[…] ‘fascists’, he is a threat to the ‘line’. The piece in Tribune which aroused Searchlight‘s ire is a good example. Rather than dismissing Patrick Harrington as a ‘nazi’ or a ‘fascist’ on the basis of his previous membership of the National Front, O’Hara noted his apparent distance from NF positions and tentatively classified the […]
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
From: Mal Function In Tim Pendry’s ‘Fifth Column’ in the Lobster 49, he wrote ‘no-one seems yet to have written the tale of how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican … Read more
The British Right – scratching the surface Donald (Don) Martin is a protege of the veteran Australian anti-semite conspiracy theorist, Eric Butler. Although Butler set up his Australian League of Rights in 1960 (11), he had apparently been active on the far-right of Australian politics since the middle 1930s.(12) Like de Courcy, Butler began as […]
[…] enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. . Honey, I […]
[…] and his importance to post-war fascism, by painstakingly retracing his footsteps through the murky world of his work for Henry Ford’s Michigan strike breakers; the German-American Bund; Nazi sabotage networks; turbulent relationships with Mosley and Gerald L.K. Smith; the post-war fascist international and its intersection with Western intelligence; KGB, Soviet diplomats; Stalinist artists; white […]
[…] Anslinger and George White — to modify human perception and behaviour through chemical means. Their ‘medicine cabinet’ included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates, mescaline and marijuhana. Simultaneously, the notorious Nazi doctors at Dachau experimented with mescaline as a means of eliminating the victim’s will to resist. Jews, slavs, gypsies and other untermenschen in the camp were […]
[…] would have been briefed with the same Searchlight rubbish as the Jewish Chronicle was unfounded. Indeed, Honigsbaum was scornful of Searchlight’s past role in playing up the nazi group Combat 18. The Searchlight smears reached Radio 4’s Sally Hardcastle who had contacted Open Eye, and it took a long meeting to get across to […]
[…] wars be connected? The final thing worth noting about the McCord memo is his reference to the parallels between the situation in the US and that in Nazi Germany. His meaning is quite specific; yet Hougan, quoting a very similar letter from McCord to General Paul Gaynor, asks “Nazi Germany? What is McCord talking […]
[…] I have no access to German sources and would welcome additional information which would flesh out this skeletal account. During the thirties Brandt was a resilient anti- nazi activist, a member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) which sought to develop a popular front of all left-wing forces. Brandt’s enemies later “portrayed him as […]
