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Postby American Dream » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:37 am

Secret Societies, Narcoterrorism, International Fascism and the World Anti-Communist League Part I


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The blogosphere is awash with tales of highly secretive, globalistic groups and organizations working towards some type of sinister agenda. As I'm guessing many of the regular readers of this blog have surfed more than their fair share of said conspiracy sites it is probably not worth going into an extensive examination of the usual suspects – the Round Table groups (especially the infamous American branch, the Council on Foreign Relations), the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, etc. The conspiratorial right has long accused these groups of having some type of nefarious agenda and there is no doubt a basis in reality for these accusations. That being said, the objectives of such groups probably bear little resemblance to the predictable one-world-communistic-government-under-the-UN fever dreams the conspiratorial right has long envisioned.

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What's more, this particular faction of elites is not the only game in town. As was considered at great length during my examination of the American Security Council (which can be found here, here, here and here), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) saw its influence steadily wane in relation to the former group throughout the second half of the 20th century. The ASC was hardly an isolated faction within the United States, either. Indeed, it's hierarchy shared extensive overlap with the notorious international lobby group known as the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) .

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the League now calls itself the World League for Freedom and Democracy, which surely indicates someone inside the League has quite a dry sense of humor

In many ways the WACL became the chief organization for international fascism in the post-World War II era. Over the course of this series we shall examine the extensive ties between the WACL and various fascist and far right groups the world over as well as the profound, if little acknowledged, impact it would have on the political course of humanity by the 1980s. The WACL was far more than a lobby group, you see, and the means by which it sought to achieve its political ends would be instrumental in the formation of modern day drug trafficking and terrorism, both of which still being a disease at the very fiber of civilization to this day.

With this in mind, let us begin our examination of the WACL by focusing in on its origins. There were chiefly two groups responsible for the formation of the international group in 1966, both of which having laid the groundwork years before the official unveiling of the WACL. These two groups were the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and the Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL). As it is the older of the two groups and has a less complex legacy, I shall begin with the ABN. The roots of the ABN in turn lie with the Quislings, the Central and Eastern European groups who collaborated with the Nazis both before and during (and after?) World War II.

"... In each of those Eastern European countries, the German SS set up or funded political action organizations that help form SS militias during the war.

"In Hungary, for example, the Arrow Cross was the Hungarian SS affiliate; in Romania, the Iron Guard. The Bulgarian Legion, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the Latvian Legion, and the Byelorussian (White Russian) Belarus Brigade were all SS-linked. In each of their respective countries, they were expected to serve the interests of the German Nazi Party before and during the war.

"Many of these groups formed SS divisions: the Ukrainian Nationalist formed the 14th Galician Division, Waffen SS; the Latvians formed the 15th and 19th Divisions, Waffen SS; etc. These units and related German-controlled police units had several functions. The Ukrainian division unsuccessfully tried to impede the advance of the Soviet army against the Nazi army. Others hunted down those fellow countrymen who opposed the German occupation of Eastern Europe during World War II.

"More sadistically, many units rounded up hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, and others, and conducted mass murders on the spot, sometimes decimating whole villages. They perfected 'mobile killing teams' as efficient means of mass executions. Little is known about these units compared to the concentration camps, gas chambers, and ovens, but they were an integrated component of the 'Final Solution.' Approximately one-third of the victims of the Holocaust, perhaps as many as two million, died at the hands of these units.
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(Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, Russ Bellant, pgs. 4-5)

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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:23 am

Recommend Coogan's "Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Post-War Fascist International" -- and especially Anderson's "Inside the League," which focused exclusively on the WACL.

Connected many tons of small, nagging dots for me.
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby American Dream » Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:48 am

Wombaticus Rex » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:23 am wrote:Recommend Coogan's "Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Post-War Fascist International" -- and especially Anderson's "Inside the League," which focused exclusively on the WACL.

Connected many tons of small, nagging dots for me.


Yes- important resources for sure, though the frustrating thing about Inside the League is that it barely covers the drug angle at all. Fortunately though, Peter Dale Scott and associates have done a bang-up job of covering the narco-trafficking dimension- in a consistently rigorous and responsible way.
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby cptmarginal » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:13 pm

Thanks for posting this, it's a good reminder. Re-kindling my interest in the KCIA & related groups (Moonies and Aum Shinrikyo, Japanese nationalists, Washington prostitution rings to start with)
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:34 am

American Dream » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:48 am wrote:Yes- important resources for sure, though the frustrating thing about Inside the League is that it barely covers the drug angle at all. Fortunately though, Peter Dale Scott and associates have done a bang-up job of covering the narco-trafficking dimension- in a consistently rigorous and responsible way.


Well, to be fair to them Anderson boys, it was a product of newspaper work from 1980-1985. Was there really much available evidence at that point for the WACL's role as a networking router for the the global drug trade? I am unclear on the timeline, which is sad since probably 75%+ of my current library is books about the 1980's. When did the Christic Institute start making noise? At what point were serious journalists and researchers realizing that some of Larouche/EIR's "Dope Inc" stuff was downright factual?
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby American Dream » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:43 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:34 am wrote:
American Dream » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:48 am wrote:Yes- important resources for sure, though the frustrating thing about Inside the League is that it barely covers the drug angle at all. Fortunately though, Peter Dale Scott and associates have done a bang-up job of covering the narco-trafficking dimension- in a consistently rigorous and responsible way.


Well, to be fair to them Anderson boys, it was a product of newspaper work from 1980-1985. Was there really much available evidence at that point for the WACL's role as a networking router for the the global drug trade? I am unclear on the timeline, which is sad since probably 75%+ of my current library is books about the 1980's. When did the Christic Institute start making noise? At what point were serious journalists and researchers realizing that some of Larouche/EIR's "Dope Inc" stuff was downright factual?


All valid concerns. I don't mean to suggest that the Anderson brothers are dirty- although the thought did cross my mind at times.Perhaps it was not their fault that the drugs got short shrift/no mention. I'd really have to break out the the timeline regarding their 1986 publication date and how it relates to earlier revelations regarding Southeast Asian heroin and the KMT, the Cocaine Coup in Bolivia, Southern Cone drug connections (Ricord et al) as outlined in The Great Heroin Coup, Iran Contra (cocaine revelations broke in '84, '85, '86) etc.

As I consider this today it does seems like an important omission- was it one made in bad faith? That is a trickier question...
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:08 pm

An interesting point, AD, I often had the same thought reading Inside the League, especially with respect to their treatment of US Military and Reagan Admin characters -- giving them an awful lot of plausible deniability, especially the pivot scene of the great conference purge. The earnest American conservatives involved were shocked, shocked to find Nazi war criminals among their ranks.

I would say my biggest "wait, what?" moment was their treatment of John Singlaub, who has an abundantly documented data trail of blatantly fascist quotes (not to mention actions!) but was presented as one of the good guys who was disgusted by the WACL extremes. My overall impression was that Singlaub was probably one of the unattributed primary inside sources, though, so he essentially got to paint his own portrait.
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby American Dream » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:15 pm

They did get into some meetings and stuff, right?
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby hanshan » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:24 pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy


Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is a historian of Southeast Asia. He is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
McCoy graduated from the Kent School in 1964. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, and his Ph.D in Southeast Asian history from Yale University.[1]



Contents
[hide] 1 Thesis
2 Recent work
3 Grant Goodman Prize
4 See also
5 References
6 Partial bibliography
7 External links

Thesis[edit]

McCoy has researched and has written about Philippines history, and about Southeast Asia, and in particular about the Golden Triangle drug trades of opium and heroin. His book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972 first ed.),documented the interactions between the CIA and drug cartels in that region.

The principal thesis of McCoy's work is that organized crime in both America and Europe collaborated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to establish new centers of opium production, heroin refining and distribution in Southeast Asia. This collaboration occurred following the effective suppression of the heroin trade in America during World War II and the subsequent decision to stamp out opium growing by Turkey which had been one of the main sources of raw opium. The collaboration was greatly facilitated by the Central Intelligence Agency and by the unstable political situation created by the ongoing Vietnam War.[2]

McCoy points out that the French SDECE military intelligence agency during the First Indochina War (1947–1954) was in need of money for its covert operations. Its officers contacted opium producers in the Golden Triangle, and set up an international system of smuggling aided by intelligence and other aid from SDECE. This system persisted past the war, and became the French Connection.[3]

McCoy asserts that the "French Connection" conspiracy arose from an alliance between the Corsican Mafia, who had an historical presence in South Vietnam dating back to the French occupation, and between the leading members of the American and Sicilian Mafia under the leadership of Lucky Luciano who had been imprisoned in the U.S. during World War II for racketeering but who was asked also to provide assistance to American military intelligence about Axis infiltration of Mafia-controlled, waterfront in American ports as well as assisting Allied forces in their invasion of Sicily and Italy. According to McCoy, Luciano reportedly used his contacts in the Sicilian Mafia to assist U.S. forces by gathering intelligence and identifying both fascist collaborators and Socialist/Communists in the Italian resistance movement who were then systematically eliminated.

In return for his assistance, Luciano was covertly permitted to run his crime operations from prison, and at the end of the war he was deported back to Sicily, where he immediately began a major expansion of his drug operations, forging alliances with Corsican Mafia members in South Vietnam and organised crime figures in other countries, including Australia.

McCoy wrote in the book, "American involvement had gone far beyond coincidental complicity; embassies had covered up involvement by client governments, CIA contract airlines had carried opium, and individual CIA agents had winked at the opium traffic. As an indirect consequence of American involvement in the Golden Triangle until 1972, opium production steadily increased....Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle grew 70 percent of the world's illicit opium, supplied an estimated 30 percent of America's heroin, and was capable of supplying the United States with unlimited quantities of heroin for generations to come."[4]

The CIA's actions were more specifically described by him thus: "In most cases, the CIA's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."[2]

McCoy believes the CIA recruited drug lords in the frame of the Cold War, underlying a "conflict between the drug war and the cold war."[3] For instance, McCoy suggests that the CIA assisted drug lords in Burma in 1950 in operations against China.[5] He also alleges similar drug trafficking from 1965 to 1975 in Laos and through the 1980s in Afghanistan, supporting for example the drug and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezbi-i Islami guerilla group.[3]

He also uncovered money laundering activities by banks controlled by the CIA, first the Castle Bank which was then replaced by the Nugan Hand Bank, which had as legal counsel William Colby, retired head of the CIA.[3] He also alludes to the BCCI, which seems to have played the same role as the Nugan Hand Bank after its collapse in the early 1980s, claiming that "the boom in the Pakistan drug trade was financed by BCCI."[3]

Between a repressive policy (the "Drug war"), which he considers a failure ("The repression creates a shortfall in supply which raises price and then stimulates production everywhere around the world."[3]) and a full legalization of drugs, which he considers "politically impracticable", McCoy argues in favour of an "alternative strategy," "regularization": "I favor regulation because if cocaine and heroin are commodities let's deal with them as such. You don't repress commodities, you regulate them."[3] Furthermore, against bilateral agreements between the US and other nations (Colombia, Bolivia, etc. - see coca eradication campaign by the US), McCoy argues in favour of multilateral policies under the direction of the United Nations



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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby hanshan » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:25 pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy


Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is a historian of Southeast Asia. He is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
McCoy graduated from the Kent School in 1964. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, and his Ph.D in Southeast Asian history from Yale University.[1]



Contents
[hide] 1 Thesis
2 Recent work
3 Grant Goodman Prize
4 See also
5 References
6 Partial bibliography
7 External links

Thesis[edit]

McCoy has researched and has written about Philippines history, and about Southeast Asia, and in particular about the Golden Triangle drug trades of opium and heroin. His book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972 first ed.),documented the interactions between the CIA and drug cartels in that region.

The principal thesis of McCoy's work is that organized crime in both America and Europe collaborated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to establish new centers of opium production, heroin refining and distribution in Southeast Asia. This collaboration occurred following the effective suppression of the heroin trade in America during World War II and the subsequent decision to stamp out opium growing by Turkey which had been one of the main sources of raw opium. The collaboration was greatly facilitated by the Central Intelligence Agency and by the unstable political situation created by the ongoing Vietnam War.[2]

McCoy points out that the French SDECE military intelligence agency during the First Indochina War (1947–1954) was in need of money for its covert operations. Its officers contacted opium producers in the Golden Triangle, and set up an international system of smuggling aided by intelligence and other aid from SDECE. This system persisted past the war, and became the French Connection.[3]

McCoy asserts that the "French Connection" conspiracy arose from an alliance between the Corsican Mafia, who had an historical presence in South Vietnam dating back to the French occupation, and between the leading members of the American and Sicilian Mafia under the leadership of Lucky Luciano who had been imprisoned in the U.S. during World War II for racketeering but who was asked also to provide assistance to American military intelligence about Axis infiltration of Mafia-controlled, waterfront in American ports as well as assisting Allied forces in their invasion of Sicily and Italy. According to McCoy, Luciano reportedly used his contacts in the Sicilian Mafia to assist U.S. forces by gathering intelligence and identifying both fascist collaborators and Socialist/Communists in the Italian resistance movement who were then systematically eliminated.

In return for his assistance, Luciano was covertly permitted to run his crime operations from prison, and at the end of the war he was deported back to Sicily, where he immediately began a major expansion of his drug operations, forging alliances with Corsican Mafia members in South Vietnam and organised crime figures in other countries, including Australia.

McCoy wrote in the book, "American involvement had gone far beyond coincidental complicity; embassies had covered up involvement by client governments, CIA contract airlines had carried opium, and individual CIA agents had winked at the opium traffic. As an indirect consequence of American involvement in the Golden Triangle until 1972, opium production steadily increased....Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle grew 70 percent of the world's illicit opium, supplied an estimated 30 percent of America's heroin, and was capable of supplying the United States with unlimited quantities of heroin for generations to come."[4]

The CIA's actions were more specifically described by him thus: "In most cases, the CIA's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."[2]

McCoy believes the CIA recruited drug lords in the frame of the Cold War, underlying a "conflict between the drug war and the cold war."[3] For instance, McCoy suggests that the CIA assisted drug lords in Burma in 1950 in operations against China.[5] He also alleges similar drug trafficking from 1965 to 1975 in Laos and through the 1980s in Afghanistan, supporting for example the drug and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezbi-i Islami guerilla group.[3]

He also uncovered money laundering activities by banks controlled by the CIA, first the Castle Bank which was then replaced by the Nugan Hand Bank, which had as legal counsel William Colby, retired head of the CIA.[3] He also alludes to the BCCI, which seems to have played the same role as the Nugan Hand Bank after its collapse in the early 1980s, claiming that "the boom in the Pakistan drug trade was financed by BCCI."[3]

Between a repressive policy (the "Drug war"), which he considers a failure ("The repression creates a shortfall in supply which raises price and then stimulates production everywhere around the world."[3]) and a full legalization of drugs, which he considers "politically impracticable", McCoy argues in favour of an "alternative strategy," "regularization": "I favor regulation because if cocaine and heroin are commodities let's deal with them as such. You don't repress commodities, you regulate them."[3] Furthermore, against bilateral agreements between the US and other nations (Colombia, Bolivia, etc. - see coca eradication campaign by the US), McCoy argues in favour of multilateral policies under the direction of the United Nations



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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:32 pm

American Dream » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:15 pm wrote:They did get into some meetings and stuff, right?


Yes, their quiet infiltration is a centerpiece of the book that comes up often. Their big coup was getting onto the floor of their main annual meeting and seeing, with their own eyeballs, many of the WWII war criminals that US & UK WACL functionaries insisted were not a part of the circus. The Andersons are strangely glib about their own role in the story -- it is never explicitly mentioned but there is clearly some causal connection between 1) their infiltration of that annual meetings and reportage and then 2) the Big Purge in WACL ranks shortly thereafter. Hard to believe there's no connection!
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Re: Secret Societies, Narcoterror, International Fascism, WA

Postby American Dream » Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:50 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:32 pm wrote:
American Dream » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:15 pm wrote:They did get into some meetings and stuff, right?


Yes, their quiet infiltration is a centerpiece of the book that comes up often. Their big coup was getting onto the floor of their main annual meeting and seeing, with their own eyeballs, many of the WWII war criminals that US & UK WACL functionaries insisted were not a part of the circus. The Andersons are strangely glib about their own role in the story -- it is never explicitly mentioned but there is clearly some causal connection between 1) their infiltration of that annual meetings and reportage and then 2) the Big Purge in WACL ranks shortly thereafter. Hard to believe there's no connection!


I don't want to indulge in (unsubstantiated) agent-baiting but just found this on Jon Lee Anderson :


The son of Dr. Joy Anderson, a children's book author and University of Florida teacher, and of John Anderson, a diplomat and agricultural adviser for USAID and the Peace Corps, Anderson was raised and educated in South Korea, Colombia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Liberia, England, and the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson
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