The mysterious leader of an American far-right paramilitary group, which authorities say is seeking to overthrow the United States government, runs the organization from Russia, according to a probe conducted by the BBC.
The group,
which calls itself The Base, is thought to have been formed in the
summer of 2018. Since then, it is believed to have recruited dozens of
members using encrypted messaging applications.
The Base urges
its members to undergo paramilitary training and learn how to evade
surveillance by government agencies. It also instructs them to create
and use ciphers for communication and trains them to use encrypted
applications to exchange messages so that government agencies cannot
access their content. The Federal Bureau of Investigation describes
The Base as a “racially motivated violent extremist group” that “seeks
to accelerate the downfall of the United States government, incite a
race war, and establish a white ethno-state”. Earlier this month,
authorities arrested three alleged members of the organization, which are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit murder.
Despite the
attention that The Base has received from American authorities, almost
no information is available about the group’s leader and founder. This
individual goes by the aliases “Norman Spear” and “Roman Wolf”. But a
recent investigation
alleged that his name is Rinaldo Nazzaro and that he is a 46-year-old
American man from New York. Prior to founding The Base, Nazzaro is
believed to have purchased land in a remote area of America’s Pacific
Northwest region with the goal of creating a white-only enclave.
Now the BBC
has said that Nazzaro is living in Russia, from where he is allegedly
running The Base. He is thought to have married a Russian woman in 2012
in the New York borough of Manhattan. The couple probably relocated to
the Russian city of St. Petersburg “less than two years ago”, according
to the BBC. In an article published on Friday, the BBC said that its
researchers had been able to identify Nazzaro from his online activity
and from photographs and videos he had posted online in the past year.
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