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The neo-Nazi connection of the Iranian secret services

by Philip Golub and Claude Albert

Recent revelations in the French media have confirmed long­ based in Geneva, Hamburg, and Cologne, with subsidiary standing EIR reports on postwar Nazi and neo-Nazi ties to residences in Amsterdam, Munich, Frankfurt, and, until the international terrorism, and to the Iranian secret services in recent crisis between France and Iran, in Paris. Geneva, particular. Resulting fromwell-calculated intelligence leaks, which used to serve as the regional coordinating center, has these revelations have identified Nazi banker Francrois Gen­ recently been downgraded in favor of Hamburg and Cologne, oud of Lausanne, Switzerland as a central figure in the Eu­ West Germany, where the Iranians enjoy the protection and ropean apparatus of the Iranian secret police, the Savama, favors of West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich and the Iranian Security and Information Ministry (Vevak) Genscher. headed by Ayatollah Rayshari. The House of Iran in Cologne aad the Islamic Center of These contacts, which predate the theocratic regime's Hamburg are major centers of Savama logistics and opera­ seizure of power in Teheran, became operational at the latest tions on the continent. French experts stress that over 300 in 1983. Further, French counterespionage authorities have "Hashishin," drugged assassins and kamikazes modeled on identified direct li�ks between the so-called French "New the Ismaili assassins of Hassan Ibn el Sabah, have recently Right" and its titular head, Alain de Benoist, and the pro­ entered the Federal Republic of Germany with operational Iranian terrorist network of Fouad Ali Saleh and Mohammed assignments to target French and U .S. interests in particular. Mouhajer, recently arrested for theirinvolvement in the bloody Prior to this deployment, over 900 Savama-run assets were bombing campaign in Paris in September 1986. To complete safehoused in the Federal Republic. the circle, leading members of the "New Right," which does Wahid Gordji, who was at the; center of the crisis in not conceal its admiration for Mussolini fascism and Soviet French-Iranian relations and who is still entrenched at the "National Communism," have all along maintained contact Iranian embassy in Paris, was the head of Savama in France, with the now-notorious Genoud. and as such, entertained close and direct ties with both Fran­ Genoud himself is no stranger to the "Islamic" cause, croisGenoud and French neo-Nazis--'-among others, the own­ having played a leading role as facilitator and financier for ers of the Nazi bookstore Ogmios, on the Rue des Pyramides Ben Bella's National Liberation Front during the Algerian in Paris. Following initial revelations concerning this con­ war, lending a helping hand to the Popular Front for the nection in EIR's Middle East Insider, the French satirical Liberation of Palestine of George Habbash during the late weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, repdrted on Aug.5 that two 1960s and early 1970s, prior to serving as a Libyan and, most neo-Nazis, Trystan Mordrel and BedlardLeforestier, owners recently, an Iranian asset. of the Avalon publishing house coIinected to Ogmios, had The Savama, formed soon after the fall of the Shah of maintained contacts with Gordji. Gordji and Mohammed Iran, initially benefitedfrom the expertise and training of the Mouhajer were repeatedly spotted iIi Ogmios. Furthermore, East GermanStaatsicherheitsdienst (Stasi). In the earlyyears Mordrel,Leforestier, and Alain de Benoist participated in an of the Khomeini regime, over 2,000 Stasi agents were em­ all-expenses-paid trip to Iran in Mlu'ch 1987, on Gordji's ployed by pro-Soviet elements in the religious hierarchy to invitation. train and service the Savama. In addition, hundreds of Bul­ One of the key figures in this constellation, who main­ garian, North Korean, Vietnamese, and Soviet advisers were tained contact with both Genoud and Gordji, is New Right variously employed in terrorist training camps (Persepolis, figure and Elements journalist Emmanuel Ratier, alias "Dav­ Qom, etc.) or in advisory military positions. At present, id Barney." Elements is the glossy' periodical of the New according to Western intelligence experts, the European Right of de Benoist. Ratier, who is known to have frequented headquarters of both the Savama and Vevak are principally virtually every Nazi and neo-Nazi organization spawned in

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© 1987 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Europe over the past decade and a half, plays a central role Islamic Center in Munich, and organized a religious cere­ in this national Bolshevik-Islamic connection. According to mony for her father's burial in 1984. confidential police reports, he is a member of the secret Wolff's exile to Cairo was only one of hundreds of such "Orient of the North" neo-Nazi organization and is known to cases. Perhaps the most spectacular is the case of Otto-Ernst have twice visited Moscow over the past 12 months. He was Remer, the former general who crushed the July 1944 plot active as ajournalist in the now defunct Magazine Hebdo. against Hitler. He only came back to West Germany in 1983, New Right "theoretician" de Benoist was a protege of after several decades in the MiddleEast, and the last 15 years Armin Mohler of the Siemens Foundation in Munich, the in Syria. He then created his group the "Deutsche Bismarck­ principal postwar ideologue of the "Conservative Revolu­ Gruppe" which advocatesa German-Russian alliance against tion," one of the many streams which led to Nazism generally "American imperialism." and the National Bolshevik current in particular. In addition, Indeed, there is a symbiotic relationship between the de Benoist was one of the key sponsors of a glossy neo-Nazi beliefs of the Islamic fundamentalists, the hard-core Nazis, homosexual publication, Gaie France, which advocates and the Russian empire. In their common hatred of Western "magic homosexuality." Gaie France and Elements held a civilization, the neo-Nazi constellation described here see discreet conference in Paris in 1986. their salvation as coming from Russia and from the nihilist This constellation of people was protected by elements power for destruction of millenarian Islam. For example, of the Interior Ministry of France during the tenure of Pierre Genoud has never hidden the fact that he received directly Joxe, a member of the communist-led labor federation, CGT. from the Soviet Union, many ofthe Nazi manuscripts which Finally, one must add to this the multiple and powerful he later published. One of his Swiss associates, journalist banking connections of Genoud in both Switzerland and the Ahmed Huber, whose initials were published in Le Figaro of Federal Republic of Germany, which have served to finance Aug. 6 as belonging to the Iranian terror network in Europe, Savama covert operations. It is troubling that neither the worked in the 1970s for East Germany's press agency ADN. Swiss nor theWest German authorities, aware of these facts, For the New Right, there is no contradiction here. Such acted to neutralize these capabilities. But, after all, Switzer­ was the message and content of the spring 1986 issue of land and West Germany remain the largest Western com­ Elements, entitled "Russia: Last Empire?" mercial partners of Khomeini's Iran. The longstanding ties "Russia will undoubtedly be the detonator of the future," of both Czechoslovak and East German intelligence to the wrote Pierre Vial in that issu� which included a favorable Nazi and neo-Nazi organizations in the European Commu­ study of National Bolshevism QY de Benoist himself. Among nity raise interesting questions as to where these networks others, Che Guevara's fellow g\lerrillero,Regis Debray, who ended up. served as an adviser to the Socialists in France for Third World affairs, was repeatedly! praised as a "national com­ Fundamentalism and Nazism munist." Nor was the "Islamic tilt" concealed: "The awak­ Beyond the intelligence connections as such, there exists ening of Islam is not a menace for us but a source of hope," an organic ideological and political convergence between the wrote de Benoist in Elementsdn 1985. One of his closest Nazis, neo-Nazis, and the Khomeini regime: the longstand­ collaborators, Guillaume Faye, added: "The Arab-Islamic ing attraction that Nazism and its blood and soil ideology reemergence is objectively favorable to us because it . . . exercised on fundamentalist Islamic networks; hence the al­ contributes to destabilizing th� uniform Western model of liance between Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and civilization. . . ." The "Khomeini dictatorship is a true cul­ the attraction to millennarian Islam that Hitler had, as report­ tural revolution," wrote Elements in winter 1985. The father ed by Cardinal Tisserand in 1940. of Trystan Mordrel, mentioned above, a Nazi during the In the book Hitler's Table Talk, Hitler is quoted, com­ Second World War, wrote in Elements before his death that menting that if the "German tribes had been converted, they "Qaddafi is a visionary." "Libyan reality today," he wrote in would have the spearhead of Islam," remarking on the con­ 1984, "is a sort of integral libertarian doctrine, expressed by verging "military-tradition" between Islam and Nazism. integral nationalism enlightened by integral religious faith." The roots for such a relationship were laid by Thule Mordrel advocated the total destruction of the state of Israel. Society founder, von Sebottendorf, who established in Ber­ This inevitably led to dire¢t contacts to Genoud' s asso­ lin, prior to World War I, the first Sufi order, the Albanian ciate, Ahmed Ben Bella, long supported by the French New Bektashi Dervishes. Islamic mysticism, Sufism, was then Right through Guillaume Faye, who is the general secretary incorporated into Nazi theory through Rosenberg's mythos of the Association for Defense of Arab Immigrant Workers of the 20th century. Under the leadership of Himmler, and in Europe. Ben Bella's MDA was banned and neutralized in SS Gen. Karl Wolff in particular, the elite training schools France in late 1986 by the Chirac government following of the SS indoctrinated their students in methods developed investigations proving its logistical support to terrorism on by theSufi military orders. Not surprisingly,during his 1950s French territory. Ben Bella lives in Switzerland in a villa exile to Cairo, Wolff's daughter converted to Islam to be­ which Genoud provided. For Faye, Ben Bella is a "spiritual come Fatima Hereen. She is now a leading member of the leader who threatens Zionism.�'

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