---
category: Organizations
created: 2026-05-21
location: Lexington, South Carolina
start: 2014
summary: Martinet Press is the Tempel ov Blood publishing imprint operated by Joshua
  Caleb Sutter and Jillian Hoy, which published Iron Gates in October 2014, more than
  a decade into Sutter's tenure as a paid FBI informant, and whose operations were
  partially funded by those informant payments.
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- TemplovBlood
- NeoNazi
- Publishing
- Satanism
- AtomwaffenDivision
- FBIInformant
- USA
- SouthCarolina
updated: 2026-05-22
---

[Martinet Press](/organizations/martinet-press/) is the publishing arm of [Tempel ov Blood](/organizations/tempel-ov-blood/), the primary American nexion of the [Order of Nine Angles](/organizations/order-of-nine-angles/) (O9A), operated by [Joshua Caleb Sutter](/people/joshua-caleb-sutter/) and his wife [Jillian Hoy](/people/jillian-hoy/) from their base in Lexington, South Carolina. The press published the O9A texts that reached the widest American extremist audience - principally the ultraviolent novel *[Iron Gates](/concepts/iron-gates/)* (2014), along with *Liber 333* and *Bluebird* - which were subsequently adopted as required reading within [Atomwaffen Division](/organizations/atomwaffen-division/) following Sutter's 2017 infiltration of that organization, and distributed through [Terrorgram Collective](/organizations/terrorgram-collective/) channels into the broader accelerationist ecosystem.

In a documented paradox that has received significant attention from researchers and journalists, Martinet Press's operations were partially funded by FBI informant payments made to Sutter between 2003 and at least 2021. The FBI paid Sutter more than $140,000 for intelligence work, including infiltrating AWD, while those funds partly supported the publication of texts that radicalized the AWD members Sutter was being paid to monitor.[^1]

### Publications

Martinet Press's primary publications, all drawn from O9A source material and produced under Tempel ov Blood's collective authorship, include:

*Iron Gates* (October 18, 2014; ISBN 9780692306581; 406 pp.): An ultraviolent novel depicting a post-collapse race war and mass genocide, framed within O9A's [Insight Roles](/concepts/insight-roles/) doctrine as spiritually necessary transgression. Became required AWD reading after Sutter's infiltration; its distribution through Terrorgram channels gave it reach far beyond the original O9A audience. The book is available through the Internet Archive in full text and was carried by multiple commercial booksellers including WORD Bookstore, ThriftBooks, and Better World Books.

*Liber 333*: An O9A initiation text containing practical instructions for the Seven Fold Way, including descriptions of the Insight Roles doctrine and guidance for the initiate's progression through transgressive acts.

*Bluebird*: An O9A text addressing specific operational themes; circulated alongside *Iron Gates* within AWD and through Terrorgram.

Additional works published in the 2019-2020 period include *Choronzon IV* (April 2019), *Goetia Daemonium* (June 2019), *Egregoroi* (July 2020), and *PREDATOR* issues (a Tempel ov Blood restricted circular).[^6]

All three primary texts were cited in federal prosecutions as evidence of defendants' ideological commitments and as material that law enforcement linked to radicalization and incitement to violence.[^2]

### Publication Timeline vs. Informant Relationship

The relationship between Martinet Press and Sutter's FBI informant status is a matter of documented chronology:

- February 2003: Sutter arrested in Uwchlan Township, Pennsylvania by Philadelphia JTTF
- May 2003: Guilty plea entered, United States v. Sutter (2003), 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 (Eastern District of Pennsylvania)
- 2004: Released from federal prison; informant deployment as "deep-cover" source begins
- 2014: *Iron Gates* published by Martinet Press (October 18, 2014; ISBN 9780692306581; 406 pp.)
- 2017: Tempel ov Blood members integrated into AWD; Sutter joins AWD as "swissdiscipline"
- February 7, 2018: FBI payment period specifically associated with the AWD investigation begins ($78,133.20 in payments + $4,378.60 expenses)
- 2019-2020: Martinet Press publishes additional works including *Choronzon IV*, *Goetia Daemonium*, *Egregoroi*, and *PREDATOR* issues[^6]
- August 2021: Sutter's informant status publicly revealed through Cole suppression motion
- 2022: Rolling Stone reports Sutter "is a free man and still selling Satanist books"[^7]

*Iron Gates* was therefore published eleven years after Sutter began cooperating with the FBI. The book, and the publishing apparatus around it, existed entirely within the informant relationship.

### The FBI Paradox

Sutter was recruited as a paid FBI informant following his 2003 arrest on weapons charges. His FBI handler, Special Agent [Bill Moser](/people/bill-moser/) of the Columbia, South Carolina field office, paid him a total documented sum of more than $140,000 between 2003 and 2021. Of this total, approximately $78,133 was specifically documented as payment for work conducted from February 7, 2018 onward - work that included Sutter's activities inside AWD as "swissdiscipline."

The court documents disclosing Sutter's informant status, obtained and published by investigative journalist Ali Winston in the federal case against AWD leader [Kaleb Cole](/people/kaleb-cole/), showed that during the same period the FBI was paying Sutter for intelligence work inside AWD, Sutter and Hoy were using Martinet Press to publish and distribute *Iron Gates* and other O9A texts to AWD members. The FBI's awareness of the press's operations during this period, and any internal discussion of whether funding the publisher of radicalizing material was consistent with its informant mission, has not been established in available documents.[^1]

### Court Description of the Publishing Operation

In the August 13, 2021 motion to suppress filed in United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), Cole's defense described the CI, without using Sutter's name, as: "a convicted felon and currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings." This language appeared in defense papers that the government read and responded to.[^3]

The government's response focused on the legal sufficiency of the warrant affidavit. It did not assert that the CI's publishing activities were authorized by the FBI, did not dispute the characterization of the press as distributing "white supremacist writings," and did not address whether the FBI knew about or supervised the publishing operations. Judge John C. Coughenour's ruling denying the suppression motion similarly addressed credibility and warrant sufficiency but not the substance of the publishing activities.[^4]

The affidavit itself, which was attached to the motion as Exhibit A, had not previously been public; it was the first time the original search warrant application against Cole's home was released. The motion describes the CI's material contributions to the investigation without disclosing that the same CI was actively publishing radicalization material.

### Authorized or Not: The Unresolved Question

No document in the public record, whether from PACER, the Cole trial proceedings, the FBI, or any congressional inquiry, establishes that the FBI explicitly authorized Martinet Press's operations as part of Sutter's informant tasking, or that the FBI explicitly prohibited them and Sutter proceeded anyway.

The court record establishes two facts: first, that during the informant relationship the FBI paid Sutter money while he operated the press; second, that the affidavit used to obtain the Cole search warrant omitted disclosure of the CI's publishing activities. Neither fact establishes authorization or prohibition.

Rolling Stone reported in 2021 that the FBI "declined to comment on whether it knew about or approved Sutter's publishing activities."[^1] This non-response is the public record's endpoint.

### Martinet Press After Revelation

Martinet Press continued operating after Sutter's informant status was publicly confirmed in August 2021. The WordPress presence at martinetpress.wordpress.com remained active as of 2022, and the press continued to list books for sale. The press's protonmail contact (martinetpress@protonmail.ch) remained published.[^6]

### Distribution Through Terrorgram

Martinet Press publications achieved their widest distribution not through direct sale or the O9A organizational network but through Terrorgram Collective's Telegram channels, which distributed them alongside other accelerationist propaganda to an audience that included individuals with no prior AWD or O9A connection. This secondary distribution made Martinet Press texts - especially *Iron Gates* - standard reference points within the broader [Siege Culture](/concepts/siege-culture/) and [nihilistic violent extremism](/concepts/nihilistic-violent-extremism/) ecosystem, contributing to the ideological environment in which the [764](/organizations/764-network/) network and its predecessor [CVLT](/organizations/cvlt/) operated, and shaping the content cited in the manifestos of self-radicalizing attackers including the perpetrators of the [2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting](/events/2026-islamic-center-of-san-diego-shooting/).[^5]

[^1]: Ali Winston. Investigative reporting on Joshua Caleb Sutter and FBI informant payments, derived from Kaleb Cole federal court documents. 2021. Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^2]: ICCT. "Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine." https://icct.nl/sites/default/files/2022-12/siege-culture-neo-nazi-terrorist-doctrine.pdf
[^3]: Defense motion to suppress and Exhibit A (original search warrant affidavit), United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), August 13, 2021. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress-1
[^4]: Order Denying Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Case No. CR20-0032-JCC (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021). Leagle.com: infdco20210901708.
[^5]: ISD Global. Research reports on Terrorgram and Martinet Press distribution networks.
[^6]: Martinet Press WordPress site. https://martinetpress.wordpress.com/ (accessed 2026-05-22).
[^7]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/