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    Prepping for a race war: documents reveal inner workings of neo-Nazi group

    Chats, audio and video obtained by the Guardian give a rare insight into the workings of a disturbing white supremacist groupExclusive: True identity of leader revealed
    by Jason Wilson Jan 25, 2020 5 minutes
    Members of the Base at a gathering. The materials show how the group has planned terror campaigns, vandalized synagogues and recruited new members. Illustration: Guardian Design

    The Base, a US-based white supremacist “social network” that has recently been targeted by the FBI in raids leading to the arrest of several members, was active, growing and continuing to prepare for large-scale violence.

    The Guardian has obtained chat records, audio recordings and videos provided by an anti-fascist whistleblower who spent more than a year charting the inside workings of the Base.

    The same infiltrator took control of The Base’s telegram channel in the early hours of Saturday morning, US time, and posted multiple memes mocking the group’s founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro.

    The Guardian studied leaked materials relayed by the whistleblower and pursued other lines of inquiry to exclusively reveal the real identity of the Base’s secretive leader as Nazzaro, 46, from New Jersey.

    Nazzaro is currently living in Russia with his Russian wife. Until the Guardian’s exposé little was known about his background and he was only known by the alias “Norman Spear”.

    Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder of the Base.
    Rinaldo Nazzaro,

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