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 1
	
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 1 U.S., Displaced Persons Commission, <Memo to America, The 
DP Story, The Final Report of the Displaced Persons Commission> 
(Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1952), p. v.
	
 2 <Ibid>., p. 101.
	
 3 <Ibid>.
	
 4 For information on the Waffen SS, see George Stein, <The 
Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War: 1939-1945> (Ithaca, 
New York: Cornell University Press, 1966); Alexander Dallin, 
<German Rule in Russia, 1941-45: A Study of Occupation 
Policies> (New York: St. Martins Press, 1957).
	
 5 Jack Anderson, "Nixon Appears a Little Soft on Nazis," 
<Washington Post>, Nov. 10, 1971, p. B17; Nora Levin, <The 
Holocaust: the Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945> (New 
York: T. Y. Crowell, 1968; Schocken Books, 1973), pp. 610-11, 
644, 653-55, 662-64.
	
 6 Interview with Laszlo Pasztor, Washington, D.C., May 15, 
1985. Interviews will be indentified with date and location the 
first time they are cited only.
	
 7 The requests were made in person Sept. 1984, May 1985, 
and June 1986.
	
 8 See, for instance, the ad sponsored by the American 
Security Council in the <Washington Times>, Sept. 28, 1983, p. A5.
	
 9 Anderson, "Nixon Appears a Little Soft on Nazis," p. B17.
	
 10 Interview with Spas T. Raikin, by telephone, August 1986.
	
 11 Interview with Ivan Docheff, by telephone, Sept. 1984. 
See pp. 33-35 of this report for discussion of the Nazi-linked 
National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups. Leaders of 
NCAEG have included Austin App and Josef Mikus. 
	
 12 Interview with Professor Frederic Chary, Detroit, 
Michigan, August 1984. Chary is author of <Bulgarian Jews and 
the Final Solution> (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972).
	
 13 Chary also supplied the <Prelom> masthead with headline 
(<Prelom>, March 31, 1933).
	
 14 Ivan Docheff, <Half Century Struggle Against Communism 
for the Freedom of Bulgaria> (New York: Bulgarian National Front, 
1982), p. 83; also see Docheff's biographical statement in his 
book, <A New Danger for World's Peace--Red Bulgaria> (Salzburg, 
Austria: n.p., 1950). Also, Raikin letter to the author, August 
17, 1986.
	
 15 Docheff, <Half Century Struggle Against Communism>, p. 185.
	
 16 Ivan Docheff, "Why President Reagan?" <Borba>, Sept. 
1984, p. 1. <Borba> is published by the Central Executive Board 
of the Bulgarian National Front, Inc.
	
 17 Interview with Ivan Docheff.
	
 18 Interview with Ivan Docheff; interview with Frederic 
Chary; confirmed by the author in a telephone conversation in 
Sept. 1984 with aide to White House Director of Ethnic Liaison, 
Linas Kojelis.
	
 19 Interview with Nicolas Nazarenko, Washington, D.C., May 
17-18, 1985; interview with Alex Aksenov, Washington, D.C., May 
17-18, 1985. See also Christopher Simpson, <Blowback: U.S. 
Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War >(New 
York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), pp. 24-25.
	
 20 Interview with Florian Galdau, by telephone, Sept. 1984.
	
 21 Chris Simpson, "Not Just Another Nazi," <Penthouse>, 
August 1983, p.156.
	
 22 Howard Blum, <Wanted: The Search for Nazis in America> 
(New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1977), pp. 109-11, 
114-16. Trifa offered an opening prayer for the U.S. Senate on 
May 10, 1955, at the request of Richard Nixon, who presided over 
the Senate as part of his vice-presidential duties.
	
 23 "Viorel Donise Trifa," FBI Memo (April 6, 1954), p. 1; 
on Galdau, "Viorel Donise Trifa," FBI Memo (Oct. 5, 1955), p. 2. 
Copies of these memos are in the possession of the author.
	
 24 A privately circulated, typewritten document by George 
Roman names 60 Iron Guardists and briefly describes their 
functions in the U.S.
	
 25 New York City <News World>, July 31-August 1, 1982, p. 
B1. <News World> is affiliated with the Reverend Moon's 
Unification Church. Moon's followers have made great efforts to 
link into emigre fascist groups. See, for example, "Will the 
Soviet Union Survive?: ABN International Conference" program, 
May 13-15, 1988, Washington, D.C.: several speakers, including 
the keynote speaker, were representatives of Moon-connected organizations.
	
 26 Both groups were accredited to the Displaced Persons 
Commission. See <Memo to America>, pp. 270, 277, 285 and 289. On 
Tolstoy Foundation, see Blum, pp. 68-70; Doug Hostetter and 
Michael McIntyre, "The Politics of Charity," <Christian Century>, 
Sept. 18, 1974, pp. 845-50. On the International Rescue 
Committee, see R. Harris Smith, <OSS: The Secret History of 
America's First Central Intelligence Agency> (Berkeley, 
California: University of California Press, 1972), p. 404n; 
Simpson, <Blowback>, p. 200n. Also, U.S., Senate, Committee on 
Foreign Relations, <The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: 
Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships; Part 1: 
1945-1961>, 98th Cong., 2nd sess., 1984, pp. 301-303.
	
 27 Interview with Valerian Trifa, conducted by Dennis 
Debbaudt, Oct. 20, 1981, by telephone. Transcript made available 
to author.
	
 28 <United Israel Bulletin>, Summer 1974, p. 1.
	
 29 Interview with Dennis Debbaudt, Detroit, Michigan, Sept. 1984.
	
 30 Interview with Walter Melianovich, Washington, D.C., May 
17, 1985.
	
 31 John Loftus, <The Belarus Secret> (New York: Alfred A. 
Knopf, 1982), p. 181; interview with Mark Masurowsky, 
Washington, D.C., May 1985.
	
 32 Loftus, p. 29.
	
 33 U.S., <Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression>, Nuremberg 
Document #PS 3047 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1946), Vol. 5, pp. 772-76.
	
 34 Interview with Mark Masurowsky.
	
 35 Interview with Cheslav Nadjiuk, Los Angeles, June 28, 
1986. Also, a list of those who attended the 14th plenum of the 
Byelorussian Central Council (the Nazi puppet government in 
exile) in South River, New Jersey on Sept. 4 and 5, 1954, 
includes Nadjiuk (spelled Naydzyuk) and says that he attended the 
1944 Congress.
	
 36 Gerhard L. Wineberg, <The Foreign Policy of Hitler's 
Germany> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 116-18.
	
 37 Joseph Lettrich, <History of Modern Slovakia> (New York: 
Praeger, 1955), pp. 143-73. The declaration of war is mentioned 
on p. 169.
	
 38 Lucy Dawidowicz, <The War Against the Jews> (New York: 
Bantam, 1976), p. 544.
	
 39 David Duke for President Committee, Quarterly Report of 
Receipts and Disbursements, Federal Election Commission, Form 3P, 
Schedule BP, July 1-Sept. 30, 1987, p.9.
	
 40 Joseph M. Kirschbaum, ed., <Slovakia in the 19th and 
20th Centuries> (Toronto: Slovak World Congress, 1973), pp. 
9-10; Lettrich, pp. 116-17, 175.
	
 41 Kirschbaum, p. 151.
	
 42 <New York Times>, May 25--June 10, 1981; Thomas Sheehan, 
"Italy: Terror on the Right," <New York Review of Books>, Jan. 
22, 1981, pp. 23-26. Also, Luigi Di Fonzo, <St. Peter's Banker> 
(New York and London: Franklin Watts, 1983); Larry Gurwin, <The 
Calvi Affair> (London: Macmillan, 1983).
	
 43 <Boston Sunday Globe>, Oct. 18, 1987, p. A18.
	
 44 <Who's Who in American Politics: 1987-88>, 11th ed. (New 
York and London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1987).
	
 45 DiFonzo, p. 229.
	
 46 <New York Times>, June 4, 1981, p. 7.
	
 47 DiFonzo, p. 230.
	
 48 <Ibid>., p. 259.
	
 49 Gurwin, p. 189.
	
 50 <Who's Who in America: 1984-1985>, 43rd ed. (Chicago: 
Marquis Who's Who, 1984); Gurwin, pp. 12, 189-90.
	
 51 Di Fonzo, pp. 72-73.
	
 52 Stella's curriculum vitae, 1986, p. 2.
	
 53 The announcement was made Oct. 20, 1981 according to an 
undated White House letter received by the author in Feb. 1984.
	
 54 <New York Post>, Feb. 21, 1986, p. 8.
	
 55 Stella's curriculum vitae, 1986, p. 5.
	
 56 Robert Katz, <The Fall of the House of Savoy> (New York: 
Macmillan, 1971), pp. 366-67; Charles Fenyvesi, <Splendor in 
Exile> (Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1979), pp. 92-93; 
E. J. Dionne, Jr., "Italy's Royal Heir, In Exile, Pleads to 
Return," <New York Times>, March 2, 1986, p. 6.
	
 57 Fenyvesi, pp. 100-101; Taki Theodoracopulos, "Princes 
and Playboys," <Esquire>, Feb. 27, 1979, pp. 87-88.
	
 58 Fenyvesi, p. 96.
	
 59 The delegation's membership, their backgrounds and 
planned itinerary were described in a booklet distributed at the 
Republican Heritage Groups Council meeting, "President Reagen's 
[sic] Reinauguration Celebration Delegation," (Room 8, 11F, 150, 
Chi Lin Road, Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Times, 1985).
	
 60 A proposal to create such affiliates was roundly 
denounced by delegates at the June 1986 convention.
	
 61 Kevin Phillips' syndicated newspaper article, 
"Economics, Not Heritage, the Key," was reprinted in <Cossack 
Life> in 1975. Mr. Phillips declined to look for a more 
accessible citation, but a copy of the reprinted article is in 
the author's possession.
	
 62 "17th Annual Convention Program," National Republican 
Heritage Groups (Nationalities) Council, Washington, D.C., Oct. 
30-Nov. 1, 1987.
	
 63 Quotations in this section from the 1985 Republican 
Heritage Groups Council convention are from the author's own 
notes of the event.
	
 64 Interview with Michael Sotirhos, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1984.
	
 65 National Republican Heritage Groups Council brochure, 
Washington, D.C., n.d.
	
 66 Author's notes from the 1985 Republican Heritage Groups 
Council Convention.
	
 67 Peter Braestrup, "GOP's `Open Door': Who's Coming In?" 
<Washington Post>, Nov. 21, 1971, p. A1.
	
 68 Jack Anderson, "Doleful Dole," <Washington Post>, May 
18, 1978, p. A25; Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, ">Nazi Eulogy," 
<Washington Post>, May 4, 1976, p. B15.
	
 69 "Join the Crusade for Freedom" brochure, National 
Committee for a Free Europe, New York City, n.d.. The Crusade for 
Freedom was a project of the Committee for a Free Europe, which 
was the ostensible sponsor of Radio Free Europe.
	
 70 Interview with Andy Valuchek, Washington, D.C., May 20, 1985.
	
 71 <Washington Post>, Jan. 8, 1979, p. C1.
	
 72 Telephone interview with Wes McCune, July 14, 1988. See 
also "ASC's John Fisher Moves Further into Right-wing Politics," 
<Group Research Report>, April 3, 1970, p. 25, which states that 
"Fisher is in effect the organized leader of the 
military-industrial complex as it impinges on civilian life." 
<Group Research Report>, Feb. 26, 1975, p. 6 and Nov. 1983, p. 
37 make similar assertions.
	
 73 William Turner, <Power on the Right> (Berkeley, 
California: Ramparts Press, 1971), p. 199. Turner's book has a 
chapter on the ASC. Also, <New York Times>, July 10, 1958, p. 56.
	
 74 Turner, pp. 199-200.
	
 75 America First Committee literature, 1940-41. See, for 
example, "Monster Rally and Demonstration" flyer (Brooklyn, New 
York: Brooklyn Chapter, America First Committee, June 1940), 
which reads, "Keep United States Out of War...No Convoys, No War, 
No Death for American Boys."
	
 76 J. Edgar Hoover to Major General Edwin M. Watson, 
Secretary to the President, FBI Memo (Feb. 13, 1942), p. 6.
	
 77 <Ibid>., 2-page cover letter; Michael Sayers and Albert 
E. Kahn, <Sabotage: The Secret War Against America> (New York: 
Harper and Brothers, 1942), pp. 241-42.
	
 78 J. Edgar Hoover to Major General Watson, cover letter.
	
 79 J. Edgar Hoover to Major General Watson, p. 4; "Monster 
Rally and Demonstration" flyer, America First Committee 
letterhead, June 1940.
	
 80 Frances Locher, ed., <Contemporary Authors> (Detroit, 
Michigan: Gale Research, 1981), Vol. 101, p. 394. This interview 
was conducted April 30, 1980.
	
 81 Turner, pp. 200-201.
	
 82 Donald S. Strong, <Organized Anti-Semitism in America> 
(Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1940), 
pp. 83-108.
	
 83 Strong, pp. 83-93; Robert Wohlforth, "Spy-Hunters: 
1930," <The New Republic>, Jan. 29, 1930, pp. 271-73 (note also 
reply in Harry Jung, "Correspondence," <The New Republic>, March 
12, 1930, pp. 101-102); Norman Hapgood, <Professional Patriots> 
(New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927), pp. 139, 162-65.
	
 84 John Roy Carlson, <Under Cover> (Philadelphia: Blakiston 
Company and New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943), p. 392. Jung had White 
Russian emigres translate the "Protocols" from Czarist 
forgeries in Russian to English forgeries. See also Strong, 
pp. 105-6.
	
 85 <New York Times>, July 24, 1942, p. 8; Strong, p. 95.
	
 86 <The Coalitionist>, published by the ACPS, from 1929-32. 
See, for example, <The Coalitionist>, Nov. 1929, p. 1.
	
 87 John Higham, <Strangers in the Land> (New Brunswick, New 
Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955; New York: Atheneum, 
1981), pp. 314, 319-21.
	
 88 <Ibid>., p. 319.
	
 89 Barry Mehler, "The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the 
U.S. Today," <Israel Horizons>, Jan.-Feb. 1984, p. 25.
	
 90 <In Fact>, August 11, 1947, p. 2; <In Fact>, Feb. 24, 
1947, p. 4. <In Fact>, begun as a biweekly in 1940, soon became a 
weekly that was published until 1950. It was edited by George Seldes.
	
 91 <In Fact>, Feb. 14, 1949, pp. 1, 2. For details on 
<National Republic>, see <In Fact>, Feb. 24, 1947, p. 3.
	
 92 <New York Times>, July 24, 1942, p. 8.
	
 93 Felix Morley, "Travesty of Justice," <Human Events>, 
Nov. 21, 1945, pp. 192-95.
	
 94 Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein, <Cross-Currents> 
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956), pp. 156-60.
	
 95 <Ibid>., p. 158; Thomas Reeves, <The Life and Times of 
Joe McCarthy: A Biography> (New York: Stein and Day, 1982), p. 662.
	
 96 Margaret Fisk, ed., <Encyclopedia of Associations>, 8th 
ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1973), Vol. 1, p. 1057. For 
background on the political character of ACPS, see <Group 
Research Report> throughout the 1960's and <Report to America> 
(an ACPS organ) 1960-1962.
	
 97 "American Coalition of Patriotic Societies," <Group 
Research Organizations Directory>, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 
1963, p. 2.
	
 98 <Encyclopedia of Associations>, 22nd ed. (Detroit: Gale 
Research, 1987), Vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 1669.
	
 99 <Who's Who in America: 1984-1985>.
	
 100 Proceedings of the Military-Industrial Conferences, 1955-61.