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Little is known about Volkskrieger other than that, at the time of the recruitment drive, he was living in Perth. But this time Nazzaro had a new strategy, and central to that plan was Volkskrieger. "We have barely a toehold right now in Australia, we need to change that to a foothold," he says.Īustralians had joined The Base before, only to drift out of the group. At the time of the recordings, The Base's secretive founder Rinaldo Nazzaro was known publicly only by his online aliases "Roman Wolf" and "Norman Spear".īefore he was unmasked in January 2020 as a former security contractor living with his wife in Russia, and The Base was pushed underground, Nazzaro was actively recruiting to form cells in Europe, South Africa and Australia. It's already here." The faceless recruiterĪ calculating voice pervades the calls while revealing little about himself. "There's no more time to prepare for when it comes. "This is a threat that is present and imminent and needs to be taken seriously," said federal Labor MP Anne Aly, who sits on the joint committee on intelligence and security. The recordings, which have never been heard in public before, reveal how the neo-Nazi terror network conducted a methodical search for Australian recruits with access to firearms, security licences, combat training and a commitment to racial purity. Mr Smith, who didn't proceed with his application to join The Base, can be heard in the calls praising National Socialist (Nazi) ideology and pledging to do anything to "save the race".Ī Canberra teenager was also among the six Australian males targeted for recruitment. "I've distanced myself quite a bit from them, mostly because they're all race mixers and it really turns my gut upside down," he says in the call. The secret recordings reveal how The Base attempted to recruit young Australians, including Western Australian man Dean Smith, who ran for the federal seat of O'Connor as a candidate for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in 2019. Last month, The Base was listed in Canada as a terrorist organisation and its members in the US stand accused of federal hate crimes.
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Dean Smith didn't comment on his vetting call with The Base when approached by the ABC.