APmo 05/10 1824 White Supremacists SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Clandestine training for domesti

APmo 05/10 1824 White Supremacists


   SPOKANE,  Wash.  (AP)  --  Clandestine  training  for domestic
terrorism by white supremacists continues, despite the arrests of
dozens of neo-Nazis and Aryan Nations members over the  last  few
years, a newspaper reported Sunday.

   Some  of  the  trainers  may  be  employed  by law-enforcement
agencies, The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle  said  in  a
copyright story.

   A  confidential memo circulated to law officers throughout the
West details one paramilitary training session in northern  Idaho
late  last year, during which about 25 participants were told how
to use robbery and murder to further their cause, the paper said.

   The memo was based on information from a government  informant
and  written  by  a  sheriff's  detective  in  a state other than
Washington and Idaho, the paper said.

   The masked instructor at the December session was believed  to
be  a current or former law officer and participants bragged that
they "had a couple of policemen from the Denver area working  for
us," the memo said.

   The December training allegedly took place in a remote area of
Bonner  County,  which  is just north of Kootenai County, home of
the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations).

   Bonner County Sheriff Don Nelson said  he  doesn't  believe  a
training session  occurred  in  his  county.   He wasn't informed
about the supposed session until March, he said.

   "As far as I'm concerned, it's unfounded," Nelson  said.  "The
intelligence report all sounds good, but I don't have a clue that
the activity actually happened."

   But  Kootenai County Undersheriff Larry Broadbent, known as an
expert on white-supremacist activities, said he had "no reason to
discount" information in the intelligence flyer.

   "We have  heard  persistent  rumors  that  such  training  has
occurred  near the Kootenai-Bonner county border, but it is not a
frequent occurrence," Broadbent said.

   The newspaper said those who  attended  the  training  session
were  urged  to  obtain  citizens'  band  radios and programmable
police scanners and to arm themselves with LAW  rockets.    Light
Antitank Weapons are used by the U.S. Army.

   "Start a large fire at one end of town," and blow up the first
responding fire truck with a LAW rocket to create a diversion for
a  bank robbery, the trainer told the group in December, the memo
said. "You will have every cop and fireman tied up."

   Participants were encouraged to always travel in at least  two
vehicles during  operations,  according  to  the  newspaper.  One
vehicle would contain a robbery team, and the second would  be  a
"family-style" vehicle containing "mom, dad and a kid," according
to the memo.

   If  the  first  vehicle  is  stopped by police, the family car
should pull alongside, ostensibly to offer assistance.  The  memo
said  police  then  would be shot point-blank by occupants of the
family-style vehicle, according to the newspaper.

   After the robbery, money should be transferred to  the  family
car  and  occupants  of  that  vehicle should go to a motel, shed
disguises and change into business suits, the memo said.

   Law enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest said  there
have been no recent thefts of LAW rockets, which are available at
Army bases and at reserve units.

   Crime  reports  in  Spokane,  40  miles from the Aryan Nations
church, show 16 Radio Shack burglaries since last July 1.   Three
stores in Spokane were burglarized the night of April 25, one day
after  16  people  nationwide  were  indicted  for  sedition  and
civil-rights violations that include murder.

   One of those indicted for sedition, or plotting  to  overthrow
the government,  was  the Rev.  Richard Butler, head of the Aryan
Nations church.

   He was stricken with coronary problems after  his  arrest  and
has undergone surgery twice at a Spokane hospital.  He was listed
in stable condition Sunday.

   Aryan  Nations spokeswoman Betty Tate said Saturday the church
was not involved in any training session.

   "This is absolutely false,  false  information,"  Mrs.    Tate
said. "I am amazed at what's going to come up next."

   Another  topic at the training session, the memo said, was the
impact of arrests last  year  oif  six  members  of  the  Arizona
Patriots,  a survivalist sect that allegedly planned to use money
from an armored car robbery to buy a large paramilitary  training
camp in Arizona.

   A  new  camp  is  needed because of the 1985 raid at a similar
encampment on the Arkansas-Missouri border that was  operated  by
the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, the memo said.

   
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