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[from King, Chapter Six - The Jewish Question]
"When the LaRouchians began reaching out to the Ku Klux Klan and
other white supremacist groups, they justified it as a tactical move.
The main enemy, a 1975 NCLC internal memorandum argued, was 'Rock's
[Nelson Rockefeller's] fascism with a democratic face' backed by
liberals and 'social fascists' [non-NCLC leftists]. The NCLC should
'cooperate with the Right to defeat this common enemy.'
There was semantic trickery here. Not only did the memos lump
together neo-Nazis with conservatives in an amorphous right (this
sanitizing the former), but groups traditionally opposed to fascism
were tarred with the fascist label. It was the same logic used by
Stalin in the early 1930s when he told the German Communists to
cooperate with Hitler on the ground that the Social Democrats were
the main enemy. (The term 'social fascist' was first coined by the
Stalinists to express this idea.)
The 1975 memor also argued that organizing on the right would bring
the NCLC large financial contributions, allies with real influence,
and new recruits. After the Revolution it would be 'comparatively
easy' to crush those who refused to be recruited.
The memorandum divided the 'right wing' into 'pro-Rocky' and
'anti-Rocky' factions (i.e., pro- and anti-big business). The
'pro-Rocky' side included William F. Buckley and other alleged big
business penetration agents. The 'anti-Rocky' side appeared to
include the various Klansmen and neo-Nazis who had expressed interest
in the NCLC. The implication was that these anti-Rocky rightists
could be a positive force for social progress.
Some LaRouchians sincerely believed this, but the NCLC leadership was
preparing itself for an ideological shift rather than merely a
tactical one. The previous year the NCLC had developed an important
friend in neo-Nazi circles - Ken Duggan, editor of 'The Illuminator.'
Duggan met regularly with NCLC security staffers, especially Scott
Thompson, and urged them to move further to the right.
Duggan was soon arrested for stabbing, and was convicted of attempted
murder. While awaiting sentencing ... he [hung himself]. But
during his brief relationship with the LaRouchians he introduced them
to a number of contacts and potential allies, the most important
being Willis Carto.
Carto, founder of the Liberty Lobby, was by far the most successful
and influential American anti-Semite of the 1970s. He was an
intellectual disciple of the late Francis Parker Yockey, who roamed
Europe and North America in the 1950s futilely attempting to build an
underground movement. Carto met Yockey only once - in San Francisco
in 1960, when Yockey was in jail awaiting trial for possession of
false passports. Several days after their meeting, Yockey committed
suicide in his cell by taking cyanide. Carto, already an
ultrarightist, dedicated himself to carrying out Yockey's mission to
save Western civilization.
This mission was set forth in Yockey's 'Imperium,' a 600-page
synthesis of Nazi racialism and Oswald Spengler's philosophy of
history. The book was dedicated to the 'Hero of the Second World War'
(Hitler). But Carto, although devoted to Yockey's ideas, had no
illusions about Yockey's tactics. Instead on engaging in inept
conspiracies, he concentrated on building a political movement and
developed a populist cover ideology. Although he discreetly sold
'Mein Kampf' and 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' by mail, he
publicly denied being either a Nazi or an anti-Semite - he was merely
'anti-Zionist.'
Carto defended Hitler's heritage, not by saying the Holocaust had
been a good thing, but by denying that it ever took place. He founded
the Institute for Historical Review to prove that the alleged murder
of six million Jews was a hoax invented by Zionists to make people
feel sorry for them. Carto went so far as to publish a theory that
the gas ovens at Auschwitz were really just an industrial facility
for converting coal into oil, operated by happy well-fed Jewish
prisoners.
Carto's Liberty Lobby, based in Washington, D.C., and nominally
headed by Colonel Curtis B. Dall (a former son-in-law of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt), enjoyed friendly ties with conservative
congressmen. It published a weekly tabloid, 'The Spotlight,' which by
1979 enjoyed a paid circulation of almost 200,000. Its articles
championed income-tax rebels, protested the plight of family farmers,
and promoted quack cancer cures such as laetrile. Its favorite
political targets included the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, Henry
Kissenger, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the 'Zionist entity'
in Palestine.
As early as 1975, Carto chatted frequently with Scott Thompson, and
LaRouche himself visited Liberty Lobby headquarters to meet with
Colonel Dall. A multileveled collaboration soon developed between the
two organizations. They shared intelligence on various targets,
including William F. Buckley and Resorts International. 'The
Spotlight' published articles by Thompson and other NCLC members
writing under pen names. It also sold LaRouchian tracts through its
mail-order service.
An initial point of agreement was on the need to expose the
Rockefellers. However, Carto believed the NCLC hadn't cast its
conspiracy nets wide enough. A 1976 'Spotlight' review of an NCLC
report on terrorism complained that the NCLC still failed to
recognize the role of the Jewish bankers. LaRouche received the
message loud and clear. A wave of articles in 'New Solidarity' blamed
the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers for a wide range of crimes,
including the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A 1977 piece by
LaRouche admitted the Liberty Lobby had been ahead of the NCLC in
identifying the main enemy, (LaRouche subsequently met with Carto in
Wiesbaden. Questioned about this meeting during a 1984 disposition,
LaRouche recalled that they had discussed 'the Jewish question' as
well as the 'abomination' of American's postwar occupation of
Germany.)" (King, 38-40)
Works Cited:
King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York:
Doubleday, 1989
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