It would be foolish to quibble with the Jane Hunter material or the fwd. of Milton Jamail and Margo Gutierrez, that Yoshie sent. (Who am I or Leo, press agents for the IDF? http://www.idf.il/ Heh, Mac sez yes! ;-) Any regular reader of CAQ or NACLA has known of the longterm relationships that have been cultivated by successive Israeli gov't's., Labour and Likud, with repressive dictatorships. (It would be interesting to track arms sales and military training to the Guatemalans, say, by Israel, after Carter cut off aid.)
That said, again I'll harp (not HAARP! http://www.conspire.com/haarp.html http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/haarp.htm ) on the other sides alliances. (Looking for web cites on PFLP, found this. Again, how many thousands of socialists and communists has the "anti-imperialist" Iraqi Ba'athist regime killed? http://www.malaysiakini.com/Column/2001/05/2001053101.php3 "By now, Saddam Hussein was in power. If the atmosphere in 1976 was stifling, now it was unbearable for Isham. “They were hanging ‘communists’ practically by the busloads!”
When Saddam assumed power as president after the retirement of Hassan Al-Bakr in 1979, he quickly established his party as the only ruling group in the country, doing away with the communist and Kurdish factions of Iraq’s previous coalition government.
In the next six months, Isham traveled around Iraq, including the northeastern Kurdistan region, to get away from the oppressive environment of Baghdad. Iraq was, by now, mounting a campaign that would eventually lead to the invasion of neighboring Iran in 1980.")
PFLP and Euronazis, see, http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/hirg.html http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/Roger/2457/FASOUT.htm Post-war fascism outside Europe "The Arab connection There is a potentially more sinister aspect of fascism's post-war internationalization to be mentioned. This is the internationalization of fascist terrorism. Given that a radical hostility to Israel is, for very different reasons, a common denominator between fascists and many Arab states, it is not surprising if there has been a degree of collaboration between them. In the late sixties a Belgian secretary to La Nation Européenne (pan-European fascism again) was adviser to Al-Fatah, and another Belgian neo-Nazi helped with its recruitment drive. In 1969 Nazi leaders in Madrid decided to give full support to Al-Fatah and other PLO groups, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine acquired a former Nazi commander for their training camp in Basra. Since then a number of links between European Nazis and the PLO have come to light (see Wilkinson, 1981, pp. 125-6). In Ray Hill's time as a mole within the British ultra-right, he came across evidence that money funding the distribution to British MPs of the revisionist classic The Six Million Reconsidered in the early 1980s came from the World Muslim League, an organization based in Karachi but linked to Saudi Arabia. This is nothing new. Egyptian anti-Zionists were negotiating with the British neo-Nazi Colin Jordan in 1962 to fund anti-Semitic propaganda, and ever since the mid-1970s European fascists from such terrorist groups as the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari and Wehrsportsgruppe Hoffman have participated in its paramilitary activities (see Hill, 1988, ch. 10). The links between fascism and the Arab world were still strong well into the 1980s, when Libyan sources were subsidizing the National Front's journal Nationalism Today, and supplying funds to both the Strasserite faction which took control of the NF in 1983 and the paramilitary group Column 88 (the 88 stood for Heil Hitler, H being the eighth letter of the alphabet). The NF reciprocated by advertizing Colonel Gaddhafi's Green Book and supporting the Ayatollah Khomeini in their broadsheets. The front page of National Front News of March 1988, for example, announced that `revolutionary nationalist groups, racial separatists and the anti-Zionist nations of the Middle East, are beginning to recognize a common set of interests and enemies which make closer cooperation between both beneficial and inevitable.' In typically palingenetic style it goes on `Against our common enemies - capitalism and communism - we are at last beginning to develop a credible alternative: the Third Way.'Just how far the international affiliations of fascism can grow in geographical extension and surreality is shown by the case of the Australian People's Congress. In the mid 1980s it was led by Robert Pash, who also ran the National Vanguard, which preached white supremacy on Ku Klux Klan lines. Both APC and the NV, however, claimed to have the support of Gaddhafi's government. Though Gaddhafi denied this claim, the fact remains that the NPM's magazine The Green March advocated a version of the revolutionary political system outlined in the Colonel's Green Book. Nevertheless, despite the potential terrorist threat posed by collaboration between Islamic extremists of the Middle East and the ultra-nationalism of European racists, united in their hatred both of Western (or `American') capitalism, materialism, secularism and `Zionism', there is no evidence that it has become a reality. The fascist outrages which have grabbed headlines in Germany and the USA have been strictly domestic affairs."
Martin A. Lee, "The Beast Reawakens, " on post WWII neo-fascism. Chapter on Jean Thiarart, a French neo-fascist and his links with PFLP and Juan Peron.
Exhaustively fascinating material in Kevin Coogan bio on Francis Parker Yockey on "Red-Brown, " and Arab/Nazi Fascist and post WWII neo-fascist cooperation. Review in Race Traitor by Loren Goldner here. http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/yockey.html "An American National Bolshevik, " Kevin Coogan. Dreamer of the Day. Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Autonomedia. New York, 1999. 642 p. $16.95.
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/bjs/ J.M. Bale, “Right-Wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War II Europe” Volume XXXII, 1987 http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/history/grads/dissertations/1994/bale.html Title: THE "BLACK" TERRORIST INTERNATIONAL: NEO-FASCIST PARAMILITARY NETWORKS AND THE "STRATEGY OF TENSION" IN ITALY, 1968-1974 Author: Bale, Jeffrey McKenzie Field: Late Modern Europe Year: 1994
Now, on to leftists, tortured by military regimes suffused in national security doctrines full of far right BS about the, "Judeo-Bolshevik, " threat.
http://www.freemedia.at/IPIReport2.00/46timerman.htm "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, " by Jacobo Timerman. Acct. of his torture by the Argentine fascist regime in the 70's) (For contrast see neo-con attacks on Timerman, alluded to here. www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=191 ) Middle East Bibliography by Mennonite pacifists. http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/qbib.htm *Timerman, Jacobo. The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. A heartbreaking book. Timerman, who lost family in the Holocaust and who was imprisoned and tortured in Argentina, emigrated to Israel in 1979. Although he had been brought up to believe certain Zionist myths, he could not help but recognize fascism and oppression when he saw it. His anguish is authentic.
Radio Islam website http://www.abbc.com/ http://www.abbc.com/aaargh/engl/opponents/cohn/hiddenbib.html has abundant "Holocaust Revisionist" material from the far right and far left nutters like the French ultra-leftist La VielleTaupe circle. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Alain+Finkielkraut+La+Vieille+ Taupe+&spell=1 See on "leftist" Holocaust Denial, "Anatomy of a Negation, " Univ. of Nebraska Press. http://www.anti-rev.org/ http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/VidalNaquet92c/
Back to Guatemala. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/ http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/vol2.html Document 8
March 29, 1968 Guatemala and Counter-terror Department of State, secret memorandum
Viron Vaky, now back in Washington with the State Department’s Policy Planning Council, writes an extraordinary indictment of U.S. policy in Guatemala in a memorandum to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Covey Oliver. Vaky argues that the Guatemalan government’s use of counter-terror is indiscriminate and brutal, and has impeded modernization and institution building within the country. Furthermore, he writes, the United States has condoned such tactics. “This is not only because we have concluded we cannot do anything about it, for we never really tried. Rather we suspected that maybe it is a good tactic, and that as long as Communists are being killed it is alright. Murder, torture and mutilation are alright if our side is doing it and the victims are Communists.” Vaky urges a new policy in Guatemala that rejects counter-terror and represents a “clear ethical stand” on the part of the United States.
In a news interview 30 years later, Vaky said he doubted anyone in the State Department ever read his memorandum. In any event, Vaky went on to a long and successful career as a professional foreign service officer, serving in Latin America and elsewhere.
Ah, that enough URL pastiche for now! Wouldn't want to approach the Yoshie record for cut and paste. ;-) Michael Pugliese