58549682

FILED
2019 SEP 26
KING COUNTY
SUPERIOR COURT CLERK

CASE 19-2-25260-0 SEA

 

Superior Court of Washington

ForKingCounty 

 

 

 

 

No.
Seattle Police Department
Petitioner Petition for an Extreme Risk
vs. Protection Order
Kaleb James Cole 10-13-1995 (PT)

 

Respondent DOB

 

 

 

General Information

 

I am a family or household member of the respondent. My relationship with the
respondent is (check all that apply):

Spouse or former spouse Blood relation other than parent or child
Parent of a child in common ]Current or former legal guardian
]Current or former domestic partner ]Stepparent or stepchild
]Current or former cohabitant within the Parent or child
past year ]In-Iaw

Current or former dating relationship
1.3 I am filing on behalf of the Seattle Police Department, law enforcement agency.
have already notified the respondent's family or household members and any known
3rd parties who may be at risk of violence; OR

My agency will make a good faith effort to provide notice to them by telephone
email in-person ]other within a reasonable period of time.

 

2. I reside in this county.
I am filing on behalf of a law enforcement agency that is located in this county.
]The respondent resides in this county.

3. Describe below any firearms the respondent currently owns, possesses, has custody of, has
access to, or controls.

 

 

 

 

 

Type of firearm How many Where is the firearm Date/time/place you last saw the
firearms? kept? firearm
Handgun Multiple With the respondent or Self-admitted to ownership (see
within his control and Custom and Border Protection
possession in the State report)
of Washington

 

 

 

 

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Shotgun Rifle Unknown Unknown

 

Semi- 1 With the respondent or Cole self-admitted to owning an
Automatic within his control and AK 47 (see Custom and Border
Assault Rifle possession in the State Protection Report).

 

 

of Washington

 

 

Check all the boxes that apply and describe below:
Respondent has access to someone else's firearm.
Respondent expressed an intent to obtain a firearm.
Respondent has unlawfully or recklessly used, displayed, or brandished a firearm.
Respondent recently acquired a firearm.
Describe:

 

 

Kaleb Cole is a self-admitted member of the Atomwaffen Division and believed to be the cell
leader of the Washington State chapter. The Atomwaffen Division, as noted by open source
articles, is a nee-Nazi group known for its recruiting of young white men attracted to a violent
ideology that idolizes Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson (see attached Open source articles). This
group believes that a race war is coming and similar to Charles Manson's theory of ?Helter
Skelter? the Atomwa?en Division, according to the Anti-defamation League, articulates a white
supremacist ideology rooted in ?accelerationist beliefs." 1 Accelerationist beliefs are fueled by
the perception that the future of the white race is bleak, and they must employ any means
necessary to expedite the collapse of current system. Accelerationists believe that setting off a
series of reactions, even if they result in changes that directly threaten the white race, can
actually be a useful tool for motivating more reticent white supremacists. Following an extremist
terrorist attack such as the Tree of Life or the Christchurch mass shootings, accelerationists
identify a domino effect that is set into motion?a chain of societal reactions that further
exacerbate the feeling of alienation among white supremacists and a greater impulse to engage
in violence or destructive behavior.2 (See Exhibit 1).

Kaleb Cole poses a serious threat to public safety by having access and possession to firearms
and a concealed pistol license. Cole has a valid concealed pistol license issued by Whatcom
County Sherriff?s Office, 

Respondent admits to owning firearms:

Cole self-admitted to law enforcement officials that he owns firearms. In a recent report from
US Customs and Border Protection, Cole admitted that he owns an AK-47 rifle and several
handguns (please see the attached report). Additionally, photographs of firearms were
recovered from a cell phone belonging to Cole, including the attached photos (See Exhibit 2).

 

A record check of the Washington State Department 01 Licensing Firearms Database shows no

 

 

White Supremacist Embrace League April 16. 2019.
2 Id.

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known firearm purchases for Cole. However, it is unknown if Cole recently purchased additional
firearms as we were made aware that Washington?s Department of Licensing Records (DOL)
has an approximate half million firearm record backlog. Any recent firearm purchases (including
in the past several years) are unlikely to be updated in the DOL database.

Additional evidence of firearm possession:

Additionally, it is believed that Cole has participated in recent firearms training and recruitment
efforts at organized, "Hate Camps." These "Hate Camps,? have taken place in Washington
State. Cole is believed to be an organizer in the ?Hate Camps? and his participation is
concerning to law enforcement as it appears that he has gone from espousing hate to
now taking active steps or preparation for an impending ?race war." These ?Hate Camps"
also show various Atomwaffen Division members in skull masks making threats of mass
violence (threats to kill or gas the Kikes). Please see section 6 of this petition for additional
information and Exhibit 4 (video clips).

 

 

 

4. Between the respondent and me: List any criminal or civil protection, restraining or no-
contact orders, pending lawsuits, or other legal action: It you have more than three matters, tist
details on additional sheet.

 

Case #1 Case #2 Case #3

 

Case Name

 

Case Number

 

Court/County/
State

 

Type of Case

 

Protected
Person

 

Was there any
order violation?

 

 

 

 

5. Between the respondent and any other person: List any criminal or civil protection,
restraining or no-contact orders: if you have more than three matters, list details on additional
sheet

 

Case #1 Case #2 Case #3

 

Protected
Person

 

Case Number

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Court/Countyi
State

 

Was there any
order violation?

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Request for an Extreme Risk Protection Order

 

I want a temporary extreme risk protection order effective immediately,
without prior notice to respondent, that lasts up to 14 days, or until the court
hea?ng:

These are the specific facts known to me that cause me to believe the respondent poses a
significant danger in the near future of causing personal injury to self or others by having
custody or control, purchasing, possessing, accessing, or receiving firearms. More detailed
information is provided in the Statement in section 7.

Kaleb Cole is a self-admitted member of the Atomwaffen Division and is believed to be the cell
leader of the Washington State chapter. Additionally. according to open source articles, The
Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi terrorist organization operating in the United States.
Atomwaffen is German for ?Atomic Weapon.? The Atomwaffen Division is known to encourage
flag burning, attacks on the federal government and to encourage attacks towards minorities,
gays and Jews. The Atomwaffen Division is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty
Law Center. Additionally, members of the Atomwaffen Division have also been recently linked
to several homicides.

Self-admitted Atomwaffen membership:

In the attached US. Customs and Border Protection Report, Cole admits being a member of
the Atomwaffen Division and that he shares. ?a fascist ideology, the strong dominate the weak.?
(See Exhibit 3). Although Cole denies that the Atomwaffen Division is interested in
overthrowing the US. Government, he has been denied entry into Canada as a result of his
membership with an organization that may engage in terrorism. According to Canadian
authorities, Cole was deported, and he is barred from Canada for life.

Additionally, law enforcement officials are aware of Cole?s involvement or association with
various Atomwaffen facilitated, "Hate Camps.? These ?Hate Camps,? included several ?camps"
that were held in Washington State (see synopsis of the video clips below). Law enforcement
believe that the ?camps" are a training ground for the Atomwaffen Division cell members.
Specifically, allowing members to receive combat/firearms training. These "camps" also served
as a basis for several Atomwaffen recruitment videos. According to open source articles, Cole
works on the group?s visual propaganda. Please see the attached open source video clips.
(Exhibit 4):

November 2018 video: This video shows various Atomwaffen Division cell members
in military type fatigues with skull masks covering their faces. The cell members are engaged in
firearms training and hand to hand combat. The cell members also participated in the
desecration or burning of various flags. The Atomwaffen flag is on display in the background of
the video. The various flags that were burned at the ?hate camp,? include: the Israel Jewish flag,
Keklstan (made up flag created on 4Chan). United Nations flag, Gadsden flag, 
Rainbow Pride flag, Black Lives Matter and the Thin Blue Line Police flag. This video also had

 

 

 

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the hashtags and The reference to the
Siege and James Mason is also significant in understanding the violent ideology associated
with this group. The Siege is a series of violent hate filled essays that advocates random
attacks and murders in order to destabilize society. Per open source articles (ProPublica dated
February 23, 2018), The Siege, is required reading for Atomwaffen cell members and the book
provides an outline for the cell members ideology and training.(Exhibit 1).

2018 video: This video opens with a group of individuals dressed in military type
fatigues with Atomwaffen patches adorned, skull masks covering their faces, while armed with
firearms, chanting, ?Gas the Kikes, race war now." The words ?Gas the Kikes" appears on
screen. The threats to kill, referencing possible mass violence, are being chanted while the
group is firing military style firearms (actual discharging of high capacity firearms). The video
continues with cell members conducting a clearing or sweep of a structure (as if they were
clearly a building in a military operation). The video also shows various Atomwaffen members
with a variety of firearms (handguns, long guns and other military style assault weapons). The
video ends with the slogan, ?Join your local Nazis- Attomwaffendivisionorg." 

 

*Photos recovered from Cole?s cell phone also show the same skull masks that are used in the
two open source videos as well as an Atomwaffen flag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a hearing, where the respondent has a right to be present, I want the court
to issue an Extreme Risk Protection Order that lasts for one year:

After the hearing, I want the court to issue an Extreme Ftisk Protection Order that lasts for one
year because the respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to self or
others by having custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm.

My statement below includes the respondent?s specific words, actions, or other facts that cause
me to have a reasonable fear of future dangerous acts by respondent.

 

 

7. Statement

 

To enter an Extreme Risk Protection Order, the court must find it more likely than not that the
respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to self or others by having
custody or control, purchasing, possessing, accessing, or receiving a firearm.

 

Complete all sections that apply. Attach additional pages, as needed.

 

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8. Convictions or Arrests. Check all the boxes that apply and describe below:
Respondent has been arrested or convicted of a:
1 domestic violence crime.

felony or violent crime.

hate crime offense or malicious harassment (threats, physical injury or property damage
based on the victim?s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation, gender expression or identity, or mental, physical, or sensory disability).

Describe on the next page. include location, court name, and case number, if known.

 

The respondent has no known criminal arrests. However, law enforcement officials are
increasingly concerned about the respondent?s access to firearms and his involvement in the

Atomwaffen Division, a known terrorism group. Specifically, the video clips referenced above)
show members of the Atomwaffen Division, handling and firing firearms while shouting threats
to kill- including a specific reference to ?Race War Now.? This language suggests that the group
is preparing in anticipation for an upcoming ?Race War." Law enforcement sources believe that
the Atomwaffen Division follows an acceleration theory (see also section 3).

It is also concerning to law enforcement that Cole was traveling to the Ukraine and other areas
of Eastern Europe and that Cole was posing in photos with the Atomwaffen Division flag while
travel overseas (Exhibit 2). Additionally. Cole has been identified by Canadian authorities as a
possible member of an organization that may engage in terrorism and Cole has been
mrmanently banned from entry into Canada as a result of his membership/affiliation with the
Atomwaffen Division.

 

 

 

9. Violence and Threats: Check each box that applies and explain below.

Respondent has recently committed or threatened violence against self or others, whether
or not respondent had a firearm.

Respondent has shown, within the past 12 months, a pattern of acts or threats of
violence, which can include violent acts against self or others.

Respondent has a history of use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force
against another person.

Respondent has a history of stalking another person.

 

 

Explain:

DateNVhen Describe what happened.
June and Cole flew from Quebec to British Columbia to see his girlfriend in late May/ early
July 2019 June 2019. Cole was flagged by Canadian authorities because of concerns

with open source information about Cole and his overseas travel to the
Ukraine. Cole was detained during deportation proceedings. Cole was found

 

 

inadmissible because he is a "Member of an organization that may engage in

 

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terrorism", Section 34 from the Canadian Immigration Code. He was
removed from Canada by deportation in early July 2019 and barred from
Canada for life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organized Please see above descriptions of the organized camps and the corresponding
Firearms video clips.

 

Training!
Hate

 

Camps

 

 

 

Prior police

 

?mac's SPD 13-415433, November 5,2018: An Atomwafien Division decal was posted

on traffic signs in the 1400 block of Union St., Seattle. These decals were
placed on traffic signs across the street from the location of Temple De Hirsch
Sinai. The decals depicted the Atomwatfen Division name and symbol.
swastikas and other Hitler propaganda. Unknown suspect.

 

SPD 18-414498, November 5, 2018: An Atomwatfen Division decal was placed
on a building at the Seattle Academy of Art and Science, located on 1201, 
Union St. The decal depicted the Atomwafien Division name and symbol as well
as the phrase, ?Prepare your fallout shelters for the Nuclear Helter Skelter.?
Unknown suspect.

 

2015: A female called police to report that she had recently been in the
apartment of Kaleb Cole and that he had Nee-Nazi flags and memorabilia
throughout (Bellingham PD- Information Report 153-50887).

 

2012: In Anacortes, WA, Cole was contacted by law enforcement authorities
after he was found outside of a store (Steinman?s Grocery). Cole was outside
the store waiving a Nazi flag which offended another group (Anacortes 
A06302).

 

 

10. Respondent?s behavior

Describe any behaviors by the respondent that present an imminent threat of harm to self
or others.

 

 

 

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If you look at the pattern of contact with Cole (minimal police contacts in 2012 and 2015) and
compare Cole?s more recent involvement with the Atomwaffen division. his words. actions and
behaviors. suooest he has taken additional steps towards a plan with his ideologically motivated
violence. Specifically. the coordinated camps with firearms training. overseas travel with
Atomwaften paraphernalia-flaqs/skuII masks, threats to kill (gas the Kikes) and the possession
of firearms, suggest an imminent risk to public safety if Cole is permitted to continue to purchase
or possess firearms.

Please also see the above sections and all attached exhibits.

 

 

 

 

 

11. Corroborated evidence of respondent?s alcohol or controlled substance abuse.

Describe any evidence and attach any documents corroborating (supporting) the
respondent?s abuse of alcohol, legal or illegal drugs.

 

Unknown

 

 

12. Other important information that you think will help the court make a decision.

 

 

As the sergeant. assiqned to the Regional Domestic Violence Enforcement Unit.  am aware of
the lethality factors for conducting a risk assessment. Specifically. the lethality factors involved
in sewing and enforcing various protective orders, includino Extreme Risk Protection Orders. I
know that individuals that exhibit certain warnino signs. such as the factors noted in this petition.
includino threats to kill others. fixated violent ideoloov taroeted towards minorities. and the
ownership or possession of hioh capacity firearms. creates a combination of factors that
suggest that Cole is a siqnificant dancer to others by having firearms in his custody or control.

 

 

 

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13. You must provide an address where you can be served with legal documents. Chose
ONE option, then write the address in the line below:

I can be served with legal documents at the address below: 
Disclosing my residential address would risk harm to me or a member of my family or
household. I can be served with legal documents at the alternate address below: OR
I am filing on behalf of a law enforcement agency. Service can be made at the law
enforcement agency address listed below:
Address: Seattle Police Department, 610 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104

 

 

 

 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Washington that the foregoing is

true and correct.
at 5am,

Dated: 9/20 /20?q
Signature of Petitioner

Dozomq em! #0057

Print Name and if Law enforcement Badge No.

Washington.

*Assisting on Extreme Risk Protection Order cases, the King County Prosecuting
Attorney?s Office will appear under the general order, 18-2-12050-1, sub 14*

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In a photo obtained by ProPubllca, armodAtomwa??en members pose in the desert in

Nye County, Nevada, durlng a weapons union in late January 2018. Thay
called the three-day gathering the Death Valley Hate Camp.

DOCUMEHTIHG HATE

Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a
Member for Allegedly Killng a Gay Jewish
College Student

ProPublica obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white
supremacist group. When Samuel Woodward was charged with killing
19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen
members cheered the death, concerned only that the group?s cover
might have been blown.

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan. special to ProPublica,
Feb. 23, 201B. 5 am. EST

Update, Aug. 3, 2018.- Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Thursday
announced that Samuel Woodward would now face a hate crime charge as part of his
prosecution for the murder of Blaze Bernstein. ProPublica revealed earlier th is year
that Woodward was a member of a nee-Nazi group called Atomwa?en Division.
According to the Orange County Register, Rackauckas said, ?We will prove that
Woodward killed Blaze because Blaze was gay. Rackauckas said investigators had
uncovered material on Woodward?s phone and computer that was ?graphic and

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chilling" and ?spewing hare toward almost everyprorectcd group. With the hate
charge, Woodward, ifconvictcd, could face life in prison without the chance atparoie.

Late last month, ProPublica reported that the California man accused of
killing a gay and Jewish University of student was an
avowed neo-Nazi and a member of Atomwaffen Division, one of the

cou ntry?s most notorious extremist groups.

The news about the murder suspect, Samuel Woodward, spread quickly
throughout the US, and abroad. Woodward was accused of fatally
stabbing 19-year?old Blaze Bernstein and burying his body in an Orange
County park.

The report, it turns out, was also taken up in the secretive online Chats
conducted by members of Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist
group that celebrates both Hitler and Charles Manson.

love this,? one member wrote of the killing, according to copies of the
online chats obtained by ProPublica. Another called Woodward a ?one
man gay Jew wrecking crew."

More soon joined in.

?What I really want to know is who leaked that shit about Sam to the
media,? a third member wrote.

At least one member wanted to punish the person who had revealed
Woodward?s af?liation with Atomwaffen.

?Rats and traitors get the rope first.?

chat logs obtained by ProPublica some 250,000 messages
spanning more than six months offer a rare window into Atomwaffen
Division that goes well beyond what has surfaced elsewhere about a group
whose members have been implicated in a string of violent crimes. Like
many white supremacist organizations, Atomwaffen Division uses
Discord. an online chat service designed for video gamers, to engage in its
con?dential online discussions.

In a matter of months, people associated with the group, including
Woodward, have been charged in five murders; another group member
pleaded guilty to possession of explosives after authorities uncovered a
possible plot to blow up a nuclear facility near Miami.

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The group?s propaganda makes clear that Atomwaffen the word means
?nuclear weapons? in German embraces Third Reich ideology and
preaches hatred of minorities, gays and Jews. Atomwaffen produces
YouTube videos showing members firing weapons and has ?lmed
members burning the US. Constitution and setting fire to the American
flag. But the organization, by and large, cloaks its operations in secrecy
and bars members from speaking to the media.

The chat logs and other material obtained by ProPublica provide
unusually extensive information about the group?s leaders, wider makeup,
and potential targets, indicating:

The group may have as many as 20 cells around the country, small groups
of indeterminate size in Texas, Virginia, Washington, Nevada and
elsewhere. Members armed with assault ri?es and other guns have taken
part in weapons training in various locations over the last two years,
including last month in the Nevada desert near Death Valley.

Members have discussed using explosives to cripple public water systems
and destroy parts of the electrical power grid. One member even claimed
to have obtained classified maps of the power grid in California.
Throughout the chats, Atomwaffen members laud Timothy McVeigh, the
former soldier who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in
Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168, including numerous children.
Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Anders Breivik, the
Norwegian extremist who massacred 77 people, also come in for praise.

Woodward posted several messages in the days after Bernstein?s murder,
but before he was arrested and charged. In one thread, he told his fellow

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Atomwaffen members that he was thinking about the ?passing of life? and
was ?truly grateful for our time together.?

w. Woodward, 20, has pleaded not
a [w 0 guilty in the Bernstein case.
Prosecutors have said they are
exploring whether the murder
constituted a hate crime and

detectives are now investigating
what role, if any, Atomwaffen might

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Law enforcement, both federal and
state, have said little about what they
make ofAtomwaffen. But organizations dedicated to tracking and
studying hate groups have been calling attention to what they regard as
the group?s considerable threat.

?We haven?t seen anything like Atomwaffen in quite a while,? said Keegan
Ilankes, a researcher who tracks the group for the Southern Poverty Law
Center. ?They should be taken seriously because they?re so extreme.?

Jeffrey Kaplan, a historian, has studied racial extremists for decades and
edited the of White Power. In an interview, he suggested that
Atomwaffen is dangerous, but that talk in their propaganda and private
conversations of aims such as toppling the US. government amounted to
what he called a kind of ?magical thinking.? Kaplan said such groups often
contain a handful ofdiehards who are willing to commit crimes and many
more wannabes who are unwilling to do much more than read fascist
literature.

?It?s very hard to go from talking about violence to looking a guy in the
eyes and killing him," said Kaplan, a professor of national security studies
at King Fahd Defense College in Saudi Arabia.

 

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Where We've Identified Atomwaffen Division Members
Through interviews and internal records, ProPublica was able to identify Atomwaffen
members in at least 23 states.

 

Lucas Waldron and Rob Weychon/ProPub?ca

"Politics are useless. Revolution is necessary."

ProPublica has identi?ed ?ve key Atomwaffen members through
information provided by law enforcement investigators, internal
Atomwaffen records, outside experts and a former group member.

Those records and interviews make clear that John Cameron Danton is the
leader of Atomwaffen. Denton, 24, grew up in Montgomery, Texas, a small
town about 30 miles north of Houston. Public records show Denton
currently lives in the nearby town of Conroe, a few miles to the south of
Montgomery.

ProPublica has obtained several photos of Denton. In one, Denton, who is
short and wiry, has a bulky combat shotgun slung over his shoulder. He
seems to favor camou?age pants and black T-shirts emblazoned with the
logos of National Socialist Black Metal bands, a fringe subgenre of heavy
metal music that mixes Satanic and Nazi the mes.

?Politics are useless. Revolution is necessary,? Denton said in a chat post
expressing the Atomwaffen worldview.

Records and interviews show Denton goes by the name Rape in the online
conversations, and he appears to be involved in nearly every aspect of the
organization. He shapes Atomwaffen?s ideology, chooses designs for its

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distinctive black-and-white posters and online propaganda, and selects
the books that new recruits must study as part of their initiation, said a
former Atomwaffen member interviewed by ProPublica. Denton?s younger
brother, Grayson Patrick Denton, 19, is also a member, according to the
chat logs and interviews; within the group, he goes by Leon, an homage to
a Belgian fascist who fought with the SS.

The leader?s identity was first
revealed last month in a report by

John Cameron Denton
Alias: Rape
the Anti-Defamation League.

Afterward, Denton was seething.
?They think they can stop 
THEY THINK THEY CAN STOP
Denton wrote in one chat

message.

Neither Denton brother
responded to messages seeking
comment.

Just how many people belong to
Atomwaffen is unknown. The ex-
member told ProPublica that the
group has enlisted about 80

 

members across the country,

John Cameron Denton is the ioador of
Atomwaffon Division. The 24-year-old
deadly events in Charlottesville grew up in Montgomery, Texas, and
last summer_ lives outside Houston.

many ofwhom joined after the

An internal Atomwaffen

document obtained by ProPublica shows members scattered across 23
states and Canada. The group?s largest chapters are based in Virginia,
Texas and Washington, according to a message posted in the chats by an
Atomwaffen recruiter last summer.

?Each chapter operates independently," wrote the recruiter. ?We want
men who are willing to be the boots on the ground. Joining us means
serious dedication not only to the Atomwaffen Division and its members,
but to the goal of Total Aryan Victory.?

A review of the chat logs shows messages posted by people using more
than 100 different user names. Access to the discussions is 
controlled, and it is unclear if some members post under multiple

use rnames.

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Benton has helped build the organization around the ideas expressed in an
obscure, hyper-violent book: ?Siege.? The 563?page book collects and
organizes the newsletters produced during the 19805 by an old-
line nee-Nazi activist named James Mason. It is required reading for all
Atomwaffen members and serves as the backbone for the organization?s
ideology, worldview and training program.

When Mason began publishing his newsletter in 1980, he was bitter and
deeply dismayed. He had devoted his life to the fascist cause, joining the
American Nazi Party in the mid-19605, at the age of 14. But the movement
had completely failed.

For Mason, the way forward was obvious: He no longer wanted to convince
the masses of the tightness of Nazism. They would never get it. Now was
the time for true believers to go underground and launch a clandestine
guerrilla war aimed at bringing down ?The System.?

?Siege? is essentially a long string of essays celebrating murder and chaos
in the name of white supremacy. In Mason?s View, Dan White, the local
politician who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and gay
civil rights leader Harvey Milk, was a hero.

Mason proposed the creation of a White Liberation Front composed of
small armed squads that would ?hide in wilderness areas,? moving
frequently from location to location while striking out in a string of ?hit-
and-run engagements.? Mason based this proposed organization on the
short?lived National Socialist Liberation Front, a small splinter group of
the American Nazi Party that formed in 1969 and espoused the strategic
use of political terrorism.

The chat logs show that Benton and other Atomwaffen figures are in
contact with Mason. who is 65 and is said to be living in Denver, Colorado;
in one online conversation, Samuel Woodward wrote about meeting with
Mason face to face along with other Atomwaffen members. In chats,
members frequently post pictures of Mason and revere him as a brilliant,
under-appreciated thinker.

ProPublica was unable to contact Mason.

Jeffrey Kaplan, the academic at King Fahd Defense College in Riyadh,
interviewed Mason in the 19903 and spoke to ProPublica about Mason?s
outlook and the groups he inspires, such as Atomwaffen.

He describes Mason as ?a true believer.?

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?Now he?s got a following, which he

Grayson Patrick Danton
Aliases: Nazgul. Leon

didn?t have for the last 30 years,?
Kaplan said. ?He?s got some kids
who?ve rediscovered him. He must
be in heaven.?

As Kaplan sees it, groups such as
Atomwaffen would-be Nazi
guerrillas devoted to white
revolution in the US. are ?akin to
cults,? and are propelled by a quasi-
religious faith that they will
ultimately prevail. He continued,
?What else would sustain you when
everyone hates you??

John Cameron Denton, based on

 

Grays," ?mick Mm" the interviews and the material obtained

old brother ofAtomwaffon loader John by ProPublica, comes across as
Cameron Danton. Ho is a member of tho

something of a cult leader. Lately he
Texas cell.

has been pushing for Atomwaffen

members to pool money and
purchase land in rural areas so they can ?get the fuck off the grid,? and
begin implementing their revolutionary agenda. The former member said
Denton envisions using this network of Atomwaffen compounds to launch
attacks against targets in the US.

The leader is already girding for a confrontation with law enforcement. 
do expect that one day I?ll get raided,? wrote Denton in one chat message.
?I'm not gonna have a shoot out or anything stupid like that, but I just dont
rule out possibilities because I know the govt doesnt play by the rules."

 

"You would want to target things like substations,
water filtration plants, etc."

Late last month, Atomwaffen held a three?day training session or ?Hate
Camp? in the group?s parlance deep in the Nevada desert. The event was
organized by an Atomwaffen leader, Michael Lloyd Hubsky, who calls
himself Komissar, according to the chat logs.

A 29-year?old resident of Las Vegas, IIubsky holds both a concealed
weapons permit and a security guard licensehigh-

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powered military-style ?rearms.
Michael Lloyd Hubsky

In one post he discussed a favorite Alias: Kamissar

weapon: a Czech-made ri?e called
a CZ Scorpion that, IIubsky said,
he?d converted to fully automatic
and equipped with a flash
suppressor.

In another message, Hubsky wrote
that he was planning on getting an
federal ?rearms license
so he could ?manufacture"
guns

can literally become our armory
in the event we need it,? Hubsky
bragged.

 

The former member said

Hubsky, 29, lives in Vegas and leads
Atomwaffen has a rule: Don?t talk Atomwaffen's Nevada can. In on?no

about the group?s terrorist chats he discussed blowing up the 0.5.

. . . . power grid and naturalgas lines.
ambitions 1n onlme chats or on

social media. Those sorts of
conversations are only supposed to happen in person. But Hubsky, at
times, has been less than discreet outside the group?s confidential chats.

?So in any war, you need to cut off your enemy?s ability to shoot, move and
communicate,? I-Iubsky wrote in a September 2017 message posted in a
discussion on white nationalism that occurred in a non-Atomwaffen chat
room. ?You would want to target things like: Substations, water filtration
plants, etc.? ProPublica has obtained Hubsky?s statements from that
online conversation.

Hubsky wrote that power grid.?

?West?coast only,? he added in the message. ?Classified map. Had
someone with special permissions get it.?

I-lubsky also discussed blowing up natural gas lines.

?You put a home-made thermite grenade on those," he wrote. While other
types of infrastructure like water lines ?gured in Hubsky?s
discussions, hitting the power grid was, in his view, the most devastating
and effective attack possible. Destroying electricity infrastructure, Hubsky

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wrote, ?would by default take out the
internet because it relies on power to
operate.?

In a telephone conversation and
subsequent series of text messages
with ProPublica, Hubsky at first
denied being a member of
Atomwaffen. But he later offered to
discuss the group at length if his

 

name was not made public, an

John Cameron Danton, left, In an

undated photograph with other white
?Prom-cist- llubsky acknowledged that he owns

arrangement ProPublica declined.

a CZ Scorpion assault ri?e even

sharing a picture 0fthe weapon 
but said it was not fully automatic. He concluded the exchange by saying
he had retained a lawyer.

Hubsky?s organization of the three-day Hate Camp in Nevada began with a
proposal to the group late last year. He offered to arrange it so the group
could hone its combat skills. There would be shooting and hand-to-hand
sparring at a secret location on the edge of Death Valley.

Atomwaffen had already held a Hate Camp in the Shawnee National Forest
in southern Illinois during the fall of 2017. At least 10 members from
different states attended, with some driving in from as far away as Texas,
Kansas, Oklahoma and New Jersey. In the Pacific Northwest, cell members
had converged on an abandoned cement factory, known as ?Devil's Tower?
near the small town of Concrete, Washington, where they had screamed
?gas the kikes, race war now!? while firing off round after round from any
array of weapons, including an AR- 15 assault rifle with a high capacity
drum magazine.

The training sessions were documented in Atomwaffen propaganda
videos.

Members had also organized smaller training sessions, such as the one last
year in Texas that had drawn Blaze Bernstein?s alleged murderer, Samuel
Woodward. The Texas training attended by Woodward took place in the
outside San Antonio and involved 10 members of the Texas
cell who took part in firearms, survival and weapons instruction.

Hubsky scheduled his training camp during the last weekend in January.
Atomwaffen?s Washington chapter leader Kaleb J. Cole, who uses the alias

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Khimaere, agreed to help organize
. . Kaleb J. Cole
the desert training sessmn 1n Alias: Khimaere

Nevada, which the group started
calling the Death Valley Hate
Camp.

?Bring your uniform,

ri?e lsidearm, and whatever
camping gear you need,? he wrote.
Cole, who is 22 and lives close to
the Canadian border in the town
of Blaine, is a National Socialist
Black Metal enthusiast who holds
a concealed ?rearms permit and
owns an AK-47. In 2015, while
Cole was living in Bellingham,

 

police responded to a report that
he had ?Nazi memorabilia? in his

Atomwaffan?s Washington chaptar
loader is 1. Cola. Coil, who owns
residence, according to Lt. an AK-47assauit ri?e with a large-
Danette Beckley of the Bellingham ?'an "9min
arms training sessions in Washington
and Nevada. He also works on the
reported to police in the island group's visual propaganda.

Police Department; he was also

town of Anacortes for allegedly

harassing a Jewish grocery store

owner by a waving a Nazi ?ag in front of the business, according to two law
enforcement sources.

The former Atomwaffen member told ProPublica that Cole wields a
significant degree of in?uence over the organization?s propaganda,
recruitment and organization. ProPublica could not reach Cole for
comment.

When the group got out to the desert, Hubsky made sure they shot photos
and videos to be used in Atomwaffen recruiting clips. In one picture
obtained by ProPublica, an Atomwaffen member is standing at the base of
a sand dune showing off a military-grade weapon an MCX Virtus ri?e
made by Sig Sauer while holding a flag bearing the Atomwaffen
insignia, a black shield bearing the symbol for radioactivity. Another
member, clutching an assault ri?e, is also in the photo.

Hubsky returned from Death Valley enthused and eager to do more
training. He uploaded a memo to the Atomwaffen chat. Members would
now be required to join Front Sight, a ?private combat training facility?

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outside of Las Vegas in the small desert town of Pah rump. Front Sight, the
memo said, could provide classes in ?Uzi and full auto M16 combat, as well
as knife ?ghting, hand to hand combat,? and instruction in climbing and
rappelling.

don't know anything about this group," Bill Cookston, Front Sight?s
director of operations, said this week. ?If anyone were to be doing
something against the law or in a radical manner, we would look into
that.?

Shortly afterward, Michael Meacher, Front Sight?s CEO, said the training
center had sent Hubsky a letter refunding his membership fees and
informing the Las Vegas resident that he was banned from the facility for
life.

 

"Not that the faggot kike didn't deserve to die."

Before Samuel Woodward was jailed on charges of murdering Blaze
Bernstein, he frequently participated in the Atomwaffen chats. First he
used the handle Saboteur. Later he posted under the name Am.

Often, Woodward sounded like a typical 20-year-old. He enthused about
video games (BioShock, Skyrim) and TV shows (he liked the early seasons
of "Trailer Park Boys,? a Canadian comedy series). He complained about
not having a girlfriend.

But Woodward also railed at ?mongrels and jews? and gays.

He praised Mein Kampf and seemed to regard ?Siege? as something akin to
divine revelation; from his perspective, violence and society-shaking
mayhem were the only options for a true Nazi.

That orientation attracted him to outlaw groups like the National Socialist
Underground, 3 German organization that carried out a massive terror
spree between 2001 and 2011, robbing 14 banks, planting bombs and
murdering 10 people, most of them immigrants. ?The NSU was pretty
cool,? Woodward wrote.

In one conversation, Woodward discussed the Bosnian Civil War of the
19905, during which Serbian soldiers and paramilitary fighters raped
thousands of Bosnian Muslim women as part of an infamous campaign of
ethnic cleansing. ?The only acceptable case of miscegenation is what the
serbs did to captured bosniak women,? he wrote in November 2017.

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Woodward liked the idea of using tape to terrorize women of color, whom
he saw as his foes. ?Force them to carry around the spawn of their master
and enemy,? he wrote.

ProPublica sought comment on the chats from Woodward?s lawyer,
Edward Munoz, but did not get a response.

On Jan. 26, ProPublica published a story revealing Woodward?s belief in
Nazism and exposing his involvement with Atomwaffen.

While the article attracted the attention of Atomwaffen members, who
posted it to their online chats, no one in the group expressed any
sympathy for Bernstein, the young man Woodward allegedly murdered.
They made jokes about his slaying and used slurs to describe him. If the re
was worry, it was about Woodward possibly having to do time behind bars
for the murder.

?Sam did something stupid,? wrote one member. ?Not that the faggot kike
didn?t deserve to die. Just simply not worth a life in prison for.?

Sean Michael Fernandez, an Atomwaffen leader in Texas, even saw an
upside for the group. Fernandez, who used the alias Wehrwolf, believed
that Atomwaffen actually stood to benefit from the increased notoriety
stemming from Woodward?s affiliation with the neo-Nazi group and the
Bernstein murder.

?We?re only going to inspire more ?copycat crimes? in the name of AWD. All
we have to do is spread our image and our propaganda,? Fernandez wrote
on Jan. 30.

He continued: ?The growing fear is what we set out to do and it?s working
EXACTLY how I wanted it to since we took over ?leadership.? I couldn?t
have planned this better, seriously.?

For his part, Denton, the national Atomwaffen leader, felt betrayed.
ProPublica had interviewed a former member for the story; still, Denton
believed that someone currently within the ranks was sharing information
with the media. ?Looks like AWD needs another purging,? he wrote.

Members began speculating about who was talking to outsiders. Was it a
current member? Was it someone they?d kicked out recently?

Members also directed their rage toward the media. As they saw it,
Woodward was the one being victimized. Now that his involvement with
Atomwaffen had spilled out into the public sphere, Orange County

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prosecutors might hit him with hate

Sean Michael Fernandez
Alias: Wehrwolf

crimes charges charges that could
potentially add years to a prison
sentence.

?We really owe those jews at
ProPublica,? wrote one member.

Woodward posted many hundreds of
messages to the Atomwaffen chats.
But on Jan. 5, he typed out a few
lines that are quite distinct from all
the rest. In them, the raging young
man suddenly became highly
sentimental. Two days earlier,
according to prosecutors, he had

 

buried Bernstein?s lifeless body in a

598" Michael Fernandez isa leader Of park in Lake Forest, California.
the Texas can.

Now Woodward explained that he
was re?ecting on mortality.

?hey everyone.? he wrote. ?i just wanted to let you all know i love you so
much.?

Ati Winston is a reporting fellow with. the Investigative Fund. Follow him on Twitter

@awinston.

Jake Hanrahan is a freelance jou malist and?lmmaker based in the United Kingdom.

Follow him on 'I?witter @g?akahanrahan.

Thompson
Reporter A.C. Thompson covers hate crimes and racial extremism for
ProPublica.

A.C.Thompson@propublioa.org @acinvestigates

 

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Accelerationism is a term white supremacists have assigned to their
desire to hasten the collapse of society as we know it. The term is
widely used by those on the fringes of the movement, who employ it
Openly and enthusiastically on mainstream platforms, as well as in the
shadows of private, chat rooms. We have also recently seen

tragic instances of its manifestation in the real world.

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The concept of acceleration has existed for years as a fringe
philosophy. Some of the earliest examples are rooted in a Marxist
notion that the intensification of an unhinged force, such as
capitalism, for example, will inevitably result in that force?s own self?
destruction. However, some white supremacists have adopted the
terminology and determined that a societal collapse is both imminent
and necessary. On March 21, 2019, one anonymous 8chan user, who
promoted white supremacist views, wrote, used to think acceleration

was a marxist [sic] however, I see its value."

Brenton Tarrant, the alleged perpetrator of the mosque massacres in
New Zealand, subscribed to accelerationism the concept was
specifically articulated in his manifesto, which he posted moments
before his shooting spree. Tarrant dedicates an entire section of his
manifesto to this concept under the heading "Destabilization and

Accelerationism: Tactics for Victory.?

Tarrant's actions seemed to breathe new life into the discussion of
accelerationism and spurred a resurgence of references, paired with
praise for his actions, on platforms including Gab, YouTube, Reddit,

Schan and others.
Equal But Opposite Reaction

The term "acceleration? references and encompasses two Opposing
forces. On one end, extremists identify "acceleration" as the perceived
escalation by nefarious entities to advance "degenerate? values and
in?uences such as multiculturalism, liberalism and diversity, among

others. In line with deeply anti-Semitic views that dominate white

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supremacist beliefs, Jews are often blamed for their perceived role in
promoting these elements?which white supremacists believe
contribute to an imminent ?genocide" of the white race. This view is
expressly articulated by Discord user EagleJarl on November 4, 2017,
"The jews [sic] are the real accelerationists." Discord is a chat platform

for gamers to communicate with each other in real time.

Accelerationism, however, also serves as a reactionary call against the
antagonistic forces that are causing society to spiral out of control. In
one Discord post from December 22, 2017, user Dr. Goebbowls wrote,
"Anyone with half a brain and enough time can find the information to
realize that accelerationism is the last resort of the white man of the

modern age.?
Destabilization by Whatever Means Necessary

Fueled by the perception that the future of the white race is bleak,
these white supremacists believe they must employ any means
necessary to expedite the collapse of the current system. Solutions to
bring down the system range from the most extreme form, violence, to
deliberate political engagement that supports destructive and divisive
societal elements. For example, Tarrant referenced the need to bring
about collapse by leaning in to disruptive forces, even those
antithetical to white supremacist beliefs, writing, vote for a radical
candidate that opposes your values and incites agitation or anxiety in
your own people works far more in your favour than a vote for a
milquetoast political candidate that has no ability or wish to enact

radical change.?

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Accelerationists believe that setting off a series of reactions, even if
they result in changes that directly threaten the white race, can
actually be a useful tool for motivating more reticent white
supremacists. Following an extremist terrorist attack such as the Tree
of Life shooting or Christchurch rampage, accelerationists identify a
domino effect that is set into motion a chain of societal reactions
that further exacerbate the feeling of alienation among white
supremacists, and, theoretically, a greater impulse to engage in

violence or other destructive behavior.

This phenomenon was articulated by one anonymous 8chan post on
March 21, 2019: 'acceleration' things thus
[sic] alienate [sic] the White pOpluation [sic] and get the fence sitters
off the was the core of what Bretton [sic] was trying to
explain in his manifesto. He understood that ZOG [anti-Semitic
conspiracy of Jewish control called the Zionist Occupied Government]

would double down on censorship, gun grabbing, free speech, etc.?

But at the core of accelerationism is the goal of creating societal
chaos. Tarrant wrote, ?True change and the change we need to enact
only arises in the great crucible of crisis. A gradual change is never
going to achieve victory. Stability and comfort are the enemies of
revolutionary change. Therefore [sic] we must destabilize and
discomfort society where ever possible." Tarrant presumably believed
his murder of 50 worshippers at New Zealand mosques was helping to

bring this extreme theory into the real world.

Blueprint for Violence

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White supremacists hold up extremist publications like the Siege and
Turner Diaries, for example as blueprints for violent accelerationist

action.

Siege, a nee-Nazi compilation of essays by James Mason, predicts that
?the final END of society is accelerating" because "the entire
foundation itself is thoroughly corroded." Mason uses this as the basis
for a call to engage in acts of violence that will expedite the inevitable
collapse, writing, "At this juncture social malaise cannot be halted, only
accelerated onward to the abyss, capitulating the whole vile episode of

this end cycle.?

The Twitter poster "Jumper Siege? illustrates the crossover between
those who embrace Siege "culture" and accelerationism. He describes
himself as an ?Accelerationist [national socialist] his photo banner



reads strew the streets with the bodies of bureaucrats? while his bio

includes the phrase, ?Molotov the fed 

White supremacists who advocate for accelerationism also turn to The
Turner Diaries by William Pierce, which offers a more implicit
packaging of the concept. For example, the book presents a symbolic
critique of a fictional character, described as a ?responsible
conservative,? who does not understand that of the major
purposes of political to force the authorities to take reprisals
and to become more repressive, thus alienating a portion of the
population and generating sympathy for the terrorists. And the other
purpose is to create unrest by destroying the population's sense of

security and their belief in the invincibility of the government.? As one

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anonymous Sohan user posted on March 21, 2019, "Dr. William 
ALWAYS [sic] supported men of action who fought for their race, even

when he disapproved of their target selection."

Accelerationism to the Core

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Accelerationisrn is embraced throughout Fascist Forge, an online hate
forum where posters discuss the ?optimal? type of violent action.
Poster Krokodil, who appears to have ties to white supremacist groups
Atomwaffen and The Base, wrote on October 3, 2018: "If we wanted to,
hypothetically, every single one of us could go full McVeigh [Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh] and start dispatching political and
economic targets today, helping build the social tension that will

accelerate the collapse of the System.?

Accelerationism is a p0pular topic in private chat rooms frequented by

white supremacist groups like Atomwaffen and The Base. These

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virtual spaces are full of discussions about steps to take to hasten the

ultimate collapse.

Atomwaffen articulates a white supremacist ideology rooted in
nihilism and accelerationist beliefs. Violence, chaos and destruction

are themes echoed throughout their posts, propaganda and messaging.

Roman Wolf, The Base?s self-described communications specialist and
recruiter, retweeted this before his account was suspended: "Our
enemies will accelerate our situation as they are intent on achieving
their goals. We cannot halt this acceleration. We can however speed it
up even further?every act of resistance by whites causes a further

reaction by our enemies."

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Key Points:

- AWD is a small neo?Nazi group whose members are preparing for a
race war to combat what they consider the cultural and racial

diSplacement of the white race.

- AWD spreads their hateful prOpaganda via the internet and by

distributing provocative fliers, posters, and stickers.

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- Members participate in "hate camps," organized hiking excursions

and military-style training exercises.

- Members have participated in white supremacist rallies and events

organized by other white supremacist groups.

- Members and associates have been linked to violent crimes including
murder and alleged plots to attack civilians, nuclear facilities and

synagogues.
Origins

Atomwaffen Division (AWD) is a small neo?Nazi group that became
active in 2016. The group is believed to have originated online from a
now-defunct Neo-Nazi forum called Iron March, which was known for
its extreme content and calls for violence. According to the AWD
website, they are "a revolutionary national socialist organization
centered around political activism and the practice of an autonomous
fascist lifestyle." They promote the idea that societal and
governmental ?systems? are collapsing and that democracy and
capitalism have "given way to Jewish olig archies and globalist bankers

resulting in the cultural and racial displacement of the white race.?

Members train in preparation for an impending race war and promote
the use of violence to reach their goal of ?uncompromising victory.? In
a promotional video published on January 21, 2018, members, dressed
in military?styled camouflaged fatigues, shout "gas the Kikes? and

"race war now" as they fire weapons and practice tactical maneuvers.

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In December 2017, one of leaders, John Cameron Denton (aka
Vincent Snyder), laid out the group's plans on their Siege Culture
website: ?Our responsibility right now is resistance, anything that
happens after that we?ll simply adapt to it and work with what we
have." Denton, who lives in Texas, has attended white supremacist
rallies and events in Houston and Austin alongside members of the

White Lives Matter movement and the Aryan Renaissance Society.

Atomwaffen members have a macabre fascination with serial killer
Charles Manson and his vision of a race war between whites and
blacks. For this reason, in 2017, Benton and other Atomwaffen
members sought out neo?Nazi Manson devotee and former American
Nazi Party member, James Mason, and republished some of his
writing, including Siege, a book based on a collection of newsletters

Mason wrote in the 19803.

In addition to Charles Manson, AWD members pay tribute to other
white men who've committed mass murders, including Dylann Roof,
Anders Breivik, Ted and Timothy McVeigh, even referring to

the latter three as "the father, the son, and the holy spirit."

Atomwaffen draws some of its influences from satanic ideas and
beliefs. Required and recommended reading lists for Atomwaffen's
"aSpiring initiates" include books that draw on satanic and occult
themes, while some Atomwaffen members promote a particular
version of Satanism known as "The Order of Nine Angles," commonly

abbreviated as DNA or 09A, which is steeped in nee-Nazi themes that

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praise Adolf Hitler, promote Holocaust denial and identify Jews as the

enemy.

The Order of Nine Angles? spiritual leader, Anton Long (which may be a
pseudonym for David Myatt), is a notorious British neo-Nazi leader
with a violent criminal history. Siege Culture, an Atomwaffen website,
promotes Long's book Hostr'a: Secret Teachings of the Order ofM'n-e
Angles, an instructional guide for would?be 09A members that
encourages ?satanic novices? to undergo a personal transformation to
achieve a more revolutionary mindset. Suggestions include enlisting in
a police force, championing heretical views, becoming a professional
burglar and joining the armed forces (in wartime) to gain combat

experience.

Atomwaffen?s small clusters of members are scattered around the
country; they participate in "hate campz? hiking excursions and
military-style training exercises. The AWD Florida chapter, once
considered the largest in the country, took a major hit in May 2017
when Devon Arthurs, a former Atomwaffen member who converted to
Islam, allegedly murdered two of his roommates, Atomwaffen members

Jeremy Himmelman and Andrew Oneschuk.

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An investigation following the murders revealed that a fourth
Atomwaffen Florida member, Brandon Russell, sometimes named in
media reports as the group?s national leader, had been collecting
explosive materials in his apartment. Russell fled but was quickly

arrested by police.

Arthurs told law enforcement that AWD planned to use explosives to
attack civilians, nuclear facilities and synagogues. In January 2018,
Russell, who pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive
device and unlawful storage of explosive materials, was sentenced to

five years in federal prison.

Virginia teen Nicholas Giampa, who allegedly shot and killed his
girlfriend's parents after they became upset by his rumored neo?Nazi
views, was, at the very least, influenced by Atomwaffen. Giampa
praised Mason's book, Siege, and retweeted material from Siege
Culture. He also retweeted at least one Atomwaffen photo and praised
someone named "Ryan Atomwaffen? for his white supremacist book

collection.

Activity attributed to Atomwaffen has been reported in multiple states,
including California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Texas,

Massachusetts, Washington, North Carolina and Virginia. The group?s

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vile propaganda often promotes violence against minority
communities, including LGBT people, Jews, Muslims, and African

Americans.
Sonnenkrieg Division

White supremacist organization Sonnenkrieg Division, which
launched online in 2018, has strong ties to Atomwaffen. Sonnenkrieg is
predominantly focused on political and social issues in Europe,
specifically the UK and Eastern Europe, and its members take a

nihilistic View of the world, which they seek to destroy.

There are significant overlap in the Sonnenkrieg and AWD's core
ideologies, use of graphics and imagery, rhetoric, cross-promotion and
communication. Like Atomwaffen, Sonnenkrieg rails against a
perceived cultural and racial obliteration of the white race

and glorifies the teachings of Siege author James Mason.

On December 6, 2018, British authorities arrested 21-year-old Andrew
Dymock, 18?year?old Oskar Koczorowski and an unnamed 17?year?

old on suspicion of possessing material likely to be used to prepare or
commit acts of terrorism and conspiracy to inspire racial and religious

hatred. All three are associated with Sonnenkrieg.

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The Murder of Blaze Bernstein

On January 12, 2018, law enforcement officers arrested 20-year-old
California resident Sam Woodward for the stabbing death of former
classmate Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old college student. Two days
prior to the arrest, Bernstein?s body was found with 19 stab wounds to
his neck, buried in a shallow grave in a park in Lake Forest, California.
In addition to felony murder charges in connection with the death of
Bernstein, the Orange County District Attorney's Office charged
Woodward on August 2, 2018, with hate crimes for allegedly targeting

Bernstein because of his sexual orientation.

Woodward?s association with Atomwaffen came to light in photos,
social media and leaked Discord chat logs, where he interacted with
Atomwaffen members and frequently discussed his hatred of gay
people and Jews. One of these photographs Show Woodward giving a
Nazi salute alongside other Atomwaffen members. Following the
murder, Atomwaffen affiliate @Trajan_AWD justified Woodward's
actions on Twitter, posting, "Sam Woodward did nothing wrong, some

gay tried to kiss him and he reacted appropriately."

Examples of Activity:

Pensacola, Florida, November 2017: Flyers with homophobic slurs and
the Atomwaffen website address were found at the University of West

Florida.

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Shelbyville, Tennessee, October 2017: At least one Atomwaffen member

attended the Nationalist Front organized White Lives Matter rally.

Houston, Texas, October 2016: AWD members protested in front of the
Houston ADL office alongside White Lives Matter (WLM) Texas and

members of the Aryan Renaissance Society

Seattle, Washington, September 201?: AWD members held ?Hate Planet"

banners from a footbridge

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Olympia, Washington, June 2017: Atomwaffen fliers were posted at
Evergreen State College. The flyers demanded, "Where will you be

when the race war begins? When the world burns?"

Seattle, Washington, June 2017: Atomwaffen members distributed
numerous ?iers at the University of Washington and posed for photos

at the university?s Sieg Hall.

Philadelphia, April 2017: Atomwaffen fliers were posted
at the University of including one that read ?How is a

diploma going to help you in the race war?"

Chicago, Illinois, December 2016: An Atomwaffen flier that read
DISAPPROVES: No Degeneracy, No Tolerance, Hail Victory"

was posted at the University of Chicago.

Bradenton, Florida, December 2016: Atomwaffen fliers that read, "How

is a diploma going to help you in the race war? Join your local Nazis"

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and New Course of Action, A New Time," were posted at the State

College of Florida at Bradenton.

Denver, Colorado, December 2016: An Atomwaffen ?yer that read. "The
fascists are in town! Are you ready to stand against liberal anti-white

filth white man?? was posted at the University of Colorado.

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NAME: COLE, Kaleb James
DOB: 10/13/1995 
TRAVEL INFORMATION: BA 29?

REASON FOR SECONDARY REFERRAM 

PASSPORT COUNTRY 

ADDITIONAL PASSPORT 
LPR CLASSIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION (IF ANY): 
DISPOSITION (ADMITTED, ARRESTED): Admitted USC.

NAME OF SUPERVISOR WITNESSING 0R SUPERVISORY NOTIFICATION: 

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PURPOSE OF TRIP: Vacation.

DURATION OF TRIP: 25 days (12/03/2013 12/28/2018).

PERSONS TO BE VISITED: 

PLACES VISITED TO BE VISITED IN THE U.S.: Prague Czech Republic,
lWroclaw Poland, Kiev Ukraine, Krakow Poland.

5. SPONSORING ORG. FOR USED TO PAY FOR TRIP: Self.

6. OCCUPATION: General Laborer at 

7. AFFILIATIONS WITH EDUCATIONAL OR PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS: Atomwaffen.

3. VALUE OF CASH AND OTHER MONETARY INSTRUMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF
OUTBOUND CURRENCY: Outbound $1,000 USO/Igyound $0 USD.

9. 1mm DESTINATION: 

10. ENTIRE TRAVEL AND COUNTRIES VISITED, INCLUDING OUTBOUND PORT (S):

 

 

 



11. CITY AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: Everett, Washington, us.
12. CURRENT ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER (INCLUDE ZIP 

WA, phone?

14- ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATE INFORMATION 
PIPE OP AAO

RESPONSES, ETC.):

On December 28, 2018, COLE, Kaleb James (DOB: 10/13/1995) arrived at Chicago O?Hare
International Airport (0RD) via British Airways flight; number 29'? from London, UK. -

COLE was met and identified on the jet bridge at gate M-ll in Terminal 5 by CBP Officers

COLE presented a valid U.S. passport number
540675230 to inspecting CBP officers at the gate. Subject was traveling with BRUCE
UMBAUGH. Aidan (Dom?r and MOORE: Edie
Allison (DOB: . COLE was escorted to ?Primary for processing

and referred to _Secondary for examination.

- interview was conducted by COLE was traveling with his friends BRUCE
UMBAUGH, Aidan (DOB: and MOORE, Edie
Allison (DOB: . COLE stated he knows Aidan from 6th grade and they hang out
occasionally, but he recently moved to east Washington. Subject stated they were coming
back from 25?day trip to Europe. Subject first traveled to Prague, Czech Republic where
they stayed at 3 Crowns hotel for 5 days. Subject then traveled by bus to Wroclaw, Poland
where they stayed at Hostel Fitness for 3 days. Subject then went to Kiev, Ukraine where
they stayed at Airbnb for 12 days. Subject stated they visited Patriotic War Museum and
attended metal music festival while in Kiev. Subject then traveled to Krakow, Poland where
they stayed at Holiday Inn hotel for 2 days, and then back to Prague for 2 days. COLE
stated that the main for reason for this trip was to see the historic architecture and
museums in Eastern EurOpean countries. Subject stated they mostly traveled by bus, Uber or

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on foot. COLE stated that they planned this trip for past few months and he paid for the

 

 

 

trip himself with his savings. Subject stated he did not meet with anyone while in Europe,
except few people from UK, who he met while walking on the streets in Kiev. Subject stated
that he felt safer in Europe, than he does in the U.S. Subject stated that he was treated
more like a person and people were nicer to him. Subject stated he had few interactions
with law enforcement in Kiev and they were more professional and helpful than police
officers in the 0.8. Subject stated that while in the U.S. he was pulled over multiple
times and searched without a reason. Subject stated that law enforcement agencies in the

U.S. abuse their authority and use excessive force.

COLE works for Subject stated he resides with his father
alt?x WA. and his cell phone number is 

Subject stated he doesn't use an email or any social media.

According to an open source article, COLE is an Atomwaffen?s Washington chapter leader and
he owns an assault rifle with a large?capacity magazine, helped organize arms
training sessions in Washington and Nevada. He also works on the group's visual
propaganda. The Atomwaffen Division (?Atomwaffen" meaning "Atomic weapons" in German} is a
neo-Nazi terrorist organization based in the United States. COLE was asked about the
article that was'posted online and he stated that he is a member of Atomwaffen. Subject
stated that he shares a fascist ideology, ?strong dominate the weal-c". COLE also stated
that he discourages people (other members) from things that are illegal and he stated that
his group is not interested in overthrowing the U.S. Government. COLE didn?t want to
comment on his involvement in the group or how long he has been a member. Subject stated
that his co?travelers know he belongs to the group, but he didn?t want to comment when was
asked if they belong to the group as well. Subject stated he owns an AK rifle and
multiple handguns for his own protection.

COLE was traveling with one backpack and no checked bags. Bag exam of subject?s backpack
revealed personal items, clothes and an atomwaffen flag. Subject reported $0 USD ($1,000
USD outbound) .

COLE was in possession of a Samsung cellphone (Model IMEI ~0464,
Serial . The cellphone was unlocked and placed in airplane mode by 
which disabled cellular and data connections during the exam. SCBPO - verified the

data cicaclcc- 
The 

returned to COLE in original condition. The cellular device inspection started at
approximately 2155 hours and concluded at approximately 2230 hours.

All original documents were returned to COLE.
-Officer was contacted with inspection results at 2345 hours. 

- COLE was allowed to exit the Federal Inspection Service (FIB) area without further
incident at. 0010 hours in concurrence with SCBPO 

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0U.S. phone# .

CEmail: 

TIMELINE of Events:

Intercepted by - CBPO at 2140 hours.
Contact - CBPO - contacted -Officer at 2345 hours.

Subject was released at 0010 in concurrence with SCBPO -

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