“NavyJack” Operation HYPO: After Action Report -
Infiltrating Violent Protest Organizations
As many of you know, Oath Keepers initiated
Operation HYPO in response to the increasingly
violent protests that broke out across the country
following the election. We had some members already
in a position to quickly infiltrate the protest
organizations that were active in support of
Operation Sabot. I myself assumed an identity of an
individual from another state with all of the
necessary elements to ensure success of my assigned
responsibilities. Working during the day, I would
travel by night to meetings and protests in various
cities. Most weekends were consumed with
assimilating reports from other operatives, grooming
equipment and planning our activities. Our entire
team had immense support from Oath Keepers senior
leadership.
In my case, it took quite a while to become accepted
into the groups that I was responsible for
observing. I think a lot of this was because I am a
little bit older than our other operatives. I dyed
my hair and bought clothing appropriate for the
assignment. By actually participating in a large
number of protest activities, I was eventually
"recruited"¯ into a series of organizations with
increasing levels of responsibility. It took a month
of steady involvement before any of the really
hard-core group leaders would even talk to me. My
military and post-active duty DoD experience was
extremely valuable. I learned to behave as they
behave and to "trigger" on appropriate issues. I
also learned that the brain-washing that moves
people into these organizations is mostly external
to the organizations themselves. The people joining
are brain-washed by numerous sources before they
even participate in their first protest or direct
action. The MSM, our colleges and universities,
social media and leftist alternative news
organizations are the primary sources of the initial
brain-washing that is taking place.
The radicalization process is unique to each person,
but generally follows a pattern of being very rapid
for those with little or no responsibilities in
their daily life to long and laborious for those
with a real life outside of the movement. Young,
under-employed single white males are the vanguard
of these movements.
In order to gain trust, we found that the best thing
to do was to be aloof and skeptical with regard to
the plans and activities of the groups and to be
independent and outspoken when plans were being
discussed in our presence. Most of the details
associated with "direct
actions" were
not discussed with anyone other than the group of
individuals assigned to carry out the specific task.
In the groups that I was assigned to penetrate,
there were plenty of blowhards thumping their chest
about something they had done that demonstrated
their skill and ability to participate or lead. Most
of this was hyperbole, but the newer members would
eat it up like young soldiers listening to the
inflated heroics of a platoon member that had only
been with the unit a month longer than them. We all
know the type.
While most of our operatives started and stayed with
one specific group, I was unable to initially
penetrate the group I was responsible for
infiltrating. I had to work my way up the ladder,
moving from one group to another in order to achieve
my objective. In my migration from group to group, I
found that political ideology was a significant
factor in the determination of what types of
activities the groups would sponsor; ranging from
sit-ins to marches to direct action. I can broadly
classify these ideologies as liberal socialists,
communists and anarchists.
The liberal socialists are primarily coming out of
our higher education system. They are comprised of
professors, students and under-employed graduates.
They are primarily white with a roughly equal split
between male/female. They are not militant. They are
willing to conduct blockades, marches and sit-ins.
The communists are a much broader spectrum of
society with a strong leaning towards immigration
issues. The communists actively recruit from a wide
pool of candidates, including liberal socialists,
the LBGT community, the environmental activists and
the anti-white racist groups (Black Lives Matter, La
Raza, Islamic Fundamentalists, etc.). They have a
significant number of minorities in their ranks and
they are militant in their operations and planning.
The communists encourage independent action of their
members to assimilate members from groups like Black
Lives Matter, La Raza and other less militant
organizations like ANSWER Coalition. They have no
ethical boundaries. To communists, the ends always
justify the means. They will do everything that the
liberal socialist do in order to protest an issue
and always take it one step further. They are not
inclined to conduct direct actions.
The anarchists are by far the most dangerous of
these groups. They are organized like militias. They
actively train and practice their operations. They
have discipline and zero tolerance for weakness.
They have a number of former military personnel
providing expertise to enhance security, logistics
and martial arts capabilities. The majority are
physical fit, military age males. They are primarily
white with few minority members. Their leadership
tends to be either former military, a proven leader
from the occupy movement or a highly educated
alpha-male. They are far more capable than their
recent activities would demonstrate. They have
formed community defense organizations and are
idolized for their willingness to take action from
the other groups discussed above. They are however
anarchists that despise communism as much as they
despise capitalism. They see patriots and
constitutionalists as their primary enemy. To them,
everyone is a NAZI or a fascist unless they are an
anarchist. There is no debate allowed on these
issues, ever. They operate under various names, but
the vast majority identify with the anti-fascist
movement. With the election of President Trump,
their membership has increased exponentially. There
are at least 50,000 nationwide. They have been able
to assimilate much of the "occupy" and "black-bloc"¯
movements. Most of what these organizations
accomplish are classified as direct actions. They
will participate in a protest or a march, but they
are not big fans of passive resistance.
For those of you that are not familiar with the term
a direct action, these are very precise coordinated
operations conducted by small groups (4-6 members)
that have very specific unit and overall goals. The
planned smoke bombing of an Inauguration Ball is a
good example of a direct action. Our team foiled
this operation. We informed the DC Police
Department, the National Press Club and the
Inauguration Ball security team leaders of these
plans on January 9th, 2017. Direct targeting of
individuals and businesses are common direct action
activities for the Anti-Fascists. Destruction of
property (burning your car, damaging your house,
busting the windows out where you work, etc.) are
standard direct actions against targeted individuals
of these groups. Ask James O’Keefe from Project
Veritas or Milo Yiannopoulos from Breitbart News.
They are both now having to deal with this. The
following video was recorded at Portland
International Airport last night. The PDX Black-bloc
initiated a direct action to assault individuals who
they believed were supporters of the President. You
can watch a longer version of this event, now being
characterized as a riot, here. |