Welcome to the third installment in my examination of the sinister roots of the
Patriot movement. In the
first installment of this series I considered the original links between patriot groups and the
US intelligence community that dates back to the
First World War as well several former military men who played a major role in establishing the modern Patriot movement's ideology. In the
second installment I began to focus in on the three distinct strands behind the modern day Patriot movement, namely the
John Birch Society, the
Liberty Lobby and the
Posse Comitatus.
As part two unfolded I broke down the backers of
Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby, including figures such as
Roger Pearson,
Francis Parker Yockey and
Francois Genoud,
all of whom having had ties to the post-WWII European fascist
underground. I argued that Carto was affiliated with what researcher
Kevin Coogan referred to as "the Order," a network established by the
SS before the end of WWII and which occultist and
SD (the SS's chief intelligence arm) asset
Julius Evola
played a major role in. From here on out "the Order" shall be referred
to as the "Evola network" to avoid confusion with another Order that we
shall soon consider (though the two may well have been closely linked).
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| Evola |
The Evola network established ties with powerful figures in the US intelligence community such as
Allen Dulles and
James Jesus Angleton. Roger Pearson, a long time associate of Willis Carto's, would go on to collaborate with men such as Angleton and
Ray S. Cline (another powerful former CIA man) when he later became involved with the
American Security Council (ASC) and the
World Anti-Communist League
(WACL), two organizations with longstanding ties to international
fascism as well as the conspiratorial right. For more information on the
ASC check
here,
here,
here and
here; for the WACL,
here,
here,
here and
here.
Before leaving the Liberty Lobby I would like to consider one other
individual who likely was a major financial backer of Carto's: Colonel
Wickliffe Preston Draper.
Draper, like many individuals we've already encountered thus far, also
had ties to the US intelligence community: a WWI veteran, he was
assigned to military intelligence (officially) after the outbreak of
WWII. Beyond this, he was a member of one of the wealthiest and most
powerful American families originating from New England. He possessed
ample pedigree beyond the
Draper line, however.
"Burdened with three last names as a constant reminder of his
illustrious ancestry, Wickliffe Preston Draper was raised in a family
where being 'well bred' was not just a figurative expression for good
manners. His given names were indications of the Southern aristocracy on
his mother's side. Draper's maternal grandfather, General William
Preston, could trace his family's history back to ownership of
Craigmillar Castle outside Edinburgh, where James V and his daughter,
Mary, Queen of Scots, were frequent visitors. Educated at Harvard and
Yale Law School, General Preston had fought in the Mexican War and had
been a member of the Kentucky legislature and the U.S. Congress before
being appointed ambassador to Spain by President James Buchanan; when
Lincoln came to office, he returned to Kentucky to assist the rebel
effort, serving first as a command officer in the Confederate Army and
then, after being appointed the Confederacy's ambassador to Mexico, as a
diplomat. Draper's maternal grandmother, Margaret Wickliffe, also came
from a prominent Kentucky family that lived in antebellum splendor on
their Lexington estate, owned by Margaret's father, 'Old Duke' Robert
Wickliffe, the wealthiest planter and largest slaveholder in the state.
And in one leading eugenics texts, both the Prestons and Wickliffes were
named as examples of 'the Kentucky Aristocracy,' families of statesmen
and generals, in which 'the men were brave and gallant, the women
accomplished and fascinating and incomparably beautiful.'
"But just as illustrious, and even more important in determining the
material advantages of Draper's life, was the New England Puritan
background on his father's side. In the community of Hopedale,
Massachusetts, in which he was raised, being a Draper was synonymous
with wealth, privilege, and power. Indeed, according to one
nineteenth-century observer, if not for an accident of history, the town
would have been called Draperville.
"Wickliffe Preston Draper arrived in the world on August 9, 1891, just in time to receive his own entry in The Drapers in America,
a hagiographic genealogy published the following year by a member of
the family whose work had been subsidized by Wickliffe's paternal uncle.
Proud of their colonial roots dating back to James 'the Puritan'
Draper, who had left the village of Heptonstall in Yorkshire, England
and settled in the New World in 1648, the 'Draper men,' according to the
genealogy, 'have ever been to the front in all emergencies... have held
offices of all kinds in the village, town, city, county, or country...
have been soldiers, sailors, statesmen, lawyers, doctors, engineers,
authors, merchants, farmers, manufacturers, in the church and school,
and have brought to each and every one of these occupations an
earnestness and steadfastness of purpose and success of the highest
order.' Nine towns or counties in the United States, and one in the
United Kingdom, had been named after the family.
"The line leading directly to Wickliffe Draper was particularly
distinguished. His great-great-grandfather Abijah Draper had fought at
Lexington and Concord and commanded a company of minutemen under
Washington at Roxbury. Abijah's son Ira invented the rotary temple, a
device for keeping the cloth extended in weaving that doubled output by
allowing a single weaver to attend two looms; by the time Wickliffe was a
teenager, the business built around his great-grandfather's invention
was the largest manufacturer of textile machinery in the world."
(The Funding of Scientific Racism, William H. Tucker, pgs. 16-17)
The Draper textile empire was originally based out of
Hopedale, Massachusetts, a community considered by some as being one of the pioneering "
company towns"
in America. Given his family pedigree, their collective backgrounds in
company towns and slavery, as well as his reputedly intimidating
physical appearance (all accounts I've read of the Colonel describe him
as being well over six feet tall; Jim Bevilaqua places him at 6'6), it
should not be surprising that the Colonel became enamored with
eugenics.
In the 1930s, with the assistance of Harry L. Laughlin (one of
America's leading eugenicists), the Colonel personally traveled to Nazi
Germany to observer their application of what would become a lifetime
obsession for Draper.
"In 1935, Draper had traveled to Berlin, where the International
Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems was
being held, to learn first hand what sort of eugenic measures were being
enacted by the Nazi government. To facilitate his contact with
officials and scientists in the Reich, Laughlin had written to Eugen
Fischer, president of the International Congress and an important
scientific authority for the Reich, naming Draper as one of the two
official delegates from the Eugenics Research Association (ERA) and
commending him as 'one of the staunchest supporters of eugenical
research and policy in the United States'... From Berlin, Draper
reported to Laughlin that he had met 'several Germans who may be able to
give me the information I seek, and which I look forward to discussing
with you on my return.'
(ibid, pg. 52)
By all accounts the Colonel was impressed. He would go on to help promote a Nazi propaganda film known as
Erbkrank (
The Hereditary Defective)
in the United States upon his return. Some have alleged that his ties
to Nazi Germany went well beyond promoting a propaganda film, however.
In point of fact, the full extent of Draper's dealings with the
Third Reich remain classified more than 65 years after the end of WWII and 40 years after the Colonel's death.
"According to Marshall Ravnitzky, a reporter for the National Law
Journal, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been withholding
records on Draper's involvement with the Reich under an inappropriate
application of classification rules to files more than fifty years old."
(ibid, pg. 63)
Both before and after the Second World War Draper would dedicate his
rather immense fortune toward the funding of eugenics and far right
organizations. Two major recipients of this largess prior to WWII were
the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies (ACPS) and what would
become known as the
Pioneer Fund. The ACPS, founded by former military intelligence officer
John Trevor Sr. (whose son,
John Trevor Jr.,
would later become a board member of the Pioneer Fund along with long
time Carto associate Roger Pearson), was already considered in depth in
the
first installment
in this series. As noted there, the ACPS was a kind of prototype for
modern day patriot groups, especially the anti-immigration types (the
modern day
Minutemen
are especially indebted to the ACPS). It would go on to become deeply
involved with the American Security Council (the founding of which
Trevor Sr played a key role in) for decades. Draper was apparently the
Coalition's long time financial patron.
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| anti-immigration activism has been a long time preoccupation of the Trevor clan |
The Pioneer Fund, which Draper himself founded, would go on to become
the chief proponent of eugenics in the United States after World War II.
The research for
The Bell Curve and numerous other neo-eugenics tracts can be traced directly back to Pioneer "scholars."
"A greater source of concern is the Pioneer Fund, a group that had
direct links to Hitler and the Nazis. In 1937, Wicklife Preston Draper,
heir to the giant textile machinery manufacturer, Draper Corp.,
established the Fund. Draper was an extreme racist and a staunch
anti-unionist as early as the days of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of
the 1920's. Other projects of his hatred were the United Nations, John
Kennedy, the Nye Committee and liberals. His hatred for members of the
Nye Committee for trying to charge the duPonts with war profiteering led
to his deliberate persecution of Alger Hiss between 1948-51.
"Draper and associate Harry Laughlin created The Model Eugenics Laws in
America, which Hitler used to write the Nuremberg Laws. In 1936,
Laughlin received an honorary degree from the University of Heidelburg.
Both Draper and Laughlin advocated the involuntary sterilization of
institutionalized Americans. Twenty-four states adopted such laws that
led directly to sterilizing more than 75,000 Americans...
"On Sept. 12, 1963, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
received notice from Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. that it received an
anonymous gift of $100,000 to fight against civil rights. Additional
money was forthcoming from the Pioneer Fund and used in a broadside
attack on civil rights. The Pioneer Fund also was a source of funding
for anti-bussing programs. It is also the source of much of the funding
for book titles like The Bell Curve, a piece of racist drivel disguised as science. The Bell Curve
is inherently false and used much of the work provided by the Pioneer
Fund. One of the chief beneficiaries of the Pioneer Fund has been Roger
Pearson, who is closely linked to the Liberty Lobby. In addition, the
Pioneer Fund was one of the driving forces behind Proposition 187, the
anti-alien measure on the 1994 California ballot. Presently, two
noteworthy Republican politicians are linked with the Pioneer Fund:
Jesse Helms and Steve Forbes."
(The Nazi Hydra in America, Glen Yeadon & John Hawkins, pgs. 221-222)
But the ACPS and the Pioneer Fund are not the only contributions Draper
made to the far right. Draper was also one of the chief financial
supporters of the
Citizens Councils of America (a group closely linked to the above-mentioned
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission), an organization founded in the wake of the 1954
Brown v Board of Education
Supreme Court decision to oppose desegregation. The Citizens Councils
were hugely popular in the 1950s and 1960s and would manage a staggering
comeback in the 1990s after being re-branded as the
Council of Conservative Citizens. Former Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott would of course become infamously affiliated with this organization.
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| Trent Lott speaking before the Council of Conservative Citizens |
Draper was also an early backer of proto-
Christian Identity "minister"
Gerald L.K. Smith and reportedly provided the financing for his "Christ of the Ozarks" shrine and tourist attraction in
Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The Ozarks region would go on to become a hotbed for Christian Identity activity, spawning the
Elohim City and
Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compounds by the 1970s.
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| the "Christ of the Ozarks" shrine the Colonel helped fund |
Finally, there was Draper's backing of Willis Carto and his Liberty
Lobby, which many believe was quite significant. Draper seems to have
become affiliated with Carto via an organization known as the
International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), an outfit also closely linked to Roger Pearson's
Northern League (NL, discussed in
part two of this series).
"The International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE) was established in 1959, with Truth Seeker's Robert Kuttner as president, to further advance the cause of biopolitics. Kuttner, who became an editor for Mankind Quarterly,
would later testify before the House Committee on the Judiciary on the
evils of school desegregation as a spokesman for Willis Carto's Liberty
Lobby. The IAAEE's general secretary was a former Queens College student
named Donald Swan. A Truth Seeker/Racist Forum regular and
friend of H. Keith Thompson, Swan also went by the name 'Donald Walker'
and 'Thor Swenson.' H. Keith Thompson also worked with the IAAEE.
I did all the printing for the IAAEE, a distinguished group of
ethnologists, many of international repute, examining racial differences
from a scientific point of view... They were funded by a foundation set
up by Col. [Wickliffe] Draper, and produced a series of booklets
examining these matters. Their findings were used extensively in
preparing defenses to Brown v. Board of Education, and by the White Citizen's Council...
"Truth Seeker, Right, and Mankind Quarterly on the
one hand, and the NL and the IAAEE on the other, were interrelated wings
of a close-nit political tendency. While the League and publications
like Right and Truth Seeker appealed to street-level activists from the WDL, NRP, and NSRP, Mankind Quarterly and the IAAEE mobilized more sophisticated arguments to justify white supremacy..."
(Dreamer of the Day, Kevin Coogan, pg. 481)
The above-mentioned
H. Keith Thompson
was a close associate of Francis Parker Yockey. He had also been an SD
asset during WWII and acknowledged to researcher Coogan to have been in
control of an SS slush fund set up prior to the end of WWII to aid high
ranking Nazis after the inevitable defeat. And here he is assisting the
Draper-funded IAAEE crowd. By all accounts Draper's contributions to
this endeavor were significant, much to the benefit of Carto and his
fledgling Liberty Lobby.
"Judging by the fact that its efforts were advertised, and its
publications distributed, exclusively by extremist sources, however, the
association seemed more interested in providing scientific authority
for a reemerging racist and Nazi movement than in having an impact on
academic thought. For example, IAAEE membership was solicited in Western Destiny,
where it could attract the attention of a readership also interested in
how the Jewish Culture Distorters were destroying the white racial
basis of Western civilization by peddling false notions about equal
rights. The IAAEE reprints were available from the 'Sons of Liberty'
publication list, along with such learned works as Christ Was Not a Jew, an analysis of 'Jewish parasitism and the Aryan deliverer'; Jewish Ritual Murder, which 'documents the case proving Jewish ritual murder of Gentiles'; and A Real Case against the Jews, in which 'a Jew tells... the real reason why the Jews should be hate.' Even before its first issue, advance notice of the Mankind Quarterly's imminent publication was announced in Pearson's Northern World
and subscriptions offered by British Publishing Company, a notorious
specialist in anti-Semitic literature. In the United States,
subscriptions to the Quarterly could be ordered from a Liberty Lobby circular also offering subscriptions to Northern World, the 'complete file back issue' of Right, and Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, a particularly influential book in the neo-Nazi movement, dedicated to 'the Hero of the Second World War,' Adolf Hitler. Race and Modern Science also appeared on the lobby's Noontide Press List, together with the classic fraud The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The International Jew, Hitler Was My Friend,
and a host of works 'exposing' the Holocaust as an enormous hoax. And
all the IAAEE publications regularly appeared on the list of recommended
literature in the Citizen, the monthly publication of the Citizens' Councils. Swan and Gregor even toured the South, distributing copies of Mankind Quarterly and the reprint series to state departments of education to encourage the use of scientific date 'to counter the Brown
decision' and the introduction in the high school curriculum of a
course on race based on IAAEE materials. And in an internal dispute
within the neo-Nazi movement, each side would claim its position was
based on IAAEE publications. If the IAAEE's real purpose was to dignify
hate groups and racists with academic support, then the Colonel's money
probably was not spent in vain.
"Whatever Draper's motivation, however, there is no doubt that he spent
liberally. Without the relevant financial records... it is not possible
to know exactly how much of Draper's resources were donated to various
IAAEE projects, but the amount was certainly substantial. In 1963, the
only year for which some financial data are available, the IAAEE
reported income of $23,210, all but $400 coming from 'contributions and
donations,' undoubtedly Draper's money. The almost $22,000 ($133,000
AFI) of expenditures included $7,600 ($44,000 AFI) for 'printing costs'
--in a year neither Race and Modern Science nor any of the
monographs was published --and $5,000 ($29,000 AFI) for the purchase of
Avin's symposium on housing; the fact that copies of the symposium were
later distributed as part of the Liberty Lobby's campaign against a
civil rights bill suggests that some projects carried out by Carto's
organization, which had a number of prominent members in common with the
IAAEE, probably were also funded by Draper."
(The Funding of Scientific Racism, William H. Tucker, pgs. 99-100)
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| the Colonel in the flesh |
Let us step back for a moment and consider the implications of all these
things. Effectively Willis Carto --patron saint of the racist wing of
the conspiratorial right and
Holocaust revisionists
--and his Liberty Lobby were effectively bankrolled by prominent
members of the European fascist underground (including individuals who
were "former" Nazis and SS men and affiliated with powerful members of
the US intelligence community) and a "former" military intelligence
officer who just happened to be a scion of one of the richest and most
powerful families to hail from New England (the Colonel's inheritance
was actually managed by the notorious
Morgan Guaranty Trust).
Nor did the Draper family's power and interest in eugenics died with
the Colonel. Let us briefly consider his nephew, General
William H. Draper Jr.
"In 1958, Prescott Bush and Gordon Gray, who were President Eisenhower's
frequent golfing partners, helped secure an appointment for William
Draper to chair a committee advising Eisenhower on the use of military
aid to other countries. He was a relative of Wickliffe Draper. Dillon
and Read employed him the 1930s. He helped Prescott Bush float the
largest bond issue for Nazi Germany, and later served in postwar Germany
as head of the economics unit in charge of dismantling the cartel
system.
"Draper was a racist and major funding source of the eugenics movement.
He used his position as commission head to direct its focus away from
military aid to the danger of overpopulation in third world countries.
The Eisenhower administration dismissed his racist views. Draper went on
to fund the Population Crisis Committee with money from the
Rockefellers and duPonts. In the 1960s, he served as an adviser to LBJ.
He was instrumental in getting the Johnson administration to use
overseas aid programs to fund birth control in nonwhite countries...
"George H.W. Bush, Prescott's son, was a vocal supporter of Draper's
politics. In 1964, he campaigned in Texas against the Civil Rights Act.
In 1969, as a member of Congress, Bush arranged hearings on the dangers
posed by the birth of too many black babies...
"In the 1980s, as vice president, George H.W. Bush urged Reagan to
appoint William Draper's son Bill as administrator of the United Nations
Development Program, an organization connected with the World Bank and
charged with supervising population control. Bush also was in on the
appointment of Bill Draper to the Export-Import Bank. During the 1980s,
the Export-Import Bank, at the urging of the Reagan administration,
served as a funnell to provide Saddam Hussein with funds and credits
during the Iran-Iraq war.
"The Bush and Draper families shared close friendships going back to the
1920s. Bill Draper was co-chairman for finance and head of fund raising
for the 1980 George H.W. Bush for President campaign. The Pioneer Fund
was established by Wickliffe Draper. Charles Murray, the Pioneer Fund's
best-known expert, has served as adviser to many of George W's top
consultants, and is often quoted by them. He directly influenced the
repressive welfare programs of Tommy Thompson and NYC Mayor Giuliani,
and was a consultant to Thompson on changes in the Wisconsin welfare
system. Murray's books, The Bell Curve and Losing Ground,
both about the inferiority of blacks, serve as bibles for the school
privatization and anti-welfare movements in the United States..."
(The Nazi Hydra in America, Glen Yeadon & John Hawkins, pgs. 172-173)
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| William H. Draper Jr. |
In fairness to the Draper clan, they reportedly disowned the Colonel to
the point of refusing to allow him to be buried in the family cemetery.
Still, one suspects their disappointment in the Colonel stemmed more
from the crassness of his eugenics ventures rather that out of any kind
of ideological disapproval.
Overall, the Draper clan (along with the
Bushs and the
Mellons,
among others) seem to have served as one of the chief bridges between
the old guard Eastern Establishment (who were themselves quite taken
with fascism and Nazism, as I briefly noted before
here) and the emerging
military-industrial complex. What's more, the Draper clan still remains highly relevant.
William H. "Bill" Draper III,
besides being deeply involved with various civic activities for the
Reagan/Bush regime, was also a highly successful venture capitalist. His
son
Timothy C. Draper carried on the tradition via
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a firm that funded
Skype,
Hotmail,
Overture,
Baidu,
Tesla Motors,
SpaceX and so forth.
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| WHD III (top) and Timothy C. Draper (bottom) |
And it is from this family that one of the chief backers of the Patriot
movement (to say nothing of the eugenics, neo-Nazi, and Holocaust
revisionist movements) emerged. Curiously,
Prescott Bush
(the patriarch of the Bush dynasty) seems to have served in military
intelligence during the First World War, an event that may well
have marked the beginning of the Bush's clans longstanding ties to the
US intelligence community.
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| Prescott Bush |
Besides military intelligence, another strange overlap between the
Draper and Bush clans are their extensive family membership in the
mysterious Yale secret society commonly referred to as
Skull and Bones.
The Bush clan has had longstanding ties with Skull and Bones over the
years while the Draper clan has also managed a few members (most notably
William Henry Draper III, who was initiated into the Brotherhood of
Death in 1950, two years after George H.W. Bush had joined).
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| the legendary logo of Skull and Bones |
Skull and Bones famously uses the symbol of skull and cross bones (commonly referred to as the
Jolly Rogers)
as its symbol. It was founded in 1832 and has long alleged to have been
an extension of a mysterious German secret society that has never been
named.
"Incidentally," the
SS (which was modeled upon secret Medieval military orders such as the
Knights Templar,
Knights Hospitallers, and the
Teutonic Knights,
a fact that will be especially curious in light of an organization that
will be addressed in just a moment) also used the skull and cross bones
as an insignia. Of course, the German military had been using the skull
and cross bones as a symbol going all the way back to the time of
Frederick the Great, when the
insignia was adopted by elite cavalry troops of the Prussian army.
During the interwar years between the First and Second World Wars
Freikorps,
paramilitary organizations drawn from the ranks of former German
military men to combat communist forces, used the skull and crossbones
extensively as an insignia. Numerous future leaders of the Nazi regime
such as
Ernst Rohm (the head of the
SA, commonly referred to as stormtroops or brown shirts) and
Heinrich Himmler
(the head of the SS). It is widely believed that the Freikorps had an
enormous influence on both the SA and SS as well as the Nazi regime in
general.
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| Prussian cavalry (top), a Freikorps member (middle) and one of the famed SS death's head rings (bottom) |
More than few of the guiding lights of the American far right also
became enamored with the concept of the Freikorps and esteemed historian
Alfred W. McCoy indicates in
Policing America's Empire that military intelligence had indeed organized members of the
American Legion
and other ex-military organizations into Freikorps-like vigilante
groups in the wake of the First World War when the nation was in the
grips of the
First Red Scare. But I digress --back to the modern day Patriot movement.
While it may seem incredible that such forces were behind the Liberty
Lobby, the group behind the John Birch Society and the Posse Comitatus
may be even more bizarre. Both strands, like virtually all of the
conspiratorial right, were obsessed with the notion that the nation was
falling under the control of Eastern Establishment groups such as the
Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral Commission, which in turn were controlled by centuries-old secret societies such as the
Freemasons and the
Illuminati
(and of course the Jews). In theory these secret societies are in turn
engaged in a Satanic plot to destroy America's Constitution (usually via
sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll PSYOPs conducted by the US intelligence
community) and replace it was a Communistic, one-world dictatorship.
Thus it is quite ironic that in all probability the JBS and almost
surely the Posse were themselves controlled by a secret society that
claimed descent from a Medieval military order; that was dominated by
"former" high ranking military officers and intelligence personnel; that
was likely involved on some level in the trafficking of drugs, arms,
and black market gold; and was accused of practicing occultic rituals (a
charge not without merit, but which we not be addressed at length in
this particular series). Despite these endeavors this group presented
itself as a far right wing traditionalist Catholic/Orthodox organization
engaged in a mortal struggle against the forces of godless Communism
(and of course, the Jews).
The organization was known as the
Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem,
Knights of Malta and sometimes referred to simply as the Shickshinny
Knights of Malta. It did indeed claim descent from the Medieval
Knights Hospitallers, but via
the Russian line of succession and was distinct from the "official" successor organization to the Hospitallers, the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
(though there does seem to have been no small amount of collaboration
between the SOSJ and SMOM over the years). While it is highly unlikely
that the SOSJ's claims of descent from the Knights Hospitallers are
legitimate, the organization would wield a shocking degree of influence
over twentieth century America.
The origins of the modern Sovereign Order of Saint John and its long
time Grand Master, "Colonel" Charles Pichel, are quite murky. There
seems little doubt, however, that by the 1930s the SOSJ and Pichel had
become deeply involved with both the Nazis and powerful figures in the
White Russian exile community.
"... Pichel's interest in chivalric orders went back at least to 1924,
when he helped establish the American Heraldry Society in New York City.
By the early 1930s, he was active in the far right. On 15 July 1933 he
wrote to a prominent Nazi named Ernst Hanfstaengl offering his services
as a liaison between the American right and Hitler. In the late 1930s he
became involved in a nebulous Axis propaganda wing called 'The Order of
the Blue Lamoo.' Pichel's ties to the Blue Lamoo surfaced in a 1939
report by a New York detective named Boris Casimir Palmer (Pilenas). A
former World War I military intelligence agent, Palmer ran his own
detective agency out of an office located at 170 Broadway. On 27 June
1939 he sent a letter to the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (NSANL)
under the title 'Subject Japanese espionage.' In it, he discussed
Pichel's involvement with Boris Brasol, a leading White Russian
anti-Semite, intelligence operative, criminologist, literary figure, and
founder of the Union of Czarist Army and Navy Officers. Brasol was said
to have been a representative of a Nazi propaganda organization called
the Fichte Bund, and was close to the Cossack General Grigori Semionov,
who was financed by Japan.
"Palmer told the NSANL that a Franciscan priest, Father Peter Baptiste
Duffee, claimed that Brasol also belonged to 'a Nazi propaganda
organization known as the Blue Lammoo [sic]. At the head of the group is
Charles T. Pichel, an ex-con.' Pichel, then living in Leonia, New
Jersey, was said to be working 'for a member of the IRA, who is in the
employ of the Japanese Commercial Attaché in Washington. Duffee
identified the IRA man as Vincent Walsh. Walsh, who later worked with
the Japanese consulate in New York, was tied to Pichel, who was 'said to
be an Englishman, alleged drug smuggler, and Nazi spy.' Duffee also
reported on another Blue Lamoo'er close to Pichel, a 'Count
Tcherep-Spiridovich.'
"How well informed was Father Duffee? In his book American Swastika,
Charles Higham reports that the priest served as Father Coughlin's
liaison to Boris Brasol. Duffee was also right about the Blue Lamoo.
According to the anti-fascist Friends of Democracy group, the Ancient
and Noble Order of the Blue Lamoo was a White Russian fascist
organization one of whose members was the 'Count V. Cherep-Spiridovich.'
The 'Count' was born Howard Victor von Boenstrupp. A former patent
lawyer, Boenstrupp was also known as 'the Duke of St. Saba,' 'Colonel
Bennett,' and 'J.G. Francis.' A close associate of Silver Shirt leader
William Dudley Pelley, he was indicted along with Pelley on sedition
charges on 21 July 1942. Nor was this his first encounter with the law.
In 1933, when he was just plain Howard, he was charged with grand
larceny for allegedly stealing a valuable book and other crimes. During
the House Committee on Un-American Activities questioning of Fritz Kuhn,
Cherep-Spiridovich's name came up in connection with two publications, Intelligence and American Tribunal. He was also linked to 'the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.'
"Boenstrupp said he got his title after being legally adopted by a real
White Russian count, Major General A. Cherep-Spiridovich, who died a
suicide. A friend of Boris Brasol, the count lived in America after
World War I and headed the Anglo-Latino-Slav League. He was also
involved in the Anti-Bolshevik Publishers Association, which published The Gentiles' Review. Cherep-Spiridovich was the author of a near-psychotic 1926 tract called The Secret World Government of the Hidden Hand, and was intimately involved in promoting The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in the United States.
"Starting in June 1922, the well-known journalist Norman Hapgood ran a series of exposes in Hearst's International
entitled 'The Inside Story of Henry Ford's Jew Mania.' In it,
Cherep-Spiridovich and Brasol were identified as the two most
influential figures behind Ford. According to Hapgood,
Cherep-Spiridovich at one point lived in Detroit and worked for Ford. He
also identified another Russian friend of Brasol's involved with the Protocols, a former diplomat and Hereditary Knight Commander in Pichel's order named Boris Bakhmeteff.
"As for Brasol, his ties to Ford evolved out of an earlier connection
to American military intelligence. One of his ex-military intelligence
cronies was C.C. Daniels, then head of the Ford Detective Agency in New
York and the brother of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. Dr.
Harris Houghton, C.C. Daniel's family physician and the New York head of
Army Intelligence, was also close to Brasol. After World War I,
Houghton created the Beckwith Company to publish tracts like the Protocols.
"Casimir Palmer, who worked for the Military Intelligence Division in
Washington during World War I, also knew Brasol. In a signed affidavit
dated 2 April 1937, he said he first met Brasol in April 1918 when the
Russian was working for the War Trade Board in New York City. After
telling Palmer that the downfall of the Russian monarchy had been part
of a Jewish conspiracy, Brasol 'mentioned something about there being in
existence some sort of secret document known as the Protocols of Zion.
They next met on 29 June 1918 at Brasol's apartment on West 84th
Street. Again Brasol claimed that Jewish bankers like the Warburgs were
behind the Bolshevik Revolution, information that Palmer relayed 'to my
superior, Captain Carleton J.H. Hayes, now Professor of History at
Columbia University.' Palmer then reported that a copy of the Protocols
manuscript was sent to a Congressional Committee by 'a very close
friend of Henry Ford, a Dr. H.A. Houghton.' When Palmer met Brasol for a
third time, Brasol gave him a copy of the Protocols, which he had gotten translated into English.
"Brasol spread the Protocols in league with the Grand Duke Kirill.
Kirill and his chief aide-de-camp General Vasily Biskupsky appear to
have received financial support from Henry Ford, with Brasol serving as
their intermediary. According to Robert C. Williams' book Culture in Exile, Kirill's wife Viktoria managed 'to obtain funds for the movement from the United States.' In their book Who Financed Hitler,
James and Suzanne Pool state that Brasol was Kirill's American
representative at the time. They reported that Brasol sent money from
Ford to the Grand Duke and Duchess, who in turn gave it to Ludendorff to
support the Bavarian far right, including Hitler. If this information
is correct, it might explain the Nazi refusal to give Biskupsky the
money he claimed was due him, since the funds hadn't originated with
Grand Duke Kirill in the first place.
"Grand Duke Kirill had another supporter on the American far right:
Charles Pichel. Pichel reports that on 13 January 1934, 'the late Grand
Duke Kirill, acting officially as Kirill Wladimirovich (Kirill I)' from
his place in exile in Saint Briac, France, confirmed the legitimacy of
Pichel's Order. Two years later, in a proclamation dated 24 November
1936, he conferred upon Pichel 'the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle,
First Class in Gold' for his 'zeal in defending and helping to
perpetuate the noble history of Imperial Russia and the Imperial
Families of Russia.' Kirill's order was 'signed by the President of the
Committee of Imperial Orders and the Delegate of the Emperor in the
United States,' presumably Brasol."
(Dreamer of the Day, Kevin Coogan, pgs. 606-608)
The above-mentioned Grand Duke Kirill was a member of the Russian Imperial family who became head of the
Romanov clan (and thus, the firmest claimant to the Tsarship) after the deaths of Tsar
Nicholas II and his brother
Michael in the wake of the
Russian Revolution. That supporters of the Romanov dynasty were involved in financing Hitler's rise to power (with the ample assistance of
Henry Ford) as well as the spread of the
Protocols of Zion
(possibly with assistance of elements within military intelligence) is
most interesting. That Pichel and the Shickshinny Knights of Malta were
in the midst of it is even more so for our purposes here.
The SOSJ would once again find itself in the midst of intrigue by the
late 1950s when it received an influx of former high ranking military
officers.
"In the 1950s the Knights developed close ties to the Defenders of
American Constitution, and some DAC leaders became members of the
'Military Affairs Committee' of Pichel's Knights. General Pedro Del
Valle was a member of both the Supreme Court of the Knights and its
Military Affairs Committee. Other members of the Military Affairs
Committee included Gen. Lemuel C. Sheppard, Lieutenant General George E.
Stratemeyer, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, Brigadier General
Boner Fellers, Admiral Charles M. Cooke, and seven retired U.S. Navy
rear admirals. The Order's 'Honorary Grand Admiral' was Admiral Sir
Barry Domville, the Nazi sympathizer and former head of British Naval
Intelligence who had been interned during World War II under Regulation
18B. Both Willoughby and Del Valle had been close allies of General
Douglas MacArthur. In order to overcome the MacArthur network's
opposition to CIA activity in Asia, CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith
once tried to interest Del Valle in heading a CIA office in Tokyo, bur
without success."
(ibid, pg. 604)
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| General Douglas MacArthur, object of idol worship amongst countless members of the post-WWII far right |
The eyebrows of regular readers of this blog should have been raise by
the above citation as it references several military men we have already
encountered in this series and other recent ones, most notably
Brigadier General
Bonner Fellers and Major General
Charles Willoughby. Before getting to these two cretins, however, a word should briefly be said about General
Pedro Del Valle,
a highly important figure in relation to the modern day Patriot
movement. In many ways Del Valle is the key link between the
Carto-Draper faction of the Patriot movement and the Bircher/Posse
Comitatus wing that the SOSJ was behind. For instance, Del Valle was
involved with both the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies (the
American Security Council-affiliated super patriot group founded by
former military intelligence officer John Trevor Sr. and bankrolled by
Wickliffe Preston Draper even after future Pioneer Fund-board member
John Trevor Jr. took over the organization in the wake of his father's
death in 1956) and the Liberty Lobby.
"Upon his father's death in 1956, Trevor Jr. took control of the
coalition. Despite its own indictment for sedition during the war, the
organization was concerned about a long list of 'subversive'
institutions and activities. In regular resolutions, which were read
into the Congressional Record and used in attempts to influence national
legislation, the coalition expressed its opposition not only to
attempts to 'undermine' the immigration laws by admitting more 'aliens'
or relaxing the requirements for deportations but also to arms
negotiations, membership in the United Nations and its very presence on
'American territory,' diplomatic relations with the USSR, NATO-sponsored
conventions to promote 'greater political and economic cooperation,'
display of the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone, fluoridation of public
water supplies, the National Council of Churches, and the World
Federation of Mental Health, whose purpose was the destruction of 'our
form of government and our American Way of Life.' One of the coalition's
official spokesmen who presented its resolution to the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs was General Pedro del Valle, a member of the Liberty
Lobby's advisory board, who professed 'the instinctive distrust which is
natural in all Christians for all Jews, diluted or pure'; Jews 'cannot
also be good Americans,' he wrote to a fellow officer, because 'all Jews
are hostile to the kind of America that anybody but a Jew desires.' Del
Valle was also a co-owner of the biweekly paper Common Sense,
which claimed that Mao Zedong was a 'front... for New York Jews,' and
was considered a member of 'our... inner circle of top people' by George
Lincoln Rockwell, 'Commander' of the American Nazi Party, one of the
faithful few who donated to Rockwell's campaign to 'nail the nigger and
Jew LEADERS' behind 'Martin Luther Coon.'"
(The Funding of Scientific Racism, William H. Tucker, pgs. 61-62)
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| General Pedro Del Valle |
Del Valle's Defenders of the American Constitution is also significant
in that it was one of the earliest post-WWII attempts to spur a
paramilitary patriot movement. Del Valle initially had ambitious plans
for it, envisioning it as a
modern day Minutemen that would organize citizens into vigilante groups
to gather intelligence on "subversive" elements within the United
States (i.e. trade unions) and eliminate "saboteurs." Fortunately, many
of the views of Del Valle and other key members proved to be so extreme
that the group never really got off the ground. But this hardly marked
the end of Del Valle's involvement in the far right and paramilitarism.
In point of fact, it was only the beginning as we shall see. But for the
time being, let us consider Willoughby, General Douglas MacArthur's
long time intelligence chief.
I've already briefly considered Willoughby in the
final installment of my series concerning the American Security Council where I noted that he and MacArthur had effectively shut the
OSS
out of the Far East, ensuring that virtually all US intelligence
operations there were under their direct control. After "retiring" from
the military in 1951 in the wake of MacArthur's removal from command in
Korea Willoughby, with the assistance of the notorious
Hunt clan of Dallas, formed his own private intelligence network. This intelligence network would later become affiliated with the
Gehlen Organization, a group of former Nazi intelligence assets controlled by
Reinhard Gehlen that would go on to dominate West Germany's primary intelligence organization, the
BND, for decades.
"... General Willoughby... was set up in a right-wing intelligence
network called the 'International Comite for the Defense of Christian
Culture' by H. L. Hunt's sons Nelson Bunker Hunt and Lamar Hunt.
"In the 1960s this group's self-named 'Foreign Intelligence Digest'
network incorporated some of Kennedy's most outspoken ideological
opponents in the United States: men like Frank Capell... and Billy James
Hargis, the 'Christian Crusade' ally of General Edwin Walker's army
indoctrination program in West Germany. German neo-Nazis and Abwehr
veterans rounded out this group, along with Cuban exile, José Ignacio
Rasco...
"One avowedly racist member of this network was Austin J. App, chairman
of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent. According to a
British book, the West German intelligence network, the BND, may have
funded App's Federation to the tune of $280,000 in 1964. If so, the
Hunt-Willoughby connection can be called transnational, in that it
melded assets, and probably funds, from overseas to supplement the Hunt
family's assets. The Hunts' own marginal status in U.S. society should
not therefore mislead us into subordinating Willoughby's network still
further. In a postnational era, transnational influence flood into our
country by vehicles whose apparent marginality is misleading...
"In late 1963 the most conspicuous transnational feature of the
Hunt-Willoughby network was their closest identification with Madam Nhu,
the widow of the recently assassinated Ngo Dinh Nhu in Vietnam. The
ongoing Willoughby interest in the Far East was represented by the
presence of Father Raymond de Jaegher of the Free Pacific Association,
the patron in America of Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. The
Hunt-Willoughby-Walker intelligence network seems to have taken care of
Madam Ngo Dinh Nhu when she came to Dallas in the fall of 1963 and was
presented with a banquet of flowers at in October 1963 'U.S. Day' rally
in Dallas, organized by General Walker..."
(Deep Politics and the Assassination of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, pgs. 213-214)
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| a young Charles
Willoughby who, like Wickliffe Preston Draper, was a physically imposing
presence in his prime (journalist Dick Russell places him at 6'3, 220
pounds) |
But this is only scratching the tip of the proverbial iceberg as far as
Willoughby's connections are concerned. During World War II Willoughby
would become deeply involved in the recovery of a portion of the
Golden Lilly, the name for the rather extensive amount of plundered gold and other precious metals
Imperial Japan
accumulated during their various military occupations. While plundered
Nazi gold is the stuff of legends, by all accounts the Japanese far
surpassed their Nazi counterparts in no small part to the meticulousness
of their plundering. A good portion of it made it back to Japan but
vast amounts were also buried within massive underground vaults in the
Philippines.
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| recovered Golden Lilly treasure |
Wiloughby, or Sir Charles (as his men lovingly referred to him), became
privy to the recovery of a portion of this gold when two of his
underlings, soon-to-be-infamous CIA "
unconventional warfare" guru
Edward Lansdale
and the mysterious soldier known as Severino Garcia Diaz "Santy" Santa
Romana (whom researchers Sterling and Peggy Seagrave would allege was
also an agent of some type Vatican-linked organization, most likely
Opus Dei),
was able to extract directions to several of the vaults in the
Philippines from a Japanese POW after several days of intensive torture.
"Early in October, after many days of torture, Kojima broke and revealed
everything he knew. Lansdale organized a convoy of cars and set out
with Santy and Major Kojima to retrace the trips made by General
Yamashita to 'more than a dozen' Golden Lilly treasure vaults. These
were all in high valleys north of Manila, in a triangle from Baguio in
the west to Bambang in the center, and Aparri at the northern tip of
Luzon.
"When they returned to Manila in mid-October, Lansdale reported to
Colonel McMicking, then flew to Tokyo where he briefed Willoughby,
Whitney, and MacArthur. At their instruction, he then flew to Washington
to brief General Magruder, who still headed the Strategic Services
Unit, a last vestige of the OSS just before the new Central Intelligence
Group (CIG) was created under General Hoyt Vandenberg. It was Magruder
who had moved Lansdale to Manila two months earlier. Vandenberg or
Magruder then sent Lansdale to the White House to brief President
Truman's national security aide, Navy Captain Clark Clifford, and
members of the Cabinet. President Truman decided to keep the discovery
secret, and to recover as much of the Japanese loot as possible. At this
stage, it is impossible to say precisely how these briefings unfolded,
or exactly what President Truman did. The secrecy surrounding Santy's
recoveries is nearly total.
"What we do know, from two separate high-level sources in the CIA, is
that Robert B. Anderson flew back to Tokyo with Lansdale, for
discussions with MacArthur. After some days of meetings, MacArthur and
Anderson flew secretly to Manila, where they were taken by Lansdale and
Santy to some of the sites in the mountains, and to six other sites
around Aparri at the northern tip of Luzon. In the intervening weeks,
Santy's men, aided by hand-picked teams from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, had successfully opened several of these vaults, where
MacArthur and Anderson were able to stroll down row after row of gold
bars. Other sites were opened in subsequent months. In all, the
recoveries took two years to complete, from late 1945 to early 1947.
"From what was seen in these vaults, and also discovered by U.S. Army
investigators in Japan, it became evident that over a period of decades
Japan had looted billions of dollars' worth of gold, platinum, diamonds,
and other treasure, from all over East and Southeast Asia. Much of this
had reached Japan by sea, or overland from China through Korea, but a
lot had been hidden in the Philippines."
(Gold Warriors, Sterling & Peggy Seagrave, pgs. 95-96)
Willoughby would go on to control a slush fund of this loot that he would use to fund some of the wettest
wet works
the US intelligence community would become involved during the
post-WWII era. We shall examine these operations in a moment but first
we must consider another fortuitous occurrence that happened to
Willoughby while he was stationed in the Far East: namely, the close
relationship he forged with Japanese war criminal and
yakuza chief
Yoshio Kodama.
I've already considered Kodama in depth in the
first installment
of my examination of the World Anti-Communist League where I revealed
that he was one of the most powerful figures in post-WWII Japan. Kodama
was thought to be the major power broker behind the
Japanese Liberal Democratic Party
(which has been the ruling party in Japan almost exclusively since
1955) for decades in addition to being one of the largest drug lords in
the world. Kodama, along with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek (whom Douglas MacArthur was closely affiliated with) of Taiwan, dominated the drug trade in the Far East for decades.
Kodama was able to operate with impunity for so many years thanks in no
small part to the close ties he forged with the US intelligence
community in the wake of the Second World War. And it was no other than
Sir Charles who was responsible for bringing Kodama into the fold.
"Kodama then spent two years in Sugamo Prison as an indicted war
criminal, but was magically released in mid-1948 when he made a deal
with General Willoughby to give the CIA $100-million (equal to
$1-billion in today's values). This payment bought Kodama his freedom
from prison and from any prosecution for war crimes. The money was
placed in one of the secret slush funds controlled by the CIA station at
the U.S. Embassy. Subsequently, Kodama was put directly on the CIA
payroll, where he remained for many years, until his death in 1984. Tad
Szulc of The New York Times wrote, 'Kodama had a working
relationship with the CIA.' Chalmers Johnson said Kodama was 'probably
the CIA's chief asset in Japan.'"
(ibid, pg. 108)
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| Kodama |
Such a possibility is highly probable due to Kodama's vice-like ties to
the ruling political party combined with his obscene wealth, much of it
derived from off-the-books assets such as black market gold and heroin.
Kodama was by all acounts an incredibly powerful man, but one who owed
much of his post-WWII fortunes to Sir Charles, who was instrumental in
the rehabilitating Kodama's image from one of war criminal and drug lord
to something semi-respectable.
"Willoughby also took on the job of falsifying the Japanese military
history of the Pacific War, so that it would conform to the needs of
America's Cold Warriors. On the Japanese side, Willoughby's 'historians'
included the most notorious war criminals, Kodama and Tsuji (who
masterminded the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore and Malaya). The
historical monographs they prepared were first composed in Japanese,
then translated with the help of Nisei in Willoughby's ATIS. The
monographs were then laundered of anything remotely sensitive. Once
sanitized, they were published by the U.S. Government, collectively
titled The Japanese Monographs and Japanese Studies in World War II.
Not surprisingly, the series contained big gaps. As the official
introduction states: 'The paucity of original orders, plans and unit
journals... rendered the task of compilation most difficult... However,
while many of the important orders, plans, and estimates have been
reconstructed from memory... they are believed to be generally accurate
and reliable.' According to Louis Morton, author of the official
military history of the Philippines campaign, the reports prepared by
Willoughby's office 'constitute the most important single Japanese
source on Japanese operations in the Pacific and Asia during World War
II.
"Willoughby persuaded Kodama to write a memoir guaranteed to please his new American clients. Disingenuously title I Was Defeated
in its English translation, it was published in 1951 by a CIA
proprietary called Asian Publications. Listed as publishers were Harvey
Fukuda, who did the editing, and Robert Booth, who did the bookkeeping.
In 1952, the same publishers gave birth to the English-language
translation of the memoir by Colonel Tsuji --a man who... also had been
charged by British investigators with cannibalism. Tsuji's Underground Escape
presented a falsified story in which he claimed he spent years after
the war hiding from the Allies in Thailand and China, when in fact he
was, like Kodama, an employee of General Willoughby and the CIA in
Tokyo.
"The purpose of these memoirs was to shift the blame away from certain
politicians, so they could be groomed for political careers in postwar
Japan. Kodama's memoir put blame for the war exclusively upon senior
officials of Japan's army and navy, most of them dead, who he portrayed
as fanatical war-crazed monsters. Everyone else was a hapless pawn.
"Generously, Kodama provided the funds from his own deep pockets to
launch two postwar political parties headed by fanatical rightists,
which eventually merged into the Liberal Democratic Party..."
(ibid, pgs. 113-114)
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| Masanobu Tsuji, another Willoughby favorite who suspected of indulging in "recreational" cannibalism during the war |
Ah, but this was only the beginning of Willoughby and Kodama's
collaborations. You see, Willoughby was charged with suppressing
leftists in the postwar years to ensure that Japan did not fall prey to
communism. He was given a slush fund known as the Yotsuya Fund, drawn
from a portion of the recovered Golden Lilly treasure, to finance this
operation. Frequently Sir Charles would turn to Kodama and his
yakuza thugs to carry out such endeavors.
"... the Yotsuya Fund. This was set up to manipulate and steer Japan's
underworld, and to finance 'wet work' --extortion, kidnapping, and
murder. General Willoughby, MacArthur's 'lovable fascist' and head of
G-2 at SCAP, controlled the Yotsuya Fund and worked energetically with
Kodama and his legions of yakuza to suppress any kind of leftist
activity or public protest during the occupation. Because democracy
tolerated dissent, the concept of democracy had long been regarded by
Japan's ruling elite as 'a poisonous idea from the West.' In Japan, even
the mildest kind of dissent was not tolerated. During the McCarthy era
in America, suppression of dissent became synonymous with
anti-communism. But the witchunt in Japan during that epoch was far more
severe, and bloody.
"Despite being head of G-2, at this late stage in his career Willoughby
was involved in dirty tricks rather than intelligence-gathering or
counter-espionage. Among other things, his Yotsuya Fund financed a
Korean Liaison Office that sent spies into North Korea, Red China and
the far eastern USSR.
"Yotsuya, the district for which Willoughby named his underground fund,
was a seedy Tokyo tenderloin populated in the postwar years by
gangsters, prostitutes, and bottom-feeders, a hub for the blackmarket,
awake all night with illegal gambling casinos and attached brothels...
Kickbacks from postwar dives like the Mandarin Club, a casino and
brothel in Yotsuya run by American Ted Lewin, a pal of Kodama, funded
the Cannon Agency, Willoughby's dirtiest and wettest operation in Japan.
Named for U.S. Army Colonel J.Y. Cannon, this was a military version of
Murder Incorporated, a death squad.
"Jack Cannon arranged the beatings and killings of student leaders,
liberals, leftists, socialists, labor union organizers, scholars,
journalists, and anyone else who got in the way. Cannon worked closely
with Machii Hisayuki, Kodama's Korean lieutenant who headed the ethnic
Korean Tosei-kai gang of yakuza. Jack Cannon initially worked for the
U.S. Army's Counter-Intelligence Corps, or CIC. His job was to ferret
out and to murder dissidents. A Nisei interpreter employed by
Willoughby's ATIS, who once had helped Cannon blow open a safe, recalled
that the colonel always behaved like 'a movie style gangster.' Once the
Cannon Agency was set up, Jack Cannon became something that would have
chilled the blood of most Americans. He is thought to have been behind
the kidnapping of a prominent left-wing writer, Kaji Wataru. Also
attributed to him was the torture, dismemberment, and murder of
Shimoyama, the president of Japan's national railroads whose body was
found scattered along the railway tracks. Whenever he needed a hand,
Cannon called on Machii's Korean yakuza. He also was suspected of
arranging plane crashes that took the lives of British and American
diplomats and military officers who were investigating links between
Willoughby and indicted war criminals like Kodama and Colonel Tsuji
Masanobu. When the job was so wet and dirty that it had to be completely
divorced from Washington, Willoughby bypassed Cannon and brought in a
murder squad called KATOH, the acronym of five Japanese Army officers
who did surgical assassinations for money.
"To be sure, what makes this even more disturbing is that Willoughby was
judged by U.S. Army contemporaries to be incompetent, paranoid, and
congenitally driven to cover up his misjudgments. As most documents
relating to Willoughby's activities still are kept hidden by the U.S.
Government half a century later, we may reasonably suppose that there is
yet more disturbing information on his messianic activities."
(The Gold Warriors, Sterling & Peggy Seagrave, pgs. 110-111)
The above mentioned Jack Cannon would be described by former military intelligence/CIA asset
Richard Case Nagell
as a "rub-out man for the CIA." Unsurprisingly, he would become
involved with Willoughby's International Committee for the Defense of
Christian Culture upon returning to "civilian" life.
"Little else has been written about Canon, but in the late 1950s, this
'rub-out man for the CIA' is known to have penetrated Fidel Castro's
guerrilla operations against Batista, and by the early 1960s he would
become an associate editor for Willoughby's Foreign Intelligence Digest and work with the ex-general on the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture..."
(The Man Who Knew To Much, Dick Russell, pg. 68)
While mainstream historians have almost exclusively depicted Willoughby
as a marginal and rather buffoonish figure, the above would seem to
indicate otherwise. Willoughby may have been incompetent as far as
conventional military intelligence was concerned, but he seems to have
displayed considerable abilities at managing wet works and organized
crime for the suppression of leftists. The job he did in Japan was so
thorough that the party he and MacArthur backed has remained in power
almost exclusively since 1955.
Officially the Yotsuya Fund was taken away from Willoughby in the early
1950s and rolled into another slush fund that was eventually turned over
to the Japanese in 1960. Thus, Willoughby's role in the Golden Lilly
publicly ended. But it was the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party,
dominated by Willoughby's dear friend Yoshio Kodama, that gained control
of this slush fund in 1960. What's more, Santa Romana (the soldier who
originally uncovered several Golden Lilly vaults) was reportedly still
in control of Golden Lilly-derived slush funds at the time of his death
in the mid-1970s (the Seagraves allege that as much as $50 billion in
assets belonged to Santy at that time). As a close associate as well as a
former subordinate of Willoughby's controlled vast sums of the Golden
Lilly funds, it does not seem beyond that realm of possibility that
Willoughby himself also had access to the funds well after he officially
retired from the Army.
Nor was this likely the only source of funding available to Sir Charles.
Kodama, as noted above, was also a major international drug lord.
Kodama's primary partner in this endeavor was Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek, a man who owed his postwar politcal fortunes to Willoughby's
close friend and mentor, General Douglas MacArthur.
"The man who would make the new regime in Taiwan palatable to the
Americans was General Douglas MacArthur. One day in July 1950, while he
was commander in chief of the United Nations forces fighting in Korea,
MacArthur breezed into Taipei, met with Chiang Kai-shek, and promised
him, in contradiction to President Truman's policy, that American
expertise and weapons would soon be flowing to the island bastion.
Appearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the general
extolled the virtues of the Kuomintang government...
"That MacArthur had achieved such a firm grasp of the state of affairs
in Taiwan during a single day's visit was not questioned by the American
legislators. Indeed, his promises of American support were prophetic.
As the Korean War turned against the United States, Chiang Kai-shek,
with his dream of returning to the mainland and defeating the
communists, were seen as a potential pressure point against Mao. With
the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his 'exposing' of communist
sympathizers in the federal government, American officials muted or
stopped criticism of Chiang's rule. Suddenly the Kuomintang was
respectable, and American aid began to pour in. The American Military
Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in Taiwan grew from a handful of
advisers in 1951 to 2,300 five years later. Economics aid and war
material flowed in at a rate that the island could not possibly absorb.
By 1961, military expenditures, nearly all provided by the American
government, were three-quarters of the national budget."
(Inside the League, Scott & Jon Anderson, pgs. 49-50)
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| Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek |
I have been unable to confirm a direct link between Willoughby and Chiang Kai-shek or his
Kuomintang
(KMT) party but given the fact that both men shared close ties to
Douglas MacArthur and Yoshio Kodama, it seems highly improbable that
they were not acquainted with one another.
Thus, all of this would indicate that one of the key figures in the
Sovereign Order of Saint John had access to vast amounts of underground
revenue generated from black market gold and drug trafficking. What's
more, it is quite possible that the SOSJ itself was involved in such
activities. Consider one of the Order's above-mentioned members, Admiral
Charles Cooke. Cooke seems to have been an early player in what would become the CIA's drug trafficking operations involving
Civil Air Transport (CAT, later known as
Air America).
"The plan to save Taiwan advance on 7 November 1949, when privateer
William S. Pawley received permission from Secretary of State Dean
Acheson to lead a group of retired military officers, headed by Admiral
Charles Cooke, to Taiwan to advise the KMT on security affairs. No
stranger to political intrigues or the underworld, Pawley owned sugar
plantations an airline and a bus system in Cuba, and was linked to Mafia
leaders who had investments there too. He was connected to the
espionage Establishment as well: Bill Donovan met with Chiang Kai-shek's
defense minister and secret police chief to grease the skids on
Pawley's behalf, and William Bullitt in December began raising funds for
the so-called Pawley-Cooke Advisory Mission --the lion's share of which
was provided by a group of Texas oilmen led by right-wing fanatic H.L.
Hunt, a one time professional gambler who, in his younger days, helped
finance his empire by running a private racing wire.
"Also involved in the Pawley-Cooke escapade was M. Preston Goodfellow,
former publisher of the Brooklyn Eagle and Donovan's liaison, with
Garland Williams, to William Keswick and the British SOE in 1942. Later
in the war Goodfellow managed sensitive OSS operations in Burma and
China, and formed close ties to General Tai Li and drug smuggler Du
Yue-sheng. According to Korean War historian Bruce Cumings, Goodfellow
made a fortune by combining business ties with 'right-wing regimes in
Asia and interests in Central America.'
"Pawley's collusion with Cooke, Donovan, Goodfellow, Bullitt, and Hunt
is a textbook example of how Establishment privateers run the secret
government. And naturally the mission dovetailed with federal narcotics
activities. In January 1950 Goodfellow traveled to Taipei with Cooke,
and in April Bullitt's bagman arrived. Soon thereafter, a 'Colonel
Williams' introduced the bagman to Satiris Fassoulis, 'who gave him
$500,000 for a PR campaign on Taiwan,'
"Was this our Garland Williams? Probably. Williams had experience at
both ends of the Iran-China connection. In 1948 and 1949 he had
conducted surveys of Iranian opium production and had reported to
Anslinger that Iran's most influential families had amassed a fortune
through the opium trade, and that they intended to keep anti-drug laws
weak. He knew that Iran shipped tons of opium to Indochina through
Greece and Armenian brokers like Fassoulis. But Williams was also a
security chief for the secret government, and at the same time that CIA
officer Allen Dulles was meeting with KMT officials to seal the
Pawley-Cooke deal, he was recalled to active duty and took command of
the Army's 525th Military Intelligence Group. Among its functions, the
525th MIG prepared intelligence officers for duty in Korea, and as chief
of the Group, Williams was in position to provide covert support to the
Pawley-Cooke Advisory Mission, or to Satiris Fassoulis.
"For his part, Fassoulis denies ever having met Williams, or that Hunt
provided money, or that Pawley was involved. He denies everything.
However, he had been an American pilot in China during the war, where he
may have met Garland Williams, and in 1950 he was vice president of
Commerce International China (CIC), a subsidiary of Donovan's WCC. CIC
was exempt from the Foreign Agents Registration Act and supplied the
Pawley-Cooke mission with everything from gas masks to airplanes. It was
also accused of smuggling contraband to America."
(The Strength of the Wolf, Douglas Valentine, pgs. 78-79)
There's a lot to note from the above quote.
I've addressed the figure of
William D. Pawley
before during my examination of the American Security Council (ASC), of
which he was a member of along with Charles Willoughby and a host of
other former MacArthur men. What's more, the Sovereign Order of Saint
John was also directly involved with the ASC via its Coalition for Peace
Through Strength, as I noted before
here.
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| Pawley |
The opium trafficker
Du Yue-sheng was also briefly mentioned in the
first installment
of my examination of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL, an
organization both Yoshio Kodama and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were
major financial backers of). Du Yue-sheng was a Triad boss involved with
the legendary
Green Gang
(of which Chiang Kai-shek has long been alleged to have been a member
of). He was one of the Generalissimo's earliest backers, throwing in
with the KMT in the late 1920s. He would be instrumental in both the
KMT's rise to power as well as its long time ties to drug trafficking.
Colonel Garland Williams is a truly mysterious figure. He first became
involved with the US Intelligence community during WWI when he was
recruited into military intelligence by General
Ralph Van Deman,
the chief architect of the modern day industrial security apparatus
organizations like the American Security Council and the John Birch
Society likely became deeply involved in (more information on Van
Deman's industrial security apparatus and its links to the ASC can be
found
here; the links to the JBS will be discussed in the next installment). After the war Williams joined the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
where he became a mentor to men like Charles Siragusa and the notorious
George Hunter White. When WWII broke out Williams, Siragusa and White
became deeply involved with the US intelligence community, both for the
OSS and military intelligence (White, for instance, was involved with
both).
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| Colonel Garland Williams |
They would also become involved with state-sanctioned ventures with
narcotics on various levels. Siragusa would help James Jesus Angleton
forge ties with the Mafia in Italy, ties that would be instrumental in
establishing the post-WWII drug trade, as I briefly addressed before
here.
White would also become involved in establishing drug routes into the
United States as well as experiments involving bids to discover drugs
capable of operating as a truth serum, or even to control the mind of
the individual. White would continue this work with the CIA after the
war under the auspices of
MK-ULTRA (much more on White can be found
here,
here and
here).
It's also interesting to note that Williams was called back into
military intelligence and deployed to Korea at the same time as Charles
Willoughby was the chief of military intelligence there. Thus,
Willoughby would have been his commanding officer and almost surely
aware of the Pawley-Cooke operation if not outright participating in (a
possibility that is highly likely, as will be discussed in a moment).
Finally, there's
H.L. Hunt
to consider. Hunt, as well as several of his sons, had long time ties
to both MacArthur and Willoughby. He bankrolled MacArthur's disastrous
1952 bid for the presidency and hired Willoughby as an "agent" for the
Hunt Oil Company
shortly after he "retired" from the military in the wake of MacArthur's
sacking. The Hunt family would go on to become major financial backers
of Willoughby's intelligence network, an investment that may have paid
out handsome dividends for them. Researcher Douglas Valentine alluded to
the possibility that the Hunt family became deeply involved in Texas
drug trafficking, a prospect that the legendary
Kefauver Commission on organized crime may have been stirred away from by George Hunter White himself.
"... why would White want to keep the Committee out of Dallas? Was it to
deflect attention from the Pawley-Cooke mission in Taiwan, which was
funded by ultra Texas oilmen like H.L. Hunt, and which, in 1951, was
facilitating the CIA-Kuomintang drug smuggling operation that entered
the US by crossing the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas?
"There was certainly enough evidence for the Kefauver Committee to take a
long lookk at the Lone Star State. In 1951, Lait and Mortimer had
identified Hunt as a professional gambler who ran a private racing wire,
which suggests Mafia ties. They had also claimed that the Mafia had
'taken over the age-old racket of running guns across the border,' under
the aegis of Carlos Marcello."
(The Strength of the Wolf, Douglas Valentine, pg. 309)
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| H.L. Hunt |
While the CAT/Air America drug smuggling is generally credited solely to
the CIA there were ample amounts of military men, including military
intelligence officers, involved. Acclaimed researcher
Peter Dale Scott noted that many of the original military intelligence officers involved in the Pawley-Cooke operation worked for Willoughby.
"... Garland Williams, who went into deep-cover in the Far East, was
pretty clearly the 'Col. Wiliams from the Army' who arranged for a mob
associate, Satiris 'Sonny' Fassoulis, to become an officer of Commerce
International China, a company which 'had definite ties with Army
intelligence.' Fassoulis thus became a principal agent in the 'private'
procurement of military supplies and advisers for Chiang Kai-shek in
Taiwan, a project originally proposed to the U.S. government by William
Pawley. Funds for CIC's 'volunteers' came 'through "Texas oil people,"
presumably including H.L. Hunt'; and many of the advisers came from
General Charles Willoughby's intelligence G-2 in Japan, itself working
with elements from Japan's yakuza underworld."
(Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, pgs. 168-169)
Thus it doesn't seem much of a stretch to state that Willoughby was
likely deeply involved in establishing the Kuomintang/Air America opium
network as well as the route this network used through Texas. And a
little over a decade later Willoughby would find himself in the
Sovereign Order of Saint John (SOSJ) along with Charles Cooke while the
Texas route was still humming along (General
Claire Chennault,
another individual deeply involved in the establishment of CAT/Air
America, was also a co-founder of the Defenders of the American
Constitution along with SOSJ member General Pedro Del Valle). In point
of fact, there is ample evidence to indicate that the individuals
directly involved in the drug (as well as arms) trafficking were largely
drawn from the ranks of the
Syndicate,
anti-Castro Cuban exiles (of whom Willoughby would establish ties with)
and members of various patriot groups, most notably the
Minutemen. Such a possibility will be further examined in the series that shall follow this one.
Before moving along I can't resists pointing out the irony of patriot
groups being involved in drug trafficking by the time the 1960s rolled
around. The internet is awash with hundreds of thousands of articles
proclaiming that the 1960s and the counterculture that is famously
associated with it was some type of PSYOP constructed by elements drawn
from the CIA,
MI6 (
Tavistock
is especially important to such strands) and of course the Jews and the
Communists to enslave America's youth with cannabis and
entheogens.
Apparently this was meant to lead them down the paths of feminism,
uncontrollable dancing, and other such evils things that would invoke a
child-like mental state in the next generation.
While it is undeniable that the CIA played a significant role in introducing LSD in the United States (as I've noted before
here,
here and
here) there
is little to indicate that the acid culture that emerged in the 1960s
was some type of PSYOP. In point of fact, things did not end especially
well for individuals and groups such as
Alfred "Captain Trips" Hubbard (and not Albert, of whom I've written more on
here),
Mary Meyer, the
Brotherhood of Eternal Love (the Brotherhood was almost surely railroaded by a scion from the
Mellon family, as I noted before
here) and others who had a vision for entheogens that was distinct from that of the CIA and the Pentagon.
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| the Captain (top), Mary Meyer (middle), and Brotherhood of Eternal Love founder "Farmer John Griggs (bottom) |
Conversely, few researchers seem to have paid much mind to the fact
that major powerbrokers within powerful "think tanks" such as the
American Security Council and the World Anti-Communist League have been
willfully and consciously flooding the United States with cheap, high
grade heroin (and later methamphetamines, cocaine and crack) for
decades, with things going into overdrive as the 1960s set in (more on
the ASC's involvement on drug trafficking can be found
here; for the WACL's ventures, check
here,
here and
here).
To say that this has had a devastating impact on this nation would be
an understatement (consider, for instance, comments recently made by
The Wire creator
David Simon, who described the
War on Drugs as "a Holocaust in slow motion").
And yet few researchers, most especially those from the conspiratorial
right, have seriously considered the implications of this.
Opiates, from which heroin derives, have been the drug of choice to enslave
peoples since at least the time of ancient Sumeria. And
yet few researchers seem to have been especially troubled by the ties
the Patriot movement had to individuals who were actively engaged in
shaping the post-WWII narcotics trade. In the grand scheme of things,
what's a little heroin trafficking amongst patriots?
And it is here that I shall wrap things up. As I've established over the
course of this installment, the chief backers of Willis Carto's Liberty
Lobby were a cabal of "former" Nazis and their collaborators (more than
a few of whom had been recruited by some branch of Nazi Germany's
intelligence community) and Colonel Wickliffe Preston Draper, a "former"
military intelligence officer who was also a prominent member of a
wealthy and powerful New England family. The Colonel also seems to have
had some link to Nazi Germany, though FBI records concerning such things
are still classified over 65 years after the end of the war. The
Colonel would go on to support numerous other far right organizations
and individuals besides Carto, including the eugenics think tank known
as the Pioneer Fund (which the Colonel himself founded and which much of
his fortune was left to), the American Coalition of Patriot Societies
(an organization founded by a military intelligence officer and which
became closely affiliated with the American Security Council), the
Citizen's Councils (which later became the infamous Council of
Conservative Citizens), and proto-Christian identity "minister" Gerald
L.K. Smith.
I also introduce the Sovereign Order of Saint John, a secret society
whose long time Grand Master also seems to have been involved with Nazi
intelligence prior to WWII. In the postwar era the Order received an
influx of former high ranking military officers, more than a few with
backgrounds in military intelligence. Most notably there was Charles
Willoughby, Douglas MacArthur's long time intelligence chief whose
finest hour came while managing death squads and organized crime in
Japan towards the suppression of leftists. Willoughby, along with
another SOSJ member, Charles Cooke, was also deeply involved in the
creation of Civil Air Transport/Air America, an airline that was
involved in trafficking drugs for decades with the sanction of powerful
members of the CIA and military.
And it was the Sovereign Order of Saint John that was chiefly
responsible for the creation of the John Birch Society and the Posse
Comitatus, as we shall examine in the next installment. Stay tuned.
Updated from last year.
Years
later I learned in an anthropology course that masks, chants and
dancing are used to invoke spirits. “The person wearing the mask feels
internally transformed and takes on temporarily the qualities of the god
or demon represented by the mask” (Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism, p. 218)
Caesar
wrote, “Druids administer these sacrifices. Large effigies interwoven
with twigs, the limbs of which are filled up with living people which
are set on fire from below, and the people are deprived of life
surrounded by flames.”
Devil’s
Night or Hell Night is a crime wave of Halloween violence and
vandalism. The most famous and destructive was ‘Hell Night’ in Detroit,
Michigan from the 70s through the 90s which crossed the line from
smashing windows to major and widespread arson, gun fights, and murder.
By Michael Snyder, on October 31st, 2013
That’s
the thing about Barry, before his election, the national conversation
about budgets and deficits was always about “billions of dollars.”
Since January of 2009, it’s all about “trillions of dollars.” Now we
are talking about websites in the “billions of dollars” category.
That’s Barry, always breaking new ground.
