Singlaub

http://projectcensored.org/5-president-reagan-and-the-fascist-world-anti-communist-league/

https://bulldogger.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/wacl-moonstruck-singlaub-warriors/

looks legit:

Reagan administration-Moonie ties are extensive enough that an analyst for the Pentagon-funded Institute of Defense Analysis warned of the effects their expose could have on the 1984 elections: “Current Moonie involvement with government officials, contractors and grantees…could create a major scandal…If efforts are not taken to stop their growing influence and weed out current Moonie involvement in government, the President stands a good chance of being portrayed in the media as a poor, naive incompetent.” As it turned out, Mooniegate was just one more scandal Reagan avoided in the years preceding the Iran-contra Revelations.

Singlaub’s WACL Warriors

Retired Major General John Singlaub organized the current American WACL chapter, the United Stated Council for World Freedom (USCWF), in 1981 with a loan of nearly $20,000 from Taiwan. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, it received tax-exempt status in 1982. Daniel Graham became USCWF vice chairman and advisory board members have included General Lewis Walt, former commander of Marine Corps forces in Vietnam; John Fisher, former president of the American Security Council; Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus; Andy Messing, head of the National Defense Council; and lawyer Fred Schlafly, husband to longtime rightwing activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Singlaub served from 1983 to 1986 as chairman of the World Anti-Communist League. (He was succeeded by former Belgian Defense Minister Jose Desmarets, who has warned against the “subtle forms” of communism: “ecology, pacifism and neutralism.”) Singlaub remains chairman of the USCWF. Under Singlaub’s leadership WACL became more action oriented. Committees were formed to support counterrevolution in eight countries: Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambuique, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In 1987, Singlaub became increasingly involved in counterinsurgency in the Philippines, where CAUSA is also active.

“Jack” Singlaub has a long history of involvement in covert operations, beginning with the World War II Office of Strategic Studies (OSS). He served as CIA desk officer for China in 1949 and deputy station chief in South Korea during the Korean War. During the Vietnam War he commanded the Special Operations Group – Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observation Group (MACVSOG) – which carried out thePhoenix operation responsible for the assassinations of 20,000 to 41,000 Vietnamese. In 1976, Singlaub became head of the U.S. command in South Korea. He was removed by President Carter in 1978, when he publicly opposed Carter’s plans to withdraw most U.S. troops, and retired from the military in 1980. In 1984, Singlaub chaired a special Pentagon panel on the war in El Salvador and also became a key player in the contra supply network.

Anderson and Anderson describe WACL as “the international fraternity of the practitioners of unconventional war, old and new” – from the Nazis to South Africa to Latin America. As defined by Singlaub, “The term ‘unconventional war’ includes, in addition to terrorism, subversion and guerilla warfare, such covert and non-military activities as sabotage, economic warfare, support to resistance groups, black and gray psychological operations, disinformation activities, and political warfare.” Singlaub would help make sure the United States did not “lack the capability and will to exercise [this] third option for our own defense, to take pressure off any ally, or to exploit to our advantage the many vulnerabilities that now exist in the Soviet Empire.”

The unconventional warriors practice their trade inside the United States as well, carrying on the political spying and militaristic propaganda that General Smedley Butler confronted decades ago. Singlaub served until 1984 on the advisory board of Western Goals, founded in 1979 by the late Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA), board member and then chairman of the John Birch Society. As investigative journalist Chip Berlet explains, Western Goals “was essentially a cover for the continued domestic political spying of the John Birch Society. It’s chief spymaster was John Rees. The late Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy’s right-hand lawyer, served on the Western Goals advisory board, served on the Western Goals advisory board, along with retired military officers such as General Lewis Walt and Admiral Thomas Moorer. The Western Goals data bank included files accessed by McDonald as head of the now-defunct House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as well as from police “red squads.” After McDonald’s death in September 1983 (onKorean Airlines flight 007), Linda Guell took over and Rees left with his file collection. As Berlet explains, Western goals was “pretty much a shell” when Carl “Spitz” Channell became its president and used it as a fundraising vehicle for the contras.

Singlaub served as cochairman, with Graham, of the American Security Council’s Coalition for Peace Through Strength (it includes such Nazi-led WACL affiliates as the Bulgarian National Front). The American Security Council (ASC) was established during the 1950s by corporations wanting background checks done on employees. Its file archives include the files collected by Harry Jung’s American Vigilante Intelligence Federation founded in 1927 as an anti-union spy group and fueled by anti-Semitism. The ASC Task Force on Central America, formed after Somoza’s overthrow, included Singlaub, Graham, Haig, and Reps. Larry McDonald, John Murphy and Charles Wilson, among others. Singlaub also serves as an adviser to the Council for inter-American Security led by Lynn Bouchey, which also combined global militarism with surveillance of the U.S. left.

In December 1979, Singlaub and Graham, who served on Reagan’s defense advisory committee, led a supportive American Security council delegation to Guatemala. In a later interview with Allan Nairn, Singlauub – who served as honorary chairman of the 1980 Reagan Campaign in Colorado – said that he was “terribly impressed” at how the regime of General Romeo Lucas Garcia was “desperately trying to promote human rights.”He urged sympathetic understanding of the death squads, arguing that the Carter administration’s unwillingness to back the Guatemalan regime in eliminating its enemies was “prompting those who are dedicated to retaining the free enterprise system and to continuing progress towards political and economic development to take matters in their own hands.”

The message from Singlaub and Graham was clear, according to one high Guatemalan official: “Mr.Reagan recognizes that a good deal of dirty work has to be done.” Gordon Sumner of the Council for Inter-American Security and the ASC Task Force on Central American also defended the death squads to Nairn, arguing that while regrettable, “there is really no other choice.”

In February 1981, Amnesty international released a report entitled, Guatemala, a Government Program of Political Murder. The report described how death squad victims were targeted for murder in an annex of the National Palace under the direction of President Lucas Garcia. It concluded that “nearly 5,000 Guatemalans have been seized without warrant and killed since General Lucas Garcia became President of Guatemala in 1978. The bodies of the victims have been found piled up in ravines, dumped at roadsides or buried in mass graves. Thousands bore the scars of torture, and death had come to most by strangling with a garrotte, by being suffocated in rubber hoods or by being shot in the head.”

Deaver and Hannaford, the public relations firm headed by Reagan aides Peter Hannaford, and Michael Deaver, represented the rightwing Guatemalan group, Amigos del Pais (Friends of the Country). Amigosleader Roberto Alejos provided the ranch used as a training camp by the CIA for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion force. In late 1979, Reagan had private talks with Alejos and with Manuel Ayau, “chief ideologue and theorist of the Guatemalan right” and members of Mario Sandoval’s National Liberation Movement.

The Reagan presidential campaign reportedly received millions of dollars from Guatemalans and U.S. businessmen living in Guatemala. The campaign did not disclose these contributions to the Federal Election Commission, with one exception: the wife of John Trotter, manager of Guatemala’s Coca-Cola bottling plant where five union leaders were murdered, was listed for $750. According to one businessman solicited by the Reagan campaign, there were explicit instructions: “Do not give to Mr. Reagan’s campaign directly.” Contributions were directed to an undisclosed committee in California. As for the Guatemalan contributors, “one government official tells of a meeting in the National Palace…where Guatemalan businessmen and government members boasted of funneling money to Reagan but cautioned all listening that the connection was to be kept confidential.”

Death squad godfather Mario Sandoval attended Reagan’s 1981 inaugural ball. So did Adolfo Cuellar, chairman of El Salvador’s WACL chapter until his murder later that year. Cuellar is remembered by former Salvadoran army officers “as a man who used to appear at interrogation centers and beg for permission to torture the prisoners.”

Singlaub claimed that in 1983 there was a purge of violent elements in the Latin chapters: “The people in WACL from Latin American [sic] now are good, respectable anti-communists.” Although CAL was replaced in 1984 by the Federation of Latin American Democratic Entities (FEDAL), not much changed besides the name. According to Anderson and Anderson, only the Mexican Tecos were purged.

When President Reagan sent “warm greetings” to the 1984 WACL conference in San Diego, Mario Sandoval was there. So was contra leader Adolfo Calero, along with assorted racists and fascists from around the world. Said Reagan, “The World Anti-Communist League has long played a leadership role in drawing attention to the gallant struggle now being waged by the true freedom fighters of our day. Nancy and I send you our best wishes for every future success.”

“If I have to get rid of half Guatemala, so the other half can live in peace, I’ll do it, “declared Mario Sandoval during his failed 1985 bid for the Guatemalan presidency. He attended the September 1985 WACL conference in Dallas, along with contra leaders Adolfo Calero and Enrique Bermudez and contra donor Ellen Garwood of Texas. Tom Posey’s Civilian Military Assistance mercenaries provided security.

WACL members called for support of the South African government in its “defense against Moscow-Peking [sic] insurgency.” On September 11, the third day of the conference, Chairman Singlaub proclaimed: “We Commemorate today…the date that first country was liberated from communism: the military overthrow of the Allende regime in Chile…We send a salute to General Augusto Pinochet in Chile,and to Juan Ramon Chaves, president of [Paraguay’s] Colorado Party [also founded on September 11], offering our congratulations.” The Colorado Party of dictator General Alfredo Stoessner has ruled Paraguay for over 30 years. The contra leaders promised that the 1986 WACL convention would be held in Managua.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Singlaub

wiki flagged

John Kirk Singlaub (born July 10, 1921) is a highly decorated former OSS officer, a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a retired Major General in the United States Army. In 1977 Singlaub was relieved from his position as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea after criticizing President Jimmy Carter's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula in an interview with the Washington Post. Less than a year later Singlaub was forced to retire after publicly questioning President Carter's national security policies. In 1979 Singlaub founded the Western Goals Foundation, a private intelligence network that was implicated for supplying weapons to the contras during the Iran-Contra affair. Singlaub is a contributing author to several books and is the author of his autobiography as well as numerous articles.

11 22 same

Biography

Singlaub was born in Independence, California on July 10, 1921.^[1] After graduating from Van Nuys High School^[citation ^needed] in 1939 he attended the University of California at Los Angeles and received after graduation his commission as a second lieutenant of infantry on January 14, 1943.^[1] As a member of Operation Jedburgh (Singlaub was part of the three man team code name JAMES), Singlaub parachuted behind German lines in August 1944 to work with the French Resistance fighters or Maquis groups that had swelled the resistance ranks after the D-Day invasion during World War II. He headed CIA operations in postwar Manchuria during the Chinese Communist revolution, led troops in the Korean War, managed the secret war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Kingdom of Laos and Vietnam, worked with the Contras in Nicaragua, and Afghan resistance during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

During times of crisis, and a host of modern wars, Singlaub served as a leading figure in U.S. national security and defense matters under Democratic and Republican U.S. Presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

In 1977, while Singlaub was chief of staff of U.S. forces in South Korea, he publicly criticized President Jimmy Carter's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula. On March 21, 1977, Carter relieved him of duty for overstepping his bounds and failing to respect the President's authority as Commander-in-Chief.^[2][3] Less than a year later, Singlaub again publicly questioned President Carter's national security policies, this time during a lecture at Georgia Tech, and was forced to retire.^[4]The U.S. Army Special Operations Command presented its first John Singlaub Award in 2013 for "courageous actions ... off the battlefield."[1]

After retiring from the army, Singlaub, with John Rees and Democratic Congressman from Georgia, Larry McDonald founded the Western Goals Foundation. According to The Spokesman-Review, it was intended to "blunt subversion, terrorism, and communism" by filling the gap "created by the disbanding of the House Un-American Activities Committee".^[5]

Prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Marxism-Leninism in the Soviet Union in 1991, Singlaub was founder in 1981 of the United States Council for World Freedom, the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL).The chapter became involved with the Iran–Contra affair,^[6]with Associated Press reporting that, "Singlaub's private group became the public cover for the White House operation".^[7] The WACL was described by former member Geoffrey Stewart-Smith as allegedly a "largely a collection of Nazis, Fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers." Singlaub is credited with purging the organization of these types and making it respectable.^[8]

U.S. Army General William Westmoreland described Singlaub as a "true military professional" and "a man of honest, patriotic conviction and courage."^[citation ^needed]Congressman Henry J. Hyde (Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence Committees), described Singlaub as "a brave man, a thorough patriot, and a keen observer"; someone who had been "in the center of almost every controversial military action since World War II." Active for 40 years in overt and covert operations, he had private and secret interviews with many military and government leaders worldwide.

He personally knew William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence during the Reagan Administration, as well as Oliver North, and was involved in the Iran–Contra affair. Singlaub was President Reagan's administrative chief liaison in the so-called 'private' Contra supply effort to oppose Moscow's and Fidel Castro's advances in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the Cold War and their support for armed Marxist revolutionary guerrilla movements. Through his chairmanship of the world Anti-Communist League (WACL) and its U.S. chapter, the U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF), he enlisted Members of the US Congress from both political parties, Washington, D.C. policymakers, retired U.S. military officials, paramilitary groups, foreign governments, and American think tanks and conservatives in the Contra cause. He often met on Capitol Hill with members of the U.S. Congress, including Congressman Charlie Wilson (Texas politician) (D-TX) about U.S. support and funding for the Contras and anti-communist resistance forces in Afghanistan opposed to the Red Army invasion of Kabul in 1979.

As of 2014, he lives in Franklin, Tennessee. He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.^[9]

Coalition to Salute America's Heroes

The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes, founded by Roger Chapin, named Singlaub to its Board of Directors in 2008. ^[10] Singlaub was paid $180,000 by the charity from 2009-2011. [2] The New York Times critiqued the organization as a money-maker for its founders rather than for veterans. The New York Times described it as an "intolerable fraud" and said the coalition was " among a dozen military-related charities given a grade of F in a study last December by the American Institute of Philanthropy, a nonprofit watchdog group. These and other charities have collected hundreds of millions of dollars from kind-hearted Americans and squandered an unconscionable amount of it on overhead and expenses — 70 percent or 80 percent, or more." ^[11] The Attorney General of California sued the charity in August 2012 for "more than $4.3 million regarding allegations of fraudulent fundraising, self-dealing and excessive executive compensation." The lawsuit also sought removal of its officer and directors. [3] According to the charity's 2013 federal tax return, Singlaub resigned from its board of directors in January 2013. [4] The attorney general of California announced a settlement of the lawsuit in September 2013. [5] Singlaub continues to solicit money for the charity as chairman of its "ambassadors." [6]]

wiki

The Western Goals Foundation was a private intelligence dissemination network active on the right-wing in the United States. It was wound up in 1986, when the Tower Commission revealed it had been part of Oliver North's Iran–Contra funding network.

After the Watergate and COINTELPRO scandals of the early 1970s, several laws were passed to restrict police intelligence gathering within political organizations and tried to make it necessary to demonstrate that a criminal act was likely to be uncovered by any intelligence gathering proposed. Many files on radicals, collected for decades, were ordered destroyed. The unintended effect of the laws was to privatize the files in the hands of 'retired' intelligence officers and their most trusted, dedicated operatives.

Many of these people, like John Rees and Congressman Larry McDonald, were members of the World Anti-Communist League, the John Birch Society, and similar organizations. These two men joined forces with Major General John K. Singlaub to form the Western Goals Foundation in 1979. One of its principal sponsors was the Texan billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.

Western Goals was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after a police officer was caught adding information from the disbanded Los Angeles Police Department "Red Squad" to a related computer Bulletin board system.^[1][2]

It also founded an offshoot, Western Goals (UK), later the Western Goals Institute, which was briefly influential in British Conservative politics.

References

External links

International Relations Center, March 1989, Profile: Western Goals Foundation

Categories:

John Singlaub, Army general who battled with Carter, dies at ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com › local › 2022/01/31

Jan 31, 2022 — John Singlaub, audacious warrior who waged private battle against communism, dies at 100 · Staunch anti-communist · Born to march.

John K. Singlaub, 100, General Who Clashed With Jimmy ...

https://www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/31 › john-k-singlaub...

Feb 6, 2022 — Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, who waged clan...