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 age progressive researchers in this country and in Europe have been show evidence linking certain American conservatives and rightists to racist and fascist movements around the orb through a shadowy organization called the World Anti-Communist League. Now the sustain "Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in lay waste to detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the wipeout camps of national socialist 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). sign up the aid of his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that involved terrorists, Nazi c ollaborators, racists, assassins, anti-Jewish bigots, and right- wing anti-communist American politicians. The cardinal 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 comprehensive group of Central and South American rightists called the Latin American Anti-Communist league (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 coordinating body for raising personal aid for the Contras, a task verify ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and glowing letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years.   WACL also serves as an umbrella for several east European emigre groups founded and lead by Nazi collaborators, and there is far more. As the Anderson brothers write   "We have exam ined the World Anti-Communist League...because it is the one organization in which representatives of virtually every right-wing extremist movement that has practiced wrongful 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