
Readers will no doubt be shocked to learn the leader of the “white supremacist neo-Nazi terrorist group” the Base is an intelligence contractor and appears to be a federal agent.
In truth, it’d probably be more shocking to learn he wasn’t a fed.
From The Guardian, “Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group”:
The Guardian has learned the true identity of the leader and founder of the US-based neo-Nazi terror network the Base, which was recently the target of raids by the FBI after an investigation into domestic terrorism uncovered their plans to start a race war.
Members of the group stand accused of federal hate crimes, murder plots and firearms offenses, and have harbored international fugitives in recent months.
The Baseās leader previously operated under the aliases āNorman Spearā and āRoman Wolfā. Members of the network do not know his true identity due to the groupās culture of internal secrecy.
But the Guardian can reveal that āNorman Spearā is in fact US-born Rinaldo Nazzaro, 46, who has a long history of advertising his services as an intelligence, military and security contractor. He has claimed, under his alias, to have served in Russia and Afghanistan.
The revelation of his identity comes after a months-long investigation by the Guardian into Nazzaro and the activities of the Base.
While Nazzaroās most recently used address is in New Jersey, there is evidence supporting his claims of being based in Russia, where he lives with his Russian wife.
His “service” seems to be linking Russia to the “white supremacist” movement in the US on behalf of the FBI.
Last August, an Oregon-based antifascist group, Eugene Antifa, warned that the Base was planning a āhate campā in the neighboring state of Washington, and claimed Nazzaro (operating under the alias of āSpearā) had purchased land in Stevens county for training purposes. This warning came after a leak of the Baseās internal chats.
Local media outlets picked up the story, which led local law enforcement to urgently seek information on the group.
In emails obtained by the Guardian via public records request, the Stevens county Sheriff, Brad Manke, is seen contacting the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for advice on the group.
On 20 August 2019, Manke writes to an FBI agent, asking: āDo you have a name for the actual head of the group The Base or the address where the property actually is?ā
In a 20 September email responding to an SPLC researcher, Manke writes: āI have since learned that āThe Baseā has purchased property in Ferry County, WA which is a neighboring county.ā
Note: no word on how the FBI responded.
Property record searches revealed that three 10-acre blocks of undeveloped land were purchased in December 2018 for $33,000 in the name of a Delaware LLC called āBase Globalā. In a telephone conversation in late November, Manke confirmed that this was the block of land he had been referring to.
He purchased the land under the name of his international terrorist group.
They traced the purchase back to his family member’s apartment in New Jersey which he and his “wife” have lived in.
In deeds of sale, the address provided for the company was a New Jersey post office ā enough to conceal the purchaserās identity. But separate tax affidavits associated with the purchase give a different address for Base Global.
That address is for a New Jersey apartment that has belonged to an older family member of Nazzaro since 1998. Nazzaro and his wife have also intermittently resided at that address, according to database searches.
The affidavits are also signed by Nazzaro, and dated ā12/21/2018 Republicā. Republic is the seat and the only city in Ferry county, Washington.
Note: this was only enough OpSec to fool some moron for the feds to entrap.
According to a source inside the Base, this date coincided with a trip by Russia-based āNorman Spearā to the United States, during which time he had in-person meetings with members of the group.
Speculation that Nazzaro was a federal agent
The location of the land is consistent with āNorman Spearāsā advocacy of a white supremacist strategy called the Northwest Territorial Imperative (NTI), which was promoted by the deceased white supremacist Harold Covington.
The strategy argues for the creation of a separatist ethnostate in the Pacific north-west and encourages white supremacists to move to the region.
In one of āNorman Spearāsā first public appearances, on a far-right podcast recorded in December 2017, he was introduced as a Northwest Front (another white supremacist separatist group) organizer and went on to spell out a four-state plan culminating in āachieving independence, realizing the ultimate goal which is an independent nation state in the Pacific north-west, an ethnostateā.
The plan, he said, would trigger the relocation to the Pacific north-west of the white population in the United States.
Around the same time, āSpearā filmed a series of short instructional presentations on the tactics and strategy of guerrilla warfare. In an archive of those videos on the far-right site Bitchute, he is identified as āDefense Studies expert and former CIA field intelligence officer Norman Spearā.
This detail, coupled with other leads, compelled many to speculate whether āNorman Spearā was, in fact, a federal agent operating inside the Base.
[…] Was the Base a honeypot designed to entrap people?Beginning in 2009 and until as late as 2019, Nazzaro billed himself as an intelligence expert working with various government and military agencies.
Nazzaro is the principal of an LLC called Omega Solutions International (OSI), a company offering a range of intelligence and security contracting.
Its website, which was removed from the Internet some time after August 2019, boasted of the firmās āexperience conducting intelligence analysis for government agencies, military organizations, and private businessesā, as well as access to a network of seasoned security professionals with expertise in counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, homeland security, hostage rescue/negotiations, psychological operations, and more.
The firm also has a Cage Code, which is an administrative requirement for military and government contractors.
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