Terrorism: Tracking Down the Brotherhood

As a leader of the white supremacist group called the Order, also known as the Silent Brotherhood, Bruce Pierce, 30, is believed to have been one of the men who gunned down Denver Talk Show Host Alan Berg in his driveway last June. Pierce has been on the run since April 1984, when he failed to appear for sentencing after pleading guilty in Spokane to charges of counterfeiting. As law-enforcement agencies intensified their probe of right-wing terror groups, they came to consider Pierce the most wanted man in the West.

Another suspect in the Berg case died in a shoot-out with...