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The Moral Majority



According to the modern prophets of privatization,
Bible doctrine is expendable, but no one may question
the doctrine of unbridled capitalism. Any who go there
are labeled "socialists" in the worst sense of the
term. Forgetting that Christ drove the moneychangers
from His temple, one prophet, Willard Garvey,
shamelessly named the Lord Jesus among the founders of
Republican government and proponents of privatization!

"Privatization is documented in the enclosed paper
from the Heritage Foundation and dates back at least
to Adam Smith, Plato, Aristotle and Jesus. .
.Privatization might well be the theme for the 200th
anniversary of the Constitution. Privatization is
essential for national salvation."

To attain national salvation, the prophets of
privatization determined to build a voting bloc to
support their agenda. In 1976, direct-mail
fundraising genius of the New Right, Richard Viguerie,
was accompanied to the 1976 convention of the American
Independent Party by three leaders of the New Right
with equally doubtful connections:

William Rusher, editor of CFR member William F.
Buckley's National Review.

Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage and Free
Congress Foundation, who employed Fabianist/British
race scientist Roger Pearson of the World
Anti-Communist League, the multinational network of
Nazi war criminals, Latin American death squad leaders
and North American neo-fascists. Weyrich presently
employs top U.S. Fabianist Sir Peter Vickers Hall and
ex-Nazi collaborator Laszlo Pasztor.

Howard Phillips, who founded The Conservative Caucus
(TCC) at the direction of 33º Mason, Jesse Helms on
whose staff he worked. TCC has an interlocking
directorate (Phillips served on advisory board) with
the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) of
the WACL. Phillips also proposed the name for
Buckley's Young Americans for Freedom and served on
its board of directors.

At the AIP convention, Viguerie presented himself as a
candidate for the Presidential nomination of the party
of George Wallace, a coalition that included elements
of the Ku Klux Klan, John Birchers and operatives of
Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby. When Viguerie's bid for
the nomination failed, the New Right leaders turned
their energies to creating a hard right voting bloc
within the Republican Party.

"By 1978, Weyrich's PAC helped sweep into Congress a
new, radical breed of populist conservatives. The most
notable, it turned out, was a brash, young man from
Georgia named Newt Gingrich [33º Mason, CFR] whom
Weyrich had trained years earlier at a campaign
seminar in Milwaukee. Finally, on the verge of
realizing his right-wing utopia Weyrich harvested what
his friend Morton Blackwell termed 'the greatest track
of virgin timber on the political landscape':
evangelicals." 26.

In 1979, Robert Billings of the National Christian
Action Coalition and Free Congress Foundation invited
the Rev. Jerry Falwell to a meeting with Phillips,
Viguerie, Weyrich and Ed McAteer, a retired
advertising executive. Their agenda now was to
influence the GOP party platform for the 1980
election. Weyrich proposed that if the Republican
Party would take a strong stand against abortion, the
large Catholic voting bloc within the Democratic
Party would be split. At this meeting, the term "Moral
Majority" was coined to represent the ecumenical bloc
of voters that would be led by the Rev. Falwell, who
pledged to "turn this (country) into a Christian
nation."

The Coors family, which funds abortion and gay rights
causes (having made their fortune from the manufacture
and sale of beer), generously funded the Moral
Majority and built the headquarters building for Paul
Weyrich's organizations, the Heritage Foundation and
Free Congress Foundation. During the Reagan
Administration, the Heritage Foundation served as
almost a shadow government with Joe Coors' Kitchen
Cabinet setting up offices within the Executive Office
Building. During its first year, the Reagan
administration adopted fully two-thirds of the
recommendations of Heritage's Mandate for Leadership:

Policy Management in a Conservative Administration.

Working with the main architects and commanding
generals of the New Right was also John T. (Terry)
Dolan co-founder and national chairman of the
300,000-member National Conservative Political Action
Committee (NCPAC), the largest conservative political
action committee in terms of spending and influence
including Jesse Helms' Congressional Club which was a
client of NCPAC.

Weyrich, Viguerie and Dolan are Catholic; Phillips is
Jewish but claims to have converted to Christianity.
Terry Dolan was a homosexual who died of AIDS in 1986.
In his expose of the New Right, God's Bullies, Perry
Deane Young comments on the religious makeup of the
New Right leadership:

"A fundamentalist is generally defined as one who
believes in adult baptism,...in a literal
interpretation of the bible, and in being 'reborn'
or 'born again' through a personal experience in
accepting Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior. This
definition does not begin to cover all those in the
religious right. There are Orthodox Jewish rabbis on
nearly every one of these group's boards of advisors.
In most cases, the groups themselves were set up by
Catholics. The idea for a Moral Majority, Inc., and
the name itself came from two political operatives in
Washington -- one a Jew, the other a Catholic.

"The most effective leaders of the new right are
nearly all Catholics. The following are only a few of
them: Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum, Terry Dolan of
National Conservative Political Action Committee,
Robert Boege of the National Conservative Foundation,
Robert Bauman, former national chairman of both Young
Americans for Freedom and American Conservative Union,
and Richard A. Viguerie, whose direct-mail expertise
made winners of them all." 27.

Terry Dolan was also a former member of the advisory
board of CAUSA USA, whose president is Bo Hi Pak, top
aide of Sun Myung Moon. In 1984, Dolan's organization,
NCPAC, received $775,000 from Rev. Moon. Terry Dolan
stated that the secret of fundraising is to try to
"make them angry and stir up hostilities. The shriller
you are, the easier it is to raise funds. That's the
nature of the beast." 28.

Appeals to fear and loathing amongst Christians in
order to raise funds for right-wing causes was the
brainchild of Richard Viguerie, whose enterprise was
rescued from near bankruptcy in 1986 with an account
for distribution of the Unification Church-owned
Insight magazine. In 1987, Bo Hi Pak, a former Korean
military-intelligence officer and Moon's top U.S.
operative, paid $10.06 million for Viguerie's office
building. Also, in 1987, Viguerie became Secretary,
strategist and fund-raising genius of the newly
created
Moon-controlled and funded American Freedom Coalition
(AFC), an alliance of political conservatives and
conservative religious groups and individuals. In this
position, Viguerie mailed millions of letters
appealing for funds to lobby aid to the Contras and
promote Oliver North's testimony before Congress.

The Religious Roundtable

Present at the meeting in which New Right leaders
founded the Moral Majority, Ed McAteer had been a
sales marketing manager for Colgate-Palmolive Company.
However, McAteer had retired to become director of the
Christian Freedom Foundation (CFF), an organization
devoted to training evangelicals for places of
leadership in government. From there McAteer served as
national field director of Howard Phillips'
Conservative Caucus. Bill Bright, the founder of
Campus Crusade for Christ, was closely allied with the
CFF, which was heavily funded by Amway billionaire,
Richard DeVos, who in 1975 took over the CFF. The
GroupWatch file on Campus Crusade for Christ
speculates that Bill Bright, formerly a fancy foods
salesman who decided the gospel could be marketed in
the same manner as any other product, may have an
agenda other than evangelism:

". . .Bright's early connections with Third Century
Publishers and the Christian Freedom Foundation...have
led many to believe that Bright's and CCFC's goals are
to bring the policies of the evangelical far right and
laissez faire capitalism around the globe, including,
or perhaps especially, the U.S. government. Bright
himself does not come from a ministerial background,
but was a businessman in food specialty and candy
sales." 30.

In 1979, retired sales executive Ed McAteer founded
the Religious Roundtable of 56 members who symbolized
the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. The
Religious Roundtable is a coalition of conservative
business, military, political, and religious leaders
working together to politicize those who believe in
traditional values and to influence government.
Weyrich, Blackwell, and Falwell were among the 56
Roundtable members and Robert Billings' son, William,
was the first editor of the Roundtable Report. 31.

McAteer's Religious Roundtable brought together the
top leadership of the Religious Right and worked as an
informational clearinghouse for large organizations
such as the Christian Broadcasting Network, Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association, Moral Majority,
Christian Voice, Church League of America, National
Religious Broadcasters, Campus Crusade for Christ,
Plymouth Rock Foundation, the National Association of
Evangelicals, Gideon Bible, Wycliffe Bible Associates,
and Intercessors for America.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Ed McAteer was also a member of the board of Wycliffe
Bible Associates, a lay ministry which was created to
support the work of Wycliffe Bible Translators, an
evangelical organization that raises funds and
recruits
missionaries to do the work of the Summer Institute of
Linguistics. Bill Bright serves on the board of the
International Linguistics Center in Dallas, which is
an associate group of SIL. The Summer Institute of
Linguistics was established in 1936 by William Cameron
Townsend as a scientific, nonsectarian organization
specializing in language studies, literacy work and
"other services." 32. An expose of SIL's corruption by
Rockefeller money mentions Cam Townsend's role in
founding the Religious Roundtable with Ed McAteer.

"In 1979, after Nelson Rockefeller had passed from
living humanity into history, Cam had gathered with
other members of Christian Fundamentalism to form the
Religious Roundtable. . . Cam was one of those who
followed McAteer into the founding meeting of the
Religious Roundtable. If he had any reservations about
where this would lead SIL and how it would play in
Latin America . . . Cam's base of support in the
homeland and his top financial backers left him little
choice. He was, at the end of his career, trapped by
the Far Right Fundamentalist base on which he had
built Wycliffe's success at home." 33.

In this massive volume, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest
of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in
the Age of Oil, authors Gerard Colby and Charlotte
Dennett present the disturbing evidence of
Rockefeller's use of American missionaries, and in
particular, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, who
cooperated in conducting surveys, transporting CIA
agents and indirectly assisting in the genocide of
tribes in the Amazon basin.

"At the heart of this story are two intensely
ambitious and ultimately tragic figures: Nelson
Rockefeller, scion of the liberal Standard Oil family,
and William Cameron Townsend, founder of the
ultraconservative Wycliffe Bible Translators. Although
leaders of opposing camps, both found common cause
against fascism and the communism, with ironic,
fateful
results.

"We see Rockefeller gathering political power and
building a vast business empire in Latin America,
working with the CIA, developing close friendships
with famous Latin American politicians and
businessmen, and increasingly advocating military
dictatorships, while Townsend's missionaries are used
to pacify native populations in frontiers rich in oil
and rare minerals or subject to guerrilla
insurgencies. Seeking to hasten the prophesied Second
Coming, Townsend pursues a fanatical effort to reach
every Bibleless tribe with the Word, even to the point
of saving their souls by destroying their culture and
allying with the dictators who oppress them.

"Rockefeller and Townsend contributed more than any
other Americans to the conquest of the Amazon that now
threatens to destroy the 'lungs of the planet,' the
rain forests. Their systematic campaign of
colonization was a chilling foretaste of American
intervention in the Third World that has become so
common today we take for granted repeated forays in
the name of democracy and the securing of valuable
resources." 34.

Colby and Dennett also describe the vital role of Ed
McAteer in bringing together wealthy liberal and
conservative patrons to fund and direct the
Wycliffe organization which, in the name of Christ,
was assisting Nelson Rockefeller in the conquest of
Latin America:

"Yet, of all the principles building the Religious
Right into a cohesive political force, the most
important was perhaps the least known. Edward McAteer
was the Colgate-Palmolive salesman who was the real
organizing force behind the politicized Fundamentalist
movement. McAteer had the glib tongue of his
profession, substituting Christ for soap in his market
analysis. He was more than a friend to Cam Townsend;
he was a major figure on the board of Wycliffe
Associates, which was now a powerhouse of resources
for SIL, providing it and [Jungle Aviation and Radio
Services] with construction skills, money, promotion,
and overnight stays for furloughed translators on
fund-raising tours. In return, testimonies from
returned translators, films, books, and slide shows
parlayed surrogate travels around the world for
suburban believers. Special trips to jungle bases
allowed the more affluent faithful actually to partake
in adventure for God. The sheer human energy amassed
by Wycliffe Associates was impressive, but the
financial core was fueled by reliable wealthy SIL
backers like North Carolina's James A. Jones, one of
the largest contractors for military bases in Vietnam,
and oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt of Texas. 'Bunker Hunt
had helped me considerably,' McAteer freely offered.

"Wycliffe Associates '500 Club' was designed to offer
the richer members a way out of service through cash;
$500 or more each year was all it took to get a
special certificate of membership. Some gave much
more. Texas's corporate leaders were prominent in
helping Cam build SIL's International Linguistics
Center near Dallas; the Linguistics Center's board
meeting was one of those special occasions where a
Rockefeller business partner like Trammel Crow could
rub shoulders with an ultrarightist like Nelson Bunker
Hunt. But they were the old core of supporters. The
real power in Wycliffe Associates was its thousands of
newer members, spreading the influence of SIL across
the country, and the influence of Wycliffe Associates
in Cam's organization." 35.

As Ed McAteer's applied his advertising and public
relations skills to finance the Summer Institute of
Linguistics, these techniques would serve him well in
organizing a base of support for the election of
Ronald Reagan:

"Promoting and leading this base of support into
politics was McAteer's forte. During the Carter
administration, his name began to appear among New
Right circles in Washington, D.C., connected with
North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms. It was McAteer
who brought Jerry Falwell into this crowd, helping
Falwell build the Moral Majority. Then, in 1979,
McAteer organized the Religious Roundtable. Well
funded, McAteer pulled together many of the
Fundamentalists leaders of the nation to back the
candidacy of Ronald Reagan. 36.

The Council for National Policy

The board of directors and early membership of Ed
McAteer's Religious Roundtable reads like Who's Who in
the future Council for National Policy. 37. In 1981,
the CNP was founded as a 501(c)(3) non-profit
educational organization by Tim LaHaye of the
Religious Roundtable, who was also the first CNP
president, with funding from Nelson Bunker Hunt who
served as third CNP president from 1983-84. Bunker
Hunt was also among several principals of the Western
Goals Foundation, the domestic surveillance arm of
the John Birch Society, who also served on the
newly-formed CNP Board of Governors.

In 1972, the JBS promoted the book, None Dare Call It
Treason by John Stormer, which identified the Council
on Foreign Relations as a pro-Communist
Rockefeller-funded Trojan Horse on American soil. The
Council
for National Policy was formed ostensibly to be the
conservative alternative to the Council on Foreign
Relations and John Stormer is currently a member.

Since its inception, CNP membership directories have
been 'confidential,' CNP meetings are closed to the
public and media and the very existence of the Council
for National Policy is denied by high profile
Evangelical leaders who publicly clamour for
conservative policies in government. Responding to an
inquiry by researcher K.E. Barr regarding the nature
of the CNP and the reason that meetings are closed
even to Christian media, a vice president of Focus on
the Family presented the confused image of a Christian
organization that is not involved in policy-making
[only education] and yet cannot risk media exposure:

"[Paul] Hetrick repeatedly described the organization
as a 'meeting of like-minded people.' He claimed that
the CNP is a group of conservatives concerned about
the direction of the country, who felt the need for an
organization to counter the liberal agenda. He told me
the network of leaders across the country meet two to
three times a year to discuss issues involving '1)
free enterprise, 2.) defense, and 3.) traditional
western values.'

"In response to being asked how the CNP implements
their policies, he said the title of the group may be
misleading, and doesn't properly describe their
activities. He claimed that they don't actually
develop policies. They are, according to Hetrick,
'strictly educational' in nature. Regarding the
secrecy of their organization's purpose and
membership, he stated that the only reason Christian
media is not allowed in their meetings is that: 'you
can never tell if they are really Christians or not."
38.

Early CNP membership directories were obtained by
enterprising researchers, however, and these revealed
that the early leadership of the CNP was, in fact,
also represented in the Council on Foreign Relations -
the very organization of globalists to which the CNP
was to be the conservative alternative! On the first
CNP Governing Board there were no less than three,
and possibly more, members of the CFR: George F.
Gilder - CNP Board of Governors (1982) ; Dr. Edward
Teller - CNP Board of Governors (1982); and Guy Vander
Jagt - CNP Board of Governors (1982). 39.

Robert Waring Stoddard who also served on the 1982 CNP
Board of Governors was affiliated with the CFR through
his Boston newspaper. 40. Although we lack
confirmation of this, Ron Miller, author of Distant
Drums, stated that "sources in high places" have
identified Jesse Helms, who served on the original CNP
Board of Governors, as a CFR member in 1972. 41. Later
CNP directories list CFR members J. Peter Grace (CNP,
1984-85; 1988) and Arnaud deBorchgrave (CNP, 1988).

The 1984-85 membership directories advertised the CNP
Board of Governors quarterly meetings at the following
world class resort hotels: The Breakers [Palm Beach,
FL], Marriott Rancho Las Palmas Resort [Palm Springs,
CA], Camelback Inn Marriott Resort [Scotsdale, AZ],
The Broadmoor Hotel & Resort [Colorado Springs], The
Homestead [Hot Springs, VA], Le Bonaventure Hilton
[Montreal], Colonial Williamsburg [Williamsburg, VA],
The Westin [Dallas]. 42.

After CNP membership directories were obtained by
researchers and copied for distribution to Christians
who support CNP organizations, venues of future
meetings were not included in their directories.
However, researchers were made privy to a 1998 CNP
meeting that was held at the luxury Ritz-Carleton
Tysons Corner hotel in McLean, Virginia. [See IFAS:
News Reports for information on this meeting.] 43.

Profiles of other prominent CNP officers and members
reveal a shocking number of CFR connections, such as
the aforementioned William Rusher who was editor of
CFR member William F. Buckley's National Review. Even
so, these revelations should not be surprising since
the CNP was an extension of the John Birch Society
whose early leadership consisted of members either
directly or indirectly associated with the CFR. In
1976, The Belmont Brotherhood 44., an expose published
by former JBS officers, identified the following
glaring conflicts of interest:

William Grede - Founding JBS Council Member and
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council was
also director of the CFR-created and controlled 7th
Federal Reserve Bank.

William Benton McMillan - First Life Member of the JBS
was also a member of the St. Louis Committee of the
Council on Foreign Relations

Robert Waring Stoddard - JBS Council Member and
Chairman of the Board of the Worcester Telegram and
Gazette whose editors belonged to the local Committee
of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stoddard was also
on the Board of Directors of the National Center for
Privatization.

J. Nelson Shepherd - JBS Council Member and a member
of the Newcomen Society, whose president Charles
Penrose, Jr. was also a member of the Pilgrim Society
and the English-Speaking Union, whose elite membership
-- Paul Warburg, J. P. Morgan, John W. Davis, Bernard
Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff, and John D.
Rockefeller, to name a few -- founded and financed the
Council on Foreign Relations. 45.

Spruille Braden - JBS Council Member and a resident
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director
of the W. Averell Harriman Securities Corporation, and
an advisor to Paul Warburg, a principal architect of
the Federal Reserve System.

Louis Ruthenberg - JBS Council Member and Director of
the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Cola Godden Parker - JBS Council Member and a member
of the Newcomen Society, whose president, Charles
Penrose, Jr., belonged to the Pilgrim Society and the
English-Speaking Union.

Martin J. Condon, III - JBS non-Council member who was
on the Editorial Advisory Committee of American
Opinion magazine and also a member of the Newcomen
Society.

Charles Edison - JBS non-Council member who served on
the Editorial Advisory Committee of American Opinion
and was a member of the Pilgrim-connected Newcomen
Society.

Additionally, the youth organization of the John Birch
Society, Young Americans for Freedom [YAF], was
founded by William F. Buckley, who is also a Skull &
Bonesman and Knight of Malta. Various JBS and CNP
members have been involved with YAF, including Lynn
Bouchey, Connaught Marshner and William Rusher. 46.
Howard Phillips, head of the U.S. Taxpayers Party
(U.S.T.P.) and The Conservative Caucus (TCC) appointed
many YAF members while acting director of the Office
of Economic Opportunity under Richard Nixon. 47.
Richard Viguerie, who with Weyrich, Phillips,
Blackwell, Falwell and McAteer founded the Moral
Majority, was the Executive Secretary of YAF from
1961-64. 48.

Besides CFR and Religious Roundtable members, the
upper echelon of the Council for National Policy were
basically refugees from the defunct Western Goals
Foundation, the domestic surveillance outfit of the
John Birch Society which included high-ranking members
of the fascist World Anti-Communist League, Knights of
the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the Unification
Church of Sun Myung Moon and Freemasonry. 49. There is
some overlapping of Western Goals operatives who
formed the early CNP Governing Board who were also CFR
and/or Religious Roundtable members:

John Singlaub [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83]. Member
of national policy board of the American Freedom
Coalition [AFC], a front for Sun Myung Moon's
Unification Church.

Daniel O. Graham [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83].
Member of national policy board of AFC.

Mildred Faye Jefferson [CNP Board of Governors
1982-83]. Member of national policy board of AFC.

Sherman Unkefer [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83].
Served as an adviser to Chile's regime under Augusto
Pinochet and reportedly worked closely with Chile's
secret police organization, DINA.

Hans Sennholz [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83]. A
decorated pilot in the Luftwaffe, Adolf Hitler's elite
air corps.

Robert Stoddard [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83].
Listed in The Belmont Brotherhood, as Chairman of the
Board of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, whose
editors belonged to the local Committee of the CFR.
Board of Directors of Willard Garvey's National Center
for Privatization.

Larry McDonald [CNP Board of Governors 1982-83].
President of the John Birch Society; Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Western Goals Foundation, and
served on the Congressional Board of Christian Voice,
a front for the Unification Church.

Nelson Bunker Hunt [CNP President 1982-83, Executive
Committee 1984-85, 1988]. Knight of the Order of
Malta. Member of a racial eugenics organization, the
International Association for the Advancement of
Eugenics and Ethnology, that was headquartered in
Scotland. IAAEE was established in the U.S. by Lord
Malcolm Douglas, a member of the British Cliveden Set
which supported Hitler during World War II.

Oliver North [CNP Governing Board 1984-85] Formed the
Military Assistance Group-Special Operations Group
(MAG-SOG), a political murder unit, and participated
in Operation Phoenix which killed about 100,000
civilians in Southeast Asia. North received aid from
the Unification Church and Knights of Malta for Contra
operations in Latin America.

Howard Phillips [CNP Executive Committee 1984-85,
1988] Director of The Conservative Caucus, served on
advisory board of the United States Council for World
Freedom (USCWF) of the World Anti-Communist League, a
multinational network of Nazi war criminals, Latin
American death squad leaders and North American
neo-fascists. Conservative Caucus board member and
funder, Richard Shoff, is a former Grand Kilgrapp of
the Indiana Ku Klux Klan.

Major F. Andy Messing, Jr. USAR (Ret.). Former
chairman of The Conservative Caucus; Board of USWCF;
Director of the National Defense Council Foundation.
Collaborated with Linda Guell of CAUSA (a political
arm of the Unification Church) and its head, Bo Hi
Pak. to provide funds for Oliver North's operation in
Latin America.

J. Peter Grace [CNP Board of Governors 1986] Council
on Foreign Relations; Head of Order of Knights of
Malta in the U.S.; Chairman of W.R. Grace Co which
focuses its business activities in Latin America and
assisted the Contra operation in Latin America.

William E. Simon [CFR; Knight of Malta]. Secretary of
the Treasury under Richard Nixon; Chairman of the
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund (NFF), a fundraising
organization set up in l985 by the Washington Times, a
newspaper owned by the Unification Church. Trustee of
the Heritage Foundation. According to Sidney
Blumenthal, Simon is or was a member of the CNP. [IRC:
Americares]

Frank Shakespeare, [Knight of Malta]. Council U.S.
Information Agency director and director of Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty, a Nazi front established by
Hitler's espionage officer, Reinhard Gehlen. Trustee
of the Heritage Foundation.

Dr. Edward Teller [CNP Board of Governors 1982]
Council on Foreign Relations. Hungarian-born American
physicist who became the architect of the hydrogen
bomb. During World War II he was a member of the
Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic
bomb. Teller was a member of the Citizens Legal
Defense Fund for the FBI, Ad Hoc, and advisor to the
Western Goals Foundation.

It is significant that Nelson Bunker Hunt, the founder
and main funder of the Wycliffe Bible Associates and
Council for National Policy, like many founding CNP
members, is a Knight of the Order of Malta. According
to Russ Bellant, "Although it poses as a Catholic
organization, the Order of St. John of Jerusalem is a
Masonic group that claims to be the real Knights of
Malta. It's Grand Master for fifty years until his
death several years ago was Charles Pichel, and
adviser . . .to Hitler aide Ernst Hanfstaengl." 50.

Occupying a position in McAteer's Religious
Roundtable, 33º Mason Jesse Helms was also a key
figure in founding the CNP. With his top aide,
attorney
Tom Ellis, Helms had put together a national political
machine that was unprecedented for the ultra-right.
Tom Ellis -- who directed the agency which funded
racial science for the purpose of eliminating inferior
races -- was president of the CNP after Tim LaHaye.

"Tom Ellis was former director of the Pioneer Fund, a
foundation which finances efforts to prove that
African-Americans are genetically inferior to whites.
Recipients of Pioneer grants have included William
Shockley, Arthur Jensen and Roger Pearson, who has
written that 'inferior races' should be
'exterminated.' All three and others were funded
during Ellis' directorship on the Pioneer board. Yet
Ellis served on the CNP's thirteen-member executive
committee with Holly Coors, Paul Weyrich, and Heritage
Foundation president, Edwin Feulner until June 1989.
Oliver North and Reed Larson recently joined the
executive committee." 51.

With the help of the Viguerie Company, Helms and
Ellis' organization, the Congressional Club, funded
candidates and solicited support on favorite issues
through direct-mail campaigns. Helms' popularity
increased during the Reagan era, when ideological
conservatism experienced a resurgence at the same time
traditional values of fundamental Christians were
under siege.

"The National Congressional Club is Jesse Helms' PAC
based in Raleigh and directed by Helms' senior
advisor, attorney Tom Ellis. The Congressional Club
began after the 1972 Senate campaign, when Ellis
retained Richard Viguerie to help pay off the Helms
campaign debt. Ellis and Viguerie built the
Congressional Club mailing list to more than 300,000
regular contributors -- a constituency for Helms and a
major financial resource within the conservative
movement. . .Helms has used his political organization
to build connections with New Right and conservative
political activists. Besides Viguerie, Phillips, and
Dolan connections, Helms is actively represented in
Weyrich's coordinating groups. Helms is the chief
legislative strategist for the conservative social
agenda. . .Helms also occupies a central position in
the religious right as a member of the Religious
Roundtable, a lay preacher, and a former radio and
television evangelist." 52.

FOOTNOTES
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26.    "Robespierre of the Right: What I ate at the
revolution," David Grann, The New Republic, Oct. 27,
1997:
http://magazines.enews.com/magazines/tnr/archive/10/102797/grann102797.html

27.    Perry Deane Young, God's Bullies: Power
Politics and Religious Tyranny, NY: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 1982, p. 59.
28.    Perry Deane Young, op.cit., p. 89.
29.    "How Rev. Moon Got Ensconced with the New
Right: His Aid is Varied and Plentiful," Seattle
Times, Dec. 31, 1987.
30.    Interhemispheric Resource Center: Christian
Freedom Foundation: http://www.pir.org/gw/ccfc.txt
31.    Interhemispheric Resource Center: Religious
Roundtable: http://www.pir.org/gw/rrt.txt
32.    Interhemispheric Resource Center: Summer
Institute of Linguistics:
http://www.pir.org/gw/sil.txt
33.    Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, Gerard
Colby and Charlotte Dennett,
Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson
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35.    Colby and Dennett, pp. 804-5.
36.    Colby and Dennett, p. 805.
37.    Interhemispheric Resource Center: Religious
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38.    K.E. Barr, Unholy Alliances 2000, p. 25.
39.    Council for National Policy Index:
http://watch.pair.com/cnpdbase.html
40.    The Belmont Brotherhood:
http://watch.pair.com/belmont.html
41.    Ronald Miller, Distant Drums, "Thinking
Globally and Acting Locally:
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42.    Council for National Policy Annual Directory,
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Jefferson M. Angers, Schedule of Events.
43.    Institute for First Amendment Studies, Council
for National Policy
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http://www.ifas.org/cnp/index.html
44.    The Belmont Brotherhood:
http://watch.pair.com/belmont.html
45.    Eric Samuelson, "The Pilgrim Society and the
English-Speaking
Union": http://watch.pair.com/pilgrim.html
46.    John S. Saloma III, Ominous Politics: The New
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47.    Perry Deane Young, op.cit., pp. 110, 67.
48.    Perry Deane Young, op.cit.pp. 84-5.
49.    The John Birch Society & Council for National
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50.    Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection, South End
Press, 1988, p. 45.
51.    Russ Bellant, op.cit., pp.37-38.
52.    John S. Saloma, op.cit., pp. 90-92.






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