Archive/File: orgs/american/ihr larouche.ihr [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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