EUSTACE MULLINS and the CONSPIRATORIAL EXTREME RIGHT...rev. 2/3/10
UPDATE: Eustace Mullins died Tuesday, February 2, 2010 in Waller County, Texas. He was 86 years old. He suffered a stroke in Columbus, Ohio three weeks ago. This report will be updated and greatly expanded to incorporate considerable new material from FBI documents and files in the near future.
Several years ago, the late political scientist, Dr. John George, co-author with Laird Wilcox of the 1992 book “Nazis, Communists, Klansmen and Others on The Fringe” told me in confidence about a 1966 interview he had with neo-nazi H. Keith Thompson Jr.
Thompson had known Mullins since the 1950’s when Thompson recruited Mullins to join Thompson’s short-lived group, the American Committee for the Advancement of Western Culture.
Thompson told Dr. George about a conversation he had with Mullins in which Mullins acknowledged that he often concocted fabrications to cause grief to Jews.
An example, according to Mullins, was the fake “speech” which Mullins concocted and attributed to a fake "Rabbi" named Emanuel Rabinovich – allegedly before a special meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, January 12, 1952. The fake speech, which is reminiscent of theProtocols of the Elders of Zion forgery, was entitled "Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World " -- and its text may be seen here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11736412/Rabbi-Rabinovichs-Speech-of-January-12th-1952-Discurs-despre-o-agenda-oculta
The fake “speech” was picked up and widely reprinted by such anti-semitic organs as Conde McGinley’s Common Sense newspaper [see, for example "A Rabbi Speaks: Foretells Gentile Doom", in Common Sense, August 1, 1952, page 1] and the September 1952 “Canadian Intelligence Service” newsletter.
Dr. George asked me to keep the content of his interview with Thompson confidential until Thompson died — which I did. I copy the email I received from Dr. George below:
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Lately, numerous Yahoo and Google discussion groups have contained messages concerning recent economic developments and the messages often cite or recommend Eustace Mullins as "an historian" who provides reliable, credible information.
For those readers who are not familiar with Eustace Mullins’ background and his associations, I present the following brief summary.
FBI CHARACTERIZATION OF EUSTACE MULLINS
“Mullins has been the subject of an extensive Racial Matters investigation. He is a depraved, warped degenerate and alleged homosexual who is a prolific writer. [portion excised] In previous writings he has been extremely critical of the Director and the FBI and has shown that whatever he offers is obviously the work of a deranged and vicious mind. Since it would be inconceivable that any rational person would consider seriously Mullins’ demented allegations and outrageous distortions we have previously considered it unwise to dignify his work with any kind of response.” [J. Edgar Hoover handwritten comment on the memo: “I don’t understand why Pyne gives exposure to such jackals.” FBI HQ file 105-15727, serial #114 which is 10/29/68 memo from M.A. Jones to Mr. Bishop concerning appearance of Mullins on KTTV-Los Angeles, Joe Pyne program.]
MULLINS ASSOCIATION WITH
NATIONAL RENAISSANCE PARTY / JAMES MADOLE
In October 1952, Mullins wrote an article for the National Renaissance PartyBulletin entitled "Hitler: An Appreciation" which may be seen as Exhibit 4 (page 27) of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Report entitled: Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups – here:
http://debs.indstate.edu/u588n4_1954.pdf
Note the HCUA characterization of National Renaissance Party's Bulletin as "avowed fascist."
Also see page 5 for this HCUA characterization of NRP:
“NRP propaganda contains extensive rehashes of Hitler’s speeches. Typical areNational Renaissance Bulletin articles, ‘Adolf Hitler Explains Nazi Anti-Semitism’, appearing in the February 1953 issue, and ‘Adolf Hitler, the George Washington of Europe’, which appeared in the issue of May 1953. NRP’s own leaders imitate the Hitler line. Eustace Mullins, who has joined Madole in his street-corner propagandizing, is the contributor of an article entitled ‘Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation’ in the Bulletin of October 1952. John M. Lundoff, Brooklyn Chairman of the NRP, extolled the features of the Fascist corporate state in the April 1952Bulletin and asked the youth of America to choose between ‘parliamentary democracy with its empty promises and discord or the clear, brave, and youthful Fascist principles outlined here.’ "
The FBI described the NRP as follows:
“The rabidly anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party (NRP), founded in 1949, is one of the oldest white extremist groups in the United States. It is the creation and one-man enterprise of James H. Madole, its National Director. The Nazi ideology of Adolf Hitler has had an enormous influence on Madole and the NRP. Madole has hailed Hitler as ‘the George Washington of Europe’ and called Germany ‘the gem of Europe’ ” [FBI monograph, White Extremist Organizations, part V; FBI HQ file 100-10092, serial #442, July 1970, page ii]
Origins of the National Renaissance Party
“In 1949, Madole launched his NRP, composed mostly of elements from the defunct, anti-Semitic Christian Front and such old pro-Nazi organizations as the German-American Bund, the Citizens Protective League and the Nationalist Action League.” [FBI Monograph, page 1]
The January-February 1972 issue of the NRP Bulletin contained an article entitled "First Racial Government" which identifies the type of individuals they anticipated appealing to and, consequently, why someone with Mullins’ political or ideological convictions might be interested in associating himself with them:
"The NRP collaborated with its political allies, the Ku Klux Klan and White Action Movement, in celebrating the birthday of Adolf Hitler, founder of National Socialism and creator of the first historically-recorded government whose policies were based exclusively on RACIAL considerations."
Also see page 14 of the HCUA Report for the following comment on Mullins:
"Information in the possession of the Committee reveals a significant interchangeability of propagandists working for the allegedly patriotic Common Sense and the avowed fascist National Renaissance Party.
A good example is provided by Eustace Mullins, who frankly eulogizes Hitler in the pages of the National Renaissance Party's Bulletin and who has been observed at an NRP street session in New York City last year. Articles written by Mullins have been appearing in Common Sense since at least September 1951 and, last year, he became a writer on the staff of Common Sense."
MULLINS and H. KEITH THOMPSON’S
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WESTERN CULTURE
Eustace Mullins served as “Treasurer” of H. Keith Thompson’s short-lived American Committee For the Advancement of Western Culture (ACFCWC).
The “Youth Section Leader” of this group was Mullins’ frequent associate and roommate, Matt Koehl (more details about Koehl below).
The ACFAWC was created after an April 1953 meeting held at the farm of Frederick C.F. Weiss in Middletown NY.
Some background information about both Weiss and Thompson will give readers an idea about why Mullins would be attracted to both of them as individuals as well as to Thompson’s new organization.
Frederick Charles Ferdinand Weiss:
Weiss was born in Germany and after coming to the U.S. he became prosperous as a consequence of real estate investments.
During World War II, Weiss was declared an “enemy alien” and he was held on Ellis Island while he was being investigated. Weiss claimed that he never joined the German-American Bund or the Nazi Party. However, after the war ended, Weiss began publishing anti-semitic pamphlets through his own publishing company, Le Blanc Publishers.
In 1949, Weiss had a role in creating, and he was a major financial contributor to, James Madole’s National Renaissance Party.
Harold Keith Thompson Jr.
Thompson was born in Orange NJ on September 17, 1922. In the 1940’s he joined the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. In 1946 he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in history.
From December 1946 thru April 1947, Thompson served as a communications officer aboard the USS Mt. Olympus, the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. He then returned to the U.S. and served on temporary duty with Naval Department Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington DC.
He resigned from the U.S. Navy in order to accept commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. However, in February 1949 he faced a General Court Martial on charges of “scandalous conduct tending to destruction of good morals (sex deviate) and Maltreatment of Person Subject to His Orders.”
After his 1950 dishonorable discharge from the military, Thompson became Vice President and Office Manager of his father’s business in New York City. He also became active in the postwar neo-nazi movement.
Aside from his involvement with Madole’s National Renaissance Party, Thompson registered in September 1952 as the American publicity agent and fund raiser for the outlawed Socialistic Reich Party of West Germany.
Thompson was a devoted fan of Hitler (and Kaiser Wilhelm II and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia—the latter who became a Brigadier General in Hitler's SA.)
On September 30, 1954, Thompson sent a letter to J. Edgar Hoover stating:
“I herewith enclose for the records of your organization the following papers: (1) copy of my appointment as American correspondent, accredited to the United Nations, of ‘Der Weg’, Argentine magazine (monthly) published at Buenos Aires in the German language, (2) Copy of the announcement of my appointment…In connection with my journalistic assignment, I anticipate that I shall uncover, from time to time, data concerning the Communist Internationale, its agents, and its links with jewish pressure groups operating in the United States as ‘charitable’ and ‘defense’organizations. Some of this information, hitherto unpublished, is to be found in my articles appearing in the September and October issues of ‘Expose’. ” [HQ 100-370871, #13, 9/30/54 Thompson letter to Hoover.]
Note #1: the reference to his “Expose” articles refers to Thompson’s 4-part autobiographical series entitled "I Am an American Fascist” which were published in the August, September, October and December 1954 issues.
Note #2: The FBI described the Argentine magazine Der Weg as “a pro-German, anti-semitic publication”. [FBI HQ 100-370871, #31; 2/15/57 New York City memo to Hoover.]
A 1954 FBI memo observes:
“As you recall, Thompson is a sex deviate who was dismissed from the U.S. Marine Corps by general court martial on June 22, 1950. He has been the subject of a security investigation because of his neo-Nazi activities.” [HQ 100-370871, #15; 10/21/54 memo from F.J. Baumgardner to A.H. Belmont.] Serial #21 of same file states: “In October 1953 he volunteered information that he was a homosexual.” [HQ 100-370871, #21; 10/19/54 Baumgardner to Belmont].
Keith Thompson hoped that his new Committee would become a coordinating group for white racial and nationalist activities of groups around the world.
The above-referenced 1954 House Committee on Un-American Activities report concerning neo-fascist groups, contains this comment on Keith Thompson:
“In the summer of 1953, the NRP announced plans to run a candidate for Congress from the Yorkville district. Nothing further was heard of the scheme, however. The would-be candidate was H. Keith Thompson, Jr., who was identified in the National Renaissance Bulletin as a former registered agent for Maj. Gen. Otto Remer’s Socialist Reich Party---a neo-Nazi group in West Germany now banned by the German Government. The NRP had previously publicized Thompson as the national director of a newly formed American Committee for the Advancement of Western Culture. James Madole, Kurt Mertig, Frederick Charles F. Weiss, and other ‘officers and members’ of the NRP also were represented on this committee, which had the grandiose role of serving as‘a high policy planning group for the coordination of racial nationalist activities in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.’”
Among the other assorted bigots and political extremists who attachedthemselves to ACFAWC were: John H. Monk, Peter L. Xavier, Kurt Mertig, Benjamin H. Freedman, and Guy C. Stephens.
EUSTACE MULLINS & CONDE MCGINLEY’S NEWSPAPER
COMMON SENSE
Not surprisingly, Mullins became a frequent contributor to Conde McGinley’s newspaper, Common Sense.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities described Conde McGinley's "Common Sense" newspaper as "almost exclusively a vehicle for the exploitation of ignorance, prejudice and fear" and as "a clearinghouse for hate propaganda throughout the country."
See the HCUA report for the following observations about McGinley and his newspaper:
Pages 11-12
“Beginning in 1948, however, Common Sense became increasingly outspoken in its statements of a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic nature. It was soon almost exclusively a vehicle for the exploitation of ignorance, prejudice, and fear. The paper devoted considerable space in 1948 to the support of the late Robert H. Best, American newsman who was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in that year as a result of his broadcasts for the Nazis in World War II. A eulogy of Best appearing in Common Sense for December 15, 1952, described him as a ‘patriot,’ ‘Paul Revere,’ and ‘true Christian American.’ “
Page 15
“Conde McGinley, Sr., has maintained a particularly cooperative relationship with two disseminators of anti-Semitic literature from Chicago: Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling and Mrs. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning.
Mrs. Dilling’s writings have been circulating since the 1930’s. Mrs. Van Hyning is the head of an organization known as We, The Mothers, Mobilize For America, Inc., and is editor of the publication, Women’s Voice…
A number of individuals notorious for their efforts to create a nationwide fascist organization in the United States in the 1930’s are also propagandizing again throughCommon Sense. McGinley has printed articles and letters from Gen. George Van Horn Moseley (Ret.), Col. Eugene N. Sanctuary, and Charles B. Hudson. He has advertised for sale a new book by Robert Edward Edmondson. The Special Committee on Un-American Activities reported in 1940 that General Moseley was being seriously considered as a national leader of an attempted union of fascist and hate groups in the United States until the plans were exposed and Moseley was called as a witness before the committee. The special committee named Sanctuary, Hudson, and Edmondson as being among the individuals who took part in this unsuccessful attempt to create a united fascist movement.”
A typical 1962 article in Common Sense is an "expose" entitled: "Zionist Invisible Government Plotting To Establish a World Government Under A Red Dictatorship Led By Asiatic Marxist Jews".
The American Legion's Americanism Commission denounced all of Conde McGinley's enterprises as "hate" inspired bigotry.
A memo in Mullins’ FBI file discusses an article he wrote which was published in the 7/1/54 issue of Common Sense, that developed the theme “that the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in schools is the culmination of a Communist International directive to the CPUSA to use the Negro racial issue and the issue of civil rights as a method to weaken America. The article indicates that the document to prove this contention was seized by government agents raiding the Bridgeman Michigan Convention of the Communist Party, 8/22/22.”
According to Mullins the document “is in the files of the FBI today but the Director is under strict orders not to reveal (it) at any cost because it would brand the Supreme Court as a front or agent of the Communist International.”
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