What the Tempel ov Blood Leak Actually Shows: Members, Tradecraft, and the Documentary Record

There is no single Tempel ov Blood leak. The phrase, as it circulates through accelerationism researcher circles and court reporting, refers to a convergence of documentary streams that arrived between 2019 and 2024 and that, taken together, document the operational structure of the American O9A nexion Joshua Caleb Sutter built. Some of the streams were disclosures by hackers. Some were forced into public view by federal prosecutions. Some were FOIA returns that survived redaction. None has been treated by a federal institution as a single record requiring response, even though the record documents, in line-item detail, what the FBI was paying Sutter to do.

This piece is a forensic walk through what the record contains and what the record makes possible to verify.

The Streams

The first stream is the Unicorn Riot disclosure of November 2019. The independent media collective published roughly 700 hours of audio and tens of thousands of Discord messages from servers operated by Atomwaffen Division and adjacent groups, including a server known internally as Bowl Patrol, a name drawn from the Charleston church shooter’s haircut. Within that material, members discussed Iron Gates, Liber 333, and the broader Tempel ov Blood catalog as core ideological texts. The Discord logs preserved usernames, timestamps, file uploads, and the operational structure by which AWD distributed Martinet Press PDFs to recruits. The disclosure was assembled from leaks fed to Unicorn Riot by sources inside or proximate to the servers and authenticated through cross-referencing against prior court filings and corroborating evidence collected by the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League.

The second stream is the body of court filings produced by federal prosecutions of AWD and AWD-adjacent figures. United States v. Brandon Russell, originally filed in the Middle District of Florida and later reopened in the District of Maryland, contained exhibits documenting Russell’s possession of Tempel ov Blood materials and his use of O9A frameworks in planning attacks on electrical infrastructure. United States v. Kaleb Cole, in the Western District of Washington, produced exhibits showing AWD’s distribution of Iron Gates and Martinet Press content to recruits as part of the group’s onboarding curriculum. People v. Samuel Woodward, in Orange County Superior Court, included evidence that Woodward had consumed Tempel ov Blood material before he murdered Blaze Bernstein in January 2018. The court record is not a leak in the conventional sense, but it is the most legally durable form of the documentation, because every exhibit has been authenticated under federal or state evidentiary standards.

The third stream is Ali Winston’s August 2024 reporting in WIRED, which combined FOIA returns, court records, and former law enforcement sources to document the FBI’s payment structure for Sutter. The reporting established the timeline, the dollar figures, and the handler protocols that governed Sutter’s work, drawing on internal FBI documents that had been partially declassified through litigation and journalistic pressure. The full WIRED documentary record, including the underlying FOIA productions, has been hosted in publicly accessible archives since the article ran. The pillar piece on Joshua Sutter as FBI informant walks the financial and prosecutorial timeline in detail.

The fourth stream is the Martinet Press catalog itself. Sutter operated the press as a semi-public operation. Its books, PDFs, and storefront listings were available to anyone willing to navigate to the site or order through mail. Researchers who archived the catalog before the press went dormant preserved the full bibliography, including books that have since been pulled from circulation. That preserved catalog, hosted by accelerationism researchers and library-of-record initiatives, is itself a leak in the sense that the press was never intended to function as evidence against its own publisher.

The fifth stream, and the most contested, is a set of internal Tempel ov Blood materials that surfaced through a combination of insider disclosures and forum scraping between 2020 and 2023. These include drafts, handler notes, and what the nexion called the Aural Tradition, the orally transmitted material members were instructed not to commit to writing. Researchers including the SPLC’s Megan Squire, the ADL’s Center on Extremism team, and independent investigators working with Bellingcat have used these materials to map ToB’s internal hierarchy, though the chain of custody on individual documents varies.

Together, these streams describe an organization the FBI funded an informant to build.

Co-Founders and Aliases

The leaked record identifies Tempel ov Blood’s founding figures by both legal name and adopted aliases. Joshua Caleb Sutter operated within the nexion under the name Sannyasin Singh Khalsa, a handle adopted from his earlier involvement with a Khalistani Sikh fringe network. Sutter’s wife and ToB co-founder, Jillian Hoy, operated under the name Hagia Hardy. The Unicorn Riot Discord logs, the Martinet Press author attributions, and several of the AWD court filings cross-reference these names. The court record establishes the legal identities; the leaked internal material establishes the operational ones.

The naming convention is not incidental to the structure. The Order of Nine Angles operates through what its members call magickal names, identities adopted upon entry into a nexion that are intended to survive the abandonment of the legal identity should the adherent need to disappear. Tempel ov Blood inherited and refined this practice, building a parallel namespace in which members could communicate, publish, and recruit while maintaining plausible separation from their above-ground lives. The leaked Discord servers preserve hundreds of these handles, not all of which have been resolved to legal identities. Researchers working from the Discord material have published partial maps of the namespace, but the full reconstruction is incomplete because some handles were used by more than one person and some shifted over time as members rotated through ranks.

What the Catalog Documents

The preserved Martinet Press catalog is the cleanest piece of the record, because the books exist as physical and digital objects that can be examined in full. The catalog included Liber 333, attributed to Tempel ov Blood; Iron Gates, attributed to Devi Lukas Reuven, an alias whose legal identity has been the subject of multiple researcher attributions but no definitive court determination; Bluebird, a CIA mind control allegory used as recruitment material; and The Sinister Tradition, a compendium of O9A foundational writings curated by Sutter for an American audience.

Liber 333 is the operational handbook. Its 333 numbered sections include directives on insight roles, the long-term infiltration of institutions including law enforcement, the military, religious organizations, and political movements. The text instructs adherents to maintain ideological cover stories, to avoid premature exposure, and to use legal employment within target institutions as a source of access for later disruption. The leaked Discord conversations document AWD members discussing insight roles as career strategy, including specific suggestions about which military branches and law enforcement agencies offered the best operational concealment. The behavior the book describes is not theoretical; it is documented in the AWD prosecutions as the actual conduct of the group’s members.

Iron Gates functioned differently within the catalog. The book is fiction, structured as a series of vignettes set in a post-collapse civilizational scenario. Its content includes graphic depictions of child sexual abuse, torture, and ritualized murder, framed within the text not as the conduct of antagonists but as the spiritual practice of the protagonists. The book was banned from Amazon in 2018 after sustained advocacy by counter-extremism researchers, but Martinet Press continued to distribute it directly through 2021. The Atomwaffen Discord logs preserve specific conversations in which members traded the Iron Gates PDF and quoted from it in recruitment messages.

The catalog also included shorter texts intended for early-stage recruits, pamphlets that synthesized O9A occultism with American neo-Nazi political content. These were the entry points. The Aural Tradition, available only to those who had advanced within the nexion, was the deeper layer.

The Aural Tradition

The leaked internal material describes the Aural Tradition as an oral or hand-copied body of ritual instruction transmitted only between members initiated to a sufficient grade within the nexion. The structural function of the practice is to insulate the most extreme content from the kind of documentary record that produced Iron Gates’s downstream legal trouble. By the nexion’s own internal doctrine, the writings that explicitly instructed members to commit specific acts of violence as initiatory rites were never to be written down. They were to be communicated in person, then memorized, then communicated again to the next member.

The leaked materials indicate this protocol was honored in part and broken in part. Some members maintained the discipline. Others, particularly those active on Discord and Telegram, reduced Aural Tradition material to writing in private channels, where it was eventually captured by hackers, court-ordered seizures, or law enforcement infiltration. The record preserved through these breaches is fragmentary but consistent. The tradition included specific instructions on what the nexion called culling, the killing of individuals deemed by the nexion to be insufficiently fit, and on insight role transitions, the points at which an adherent was expected to act on the access cultivated.

The Aural Tradition is the part of the record that should have triggered a federal response and did not. If Sutter’s handler had reviewed the substance of what Tempel ov Blood was teaching its advanced adherents, the question of whether to continue funding the operation would have answered itself.

The Members Named in the Record

The court filings and leaked Discord material name dozens of individuals connected to Tempel ov Blood at various levels of involvement. Some are publicly known figures whose names appear in AWD prosecutions. Others are figures whose involvement has been documented by researchers but who have not been charged with crimes.

Brandon Russell, the AWD co-founder convicted in connection with the Tampa apartment bomb-making case and later convicted of conspiring to attack the Maryland electrical grid, is documented in the leaked record as having read and circulated Tempel ov Blood material. His specific level of involvement with the nexion as an organization, as opposed to a consumer of its publications, has been the subject of competing researcher claims; the court record establishes consumption and distribution but stops short of formal membership.

Kaleb Cole, an AWD leader convicted in 2023 of conspiring to threaten journalists and activists in Seattle, is documented as a circulator of Martinet Press content within AWD’s recruitment infrastructure. The Western District of Washington’s exhibits include screenshots and PDF metadata establishing the chain of custody.

Samuel Woodward, the Orange County murderer of Blaze Bernstein, consumed Iron Gates and Liber 333 before the killing. Prosecutors at his 2024 trial introduced this material as evidence of motive and ideological formation, drawing on a combination of his personal devices and the broader AWD discovery record.

Beyond these legally adjudicated cases, the record names individuals whose involvement has been documented but who have not faced charges. These include figures who held mid-level positions within AWD’s parallel structure, members of the Bowl Patrol clique, and adherents who engaged with Tempel ov Blood’s catalog without crossing into prosecutable conduct. The accelerationism researcher community, including the SPLC, the ADL, and independent investigators, has produced partial maps of this network. The maps are public; the federal response to them is not.

Tradecraft

The leaked material documents the operational tradecraft Tempel ov Blood used to maintain its catalog distribution and its membership communication.

The Martinet Press web operation was hosted on infrastructure designed to be portable. When researchers and counter-extremism organizations pressured registrars and hosts, the press migrated. The leaked record preserves the sequence of domains and hosts, including a 2018 migration to fringe-friendly infrastructure after Amazon’s removal of Iron Gates. The sequence demonstrates that the operation was prepared for deplatforming and treated each migration as routine.

Mail-order distribution used a series of P.O. box arrangements in South Carolina. The leaked material includes order forms, payment instructions, and shipping records preserved in court filings and disclosed by former buyers who later cooperated with researchers. The press accepted cash, money orders, and cryptocurrency, with the latter increasing in share through 2020 and 2021.

Internal communication used a layered structure. Public-facing recruitment occurred on Discord, Telegram, and Gab. Mid-level coordination happened on encrypted servers, primarily Riot and Wire. The Aural Tradition was meant to stay off all platforms, though the record shows it intermittently crossed into private encrypted channels. The Unicorn Riot disclosure captured the Discord layer in full, the encrypted layer in part, and the Aural Tradition only insofar as members violated their own protocols.

The structural significance of this tradecraft is that it produced the documentary trail that now exists. An organization that had maintained perfect operational security would not have generated the Discord logs, the encrypted server captures, or the leaked drafts. Tempel ov Blood’s record exists because its members, like most clandestine organizations, were not as disciplined as their internal doctrine demanded. The leaks document the gap between the doctrine and the practice.

What the Record Does Not Resolve

The single question the leaked record does not resolve is the timeline of FBI knowledge. The WIRED reporting establishes that Sutter was being paid as a confidential human source from 2003 through at least 2021. The court filings establish that Tempel ov Blood, Martinet Press, and AWD’s consumption of their material were operational by approximately 2014. The Unicorn Riot disclosure establishes the radicalization pipeline by November 2019.

What the record does not establish, and what only an FBI internal review or congressional investigation could establish, is the precise sequence by which Sutter’s handlers learned of each piece of his publishing operation. The handler reports that would document this chain are classified. The 1023 forms that constitute the formal record of his intelligence product remain partially withheld. The accountability gap is not in the public record. It is in what the public record cannot reach.

The questions that remain unresolved include: when did the FBI first learn that Sutter had founded Tempel ov Blood; when did they learn of Martinet Press; what conditions, if any, were placed on his publishing activities; what review, if any, was conducted after Atomwaffen Division members began committing murders; and what officials at what supervisory levels approved the continuation of his payments after each successive prosecution made the chain of consequences clear.

These questions sit alongside parallel questions about other informants, including those connected to the 764 network and the figures discussed in the plain-language 764 explainer. The structural problem is not unique to Sutter. The Sutter record is the most documented version of it.

What the Leak Has Already Produced

The leaked record has produced research, journalism, and pressure. It has not produced accountability.

Counter-extremism organizations have used the material to map the O9A’s American footprint and to document the radicalization pipelines that fed Atomwaffen Division and successor groups. Federal prosecutions of AWD members have used the material as exhibits, building cases that secured convictions for Russell, Cole, Woodward, and others. Congressional oversight, beginning with the February 2026 Comer-Higgins letter to the FBI, has cited the material in formal demands for documentation.

What the material has not produced is any disclosed internal review by the FBI of the Sutter case, any DOJ Inspector General report on the informant program’s handling of him, or any criminal charge against Sutter himself for the activities he conducted while on the federal payroll. The intelligence product he generated remains classified. The damage he caused remains documented. The institution that paid him has not been required to reconcile the two.

The leak, in this sense, is a working accountability instrument that has not yet been operated. The documents are public. The federal mechanism that would convert them into consequences has not engaged. Researchers continue to work the material. The men whose ideological formation occurred within Tempel ov Blood continue to serve their sentences. The handlers who approved Sutter’s payments retain their positions and their pensions. The pattern is the one the Anton Long identity question raises in its own register: the record exists, the analysis exists, the institutional response does not.

That asymmetry is the ongoing story. The leak made the asymmetry visible. What the leak cannot do alone is force the institutions that have the authority to act on the visible record to do so.

Sources

• Ali Winston, “The FBI Paid a Violent Extremist Leader More Than $140,000” — WIRED, August 2024
• Unicorn Riot — Atomwaffen Division Discord disclosure, November 2019
• Court filings — United States v. Brandon Russell, Middle District of Florida and District of Maryland
• Court filings — United States v. Kaleb Cole, Western District of Washington
• People v. Samuel Woodward, Orange County Superior Court (Case No. 18HF0262)
• SPLC Hatewatch — Atomwaffen Division and O9A reporting
• Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism — Order of Nine Angles backgrounder
• Bellingcat — accelerationism and O9A research
• Rep. James Comer and Rep. Clay Higgins — Letter to FBI Director on O9A/764 Informant Handling, February 2026