Secret audio recordings detail how Adelaide Nazi teen defected to National Socialist Network from The Base terror group

Leaked messages and a secret recording show how two teen boys joined an Australian cell of international terrorist groups, with one assuming a senior position in the NSN.

This Adelaide man joined two violent extremist proscribed terrorist groups as a teenager before later joining the National Socialist Network, according to secret recordings. Picture: Supplied

Secret audio recordings reveal how an Adelaide teenager was recruited into two US-based terrorist cells before defecting to a leadership position within the notorious neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network.

In a disturbing 2019 recording of a conversation between members of the paramilitary US white supremacist group The Base, its leader Rinaldo Nazzaro is heard speaking about their two Aussie teen members.

Nazzaro, who is now on a recruitment mission in Russia, said he had vetted one member named “Verdomme”, whose previous postings suggested he was an Adelaide-based 17-year-old, and another named Wolfrik, believed to be a NSW-based 18-year-old, but “had not heard from him in a while”.

A photo from an Atomwaffen recruitment video. Picture: Vice

The Australian government listed The Base as a proscribed terrorist organisation in March 2021, saying: “The Base believes societal collapse can be expedited through violence, including lone-actor terrorist attacks”.

In the recording obtained by The Advertiser, Nazzaro said the Australian pair had “just disappeared” and that he believed that this was because a rival US organisation called Atomwaffen “were creating a cell in Australia”.

Atomwaffen Division (AWD), now known as National Socialist Order (NSO), are a nationalist violent extremist group which was also declared a proscribed terrorist organisation by the federal government in March 2021.

An NSN meeting involving members from the SA and Victorian chapters in the Grampians in 2024. Image: Supplied.

The Base claiming to have set up a cell in Australia. Image: X.

Nazzaro said he believed the pair has been “patched” by AWD.

“I think they were told from their higher up to stop contacting us immediately,” said Nazzaro, who used to work for the FBI and the Pentagon.

“I mean it’s OK, I’ve said to them it’s OK, I won’t be offended, everything is cool – just let me know.”

Two years later, the Adelaide teen, now a young adult, is believed to have become active in Thomas Sewell’s National Socialist Network (NSN), rising through the ranks to become a senior member in the group’s South Australian chapter.

Chat archives from a number of different forums and groups such as Discord, 4Chan and DeviantAnt show the teen “Verdomme” posting under that name and various others photos of himself and an Adelaide church.

Most of the profiles list their location as “Adelaide, South Australia”.

In one post, he advocates killing Jewish babies – much to the dismay of many of the other posters even in that extremist chat.

The NSN, which started in 2020, says that it does not advocate violence and is instead focused on “white community building” to “protect the white race” whom they believe are at risk of becoming extinct.

Extremism expert Josh Roose, Associate Professor of Politics at Deakin University, Melbourne said that he believed the material uncovered showed NSN’s propensity for violent extremism.

“NSN are not what they talk about. We know they have members who are highly charged and have extreme violent views,” he said.

“We know they have members who are extremely high charged and have extreme violent views.”

He said the organisation was attracting “angry young men with deep, dark pasts”.

“Have these people reformed these views, or do they still hold these views – the question needs to be asked. Do NSN members have the potential for terrorist violence?”