Where Did All The Nazis Go?
On May 8th and 9th, Europe and Russia, respectively, will celebrate the German surrenders and the end of World War II, in 1945. Months before Germany surrendered to Allied force and to the Soviet Union, in February 1945, under Dwight D Eisenhower, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force developed a “recruitment” program to identify and target German scientists “with high priority on synthetic rubber and oil catalysts, new designs in armored equipment, V-2 (rocket) weapons, jet and rocket propelled aircraft, naval equipment, field radios, secret writing chemicals, aero medicine research, gliders, and scientific and industrial personalities.” [1] This program was later named “Operation Paperclip”; the program, which gave “safe haven” to Nazis, [2] continued until 1959. The Soviet Union had a similar project – to recruit Nazi scientists from Germany. One difference between the Allied forces use of Nazis and that of the Soviet Union lies in the fact that the U.S. elevated Nazi criminals to positions of power and leadership, many within or directing America’s government institutions such as NASA.
Herein you will see how America shifted its focus from anti-fascist to using fascism to counter Soviet communism. This practice continues even today and is even evident across European nations which ignore the current events unfolding in Ukraine – the CIA-trained and U.S. taxpayer funded battalions of Nazi organizations which have taken over the Zelenskyy government – a proxy war between the U.S./NATO and the Russian Federation.
Truman Doctrine
In a speech to Congress, on March 12, 1947, President Truman announced a goal to stop the spread of Soviet communism throughout the world and “implied American support for other nations thought to be threatened by Soviet communism.” [3] This stance became America’s foreign policy, led to the creation of NATO in 1949, and is widely considered the start of the Cold War [3].
It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from an anti-fascist
alliance to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion
NSC 68
Truman commissioned a report, United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68) which “"provided the blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War from 1950 to the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s" and “its subsequent amplifications advocated a large expansion in the military budget of the United States, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to allies of the United States. It made the rollback of global Communist expansion a high priority.” [5]
It has been said, and this writer concurs, that NSC 68 was the driving force behind the conversion of the United States into a perpetual war machine fueled by debt. In 1950, the Defense Department annual spending was $12.5 billion; today it approaches one trillion U.S. dollars.
Two members of the NSC Study Group, which created the report for Truman, were Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. Nitze” contended that the Soviets were determined to conquer the whole of Europe and most of Asia and Africa. Dean Acheson, another hawkish adviser to Truman, wrote that the purpose of NSC 68 was to "so bludgeon the mind of top government that not only could the president make a decision, but that the decision could be carried out.” “The analysis of top Kremlin experts like George Kennan, Llewellyn Thompson, and Charles Bohlen, were categorically omitted. The Kennan–Thompson–Bohlen group maintained that Stalin's principal goal was to secure tight control of the USSR and its satellites, but that he had no plan to seek global domination.” [5]
“NSC 68 described the challenges facing the United States in cataclysmic terms. "The issues that face us are momentous," the document stated, "involving the fulfillment or destruction not only of this Republic but of civilization itself.” [4]
Truman was initially reluctant to implement recommendations from NSC 68, but finally did so in 1951 after much pressure from “Committee of the Present Danger,” a “neoconservative and anti-communist” foreign policy lobbying group established to shape public opinion and to “bludgeon the mind of top government” to accept America’s new role.
First Committee on the Present Danger
Three supporters of Nitze’s and Acheson’s NSC 68 “remilitarization plans” to counter “the aggressive designs of the Soviet Union”, James Conant, Tracy Vorhees, and Vannevar Bush created the Committee on the Present Danger in December 1950. The CPD lobbied government officials and used national radio programs to shape public opinion (scare people) on the Soviet threat. Indeed, schools began to implement practice drills for students, in the event of an attack by the Soviets [6].
Compare the use of media to shape public opinion then, during the Second Red Scare, to now regarding a viral outbreak and coerced vaccination and to the Russia Federation attack on Ukraine. It’s hard to sort through the lies to find truth, isn’t it?
The first Committee on the Present Danger was disbanded once the U.S. entered war with North Korea and after Truman signaled acceptance of NSC 68; its objectives met. We haven’t heard the last of the Committee on the Present Danger yet!
The “Anti-Fascist” Alliance Did What?
“During the Second World War, the theoretician of Nazism Alfred Rosenberg and Minister of the East (Ostminister) entrusted the Latvian Gerhard von Mende to organize the rallying of the peoples of the USSR to the Führer Adolf Hitler. In doing so, he devised a model for the manipulation of minorities that was taken up by the CIA after the fall of the Third Reich.
With the help of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, Von Mende created schools for mullahs in Göttingen and Dresden, had a Grand Mufti appointed in the Crimea, and enlisted Eastern SS regiments. He was also the handler of the Ukrainian "nationalist" Stepan Bandera.
In Washington, Presidents Truman and then Eisenhower decided to focus on psychological warfare against the Soviets. The CIA created AmComLib (American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of the USSR), which operated Radio Liberty from Munich. It recycled Gerhard von Mende. It was he who proposed the establishment of a mosque in Munich, which was eventually entrusted to Said Ramadan (the son-in-law of the founder of the Brotherhood Hassan el-Banna). It was also he who settled Stepan Bandera’s problems and recycled him to MI6 and the CIA.
Stepan Bandera’s former deputy and Nazi-imposed Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yaroslav Stetsko, was on the instructions of the Third Reich one of the founders of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) during World War II. He continued the ABN during the Cold War, this time for the United States. As such, he became a pillar of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) formed by the CIA.
The headquarters of the ABN was in Munich, from where Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko conducted sabotage operations in the USSR. The chairman of the ABN was the Dane Ole Bjørn Kraft, former chairman of the North Atlantic Council (the civilian authority that commanded the Allied forces). Several operations were planned in collaboration with the CIA and MI6, i.e. under the supervision of Frank Wisner (Nicolas Sarkozy’s grandfather by marriage) and Kim Philby. But the latter betrayed the Crown and passed on information to the KGB, which failed.
One of Yaroslav Stetsko’s collaborators, Lev Dobriansky, became U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, while his daughter Paula Dobriansky served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy (sic) in the George W. Bush administration.
It was Mrs. Dobriansky who financed for ten years historical studies aimed at making people forget that the Holodomor, the great famine that hit Ukraine in 1932-33, also devastated Russia and Kazakhstan, and to make them believe that it was decided by Stalin to eliminate the Ukrainian people. This myth is manipulated by the Banderites to make people believe that the Russians have hated the Ukrainians for centuries. The European Parliament endorsed it in 2008. Afterwards, Paula Dobriansky held high positions at the Reuters agency and now works at the Atlantic Council. She was vice-president of the NED during the 2014 Maidan putsch. [7]
World Anti-Communist League (WACL)
“The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was established in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek, Reverend Moon and Nazi and Japanese war criminals. It was first used under Nixon to spread counter-insurrectionary measures in South-East Asia and Latin America. At that time, seven Heads of State participated at its meetings. It experienced a new lease of life under Reagan, becoming a shared instrument of the US industrial-military matrix and the CIA during the Cold War. It was then in charge of political assassinations and training counter-guerrillas in all conflict zones, including Afghanistan where it was represented by Osama Bin Laden [9].
WACL had OSS and CIA connections through Major General Jack Singlaub, amongst others. Singlaub was also on the Board of Governors for the Council for National Policy, a secretive right-wing Zionist group.
Major General John K. Singlaub (ret.) - CNP Board of Governors (1981); CNP Membership Roster (1981-98) was CIA deputy chief in South Korea during the Korean War and served for two years in Vietnam during the 1960s. At that time, he was commander of the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force, known as MACSOG. In that role, he was one of the commanders of Operation Phoenix, although he denies having had a part in that program's infamous assassination and counterterror aspects. In 1978, as chief of staff of the United Nations Command in South Korea, he publicly condemned the decision of President Jimmy Carter to reduce the number of U.S. troops in the country. He was then forced to retire.
Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League after Nazi-collaborator Roger Pearson Major until mid-1986. The United States Council for World Freedom (USWCF), which became WACL's most active branch, was founded in 1981 by Singlaub with a $16,500 loan from the Taiwanese branch of WACL and generous support from beer baron Joseph Coors. From 1984 through 1986, Singlaub was the chairman of WACL. In 1984, Singlaub headed a Pentagon panel called to make recommendations on conducting military activities in Central America. The panel's report urged the U.S. to emphasize nonconventional, counterinsurgency warfare strategies.
Under the Reagan administration, Singlaub received assistance and guidance from White House and National Security Council (NSC) officials for his "private" contra-supply activities. He identified former NSC aide Oliver North as his liaison to the White House. Columnist Jack Anderson wrote a series of exposes on WACL connecting the group with death squads operating in Latin America, and once again linking them with fascists, this time in Latin America. Singlaub engaged the services of J. Peter Grace and AmeriCares to supply arms to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua and was indicted in 1986 and 1988 over USCWF activities in support of the contras. Member of the national policy board of the American Freedom Coalition, a political organization with extensive ties to the Unification Church. [IRC: Western Goals]
President Ford’s Team B
Team B was a competitive analysis exercise commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to analyze threats the Soviet Union posed to the security of the United States. It was created, in part, due to a 1974 publication by Albert Wohlstetter, who accused the CIA of chronically underestimating Soviet military capability. Years of National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) that were later demonstrated to be very wrong were another motivating factor.
President Gerald Ford began the Team B project in May 1976, inviting a group of outside experts to evaluate classified intelligence on the Soviet Union. Team B, approved by then-Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, was composed of "outside experts" who attempted to counter the arguments of intelligence officials within the CIA. The intelligence community was in the process of putting together its own assessment at the same time.
Team B concluded that the NIE on the Soviet Union, compiled and produced annually by the CIA, chronically underestimated Soviet military power and misinterpreted Soviet strategic intentions. Its findings were leaked to the press shortly after Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential election win in an attempt to appeal to staunch anticommunists in both parties and also not to appear partisan. The Team B reports became the intellectual foundation for the idea of "the window of vulnerability" and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Ronald Reagan.
Some scholars and policy-makers, including Anne Hessing Cahn of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, later criticized the Team B project's findings. Many of these experts argued that the findings were grossly inaccurate [8].
Supporting the Team B assessment were Paul Nitze, member of the original Committee on the Present Danger and of CPD Two; Richard Pipes; Paul Wolfowitz; Donald Rumsfeld; and George Bush, CIA Director who replaced William Colby after Colby was fired by Ford for his stance against the Team B conclusions regarding Soviet military power and Soviet intentions regarding spreading communism throughout the world. Many of these men later had to retract their words, but the damage had been done as American citizens were even more terrified of the Soviet threat.
Second Committee on the Present Danger (CPD Two - 1970s)
“On 11 November 1976, the second iteration was announced. The name of this version of the committee was "borrow[ed]" from the 1950s version and was not a direct successor.
Some of its members lobbied for, and were members of, the 1976 Team B, providing an opposing view to the CIA's Team A.
It was privately revived in March 1976 to try to influence the presidential candidates and their advisors. After Jimmy Carter won the election, CPD went public again and spent the next four years lobbying, particularly against détente and the SALT II agreement. Its hawkish conclusions influenced the CIA's future reporting on the Soviet threat. This iteration of the CPD provided 33 officials to the Ronald Reagan administration, plus Reagan himself.
Thirty-three officials of the Reagan administration were CPD members, including Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, Secretary of State George Shultz, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Reagan himself was a member in 1979” [6].
Third Committee on the Present Danger (2004)
In June 2004, The Hill reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the War on Terrorism. This incarnation of the committee was still active as of 2008. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former Reagan adviser Peter D. Hannaford, explained, "we saw a parallel" between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that the war on terror needs to be won, he said.
Members of the 2004 CPD included Vice President for Policy Larry Haas, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, Robert C. McFarlane, and Reagan administration official and 1976 Committee founder Max Kampelman. At the July 20, 2004 launching of the 2004 CPD, Lieberman and Senator Jon Kyl were identified as the honorary co-chairs [6].
Fourth Committee on the Present Danger (2019)
Steve Bannon and Jim Woolsey are both former members of the Trump administration. Of the other members of the current Committee on the Present Danger, several are very vocal about the China threat.
One name that stands out is Thomas McInerney because of his connections to a long-running conspiracy theory regarding “mass-spying” on American citizens and because of his claims regarding the 2020 Election on Bannon’s War Room podcast and on other well-known media. More on McInerney and his associates claims in a future post.
For now, what I hope that the reader will see is that far right-wing groups have and do use their influence either to support a presidents’ agenda or to oppose it and that the Committee of the Present Danger has been one of those groups whose work has been used to shape public opinion.
Our government has aligned itself with and supported and trained violent and radical far-right groups, such as those in Ukraine who still honor Stepan Bandera, a Nazi war criminal, to defeat communism – an ideology that we were told had been defeated when the Cold War ended, and the Soviet Union was destroyed.