the fbi has paid over 140000 to a known white supremacist associated with a neo-nazi book publisher to take down another neo-n
The FBI paid a white supremacist leader who is connected to a neo-Nazi book publisher more than $140,000 to be a confidential informant in the takedown of a neo-Nazi organization, court documents show.
Documents filed in federal court August 13 describe the informant as a 'convicted felon' who 'currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings.'
The man began his 16-year-long career 'as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer.'
He worked with the FBI on a case to crack down on the Texas-based terrorist neo-Nazi organization, the Atomwaffen Division and its leader Kaleb Cole.
While Joseph Caleb Sutter, 40, is not named in the court documents filed this month, the connection is clear, as reported by VICE.
The FBI paid a white supremacist leader who is connected to a neo-Nazi book publisher over $140,000 to be a confidential informant in the takedown of a neo-Nazi organization. the suspected CI is Joseph Caleb Sutter, 40, (pictured above)
Sutter is assumed to be the CI due to the description of the informant in court documents
Sutter, a former Aryan Nations white supremacist leader and leader of the Rural People’s Party in his guise of Hindu priest, Shree Shree Kalki-Kalaratri at the Hindu New Bihar Mandir temple located on Sutter’s rural South Carolina property
Sutter runs the Martinet Press which publishes books approved by extremist groups such as Liber 333 On The Temple of Blood
Sutter was on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists alongside well-known terrorist such as David Duke. His father, David Sutter, is a fundamentalist Christian preacher and well-known South Carolina white supremacist leader.
He has led several extremist groups including the Aryan Nations, the Rural People's Party , and the Church of the Sons of Yaweh.
In February 2003, he was arrested for purchasing illegal automatic pistols with their serial numbers scraped off, and possession of silencers in a foiled plot to launch bomb attacks in a domestic terror campaign to overthrow the government.
He served time in a Georgia federal prison but swiftly scheduled for release on November 2004.
When he returned to his home state of South Carolina, married a woman named Jillian Hoy. Sutter and Hoy run the Martinet Press, a book publisher known to endorse and be endorsed by neo-Nazi groups.
The Martinet Press 'a decidedly darker spiritual press', publishes literature focusing on extremist ideologies such as of esotericism, occultism, nihilism, and Satanism.
Books published by Martinet Press such as Iron Gates and Liber 333 are known to be Atomwaffen Division-approved material.
Sutter has lead several extremist terrorist groups including the Aryan Nations, the Rural People's Party , and the Church of the Sons of Yaweh
Literature form the Rural People's Party a pro-North Korea group which embraced both Kim Il Sung’s Juche ideology and that of Jim Jones as its twin political mentors
Sutter runs the Martinet Press with his wife Jillian Hoy (pictured above) whom he met after serving time in a Georgia federal prison
The parallels between the description of the FBI informant and Sutter are strong enough to form a connection.
The recent court documents state that the federal government employed the confidential informant and 'paid him handsomely.'
'Since 2003, he has been paid over $140,000 for this work. More importantly, the CI has been paid $78,133.20 plus an expense advance of $4,378.60 since February 7, 2018, which almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole and Atomwaffen.'
Sutter's potential involvement with the FBI has reportedly circulated through white supremacist groups since 2005.
Sutter was essentially revealed as an FBI informant with Cole's recent motion to suppress all evidence seized during a search of his alleged residence. He claimed that the warrant used to search the premises 'failed to establish probable cause to search the home.'
The defense also claims that the affidavit is insufficient because while it 'does not explicitly state that this information came from a CI, but defense counsel believes it does.
Kaleb Cole (pictured above) has been identified as the leader of the Atomwaffen Division a terroristic neo-Nazi organization that formed out of Iron March, an influential fascist forum that went offline in fall 2017
He was charged last year for cyberstalking and sending Swastika-laden posters to journalists and an employee of the Anti-Defamation League. Pictured: Cole posing in front of Auschwitz
The information provided to the FBI by the CI appears to be the center of the federal charges brought against Cole. His defense team is arguing that information from the CI is not sufficient evidence to support his charges. Pictured: Cole posing with a gun
The use of informants is a controversial aspect of criminal law, but Sutter's intel appears to be the basis of the FBI's case against Cole.
Cole has been identified as the leader of the Atomwaffen Division, which led a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states.
He and three other members of the terrorist group were charged last year for cyberstalking and sending Swastika-laden posters to journalists and an employee of the Anti-Defamation League. Enclosed notes said: 'You have been visited by your local Nazis,' 'Your Actions have Consequences,' and 'We are Watching.'
Cole, has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to face trial in September.
Seattle police seized his guns in 2019 under an 'extreme risk protection order' that suggested he was planning a race war.
He has been permanently banned from Canada after being identified as a 'member of an organization that might engage in terrorism,' according to court documents.