Rinaldo Nazzaro[edit]
Rinaldo Nazzaro uses the pseudonyms Norman Spear and Roman Wolf.
[4][32] Nazzaro used to work for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an analyst and he also used to work as a contractor for
The Pentagon,
[33] and he also claims to have served in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
[34] Nazzaro owned a security contracting firm, Omega Solutions International LLC. He is a white supremacist and a supporter of the
Northwest Territorial Imperative, which proposes the creation of "a separatist ethnostate in the Pacific north-west".
[32]
With his wife, Nazzaro resides in
Saint Petersburg,
Russia, according to
BBC News; an apartment in the city was purchased in his wife's name in July 2018, the same month in which The Base was founded.
[35] A video posted online in May 2019 shows Nazzaro, apparently in Russia, wearing a t-shirt with an image of President
Vladimir Putin and the words "Russia, absolute power".
[35] The BBC also reported that in 2019, Nazzaro was listed as a guest at a Russian government security exhibition in
Moscow.
[35] Some members of The Base suspected that Nazzarro was connected to
Russian intelligence, which Nazzaro denies.
[34] In November 2020, a feature-length interview with Nazzaro was broadcast on Russian state television.
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