National Socialist Vanguard

The National Socialist Vanguard is a Neo-Nazi group founded in 1983 and led by Rick Cooper, based in The Dalles, Oregon, US, from about 1998.

[2] Rick Cooper (1946–2006) began his National Socialist activism in 1970 when he set up a "White Power" telephone message service in Fresno, California.

[4] Cooper broke with the Koehl in 1982[5] and founded the NSV on January 1, 1983, in Salinas, California with two other ex-NSWPP members, Dan Stewart and Fred Surber.

Businesses associated with the NSV included Nordic Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning, Hessian Janitorial Service, Quartermaster Laundry and Galactic Storm Troop Amusement Center, all located in Salinas.

[8] By 2000 the NSV was advocating a survivalist program urging whites to move to rural areas, stock up on food, water, legal firearms and other supplies and network with other activists in anticipation a coming race war.