Palestine Liberation Organization spoke at Neo Nazi 'Los Teos' meetings

Submitted by Jack DH (United States), Sep 21, 2022 at 07:30

February 9, 1984

The Sheboygan Press from Sheboygan, Wisconsin · Page 44

Jack Anderson

Spirit of Nazism Lives On With Death Squads

WASHINGTON - The jacktboot and the swastika lurk behind the continuing slaughter of tens of thousands of Latin Americans by right-wing death squads.

This is the inescapable conclusion of a year-long investigation by my staff.

Hitler's "1,000-year Reich" collapsed in smoking ruins nearly 40 years ago. But the Nazis' ugly concepts of anti-Semitism and racial purity have survived among right-wing elements in Latin American countries.
Some of them gave refuge to Nazi war criminals.

Sources close to President Reagan tell me he is growing increasingly concerned at U.S. support for governments that condone these right-wing murderers. He has told intimates that he want to take a tougher position against the death squads' activities.

I agree. I sent my associate Jon Lee Anderson to Guatemala and Honduras and my associate Dale Van Atta to Argentina, Paraguay and Chile to investigate reported links among the Latin America death squads.

They found persuasive evidence that the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation, an alliliate of the once-respected World Anti-Communist League, has been used as a front for the region's assassination groups.

Here are some additional frightening details:

The men who run WACL out of Guadalajara, Mexico, and appear to give several death squads their marching orders, belong to a secret society run by powerful anti-Semitic businessmen and lawyers.

They call their group "Los Tecos" (The Owls), a reference to their nocturnal activities. Sources in WACL say the Guadalajara group uses its anti-Semitic credentials to solicit money from wealthy Arabs whom they refer to as "turcos" (Turks).

One WACL letter in my possession discloses that these Middle East sources pledged at least $50,000 to the league's 1978 conference in Washington.

Convincing evidence that the 'death squads' front groups are more enthusiastic in their anti-Semitism than in their anti-communism is the WACL's willingness to have representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization speak at its meetings.
The PLO is Soviet-backed.

One former top official of WACL is a notorious proponent of the Nazis' super-race theories. In fact, some of his moderate WACL colleagues wrote in an internal document that any group he supports gives them "immediate cause for alarm and suspicion that the organization recommended is an anti-Semitic, racist, neo-Nazi or pro-Nazi organization working under the label of 'national' or 'nationalist.' "

This WACL official has been known to measure a person's skull and ascertain his "Aryan" features as a measure of acceptability. He once confided to an associate during a drinking bout that he had personally hidden Dr. Joseph Mengele, the Auschwitz "Angel of Death," on his exodus to Paraguay.

Ever since World War II, right-wing militarists in Latin America have idealized the Nazi war machine. Germans of the Hitler era are still depicted as supermen in certain Latin American magazines. This attitude helps explain why Mengele was honored with Paraguayan citizenship, Adolph Eichmann and others found refuge in Argentina, and Klaus Barbie became an adviser to the Bolivian equivalent of the Gestapo.

When death squads gather, they speak with awe of their Nazi prototypes, and some even wear swastikas. Any sincere American conservative is deluding himself if he thinks that every Latin American anti-communist is necessarily a friend of the United States. The right-wing extremists who support the death squads are not. This includes Roberto D'Aubuisson, who may be El Salvador's next president. In fact, it is a tenet of neo-Nazi doctrine that the U.S. Congress long ago sold out to the "international Marxist conspiracy." And Marx, they will quickly remind you, was a Jew.

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Nazism in Central American Death Squads

Key West Citizen Newspaper Archives, Feb 9 1984, Page 4

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February 9, 1984

The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee · 4

Spirit of Nazism Lives On in Central American death squads

By Jack Anderson

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