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Harold Armstead Covington (born Burlington, North Carolina, 14 September 1953) is an American |
'''Harold Armstead Covington''' (born [[Burlington]], [[North Carolina]], 14 September 1953) is an [[United States|American]] [[neo-nazi]] and occasional novelist. |
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Covington first emerged on the neo-nazi scene as a member of the [[National Socialist Party of America]] (NSPA) under [[Frank Collin]] in 1979 when, along with [[Glenn Miller (White Patriot Party)|Glenn Miller]]'s [[White Patriot Party]] and the [[Ku Klux Klan]], it was involved in the [[Greensboro massacre]], in which five members of a demonstration against the Klan were killed. The day before the massacre, Mordechai Levy of the [[Jewish Defense Organization]] had told the [[FBI]]: "I have information that Harold Covington of the National Socialist Party of America is up to heavy illegal activity. Covington has been training in the Jefferson County area with illegal weapons. He and his group have plans to attack and possibly kill people at an anti-Klan gathering this week in North Carolina."<ref>Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, ''It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0520071972</ref> Nevertheless, Covington was not among the four Klansmen and two neo-nazis who were later prosecuted for the Greensboro murders and found not guilty.<ref>"[http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,924543,00.html A Litany of 'Not Guilty']", [[Time (magazine)|Time]], 1 December 1980</ref> |
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Harold Covington was originally converted to the National Socialist world view due to his experiences in an integrated high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He first became involved in radical rightist politics while he was serving in the United States Army in Hawaii. In 1972 he joined the National Socialist White People's Party, successor to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, while still in uniform. He served as editor of the Party's newspaper WHITE POWER from 1972 to 1973. |
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In 1979, Covington claims to have found, at the NSPA offices, "films, pictures and addresses of some little boys", as a result of which "we handed Frank Collin to the cops on a silver platter,"<ref>Larry O'Hara, ''Turning Up the Heat: MI5 after the cold war'', Phoenix Press 1994, p68 & note. ISBN 0948984295</ref> and by the time of the trial Covington had replaced Collin as the head of the NSPA.<ref>Myrna Erstep, "[http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/nazis_in_america.htm Nazis in America]", ''Feminista'' vol 3 no 10</ref> Events during the trial, including the fact that he was not prosecuted despite Levy's advance advance warning of his involvement, led to suspicion among NSPA members that Covington was a state informer, and he came under considerable pressure within the organisation. In March 1981 he went underground, appointing the St Louis NSPA leader Michael Allen as leader in his place. Allen himself subsequently turned out to be an informer for the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]].<ref>O'Hara 1994 p69</ref> |
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In 1974 Covington went to South Africa and worked for a time for a construction company in Johannesburg before going north to Rhodesia and joining the Rhodesian Army, where he served during the bush war which eventually led to the establishment of the Marxist Mugabe dictatorship in what became Zimbabwe. He and two other Americans, Eric Thomson and Jeffrey Spencer, were deported from Rhodesia in 1976 on the order of the Ian Smith government due to their activity in creating the Rhodesia White People's Party (RWPP) in opposition to what they and many White Rhodesians viewed (correctly)as a sellout of the country's European population by the Smith government. |
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Covington spent time in [[South Africa]] before settling in the [[United Kingdom]] for several years, where he made contact with far-right groups and was involved in setting up the neo-nazi terror group [[Combat 18]] (C18). His Dixie Press was the given address on the first issues of C18's hitlist publication [[Redwatch]].<ref>[[Searchlight magazine|Searchlight]], July 1993</ref>. In June 1992 [[Searchlight magazine|Searchlight]] exposed his presence in Britain, after which he returned to the United States. Larry O'Hara's 1994 book ''Turning Up the Heat: MI5 after the cold war'' claimed that Covington was a "state asset", who was instrumental in state infiltration of C18. |
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Back in America Covington joined the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) and was involved in the famous Operation Skokie free speech case, which won a Supreme Court decision in 1978 allowing the party to rally in Chicago's public parks. He was one of 35 National Socialists who stepped out onto the Daley Plaza in Chicago on June 25th, 1978 to confront over 50,000 Jewish and leftist counterdemonstrators. |
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Upon his return to the US, Covington set up his own [[National Socialist White People's Party (Harold Covington)|National Socialist White People's Party]] (NSWPP), which he ran from various locations until settling in [[Chapel Hill]], [[North Carolina]]. He launched its [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nswpp.org website] ([[archive.org]]) in 1996 and for some time the NSWPP was one of the more active neo-nazi presences on the web; it now appears to be defunct. |
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Covington rose to national prominence for a brief time in 1979 and 1980 when members of the NSPA and the Ku Klux Klan were involved in a gun battle with members of the Communist Workers' Party on November 3rd, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Covington spearheaded the Greensboro 16 Defense Fund, and was widely credited by the media and the government with being instrumental in obtaining the acquittals at their trial in November 1980, after he helped Greensboro journalist Martha Woodall expose the presence in the NSPA ranks of a badge-carry informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms named Bernard Butkovich. |
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Covington is the author of a number of novels [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=48] and maintains at least two [http://www.blogger.com/profile/1443529 blogs], one of which is devoted to the "[[Northwest Migration]]", a project among American neo-nazis to set up a [[white separatist]] "Aryan Homeland" in the states of [[Idaho]], [[Oregon]] and [[Washington]].[http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12081] |
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In 1980, Covington ran for North Carolina Attorney General in the state's Republican primary, polling over 57,000 votes and gaining 43% of the total vote, as well as carrying 47 of North Carolina's 100 counties. |
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Covington has sometimes gone by the [[alias]] [[Winston Smith]], particularly in his role as head of the NSWPP. |
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In 1979, members of the Chicago NSPA unit found "films, pictures and addresses of some little boys" in the Marquette Park headquarters of the organization. As a result of these discoveries the then NSPA leader Frank Collin was arrested, pled guilty, and sent to prison on buggery charges. This is a unique event in the history of the American White racial nationalist movement, because it is the only time where the membership of a white racial organization has successfully dealt with and terminated the extreme misbehavior which so often characterizes the leadership of such groups. |
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==References== |
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Covington has been the subject of a number of increasingly hysterical smears, slanders, and attacks based on fabrication in an attempt to discredit his character. He has been called a Jew, a homosexual, a Federal informant, and all the usual litany of vilification which is part and parcel of participation in radical politics of any kind. None of these accusations have ever been proven or documented in any way, and they appear to originate with leftist groups such as Gerry Gable's Searchlight Magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center of Morris Dees, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. |
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Covington is presently one of the primary spokesmen (although certainly not the only one) for the Northwest Migration movement, which advocates the establishment of a Homeland for all White people in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of a number of novels including the Northwest Trilogy, a futuristic set of three novels describing a successful White revolution and the establishment of a Northwest American Republic. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://nwhomeland.blogspot.com Northwest Homeland], a blog by Covington |
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*[http://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/ Thoughtcrime], a blog by Covington |
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Revision as of 10:09, 8 May 2006
Harold Armstead Covington (born Burlington, North Carolina, 14 September 1953) is an American neo-nazi and occasional novelist.
Covington first emerged on the neo-nazi scene as a member of the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) under Frank Collin in 1979 when, along with Glenn Miller's White Patriot Party and the Ku Klux Klan, it was involved in the Greensboro massacre, in which five members of a demonstration against the Klan were killed. The day before the massacre, Mordechai Levy of the Jewish Defense Organization had told the FBI: "I have information that Harold Covington of the National Socialist Party of America is up to heavy illegal activity. Covington has been training in the Jefferson County area with illegal weapons. He and his group have plans to attack and possibly kill people at an anti-Klan gathering this week in North Carolina."[1] Nevertheless, Covington was not among the four Klansmen and two neo-nazis who were later prosecuted for the Greensboro murders and found not guilty.[2]
In 1979, Covington claims to have found, at the NSPA offices, "films, pictures and addresses of some little boys", as a result of which "we handed Frank Collin to the cops on a silver platter,"[3] and by the time of the trial Covington had replaced Collin as the head of the NSPA.[4] Events during the trial, including the fact that he was not prosecuted despite Levy's advance advance warning of his involvement, led to suspicion among NSPA members that Covington was a state informer, and he came under considerable pressure within the organisation. In March 1981 he went underground, appointing the St Louis NSPA leader Michael Allen as leader in his place. Allen himself subsequently turned out to be an informer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.[5]
Covington spent time in South Africa before settling in the United Kingdom for several years, where he made contact with far-right groups and was involved in setting up the neo-nazi terror group Combat 18 (C18). His Dixie Press was the given address on the first issues of C18's hitlist publication Redwatch.[6]. In June 1992 Searchlight exposed his presence in Britain, after which he returned to the United States. Larry O'Hara's 1994 book Turning Up the Heat: MI5 after the cold war claimed that Covington was a "state asset", who was instrumental in state infiltration of C18.
Upon his return to the US, Covington set up his own National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), which he ran from various locations until settling in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He launched its website (archive.org) in 1996 and for some time the NSWPP was one of the more active neo-nazi presences on the web; it now appears to be defunct.
Covington is the author of a number of novels [1] and maintains at least two blogs, one of which is devoted to the "Northwest Migration", a project among American neo-nazis to set up a white separatist "Aryan Homeland" in the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington.[2]
Covington has sometimes gone by the alias Winston Smith, particularly in his role as head of the NSWPP.
References
- ^ Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0520071972
- ^ "A Litany of 'Not Guilty'", Time, 1 December 1980
- ^ Larry O'Hara, Turning Up the Heat: MI5 after the cold war, Phoenix Press 1994, p68 & note. ISBN 0948984295
- ^ Myrna Erstep, "Nazis in America", Feminista vol 3 no 10
- ^ O'Hara 1994 p69
- ^ Searchlight, July 1993
External links
- Northwest Homeland, a blog by Covington
- Thoughtcrime, a blog by Covington