Anglo-American Motives and Personnel Behind Germany's Neo

Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 20, Number 43, November 5, 1993 Anglo-AInerican fllotives and personnel behind Gentlany's neo-Nazi gangs by an EIR Investigative Team The breakup of the Soviet bloc and the reunification of Ger that the burden of Germany's virtliIes might bear down upon many were not greeted with universal enthusiasm in the Britain even more heavily than the burden of Germany's West. Both before and afterthe fall of the Berlin Wall, certain vices." commentators in Britain, and Americans who think like Bri Montagu Norman was the pripcipal architect of British tons, declared that a Hitlerian "Fourth Reich" would arise support for the Adolf Hitler dictatorship over Germany from from the collapse of communism and the end of the division 1933-39. Norman was the mentor and world banking coordi of Europe. nator for Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht, and Perhaps the most candid public statements of this view was the British anchor for certain i 930s Wall Street backers point were made by London Sunday Telegraph editor Pere of the Hitler ascendancy. And at tlileend of World War II, in grine Worsthorne.The stepson of Montagu Norman, who order to cover up their own enthusiastic financialand political from 1920 to 1944 was governor of the Bank of England, backing for Hitler in the 1920s and '30s, it was Norman Worsthorne praised and reiterated the strategy of his stepfa and his collaborators who initiated the theory that the entire ther, who was notorious as the chief of the pro-Hitler faction German population was guilty forthe crimes of the Nazis. in the British government of the 1930s. Worsthorne ex plained that a democratic, peaceful Germany would be a The Webster Doctrine menace, whereas a nazified Germany would be weak and The idea that a peaceful, democratic Europe would be a more easily crushed. menace, a "challenge" to be countered by Anglo-American In the Sunday Telegraph of July 22, 1990, Worsthorne capabilities, had been presented as a policy perspective long wrote: "My stepfather, Montagu Norman ...lived just long before the above-cited Worsthorne piece. William Webster, enough to see the earliest beginnings of the German econom director of the Central Intelligence Agency, startled many ic miracle after the Second World War. Norman ...[said] observers with his Sept. 19, 1989 speech proclaiming what shortly before his death: 'I always knew we would beat the became known as the Webster Doctrine. Webster indicated bad Germans; but I wish I could be so sure that we will do as that the CIA was moving away from primary focus on the well against the good Germans.' Soviet Union, and toward greater concentration on the al "Forty years later it is all too clear what he meant. So leged threat posed to the United States by "economic compe long as the Germans relied upon the vicious side of their tition" from its allies. The Lond<)n Guardian reportedthat national character to bring them European supremacy, Brit the CIA chief's comments "intrigued Western European and ain would always prove their match. What a different story Japanese diplomats in the United States by hinting that tradi it· would be if they learnt the wisdom to tap their virtues tional allies who are also economi¢ rivals are becoming intel instead. How right Norman has proved to be. For 40 years, ligence targets." The new line of departure echoed classic the Germans have not put a foot wrong. They have been British Empire geopolitical concepts. peace-loving, democratic, internationally cooperative, do Speaking to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, mestically industrious and civilized-a model nation in Webster stated: "Our political and military allies are also our deed-and as a result are now by far the strongest country economic competitors. The national security implications of in Europe ....How irrelevant, then, are all those articles a competitor's ability to create, capture or control markets of tiresomely informing us of how little contemporary Germany the future are very significant.... The intelligence commu has in common with Hitlerite Germany .... [This] noble nity looks at these developments froma strategic perspective, transformation may not have put an end to the German chal examining what is occurring, the forces at play and the ways lenge; may, indeed, have made it worse ....From 1870 to that actions taken abroad can directly and indirectly affect 1945, united Germany was a giant with . a fatal flaw of our national security interests." character. Now it is a giant again-without any such fatal A week later, the French newspaper Le Figaro summed handicaps; potentially, therefore, a more formidable giant up Webster's pronouncements with the headline, "Our Allies than ever .... That was precisely my stepfather's point: Are Going to Become Our Targets." Le Figaro noted that all EIR November 5, 1993 Feature 33 © 1993 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. security." It demanded that President Bush "impose import sanctions against German comdanies judged to have violated regulations controlling exports " Ted Shackley's new mis ion Another CIA "old hand" frmm the Iran-Contra days who is active in the new espionage ssion against European and Japanese industrial groups is fot ' er CIA Deputy Director for Operations Theodore Shackley Shackley warned the annual I convention of the Association 0 Former Intelligence Officers on Sept. 29, 1990 in Washington, that "Germany cannot be allowed to dominate Central E�rope." He declared that the U.S. intelligence services sho ld use eastern Europe as a "window" to conduct espionag I against western Europe. Ted Shackley's career has crucial relevance to all the chess pieces on the board in the current strategy against Ger many. Shackley was the boss of covert operations at the CIA's 'Miami, Florida station in the period following the 1962 Bay of Pigs adventure. C ban exiles and others trained in assassinations, terrorism, and drug smuggling became Shackley's permanent squad df operatives. This Shackley machine moved on to Southea�t Asia, where it was widely alleged to be conducting very latge-scale narcotics trafficking utilizing Meo tribesmen in riaos. Shackley's Caribbean henchmen burglarized the De bcratic Party's Watergate of fices in 1972. Shackley later emerged as one of the central figures in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 980s, with his squad active Some examples from the British daily press showing the hysteria in Middle East and Latin Arne ican covert operations under with which leading British circles reacted to the fall of the Berlin Vice President George Bush' supervision. Shackley was Wall in 1989. a personal consultant to Bush in Bush's 1980 presidential election effort. Shackley and his colleague procured weapons from East U.S. intelligence agencies were being put on an appropriate German communist channels or their Iran-Contra adven footing to deal with the challenge enunciated by Webster. tures in Central America. These corrupt East-West channels On April 12, 1990, Webster made public that he had continue to be of great relevanJe to the political drama now promoted CIA veteran Gary E. Foster to CIA deputy director unfolding in Germany after reul ification. and named him head of a new Directorate V for economic intelligence against industrial rivals of the United States. An American Nazi visits Germany The unofficial civilian coordinating institution for imple . "We supply propaganda materials to the National Social l menting the anti-German Webster Doctrine was anew Wash ists, also known as neo-Nazi underground, in the various ington think-tank, the Center for Security Policy. Created in European countries. We prod ce the propaganda because 1988, the center's board of directors reads like a roster of they can't legally produce it in lnost situations." the criminal Iran-Contra CIA network of the Reagan-Bush These are the words of GarY Rex Lauck, in an interview administration. It includes Iran-Contra protagonists Elliott with EIR reporter Anton Chao kin on Jan. 19, 1993. Ac Abrams, Stephen Bryen, Fred Ikle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rich cording to his own statements,L� UCkwhich correspond to reports ard Perle, former deputy CIA head Howard Teicher, and by the German government, has supplied about 90% former Swiss ambassador and Oliver North intimate Faith of all the "neo-Nazi" and wh'te supremacist propaganda Whittlesey. that has been distributed insid . Germany over the past 15- On Sept. 5, 1991, the center issued a press release pro 18 years. vocatively entitled, "The true German export control policy: Gary Lauck is a native of t e United States who resides profiteering at the expense of Western security," which ac in Lincoln, Nebraska. He tries to appear to be a German cused the government of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl of national, speaking sometimes i an imitation German accent, "chronic, if not wanton, disregard of elementary technology and assuming the pseudonym "I erhard." 34 Feature EIR November 5, 1993 The U.S. Anti-Defamation League has used such mailings as this to bilk those who might be so credulous as to believe that. the ADL is serious about opposing neo-Nazis and racists. The ADL' s fraud was exposed for all to see when it rose in defense of Ku Klux Klan founder Albert Pike. You've heatda'bout racis t violent SkinheadyOl,lth WVlg$ . Tltey are revitali2ting hategroups like tileKu Klux Klan, Neo.Na2ti Skinheads aren't vlaying adolescentgarnes, TheYa te armed , They kill people, . J\DI;;'s work: includes active resistaneeand col,lntetaction againsthaters and bigots. And our 30 regional offices closely monitored tbe emergence and activities .

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