Harold Armstead Covington, born September 14, 1953 in Burlington, North Carolina, was an American white nationalist and neo-Nazi who was active in the United States from the late 1970s until his death on July 18, 2018 in Bremerton, Washington. In 1971 he joined both the United States Army and the U.S. National Socialist White People’s Party. In 1972 he was discharged from the army while stationed in Hawaii, after being caught distributing neo-Nazi pamphlets. After his army discharge, Covington moved to South Africa. In 1974 he moved to Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, where he helped to found the Rhodesian White People's Party. He was deported from Rhodesia in 1976 for sending threatening letters to a Jewish congregation. After returning to the United States, Covington rose to the position of President within the Nazi party, leading the party in 1979 during the Greensboro, North Carolina massacre. Covington resigned in 1981 after losing the Republican primary for attorney general in North Carolina. From the mid-1980s until the early 1990s, he lived in Ireland, married Louise Covington and had two children, and participated in the terror group Combat 18 (C18), which advocates for racial violence and antisemitism. After being financially cut off from his father, he left his family behind. Covington returned to the United States in 1994 and restarted the National Socialist White People's Party in Chapel Hill, Nc. One of the first neo-Nazi presences on the internet, he initiated several websites from 1996 on, including Thoughtcrimes. On these websites he utilized the alias "Winston Smith" while publishing antisemitic, Holocaust denial, and white nationalist rhetoric on the internet. He also created the Podcast Free Radio Northwest, on which he advocated for a white nationalist ethnic state in the American Pacific Northwest, to be made up of the states of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.