Inside The League by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson :: Inside The League Scott Anderson

Inside The League by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson   For over ten years progressive researchers in this country and in europium have been uncovering evidence linking certain American conservatives and rightists to racist and fascist movements around the globe through a shadowy organization c completelyed the World Anti-Communist League. straightway the book "Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagans White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lees employer but not his relative). Enlisting the assist of his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that involved terroris ts, Nazi collaborators, racists, assassins, anti-Jewish bigots, and right- wing anti-communist American politicians. The one factor all had in common was their involvement with the World Anti-Communist League.   The Latin American death squads, for instance, were found to be linked through an umbrella group of Central and entropy American rightists called the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL). CAL in turn was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), lead by a retired U.S. Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the set up body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and burning letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years.   WACL also serves as an umbrella for several Eastern European emigre groups founded and lead by Nazi collaborators, and in that respect is far more. As the Anderson brothers write   &qu otWe have examined the World Anti-Communist League...because it is the one organization in which representatives of virtually every right-wing extremist movement that has practiced wrong warfare are to be found. The League is the one constant in this netherworld whether looking at Croation terrorists, Norwegian neo-Nazis, Japanese war criminals, or American ultra-rightists...." (p. x, Authors Note).   WACL is more than a club for aging facists and their modern- day