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On Mar 21, 8:41 am, "Hägar" <hs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If you ever raise a topic from which I can learn something ...
> anything ... I'll jump on it.  In the meantime, can your morbidly
> repetitive and inane drivel.

You should post stuff in "can.politics", because they'd really like
you.  Unlike Tracey12 that isn't allowed.

On Mar 20, 4:27 pm, Tracey12 <tracey12_12...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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. The most important Nazi employed by the
>    U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern
>    front military intelligence officer. After Germany's
>    defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U.S. certain
>    concessions in exchange for his own protection. Gehlen
>    promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the
>    political right in this country, and helped shape U.S.
>    perceptions of the cold war.
>
>    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 REAWAKENS, Lee confirms that
>    during both the Reagan and Bush years, the 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.

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