Blood and Politics (99 page)

16.
ATF 53430 83 2006 H, Special Agent Bill Hobbs, “Report of Interview with Bill Thomas,” May 3 and 5, 1985; Levitas,
The Terrorist Next Door
, pp. 220–22; Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America’s Racist Underground
(New York: The Free Press, 1989), pp. 260–61.

17.
ATF 53430 83 2006 H, Special Agent Bill Hobbs, “Report of Interview with Bill Thomas,” May 3 and 5, 1985.

18.
Arkansas State Police, ASP-4, Criminal Investigation Divisions Status Report, Final Disposition, “November 2, 1984, Wayne Snell was found guilty . . . of the crime of Capital Murder.”

19.
Lynn Mills, “Give me Liberty . . . or . . . ,”
The Jubilee
, May/June 1995, “Snell was pronounced dead at 9:16 pm” (article includes a list of Snell’s murder convictions).

20.
Arkansas State Police CRL-49-997-84, State Bureau of Investigation Agents Kim Carter and Greg Glenn, “Inventory of Cream Colored Van,” July 1, 1984.

10. Birth of the First Underground

  
1.
The Hammer: Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist News and Analysis
4 (August 1983), Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.

  
2.
“White Separatist or Aryan Seditionist,”
The Mountain Kirk
, n.d., includes “Biographical Chronology” (member of the “Youth Battalion of the White Russian VRNP” in 1936, recruited and trained volunteers for anti-Soviet Ukrainian field forces 1947 to 1970); James Ridgeway,
Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1990), pp. 81–85; author, notes on multiple issues of Miles’s newsletter,
From the Mountain
, 1981–91, which included autobiographical references.

  
3.
Bob Miles,
From the Mountain
, January–February 1990 (includes pictures of Miles in Free French and other uniforms).

  
4.
Bob Miles, “A Personal Update From the Mountain,” January 2, 1991. In this one-page letter Miles acknowledges that many rumors exist.

  
5.
Ridgeway,
Blood in the Face
, pp. 81–83.

  
6.
Ridgeway,
Blood in the Face
, p. 83, quoting Tom Turnipseed, a campaign director for Wallace in 1968 who became a board member of the Center for Democratic Renewal and made similar comments to the author during their multiple conversations.

  
7.
Robert E. Miles, “Letter to Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard, United Klans of America,” December 12, 1971, republished in
From the Mountain
, July 1972. Miles signed the letter as “Imperial Kludd” of the UKA.

  
8.
“Klan Chaplain Held in Michigan Assault,” UPI, published in
The Washington Post
, June 23, 1972; Jeffrey Hadden, “Former Klan Leader Miles Is Sentenced to 9 Years,”
Detroit News
, October 27, 1973; Dorothy Miles, “Dear Friends” letter,
From the Mountain
, July 1972; Robert Miles, “What Feathers Do You Deserve,”
From the Mountain
, July 1972.

  
9.
Miles, “Dear Friends” letter.

10.
Robert E. Miles,
33/5
, printed and bound by the Mountain Church of Northern Ohio, 1983, (sixty-plus page booklet).

11.
Robert E. Miles,
33/5
, pp. 3–4.

12.
Robert E. Miles,
33/5
.

13.
Robert E. Miles,
From the Mountain
, September–October 1987, p. 1 (description of Samhain in October as the “White Race’s Holiday”; each spring a meeting coincided with the weekend nearest Hitler’s birthday anniversary, April 20).

14.
The Center for Democratic Renewal in Atlanta and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch Project in Montgomery closely monitored the Georgia rallies during the period between 1986 and 1992, and usually reported on them in their respective publications,
The Monitor
and the
Klanwatch Intelligence Report
; Aryan Nations, “Announcing the Special Session Aryan Nations Congress, A.D. 12–13 July 1986” (invitation leaflet listing speakers, including “Robert Miles, Pastor, Mountain Church; Aryan Nations Ambassador”).

15.
Louis Beam often used the pseudonym Nathan Bedford Forrest, after the Confederate general who first led the Klan.

16.
FBI, “Wanted By FBI Louis Ray Beam,” Identification Order 5D40, June 17, 1987.

17.
Louis Beam,
Essays of a Klansman
(Hayden Lake, Idaho: A.K.I.A. Publications, 1983), p. 36.

18.
Ibid., p. 37.

19.
Ibid., p. 39, “American political leaders committed us to a war they were determined to lose . . . When in spite of all their restrictive rules the American soldier still won on the battlefield—a political defeat was arranged to achieve the desired results.”

20.
Louis Beam, “Opening Statement,” Seditious Conspiracy Trial in Fort Smith, February 17, 1988 (author notes at court).

21.
Louis Beam,
Essays
, p. vi.

22.
J. B. Campbell, “Louis and Sheila,”
The Jubilee
, May/June 1994; Randall William, ed.,
The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism and Violence
(Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, 1981), p. 60 (profile of Louis Beam, includes 1981 conviction for paramilitary training in Texas); Morris Dees with James Corcoran,
Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat
(New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996), p. 35.

23.
“Secrecy Prevails in Klan [Border] Watch,”
The Crusader
, 28 (photo cutline describes Beam as a Great Titan, a statewide title);
Vietnamese Fisherman’s Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
, U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, H-81-895, permanent injunction 1982,
www.splcenter.org/legal/docket/files.jsp?cdrID+40&sortID+0
; Grand Dragon Beam resigned from the Knights in 1981.

24.
Photo of Louis Beam with cutline: “Beam forcibly removed the child from the mother’s home,”
Poverty Law Report
, March–April 1982, Southern Poverty Law Center; Bill Morlin, “One of the nation’s leading racists . . . attempts to win joint custody,”
The Spokesman-Review
, February 3, 2002 (ex-wife Kara Mikels dropped charges in the 1982 case).

25.
Louis Beam,
Essays
, p. 8.

26.
Louis Beam, “Interview with journalist at Christian Patriots Defense League Survival Conference,” transcript forwarded to author, June 24, 1984.

27.
Louis Beam,
Essays
, p. 15.

28.
Ibid., p. 8.

29.
Ibid., p. viii.

30.
John C. Calhoun and Louis R. Beam, “The Perfected Order of the Klan,”
Inter-Klan Newsletter and Survival Alert
5, p. 5; John C. Calhoun, “Of Man, God, and War—Thoughts from the Fifth Era,”
Inter-Klan Newsletter and Survival Alert!
5, p. 10. Calhoun, who often coauthored articles with Beam, signed the article.

31.
Louis R. Beam, Jr., “Klankraft and Klan History,” in
Essays of a Klansman
, p. 17; Robert E. Miles, “Pull Away, Brethren, Pull Away,”
Calling Our Nation
, 43.

32.
Louis Beam,
Essays
, p. 17.

33.
Robert Miles,
33/5
, p. 10.

34.
Louis Beam, “Leaderless Resistance,”
Inter-Klan Newsletter & Survival Alert
, n.d. (1983).

35.
Ibid.

36.
“Leaderless Resistance” was republished on multiple occasions, but it was first written and published in the
Inter-Klan and Newsletter Alert
in 1983.

37.
Carl Franklin, “One Army,”
Calling Our Nation
36, published by Aryan Nations–Teutonic Unity.

38.
Ken Lawrence, “Behind the Klan’s Karibbean Koup Attempt Parts I and II,”
Covert Action Information Bulletin
13 and 16 (July–August 1981 and March 1982); Warren Kinsella,
Web of Hate: Inside Canada’s Far Right Network
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994), p. 204; Wade,
Fiery Cross
, pp. 372–73.

39.
“Klan Moves Forward, Under New Grand Wizard,”
Crusader: The Voice of the White Majority
51 (January 1981), includes background on Don Black; Don Black, interviews with Evelyn Rich, March 12 and March 24, 1985.

40.
“Grand Wiz’rd Imprisoned,”
The White Patriot
55 (January 1983): 5; Leonard Zeskind (unsigned), “Split in the Knights of the KKK, Black and Robb Vie for Power,”
The Hammer: Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist News and Analysis
3 (May 1983). The Don Black faction published issues of the
White Patriot
and one issue called
White Knight
from Metairie, Louisiana; the Thom Robb faction published issues of the
White Patriot
from a Tuscumbia, Alabama, address.

41.
Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
(New York: The Free Press, 1989), pp. 88–91.

42.
NOFIT flyer from 1983. “NO MORE OF THE BANKER’S AND POLITICIANS’ LIES. WE TRIED THE BALLOT BOX . . . IT’S TIME FOR A NEW ‘BOSTON TEA PARTY.’”

43.
“Farmers Join Truckers in Protests; Call for Massive Foreign Aid Cuts,”
The Spotlight
, February 14, 1983; “No More Talk Say Farmers, Truckers,”
The Spotlight
, March 31, 1983, p. 4.

44.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, pp. 78–90.

11. Enclave Nationalism and The Order

  
1.
Untitled article beginning “The Sixth General Convention will be held Saturday September 3,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, February 1983, “Love at First Sight,” photo cutline,
National Alliance Bulletin
, October 1983.

  
2.
Robert Mathews,
A Call to Arms
, audiotape of 1983 speech (National Vanguard Books, 1991).

  
3.
Ibid.

  
4.
Robert Mathews, “To the Editor,” letter explaining Mathews’s views and the shoot-out involving Gary Yarborough, n.d., received at Aryan Nations headquarters, December 8, 1984, also reprinted in
The Secret Army or Wenn Alle Brüder Schweigen
, compilation by Fafnir [Robert Miles], Followers of the Way, Fowlerville, Michigan, 1985.

  
5.
Ibid.: “Thus I have no choice. I must stand up like a white man and do battle.”

  
6.
“What It Will Take,” unsigned editorial,
National Vanguard
103 (January/February 1985): 2; “Political Justice,”
National Vanguard
106 (January/February 1986): 7;
The Secret Army or Wenn Alle Brüder Schweigen
, compilation by Fafnir [Robert Miles].

  
7.
Wayne King, “23 in White Supremacist Group Are Indicted on Federal Charges,”
The New York Times
, April 16, 1985; “Trooper Killed by Suspect,” Associated Press,
The New York Times
, April 16, 1985;
United States v. Bruce Pierce, Gary Lee Yarborough, Randolph George Duey, Andrew Virgil Barnhill, Denver Daw Parmenter II, Richard Harold Kemp, Richard E. Scutari, David Eden Lane, Randall Paul Evans, Robert E. Merki, James Sherman Dye, Sharon K. Merki, Frank Lee Silva, Jean Margaret Craig, Randall Eugene Rader, Kenneth Joseph Loff, Ronald Allen King, David Tate, Thomas Bentley, Ardie McBrearty, Jackie Lee Norton, George Franklin Zaengle, William Anthony Nash
, U.S. District Court Western Washington at Seattle, CR85-001M, April 12, 1985.

  
8.
United States v. Bruce Pierce, Gary Lee Yarborough, et al.
; Kevin Flynn and John Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, pp. 167–70, 203–207.

  
9.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
; Tom Martinez with John Guinther,
Brotherhood of Murder
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988); Stephen Singular,
Talked to Death
(New York: William Morrow, 1987).

10.
Corcoran,
Bitter Harvest
, p. 245.

11.
United States of America v. Bruce Carroll Pierce, Gary Lee Yarborough, et al
.

12.
USA v. Pierce et al.
, Cr85-001M, transcript of opening statements.

13.
“What It Will Take,” editorial,
National Vanguard
103 (January/February 1985): 3.

14.
Robert Miles,
From the Mountain
, March/April 1985.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Benedict Anderson,
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
(London: Verso, 1991). Author thanks Chris Lutz for information about this book.

17.
Robert E. Miles, “The Birth of a Nation: A Declaration of the Existence of a Racial Nation Within the Confines of a Hostile Political State,” statement published by Mountain Church, n.d.

18.
“Operations Report,” and “Business Report,”
NSV Report: A Quarterly Overview of the National Socialist Vanguard
3, no. 3 (July/September 1985), The Dalles, Oregon.

19.
Leonard Zeskind (unsigned), “Drive for ‘Aryan Republic’ Stalled,”
The Monitor
9 (November 1987), (notes Kim Badynski had moved); in November 1985, author informed participants in an Interstate Task Force on Human Rights meeting in Spokane about Miles’s proposal.

20.
“Declaring a Territorial Sanctuary,” agenda item, Aryan Nations Congress, July 12–13, 1986; Richard Butler, “Dear Kinsmen,”
Aryan Nations Newsletter
63 (June 9, 1986): 2;
Calling Our Nation
, 53 (Aryan Nations): 1–2.

21.
William Pierce, “A National Alliance Report,” transcript of audiotape made by Russ Bellant, Free Association Forum, Cohoctah, Michigan, April 19–20, 1986.

22.
“Living for Fitness,” editorial,
National Vanguard
106 (January/February 1986).