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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S13: "White Hot Hate" E5: The ‘Network Administrator’

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We speak with ‘Roman Wolf,’ the founder of The Base. Who is he really? Why did he start a white supremacist network? And with half a dozen members behind bars, what comes next? For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840

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0:00.0

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0:31.5

This is a CBC podcast. The following episode contains strongly racist language and descriptions

0:39.4

of violence. Please take care when listening. Remember that voice. That's the man

0:57.1

going by the alias Roman Wolf. He was vetting Ryan Thorpe, a Winnipeg Free Press reporter

1:03.6

who'd gone undercover posing as a white nationalist, and Ryan had secretly recorded the call.

1:09.6

We do have a very strong, relatively scary and militant currents in running through the

1:16.0

base. Most of the members are pretty report and that's that something you need.

1:22.0

Well, it turns out Ryan wasn't the only one documenting these conversations. The base

1:28.2

had been infiltrated long before him, long before even the FBI. This insider joined the base

1:36.2

soon after its inception, and for about a year and a half he recorded dozens and dozens

1:42.4

of vetting calls with wannabe members from around the world. Just like with Ryan's phone

1:47.2

interview, they were almost always led by that one man, Roman Wolf.

1:52.8

When we just start out with a kind of a general question, just tell us a little bit about

1:58.8

yourself. So I'm a man in my late 20s. I work pre-normal job. It's a white collar

2:07.0

job. I live in an apartment in Saskatchewan. I love going outdoors. I like a reason.

2:14.2

Okay, I'm 26 years old. I live in the west of Germany. I served several months in the

2:20.8

German army. We call it Verdeans in Germany. So my name is Peter, and my parents are Polish.

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