Fun fact: George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was an informant.
We know this not just from allegations like those of Robert DePugh (Minutemen), but also from...
... letters Rockwell himself wrote to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
5 days after Kennedy's assassination, Rockwell wrote a letter to J. Edgar Hoover - using American Nazi Party letterhead, no less.
That letter is among the holdings of the National Archives.
You're going to want to sit down before I tell you what that letter says.
First off, Rockwell gave Hoover's FBI the names of 27 American Nazi Party associates that he, the Commander himself, personally believed capable of violence.
Twenty-seven individuals in the tiny membership population of the ANP: an enormous percentage.
But - there's much more.
The text of Rockwell's letter to Hoover, written 5 days after Kennedy's assassination, reads in part:
"As vile and evil as I believe our communist opponents to be, I do not think they would be stupid enough to have shot the president."
Reread that as many times as you need.
The American Nazi Party's own founder believed white supremacists assassinated JFK - not Oswald or any other Communists.
Rockwell was so convinced of this he personally reached out - on ANP letterhead - to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Think about that.
The physical copy of Rockwell's letter to J. Edgar Hoover can be accessed here:
180-10030-10318, The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, National Archives and Records Administration.
[I don't know if a digital archive exists or not/]
There's much more to consider in relation to George Lincoln Rockwell's assertion to J. Edgar Hoover that white supremacists assassinated JFK.
But I'm on a tight deadline for something unrelated, and don't feel like entering the JFK rabbit-hole.
So I'm muting this thread. /End
PS, in full disclosure:
I have not been to the archives. Caulfield cites the letter in his massive study "General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy."
(Don't know that I buy his thesis, but his extensive source material is useful for research on white supremacists)
PPS for 100% clarity:
I don't find the book's thesis persuasive, but an expert I highly respect recommended it to me (solely) for the source material provided on prominent military personnel involved in segregationist and white supremacist activism.
(I avoid JFK conspiracy theory lit, and the book is boring, flawed, and an excruciatingly painful read - but as a reference for info on earlier white supremacist history, it's useful. I haven't yet fact-checked every single accession number and citation, though (it'd take years).
Anyway, as you know - white supremacists are notorious for being informants and for calling one another informants.
That said, contemporaneous news coverage also report Rockwell's belief in racist right culpability (always check claims w/ multiple sources).
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If any masochists out there are looking for an exciting Saturday night activity, I highly recommend listening to every interview Jan Lamprecht did with Tom Metzger.
(Actually don’t because no one deserves that pain.)
No wonder I’m in such a heinous mood.
Here’s an indication of just how moronic and irritating Jan Lamprecht is (in case you’re lucky enough to not know who that is):
When I listen to recordings of their conversations…
… I actually feel bad for Tom Metzger.
[some BLEAK shit right there]
Each stupid interview is like 3 hours long, and basically they are all:
Lamprecht breathes heavily and groans “oh wooooooooow Tom that’s really incredible” like he’s talking to a phone sex operator and not
A half dead geriatric Nazi who looks like a pug with Bono sunglasses
When political violence experts use capital letters, it tends to indicate proper nouns - like ‘Christian Identity Movement,’ names violent non-state armed groups use for themselves.
Consider the possibility: they select such names for strategic reasons.
This is a must-read account of (the Nazi Jesus theology I always talk about) Christian Identity’s resurgence, particularly among younger white supremacists on Telegram and beyond.
Kudos, @minty_13 and @AlexBNewhouse for helping this anon author get such an important work out.
Here’s an old thread of threads explaining what Christian Identity Movement is, and how this Nazi version of Jesus hell bent on “race war as salvation” is distinct from conservative Christian nationalism:
To (re) answer the question: yes, this Fascist Forge data is different than the partial versions floating around out there.
No, I won’t explain why, or how, or what those differences are.
If you’re remotely familiar with Neo-Nazis / OpSec, the reasons should be crystal clear.
The institutional partners hosting the archived data set from the Fascist Forge leak are moving at a glacial pace — due to their own organizations’ respective set of legal concerns.
I am frustrated with the slow pace, too — but there’s (damn) good reason for it.
Apparently the “America isn’t racist and the American Dream is real and we welcome all people because we’re the party of personal freedom and values” brigade is also happy Megan Rapinoe lost because —