yarboro, the same guy that s in photographs that we acquired of individuals that belong to the order. and we needily directed two teams of agents for observation of gary yarboro. what we had to do at this point was patiently wait. we had gathered a great deal of intelligence information, but i still wasn t in a position to arrest anybody. we had evidence that linked certain members of the group to criminal activities, but we didn t feel like we could go to a grand jury and get a warrant and indict. we were looking for a break to get through that log jam, and the break was thomas martinez being arrested in philadelphia, pennsylvania, for passing counterfeit money. robert matthews had been
and it s no longer a war of words. they re not talking about overthrowing the government, they re overthrowing it. and bob matthews took this book at his bible, and he followed it. so in the turner diaries, armor car robberies, executions. and that s what the order did. so martinez was a wealth of information. you might say we had a lot of little pieces and he was able to move them around for us and show us where they fit. once we had the agreement made with tom martinez that he would help us, we knew we had to be patient. like the hunter, we had to wait for bob matthews to invustruct matthews. we were moving at lightning speed, and we greatly increased our surveillance of gary
finance themselves as arian warriors. initially, they tried counterfeiting. they did a terrible job and managed to get one of their primary leaders, bruce carol pierce, caught in their first cert to pass this counterfeit money. so after that failed, bob ma theus felt as the leader of this group, he had to do something to show the others they weren t a failure and they were going to continue forward. so he robbed a bank in december. it was a successful robbery, and it gave him a tremendous amount of confidence. and he was able to tell the others look, i did this. we can do this. following right on the heels of that, gary and bruce decided well, yeah, bob did that, we ll do it. so the next month, they robbed a bank and they re successful. they look at the take of their money, which is about $40,000, and they think we re on the
he begins to recruit arian warriors. he finds about seven people within the arian nation organization and he drafts those people and he reaches out to the sword of the lord and he pulls some of them in, and he goes to the klu klux klan and gets some of them. people like gary lee yarboro, david lane and others. and now he has dedicated, core members, which was ultimately the group known as the order. these were the people that bob matthews was going to depend on to carry the war against the jews in charge of the united states government. in september of 1983, the order had taken their first efforts to f
counterfeiting money, and matthews at the time was trying to recruit additional members. one of those members was an individual he knew from the national alliance which the name of thomas martinez. martinez lived in the philadelphia area and provided with counterfeit u.s. currency. he was instructed by matthews and others in the order to take those bills a and to pass them. when he did, he got caught. he was paid a visit by the secret service and arrested. after they had their initial interview with martinez, they recognized this was something bigger than this few bills of counterfit that had been fis pa. so they called the fbi. they said, i ve got a guy here in philadelphia arrested for counterfeiting, do you want to talk to him? damn right we want to talk to