From: cberlet@igc.apc.org (NLG Civil Liberties Committee)
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Subject: Re: Bellant: Old Nazi Networks in US
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:07:00 GMT
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Bellant: Old Nazis/Allies 4
     
PART THREE - SECTION 4
		
ALLIES AND ALLEGIANCES
	
     - The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the White House, and the ASC -
	
      The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN), which took its 
current name in 1946, claims direct descent from the Committee of 
Subjugated Nations, which was formed in 1943 by Hitler's allies, 
including the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and 
the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
	
      Nonetheless, while the name changed, the membership 
remained the same. The dominant leadership of the ABN came from 
the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian 
Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B). The ABN brought together fascist 
forces from Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Ukraine, the Baltic 
states, Slovakia and other nations. Today ABN unites fascist 
emigre organizations from Eastern and Central Europe under one 
umbrella. It serves as a common milieu in which many Coalition 
for Peace Through Strength members associate and network. It is 
also the Eastern European branch of the World Anti-Communist League.
	
      A booklet published in 1960 by the ABN acknowledged its 
members' alliance with Hitler: "That many of us fought on the 
German side against Russian imperialism and Bolshevism, was in 
our national interest. . .the fact that some of us fought on the 
German side against Russia can be justified from the national, 
political and moral point of view." [f-294]
	
      The ABN in more recent years has maintained the impression 
that they opposed the Nazis and Soviets simultaneously during 
World War II. This historically dubious impression is conveyed by 
the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that leads ABN. 
But other groups that make up the ABN do not bother with an 
anti-Hitler pretense.
	
      Other ABN affiliates include:
	
     *** {Slovak World Congress}. A successor organization to 
the Nazi-allied Tiso regime of Slovakia. The Congress is part of 
the Republican Heritage Groups Council and the Coalition for 
Peace Through Strength.
	
     *** {Bulgarian National Front}. The exiled successor group 
to the Hitler-allied Bulgarian Legion. A member of the Coalition 
for Peace Through Strength and part of the Republican Heritage 
Groups Council.
	
     *** {Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania}. Its 
American branch, the Lithuanian-American Council, is a member of 
the Coalition for Peace Through Strength. The head of the Detroit 
branch of the Council, Algis Barauskas, who is also a local 
Republican Heritage Groups Council activist, linked the 
Lithuanian Republicans to the ABN. He stated in a 1985 interview 
that the Lithuanian-American Republican National Federation is 
connected to "the Lithuanian-American Council, then to the 
Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania, to the ABN in Germany."
	
     *** {World Federation of Free Latvians}. A member 
organization of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, the 
federation has branches in six countries. Its U.S. branch, the 
American Latvian Association, is active in the campaign against 
the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, 
discussed in the next section. The book <Inside the League> 
describes the ABN Latvian affiliate as "a band of Latvian leaders 
who assisted the Nazis in exterminating the Jews of their 
Baltic homeland." [F-295]
	
     *** {Croatian Liberation Movement}.  A pro-Ustashi affiliate 
of the ABN. This group's leadership came from officials of the 
German-created Croatian Ustashi regime of 1941-44. [f-296] It was 
this regime that killed an estimated 750,000 Serbians, Gypsies 
and Jews. The Croatian Liberation Movement, a front for the 
post-War clandestine Ustashi, has been connected to bombings, 
hijackings and assassinations in the 1970's. [f-297]
	
     *** {Byelorussian Central Council}. The Nazi puppet 
government in exile. The Council is linked to both the Republican 
Heritage Groups Council and the Coalition for Peace Through 
Strength through the Council's American branch, the 
Byelorussian-American Association.
	
     *** {Romanian Liberation Movement}. The Romanian affiliate 
of ABN and the World Anti-Communist League. Its leader for many 
years, Horia Sima, was also the head of the Romanian Iron Guard 
following WWII. Sima could hardly claim to have fought the Nazis 
and Soviets simultaneously, since he was released by the Germans 
from house arrest to head a Romanian puppet government-in-exile. 
It was set up by the Germans in Vienna in 1944, immediately after 
the Romanian government abandoned the Axis and sued for peace 
with the Allies. As head of the government, Sima formed Romanian 
military units which fought on Germany's behalf on the Eastern 
Front from 1944-45. Sima's government-in-exile was disbanded nine 
days after Hitler's death. [f-298]
	
      The head of foreign affairs for the Romanian organization 
under Sima is Alexander Ronnett of Chicago, a long time Iron 
Guard commander, and delegate to WACL meetings for 16 years. His 
association with the Iron Guard goes back to at least WWII when 
he lived with Iron Guard members in a German controlled military 
encampment. [f-299]
	
      Consistent with the goals of the World Anti-Communist 
League and the American Security Council, Ronnett has organized 
Contra support activities in the Chicago area. Exposed as an Iron 
Guard Leader by Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV (see Appendix), 
Ronnett denounced his accusers, and said proudly that he had 
received frequent invitations to visit the White House due to his 
support for and organizing on behalf of the Contras. [f-300]
	
      The ABN is the high council for the expatriate nationalist 
groups that formed the police, military and militia units that 
worked with Hitler during World War II. Some were organized as 
mobile killing teams that exterminated villages and sought to 
murder whole ethnic, racial, and cultural groups. These mobile 
killing teams are the forerunners of the modern death squad. It 
is consistent, then, that the Latin American Anti-Communist 
Confederation (CAL) (for many years the Latin American branch of 
WACL) has a great affinity for the ABN and its members, according 
to several ABN members. CAL historically has served as an 
umbrella group for the regional death squads. [f-301]
	
      A meeting of the youth sections of CAL and ABN in 1983 took 
place in Fedorak's Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Michigan. 
The resulting 16-point resolution bore statements that might 
surprise some of their conservative U.S. supporters. Not only 
were the usual anti-communist sentiments expressed, but also 
anti-capitalist positions were taken. One point, for instance, 
called for "rejection of {all materialist {doctrines} (author's 
emphasis) which defile the human individual by treating people as 
egotistical, covetous and selfish beings. . . ." [f-302] The 
resolution called for a "faith in Revolutionary, liberation 
nationalism. . ." and "unbending opposition to collectivist 
slavery, against communist and capitalist alienation of human 
labor. . . ." [f-303]
	
      These formulations mirror the classic outlines of National 
Socialism, which simultaneously fought the Communist and Western 
Capitalist powers ideologically and militarily. The Third Way, 
rejecting East and West, is still a position taken by significant 
elements of the contemporary neo-Nazi movement. [f-304]
	
      The Stetskos were not only leaders of OUN but the 
multi-ethnic ABN as well. The July-August, 1983 ABN bulletin <ABN 
Correspondence> carries several cover photos which show the 
Stetskos and other ABN leaders as White House guests in July 
1983, personally meeting with Reagan, George Bush and Jeane Kirkpatrick.
	
      After the Stetskos visited the White House, Yaroslav 
Stetsko's wife Slava Stetsko, who lives in Munich, West Germany, 
called on the ABN to support Reagan's re-election. She carried 
that message to ABN chapters during 1984 as well. [f-305] The 
Reagan campaign cooperated with ABN, including scheduling an 
appearance by Michael Sotirhos, head of Ethnic Voters for 
Reagan-Bush Campaign 1984 as well as the Republican Heritage 
Groups Council, at the 1984 ABN conference in New York City. [f-306]
	
      The goal of the ABN is to pressure the U.S. government 
toward a "liberation" policy aimed against the USSR, with ABN 
leaders as the liberators. Although ABN members say they only 
need technical assistance from the West, they want the U.S. 
military to put them in power in Eastern Europe and the USSR. 
This is the formula they tried under German Nazi sponsorship. 
Their manipulations of the American political system are toward 
that end.
	
      The emigres of the ABN still dream of one more chance to 
create a new order in Europe. They even got Michigan Republican 
Congressman Paul Henry to enter a statement into the 
<Congressional Record> in July, 1986 commending the 
"independence" of the Ukraine under Stetsko in 1941.
	
      According to Henry, "a representative assembly of the most 
prominent Ukrainian leaders from all walks of life issued a 
Proclamation of the Restoration of Ukrainia's Independence. . 
.The proclamation received enthusiastic support of the Ukrainian 
people." Henry referred to the "freedom fighters" of the 
"Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), led by Stepan 
Bandera." When questioned about his praise for a document which 
included the line "Glory to the Heroic German Army and its 
Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler," a spokesperson for Henry said he'd "not 
been aware of the fine print. . . ." [f-307]
	
      On July 20, 1988, George Bush reaffirmed the ties between 
the Republican Party and the ABN by making a campaign stop at 
Fedorak's Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Michigan. Bush 
delivered a hard-line foreign policy speech to those attending 
the annual Captive Nations banquet sponsored jointly by the 
Captive Nations Committee and the ABN. Sharing the dais with 
Fedorak and Bush was Katherine Chumachenko, formerly the director 
of the UCCA's Captive Nations Committee and currently the Deputy 
Director for Public Liaison at the White House. Ignatius M. 
Billinsky, President of UCCA, had already been named named 
Honorary Chair of Ukrainians for Bush, and Bohdan Fedorak named 
National vice-chair of Ukrainians for Bush.
	
      Also on the dais at the Ukrainian Cultural Center Bush 
speech was Dr. Joseph Sazyc, who has led the Byelorussian- 
American Veterans Association for twenty years. While the group's 
name suggests its members were veterans of U.S. military service, 
the group includes Nazi collaborators. According to a 1948 U.S. 
intelligence report, the Byelorussian-American Veterans 
Association was originally formed in 1947 by Nazi collaborators 
at a German displaced persons camp. The leader of the group was 
former SS Major General Franz Kushel, described in the first 
section of this report. [f-308]