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Aryan Nation — Part 1
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From Tinies Wire Series | Anti-Semitic Group which ended last weekend in s hoe ae
DENVER—The subtucchine gun _ The group's leader is Richard fiery shoot-out at an island e's Sec'y —
used w kill Jewish rade talk-show Butler, a 66-year-old engineer. hide-out outside Seattle, officials
host Alan Rerg here tast June was The group is known for its anti-Se- said, Mathews he than Pied ents
found in an ET] rais} on the Idaho , Mitic and racist rhetoric. bef y fo Tre a fire in
home of a nev-Nazi whn remained _ Yarbrough is believed to have the be police body started to be
in federal enstocy Saturday, police Served as Butler's bodyguard and house. y pr or are
suid. ° worked in the organization’s print Mathews was found in : house
Bere. 50, who called himself “the ®hop. His name appeared on a flyer afterward, aumiorities sa) sa!
Buy you luve to “ate,” had reveived Suggesting that it was “time for Mathews and Y: ee a0 are
Unreats during his stit on radio War” with the enemies of the suspected of a series of armored car
Station KU4. He often denounced Aryan Nations—blacks and Jews, robberies, including ee ona.
right. wing rr ops on the air. according to the Anti-Defamation Calif. that netted $3. lllion
Pallistics tess confirmed that League of B'nai B'rith. They were charged with a S rod
the .45-c:lihor dng-om submachine, Yarbrough told the Seattle armored car robbery last April
gun founJinicr Cec: 18 raid en the Times last year that the group was netted $500,000. f of
home of Gary L’ » Yathrouph, near “looking for a separation of the Mathews was the founder of a
Sanity siit, Id. was usd to kill Ta¢eS—most likely it will come by SToup called the White American
Berg, Dopver bi- Chief of De- force.” Bastion, authorities said. Ceseribi td
tectuves Dur Muiria said Friday. “Il am prepared to do battle,” ft as a neo-Nazi group cated
The FB! had uttained a scarch Yarbrough was quoted as saying fomenting a white supremacist
warrant in an in esneation of an “The Lord will guide my buller “Fevolution” in the United States.
>19 (Rev. 4-26-83)
assoult on federal officers. and deflect the bullets that ar
hired at me.”
Sespoet Usesped Buuer said Yarbrough has not
Yarbrevgh. 2 furarer member of been a member of the organization
the white supremacst Aryan Na- ‘for some time. He refused to com-
Uons, fired on FL] agents before Mentfurther. =. -
the search anu c*raped, police said Mulnix said authorities investi-
in a statement. The search also gating Berg's death had focused on
uncovered Aryan Nation uniforms far-right- wing groups like Aryan
and aswult rifles. grenades. gun Nations because of Berg and “his
silencers, exp coves and blasting personality and what he had to say
caps. police said. about them.” On his shows, Berg
Yarlr ugh. wir aisected after a often derided and challenged ex-
Nov. 24 shoot-out with FBI agents tremist groups. Berg was shot to
at a Por:'and, Ore., metel. and was death in the driveway of his town
returned to Boiec, Ida., where he is house last June 18 .
being held without bail on charges A month after Yarbrough fled his
including assault in the Oct. 18 Sandpoint home, he and his former
incident. He has pleaded not guilty. roommate, Robert T. Mathews,
Mulnix said he was in “no hurry” were traced to a motel near Port-
to file charges in Berg's death. “Mr. land. During a shoot-out there,
Yarbrough isn’t going anywhere,” officials said, Yarbrough was cap-
he added. tured and Mathews escaped. - The Washington Post
Al one time, the 29-year-old A manhunt for Mathews ensued, ‘The Washington Times
Yarbrough reportedly was “captain Daly News (New York)
of security” for Aryan Nanons, a The New York Ti
neo-Nazi group based in —_———
Lake, Ida. den The Wat Sveet Journ
The Chicago Tribune
The Los Angeles Times BLP Ss
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