National Alliance Organization

White supremacist groups around the country are moving aggressively to recruit new members by promoting their violent, racist ideologies on billboards, in radio commercials and in leaflets tossed on suburban driveways. Watching with mounting alarm, civil rights monitors say these tactics stake out a much bolder, more public role for many hate groups, which are trying to shed their image as shadowy extremists and claim more mainstream support.

Less than a week after Agoura residents reported finding anti-Semitic leaflets labeled with an Internet address in their mailboxes, a West Hills synagogue was vandalized with graffiti that included the same Web address of a white supremacy group. The graffiti was discovered Friday morning on an exterior wall at Temple Solael on Valley Circle Boulevard, said Bob Howe, a detective supervisor with the West Valley Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Less than a week after Agoura residents reported finding anti-Semitic leaflets labeled with an Internet address in their mailboxes, a West Hills synagogue was vandalized with graffiti that included the same Web address, that of a white supremacy group. The graffiti were discovered Friday morning on an exterior wall at Temple Solael on Valley Circle Boulevard, said Bob Howe, a detective supervisor at the West Valley division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Vandalism at two San Fernando Valley synagogues and the discovery of hate literature in supermarket food products reflect the growing local strength of the National Alliance, a nationwide racist group, the Anti-Defamation League said Thursday. The local incidents are being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, said Deputy Chief Michael Bostic, who appeared at a news conference with David A. Lehrer, the league's regional director.

Vandalism at two San Fernando Valley synagogues and the discovery of hate literature in supermarket food products reflect the growing local strength of the National Alliance, a nationwide racist group, the Anti-Defamation League said Thursday. The local incidents are being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, said Deputy Chief Michael Bostic, who appeared at a news conference with David A. Lehrer, the league's regional director.