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He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet's most violent groups.
Sutter kept publishing extremist books through his Martinet Press imprint, which helped fuel the ascent of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a murderous blend of Satanism and neo-fascism that is now pervasive in the global far right and has inspired violence in Russia, Great Britain, the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, a WIRED investigation found. He’s pledged fealty to North Korea, operated a Hindu sect, and created the Tempel ov Blood (ToB), a “nexion” or cell of the Order of Nine Angles, an infamous neo-Nazi Satanist cult for which Sutter’s Martinet Press acted as a publishing house and propaganda vehicle—a journey documented by late independent journalist Nate Thayer. Earlier this year, the Agony's Point account turned back toward older Martinet Press material, with several threads promoting Bluebird and Iron Gates, two books that Sutter introduced to the Atomwaffen Division as required reading that celebrate child abuse and rape.
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