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CIA, Nazis & the Republican Party
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A Fresh Look
by Carla Binion
Nazis and the Republican Party Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson
says in BLOWBACK that after World War II, Nazi émigrés were given CIA
subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U.S. These Nazis
assumed prominent positions in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach
committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not come to
America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist
political agendas.
The Nazi agenda did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to
America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the Republican
Party.
Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis
on the intelligence payroll "for their expertise in propaganda and
psychological warfare," among other purposes...
Journalist Russ Bellant (OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT, AND THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY) shows that Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built
the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as
adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a
group that helped liquidate Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of
the Republican Heritage Groups Council.
Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small
newspaper, Washington Jewish Week, disclosed that a coalition for the Bush
campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The article
prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.
According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican
Party included:
1.Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of
"Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a member of a Bulgarian fascist group,
and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust
denier, Austin App.
2.Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians,
and head of "Romanians for Bush."
Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted
Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
3.Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko
was an ex-Waffen SS officer.
4.Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a
Nazi puppet regime.
5.Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich
worked closely with many Nazi
groups.
6.Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukrainians for Bush." Fedorak headed a
Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish wartime pogroms.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article on the Bush team's inclusion of
Nazis (David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible
Nazi links," September 10, 1988.) The newspaper also ran an investigative
series on Nazi members of the Bush coalition. The article confirmed that the
Bush team included members listed by Russ Bellant.
Journalist Martin A. Lee, has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The
San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. In THE BEAST Republican
Party's ethnic outreach arm recruited members from the Nazi émigré network.
Lee says that the Republican Party's ethnic outreach division had an
outspoken hatred of President Jimmy Carter's Office of Special
Investigations (OSI), an organization dedicated to tracking down and
prosecuting Nazi war collaborators who entered this country illegally.
Former Republican Pat Buchanan attacked Carter's OSI after it deported a few
suspected Nazi war criminals.
According to Lee, public relations man Harold Keith Thompson was
principal U.S. point man for the postwar Nazi support network known as die
Spinne, or the Spider. In the late 40s and early 50s, Thompson worked as the
chief North American representative for the remaining National Socialist
German Worker's Party and the SS. Lee writes that the wealthy Thompson gave
generously to Republican candidates Senator Jesse Helms and would-be senator
Oliver North. Thompson's money gained him membership in the GOP's
Presidential Legion of Merit. Lee says Thompson also "received numerous
thank-you letters from the Republican National
Committee." Those letters are now in the Hoover Institute Special
Collections Library. Christopher Simpson writes in BLOWBACK that in 1983,
Ronald Reagan presented a Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian
honor, to CIA émigré program consultant James Burnham. Burnham was a
psychological warfare consultant who promoted something called
"liberationism." Just before the 1952 election, the CIA worked up a
multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at selling Americans on
expanding cold war activities in Europe. Part of the guiding theory (given
the name "liberationism") was the idea that certain Nazi leaders from World
War II should be brought in as "freedom fighters" against the USSR.
Reagan said that Burnham's ideas on liberation "profoundly affected the
way America views itself and the world," adding, "I owe [Burnham] a personal
debt, because throughout the years of traveling on the
mashed-potato circuit I have quoted [him] widely." Reagan may not have known
Burnham's theories were based on his work on projects that enlisted many
Nazi collaborators, but it seems that Reagan's CIA Director
Casey or former CIA Director, Vice President George Bush, would have
informed him.
At a May 9, 1984 press conference, Simon Wiesenthal said, "Nazi criminals
were the principal beneficiaries of the Cold War." The cold war mentality,
hyped by Reinhard Gehlen and other Nazis, became the shelter for tens of
thousands of Nazi criminals. Helping the far right in this country to
promote cold war hysteria became the Nazi war criminals "reason for being."
As Christopher Simpson says, the cold war became those criminals' means "to
avoid responsibility for the murders they had committed."
Journalist Seymour Hersh says Christopher Simpson's BLOWBACK is "the
ultimate book about the worst kind of cold war thinking, in which some of
our most respected statesmen made shameful decisions that they
mistakenly believed to be justified." To this day, says Simpson, the U.S.
intelligence agencies hide the scope of their post-World War II
collaboration with Nazi criminals.
Are Republicans like George H. W. Bush, Oliver North, and Jesse Helms,
aware they have been assisted by Nazi collaborators? Bush once worked for
the CIA and should have known about the nature of the Nazis in his '88
campaign. No doubt he knows the history of Nazi/CIA collaboration. Whether
or not Bush knew of the fascists' involvement in his campaign, the
Republican Party should have done a far better screening job. One thing is
certain: The intelligence agencies know the scope and extent of Nazi
involvement with the political right in this country. It is a shame they
keep it hidden from the majority of the American people.
© 2000 Carla Binion All rights reserved
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