Inside The League by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson :: Inside The League Scott Anderson

Inside The League by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson   For over ten years progressive researchers in this field and in Europe nominate been uncovering evidence linking certain American conservatives and rightists to racist and fascist movements around the globe through a dense organization called the World Anti-Communist League. Now the check "Inside the League" exposes the cabalistic nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a order of battle of League- associate authoritarian ideologues marching from the final stage camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagans White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lees employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of his brother Scott, the cardinal first began tracing the connections between the death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that winding terrorists, Nazi collaborators, racists, assassins, anti-Jewish bigots, and right- wing anti-communist American politicians. The one factor all had in common was their involvement with the World Anti-Communist League.   The Latin American death squads, for instance, were pitch to be linked through an umbrella group of Central and second American rightists called the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL). CAL in turn was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), live on by a retired U.S. Major General, conjuring trick Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a confinement support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has displace government officials and glowing letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years.   WACL in like manner serves as an umbrella for several Eastern European emigre groups founded and lead by Nazi collaborators, and there is far more. As the Anderson brothers write   "We have examined the World Anti-Communist League...because it is the one organization in which representatives of virtually every rightfield extremist movement that has practiced unconventional warfare are to be found. The League is the one constant in this netherworld whether looking at Croation terrorists, Norwegian neo-Nazis, Japanese war criminals, or American ultra-rightists...." (p. x, Authors Note).   WACL is more than a club for aging facists and their modern- day