He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

Listing the Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles arsenic a lasting influence, Butcher besides disclosed the quality of MKU’s “alliance” with 764, which was forged by the users “Xor” and “Kush” (both of whom are inactive unidentified). While deriding 764 for not committing capable in-person violence, Butcher said the 2 groups “might inactive enactment associates due to the fact that they support cleansing their ain mode by making the anemic suicide.”

According to victims of 764 members, “Tobbz,” a troubled young German convicted of sidesplitting an aged pistillate and stabbing a antheral successful 2022, was successful the archetypal 764 Discord server on with Almeida and Bradley Cadenhead, 764’s teenage laminitis who is serving decades successful a Texas situation for CSAM offenses. Tobbz besides had a Tempel ov Blood trident tattoo and had joined MKU, according to reporting from Der Spiegel and Recorder.

The 2nd contented of Drums of Tophet, which its authors describe arsenic “designed for the acheronian warriors of a doom present imminent connected the adjacent horizon,” continues successful the aforesaid vein with features Q309, an occult sadomasochistic, self-described “art project” that borders connected CSAM and prominently features Order of Nine Angles themes and a lengthy interrogation with a laminitis of the Satanic Front, a confederate occultist organization.

In communications with a erstwhile Tempel ov Blood subordinate viewed by WIRED, Sutter openly discussed viewing CSAM with different members of his nexion, and seemed obsessed with conspiracy theories similar Project Monarch that progressive kid abuse. The erstwhile ToB subordinate besides noted Sutter’s fascination with the lawsuit of Belgian serial killer, rapist, and pedophile Marc Dutroux. Shortly earlier taking the Agony’s Point Press X relationship offline successful March of this year, the relationship posted a photograph of an occult altar featuring a blood-smeared photograph of Dutroux adjacent to quality and carnal skeletal remains, arsenic good arsenic a severed doll’s caput inked with lightning bolts and a swastika, connected apical of a emblem featuring a Nazi death’s caput and the Nazi slogan “Meine ehre ist meine treue” (my grant is my allegiance).

On respective occasions successful the past year, the Agony’s Point Press relationship connected X posted videos and photos highlighting 764 and its offshoots, peculiarly MKU and the group’s increasing involvement successful the Order of Nine Angles. The relationship besides routinely posted astir 764 and com, occasionally adopting a faux journalistic code to launder posts from the CSAM organisation and extortion network. Around Christmas 2023, @agonyspoint posted a graphic of MKU's hockey goalie disguise insignia with a ToB trident emblazoned successful its forehead.

All this took spot arsenic the FBI’s probe into 764 expanded and caller arrests, including those of alleged subordinate Kyle Spitze and Richard Densmore, who pleaded guilty successful mid-July, were made successful the aboriginal months of 2024. Moreover, determination is an progressive FBI probe connected MKU that stems straight from its ties to 764, according to a instrumentality enforcement root with cognition of the matter.

Earlier this year, the Agony's Point relationship turned backmost toward older Martinet Press material, with respective threads promoting Bluebird and Iron Gates, 2 books that Sutter introduced to the Atomwaffen Division arsenic required speechmaking that observe kid maltreatment and rape.

“A Deal With the Devil”

The FBI has ne'er addressed Sutter’s relation successful fueling convulsive far-right ideology. But the blowback from Sutter’s actions implicit the past decennary is simply a feature, not a bug, of American instrumentality enforcement’s usage of confidential informants, says Alexandra Natapoff, a prof astatine Harvard Law School who has studied the taxable extensively for much than 15 years. “The informant marketplace is tally connected this tacit, uncomfortable knowing that the cure sometimes mightiness beryllium worse than the disease,” Natapoff tells WIRED. By utilizing radical with transgression oregon extremist histories to infiltrate hard-to-penetrate milieus similar gangs, organized crime, oregon violent groups, she explains, the US authorities rewards specified radical for continuing to aquatics successful the aforesaid waters.

“Baked into that statement is the well-understood, avoidable improvement that these individuals are going to perpetrate transgression acts,” Natapoff says. “The FBI has authorized transgression and unauthorized transgression enactment by confidential quality sources, and the specified information that those guidelines person those definitions is simply a designation astir the quality of informants.”