FBI Informant Created One Of Largest Nazi Groups In American History

According to documents called the “Fed Files,” an FBI informant created the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest Nazi groups in American history.

According to previously unknown records examined by Headline USA, an FBI informant cofounded the National Socialist Movement, one of the biggest and oldest neo-Nazi organizations in American history. This organization is linked to a number of crimes and violent incidents, including the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.

The documents, which this website has called the “Fed Files” because they include a collection of FBI memoranda, affidavits, and court records, further show that the NSM is said to have used informants in key positions during the majority of its almost 50-year history.

The NSM has also been accused of being co-opted by the FBI in a lawsuit brought by a former member who is currently behind bars. The NSM was formerly referred to as the “Hollywood Nazis” for its showy rallies and harsh propaganda.

For this report, the FBI declined to comment.

NSM’s Founding

Cliff Herrington and Robert Brannen, both key lieutenants of well-known American fascist George Lincoln Rockwell—the initiator of the first American Nazi Party in 1959—founded the NSM in 1974.

The Nazi organization began to suspect more and more in 1976 that Brannen was collaborating with the FBI.

In reality, an essay debunking charges that Brannen was an informant from a rival organization, the National Socialist White Peoples Party, or NSWPP, was published in the NSM’s own journal, the National Socialist, in April 1976. The claims were described in the National Socialist publication as a “reckless and irresponsible smear attack on Comrade Brennan.”

But in terms of Brannen, the NSWPP was correct.