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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007)[note 2] was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On September 1, 1983, the South Korean airliner servicing the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The Boeing 747 airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul,but due to a navigational mistake made by the KAL crew the airliner deviated from its original planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace about the time of a U.S. aerial reconnaissance mission. The Soviet Air Forces treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding U.S. spy plane, and destroyed it with air-to-air missiles, after firing warning shots which were likely not seen by the KAL pilots.[2] The Korean airliner eventually crashed in the sea near Moneron Island west of Sakhalin in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Larry McDonald, a United States Representative from Georgia. The Soviets found the wreckage under the sea on September 15, and found the flight recorders in October, but this information was kept secret until 1993.

The Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident,[3] but later admitted shooting down the aircraft, claiming that it was on a MASINT spy mission.[4] The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union said it was a deliberate provocation by the United States[5] to probe the Soviet Union's military preparedness, or even to provoke a war. The White House accused the Soviet Union of obstructing search and rescue operations.[6] The Soviet Armed Forces suppressed evidence sought by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) investigation, such as the flight recorders,[7] which were released ten years later, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[8]

The incident was one of the most tense moments of the Cold War and resulted in an escalation of anti-Soviet sentiment, particularly in the United States.

As a result of the incident, the United States altered tracking procedures for aircraft departing from Alaska. The interface of the autopilot used on airliners was redesigned to make it more ergonomic.[9] In addition, the incident was one of the most important events that prompted the Reagan administration to allow worldwide access to the United States Global Positioning System (GPS).[10][11]

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Col. Samuel Dickens, a former intelligence officer and CIS board member, was the executive director for inter-hemispheric affairs for theAmerican Security Council (ASC), an outfit founded by ex-FBI agents. ASC was an instrumental group which targeted leftists during the 1950s, the period of the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Founded in 1955, ASC funding has been provided by Motorola, Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics, among others.[15] The information they collected, much of it bogus, was then sold to ASC's dues-paying corporate members. At the height of their domestic operations ASC red hunters, including the sinister Roy Cohn, Senator McCarthy's chief inquisitor, were gathering the names of alleged "subversives" at the staggering rate of 20,000 per month.  [16] One analyst has said that the ASC is "not just the representative of the military-industrial complex, it is the personification of the military-industrial complex."[17]

26 Helvarg, The War Against the Greens, p. 254; Rowell, Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement,pp. 134, 152-154; Dennis King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, p. 237;

Berlet, Hunt for Red Menace:

"One month before the Clamshell Alliance staged its massive Seabrook occupation, [representatives of the LaRouche group] met with New Hampshire State Police agents, and warned them the demonstration was a cover for a terrorist attack. Among the documents provided to the police was material from Information Digest, a right-wing blacklist newsletter produced by aides and consultants to the late Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA), a John Birch Society member who often blasted progressive groups in the Congressional Record.These USLP-supplied documents were apparently the basis for then-New Hampshire Governor Thompson's statements that the Seabrook Demonstration was being planned by terrorists.'**:{In the New Hampshire Police's summary of the USLP material, the Labor Party representatives are**repeatedly described as well- informed' and the police investigators give total credence to the charges that the proposed demonstration was `nothing but a cover for terrorist activity.' The Seabrook demonstration included non-violent civil disobedience, but no acts of violence on the part of the demonstrators."}:

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[14] Nelson Blackstock, COINTELPRO: The FBI's War On Political Freedom , New York, Pathfinder Press, 1988;

Frank Donner, Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in America , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990

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... Hearing Knowles Fails To Identify Letters At Bridges Trial SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Attorneys ... today to prove existence of a conspiracy to deport Bridges by questioning Harper Knowles, ..... James I lines of the Los Angeles police red squad.

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during the 1934 west coast maritime strike by Edward Haff, San Francisco director of immigration, to ..... She described the efforts of private investigator Harper Knowles to .... Browne of the Portland police red squad, threatened to beat him up.

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Milner carried off his Communist masquerade so well that the American Legion took away his Legion button, and his former friend, Detective William "Big Bill" Browne of the Portland police red squad, threatened to beat him up. LANIxs 12-13. 71. Id. at 14.

...133. His committee became a clearing house for records and reports sent in from up and down the coast by a score of public and private agencies that were keeping an eye on union organizers and supposed leftists. Knowles testified that he shared information reciprocally with employers and outfits like the Associated Farmers, but that his working arrangement with Army and Navy Intelligence, and with the immigration people, was one-way-he gave them information, but they didn't give him any. Clarence Morrill, director of the California State Bureau of Criminal Identification, was more co- operative, and Captain Hynes of the Los Angeles red squad carried out ad hoc investigations for Knowles. The telephone company was helpful, too, releasing to Knowlesphone numbers and

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contradict his original recitals. He misled the examiner again and again only to be forced by documentary evidence and the testimony of others ultimately to reveal a wholly different story of his activities and the activities of his men than he first sought to portray. . 137 Keegan began by saying that his investigation of Bridges was routine, the kind he would run on a suspected housebreaker: "Bridges isn't any more to me than anyone else."' 38 He first became interested in Bridges, he said, when Larry Doyle called on him in 1937, just before a Maritime Federation of the Pacific Convention in Portland. Doyle told Keegan he was investigating Bridges for the state of Oregon, and Keegan loaned him Big Bill Browne, a member of the red squad and chairman of the Legion's Americanism Committee for his state.3 9 Keegan said he decided that, while Browne and Doyle went off on their own, he had better cover the convention himself, with the help of several of his plainclothesmen.

He had never done this with any other union meeting, but until the maritime workers organized, he hadn't had to worry much about unions. "We had a bitter experience during the 1934 waterfront strike because we weren't properly prepared . ... I wanted to know what was going on, and I couldn't find out much from the newspapers, especially what was going on in the caucuses."'140 That seemed plausible, but later, under Gladstein's persistent questioning, Keegan admitted that he and his men hadn't paid any attention to strike talk. What they were after, he grudgingly conceded, was proof that Bridges was a Communist.141 If the Bridges investigation was routine, as Keegan insisted over and over, Portland police deserved high marks for industry. They were also unusually generous in the lengths they were willing to go to help the federal government, for the activities of Bridges that they concerned themselves with could only be prosecuted by federal authorities. But Keegan could not admit that he and his colleagues were an unofficial investigative arm for Government attorneys Bonham and Norene, any more than he could own up to his collaboration with Harper Knowles and the Los Angeles red squad.' 42

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confirmed the existence of the get-Bridges conspiracy that Carol King had pointed to in her opening statement. Thus, Keegan was evasive when asked to describe why, for a couple of years, he and several of his men ranged up and down the coast, interviewing possible witnesses and following up leads for use against Bridges. Or the reason he put up the money to bring witnesses from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Portland so Bonham and Norene could talk to them. Or why the city should have paid the bill for his junket to Washington to testify before the Dies Committee that the Portland red squad had found Bridges to be a Communist. All of this raised another sticky question for the squirming captain: Those trips had cost somebody a lot of money; where had it come from? Keegan answered that his chief of police always met his requests for cash and never asked how he used it. He testified that not a dime came from outside the police department, but once again, he had to recant. After repeated denials that he knew of any payments, he finally admitted that the teamsters' union, for one, had generously underwritten some of his expenses, but that it had "slipped his mind." 143 The next two defense witnesses, Harold Chapman Brown 44 and Walter Thompson, both professors at Stanford, were called to testify about Marxist theory and thereby to counter the Government's contention that the Communist Party advocated the violent overthrow of the Government.145

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any 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]

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John Rees is a British right wing journalist and government informant resident in the United States.[1] Based in Baltimore, Maryland, he was active during the 1970s and 1980s.

Rees ran a network of private informants on college campuses in the United States, that Political Research Associates referred to as often having better placed infiltrators among campus groups than the FBI's own agents.[2] The network would pass information along to Rees, who would in turn forward it to the director of intelligence at FBI headquarters. From there it would be forwarded to field offices. These activities were part of a network of private right wing groups that the FBI used to gather intelligence on government critics and people opposed to the Reagan Administration's foreign policy stance in Central America.[3]

Rees also criticized Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement saying the organization had "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party," and a cult-like "blind obedience."[4] Among the publications he was associated with were Review of the News and American Opinion, published by the John Birch Society, with which Rees was an active collaborator.[5] His own Information Digest reported on extremist movements on both the left and right ends of the political spectrum. In addition, he worked with the Birch Society's late Congressman Larry McDonald in the activities of the Western Goals Foundation.[2]

Rees' lover, author Grace Metalious, was persuaded by him just before her death to sign a will leaving her entire estate to him, with the understanding that he would take care of her children. Her family was able to invalidate the will, but to little result as her estate proved to be insolvent from years of lavish living, overgenerosity towards "friends", and embezzlement by an agent. At the time of her death she had bank accounts totalling $41,174 and debts of more than $200,000.[6]

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Lawrence Patton McDonald (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1975 until he was killed while a passenger on board Korean Air Lines Flight 007 when it was shot down by Soviet interceptors.

A conservative Democrat, McDonald was active in numerous civic organizations and maintained a very conservative voting record in Congress. He was the prime mover in dedicating two statues in the US Congress Capitol Rotunda to prominent African-American leaders. He was known for his staunch opposition to communism. He was the second president of the John Birch Society, and also a cousin of General George S. Patton.[1]

Early life and career

Larry McDonald was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, more specifically in the eastern part of the city that is in DeKalb County. As a child, he attended several private and parochial schools before attending a non-denominational high school. He spent two years at high school before graduating in 1951.[1][2] He studied at Davidson College from 1951-53, spending time studying history. He entered the Emory University School of Medicine at the age of 17, graduating in 1957.[1][2] He interned at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He trained as a urologist at the University of Michigan Hospital under Prof. Reed M. Nesbit. Following completion in 1966 he returned to Atlanta and entered practice with his father.[citation needed]

From 1959 to 1961, he served as a flight surgeon in the United States Navy stationed at the Keflavík naval base in Iceland. McDonald married an Icelandic national, Anna Tryggvadottir, with whom he would eventually have three children: Tryggvi Paul, Callie Grace, and Mary Elizabeth.[1] It was in Iceland that McDonald first began to take note of communism. He felt the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik was doing things advantageous to the Communists; therefore he went to his commanding officer, but was told he did not understand the big picture.[1]

After his tour of service he practiced medicine at the McDonald Urology Clinic in Atlanta. He took an increasing interest in politics, reading books on political history and foreign policy.[1] He joined the John Birch Society—a conservative, anti-communist organization — in 1966 or 1967.[3] His passionate preoccupation with politics led to a divorce from his first wife.[1] McDonald made one unsuccessful run for Congress in 1972 before being elected in 1974. In 1975, he married Kathryn Jackson, whom he met while giving a speech in California.[1] He fathered two children with Kathryn.[citation needed]

McDonald served as a member on the Georgia State Medical Education Board (as chairman, 1969–74[2]), the National Historical Society, the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce, and received numerous civil honors.[citation needed]

Political career

In 1974, McDonald ran for Congress against incumbent John W. Davis in the Democratic primary as a conservative who was opposed to mandatory federal school integration programs. McDonald successfully criticized Davis for being one of only two Georgia congressmen to vote in favor of busing. He was also effective in attacking Davis for receiving thousands of dollars in political donations from out-of-state groups, principally from New York City and Los Angeles. These groups favored mandatory federal programs that used busing to achieve school integration.[4]

McDonald won the primary in a surprise upset and was elected in November 1974 to the 94th United States Congress, serving Georgia's 7th congressional district, which included most of Atlanta's northwestern suburbs (including Marietta), where opposition to school busing was especially high. However, during the general election, J. Quincy Collins Jr., an Air Force prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, running as a Republican, nearly defeated him, despite the poor performance of Republicans nationally that year due to the aftereffects of the Watergate scandal. McDonald, though, was re-elected four times with wide margins (including a 1976 rematch with Collins) and served from January 3, 1975 until his death on September 1, 1983.[citation needed]

McDonald, who considered himself a traditional Democrat "cut from the cloth of Jefferson and Jackson", was known for his conservative views, even by Southern standards. In fact, one scoring method published in the American Journal of Political Science[5] named him the second most conservative member of either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002 (behind only Ron Paul).[6]

The American Conservative Union gave him a perfect score of 100 every year he was in the House of Representatives, except in 1978, when he scored a 95.[7] He also scored "perfect or near perfect ratings" on the congressional scorecards of the National Right to Life Committee, Gun Owners of America, and the American Security Council.[8] McDonald was referred to by The New American as "the leading anti-Communist in Congress".[8]

McDonald admired Senator Joseph McCarthy[9] and was a member of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation. He took the communist threat seriously and considered it an international conspiracy. An admirer of Austrian economics and a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he was an advocate of tight monetary policy in the late 1970s to get the economy out of stagflation, and advocated returning to the gold standard.[10]

McDonald called the welfare state a "disaster"[11] and favored phasing control of the Great Society programs over to the states to operate and run.[12] He also favored cuts to foreign aid, saying, "To me, foreign aid is an area that you not only can cut but you could take a chainsaw to in terms of reductions."[12]

His staunch conservative views on social issues attracted controversy. For instance, McDonald sponsored amendments to stop government aid to homosexuals.[13] McDonald also co-sponsored a bill "expressing the sense of the Congress that homosexual acts and the class of individuals who advocate such conduct shall never receive special consideration or a protected status under law".[14]

He advocated the use of the non-approved drug laetrile to treat patients in advanced stages of cancer[15] despite medical opinion that the promotion of laetrile to treat cancer was a canonical example of quackery.[16][17][18] McDonald also opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,[19] saying the FBI had evidence that King "was associated with and being manipulated by communists and secret communist agents".[20] However, he supported many African-American causes and was a prime mover in dedicating two statues in the US Congress Capital Rotunda-area to prominent African Americans George Washington Carverand Booker T. Washington.[21]

A fire-arms enthusiast and game hunter, McDonald allegedly had "about 200" guns at his official district residence.[22]

In 1979, with John Rees and Major General John K. Singlaub, 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 Committeeand what [McDonald] considered to be the crippling of the FBI during the 1970s". McDonald became the second president of the John Birch Society in 1983, succeeding Robert Welch.[20]

McDonald rarely spoke on the House floor, preferring to insert material into the Congressional Record.[20] These insertions typically dealt with foreign policy issues relating to the Soviet Union and domestic issues centered on the growth of non-Soviet and Soviet sponsored leftist subversion. A number of McDonald's insertions relating to the Socialist Workers Party were collected into a book, Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution, published in 1977.[23]

During his time in Congress, McDonald introduced over 150 bills, including legislation to:

Death

Main article: Korean Air Lines Flight 007

McDonald was invited to South Korea to attend a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the United States–South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty with three fellow members of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Senator Steve Symms of Idaho, and Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky.[24]Due to bad weather on Sunday, August 28, 1983, McDonald's flight from Atlanta was diverted to Baltimore and when he finally arrived at JFK Airport in New York, he had missed his connection to South Korea by two or three minutes.[19]

McDonald could have boarded a Pan Am Boeing 747 flight to Seoul, but he preferred the lower fares of Korean Air Lines and chose to wait for the next KAL flight two days later.[19] Simultaneously, Hubbard and Helms planned to meet with McDonald to discuss how to join McDonald on the KAL 007 flight. As the delays mounted, instead of joining McDonald, Hubbard at the last minute gave up on the trip, canceled his reservations, and accepted a Kentucky speaking engagement while Helms attempted to join McDonald but was also delayed.[25]

McDonald occupied an aisle seat, 02B in the first class section, when KAL 007 took off on August 31 at 12:24 AM local time, on a 3,400 miles (5,500 km) trip to Anchorage, Alaska for a scheduled stopover seven hours later. The plane remained on the ground for an hour and a half during which it was refueled, reprovisioned, cleaned, and serviced.[19] The passengers were given the option of leaving the aircraft but McDonald remained on the plane, catching up on his sleep.Helms meanwhile had managed to arrive and invited McDonald to move onto his flight, KAL 015, but McDonald did not wish to be disturbed.

With a fresh flight crew, KAL 007 took off at 4 AM local time for its scheduled non-stop flight over the Pacific to Seoul's Kimpo International Airport, a nearly 4,500 miles (7,200 km) flight that would take approximately eight hours.[19] On September 1, 1983, McDonald and the rest of the passengers and crew of KAL 007 were killed when Soviet fighters, under the command of Gen. Anatoly Kornukov, shot down KAL 007 near Moneron Island after the plane entered Soviet airspace.

The International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors, a group made up of some families of the victims of the shootdown, maintains that there is reason to believe that McDonald and others of Flight 007 survived the shootdown.[26] The committee corroborates this theory with claims that Soviet military communication and black box transcripts show a post-missile detonation flightpath at 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) for almost 5 minutes until the stricken aircraft was over the only land mass in the Tatar straits and within Soviet territorial waters, where it began a slow spiral descent.

This viewpoint has received some coverage in the conservative news agency Accuracy in Media and also the New American, the magazine of the John Birch Society.[27][28][29][30][31]

Aftermath

After McDonald's death, a special election was held to fill his seat in Congress. Former Governor Lester Maddox stated his intention to run for the seat if McDonald's widow, Kathy McDonald, did not.[32]

Kathy McDonald did decide to run, but lost to George "Buddy" Darden. Much of the congressional district McDonald represented would later be represented by Newt Gingrich.[citation needed]

Tribute

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On March 18, 1998, the Georgia House of Representatives, "as an expression of gratitude for his able service to his country and defense of the US Constitution", passed a resolution naming the portion of Interstate 75, which runs from the Chattahoochee River northward to the Tennessee state line in his honor, the Larry McDonald Memorial Highway.

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Not even the tremendous gains of the counter-subversion worldview during the Reagan years pacified the true believers. Their concerns were expressed at a February 1989 conference held by nativist conspiracy theorists in Worcester, Massachusetts where author John Stormer told the crowd of 200 that, "Communists are running wild in America."

Many in attendance were recruited through flyers distributed by ultra-conservative Christian fundamentalist groups. The conference packet held an issue of the magazine published by the John Birch Society whose headquarters graced the Boston suburb of Belmont for many years. In fact, key figures of the Birch Society attended the sessions, and one person who has monitored the Birchers for almost 20 years concluded the seminar was clear evidence that the Birch Society and its mentality are alive and well, at least in the Boston area.

The Worcester audience watched Oliver North's communist red menace slide show which was origially used for contra fundraising. North's trial was mentioned repeatedly in the context of proving the treason of those who are prosecuting North.

Treason and conspiracy were the main themes of the conference. Stormer's "None Dare Call it Treason" was for sale at the conference and formed the outline of the presentations. The back cover summarizes the text as detailing "the communist-socialist conspiracy to enslave America" and documenting "the concurent decay in America's schools, churches, and press which has conditioned the American people to accept 20 years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy." Liberals, secularists, humanists, and psychologists were all denounced as helping pave the way for a communist takeover. Stormer was joined by Conservative Caucus founder Howard Phillips who conducted several workshops on the domestic subversive network.

According to Stormer, all problems worldwide "stem from the Soviet Union." The roots of government subversion in the U.S. were planted at the Department of Agriculture where "Young Communist attorneys, fresh off the campuses of Harvard and Columbia" began to plan the take over of every government agency.

After Iran-Contragate, said Stormer, "hard-line knowledgable anti-communists, such as Oliver North" were cleaned out of the National Security Council, when really the "State Department needs to be cleaned out."

Stormer blamed liberals in Congress and the Jimmy Carter Administration for destroying internal security in U.S. and allowing communist subversion to flourish. He said North was forced to lie to Congress because North didn't want to give sensitive information to Congressman George Crockett, thought to be a security risk because as an NLG attorney in the 1950's, Crockett defended top communist leaders called before congressional committees and prosecuted for their beliefs. Stormer said Crocket, "showed his allegiance, although he has never been identified as a known communist."

The audience in Worcester bought the whole apple pie served up by Stormer. The only serious discussion between workshops cen tered the pervasiveness of the conspiracy, and the role of the Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, Council on Foriegn Relations and Fabian Socialism. The scene could well have been painted by a tipsy Norman Rockwell attempting a pastiche of Picasso's Guernica. There were sex-segregated rows of fresh-faced teenagers from private Christian schools, businessmen in banker's suits, middle aged women with henna hair and diamond earings, grey-haired dowagers shrinking into their furs, young professionals in tweed sports coats and wire rimmed glasses, craggy couples in wool shirts and bulky sweaters.

According to Stormer, "If you have millions of people conditioned to think a certain way by the humanists, it only takes a few communists to manipulate them." The framework of the conspiracy is erected through state control of the public school educational system which was first instituted by John Dewey in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Dewey not only urged centralized curriculums under state government agencies, but encouraged the expurgation of religion from the then widely-used McGuffey Readers series of schoolbooks. Thus it is the secularization of American society that is leading to its demise.

Stormer believed that secularists, liberals, humanists, and socialists pave the way for communism due to their naive believe that Man is basically good, when true Christian conservatives know that Man is basically evil and finds goodness only through God. Because of the erroneous belief in evolution, all humanists think communism will eventually evolve, which is impossible. Because of pervasive acceptance of modern psychology, humanists believe Man is a product of his environment; they thus think if the communists do something bad, it must be our fault. Of course, true Christian conservatives realize that Communism is the embod iment of evil, said Stormer.

What is important to Stormer and his allies is made clear by his comment that "Nicauragua under Somoza was not a system we would be comfortable living under, but at least you could own private property and practice your religion." Stormer said Reagan appointees such as U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick understood this concept, which is why they were forced out of the Reagan Adminstration, which all conference speakers agreed had sold out to the "Washington Insiders".

Howard Phillips doesn't have much faith in the Bush Adminstration either, calling the first term the "third Bush Administration" Phillips announced that "the Western Alliance is coming apart at the seams," and suggested we should "take back the Panama Canal" and "support for South Africa as a bulwark against communism."

Phillips, who one headed up the Young Republican Club at Harvard, moved on to be appointed by Nixon to dismantle the Office on Economic Opportunity which Stormer described as "basically financing the whole revolution in American cities." Phillips spoke on the topic: "How U.S. Taxpayers Finance Perversion and Domestic Leftists."

Another key thesis of the Stormer conference was that the American intelligence community was still hamstrung by laws, court decisions. federal regulations and a cabal of traitors, from adequately penetrating the subversive political movements in America today. Indeed, that premise is a central thesis of the counter-subversion network and why it sees a need to not only cooperates with the FBI, but also to establish parallel surveillance structures.

From Red Menace to the Pink, Green, and Lavender Subversives

Campus Counter-subversion

At the 1989 Conservative Political Action Conference counter- subversion starJ. Michael Waller spoke at a student workshop on conducting "Opposition Research." At the workshop a pamphlet published by the Young Americans for Freedom was distributed. Titled "List of Un-American Organizations on Our College Campuses" the 15-page booklet is dedicated to "Uncle Joe (1908-1957)" and fulfills its McCarthyist heritage by its blacklist-style smears of CISPES,United Campuses Against Nuclear War, Communist Party USA, Oxfam America, Trans Africa, Washington Office on Africa, United States Student Association, and a "Sandinista Support Network" including Witness for Peace, Nicaragua Network and TecNica.

According to the pamphlet:

=== "With Congress and the FBI no longer able to investigate anti-American activities on the college campuses, it has increasingly become the responsibility of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) to keep watch over those groups who desire to undermine America. === "While YAF was able to secretly monitor Leftist groups for the last several years, a recent string of newspaper articles and a television documentary have appeared, blowing YAF's cover.

The pamphlet also archly warns that it hopes to provide:

=== "a basic idea of the terrible threat these Hard- Left groups pose to our way of life. Many of these groups take their orders directly from a hostile foreign power and all of them are entrenched on at least one of the college campuses in your community.

Corporate Security

Commercial security consulting firms such as Vance Security Assets Protection Team, Business Risks International, and Wackenhut continue to offer services with paranoid right-wing assumptions sometimes in evidence. This is especially true with security during labor struggles or strikes. Information on this area is meager given the secretive nature of the organizations. A study of Vance was published by the paperworkers union.

Rees's Pieces

The former kingpin of the intelligence arm of the counter- subversion network John Rees, Rees was a Falstafian figure who relished his role and the intrigue it involved. He is assisted by a staff of investigators which includes his wife, Sheila Louise Rees, a former aide to the late Rep. Larry McDonald. Rees also runs a network of informants and infiltrators which often is better placed than FBI informants and is more professional than the young campus-oriented network favored by the Council for Inter-American Security and Young Americans for Freedom.

S. Louis Rees now is the official editor of Information Digest, published out of a house in Baltimore, Maryland where she is assisted by John Rees and Martha Powers.

The Neo-Nazi KKK Network

At the farthest fringe of the counter-subversion movement are the Neo-Nazi and Klan groups in the U.S. that are known to share data on their ideological and racial enemies,

Although this activity frequently is carried out in secret, one published clue appeared in the newspaper of the neo-Nazi White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.) run by former California Klan leader Tom Metzger. The article, which refers to ZOG, the Zionist Occupational Government, speaks for itself:

=== ". . .Agents of the Jew power system must learn a lesson in honesty. (We differentiate between an honest labor- oriented Left, eager to know more about anti-establishment Whites apart from their media stereotype, and the dishonest Leftists who are really only police spies). W.A.R. would like to obtain photographs of ZOG agents such as Leonard Zeskind of the so-called Center for Democratic Renewal' (a.k.a. National Anti-Klan Network), Chip' Berlet of `Midwest Research' and similar police- tied groups (Public Eye, ADL, etc.) and individuals. === "All such photographs and documents are intended only to protect our rights. (Our criteria for determining if a Left group is police-connected is to examine their reporting of the murders of Kahl and Mathews. If they simply repeat the pig's version of events, something they would never do if negroes or Jews were victims-they are ZOG). Let's keep an eye on the spies and, through legal means, use their own tactics against them: White activists should attend these ZOG group's meetings whenever possible-taking notes or tape recording the talks. === "Send copies to W.A.R. Counterintelligence c/o this newspaper-and be sure to photograph the speakers and their associates-such photos are a big help to our team.

Needless to say, it is unlikely that information gathered by this network is shared with federal or local law enforcement officials.

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