History of the World Anti-Communist League
Part 1: 1945-85May 9, 1945
End of World War II
1945
The right-wing Tacuara organization begins to coalesce in Argentina from (UNES)
students' union and Alianza de la Juventud Nacionalista (Alliance of Nationalist Youth).
The Tacuara youth are heavily influenced by Nazi exiles brought to Argentina after WWII
by the fascist Peron regime, e.g., administrator of the "Final Solution" Adolph Eichmann and
his adjutant Franz Stangl, Nazi concentration camp doctor Joseph Mengele, Waffen SS
commandant Erich Priebke, Nazi puppet leader of Croatia Ante Pavefic, and former
concentration camp commandant and Ustashi member Dinko Sakic.
The Tacuara youth become admirers of Hitler, Mussolini, and Primo de Rivera, founder
of the Spanish Falange. The Tacuara Nationalist Movement (MNT) is officially created as an
organization at the end of 1957. Fascist priest Julio Meinvielle plays an influential role.
1946
The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) is founded in Munich by Ukrainian war
criminal and Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Stetsko. Second in command is Latvian SS officer
and war criminal Alfred Berzins. The ABN claims direct descent from the Committee of
Subjugated Nations, formed in 1943 by the Hitler-allied Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
The stated goal of the ABN is to remove communists from power and abolish the Soviet
Union. The League is the largest and most important umbrella for former Nazi collaborators
in the world.
Other ABN members include Romanian Legionnaires (Iron Guard) led by Horia Sima,
Croatian Ustashi, Latvian Waffen SS, Bulgarian Legionnaires, Estonian "Liberation
Movement" members, and Hungarian "Liberation Movement" members. The most active
groups are the Ukrainian organizations.
The ABN receives funding from the West German and British governments. In 1983,
Stetsko meets with Ronald Reagan at the White House. Stetsko heads the League until his
death in 1986 in Munich when his widow Slava takes over. It is supposedly disbanded in
1996.
1947
Canadian Ron Gostick founds his anti-communist newsletter. In 1951, it is renamed the
Canadian Intelligence Service (non-governmental).
1949
People's Republic of China founded.
1950
The European Social Movement (ESB) is founded by Swedish fascist Per Engdahl and
Italian fascist leader Giorgio Almirante. With chapters throughout Europe, ESB is the largest
European fascist federation operating after WWII.
Head of the British chapter is Oswald Moseley, leader of the fascist British United Front.
Head of the Hungarian chapter is Arpad Henney, second in command in the 1944 Hungarian
government that liquidated half a million Jews. Head of the German chapter is Karl Heinz
Priester, former SS officer and propaganda chief of the Hitler Youth. Head of the Austrian
chapter is Wilhelm Landig, former SS officer.
1950
Ron Gostick founds the Canadian Anti-Communist League (CACL). Gostick is influenced
by racist Gerald L.K. Smith and KKK member Wesley Swift, founders of the white
supremacist Christian Identity and leaders of the California Anti-Communist League. Smith, a
founder of the America First Committee, an organization funded by pro-Nazi sources that
opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II, lobbied for decades for release of all Nazi
war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg War Tribunals.
CACL changes its name to the Christian Action Movement in 1961 and then to the
Canadian League of Rights (CLR) in 1968.
Undercover RCMP agent Patrick Walsh, Gostick's long-time associate, is CLR research
director. In the early 1950s, Walsh wrote for Adrien Arcand, leader of the pro-Hitler National
Unity Party and a life-long fascist. Walsh was active in the 1950s anti-communist campaigns
within the Canadian Seaman's Union and the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers.
1950-53
Korean War
1951
Political Warfare Cadres Academy (Fu Hsing Kang College) is formed in Peitou, Taiwan
to provide the Taiwanese military with officers loyal to the Kuomintang regime.
The Academy eventually exports its model to other countries, in particular, to Latin
America, where it selects and trains members of the most anti-communist political party, e.g.,
MLN in Guatemala, ARENA in EL Salvador, to establish a power base in the military. The
Taiwanese then invite the nation's armed forces to train further in Taiwan. Cadres trained in
Taiwan return to their home countries where they in turn train others.
1953
The CIA begins decades-long funding of Guatemalan death squad leader Mario Sandoval
Alarcon by founding the National Liberation Movement (MLN) as a paramilitary force to
overthrow President Jacobo Arbenz.
Death squads practice "extra-judicial killings" in the service of the governing elite, a
strategy first developed by the Nazis.
Sandoval later becomes a leading member of the World Anti-Communist League and its
Latin American chapter, Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL).
1954
U.S.-backed coup overthrows Arbenz government in Guatemala
1954
The Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) is formed at the request of
Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek.
Founders of APACL are agents of the governments of Taiwan and south Korea, including
Park Chung Hee who later becomes president of south Korea; fascist Yoshio Kodama, a
member of organized crime in Japan; fascist Ryiochi Sasakawa, a gangster and Japanese
billionaire jailed as a war criminal after World War II (note: In 1990, York University,
Toronto accepts a $1 million donation from Sasakawa); and Osami Kuboki and other
followers of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church.
Ultimate power in APACL remains with Taiwan and south Korea but it is unlikely that
poverty-stricken Taiwan and devastated south Korea fund the APACL. The most likely source
of funds is the United States funneling money through Taiwan.
1954
Korean Sun Myung Moon founds the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
Christianity or Unification Church (Moonies) in Seoul. Members strive to create a "Kingdom
of God on earth" by fighting communism.
In the 1960s, Moon makes Osami Kuboki, Yoshio Kodama's lieutenant, his chief
executive for Japan. Kodama, arrested as a Class A war criminal after WWII, is a member of
organized crime in Japan and a founder of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League.
Moon's missionaries come to the U.S.A. in the early 1960s and Moon moves to the U.S.
in 1971.
Unification Church activity in South America begins in the 1970s. In the 1990s the
Church expands its operations into Russia and the Eastern European countries.
1955
The American Security Council is founded in Chicago by U.S. industrialists to spy on
progressives and smash unions. Founders of ASC include Averell Harriman, General Douglas
MacArthur, Nelson Rockefeller, and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.
Three previous groups provide elements of the ASC: America First Committee, American
Vigilante Intelligence Federation (founded as an anti-union spy organization and involved
with German Nazi agents in the U.S.), and American Coalition of Patriotic Societies
(connected to German National Socialism).
National chairman of ASC is General Robert Wood, chairman of Sears Roebuck and
former chairman of the America First Committee. Right-wing book publisher William
Regnery is also an early leader.
ASC membership is made up of prominent representatives of business, labor, academia,
and government who worked together long before forming the ASC – the original
inner circle included publisher Henry Luce, anti-communist crusader Clare Boothe Luce, and
renegade communist/socialist Jay Lovestone.
The ASC staff, primarily former FBI agents, works with officials from the Pentagon,
National Security Council, and the CIA. In 1978, the ASC forms its congressional lobby
group, the National Coalition for Peace Through Strength (CPTS)/National Security Caucus.
The CPTS membership includes emigre groups with a history of association with Nazis.
1958
The John Birch Society is founded in Indianapolis, Indiana by Robert Welch Jr., to "fight
communism." A founding member is billionaire Fred Koch of Koch Industries, one of the
U.S.'s largest private corporations, which built oil refineries in the Soviet Union 1929-32.
Koch wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini's suppression of Communists. Koch dies in
1967 but his billionaire sons, Charles and David, continue to heavily fund and/or found
right-wing organizations, e.g., the Heritage Foundation (1973), the Cato Institute (1977), the
Center for Market Processes/Mercatus Centre (c.1980), Citizens for a Sound
Economy/Americans for Prosperity (1984/2004), and the Tea Party (2009).
1959
Cuban Revolution.
1959
The Anti-communist National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC) is founded in
Washington, DC by Lev Dobriansky, born New York 1918, the son of Ukrainian immigrants.
One of Dobriansky's roles in NCNC is to falsify the history of Ukrainian fascist
organizations which collaborated with the Nazis, e.g., OUN, UPA. Dobriansky is also a
long-time American Security Council official.
Dobriansky teaches economics at Georgetown University from 1948 to 1987. Among his
students is Kateryna Yuschenko (née Chumachenko), suspected CIA agent and the future First
Lady of Ukraine.
Dobriansky later co-founds the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC,
which is dedicated in June 2007 by President George W. Bush.
1960
Mario Sandoval Alarcon, a member of one of Guatemala's ruling families, forms the
military-backed National Liberation Movement (MLN) in Guatemala.
In 1972 Alarcon becomes the guiding head of the newly-formed Latin American
Anti-Communist Federation, a branch of the World Anti-Communist League, founded 1966.
Alarcon becomes head of the Guatemalan death squads and also acts as the "godfather" to
other Latin American death squads.
1961
U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba is defeated.
1964
U.S.-backed coup overthrows the Goulart government in Brazil.
1964
ORDEN, a rural paramilitary army of anti-communist informers and vigilantes which
reports to the CIA, is formed in El Salvador. Key advisor to National Guard commander
General José Medrano during ORDEN's formation is Taiwanese officer Colonel Chu who is
stationed in El Salvador.
1966
The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) is founded in Taipei, Taiwan under the
initiative of Chiang Kai-shek to oppose communism around the world through
"unconventional" methods. A preparatory conference was held in Mexico in 1958.
Chief organizers of WACL are the Taiwanese and south Korean governments (Asian
People's Anti-Communist League) and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (Stetsko).
WACL maintains offices in a Taipei government building, and runs its daily affairs out of
"The Freedom Center" buildings in Seoul. Honorary life chairman is Dr. Ku Cheng-Kang,
senior Kuomintang leader and president of Taiwan's National Assembly.
Prominent WACL members include Byelorussian Dimitri Kasmowich, police chief of
Smolensk under the Nazis; Theodore Oberlander, German commander of the
Nazi-collaborationist Ukrainian Nightingales which perpetrated the Lviv pogrom and other
WWII atrocities; Swedish Nazi Ake Lindsten; and Josef Mikus, former diplomat of the
Nazi-collaborationist Tiso regime in Czechoslovakia.
Ray Cline, CIA station chief in Taiwan from 1958-1962 and later CIA deputy director for
intelligence (1962-66), attends WACL conferences in 1980, 1983, and 1984. WACL is
renamed the World League for Freedom and Democracy in 1994.
1967
Paul Fromm, Donald Andrews, and Leigh Smith found the anti-communist Edmund Burke
Society (EBS) in Toronto. EBS members violently attack progressives.
EBS provides a vehicle to unite various anti-communist Eastern European groups, e.g.,
Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians.
One member is Lithuanian Gil Urbonas, a former Luftwaffe pilot. In 1972, Paul Fromm
attends the WACL Conference in Mexico.
The EBS is changed to the more overtly racist Western Guard in 1972, with Don
Andrews as leader.
1968
Ron Gostick establishes the Canadian League of Rights, a further incarnation of his 1963
Canadian Action Movement.
Gostick toured Rhodesia in 1966 and presented the Rhodesian Armed Forces with support
money.
1969-74: U.S. Nixon Administration
Almost all the Fascist organizations of World War II open up a Republican party front
group during the Nixon Administration. Nixon had discovered that fascist groups were useful
to get out the ethnic votes in several key states.
For the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign, the Republican National Committee had
formed a temporary Ethnic Division, which recruited the ‘displaced Fascists' who arrived in
the United States after World War II. Before the 1969 election, Nixon promised that if elected
he would create a permanent ethnic council within the Republican party.
In 1969, Nixon approves the appointment of Laszlo Pasztor as chief organizer of the
newly-formed National Republican Heritage Groups Council. During World War II, Pasztor
was a diplomat in Berlin representing Nazi Hungary's Arrow Cross government, which
supervised the extermination of the Jewish population.
Pasztor's choices for filling the council are from Nazi collaborationist organizations. Some
examples are Ivan Docheff, head of the fascist Bulgarian National Front and chairman of the
American Friends of Stetsko's Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN); Emanuel Jasiuk, a
notorious mass murderer from what today is called Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet
Union; and Florian Galdau, member of the Romanian Iron Guard.
1970
The American Council for World Freedom (ACWF) is founded in Washington, DC as the
U.S. chapter of the WACL.
Lee Edwards, a former director of the John Birch Society's Young Americans for
Freedom, is the main force behind its creation and its first secretary. Chairman is John Fisher
of the American Security Council. Army Major General Thomas Lane, who stated at a 1966
Young Americans for Freedom rally that U.S. troops should "be allowed to attack and destroy
in Viet Nam," becomes president.
Other prominent members include Lev Dobriansky, former OSS officer, chairman of the
National Captive Nations Committee, and Reagan's Ambassador to the Bahamas; John Fisher,
executive director of the American Security Council; Hoover Institute professor Stefan
Possony; former Minnesota Republican congressman Dr. Walter Judd; Reed Irvine, founder of
the Richard Scaife Mellon-funded Accuracy in Media; and Eleanor Schlafly of the Cardinal
Mindszenty Foundation. Neil Salonen of the Unification Church (Moonies) of the United
States is a director.
Due to internal disagreements and negative publicity from investigative journalists, the
ACWF resigns from the League in 1975 and its members disperse. In 1997, Edwards becomes
Chair of the newly-formed Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington,
DC.
1972
The Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL) is founded as the Latin
American branch of WACL by Los Tecos (the Owls), a fascist organization in Mexico led by
a landowner's son Cuesta Gallardo, who spent World War II with the Nazis in Berlin.
Los Tecos first came into being in the 1910s by right-wing Catholics in the Cristeros
(Legion of Christ) opposition, which had organized a counter-revolution against the Calles
government, 1926-29. After World War II, Gallardo returned to Mexico and converted Los
Tecos into a fascist organization.
Gallardo settled in Guadalajara, the home of the Cristeros, and recruited Professor
Raymond Guerrero of the autonomous University of Guadalajara (UG), who assumed overt
leadership. Los Tecos took over the university and used it to accumulate funds from major
U.S. foundations to finance their political activities, and Guadalajara became the headquarters
of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation.
Los Tecos established the Mexican Anti-Communist Federation (FEMACO) as a front
organization for the CAL. In 1984, CAL is renamed the Federation of Latin American
Democratic Entities (FEDAL).
1973
U.S.-backed coup overthrows Allende government in Chile.
1973
The Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A) death squad is organized in Argentina
by the Argentine Federal Police. The AAA plays a prominent role in Argentina's 1970s-1980s
"Dirty War," killing over 10,000 people at the bidding of the Peron and Videla regimes.
The AAA has connections with Spanish and Italian fascist groups and is secretly
supported by the French government of Valery d'Estaing.
The "Dirty War" sets an example for future dirty wars in other Latin American countries
such as El Salvador and Guatemala. The WACL will become the primary exporter of the
Argentine "Dirty War" methods.
1974
Dominionist Paul Weyrich, a leader of the U.S. right long-linked to Nazis and neo-Nazis
such as Laszlo Pasztor and Charles Moser (editorial advisor to the pro-OUN Ukrainian
Quarterly) founds the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, one of the first
organizations to recruit activists from evangelical Christian churches.
The Coors family provides funds and Weyrich becomes the Coors' "front man."
1974
Guatemalan death squad leader and vice president Mario Sandoval Alarcon travels to
Taiwan where he is feted by Kuomintang leaders.
Guatemalan officers are sent for training in Taiwan at the Political Warfare Cadres
Academy.
Sandoval receives more aid from Taiwan in the late 1970s after his vice presidential term
ends.
1975
The Latin American Anti-Communist Federation, with CIA help, institutes the "Banzer
Plan," named after former Bolivian president General Hugo Banzer (1971-78, 1997-2001)
who protected Lyon's Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie from French war crimes prosecutors.
The plan aims to find and silence Catholic clergy who espouse "liberation theology," e.g.,
concern for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised. Over the next two years, at least 30
progressive clergymen are slain across Latin America.
1975
Ron Gostick's Canadian League of Rights becomes the Canadian chapter of the
WACL.
1976-78
The U.S. holds "Koreagate" hearings, focusing on the south Korean government's
"influence-peddling" among U.S. officials. The hearings expose that the Unification Church
acts as an arm of the south Korean government.
The Taiwanese have been carrying out similar practices more quietly. Some junkets by
U.S. officials are funded by the WACL.
1976
Operation Condor initiated by the Chilean Secret Police (DINA) and the CIA to
coordinate Latin American right-wing security forces, enabling them to hunt down their
enemies anywhere in the world. One example is the 1976 assassination in Washington, DC of
Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier.
1977
White supremacist and English-born Nazi theoretician Roger Pearson is mobilized by the
WACL leadership to rebuild the defunct U.S. branch of the WACL. He is at this time head of
the neo-fascist Council on American Affairs.
In 1958, Pearson founded the racist Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship
and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." One of his recruits was Hans F.K. Gunther who
received awards under the Nazis regime for his work on race.
Pearson was brought to the U.S. in 1965 by Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby, who once
wrote that "Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe and America." Pearson serves three years
as head of the U.S. chapter, using the new U.S. branch to bring the European Social
Movement members into the League to reform the European affiliates.
European neo-Nazi newcomers to the League include former Dutch SS officer St. C. de
Berkelaar, Norwegian Front head Tor Hadland, Swedish fascist Ake Lindsten, former Nazi
official Heinrich Hartle, and Italian fascist leader Giorgio Almirante.
Pearson resigns under pressure in 1980 for his too public promotion of the European
Nazis, passing the U.S. leadership mantle to Klan lawyer Elmore D. Greaves, organizer of the
segregationist Citizens Council of Mississippi.
1978
The American Security Council forms its congressional lobby group, the National
Coalition for Peace Through Strength (CPTS)/National Security Caucus. CPTS takes an active
part in getting Reagan elected.
1978
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Brigade death squad formed in El Salvador, headed by
Roberto D'Aubission, leading WACL member.
1978
Patrick Walsh is elected to membership of the executive board of the WACL at the annual
meeting in Washington, DC.
1979
The U.S. transfers diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the People's Republic of China.
The WACL becomes an even more important channel for Taiwan's international
activities.
1979
Nazi-linked dominionist Paul Weyrich meets with evangelist Jerry Falwell in May to
persuade Falwell to spearhead a Christian organization that will become active in politics.
Also present are Robert Billings of the National Christian Action Coalition, dominionist
Howard Phillips, former Young Americans for Freedom secretary Richard Viguerie, and
dominionist Ed McAteer. Weyrich suggests a name referring to the "moral majority" and
Falwell agrees.
Joining Falwell as a member of the Moral Majority's Board of Directors is dominionist
Rev. Tim LaHaye from San Diego, California, who in 1981 helps found the Council on
National Policy, the main dominionist umbrella group.
The entrance of the Moral Majority into politics entices millions of Protestant evangelicals
into politics.
1979
WACL holds its 13th conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, in July, under protection of the
fascist regime of General Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89), which harbored many WWII Nazis,
e.g., Martin Bormann, private secretary to the Fuhrer; Joseph Mengele, an SS officer and
concentration camp doctor; and Stuka dive bomber pilot Hans Rudel.
South America's first Nazi party was founded in Paraguay in 1929. By 1979, WACL now
spans six continents, has national chapters in 90 nations, and has become a means for certain
governments and private groups to link up or coordinate actions that can not be officially
coordinated.
For example, Latin American governments train their police, military, and security forces
at the Political Warfare Cadres Academy in Taiwan. Robert d'Aubuisson, long-time WACL
member and mastermind of the El Salvador death squads from 1978-92, trained in Taiwan in
1977, as well as in the U.S.
In 1979, eight major power groups can be identified in WACL: Taiwan, south Korea,
Unification Church (Moonies), South Africa and Rhodesia, Latin America, Mexico, Nazis, and
certain Arab governments, e.g., Saudi Arabia, under the name "Middle East Security
Council."
1979
The Sandinista government takes power in Nicaragua, entering Managua on July 19.
1979
An American Security Council delegation led by Colonel John Singlaub and General
Daniel Graham, soon to be top officials in the U.S. branch of WACL, goes to Guatemala as
an "unofficial" representative of presidential candidate Reagan to affirm Reagan's support for
the death squads.
During the 1980s, many New Right leaders make trips to Guatemala.
1979
The Anti-Communist Army (ELA) death squad is formed in Honduras, led by General
Gustavo Alvarez Martinez. Argentine advisors are already in Honduras training police
units.
1980
At the annual CAL meeting in Buenos Aires, an agreement is made to export Argentine
"Dirty War" specialists to El Salvador. Presiding over the meeting is Argentine General
Suarez Mason, responsible for executing much of the "Dirty War." Attendees include
neo-fascist Bolivian Colonel Luis Meza; General Jorge Videla, President of Argentina; John
Carbaugh, aide to racist North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms; Margo Carlisle, aide to U.S.
Senator James McClure; neo-fascist terrorist Stefano del Chiaie who smuggled cocaine with
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie; Mario Sandoval Alarcon, godfather of the Latin American
death squads; and Roberto d'Aubission, protégé of El Salvador National Guard Commander
Colonel Jose Medrano and soon to be leader of the El Salvador death squads.
Within two months, at least 50 Argentine "advisors" are dispatched into El Salvador.
WACL is now focusing attention on Latin America. The four major forces involved are the
Taiwanese, the Unification Church, the Latin American Anti-Communist Federation, and the
American New Right.
1980
Nazi war criminal and Bolivian resident Klaus Barbie, his fascist followers, and Bolivian
army officers overthrow the Bolivian government in the "cocaine coup."
Prior to the coup, the parties of the left had gained a clear majority in the election and
social democrat Siles Zuazo was certain to be named president. Among the first to
congratulate the "cocaine" government is Sun Myung Moon's top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak.
1981-1989
Ronald Reagan is elected U.S. president. Death squad activity in Guatemala, El Salvador,
and Honduras escalates.
The U.S. takes over funding of the Nicaraguan contras, with the participation of John
Singlaub, who re-establishes the U.S. branch of the WACL in 1981. Argentines assist with
training the Contras. The Unification Church (Moonies) steps up its role assisting right wing
forces in Latin America, particularly in Honduras.
1981
Dominionist Council for National Policy founded as a policy and funding conduit that
plans the strategy of the Religious Right in the United States. Rev. Tim LaHaye is the visible
organizer.
Major funding is provided by Texas oil billionaires, the Hunt brothers, Richard de
Vos/Amway, Richard Scaife Mellon, and the Coors family.
Future presidents of the CNP include Nelson Bunker Hunt, Pat Robertson, and Richard de
Vos. Paul Weyrich and Joseph Coors serve on the executive. Members include corporate
executives, television evangelists, legislators, former military or high ranking government
officers, leaders of 'think tanks', and the "Christian leadership", e.g., Jerry Falwell.
CNP founders, past/present officers, and members are or have been directly affiliated
with, or part of, such organizations as the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Unification
Church of Sun Myung Moon, the Church of Scientology, the CIA, Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan,
and other racist organizations. For example, many CNP members are also members of the
Mont Pelerin Society (Friedrich von Hayek, 1947), a relic of the 1920s-30s fascist movements
of Europe.
Future Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National
Citizens Coalition, gives a speech to a Montreal meeting of the CNP in 1997.
1981
Major General John K. Singlaub (ret.), a founding member of the CIA, re-establishes the
United States Council for World Freedom (USWCF), the U.S. chapter of WACL, with a
$16,500 loan from the Taiwanese branch of WACL and financial support from beer baron
Joseph Coors and the Texas oil billionaire Hunt Brothers.
Singlaub is also a member of the dominionist Council on National Policy. Singlaub served
as the China desk officer for the CIA, was CIA deputy chief in south Korea and led U.S.
troops in the Korean War, was a commander of assassination programs in SE Asia including
Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, and retired from the army in 1978.
As Singlaub's UCSWF grows, more high-ranking officers of the U.S. military and
intelligence join, e.g., retired General Daniel Graham becomes USWCF vice-president and
retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Albert Koen becomes USWCF treasurer. Advisory board
members include former Marine commander General Lewis Walt, retired Air Force Colonel
Ray Sleeper, head of the U.S. National Defense Council Andy Messing, Phyllis Schlafly's
husband Fred, former chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Internal Sub-Committee Robert Morris,
and future U.S. presidential candidate John McCain.
Singlaub and Graham also serve as co-chairs of the Council for Peace Through Strength
(lobby group for the American Security Council), along with retired Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer.
Member groups common to both USWCF and CPTS include the Bulgarian National Front
founded by convicted war criminal Ivan Docheff, the Byelorussian American Committee
headed by SS engineer and wanted war criminal John Kosiak, and the Slovak World
Congress, co-founded by wanted war criminal Joef Mikus.
In 1982, the USWCF is given tax-exempt status by the Reagan administration. Once
Congress supposedly cuts off aid to the Contras in 1984, Singlaub, USWCF, and other
chapters of WACL become the main channel for Contra arms, liaising to the Reagan
administration via Oliver North.
1982
General Rios Montt leads a coup that overthrows Guatemalan president General Romeo
Garcia. Death squad leader Robert d'Aubuisson, head of the ARENA party, becomes president
of the National Assembly.
In 1974, Montt lost a presidential election in Guatemala, then fled to California where he
met dominionist Pat Robertson. Born again as an evangelical protestant, Montt believes it is
God's will that he lead Guatemala in a battle against communism.
Montt's reign lasts only 18 months but is the bloodiest year and a half in Guatemala's
history. Tens of thousands of civilians are killed, often in horrific ways. Villages are bombed
and fields burned to the ground.
1983
Colonel John Singlaub becomes chairman of the WACL from 1983-86.
1984
UCWSF vice-president General Daniel O. Graham holds a joint seminar with Stetsko's
ABN in Canada on "The High Frontier (Star Wars) and a New Strategy for the West."
1984
The Latin American branch of WACL is renamed Federation of Latin American
Democratic Entities (FEDAL). President is Costa Rican Urbino Pinta, head of the right wing
"Free Costa Rica" movement.
1984
The 17th World Congress of WACL is held in San Diego, California, led by Singlaub's
U.S. Council for World Freedom. President Ronald Reagan sends his "warm greetings." So
does Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Due to bad publicity generated during the previous year's conference in Luxembourg,
attempts are made to create the impression that WACL is now being "cleansed" of its most
overt extremists, i.e., WWII Nazis who massacred civilians, and will now only consist of
"modern, respectable" anti-communists such as the American "New Right."
However, still present are people such as Byelorussian Nazi collaborator John Kosiak and
his delegation, the Croatian National Liberation Movement (Argentina-based Ustasha), the
Bulgarian National front, death squad leader Mario Sandoval Alarcon, Ukrainian Nazi
collaborator Yaroslav Stetsko's wife Slava of the ABN, and Sun Myung Moon's Unification
Church.
Singlaub, in his opening address to the Congress, states that WACL will become more
active in "rolling back" communism than just "containing" it. WACL will provide concrete
"support and assistance to those who are actively resisting the Soviet-supported intrusion into
Africa, Asia, and North America."
Committees are established to determine the needs of anti-communist resistance in eight
countries: Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Laso, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and
Afghanistan. The resistance movement seminars for each country are run by retired U.S.
military or intelligence officers, e.g., , former Taiwan CIA chief Ray Cline.
1984
The Canadian Freedom Foundation (CFF), a WACL affiliate headed by former
Conservative MP John Gamble (1979-84), becomes active in procuring and shipping goods to
the Contras.
In 1984 and 1985 Gamble arranges fundraising meetings for Singlaub, including some
with Canadian members of parliament.
CFF also supports the WACL campaign on behalf of the Mujahideen fighting the Soviet
Union in Afghanistan by raising funds and holding demonstrations.
1985
The 18th World Congress of WACL is held in Dallas, Texas.
Attendees includes Contra chiefs Enrique Bermudez and Adolfo Calero, Angolan FNLA
leader Holden Roberto (a paid agent of the U.S.), Guatemalan death squad leader Mario
Sandoval Alarcon, former leader of the French Secret Army and failed DeGaulle assassin
Yves Gignac, Byelorussian Nazi collaborator John Kosiak, Ukrainian Nazi collaborator
Yaroslav Stetsko's wife Slava, Romanian Iron Guardist and wanted war criminal Chirila
Ciuntu (ex-autoworker resident in Windsor, Canada), and Canadian fascist Patrick Walsh.
Mingling with them are wealthy Texans such as Nelson Bunker Hunt.
Security is provided by former U.S. marine Tom Posey and his Alabama-based mercenary
group, Civilian Military Assistance (1983), which began as an adjunct to the KKK. CMA
sends supplies and military trainers to the Contras in Nicaragua.
1985
Ronald Reagan speaks at Bitburg Cemetery in Germany, characterizing the Nazi Waffen
SS combat soldiers buried there as "victims of Nazism."
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Power in the United States. New York City: Guilford Press.
Kinsella, Warren (1994). Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network.
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