Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weirdness

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Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weirdness

Postby American Dream » Sat Dec 24, 2016 9:50 am

Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness Part I

"... Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the U.S. Army's Twentieth Special Forces Group sought out members of the Ku Klux Klan and instructed them to gather information on civil rights demonstrators. 'In return for paramilitary training at a farm in Cullman, Alabama, Klasmen soon became the 20th's intelligence network, whose information was passed to the Pentagon,' the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported years later."

(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pg. 165)

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the insignia of the 20th Special Forces Group

The 20th Special Forces Group is a part of U.S. Army Special Forces, more commonly referred to as the Green Berets. And like the JSOC and the 18th Airborne Corps (which includes both the 82nd and 101 Airborne Divisions), the Green Berets are headquartered at Fort Bragg. The Green Berets and Fort Bragg would play a key role for years in Operation Gladio as well.

"Next to the Pentagon the US Special Forces were also directly involved in the secret war against the Communists in Western Europe, as together with the SAS they trained the members of the stay-behind network. After the US wartime secret service OSS had been disbanded after the end of the war the US Special Forces were reborn with headquarters at Fort Bragg, Virginia, in 1952. General Aaron Bank established a Psychological Warfare Center in Fort Bragg and in the summer of 1952 the first Special Forces unit, somewhat misleadingly called the 10th Special Forces Group, started its training under Colonel Aaron Bank. The 10th Special Forces Group was organized according to the OSS experience during the Second World War, and directly inherited the latter's mission to carry out, like the British SAS, sabotage missions and recruit, equip and train guerrillas in order to exploit the resistance potential in both Eastern and Western Europe...

"Defeated Germany was the first nation to which the newly created American Special Forces were deployed. In November 1953 the 10th Special Forces Group erected its first overseas base in a former Nazi SS building that had been set up during Hitler's reign in 1937, the Flint Kaserne at Bad Tolz in Bavaria. Later, headquarters for US Special Forces operations in Latin America were set up in Panama, and Special Forces operations in South East Asia were run by headquarters set up in Okinawa on the territory of defeated Japan. After the Gladio scandal broke in 1990 it was revealed that Gladiators been trained at the camp of the 10th Special Forces Group at Bad Tolz in Germany and that European Gladiators from numerous countries had received special training from the US Green Berets, allegedly also in Fort Bragg in the USA."


(NATO's Secret Armies, Daniele Ganser, pg. 58)

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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby Searcher08 » Sat Dec 24, 2016 2:59 pm

Cheers for this, AD! A new series by Visupview is always worth checking out - great researcher.
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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby American Dream » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:04 pm

Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness Part III

General Douglas MacArthur, probably more than any other figure, was responsible for the Cold War transformation of the far right from "isolationists" to imperialists. Of course, "isolationism" in these United States largely consisted of forgoing involvement in European wars while vigorously supporting the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny. The thrust toward Asia that began in earnest at the tail end of the nineteenth century was seen as the logical next step of Manifest Destiny.

This debate is of course still playing out to this day. Backers of Hillary Clinton were largely drawn from the ranks of the traditional conservative establishment (addressed in part one) based around groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). This faction has always been obsessed with Europe and seem more than willing at present to risk a war with Russia so as to preserve their stranglehold over the old country. By contrast Trump, who unabashedly idolizes MacArthur, has already begun the pivot to Asia. His cabinet is stacked with China hawks while his out reach to Taiwan is the most blatant contact a US president has had with the Apartheid nation since Carter if not Ford (the initial contact between Trump and the Taiwanese president was apparently spurred by American Security Council luminary Robert Dole). But back to the matter at hand.

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MacArthur was thus a vigorous "Asia-firster" like the rest of the "isolationists," but he largely embraced the standing national security state that fueled the CPD and their allies in the foreign policy establishment. To be sure MacArthur, like the rest of the military, had opposed this transformation in the early years, but this appears to have been largely driven by concerns over military independence than any real ideological objectives.

When the CPD and their ilk went about creating the national security state, they had set up the CIA to be the lead organization in this network. The upper hierarchy of the CIA was of course drawn from the ranks of the Ivy Leagues and Wall Street while powerful NGOs such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations were tapped to play key roles in implementing the CIA's agenda. Part of the original purpose of the CIA then appears to have been to ensure that the Eastern Establishment remained in control of the national security state.

At least that was the theory, but increasingly the middle managers of the CIA found more and more common cause with their former rivals in the Pentagon as the years went on. But at the time of the Great Debate, the wounds the Pentagon had suffered with the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 were still fresh. MacArthur himself despised the CIA, and had barred its predecessor, the OSS, from operating in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He had only grudgingly accepted the CIA into his domain in the Far East, and appears to have spent as much time keeping track of the Company as he did the Communists.

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With the Far East largely being his own personal fiefdom from the end of WWII till his removal by Truman in 1951, MacArthur had become an extremely powerful figure in national security circles. The same was true of many of the military officers that had served under or with MacArthur in WWII and/or Korea.

But before getting to those officers, two points need to be made about MacArthur. The first is that he has long been the patron saint of the American far right. When clerical fascist Gerald L.K. Smith met briefly with MacArthur in 1954, he came away from the meeting in a state of grace. American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell took up smoking a corn cob pipe in honor of The Pipe. Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, who was saved by MacArthur during Korea, regularly had his "little angels" perform rituals to bless The Pipe. Eventually Moon bankrolled a box office flop called Inchon at great personal expense to celebrate MacArthur's command in Korea. More recently, as noted above, Trump has heaped praise upon MacArthur at every opportunity.

The phrase "cult of personality" is very apt for MacArthur's relationship to the far right. While MacArthur never publicly embraced the far right's fawning adoration of him, he certainly did nothing to discourage it either.

At to the second point, it is that MacArthur was one of the first high profile figures to publicly endorse the existence of UFOs.

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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:59 pm

So much to read! I did, but not all of the links! Great work, really.
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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby NeonLX » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:49 am

This is GOOD STUFF!! Just began wading into it. Thanks!
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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:51 am

I agree Neon ..this is really good reading!
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:11 am

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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness Part VII

Who Was William Penn Patrick?

Clearly Patrick seems to have had a much greater influence on est than is generally acknowledged. But who was this mysterious businessman who inserted himself via capital investments into the Human Potential Movement just as it was gaining mainstream acceptance?

Naturally very little is known about Patrick's doings until the mid-1960s, after he had established Holiday Magic as a viable source of income. But once the big bucks began rolling in Patrick wasted no time in become active in politics. And would you be surprised to learn, dear reader, that his politics appear to have been to the right of Joseph McCarthy?

Prior to becoming involved with Everett and Mind Dynamic, Patrick had forged ties with Robert DePugh, founder of the Minutemen. The Minutemen in turn were the first large scale right wing paramilitary network of the Cold War era. And not long after DePugh got the Minutemen off the ground, he was approached by Colonel William Potter Gale, a former military intelligence officer and Christian Identity minister who would go on to establish the Posse Comitatus.

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Gale would establish his own paramilitary outfit, the California Rifles, not long after DePugh got the Minutemen off the ground. There was much overlap between Gale and DePugh's organizations in the early years, but DePugh broke with Gale in the mid-1960s after he became concerned that Gale was co-opting his organization and working for some branch of US intelligence.

Just how serious the break was is highly debatable, as Gale and DePugh appeared to have patched things up by the mid-1970s, after DePugh was released from prison for arms smuggling charges. They appear to have remained in contact up until the time of Gale's death in 1988.


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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby American Dream » Sun May 07, 2017 3:51 pm

Recluse is on a roll:


Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness Part X

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This makes for an interesting chain of events:

the Roswell incident (or "working", as Christopher Knowles has dubbed it) unfolds in 1947

that same year, the US military initiates the first formal post-WWII behavior modification experiments with Projects CHATTER and Pelican

eventually all of these projects are rolled into Project BLUEBIRD, later ARTICHOKE, which was very much a joint CIA-Pentagon project. As was noted before here and here, these experiments were deeply concerned with psi. The creation of supersoldier was also an objective, as noted in part four of this series.

after the Rockefeller-sponsored MKULTRA eclipsed ARTICHOKE in 1955, many of the more "out-there" aspects of these experiments were downgraded for over a decade.

meanwhile, the American Security Council is launched around this same time. By the early 1960s it has acquired a National Strategy Committee staffed with numerous generals linked to Roswell and other deep state figures involved in the UFO question as well as maintaining links to various ARTICHOKE personnel

In 1966, the CIA and Pentagon launch MKOFTEN, allegedly the most extensive foray into the occult these agencies had ever ventured. Not long afterwards, curious movements such as est and NLP sporting methods reminiscent of behavior modification techniques begin springing up in California

in the early 1970s, the famed SRI remote viewing experiments are launched. Numerous figures linked to the far right loom in the background of these experiments and at least one ARTICHOKE veteran (noted before here) also participated

around 1977, the Army launches what will eventually become Project GRILL FLAME

in 1981, John Alexander is transferred to INSCOM on behalf of the ASC's General Richard Stilwell. He and General Albert Stubblebine waist no time in initiating a host of arcane projects based upon recommendations from the mysterious Task Force Delta while also overseeing GRILL FLAME

in 1983, Alexander launches the Jedi Project, potentially initiating the final stage of ARTICHOKE's old objective of creating supersoldiers, a quest that may have begun with Roswell



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Re: Strange & Terrible History of the Far Right & High Weird

Postby operator kos » Mon May 08, 2017 8:53 pm

Well, there's another blog I'm adding to my reading list. Thanks for posting. Mostly stuff I've read elsewhere, but definitely some good new tidbits in there. Took a look at some of their other blog posts and they seem legit.
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