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Description
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1953
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Amoss publishes cover story on Leaderless Resistance as technique for insurgency inside Soviet Bloc countries
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Circa 1960 |
Flyers calling for formation of "Phantom Cells" are airdropped over Cuba |
1961 |
Amoss Dies |
1962 |
INFORM Republishes Amoss's Leaderless Resistance |
1962 |
Amoss' Leaderless Resistance republished
as 4-page handout |
??? |
Amoss' Leaderless Resistance republished as
Appendix in book? Not verified. |
1965 |
Right-wing insurgent Richard Cotton publicizes idea of Leaderless Resistance and phantom cells.[1] |
circa 1968 |
William Potter Gale creates the concept of the underground Posse Comitatus and begins to popularize it. The cell structure described can be a form of Leaderless Resistance |
1969 |
Mike Beach - circulates information on how to form a Posse Comitatus unit. Publication of ''Guide for Volunteer Christian Posses.'' |
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1971 |
William Potter Gale creates the group Posse Comitatus. The group consists of "loosely affiliated bands of armed anti-tax and Anti-Federal government vigilantes and survivalists" who believe "that all government power is rooted at the county, not Federal, level" [2]. |
Circa 1971 |
Posse Comitatus manifesto issued in booklet form. |
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1982-1983
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Gale forms Committee of the States.
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1983-1984
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Arizona Patriots start forming Kingman Arizona cell.
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February 1983
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Posse Comitatus member Gordon Kahl murders two Federal Marshals in North Dakota.
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May 1983
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Louis Beam publishes his version of "Leaderless Resistance."
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June 1983
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Gordon Kahl dies in a shootout with Federal agents, becoming the movement's first martyr.
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Summer 1983
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Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord starts plotting violent mayhem.
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July 1983
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Aryan Nations Congress.
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August 1983
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CSA affiliates try to arson gay-positive church.
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August/September 1983
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"Order" cell formed by members of various groups.
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November 1983
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CSA activists and Richard Wayne Snell stage attacks on a pawnshop owner they mistakenly thought to be Jewish.
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December 1983-March 1984
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Order cell stages Seattle area bank and armored car robberies.
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| February 1984 |
Jack Mohr of the Christian-Patriots Defense League suggests Leaderless Resistance to that group and the related Citizens Emergency Defense System.[1] |
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June 1984
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Snell shoots Arizona state trooper.
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June 1984
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Order cell assassinates Denver liberal Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg.
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April 1985
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Raid on the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord.
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1988
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Beam is tried for sedition at Ft. Smith.
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1991
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President George Bush gives "New World Order" speech.
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February 1992 |
Beam republishes "Leaderless Resistance." |
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October 1992
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Estes Park Meeting, Beam speech. [3]
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April 1995 |
Snell executed, OKC bombing carried out by McVeigh and others in underground cell. |
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