"Hate group incidents had already increased more than 500 percent in Idaho between 1980 and 1984.” SOURCE: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew
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10/10

"Extant FBI documentation indicates that undercover informants had infiltrated the World Congress & observed the imminent danger of white power revolution. Despite this, the strategy of coordinated cell violence without direct orders from leadership was working."
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9/10

In another session of the #1983AryanNationsWorldCongress, #LouisBeam “instructed white power activists on how to shoot and kill FBI agents and other law enforcement personnel wearing body armor." SOURCE: Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
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8/10

During one of the sessions held over the 2-day event, #LouisBeam advocated forming “operational units” to independently commit acts of “sabotage using guerrilla warfare tactics throughout the United States.” SOURCE: Kathleen Belew
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#WhiteSupremacy

7/10

"Use of the phrase #WhiteSupremacist organization’, was an acknowledgement that the many disparate Klan, neo-Nazi and other groups nationwide were functioning as a unified movement.” SOURCE: Bring the War Home, by Kathleen Belew
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6/10

"The idea was that after attacks on infrastructure, the Black community would begin to loot, creating a diversion during which ‘the white supremacist organization’ could assassinate federal judges.” SOURCE: Bring the War Home, by Kathleen Belew
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5/10

Facts: "Various #WhiteSupremacist organization leaders met in Haden Lake, Idaho for presentations on “plans to further ramp up the war on the state.” SOURCE: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew
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#AmericanHistory

3/10