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philly inq?<div id="area-article-header" class="area" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; width: auto; float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="mod-article-byline" class="mod-phillyarticlebyline mod-articlebyline" style="padding: 15px 0px 0px; margin: 10px 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); float: none; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;"><h5 class="byline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 68, 136); line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; text-transform: none;">By David Lee Preston, Inquirer Staff Writer</h5>POSTED: September 18, 1988</div></div><div id="area-article-block-1" class="area" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="mod-article-text-1" class="mod-phillyarticletext mod-articletext" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; border: 0px;">


The departure of seven ethnic leaders from volunteer roles in George Bush's presidential campaign has exposed a relationship stretching back four decades between the national Republican Party and Nazi-allied Eastern European emigres.Espousing a staunch anti-communism, the emigres have included some individuals who were connected - as the seven Bush volunteers were said to be - with anti-Semitic or fascist organizations and viewpoints.To be sure, hundreds of ethnic leaders and volunteers involved in Republican politics have no connection whatever to Nazi or anti-Semitic attitudes.</div></div><div id="area-article-block-2" class="area" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px;"><div id="mod-article-text-2" class="mod-phillyarticletextwithadcpc mod-phillyarticletext mod-articletext" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But according to a report published by a nonprofit, political research institute, the Bush campaign's ethnic organization is an outgrowth of an emigre network dating to the Cold War days of the 1950s that included some former Nazi collaborators.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That network has played a significant role in shaping American foreign policy, according to the report, based on four years of study by Detroit researcher Russ Bellant and issued Thursday by Political Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"A combination of ignorance, amnesia and in some cases political sympathy have allowed both American and European abettors of the Third Reich to play a prominent and respectable role inside the Republican Party," the report says. ''In many cases these fascists are unrepentant about their past as enemies of the United States and as supporters of Nazi genocide."<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The report - titled "Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration: The Role of Domestic Fascist Networks in the Republican Party and Their Effect on U.S. Cold War Politics" - traces the evolution of the National Republican Heritage Groups Council, an umbrella organization of ethnic groups that grew out of Republican efforts to court those groups during the 1952 presidential campaign.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It says that many council members and leaders are Eastern European emigres who were welcomed to the United States during the Cold War because of their anti-communism, even though many had collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This year, some council members became leaders of the Coalition of American Nationalities, a group established by George Bush's presidential campaign to recruit support among ethnic voters.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Bush campaign's original list of coalition members included more than 70 names, with their ethnic affiliations listed as Arab, Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Ukrainian.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The fact that some extreme elements from Eastern Europe have found a home in the GOP is perhaps best illustrated by the presence on the 1972 presidential campaign's ethnic coalition of three men who subsequently were investigated by the U.S. government for alleged Nazi war crimes.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial;">According to documents and interviews, the ethnic coalition of the Nixon- Agnew re-election campaign included one man who subsequently was successfully prosecuted by the U.S. government for deportation for war crimes, another against whom the government failed to prove its case, and a third who died while the government was preparing to bring him to trial.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No war-crimes allegations have been leveled against any member of the Bush coalition. But Bellant says the GOP's ethnic coalitions historically have served the political goals of central and eastern European emigre leaders who were involved in pro-Nazi or fascist organizations during the war.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Bush campaign's Coalition of American Nationalities, composed of more than 70 names assembled from lists of ethnic Americans long active in the GOP, was announced by the vice president at a news conference Aug. 2 at the National Press Club in Washington.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Bush campaign's ethnic coalition had been in place for little more than a month when the Washington Jewish Week alleged Sept. 8 that several coalition members had links to anti-Semitic or fascist organizations. All six members named in that article, and a seventh member identified by The Inquirer on Sept. 10 as having apparent similar affiliations, resigned or were dropped<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from the coalition.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An eighth Bush associate, Frederic V. Malek, resigned as deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee after the Washington Post reported that he had conducted a survey of Jews in top-level positions at the Bureau of Labor Statistics during the Nixon administration.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ethnic coalition in the Bush campaign has roots in the National Republican Heritage Groups Council, an arm of the Republican National Committee that was formed in 1969 by Laszlo Pasztor, the report says.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pasztor was the national co-chairman of Hungarians for Bush until his resignation last week following the report in the Washington Jewish Week, which linked him to Hungary's wartime pro-Nazi Arrow Cross regime.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The heritage groups council was created by President Richard Nixon, following through on a 1968 campaign promise to form an ongoing ethnic division within the Republican Party, according to the report.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After World War II, the Displaced Persons Commission allowed thousands of Nazi collaborators into the United States because of their anti-communist positions, the report says. They were drawn into the Republican Party during the 1952 presidential campaign because of the party's campaign promises to ''liberate" communist-dominated nations in Eastern Europe, the report says.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Displaced fascists hoping to be returned to power by an Eisenhower-Nixon 'liberation' policy were among those who signed on. This would become the embryo for the formation of the Republican Heritage Groups Council in 1969," the report says. The Ethnic Division of the Republican National Committee was active during each campaign from 1952 to 1968.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to documents and interviews, the Latvian-American section of the 1972 Heritage Groups for the Re-Election of the President included on its advisory board:<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Boleslavs Maikovskis, 84, of Mineola, N.Y., who was ordered deported in 1984 after he admitted to the Justice Department that men acting on his orders had arrested more than 100 residents of Rezekne, Latvia, while he was the town's police chief and then burned the town to the ground. In June 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his petition for a review of the case, and he is awaiting deportation.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maikovskis was "one of the most notorious" war criminals successfully prosecuted by the Justice Department, according to Allan A. Ryan Jr., who was director of the department's Office of Special Investigations from January 1980 until September 1983, during which time the case was tried.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maikovskis is the only proven Nazi war criminal known to have been involved in national Republican Party politics.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Vilis Hazners of Whitehall, N.Y., a former Latvian Waffen SS captain who was acquitted of war-crimes charges in 1980 after the U.S. government failed to prove charges that he had commanded a Nazi group that herded dozens of Jews into a synagogue in Riga, Latvia, and set it on fire.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition, the co-chairman of Byelorussian-Americans for the Re-election of the President in 1972 was:<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Stanislaus Stankevich of New York City, a former Byelorussian Nazi leader who served as the SS-appointed mayor of Borisov during a 1941 pogrom in which thousands of Jews were murdered. He died in 1982 as evidence was being prepared for a deportation case against him, sources said.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I remember very clearly getting the news of his death," Ryan said Friday. "You can assume that I did not get the news of his death because I was a close friend of his."<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial;">The Republican Heritage Groups Council "appears to have consciously recruited some of its members, and even some of its leaders, from an Eastern European emigre network which includes anti-Semites, racists, authoritarians and fascists, including sympathizers and collaborators of Hitler's Third Reich, former Nazis and even possible war criminals," the report says.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial;">Pasztor did much of the recruiting, according to the report.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The antidemocratic and racialist components of the Republican Heritage Groups Council use anticommunist sentiments as a cover for their views while they operate as a de facto emigre fascist network within the Republican Party," the report says.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The report says that council members have influenced foreign policy partly through the American Security Council, a conservative think tank that acts as a clearinghouse for promilitary, anti-communist activities.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ryan, now employed in the office of the general counsel at Harvard University, said he had read Bellant's report and found it to be "well- documented and reliable."</div></div>

===<table width="580"><tbody><tr><td>Free Congress Foundation Fun Fact No. 1: Nazis Welcome!
by Celeste HarrisonThe Free Congress Foundation has announced that on May 4 it will be sponoring an event to honor Tom DeLay and the house managers for "their heroic efforts" in the impeachment process.Doesn't it seem strange that a group would applaud the house managers, when the majority of Americans view their efforts as a hypocritical embarassment to both the House and the Senate, and a shameless partisan manipulation of the impeachment process?For any other group, it would be strange--but not for the Free Congress Foundation. How much do you know about this group?Here's our FCF Fun Fact of the Day: The Free Congress Foundation has had a convicted Nazi collaborator on its staff; a man who was forced to resign from the 1988 Bush campaign when his past became public knowledge.Laszlo Pasztor actually served a prison term for being, during WWII, part of a Hungarian pro-Nazi group, the Arrow Cross (like the German Nazi Party, only in Hungary). His prison term also related to Pasztor's, during WWII, being a member of a Hungarian diplomatic delegation to Berlin after the Nazis installed the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross as the government of Hungary.In an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/16/88, Pasztor was reported as being a "volunteer" at the Free Congress Research & Education Foundation. However, Pasztor had an internal telephone number at FCF (listed as extension 48 as of 01/21/90) and calls to the FCF main number were routinely connected through to Pasztor. Pasztor himself stated that for several years he generally worked in the FCF office complex Tuesday afternoon through Friday.According to Pasztor, the FCF gave him office space for his work with the Paul Weyrich sponsored Coalitions for America, and that he routinely provided to Weyrich written reports of his activities. Weyrich at the time was president of FCF and national chair of of Coalitions for America. It is noteworthy that a Coalition for America brochure used a photo of Pasztor to illustrate the work of the Liberation Support Alliance.Pasztor's history with the GOP goes back before the FCF, however. When Pasztor came to the U.S. in the 1950s, he joined the GOP's ethnic unit, and later became the leader of the Nixon-Agnew campaign's ethnic unit. The ethnic unit was only active during election campaigns and, according to Pasztor, Nixon told him that if he won the election, he would form a permanent ethnic unit within the GOP. True to his word, after Nixon won, Pasztor was made the organizer of the the Republican Heritage Groups Council, and is considered to be one of its founders.According to Russ Bellant, noted New Right researcher, it is difficult to get the names of the these ethnic federations' directors and "it required attendance at the Republican Heritage Group Council convention in May of 1985 to learn the names of the federation leaders. It was the convention that Reagan was addressing at the Shoreham Hotel."Some Republican Heritage Groups Council delegates were reluctant to talk; others were unstoppable. A pattern began to emerge from the conversations--that in setting up the Council, Pasztor went to various collaborationist and fascist-minded emigre groups and asked them to form GOP federations. It eventually became clear that it wasn't an accident or a fluke that people with Nazi associations were in the Republican Heritage Groups Council. In some cases more mainstream ethnic organizations were passed over in favor of smaller but more extremist groups. And it seems clear that the Republican National Committee knows with whom they are dealing. Reviewing the federations illustrates this point." (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<div align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Laszlo Pasztor actually served a prison term for being, during WWII, part of a Hungarian pro-Nazi group, the Arrow Cross (like the German Nazi Party, only in Hungary). His prison term also related to Pasztor's, during WWII, being a member of a Hungarian diplomatic delegation to Berlin after the Nazis installed the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross as the government of Hungary.</div>

<div align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/16/88, Pasztor was reported as being a "volunteer" at the Free Congress Research & Education Foundation. However, Pasztor had an internal telephone number at FCF (listed as extension 48 as of 01/21/90) and calls to the FCF main number were routinely connected through to Pasztor. Pasztor himself stated that for several years he generally worked in the FCF office complex Tuesday afternoon through Friday.</div>

According to Pasztor, the FCF gave him office space for his work with the Paul Weyrich sponsored Coalitions for America, and that he routinely provided to Weyrich written reports of his activities. Weyrich at the time was president of FCF and national chair of of Coalitions for America. It is noteworthy that a Coalition for America brochure used a photo of Pasztor to illustrate the work of the Liberation Support Alliance.

Martin Lee in The Beast Reawakens refers to Pasztor as Weyrich's right hand man:

"In addition to homegrown agitators who dredged up anti-Semitic motifs that harkened back to the 1930s, some countries had to contend with groups that were led or supported by profascist exiles who repatriated from the West where they had carried on as vocal anti-Communists during the Cold War, often with CIA support. The Free Congress Foundation, founded by American far right strategist Paul Weyrich, became active in eastern European politics after the Cold War. Figuring prominently in this effort was Weyrich's right-hand man, Laszlo Pasztor, a former leader of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross organization in Hungary, which had collaborated with Hitler's Reich. After serving two years in prison for his Arrow Cross activities, Pasztor found his way to the United States, where he was instrumental in establishing the ethnic-outreach arm of the Republican national Committee.".

Pasztor's history with the GOP goes back before the FCF, however. When Pasztor came to the U.S. in the 1950s, he joined the GOP's ethnic unit, and later became the leader of the Nixon-Agnew campaign's ethnic unit. The ethnic unit was only active during election campaigns and, according to Pasztor, Nixon told him that if he won the election, he would form a permanent ethnic unit within the GOP. True to his word, after Nixon won, Pasztor was made the organizer of the the Republican Heritage Groups Council, and is considered to be one of its founders.

According to Russ Bellant, noted New Right researcher, it is difficult to get the names of the these ethnic federations' directors and "it required attendance at the Republican Heritage Group Council convention in May of 1985 to learn the names of the federation leaders. It was the convention that Reagan was addressing at the Shoreham Hotel.

"Some Republican Heritage Groups Council delegates were reluctant to talk; others were unstoppable. A pattern began to emerge from the conversations--that in setting up the Council, Pasztor went to various collaborationist and fascist-minded émigré groups and asked them to form GOP federations. It eventually became clear that it wasn't an accident or a fluke that people with Nazi associations were in the Republican Heritage Groups Council. In some cases more mainstream ethnic organizations were passed over in favor of smaller but more extremist groups. And it seems clear that the Republican National Committee knows with whom they are dealing. Reviewing the federations illustrates this point." (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party)

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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">UPDATE: Mr. Pasztor continues both his association with Paul Weyrich, and to be active in the Republican Party.

Mr. Pasztor was so kind as to sponsor ponsoring the attendance of Texas 14th District House Representative Ron Paul (R) at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation's Truman-Reagan Awards Dinner in November 2002 (refer to Mr. Paul's<a href="http://www.politicalamazon.com/l-pasztor.html#letters" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> thank-you letter to Mr. Pasztor</a>, dated 12/19/2002). It is noteworthy that Mr. Paul publishes a weekly column, "Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk," on Mr. Paul's webpages (entitled "Project Freedom"), located on the house.gov webserver. I believe Mr. Paul owes his constituents some "Texas straight talk" about why he is accepting ANYTHING from a convicted Nazi who spent 2 years in prison after WWII for the crimes he committed in Hungary's "ethnic cleansing" programs.

Mr. Pasztor was also kind enough to give Laura Bush a gift, for which she wrote him a<a href="http://www.politicalamazon.com/l-pasztor.html#letters" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> thank-you letter</a>, as well. I believe the First Lady also owes an explanation regarding why she would accept a gift from a convicted Nazi who was such a loyal servant to Hitler and his Holocaust.

Mr. Pasztor continues to work with Paul Weyrich (for an example, see <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Scoop198.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">"Scoop®: Your Inside View to the Strategies and Activities of the Conservative Movement in Washington" (Issue 198 * September 11, 1998</a>), published by The National Center for Public Policy Research. This "Scoop" documents the activities at the 09/09/1998 "Strategy Lunch chaired by Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and sponsored by Coalitions for America." One of the listings for this meeting is regarding a "foreign defense and policy meeting chaired by Laszlo Pasztor of Coalitions for America and Amy Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research, and sponsored by Coalitions for America."

According to <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4314&print=yes" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">People for the American Way</a> : "Much of FCF?s clout among the religious right centers around Weyrich?s ability to organize. Weyrich holds weekly a ? Weyrich Strategy Lunch,? sponsored by Coalitions for America. The lunch is held when Congress is in session and has 75 conservative leaders representing their organizations. These weekly lunches include regular briefings by leading Bush administration officials and key conservative congressional leaders."

Links / References:

<a href="http://www.politicalamazon.com/l-pasztor.html#berlet" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Chronology of 1988 Bush Campaign Controversy: Coalition of American Nationalities (Republican and Bush Campaign responses to charges)</a>

<a href="http://www.politicalamazon.com/l-pasztor.html#bellant" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Will Bush Purge Nazi Collaborators in the G.O.P.?</a> (NYTimes Editorial by Russ Bellant)

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Martin, Lee. The Beast Reawakens, Little, Brown & Co., p. 303

Bellant, Russ Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party.

(for more information about the Free Congress Foundation, visit <a href="http://prosocs.tripod.com/fcf.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">PROSOCS: Free Congress Foundation</a>

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