SPOKANE, Wash. -- A small band of white supremacists arrested in several north Idaho bombings and a counterfeiting operation schemed to kill judges and prosecutors in a plot to revive 'The Order,' an FBI agent testified.
David Jernigan made the disclosure Wednesday at a hearing for three members of the Aryan Nations Church of North Idaho who face counterfeiting charges. The neo-Nazi group is based in Hayden Lake, 30 miles east of Spokane.
Jernigan said police learned of the plot to revive the violent racist gang, 'The Order,' from Robert Pires, 22, who is accused of bombing buildings in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Sept. 29 and the home of a minister who opposes the Aryan Nations two weeks earlier.
According to the FBI agent, Pires told authorities he, the counterfeiting suspects -- Edward Hawley, his wife, Olive, and David Ross Dorr -- as well as Dorr's wife, Deborah, had joined together under the names 'Bruder Schweigen' -- German for 'Silent Brotherhood' -- and 'Strike Force Two.'
'Bruder Schweigen' was a name often used by members of 'The Order,' the gang smashed last year in Seattle, when 23 members were convicted of racketeering in a scheme prosecutors said included murder, robbery, counterfeiting, bombing and arson -- with the ultimate goal of staging a white supremacist revolution.
The white supremacists seemed to be following the terrorism plan - like that of 'The Order' -- set forth in the book, 'The Turner Diaries,' a fictional account of a bloody race war, Jernigan said.
He said the new campaign apparently began last December, about two weeks before 'The Order' trial started in Seattle.
That's when Dorr, a former San Jose, Calif., deputy sheriff, bought counterfeiting supplies in Spokane, Jernigan said.
Jernigan said Pires, who is being held on $500,000 bond in a secret location in Idaho, implicated himself, the Dorrs and the Hawleys in the Coeur d'Alene bombings, a counterfeiting operation that produced $27,000 in $20 bills, and a scheme to assassinate opponents of the Aryan Nations Church.
He said the Dorrs, Pires and Olive Hawley had discussed killing Edward Hawley after he was arrested Sept. 7 for passing a counterfeit $20 bill at the Spokane fair.
'They were going to kill Edward Hawley because he had endangered their lives by being arrested,' Jernigan said.
But instead of killing Hawley, the others decided to send him on a mission -- another storyline from 'The Turner Diaries' -- to rob banks and National Guard armories and bomb enemies of the movement, he said.
Pires indicated the new Aryan strike force had formulated a hit list of federal judges, law enforcement officers and other individuals in Kootenai County, Jernigan testified. The only names mentioned in court were human rights leader the Rev. Bill Wassmuth and Kootenai County Undersheriff Larry Broadbent.
U.S. Magistrate Smithmoor Myers, citing Jernigan's testimony and the violent history of 'The Order,' ordered David Dorr, 35, an Aryan Nations security officer, and Edward Hawley, 22, held without bond until their trial.
'If released, there is no way to ensure that they would not be a risk to other individuals or the community,' Myers said.
Myers ordered Olive Hawley, 27, detained without bond until the U.S. Probation Office determines whether she would be a danger to society if freed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Hicks called the defendants' white-supremacist beliefs 'fantasies that they turn into real-world violence.' He said he would present the case to a grand jury Oct. 20.
David Dorr was arrested at his Idaho home Thursday on the counterfeiting charges. His wife has not been charged.
Pires, of Maryland, was arrested Monday. He, Edward Hawley and David Dorr are accused of bombing Wassmuth's home two weeks before the downtown Coeur d'Alene blasts.
Pires told the FBI the Coeur d'Alene bombs were set off to divert police so the group could rob banks and steal weapons from a National Guard armory.
The group scrapped plans for the robberies because the reaction to the bombings was greater than expected, the FBI has said.
No one was injured in any of the blasts.
The Spokesman-Review reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors were also cpnsidering seeking a racketeering indictment against the suspects.
