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CHAPTER 14 Unity Now!< CHAPTER 13 One Man Coup by the Philosopher King: the Chris White Affair in Context | SMILING MAN FROM A DEAD PLANET - THE MYSTERY OF LYNDON LAROUCHE | CHAPTER 15 "Black September" and the Frankhouser File > Pdf file In the early 1970s, a small but highly influential clique of "Racial Revolutionaries" distinguished by their intense anti-Semitism, racial occultism, and Hitler-worship, began making direct overtures to the far left through an organization called Unity Now. Their overtures would lead to ultimate collaboration with the NCLC. We are not "conservatives." We are Racial Revolutionaries. I am proud of it. I do not want to be classified with conservatives, those pale imitations of their liberal sheep-like counterparts. We stand for a new order. True, nothing is new. Life is a cycle. We seek to come full turn around that cycle and restore the racial form of society and life which our primordial forebears established and which is the natural way of life for our people. So, Reagan, Birchers, etc. ad nauseam are merely one more foe in the coterie of Jewish ranks.
The key Unity Now leaders who worked with LaRouche were 1) Willis Carto, founder of the Liberty Lobby and the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) "THE FAT ALBANIAN" A brief overview of Robert Miles's political career helps explain how Unity Now first emerged. In a 13 December 1978 letter from prison, Miles explained that his anticommunist career began during the Great Depression in the 1930s: I was raised in New York City as a child .... I was raised in [the openly pro-fascist White Russian] Count Vonsiatsky's Youth Battalions. We were trained to be soldiers. We were capable and experienced in street fighting by the age of 12 because we were thrown into the streets against the YCL, the YPSL, the 4th Internationalist's Anti-fascist Labor Guard and such counterparts on the other side. We fought in Union Square, along 14th Street, shoulder to shoulder with the Bund, with the Christian Mobilizers, with the American cadres of the Blackshirts. We knew the foe. We had a taste for the fight.
After Germany signed the Hitler-Stalin Pact with Russia, however, Miles allied himself against the Nazis and even volunteered in the Free French Army. In a 2 July 1975 report "From Behind Federal Barbed Wire," Miles wrote: Yesterday's allies today's enemies and vice versa. When Germany allied herself, albeit for tactical purposes, to Russia, many of us felt a pox on both houses. Later events, later perspectives produced different attitudes. . . . Thus, many good racial nationalists fought on the side of England -Rockwell flew out of the same aerodrome as did I after my return from Free French services to the USA in 1942.
Miles eventually wound up working as a radio operator for U.S. intelligence after the war. In a 9 May 1978 report in "From Behind Federal Barbed Wire," he explained the origins of his nickname "The Fat Albanian": However, in the days following WWII, I worked abroad on the business of the company. The British term for your sending style is to refer it as a heavy or fat fist if your letters tend to come together in sending Morse Code, or a light or "skinny" fist if otherwise. I had a "fat" fist. I also worked channels and traffic out of Durezzo and Tirana, which we were then monitoring. A few friends tagged me with the nickname, the "Fat Albanian" and "FA" stuck in those circles.
After Miles returned to the States and resumed his activities in the far right, he did so with a new perspective shaped in part by his "spook" past: We intend to be psychological warfare specialists as we have been since 1947. Our original group was involved in that and we act to utilize that one single specialty on behalf of our Race.
Miles' group was called the Free Association Forum (FAF). Exactly what it did and how it practiced "psychological war" remains unknown but it seems to have been associated with the same far-right White Russian circles that Miles operated out of as a youth. In his 9 May 1978 report, Miles says: When I took over the United Klans in Michigan, I was the leader of the Free Association Forum (FAF). It specialized in psychological warfare and performed a dual function in both working inside the ranks of the Bolsheviks, and in supplying and training and assisting forces who were actively in the field behind Soviet lines. "Inside their lines" abroad and here at home. We moved into the area of open "legal" ritualism and political struggle in America in order to create bogeymen - to be blunt. Then let's appeal to the conscience and reasons of white people requires more than just niceness. It requires that they be assured that there is terror working on their side just s there is terror working against them. We took a rapidly disintegrating KKK in Michigan an breathed life into it. We made the dragon breathe fire again and show fangs and claws. In the next 100 years, the white people in that state do have a terror to recall that it was on their side. They have an image to use in whatever manner they see fit - for their own Race.
Miles' form of "psy war" included physical attacks on his opponents. He was even convicted of conspiracy in the tarring and feathering of a former high school principal who had promoted a human rights program. In 1968 he also ran as a candidate in the George Wallace campaign on the American Independence Party (AIP) ticket. In a follow-up campaign in 1970, Miles got an estimated 20,000 votes for the state legislature running on the state's AIP ticket. The only way left to whites who believe that their religion and their religion is their race is the PLO, the IRA, the FLN, the Tupemaro methods and approach. Action brings recruits, not words, TV shows or publications.
In a 1986 interview with Robert Miles by investigative journalist Martin Lee, Miles discussed Unity Now after Lee asked him: Q: Wasn't Frankhouser one of the first ones who in recent years promoted the unity of left/right types?
A: (Laughs) We set it up. He joined our group, Unity Now. That was back in 1970.
Q: What was the idea behind that?
A: Oh, the idea was - we had a slogan that said: "No Black, No White, No Left, No Right. Only Resistance!" and that was to bring different groups together, left and right, and try to make them effective as a new movement. But Frankhouser was part of it. Because he used to travel on some of the trips the FBI would watch him. Boy, the FBI was more concerned with the Unity Now movement in my file than you can imagine! They had all kinds of inter-office memos.
Q: In 1972 with the Unity Now thing, what were the factors then?
A: ... There was a feeling that both the government of Russia and the US were so damn cynical and hypocritical about things that you could toss up them both in the air and catch either one, the same as the other. But we were trying to take the rightwing which was betrayed by [George] Wallace in their eyes and had been looking for a new road, an alternative to the existing path and take the same group out of the left and put them together. Because they had more in common than either one wanted to admit.
Q: Was there any response from the leftists?
A: There was some but the racism continually was a barrier you couldn't overcome. We could bring some of our people to a meeting and there would be some blacks there who would be of the same mind. Absolutely the same mind. But because of racial concerns on both sides .... And the government knew it.
In a 10 January 1979 missive, Miles explained: We are not "conservatives." We are Racial Revolutionaries. I am proud of it. I do not want to be classed with conservatives, those pale imitations of their liberal sheep-like counterparts. We stand for a new order. Thus, nothing is new. Life is a cycle. We seek to come full turn around that cycle and restore the racial form of society and life which our primordial forebears established and which is the natural way of life for our people. So, Reagan, Birchers, etc. ad nauseam are merely one more foe in the coterie of Jewish ranks.
WE ACCUSE The Unity Now network included a paper called We Accuse that advocated a left-right coalition against the "Establishment." We Accuse was edited by C.B. Baker, who had earlier created Statecraft. Statecraft was violently hostile to the Left and bragged of its ties to groups like the "Iron Cross Motorcycle Club." Crudely racist and anti-Semitic, the paper delighted in running Der Sturmer-like cartoons with grotesque Jewish and black characters and advised its readers to give a copy of the Statecraft to liberals as long as it was wrapped around a lead pipe. It also fervently hated William F. Buckley and his Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and labeled Buckley a "Judas tongue" in league with the Zionist conspiracy. Statecraft served as a de facto mouthpiece for Willis Carto's National Youth Alliance, a group he had first established in 1968-69 in the wake of the George Wallace Campaign.  How to defeat liberalism and William F. Buckley : 1980 campaign policy by Lyndon H LaRouche In early 1970 - at the time Unity Now was formed --Statecraft suddenly began courting the Left. The paper reported that the National Youth Alliance was planning a "war crimes trial" to indict Robert MacNamara, W.W. Rostow, David Rockefeller, William F. Buckley, Daniel Ellsberg and others whom it considered part of the Eastern Establishment elite. Statecraft added that the trials "will prove that leftist revolutionary leaders themselves are actually agents of the capitalist system which they are supposedly fighting against." By January 1972, Statecraft was openly calling for left-right unity along the lines dictated by Unity Now. The January issue also carried a long article defending Robert Miles following his arrest in the Pontiac bombing case. Statecraft argued that the actual bombers were "specially trained CIA provocateurs and agents," a line identical to the one New Solidarity would adopt just three few years later! Youth Action was formed in the Fall of 1971 by a group of concerned young people who saw the need for a dynamic new concept of political action. . . . The CFR, spoken of so much by the political right, is identical to the Military-Industrial Complex, spoken of so much by the political Left. . . . In reality, the Right and Left have for years worked separately against a COMMON ENEMY.
. . . Youth Action was specifically created to end the artificial factions dividing politically active young people. Our purpose is to unite young activists from both the Left and Right in joint political action towards the common goal of combating the CFR Military Industrial Complex and the super rich international financial oligarchy.
The first action of the new coalition was the YOUTH ACTION War Crimes Trial of members of the CFR Military Industrial Complex held in Los Angeles on September 2, 1972. The success of the Trial proved that the Left and the Right could actually work together and achieve results . . .
WE ACCUSE is designed to shock people into political action. . . . The mass distribution of WE ACCUSE will help to greatly foster the growth of politically aware youth. The spread of political awareness amongst young people is absolutely vital to the expansion of the new political coalition of Left and Right.
 ROCKEFELLER'S "FASCISM WITH A DEMOCRATIC FACE", by Lyn Marcus (aka Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.); The Campaigner; Nov.-Dec. 1974. We Accuse singled out David Rockefeller for special attack: Many people hate David Rockefeller for many reasons. Some hate him for being a "Capitalist." Others because he is a "Communist" and still others simply because he is rich. David is not a man to be hated, he is not a "Capitalist" nor is he a "Communist" but he is very rich and more powerful than any of his enemies, or almost anybody. David Rockefeller is a criminal, a murderer. . . No, David is not a man to be hated. David Rockefeller is a man to be destroyed. He and his kind, before they destroy us.
To successfully attack, we must know where their power lies. People must know who their true enemy is. Today, the Rockefellers are in power. They know it and the people don't.
Next to the We Accuse article is a picture of Bela Lugosi as Dracula with a caption reading: "What makes you think that we international bankers are blood suckers?" Curiously, New Solidarity in its first attempt to portray the Rockefeller family as the center of world evil depicted Nelson Rockefeller in Dracula garb on the front page of its 21 December 1973 edition. The Right does not want to recognize that the so-called "communist conspiracy" is really financed and promoted by super-capitalists. It is thought that this fact tends to undermine free enterprise, or so called "capitalism."
The Left does not want to recognize this great fact because it becomes embarrassingly clear that the financial support for the Left - the support that makes the Left viable and without which it would be totally impotent - is supplied by the rapacious capitalists who profit enormously from the apparent anti-capitalist policies of the Left.
THE NEW SOLIDARITY EXPOSE Robert Miles and Unity Now's overtures to the left were exposed in the 25-29 September 1972 New Solidarity in a centerfold story entitled "Proto-fascist Tendencies Drifting Together": Michigan KKK leader Robert Miles, who is currently awaiting trial on charges of bombing ten school buses in that state, has recently made numerous public statements implying that he'd like to see a populist alliance against the ominous "Eastern Establishment."
"The real enemy" says Miles, "is not the black man, but the concentration of power in the hands of the greedy few who manipulate our lives from New York, Washington, and Boston. . . . It's ridiculous for the black man to be considered a threat; after all, he's in the same position as us - the victims of an evil corporate state."
If the above statement reminds the reader of 1969 Weatherman communiques, he is doing the Klansman an injustice. Miles is a bit sharper, politically. Whereas the Weathermen openly despised the "fat workers," this slick KKK'er is quick to parade his proletarian roots: "We've been oppressed too. Most of us Klansmen are workers, either in the small shops or at the large assembly plants, and all of us have had to scratch for a living."
And what is Miles' solution to the inequities of working-class existence in capitalist society? Again, he sings an old New Left tune, one that black "radicals" such as LeRoi Jones would not have trouble humming. He tells us that the United Klans of America favors "control of our community, our schools, our property, our children, over our lives . . . people of common background, interests, and cultural roots should be able to live in their own communities."
Miles is not the first white political activist in Michigan to propose such a scheme. John Sinclair, chairman of the hippie White Panther Party and a major figure in the Midwest counter-culture, once called for dividing "Amerika" into Black Nation, Chicano Nation, Indian Nation, European Nation (for WASPs) - and, of course, Woodstock Nation. Like Miles, Sinclair complains bitterly about police harassment; which may give us a clue as to just what audience Miles is playing to when he says the following: "If the trend toward nationalization of the police continues, we're going to end up in concentration camps with the bearded radicals, some of the blacks, and anyone else who's opposed to federal authority."
"I have spoken to some Student for a Democratic Society types in the past few weeks. Of course, I can't say who they were. We thought they might meet with us to discuss the problems common to us; the growth of federal police power. But they were pretty hostile and suspicious."
The article drew its quotes from an article on Miles that appeared in the 25 April 1972 edition of The Ann Arbor News. At the time Miles was trying to open a dialog with some SDS members to build support for the Los Angeles War Crimes Trial that took place that September. THE WARLOCK In 1972 New Solidarity openly denounced Robert Miles and the attempt of the far right to try to make overtures to the far left. Two years later, the NCLC would become part of the political alliance it had labeled as fascist. A key figure in these murky doings was an obscure far rightist self-proclaimed occultist named Ken Duggan. Duggan, who lived in New York City, was a Minutemen activist. In 1965 he headed the "New York Citizens Committee to Support Your Local Police."3 He also published his own tiny journal called The Illuminator, which was obsessed with the power of the Rockefeller family and the Council on Foreign Relations. Besides The Illuminator and an organization called the Provisional National Government (PNG) - which may have been a factional split off from the Minutemen or its armed underground - Duggan also headed the Industrial Enterprise Foundation, CED Associates, and the Interplanetary Nationalist Society. The ideology of the NRP for the most part follows standard Nazi and Fascist patterns . . . The point of departure from standard Nazism is in regard to Russia. Madole believes, as do most neo-Nazis, that the Russian Revolution was inspired by Jews. . . . But, in the case of Russia, the Jews lost control when Stalin threw out Trotsky. Now the Russian government is actually persecuting Jews because of their currency speculation and loyalty to Israel. For this reason, Jewish-controlled right wingers in America, such as YAF, Barry Goldwater, etc. want us to fight Russia. Naturally, this interpretation is anathema to most rightists . . .
Madole extends this principle even further. Most of the revolutionary regimes that American rightists denounce are thus regarded by Madole as nationalistic and anti-imperialistic. Thus, he admires Castro, Ben Bella, Sukarno, Mao, and Nasser. Most Jew-baiters praise Nasser and the Arabs for fighting Israel, but Madole goes one step further. He praises Nasser as the leader of Arab progressives. . . .7
Unity Now tried to spread this same "third position" following the death of George Lincoln Rockwell and more conventional "racial" Nazis.8 THE ROSE REVELATIONS The history of the NCLC's secret contacts with the radical right publicly surfaced in the spring of 1979. A former leader of the NCLC's Security Staff during the critical 1973-74 period named Greg Rose left the organization in 1975. In the 30 March 1979 issue of National Review, he wrote an expose based in part on his inside knowledge. In his article Rose states: As early as September 1974, the NCLC was in contact with Ken Duggan, publisher of The Illuminator and head of a radical rightist organization in New York known as the Provisional National Government (PNG). . . . Vastly more useful to the NCLC was a series of contacts provided by Ken Duggan. Duggan introduced the NCLC's Scott Thompson to Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby. . . . Similar entree was provided by Duggan into Carto's National Youth Alliance and C. B. Baker's Youth Action.
Duggan also helped put the NCLC into contact with his and Miles' good friend Roy Frankhouser (himself a "pastor" in the Mountain Church of Jesus Christ) who had just gone on trial in Philadelphia on dynamite smuggling charges. Frankhouser also stated that his initial connection to the NCLC had been partially "facilitated by Nazi warlock Ken Duggan, who introduced him to security staffer Scott Thompson in New York."9 Duggan also facilitated an NCLC operation undertaken at the behest of the Iraqi Mission to the UN which asked the NCLC Security Staff sometime in May 1975 to investigate the National Renaissance Party. Some time earlier, the NRP had published an anti-Semitic and pro-Iraqi tract, and the Iraqis, who could not afford the potential embarrassment of an open contact. . . . After some investigation, the NCLC reported back to the Iraqis that the NRP was too small and unstable to be of any real use.10
DEATH OF A WARLOCK  "The Buckley Family, Wall Street Fabians in the Conservative Movement" by Scott Thompson (1977 - EIR) Scott Thompson accused Buckley to bring "together both the extreme right-wing and converted left-wing backers of McCarthyism, to launch a fascist conservative movement in the United States" ! (From "Fascist William Buckley Put Joe Lieberman in the Senate" by Scott Thompson (July 26, 2002 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.) In October 1975 Ken Duggan was found dead in his cell in Rikers Island. He reportedly had committed suicide by hanging. Duggan was being held at Rikers on a charge of attempted murder of George Wilkie, a former member of Duggan's Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG). In a 27 October 1975 New Solidarity article on Duggan's demise, NCLC Security Staff member Scott Thompson stated that Wilkie had joined forces with an ultra-right Catholic group called Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) after he had been purged from the PRG as a "Buckley spy." 11 Wilkie, in turn, had "framed" Duggan for attempted murder. TROUBLE WITH THE GREAT NIGHT HAWK Ken Duggan's decision to work with the NCLC in September 1974 also may be closely related to some strange developments in Detroit, Michigan, in the summer of 1974. He had been trained in naval intelligence for the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as a photo-reconnaissance and demolitions specialist, and had subsequently worked for the FBI inside the Pontiac, Michigan, Ku Klux Klan. Higgins was indicted in a school bus bombing incident as part of his "intelligence" work there. Although other members of the Klan indicted for the same bombing charge were jailed, Higgins was released.
After Higgins confessed to being an infiltrator, the government launched a raid on the NCLC's Detroit office because the FBI (falsely) feared Higgins was being held hostage. Although he was surrounded by lesser agents such as Vernon Higgins, the pivotal figure in the bombing setup was Klan Grand Dragon, Robert Miles. One of the six Klansman arrested and convicted of the bombing, Miles was used by the CIA to pull the extreme right wing underground into a tightly controlled network. Key to this was Miles' friendship with agent Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of Pennsylvania, with whom Miles was simultaneously working to direct school bombings around desegregation and to bring the extreme right together around such actions.
New Solidarity continues: Frankhouser, who was fully entrenched in the LEAA, was a major arms and explosives conduit for extremists, some of his material finding its way into the Detroit area. He was also probably responsible for bombings in the black and Puerto Rican ghettos of Reading, Pennsylvania. Frankhouser had previously united the Klans of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the National Renaissance Party and, by implication, the Minutemen of which Frankhouser was regional head.
The paper - rather remarkably in light of what was soon to come -- discusses in some detail the attempts by the far right to form alliances with the far left through Unity Now: These semi-legal groups were gathered together in an alliance around a joint regional paramilitary training center. Frankhouser also worked with Miles to establish Unity Now, an international organization based in Toronto, run by Wieche Martin [sic], leader of the Nazi International.13
This work accomplished, the two attempted to organize the ultimate CIA control setup - a united front between right and left counter-gangs. Touring together, Miles and Frankhouser started urging that the unified extreme right unify with the extreme left to bring down the government.
Yet in July 1975 - exactly one year later - the NCLC would be defending Roy Frankhouser as a U.S. government agent who had tried to expose terrorism but who had been "framed" by Henry Kissinger and the National Security Council.14 START OF THE "HITLER-STALIN" GAMBIT In September 1974, Ken Duggan had some reason to be interested in the NCLC. After Miles had been arrested in the Pontiac bombings, his supporters like Statecraft claimed that Miles was just a patsy and that the "real" bombers were government-backed agent provocateurs. When Roy Frankhouser went on trial in Philadelphia, his attorney also argued that Frankhouser was really a government anti-terrorist special agent who had been framed by his employers in government organizations like the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). Our success in beating back the Fang's [i.e., Nelson Rockefeller's] Endgame Scenario [another NCLC prediction of thermonuclear war] shows the potential impact we can have among previously unpenetrated strata. Operations reports from our organizers in the field indicate growing sympathy for our "Impeach Rocky" campaign among right-wing circles. We must move to take advantage of this situation.
Right-wing organizations offer four opportunities: I) sources for fund-raising (especially related to our organizing); 2) political contacts to circulate our perspective in anti-Rocky political-financial military circles; 3) opportunity to expose and discredit Rocky's Buckley-FBI-CIA penetration of the Right; 4) potential USLP members and periphery.
Cadres should be firmly fixed on the politics underlying this move: the real enemy is Rocky's fascism with a democratic face, the liberals, and social fascists. We can cooperate with the Right to defeat this common enemy. Once we have won this battle, eliminating our right-wing opposition will be comparatively easy.
This project will be given top priority. No one can be permitted to block on it. Locals and regions with existing right-wing contacts should TWX names to Security Staff as soon as possible unless threat of harassment is too great. Scott [Thompson, an NCLC "security staff member"] will coordinate this operation. 15
Thompson also began regularly meeting with Willis Carto in 1975 and 1976 and in his 30 March 1979 National Review article on the NCLC, Greg Rose claims that Carto and Thompson also discussed possible fund-raising sources for LaRouche's presidential 1976 campaign and attack on Rockefeller and that Carto used his connections "to procure funding for these operation." THE FRANKHOUSER CONNECTION The spring 1975 memo on working with the far right had everything to do with the NCLC's overtures to Miles, Carto, and the Unity Now network. This alliance first surfaced in a 20 April 1976 New Solidarity article entitled "Depositions Completed in USLP Detroit FBI Case" involving the Higgins affair. The paper reported that an NCLC member named Andy Rothstein stated that he had written a press release on Higgins to protect the informant from the FBI "because of the present condition of Robert Miles," a Ku Klux Klan member framed up and put in prison as the Justice Department tried to cover its role in the Pontiac Bombings.
In other words, Miles was really a victim of the right-wing side of COINTELPRO! FBI bomb and weapons specialist Roy Frankhauser [sic] -exposed a year ago in New Solidarity as a leading intelligence operative in the Pennsylvania KKK and Minutemen - has been released from prison after serving less than one year of his sentence for illegal possession of an arsenal of dangerous weapons.
In other words, Frankhouser was now publicly exposing his role as an ATF informant and jeopardizing the ATF's and FBI's operations in Reading where apparently the AFT had numerous far-rightist infiltrators into the Reading RU if Frankhouser is to be believed. "LEAA GESTAPO OPERATIONS IN READING, PA." In July 1975, the NCLC also issued a special report on Frankhouser case entitled "LEAA Gestapo Operations in Reading, Pa."16 It portrayed Frankhouser as a fall guy of for a much bigger operation and presents the Pontiac case this way: In August 1971 in Pontiac, Mich., 14 school buses were blown up by the Ku Klux Klan. Several months later, a secret (sealed) indictment was handed down by a Federal Grand Jury in Philadelphia against four Reading area residents changing them with having provided the explosives used in the Pontiac explosions. These men were Bertram Jones, Thomas Kanger, James Colbert and Roy Frankhouser.
The NCLC says that all four were working as informant/agents for various federal government agencies even as they ran their dynamite network in Reading: All four of these men, as well as Charles Simms [sic], who actually planted the bombs, were working for Federal agencies at the time. The Pontiac KKK and the National Action Group (NAG) run by Irene McCabe were FBI and LEAA created countergangs whose actions were intended to trigger a nationwide wave of violence around the bogus issue of school busing. LEAA-run Reading, Pa., was slated to be a key depot point for the guns and explosives used by left and right-wing terrorist groups throughout the country.
Over the past four years six to nine tons of explosives have been conduited through Reading to the KKK, the Weather Underground, Puerto Rican nationalist groups (believed to include the FALN - Armed Forces for the Liberation of Puerto Rico), black terrorist groups and other right-wing formations in the Midwest.
Although the NCLC gives no evidence for its claim, it is not completely impossible that the Unity Now network did supply radical groups on both the far left and far right with explosives both for money and for ideological reasons. Jones, Colbert, Kanger - along with two other RU agents Norman DeBooth and Leymond DeBooth - made frequent trips to the Anthracite Coal Company, DuPont Chemical plant, and the Hercules and Trojan plants; where they would fill out dummy invoices and remove cases of explosives including Superprimer No. 50, electric regulator caps and dynamite. Leymond DeBooth, who was the driver on these pick-up trips, had access to government trucks, which were used on occasion.
As for Frankhouser: Roy Frankhouser, who was arrested ... in February 1974 and charged with possession of 931 Ibs. of explosives (although [ATF agent] Carcello actually confiscated 4-5 tons in the raid), was targeted on July 15, 1975, for potential assassination by CIA journalist Hilferty of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Frankhouser, however, really had been arrested because of his work as a secret agent who was investigating Black September Palestinian terrorist cells in Canada. Or so the NCLC's Security Staff claimed. The report next said that Black September itself was controlled by Henry Kissinger and the U.S. National Security Council, Kissinger and the NSC -- in collaboration with the RAND corporation - had secretly planned and coordinated "all major international terrorist operations; including the slaughter at the Munich Olympics; the Hague bombings; and the recent murders of two French DST agents." NCLC sources have identified Frankhouser's role in the CIA as that of a high level security checker. Assigned by the CIA, FBI, ATF to infiltrate "enemy" organizations to gather information for criminal charges, Frankhouser's reports were used to determine whether there were any potential leak points through which activities could be traced directly back to one of the intelligence agencies.
It is likely that Frankhouser only became aware of the actual nature of his assignment after several years and that his February 1974 arrest was actually a frame-up aimed at placing pressure on him to keep his mouth shut. . . as a method of control over agents whose activities put them in possession of too much "classified information." Frankhouser, whose involvement in the explosives raid was probably that of an unwitting "fall guy" setting up a "buy-bust," was locked up on $150,000 bail; Kanger and Colbert who were arrested with him were let out on $500 each.
The NCLC document also attack Charles Sims, a KKK member and convicted Pontiac bomber who had given the government crucial evidence on Frankhouser's role in the dynamite ring, evidence that laid the basis for the government's arrest of Frankhouser in the spring of 1974. The NCLC report accuses Sims of being the sole Pontiac bomber and states that Charles Simms, the Pontiac FBI operative who planted the August 30, 1971, bombs and who also made two trips to Reading to purchase the necessary explosives from Jones, was arrested last year by Detroit police, when a stolen truck that he was driving was found to contain explosives and machine guns. Simms was placed in Springfield, Missouri Federal prison - notorious as a behavior modification brainwashing center run by the LEAA.(For more background on the Reading events, see "The Frankhouser File.") Vernon Higgins also makes an appearance: On June 19, 1974, Vernon Higgins, then a U.S. Labor Party Congressional candidate in Pontiac, Mich., confessed to NCLC Detroit regional executive members that he was an FBI infiltrator. In the lengthy debriefing that followed, Higgins admitted to having previously infiltrated the Pontiac Ku Klux Klan during the period in which they were carrying out the bus bombings. In a signed affidavit dated June 20, 1974, Higgins stated that he had been directly involved in planting the bombs under the buses. . . . The Pontiac indictments against Jones, Kanger, Colbert and Frankhouser - taken in the context of the 1974 Higgins revelations - establish a hard chain of evidence of LEAA-FBI gun-explosives running between Pennsylvania and Michigan.
By the summer of 1975, then, it is clear that the NCLC had embraced the Unity Now network and argued that both Frankhouser and Miles had been set up by the U.S. government. The group claimed that the American government was behind far right terrorism even as the FBI and ATF were actually trying to prosecute Miles for the Pontiac bombing and Frankhouser for his role in the Reading branch of the dynamite ring! THE FACTION FIGHT IN THE FAR RIGHT The NCLC alliance with Frankhouser and Miles and the Unity Now network enraged other far rightists who saw the NCLC as a Communist group filled with Jews, blacks, and other undesirables. The group that loathed Frankhouser's alliance with the NCLC, according to the 18 May 1976 New Solidarity, included among others:
An article in the 7 July 1976 issue of New Solidarity claimed that on 23 June, Frankhouser narrowly avoided being murdered when five shots were fired at him while he was in the company of two other Klan leaders named Ray Doerfler and Tony Lawricki. Doerflerwas a Grand Dragon of the Confederation of Independent Orders, Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a split from Robert Shelton's UKA which seems to be the same organization that the NCLC referred to as the "Confederacy Group." Doerfler, who lived in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, however, couldn't stand the NCLC. A 9 November 1979 New Solidarity article quotes him as stating: "I hate communists and I think LaRouche is a most dangerous communist." The fact was that the KKK and similar sects that developed out of the late George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party network were largely composed of nativist, racist, and anti-Semitic members of the largely Protestant white working class and lower middle class. In short, they had zero interest in an even more bizarre variation on the "left right" ideas promoted by James Madole's wacky National Renaissance Party. To make matters worse, they were being harangued not by Madole's minions but by a sect led by a former Trotskyist whose members were to a significant extent Jewish with some leading members black as well who were giving them a paper filled with praise for "hard line" factions inside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. CONCLUSION: "NO LEFT, NO RIGHT, ONLY RESISTANCE" Following Ken Duggan's death, Roy Frankhouser inherited his role as a key connection man between the NCLC and Unity Now. Frankhouser was even reported to have helped put the NCLC's Security Staff in touch with Mitchell WerBell, the far right mercenary and spook who maintained longstanding ties to groups inside the U.S. intelligence community. My political education around this time was advanced by learning the distinction between left-wing Minutemen and right-wing Minutemen. Far from being a relatively cohesive block of lunatics, the gun-toting paramilitary right was split between the anti-Communist Minutemen, in some relative position approximating a left on the fanatical right, and the late George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazis, located farthest to the racist and anti-Semitic right, with those armed bigots operation under sheeted cover of the KKK somewhere toward the middle - liberals on this bizarre spectrum. . . .
[Minuteman leader] De Pugh, who considered himself a responsible extremist, was worried sick over the uncontrolled activities of the Minutemen "defector" groups .... He suspected that some of his fallen away riflemen who had drifted off to the Nazi sandbars along the shore of Southern California had been part of a rifle team shooting at President Kennedy. Master Marksman De Pugh scoffed at the idea of Oswald scoring those hits on his own; his opinion was that the President had been caught in a "classic guerrilla crossfire" at Dealy Plaza.
De Pugh was so concerned about cleaning up his organization's act he offered Ramparts the resources of the Minutemen's extensive intelligence system. . . . They provided carte d'identite to sundry Minutemen units, and to the armed religious camps with whom De Pugh was engaged in intraservice rivalry on the right. One was "The Church of Jesus Christ-Christian," the hyphen-Christian being a signal that a dirty Jew like Jesus couldn't' get in the door; this fundamentalist Church worshipped the gods of race prejudice . . . . 18
By 1976 LaRouche saw - or thought he saw - a potential opening to the far right. In a 14 May 1976 New Solidarity article entitled "Neither the 'Far Right' Nor the 'Far Left' Actually Exists," LaRouche described the Labor Committees as "Marxian socialists." Later in the article, however, he argued that the George Wallace movement actually included "pro-socialist currents": The Ku Klux Klan was taken over by the FBI and other agencies of the same parentage during the 1960s, and FBI "stringers" have been directly involved in bombings attributed to the Ku Klux Klan (FBI "stringers" sometimes under the cover of "leftism" have also attempted assassinations and so forth).
However, when the appellation "far right" is more broadly applied, as to the base of the 1968 Wallace movement, the idiocy of the designation becomes obvious to any competent historian or journalist. The Wallace movement of 1968 was a populist movement embracing both pro-socialist and pro-fascist currents in a sociologically lawful way.
In the 28 May 1976 issue of New Solidarity, LaRouche claimed: I am entirely a socialist, not some ordinary reformer. I know above all else how to establish and direct a socialist economy. This is my goal, my morality, my commitment, my only ever present reason for existing.
However, since there was no ability to make a revolution in the near future, the NCLC had to search fora "capitalist solution" for the crisis. This very same issue of New Solidarity also included an important article that mentioned Robert Miles, who was then in jail in Marion. According to the story: Robert Miles, a former KKK official, who was railroaded into jail for the Pontiac bus bombings, was visited by Justice Department officials in Marion. According to the report: Miles, who has damaging first-hand knowledge of the NSC's dirty tricks capability, was told: "If you talk to the USLP, we will bury you."
Miles was finally released from prison in late 1979 and the connections between LaRouche and Miles blossomed in the 1980s. In the March-April 1986 issue of his From the Mountain newsletter, Miles wrote this note following an NCLC electoral victory in Illinois: We watch with humor at the bleating of the liberals and conservatives alike over the victories of the LaRouche forces in Illinois. LaRouche has positions which we agree with and ones we don't. He is a racist, unconsciously to be true. His glorification of European culture, morals and histories is instinctive. It is sound. It reflects an inner genetic memory. He mixes his forces, having blacks and Jews in his ranks. But then, so did every conquering army in history . . including the SS! We have had a closer relationship with his people than most of you. We are delighted in the havoc which his political raiders have wrought in the ranks of ZOG. Well done, Lyndon, well done!
NOTES: 1 The "Mountain" in the title is a reference to Mount Segur, the last Cathar stronghold in the south of France.
In the early 1970s, members of the Canadian branch of the WUNS [World Union of National Socialists], headed by Martin Wiezche . . . aided British and Israeli intelligence to set up a synthetic Black September unit in Canada. On orders from then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, this 'unit' of Black September was to bomb airports along the Canadian-U.S.-border and assassinate 100 second-level Jewish community leaders to build a climate of tension leading up to the 1973 Mideast war.
As for the supposed Black September plot, Frankhouser first claimed that he had discovered that the Soviet Union was really behind the operation and was using the Czech legation in Canada. But in the 14 July 1975 New Solidarity, the argument was that the National Security Council had a plan to use Soviet weapons "captured in Vietnam, laundered' in London and brought into Toronto and Montreal to be used in a terrorist 'offensive' in the US and Canada in the spring of 1974." This offensive would then be "blamed on the Soviets and socialist countries." In a 17 February 1978 New Solidarity article ("How to Analyze and Uproot International Terrorism"), LaRouche now blamed all Black September terrorism not on the NSC but on a British intelligence operation in which < CHAPTER 13 One Man Coup by the Philosopher King: the Chris White Affair in Context | SMILING MAN FROM A DEAD PLANET - THE MYSTERY OF LYNDON LAROUCHE | CHAPTER 15 "Black September" and the Frankhouser File > Pdf file |
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