Editing Column 88 (section)

==Leadership==
The group's military commander was Major Ian Souter Clarence,<ref name="Org"/><ref>Gary Murray, ''Enemies of the State'' (Simon & Schuster Ltd) 1994</ref> who had served in the [[Black Watch]] during the [[Second World War]] before becoming active as a supporter of [[Arnold Leese]]. Stories about him stockpiling weapons had been known to [[MI5]] from as early as 1946.<ref>Graham Macklin, ''Very Deeply Dyed in Black - Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of British Fascism After 1945'', IB Tauris, 2007, p. 174</ref> He organised a number of camps to provide combat training to Column 88 members.<ref name="Harris"/> One such camp, held in November 1975 in conjunction with the [[League of St George]], was reported in the well known UK anti-fascist [[Searchlight magazine|''Searchlight'' magazine]] where those in attendance included Brian Baldwin, a prison officer from [[Manchester]], and Peter Marriner, the head of the British Movement in [[Birmingham]].<ref>[[Ray Hill (British activist)|Ray Hill]] & Andrew Bell, ''The Other Face of Terror - Inside Europe's Neo-Nazi Network'', Grafton Books, 1988, pp. 223-224</ref>
 
The overall leader however was Leslie Eric Lutz Vaughan, a veteran of the [[British National Party (1960)|British National Party]] and its paramilitary wing Spearhead.<ref name="Org"/> Vaughan was, according to [[Ray Hill (British activist)|Ray Hill]], close to [[Anthony Reed Herbert]] in a professional capacity (Herbert being a lawyer and Vaughan a private investigator) and the work Vaughan put Herbert's way ensured that Column 88 played a leading role in Herbert's [[British Democratic Party (1979)|British Democratic Party]].<ref>Hill & Bell, ''The Other Face of Terror'', p. 108-109</ref> Indeed, following a ''[[World in Action]]'' report in 1981 detailing British Democratic Party attempts at gun-running, Vaughan and Column 88 temporarily went into abeyance for fear of becoming implicated.<ref>Hill & Bell, ''The Other Face of Terror'', p. 224</ref> Other leading members included Joe Short, who had been involved in [[David Myatt]]'s National Democratic Freedom Movement,<ref>Barberis, McHugh, Tyldesley, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations'', p. 186</ref> Graham Gillmore, a mercenary and NF member,<ref>Gable, 'The Far Right in Contemporary Britain', p. 254</ref> and David Myatt.<ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) p.223. ''Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity''. New York University Press</ref><ref>Michael, George. (2006) ''The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right''. University Press of Kansas, p. 142ff.</ref><ref>Jeffrey Kaplan (ed.). ''David Wulstan Myatt''. In: ''Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right''. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA 2000, p. 216ff; p.514f</ref>