From: cberlet@igc.apc.org (NLG Civil Liberties Committee)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Bellant: Old Nazi Networks in US
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:28:00 GMT
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Bellant: Old Nazis/Allies 1
	
PART THREE - SECTION 1
	
ALLIES AND ALLEGIANCES
	
     "Perhaps what is most wrong with the World Anti-Communist 
League is what it hides behind and what it has rejected. In the 
name of anti-communism, it has embraced those responsible for 
death squads, apartheid, torture, and the extermination of 
European Jewry. Along the way, it has repudiated democratic 
government as a viable alternative, either to govern or to combat communism."
	
(Scott Anderson & Jon Lee Anderson, <Inside the League>
[Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986]
	
     - Roger Pearson, the White House and Racialism -
	
          When journalists first saw the White House fundraising 
letter dated April 14, 1982, written for Roger Pearson and signed 
by Ronald Reagan, it was thought to be a fluke. Since Pearson, a 
former leader of the World Anti-Communist League, was a 
world-renowned racialist with a long history of associations with 
neo-Nazi groups and individuals, a White House repudiation of the 
letter was expected when the problem was discovered. After all, 
it was the summer of 1984, and who would want Reagan connected in 
any way with an advocate of racial extermination policies before 
the November elections?
	
      <The Wall Street Journal>, however, pursued the story and 
found out that the White House itself was unwilling to repudiate 
the letter, or Pearson. [F-206] White House staff did say 
Pearson would be asked to stop using the letter. 
	
     Anson Franklin, an assistant presidential press secretary, 
added "the president has long held views opposing racial 
discrimination in any form, and he would never condone anything 
to the contrary. But that's a general statement; I'm not 
addressing Dr. Pearson specifically."
	
      When Roger Pearson first visited the U.S. in 1958, he 
didn't seem a likely candidate to receive White House favors. At 
the time he was the London-based organizer of the Northern 
League, [f-207] a white supremacist European organization that 
included former Nazi SS officials. The League was inclined toward 
Nordic, pre-Christian pagan culture. [f-208]
	
      Pearson's first American visit was arranged by <Right> 
magazine, edited by  Willis Carto. The magazine was an endorser 
of the American Nazi Party. [F-209] <Right> called 
Pearson "the world's foremost spokesman for the scientific and 
forward looking view of nationalism. He is held in renown by 
white nationalists the world over." [F-210]
	
      Pearson moved to the U.S. in 1965, merging his magazine 
<Northern World> with a Willis Carto publication to form <Western 
Destiny>, which Pearson edited for a short time. [F-211] The magazine 
had over two dozen racialists and anti-Semites on its masthead, 
including Austin App and C. M. Goethe, honorary president of the 
American Coalition of Patriotic Societies. [f-212] Pearson 
published four monographs in 1966 that represent the core of his 
ideas. One monograph, titled <Race and Civilization>, was "based 
on Professor Hans F. K. Gunther's <Racial Elements of European 
Civilization>." [F-213] Gunther was a top Third Reich 
racial theoretician and Pearson associate from the Northern 
League. [f-214]
	
      In <Eugenics and Race>, published in 1966, Pearson's 
writing reached the logical end of racial hatred:
	
     "If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized, or in 
any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of 
exterminating, an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide. 
. . . [f-215]"
	
      Pearson's monographs are still offered by neo-Nazi 
booksellers today. [f-216] <The Wall Street Journal> quoted 
Pearson as saying "I'm not ashamed of anything I've said or 
written." [F-217]
	
      Pearson moved to Washington in 1975. Within a year his 
Council on American Affairs was sponsoring seminars and 
publishing monographs with persons such as Edwin Fuelner, 
president of the Heritage Foundation; Ray Cline, former C.I.A. 
deputy director; and others who would later become high officials 
of the Reagan Administration. [f-218] His Council also became the 
U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), an 
international network including fascists, followers of the 
authoritarian Korean cult-leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and 
neo-Nazis. [f-219]
	
      Pearson became the editor of the American Security 
Council's <Journal of International Relations> [F-220] and 
served on the board of the ASC's American Foreign Policy 
Institute. [f-221] His <Journal> co-editors were James Jesus 
Angleton, former C.I.A. deputy director for counterintelligence, 
and Robert C. Richardson III, the retired Air Force general who 
worked in the Air Force's Politico- Military covert operations 
branch. At the time he was working with the ASC and Pearson, 
Richardson was also aiding the Wilson-Terpil operations to 
Libya, involving secret gunrunning and explosives transfers. He 
was also active in various ASC-spawned groups, such as the 
Security and Intelligence Fund and Coalition for Peace through 
Strength. The Council on American Affairs> is also a member of 
the Coalition for Peace Through Strength.
	
      Pearson was a member of the editorial board of <Policy 
Review>, the monthly Heritage Foundation magazine, during this 
period. In 1977, Heritage officials reciprocated, joining 
Pearson's <Journal of Social and Economic Studies>. When Pearson 
decided to host the 1978 World Anti-Communist League (WACL) 
conference in Washington, D.C., he was well established with 
American and European Nazi networks, as well as the far right 
of the Republican Party and the New Right. The WACL meeting 
was not a total success for Pearson, however. The <Washington 
Post> warned of "The Fascist Specter" behind WACL and 
highlighted the conference participation of an Italian fascist 
party, American neo-Nazis, and Pearson's own racialist 
background. [F-222] Pearson's name soon disappeared from 
the <Policy Review> masthead. However, ASC president John 
Fisher, who addressed the WACL meeting, [F-223] did not 
drop Pearson from the American Foreign Policy Institute board.
	
      In a sense, the Pearson-Heritage link wasn't severed 
either. Heritage's director for domestic issues, Stuart Butler, 
joined Pearson's <Journal>, as did right-wing sociologist Ernest 
van den Haag of <National Review>, who is on the editorial board 
of the Heritage Foundation's <Policy Review>.
	
      When van den Haag was asked in 1984 about his Pearson 
association, he said he didn't remember the journal at first, but 
several minutes later insisted it wasn't a racist publication.
	
      Van den Haag is apparently not offended by a little 
racialism himself. "I support the voluntary sterilization 
proposals of  William Shockley," he volunteered in a 1984 
interview. Van den Haag wrote a monograph on the 1954 Supreme 
Court desegregation decision which argued that the decision was 
wrong. He has also claimed that Blacks are inferior to whites: "I 
am all in favor of improving the quality of education for all. 
But this can be done only if pupils are separated according to 
ability (whatever determines it). And this means very largely 
according to race." [f-224] Van den Haag's writings have been 
distributed for years by the International Association for the 
Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), a racialist 
organization on whose executive board van den Haag served. [f-225]
	
      <Journal> associate Stuart Butler simply insisted that 
Pearson was not a racist. Donald Senese, also associated with 
Pearson's <Journal> and a former Department of Education 
official, insisted that Pearson wasn't a racist, and that his 
monographs were written long ago. When he was told that Pearson 
continues to defend his writings, he said that "this interview 
isn't going anywhere," and hung up the phone. Pearson continues 
to publish a racialist journal, <Mankind Quarterly>, which uses 
body and head measurements, such as the cephalic index, to 
identify "ideal types" among races. He also publishes the 
<Journal of Indo-European Studies> through his Institute for 
the Study of Man. He maintained contact with European racialists 
not only through WACL, but also as a board member of <Nouvelle 
Ecole>, a French highbrow neo-Nazi group. [F-226]
	
      After the <Wall Street Journal> story, Pearson's <Journal 
of Social, Political and Economic Studies>, which is co-published 
by George Mason University, added two officials of former 
Interior Secretary and New Right activist James Watt's 
>Mountain States Legal Foundation. [F-227] Pearson was 
elected to head University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO), 
a group that includes many members of the Heritage Foundation, 
the Reagan Administration and the Mont Pelerin Society. [f-228] 
The latter is a group of about 500 ultraconservatives whose best 
known economists, Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, were 
architects of the economy of Pinochet's Chile. Both advocated a 
form of dictatorship as part of the economic plan. Heritage 
Foundation president Edwin Fuelner is treasurer of the Society. 
Another board member of UPAO, white supremacist Ralph Scott, a 
former vice-president of DANK, [f-229] the Nazi-apologists, 
recently became head of UPAO. Scott, who has praised the book 
<Dispossessed Majority>, [F-230] a white-supremacist 
discourse, was named to the Iowa Civil Rights Advisory Commission 
in 1981 by the Reagan Administration. Scott later become chair of 
the Iowa group, which advises the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 
but stepped down in 1988 after an article by Barry Mehler in <The 
Nation> revealed his background. [F-231] Scott and Pearson 
have also received tens of thousands of dollars from the Pioneer 
Fund, [f-232] which assists researchers attempting to prove Black 
inferiority. [f-233]
	
      One well-connected Pearson associate is Sam Crutchfield, 
who has been the attorney for the racialist IAAEE, for a number 
of Jesse Helms' organizations, and for Pearson's Institute for 
the Study of Man. [f-234] In addition to serving on the Editorial 
Advisory Board of a Pearson publication, Crutchfield, an 
attorney, set up the Institute for Democracy, Education and 
Assistance (IDEA) on behalf of Oliver North and his courier, 
Robert Owen. [f-235]
	
      Pearson has friends at the American Security Council, the 
Heritage Foundation, and among Reagan appointees, as well as 
several aides to Jesse Helms. [f-236] He is connected to a 
network of academic racialists in the U.S. and abroad. 
Long-established ties to Saudi Arabia, Korea, Taiwan and South 
America from his WACL days continue to serve him well. When the 
<Wall Street Journal> article came out five weeks before the 
election, the White House decided to stick with Pearson. He was 
apparently still seen as part of the Reagan team.
	
      Senator  Alfonse D'Amato wrote a plank into the proposed 
1984 GOP platform denouncing "those who preach all forms of 
hatred, bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism." [f-237] A statement 
from his office added, "there should never be room for compromise 
on issues like this. . . .Racism and anti-Semitism must be 
condemned outright--without hesitation." [f-238] D'Amato declined 
all comment on the Pearson-White House ties.
	
      When George Bush denounced Walter Mondale a week before the 
1984 election as soft on anti-Semitism, no one looked at Reagan's 
ties to Roger Pearson, one of the foremost Nazi apologists in 
America and clearly one of the best-connected racialists in the world.