From: cberlet@igc.apc.org (NLG Civil Liberties Committee)
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Subject: Re: Bellant: Old Nazi Networks in US
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:28:00 GMT
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Bellant: Old Nazis/End Notes 2
	
END NOTES 101 - 200
	
 101 <New York Times>, Feb. 19, 1967, pp. 1, 32; "The 
Foreign Policy Research Institute," <Ramparts>, March 1966, pp. 
39-40 for discussion of CIA ties to think tanks and foundations; 
Gene M. Lyons and Louis Morton, "School for Strategy," <Bulletin 
of the Atomic Scientists>, March 1961, pp. 103-6.
	
 102 Robert Strausz-Hupe, William Kintner, and Stefan 
Possony, <A Forward Strategy for America> (New York: Harper & 
Brothers, 1961), p. 15.
	
 103 Clarence Lasby, <Project Paperclip> (New York: 
Atheneum, 1971), p. 128.
	
 104 Wernher von Braun is listed as a participant in the 
1958 Military Industrial Conference in the published proceedings 
of the conference: George B. de Huszar, ed., <National Strategy 
in the Age of Revolutions> (New York: Praeger, 1959), p. iii; 
Medaris presented a lecture at the 1957 Conference, according to 
<Military-Industrial Conference: Papers and Discussions>, 
Chicago, 1957, p. v.
	
 105 <Who's Who in Germany> (Munich: Intercontinental Book 
and Publishing Co., 1956).
	
 106 James Pool and Suzanne Pool, <Who Financed Hitler> (New 
York: Dial Press, 1978; Dial Press, 1979), pp. 207, 211.
	
 107 <Who's Who in Germany>; <The New York Times>, June 13, 
1944, p. 4.
	
 108 <The New York Times>, July 14, 1923, p. 2.
	
 109 T. H. Tetens, <The New Germany and the Old Nazis> 
(New York: Random House, 1961), p. 255.
	
 110 <Ibid>., pp. 56-70, 254-55.
	
 111 New Benjamin Franklin House, a Lyndon LaRouche outfit, 
has translated and printed an English-language version of August 
von der Heydte's 1972 book, <Modern Irregular Warfare> (New York: 
New Benjamin Franklin House, 1986); according to LaRouche's <New 
Solidarity>, Feb. 21, 1986, p. 8, von der Heydte signed a 
political advertisement (placed in newspapers throughout West 
Germany), which identified him as a member of Patriots for 
Germany, a LaRouche front.
	
 112 de Huszar, pp. 269-82. "Special Report on the American 
Security Council," <Group Research Directory>, May 25, 1962, pp. 
4-11; Lyons and Morton, "School for Strategy," pp. 104-105; 
Harold Relyea, "The American Security Council," <The Nation>, 
Jan. 24, 1972, p. 114.
	
 113 See Lyons and Morton, "School for Strategy," pp. 103-6 
on the extremism of the Institute for American Strategy, its ties 
to the Pentagon and its origins in the military-industrial 
conferences; Senator William Fulbright's "Memorandum Submitted to 
the Department of Defense on Propaganda Activities of Military 
Personnel," <Congressional Record>, August 2, 1961, pp. 
14433-39; <New York Times>, June 18, 1961, p. 1 on the NSC 
directive; Frank R. Barnett, "A Proposal for Political Warfare," 
<Military Review>, March 1961, p. 3; and "Special Report on the 
American Security Council," pp. 9-11 for discussion of Senator 
Fulbright's memorandum on the military's sponsorship of seminars 
on communism. The <New York Times> and Lyons and Morton articles 
are reprinted in the <Congressional Record> as attachments to 
the Fulbright Memorandum.
	
 114 Fulbright, from 1961 memorandum cited above as reported 
in <Ramparts>, March 1966, (See footnotes 101 and 113).
	
 115 Barnett, "A Proposal for Political Warfare," p. 3.
	
 116 "Special Report on the American Security Council," p. 9.
	
 117 David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, <The Invisible 
Government> (New York: Random House, 1964; Bantam, 1965), pp. 
167-69; Alfred W. McCoy, <The Politics of Heroin in Southeast 
Asia> (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), pp. 120-25, 264-65; 
Institute for American Strategy letterhead, n.d.
	
 118 <Guidelines for Cold War Victory> (Chicago: ASC 
Press, 1964), pp. 9-10. In <Group Research Individuals 
Directory>, 1962, see, for example, the backgrounds of Lt. Gen. 
Edward Almond (Ret.); Spruille Braden; Charles Edison; Adm. Ben 
Moreel (Ret.); Rear Adm. Chester Ward (Ret.); Gen. Robert Wood 
(Ret.); and Gen. C.A. Willoughby (Ret.).
	
 119 Frank P. Mintz, <The Liberty Lobby and the American 
Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture> (Westport, Connecticut 
and London: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 4,5; <Right>, Sept. 
1960, p. 5.
	
 120 Turner, p. 211.
	
 121 <Coalition Insider>, Nov.-Dec. 1980, p. 2. <Coalition 
Insider> is an organ of the Coalition for Peace Through 
Strength. For subsequent quotes, all from this edition of 
<Coalition Insider>: on showings of "The Salt Syndrome," p. 3; on 
"super-dove" McGovern, p. 2; on the South Dakota race, p. 3; on 
ASC PAC Abdnor contribution, p. 4; on Singlaub and Grassley 
campaign, pp. 4-5; on D'Amato campaign, pp. 4-5; on Church as 
architect of intelligence system destruction, p. 5; on Church 
and Soviet supremacy, pp. 4, 5, 7; on ASC aiding 67 candidates, 
p. 4; and on ASC PAC contributions to other campaigns, p. 4.
	
 122 Interview with Dr. Richard Kolm at his Washington, D.C. 
home, May 21, 1985; "Szaz's springboard" quote is from a 
confidential interview. 
	
 123 The names of NCAEG affiliates were provided by Z. 
Michael Szaz in a telephone interview on May 20, 1985 and by Dr. 
Richard Kolm.
	
 124 Alexander Ronnett, <Romanian Nationalism: The 
Legionary Movement> (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1974). 
The book's cover has the Iron Guard symbol on it.
	
 125 See Corneliu Z. Codreanu, <For My Legionaries>, trans. 
(1936; Madrid: Editura "Libertatea," 1977). Codreanu was the 
founder and ideological leader of the Iron Guard. This book, 
written in 1936, is the Guard's <Mein Kampf>. The English 
translation is available from Liberty Bell, a neo->Nazi publisher 
and book distributorship at P.O. Box 21, Reedy, W. Va., 25270.
	
 126 Blum, pp. 91-96; Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber, eds., 
<The European Right> (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965), 
pp. 565-66; interview with Dennis Debbaudt.
	
 127 Interview with Alexander Ronnett, Chicago, December 1984.
	
 128 Program for the seventh IHR Conference, held in Los 
Angeles on Feb. 15-17, 1986. For the text of his speech, see 
Alexander Ronnett, M.D. and Faust Bradescu, Ph.D., "The Legionary 
Movement in Romania," <Journal of Historical Review>, Summer 
1986, pp. 193-228. The <Journal of Historical Review> is 
published by IHR.
	
 129 Interview with Ronnett. Also, WACL documents and 
interviews with Iron Guard delegates to 1985 WACL conference. 
Ronnett was WACL delegate for many years.
	
 130 Austin J. App, <The Six Million Swindle> (Tacoma Park, 
Maryland: Boniface Press, 1973), available from the Institute 
for Historical Review, 1822 1/2 Newport Blvd., Suite 191, Cosa 
Mesa, California, 92627.
	
 131 Forster and Epstein, p. 229; Austin J. App, <No Time 
For Silence: Pleas For A Just Peace Over Four Decades> (Costa 
Mesa, California: Institute for Historical Review, 1987), p. 
62.;Austin J. App, <Ravishing the Conquered Women of Europe>, as 
cited by John Roy Carlson in <The Plotters> (New York: E.P. 
Dutton, 1946), pp. 160-61.
	
 132 National Convention Program brochure, NCAEG, 
Washington, D.C., Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 1983.
	
 133 Interview with Joseph Plonski at the Republican 
Heritage Groups Council convention in Los Angeles on June 25, 
1986. Other statements in this section attributed to Plonski are 
also from this interview.
	
 134 William S. Turchyn and NCAEG, NJ Chapter, <Victory 
Without Fear: A Response to OSI's " Nazi Hunting" Experiment> 
(Rivington, New Jersey: NCAEG, 1985), p. 26.
	
 135 <Washington Post>, Nov. 21, 1971, p. A13.
	
 136 <CCPA News & Views>, Feb.-March 1983, p. 3.
	
 137 Rev. Anthony Cekada, <Light on the OSJ> (Oyster Bay, 
New York: The Roman Catholic, n.d.; reprinted from the <The 
Roman Catholic>, December 1981). This article is a Catholic 
traditionalist examination of the Order. See also the cover page 
of Charles Pichel, <History of the Hereditary Government of the 
Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem>, 2nd ed. (Shickshinny, 
Pennsylvania: Maltese Cross Press, 1970), which traces the 
Knights of Malta from Jerusalem in 1050 to the U.S.A. in 1908.
	
 138 Sander A. Diamond, <The Nazi Movement in the United 
States: 1924-41> (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 
1974), pp. 116-17.
	
 139 Pichel, <History of the Order of St. John>, pp. 192-93. 
See, for example, in Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein, 
<Cross-Currents> (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 
1956), the descriptions of Pedro del Valle (p. 145), George 
Stratemeyer (p. 168), and Bonner Fellers (p. 163). Also, a number 
of figures named in Pichel's <History of the Order of St. John> 
were instrumental in setting up the Liberty Lobby. Edward von 
Rothkirch, a member of the Order, helped set up Truth- in->Press, 
a Liberty Lobby 501(c)3 tax exempt group, and has worked with 
LaRouche for many years.
	
 140 <Washington Post>, Nov. 21, 1971, p. A13.
	
 141 "Western Goals Annual Report, 1981-82," Alexandria, 
Virginia, 1982; Karol Sitko, <ABN Correspondence>, March-April 
1983, pp. 10-13.
	
 142 <Wall Street Journal>, Dec. 17, 1985, p. 16; 
<Washington Post>, Sept. 18, 1984, p. A2; and <Washington 
Post>, National Weekly Edition, Oct. 1, 1984, p. 12.
	
 143 "National Coalition for America's Survival: Human 
Rights and National Survival Program" brochure, Conservative 
Alliance, Washington, D.C., n.d. Arthur Jones and the America 
First Committee are listed both under "Prominent Individual 
Members" and "Organizational Members" in the brochure. According 
to the <Washington Post>, National Weekly Edition, Oct. 1, 
1984, p. 12, Warren Richardson has been the lobbyist for CALL; 
his nomination by Reagan as general counsel for HEW was 
torpedoed in 1981 when it was discovered that he worked for the 
Liberty Lobby for four years in the 1970's. Richardson is also 
the former Executive Director of CAUSA, Rev. Moon's organization.
	
 144 <New York Times>, Oct. 12, 1985, p. 12. On June 28 and 
29, 1986, Jones addressed a two-day Ku Klux Klan event planned to 
provoke confrontations in Chicago's racially tense southwest 
side Marquette Park and in the near-north shoreline area of 
Chicago where a Gay Pride Day march was ending.
	
 145 <New York Times>, April 17, 1938, p. E4; <New York 
Times>, August 4, 1966, p. 8; <In Fact>, Dec. 30, 1940, pp. 2-4; 
and <In Fact>, July 1, 1940, p. 2.
	
 146 Interviews with Sam Dickens, Washington, D.C., July 16, 
1986; Curt Winsor, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1986; Constantine 
Menges, by telephone, April 1986; and another who requested 
anonymity. The discussion and quotations which follow are, unless 
otherwise noted, based on these interviews. For information on 
Radio Free Americas, see <New York Times>, Feb. 21, 1967, pp. 1-2.
	
 147 An anonymous interview.
	
 148 <Washington Report>, Oct. 1978, p. 8. <Washington 
Report> is published by ASC.
	
 149 John Fisher, "President's Report," ASC, Boston, 
Virginia, 1982.
	
 150 Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, "Ronald Reagan is no War 
Monger--But What About His Advisors?" press statement, Oct. 31, 1980.
	
 151 Interview with Dickens.
	
 152 "White House Hosts ASC Foundation Speakers Bureau 
Seminar," <Washington Report>, Sept. 1983, pp. 4-5. The event 
was August 25-26, 1983.
	
 153 Jenny Pearce, <Under the Eagle> (Boston: South End 
Press, 1984), pp. 175-80.
	
 154 Interview with David Taylor, by telephone, August 1986.
	
 155 <Peace Through Strength Report>, March 1985, p. 1.
	
 156 <American Banker>, May 11, 1987, p. 3; Jeffrey Zaslow, 
"Ex-officers of First Chicago Investigated in Possible Funds 
Diversion for Group," <Wall Street Journal>, May 11, 1987, p. 9.
	
 157 Interview with Matthias Lydon, by telephone, March 4, 1988.
	
 158 <Peace Through Strength Report>, July 1985, p. 2.
	
 159 <New York Times>, Jan. 29, 1988, p. A11.
	
 160 "In Defense of America: A Campaign for Peace through 
Strength" fundraising brochure, ASC Foundation, Washington, D.C., [1984].
	
 161 <Ibid>.
	
 162 ASC statement at Sept. 19, 1984 press conference 
sponsored by the Coalition for Peace through Strength.
	
 163 <Washington Report>, Nov. 1983, p. 5.
	
 164 ASC press packet, Sept. 19, 1984.
	
 165 See (Lexington, North Carolina) <Dispatch>, March 26, 
1986, p. 4 which reports that Milton Croom "said this week he 
agrees with right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche on many issues, 
and was pleased LaRouche candidates had recently won primaries in 
Illinois." Also see <North Carolinians Against Racist and 
 Religious Violence Report on the North Carolina Elections>, 
May 7, 1986, which identifies Croom, who ran for the North 
Carolina Senate on the Democratic ticket, as a LaRouche 
candidate; corporate filing of station WTRI in Maryland; 
<Washington Post>, May 18, 1987, p. A16.
	
 166 See Dennis King, <Nazis Without Swastikas> (New York: 
League for Industrial Democracy, 1983); Chip Berlet and Joel 
Bellman, <Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Wrapped in an American 
Flag> (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Political Research Associates, 
forthcoming); and <Brownshirts of the Seventies> (Arlington, 
Virginia: Terrorist Information Project, n.d.), which is 
available from National Lawyers Guild, Civil Liberties Committee, 
14 Beacon Street, #407, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108.
	
 167 "Populist Groups Get More States," <Spotlight>, August 
20, 1984, p. 14 says that McConkey was state chair of the 
Populist Party.
	
 168 Leonard Zeskind, <It's Not Populism> (Atlanta, Georgia: 
National Anti-Klan Network, 1984), available from the Center for 
Democratic Renewal, P.O. Box 50469, Atlanta, Georgia, 30302. For 
further background on the Populist Party, see also the author's 
article, "Fake Populism, Real Fascism," <New America>, Jan.-Feb. 
1985, p. 12. 
	
 169 <A Strategy For Peace Through Strength> (Boston, 
Virginia: ASC Foundation, 1984).
	
 170 <Who's Who in America: 1984-85>, Vol. 2.
	
 171 Joseph C. Goulden, <The Death Merchant> (New York: 
Simon and Shuster, 1984; Bantam, 1985), pp. 21, 27.
	
 172 Jonathan Marshall, "The Friends of Michael Hand," 
<Inquiry>, Nov. 24, 1980, p. 11. Also, Black wrote the chapter, 
"Structure for Strategy," on the National Security Council in 
<A Forward Strategy For America>, pp. xi, 359-95. Black's 
<Who's Who in America> entry omits the position in the Eisenhower administration.
	
 173 <Who's Who in America: 1984-85>, Vol. 2.
	
 174 Australia, <Commonwealth-New South Wales Joint Task 
Force on Drug Trafficking: Report of Royal Commission>, Vol. 2, 
Nugan Hand (part 1), June 1982, pp. 298-299, 303-304 (hereafter 
cited as <Joint Task Force Report>); <Wall Street Journal> front 
page series, August 24-26, 1982.
	
 175 <Wall Street Journal>, August 24-26, 1982; <Joint Task 
Force Report>, Vol. 4, pp. 731-51.
	
 176 <Joint Task Force Report>, Vol. 4, p. 796.
	
 177 <Joint Task Force Report>, Vol. 4, pp. 796-97; see also 
Jonathan Kwitny, <The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, 
Dirty Money, and the CIA> (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 
1987), pp. 120-21.
	
 178 National Strategy Committee letterhead, ASC, received 
Sept. 19, 1984.
	
 179 "Salute to Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick" dinner 
program, ASC Foundation, April 16, 1985, p. 3.
	
 180 Interview with John Fisher, Washington, D.C., July 16, 1986.
	
 181 Caspar Weinberger, "Introductory Remarks," <Peace 
Through Strength Report>, July 1985, p. 2. Includes another 
Reagan letter to ASC, commending the June 4th event.
	
 182 <Ibid>., p. 2.
	
 183 <Peace Through Strength Report>, Jan. 1986, p. 3.
	
 184 Lee Norrgard and Joe Rosenbloom 3rd, "The Cold 
Warriors," <Common Cause Magazine>, July-August 1985, pp. 14-19, 
esp. p. 19.
	
 185 John Fisher, "President's Report," ASC, Boston, 
Virginia, 1983.
	
 186 John Fisher, "President's Report," 1985.
	
 187 "ASCPAC Plays Vital Role," <Peace Through Strength 
Report>, August 1984, p. 8. On p. 6, the newsletter also says 
ASC helped to raise $186,000 for Cong. Bill Dickinson. Jack Kemp 
made a claim similar to Chappell's.
	
 188 "Quotable," <Peace Through Strength Report>, Winter 
1987, p. 4.
	
 189 Liberty Lobby promotional brochure, Washington, D.C., 
n.d., with endorsing quote from Dickinson.
	
 190 U.S., Congress, Office of the Clerk of the House, <
Ethics in Government Act: Financial Disclosure Statement for 
1984>, 98th Cong., 2nd sess., 1984, attachment, p. 1.
	
 191 U.S., Congress, Office of the Clerk of the House, 
<Ethics in Government Act: Financial Disclosure Statement for 
1985>, 99th Cong., 1st sess., 1985, attachment, p. 1. 
	
 192 <Financial Disclosure Statement for 1984>, attachment, 
p. 1.
	
 193 <National Security Report>, June 1987, pp. 4-5.
	
 194 Norrgard and Rosenbloom, p. 14.
	
 195 <St. Louis Globe Democrat>, March 15, 1986.
	
 196 Turner, p. 202. G. Duncan Bauman, until recently the 
publisher of the now defunct <Globe Democrat>, has been on the 
ASC's National Strategy Committee for years, according to ASC 
letterhead, received Sept. 19, 1984.
	
 197 <Coalition Insider>, Nov.-Dec. 1980, p. 7. The <Wall 
Street Journal>, Nov. 1, 1984, p. 30, in an editorial, attacked 
the AFL-CIO for supporting candidates with low ASC ratings.
	
 198 Monthly Reports of PAC Campaign Financing, Federal 
Election Commission, Form 3X, Scedule B.
	
 199 Turner, p. 211.
	
 200 La Rocque, "Reagan is no War Monger."