Former Ku Klux Klan ‘grand dragon’ reportedly advising Irish far-right groups
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Frank L Silva, also known as Frank DeSilva, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan and a convicted terrorist, has reportedly been meeting remotely with Irish far-right extremist groups to discuss and plan anti-immigration protests in Ireland.Silva was a prominent figure in the US white supremacist movement in the 1980s, having been established as the ‘grand dragon’ of the Los Angeles chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Additionally, Silva was also a founding member of the neo-Nazi group known as ‘the Order’, a terrorist organisation that carried out a string of violent crimes in the United States before it was shut down by the FBI in 1984.
When he was 27 years old, Silva was arrested for federal racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with violence carried out by ‘the Order’, including the assassination of Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was released in 1998 after serving only 13 years of his 40-year sentence and has since written many books and articles focused on his own racist ideologies.
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