A businessman from a Scots seaside town can today be unmasked as a former online recruiter for banned neo-Nazi terror group National Action.
Twisted Nicholas Waugh was also involved with far-right group Scottish Dawn and promoted both groups on the internet using the pseudonym HaggiSS.
A joint investigation by the Daily Record and The Ferret website identified Waugh after a neo-Nazi online forum called Iron March was hacked and data about its users leaked.
It includes a raft of comments and contacts made by Waugh, from Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, including one where he tries to order “bundles” of National Action stickers to “give out”.
The married dad also used Iron March to build international links by messaging fascists in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Australia and encouraged people to attend demos in the UK.
The leak was posted anonymously online.
It contained the website’s database, which made it possible to match usernames with forum posts, direct messages and email, postal and IP addresses.
The information revealed Waugh was in contact with the founder of National Action, who used the name Daddy Terror on Iron March.
Waugh also supported Scottish Dawn, which emerged shortly after National Action was banned in 2016.
Before being proscribed under counter-terrorism laws, National Action held street protests across the UK and ran a whites-only food bank in Glasgow.
After being banned in 2016 National Action re-emerged a few months later in Scotland under the name Scottish Dawn.
It was banned in September 2017 following an undercover sting by The Ferret which exposed its links to National Action. Waugh appears to have been a leading figure with National Action before it was banned. There is no suggestion he is currently involved.
He said in one post in 2015 that he was “trying to get Scotland up and running”.
On October 14, 2014, he was in contact with National Action founder Ben Raymond, aka Daddy Terror.
HaggiSS wrote: “Hello, do you have a few bundles of stickers you can send my way? Meeting some Stormfags in November and one of them requested some so I thought I would try and get some to give out to them. Cheers. Nicholas.”
Daddy Terror replied: “Hi, I only have the red and black kind but I am happy to send a load. Tell me how many you think you will want. I don’t appear to have an address for a Nicolas so let me know.”
In reply, HaggiSS said his name was “N Waugh” and gave an address in Fraserburgh which helped us to identify him.
He messaged other Iron March members, encouraging them to join demos including a Scottish Defence League protest in Edinburgh and a White Man March in Newcastle in 2016.
He was in contact with a user called Aberfoyle, who claimed to live outside Glasgow, on August 5, 2015.
Waugh wrote: “There are a couple of NA guys down that way. If you stay in touch there might be something active eventually.”
Waugh also told Aberfoyle he was: “Trying to get Scotland up and running” and offered to provide stickers.
Aberfoyle asked what was expected of members and Waugh replied: “Anything really, it’s up to you how committed you become. Anything from handing out fliers and stickers to joining us on flash demos.
"I’m trying to arrange some sort of meeting between interested people in the Central Belt.
“Right now we are mostly learning from our English comrades in regards to activism. We are not really organised yet.”
Waugh also used the forum to cultivate international links. He offered masks to a Lithuanian fascist who was involved with a fascist group called Skydas.
In a conversation with a Bulgarian fascist, Waugh told him he was based in the “NE” area of Scotland.
He was also in contact with Antipodean Resistance in Australia. On July 6, 2017, Waugh talked about how Police
Scotland handled demos.
He wrote: “Police in Scotland are usually really courteous and understand the reds cause all the trouble, but go to Glasgow (our biggest city) and they will go out their way to be a******s to you.”
After National Action was proscribed, Waugh sought to distance himself but he became involved with Scottish Dawn despite acknowledging members of a proscribed group may be involved.
In one exchange, he denied that Scottish Dawn was a continuation of National Action, stating they took “a drastically different approach”.
Waugh was involved with Scottish Dawn but claimed not to be its leader.
He actively promoted Scottish Dawn by asking a contact to advertise the new group on neo-Nazi website Stormfront.
National Action was founded in 2013 by Ben Raymond and Alex Davies.
The organisation said that all Jewish and non-white people would have to go.
Waugh was named by Hope Not Hate as a National Action leader in Scotland.
He has denied the allegations and threatened to take legal action.
He said: “The allegations stated and implied are false and irrelevant.”
