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A neo-Nazi Marine Corps veteran jailed for allegedly plotting to attack the power grid and commit acts of racial terror stands accused by the government of possessing classified Defense Department materials on a computer drive at the time of his arrest, Raw Story has exclusively learned. The nature of the classified materials found on Jordan Duncan’s hard drive upon his arrest in Idaho in October 2020 is unclear. The government has not described the contents of the materials, which were found amid a tranche of documents about chemicals and bomb-making, or provided any explanation about how Duncan allegedly obtained them. But the revelation about apparent classified materials in the possession of Duncan, as alleged by the government in a court filing, adds an explosive new dimension to the federal case against him — as the nation’s defense apparatus continues to reel from a separate classified document leak allegedly committed by a National Guard airman. It also comes amid previously reported details of Duncan’s role in an alleged neo-Nazi plot to target power substations and carry out a campaign of racial violence. Duncan’s background as a Russian linguist trained by the Marine Corps in electronic communications raises the provocative question — yet unanswered — about whether he passed on classified information to a foreign government or otherwise used it to harm the United States by advancing an agenda to promote social discord and undermine democracy. (…) Duncan and two other men were initially charged in October 2020 with illegally manufacturing and transporting firearms. Charges grew to include conspiracy to damage an energy facility, and expanded to include five defendants overall. As described in court documents, the defendants allegedly conspired “to attack the power grid both for the purpose of creating general chaos and to provide cover and ease of escape” while undertaking a campaign of assassinations against Black Lives Matter founders and Democratic politicians. The alleged goal: cause a societal collapse and create a white ethno-state.

via rawstory: Neo-Nazi Marine Corps vet accused of plotting terror attack possessed classified military materials: sources

siehe auch: Neo-Nazi Marine Corps veteran had ‘classified DoD documents’ on his hard drive when he was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of plotting to attack power grid and ‘commit acts of racial terror’ Jordan Duncan, 28, was arrested after plotting to attack BLM founders and blow up a power station  He joined the group organized by a fellow US Marine, who used a neo-nazi forum to recruit members for a ‘modern-day SS’ How Duncan came into possession of the classified documents is currently unknown. A US Marine Corps veteran who was arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks had classified Defense Department materials on his hard drive. Jordan Duncan, 28, had the documentation on his computer when he was arrested in Idaho in October 2020, according to RawStory. The details of the materials have not yet been confirmed, but they were found along with documents detailing how to make bombs. Neither Duncan, a neo-Nazi, nor the Defense Department has provided any explanation as to how he obtained them. He served as a Russian linguist for the Marine Corps in electronic communications, though it is unclear if he passed on classified information to a foreign government (…) He joined a group organized by Collins, a fellow US Marine, who used a neo-nazi forum to recruit members for a ‘modern-day SS’, according to the indictment. (…) In an Instagram chat on October, 1, 2020, Kryscuk and Duncan fantasized about shooting protesters in Boise, according to a federal indictment. Duncan: ‘How the BSNs finna be pulling up to chipotle after hitting legs.’ Kryscuk: ‘Death squad…. Assassins creed hoodies and suppressed 22 pistols.’ FBI agents notified two BLM movement co-founders that their names were on a list kept by a different member of the paramilitary group.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Kocher showed a judge a 90-second recruitment video in December 2020 that she said shows Duncan firing gunshots, participating in military-style exercises and flashing ‘Heil Hitler’ salutes with three other members. They were all wearing skull masks associated with a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division, the indictment says.

Despite the fact that far-right, neo-Nazi, and neo-fascist groups in the United States have been steadily gaining power and influence since the 1950s, it wasn’t until the 116th Congress in 2020 that the FBI publicly acknowledged the far-right movement in the United States was a “national threat priority.” The same year, the United States State Department designated members of the Russian Imperial Movement as global terrorists, which, per the State Department, was “the first time in history the Department has designated a white supremacist terrorist group.” But these acknowledgments have done little to stunt the growth of the neo-Nazi movement within the U.S. In 2021, the Department of Defense acknowledged that neo-Nazis and white supremacists were recruiting among U.S. military personnel. In July 2022, Congress passed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that ordered the government to investigate far-right activity in the military and the FBI, but in December 2022, the final version of the NDAA effectively wiped all the provisions relating to investigating domestic far-right extremism in the military. In 2022, the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism found that white supremacist propaganda efforts roe from 4,876 events in 2021 to 6,751 in 2022, with incidents involving antisemitic propaganda alone doubling. Amid all this, the Atomwaffen Division is one group out of many that want to remake the world in its fascistic white supremacist image. This is the messed up truth of the international neo-Nazi network, Atomwaffen Division. Atomwaffen Division, also known as AWD, is a contemporary neo-Nazi and neo-fascist group that follows an accelerationist ideology. Accelerationism is a facet of white supremacism that posits that society should be actively demolished in order to rebuild a new one … based on fascism and white supremacy. As a result, Atomwaffen members actively advocate overthrowing the United States government and instigating a race war between people of color and white people. In “Hate Groups and Extremist Organizations in America,” Barry J. Balleck writes that Atomwaffen is described as “one of the most violent hate groups in the United States.” It is considered extreme and controversial even by those among the far-right. Atomwaffen takes much of its ideology from the writings of James Mason, an American neo-Nazi who wrote a collection of essays known as SIEGE. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Mason first tried to join the American Nazi Party at just 14 years old and he spent his entire life in various neo-Nazi and neo-fascist groups. At one point, he was even in correspondence with the Manson Family. In July 2020, Atomwaffen changed its name to the National Socialist Order (NSO). This was due to some dissolution within the organization as well as the arrests of its founding members. However, this change is little more than a rebranding of the same ideology.

via gunge: THE MESSED UP TRUTH OF INTERNATIONAL NEO-NAZI NETWORK, ATOMWAFFEN DIVISION

Brandon Russell, who has previously been jailed for possession of bomb-making materials, communicated with Australian extremists via Telegram. Brandon Russell, an American neo-Nazi who was charged this year with conspiring to attack the Maryland power grid, appears to have shared instructions on how to carry out such an attack months earlier in an Australian far-right channel on Telegram. Leaked chats show Russell posted extreme right propaganda and interacted with known Australian neo-Nazis on the encrypted messaging platform last year. Russell is the founder of Atomwaffen Division, which was proscribed by the Australian government as a terrorist organisation last year. The organisation, now known as the National Socialist Order, “advocates the use of violence to initiate a ‘race war’ to accelerate the collapse of western society and establish a ‘white ethno-state’,” the government’s listing said.

via guardian: US neo-Nazi accused of sniper plot appears to have shared instructions with Australian far-right figures

White supremacist groups like Atomwaffen, which also goes by the name “National Socialist Order,” are looking to recruit U.S. military members to help carry out terrorist attacks against minorities, according to experts speaking to Military.com. In its annual 2023 threat assessment released in March, the U.S. intelligence declared that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism is the “most lethal threat to Americans.” It highlighted groups that believe “recruiting military members will help them organize cells for attacks against minorities or institutions that oppose their ideology.” “New extremist organizations such as Atomwaffen, the Boogaloo movement and the Base, a neo-Nazi group, have picked up where the anti-government militias of the ’80s and ’90s left off,” the report said. “They seek a violent overthrow of the government or a civil war so they can recreate society, usually into a white supremacist or fascist state. The accelerationist groups — the term denotes that they wish to bring about that civil war swiftly — have sprung up in the aftermath of the Unite the Right extremist group gathering and protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The event was the largest gathering of white supremacists in recent memory, and many of the torch-bearing participants were young men.” But the fallout from Charlottesville — which resulted in a young leftist protester getting killed — sent the white supremacist movement into disarray. Rick Eaton, a senior researcher and the head of the digital terrorism and hate research team at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said event caused radicals to look elsewhere towards “more active and dangerous paths, such as we’ve seen in the Hard Reset.”

via rawstory: White supremacist groups aim to recruit US Military members to attack minorities: report