The National Alliance

• A new ADL investigation reveals that the neo-Nazi National Alliance (NA) is the single most dangerous organized hate group in the United States today. In the past several years, dozens of violent crimes, including murders, bombings and robberies have been traced to NA members or appear to have been inspired by the group's propaganda. At the same time, the National Alliance's membership base has experienced major growth, with its numbers more than doubling since 1992.
  
• The National Alliance is the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the nation, with 16 active cells from coast to coast, and a reported membership of 1,000. In the last three years, there has been evidence of NA activity in no fewer than 26 states nationwide. The organization has been most active in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and New Mexico.
  
• The NA's current strength can be attributed to several factors: its skillful embrace of technology, its willingness to cooperate with other extremists, its energetic recruitment and other promotional activities, and its vicious, but deceptively intellectualized propaganda.
  
• The NA is led by former Oregon State University physics professor and veteran anti-Semite William L. Pierce, 66. Using the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, Pierce wrote the novel The Turner Diaries, which details a successful world revolution by an all-white army, and the systematic extermination of Blacks, Jews, and other minorities. Many extremists regard The Turner Diaries as an explicit terrorism manual, and the novel is thought to have inspired several major acts of violence, including the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
  
• Despite these crimes, Pierce continues to glorify violence, offering it as the ultimate solution to what he terms "the Jewish problem." Pierce's weekly radio program, American Dissident Voices, is rife with incendiary speech. Together, William Pierce's broadcasts and novels provide haters with both an ideological and practical framework for committing acts of mass destruction.

Bonds with Other Bigots

• The NA does not operate in a vacuum. The organization has developed working relationships with a number of like-minded extremist individuals and groups, particularly those with relatively high profiles or sophisticated operations. Recently, the NA has provided a speaking venue for former Klansman David Duke and British Holocaust denier David Irving.
  
• The National Alliance claims to have members in Holland, France, Great Britain and Germany, and has friendly, ongoing relations with right-wing extremist parties across Europe. In the last two years, Pierce reportedly has been invited to address the British National Party, a racist, neo-Fascist party, and the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) or the German National Democratic Party. The NPD, a nationalist party, has been attracting a growing number of right-wing extremists in Eastern Germany.
  

Exploiting the Internet

• The National Alliance uses the Internet to showcase its racist and neo-Nazi ideology. The organization maintains one of the most technically sophisticated hate sites on the World Wide Web. Pierce's weekly half-hour radio broadcasts, transmitted over nine AM or FM radio stations and on shortwave radio via WRNO, appear as text on the NA Web site on the day of the broadcast.
  
• NA members and sympathizers have used the Internet to disrupt newsgroup and chat room exchanges -- particularly those dealing with Jewish themes -- and to send thousands of unsolicited E-mails espousing the group's racist, anti-Semitic views. NA propagandists have also used public Internet forums as a low-cost, convenient recruitment tool.
  

National Alliance - A History

• The National Alliance was originally established by Willis Carto, anti-Semitic founder of Liberty Lobby, as the "Youth for Wallace" campaign in support of the 1968 Presidential bid of Alabama Governor George Wallace. After Wallace lost the Presidential race, Carto renamed the organization the National Youth Alliance.
  
• In 1970, William Pierce, a former American Nazi Party (ANP) officer, left the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), the successor to the ANP, to join the National Youth Alliance. Since 1974, when the National Alliance dropped the word "Youth" from its name, Pierce has run the organization, and edited its publications.