White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs
August 09, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Hatewatch has obtained images of Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who is involved in the white nationalist movement.
Gebert oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization and has published hateful propaganda under the pseudonym "Coach Finstock" since 2015, Hatewatch reported Wednesday. (1) The State Department has suspended Gebert from his job as a foreign affairs officer in its Bureau of Energy Resources, according to a report Thursday by Politico. (2)
A Gebert colleague who spoke to Hatewatch said the State Department sent Gebert, who described himself as a white nationalist in a 2018 podcast, home from work Wednesday after the publication of Hatewatch's investigation, and he has not returned.
"We're a very diverse bureau with lots of types of people he apparently hates," the source told Hatewatch over a series of texts. "I'm dismayed to see he's only suspended; I'm hoping it's just an intermediate step."
After Hatewatch published its investigation, people sent photos and information to Hatewatch about Gebert and his wife, Anna Vuckovic. Vuckovic also is involved in the white nationalist movement and used the pseudonym "Wolfie James" to post racist and antisemitic blog posts, Hatewatch reported.
Among the photos Hatewatch received is one of Gebert at a white nationalist event in Charlottesville, Virginia, in May 2017, months before the failed "Unite the Right" rally that August.
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U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert, standing in front of the person in black, is pictured here in Charlottesville, Virginia, in May 2017. The rally was staged by white nationalists.
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(1) https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines
(2) https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/state-department-energy-employee-white-supremacist-group-1642628
Read more: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/09/white-nationalist-state-department-official-surfaces-photographs
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State Department suspends energy staffer linked to white supremacist group
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/state-department-energy-employee-white-supremacist-group-1642628
By BEN LEFEBVRE and NAHAL TOOSI 08/08/2019 11:36 AM EDT
The State Department has put on leave an employee of its energy bureau after reports that he has been an active member of a white supremacist group for more than five years, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
Matthew Gebert, a foreign affairs officer for the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources, was linked to the Washington D.C.-area chapter of a white supremacist organization and published racist propaganda online, according to a report published Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate speech.
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U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert, standing in front of the person in black, is pictured here in Charlottesville, Virginia, in May 2017. The rally was staged by white nationalists.
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