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Octafish

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27. Check out what Carla Binion wrote about NAZIs in the GOP.
Wed May 28, 2014, 10:09 AM
May 2014

Makes me sick, this does.



A Fresh Look

Nazis and the Republican Party

by Carla Binion

Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in BLOWBACK that after World War II, Nazi émigrés were
given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U.S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions
in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not
come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas.

SNIP...

Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll "for
their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi
employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer. After
Germany's defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U.S. certain concessions in exchange for his own
protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the political right in this country, and
helped shape U.S. perceptions of the cold war.

Journalist Russ Bellant (OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) shows that
Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as
adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate
Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.

Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small newspaper, Washington Jewish Week,
disclosed that a coalition for the Bush campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The
article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.

According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:

1.Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of "Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a
member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust
denier, Austin App.
2.Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of "Romanians for Bush."
Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
3.Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.
4.Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.
5.Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich worked closely with many Nazi
groups.
6.Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukrainians for Bush." Fedorak headed a Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish
wartime pogroms.

CONTINUED...

http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm



It is sickening. To prevent the continuing spread of the contagion, I took the liberty of tying a few strings together...

Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

Know your BFEE: Nazis couldn t win WWII, so they backed Bushes

So far, not so good.

"Money trumps peace." -- pretzeldent George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007
Oh god... sakabatou May 2014 #1
Will they be the first of many? Behind the Aegis May 2014 #2
Probably, unfortunately... awoke_in_2003 May 2014 #21
I have many French clients. They are ashamed and embarrassed uhnope May 2014 #3
I have a French friend of a friend with whom I have discussed politics - usually American karynnj May 2014 #4
I don't think it's worse than 2000-2008 under Bush in terms of practical effect uhnope May 2014 #7
Unfortunately it doesn't take a majority for a ruthless party to take over a country newthinking May 2014 #18
if it's in france PatrynXX May 2014 #13
Oh no , hes wrong maindawg May 2014 #14
please drop the new with the word neo nazis( neo means new) so what is new with them vs the old nazi allan01 May 2014 #5
That's the trouble with completely proportional representation over a wide region muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #6
There is nothing wrong with proportional representation of you set a threshold question everything May 2014 #9
Let's see.... SoapBox May 2014 #8
It's what happens when Bonzo goes to Bitburg. Octafish May 2014 #10
My brain is hanging upside down... nomorenomore08 May 2014 #26
Check out what Carla Binion wrote about NAZIs in the GOP. Octafish May 2014 #27
Can't say I'm surprised by any of this. n/t nomorenomore08 May 2014 #32
In the 60's, I lived just out of Bitburg -- for 2 years HeiressofBickworth May 2014 #33
Are most Tea Party members much better than these guys? Helen Borg May 2014 #11
Just what i was thinking tom_kelly May 2014 #15
As bad as tea partiers are, many of these are worse. newthinking May 2014 #19
No, not really. nt awoke_in_2003 May 2014 #22
will Victoria Nuland send them cookies? n/t cosmicone May 2014 #12
+1 newthinking May 2014 #17
VNDS strikes again! nt EmilyAnne May 2014 #20
Much more likely that someone will make an irrelevant and petulant post about her instead... LanternWaste May 2014 #29
Very serious situation in Europe - and the world really. The "International Republican Institute" newthinking May 2014 #16
Funny you mention the IRI... nyabingi May 2014 #24
As the world continues to get browner... nyabingi May 2014 #23
I hope someone does something drastic to derail these neo-Nazis. Enthusiast May 2014 #25
Those who advocate a parliamentary system with proportional representation Nye Bevan May 2014 #28
This system can work is you set a threshold before a member can be assigned question everything May 2014 #30
Ptooey shenmue May 2014 #31
People never learn. Rhinodawg May 2014 #34
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