash., August 20, 2021), pp. 10-11 and 17. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365.200.0.pdf ↩︎

  15. Order, United States v. Cole, Dkt. 211 (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021), pp. 1 and 4. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365/gov.uscourts.wawd.284365.211.0.pdf ↩︎

  16. Associated Press. "US jury convicts leader of neo-Nazi threat campaign." September 29, 2021. https://www.wxow.com/news/national/us-jury-convicts-leader-of-neo-nazi-threat-campaign/article_690fdfd4-e9fb-5842-9a17-d74784680f57.html ↩︎

  17. U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington. "Leader of Neo-Nazi group sentenced for plot targeting journalists and advocates," January 11, 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-sentenced-plot-targeting-journalists-and-advocates ↩︎

  18. Nick Lowles. "Order of Nine Angles." State of Hate 2019, Hope Not Hate, February 16, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/02/16/state-of-hate-2019-order-of-nine-angles/ ↩︎

  19. Ali Winston. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." Rolling Stone, July 6, 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/ ↩︎