-Caveat Lector-
Hey, Kris! You're worried about a few remnants of the Iron Guard of Romania,
while the top dog Establishement "Jews" you're so worried about them
persecuting control the US governemnt and military, and are using it to
wreak Talmudic vengeance on countries like Iraq and Serbia? I HOPE there are
a few of that caliber of person left, PROVIDED they drop their naturalism,
and adopt a supernatural attitude -- in other words, to NEUTRALIZE the power
of these establishment Jews without violating their rights as persons. With
your obsession with these obscure groups who were, perhaps, imprudently
trying to defend their nations from the international Jews Henry Ford so
effectively described in his important book of the same name --- how about a
little equal time exposing "the world Rulers of this darkness" -- i.e.
Judeo-Masonry and its hieraarchy of traitors and murders, like the ABC's of
America's decline: Albright, Berger, Cohen, et al. ?? However, all your
posts such as these are valuable historically, but I flat out don't believe
some of the smears against the Iron Guard in the passages your producing --
sounds like the Jewish victors writing history THEIR way -- just like the
evil Ted Koppel is doing every night from Serbia on ABC's treacherous
Nightline program. Jim Condit Jr.
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> an excerpt from:
> Inside The League
> Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson©1986
> Dodd, Mead & Company
> 79 Madison Avenue
> New York, N.Y. 10016
> ISBN 0-396-08517-2
> 322pps — out-of-print/one edition
> [re-print/first edition available from:
> W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated]
> --[3]--
>
> THREE
>
> Our organization was never a study group, and it will never be
> one. ABN is an
> organization of fighters in the first place. Into it should come
> only people
> of courage, men dedicated to the liberation of their countries,
> and ready for
> sacrifice. We have no time and no room for orators. ABN is for action.
> Dr. C. J. Untaru, ABN official,
> London, 1968
>
> THE IRON GUARD, OUN, and Ustasha movements did not expire in the
> ashes of the
> Third Reich. The refugee relief offices of the Vatican Church
> provided them
> with new passports and false identities and protected them until
> they could
> be secreted out of Rome. American and British intelligence
> agencies recruited
> hundreds of them to work in their propaganda and spying missions
> directed at
> Sovietcontrolled Eastern Europe, then smuggled them out through
> "rat lines"
> in Trieste and Genoa.[1]
>
> In contrast to many of the German Nazis who escaped, the
> Romanian, Ukrainian,
> and Croatian fascists did not "disappear" to end their days
> quietly. In exile
> in South America, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States,
> they rebuilt
> their networks and kept alive their ideology, their hatred of the
> Jews, and
> their cries for a New Order. They formed front organizations with
> benign-sounding names and attended international forums where
> they orated on
> the necessity of combating communism. They rose to positions of prominence
> within emigre communities and in political groups in their
> adopted countries.
> In the United States, they became Republican and Democratic Party
> officials,
> attended receptions in the White House, and met with presidents,
> vice-presidents, congressmen, and senators. United under the banner of the
> Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, they helped found the World Anti-Communist
> League.
>
> After the war, the Legionnaires of the Archangel Michael melted away,
> concealing their identity in the chaos of postwar Europe. Most of
> those who
> were trapped in Romania by the approaching Soviet army or who were
> repatriated after the war were executed by the new communist regime. Some
> escaped to South America. Others remained in displaced persons
> (DP) camps in
> Western Europe until they were processed and deemed innocent of war crimes
> and fascist involvement; they were then allowed to emigrate to countries
> where they had relatives or sponsors. A large number of them came
> to Canada
> and the United States, often under the aegis of the Romanian
> Orthodox Church.
>
> Horia Sima, the man most responsible for the massacres of 1940 and 1941,
> slipped across the Austrian border into Germany in May 1945.
>
> In October 1945, we came out of hiding, thinking that we were the only
> survivors. We thought that the other Legionnaires had been captured by the
> Allies and handed over to the Soviets, as had happened to other groups of
> refugees. We discovered that they were not only free but that they had
> regrouped and organized committees to help the refugees in all
> the occupied
> zones.
>
> This exception was granted to the Iron Guard because we had been
> subjected to
> German concentration camps. It is true that we formed a
> government in Vienna
> and that we fought on the German side to the end. However, the Allies took
> into consideration the fact that we had no authority over any
> territory, that
> we had not participated in the declaration of war and that we had not
> committed any crimes against humanity.[2]
>
> The Iron Guard leader eventually landed in an Italian DP camp, where he
> avoided detection by assuming the name "Crivat" until he was able
> to secure
> his escape. Taking on yet another identity, he entered France
> before finally
> fleeing to Spain, where he lives today. By his own account,
> Chirila. Ciuntu's
> escape was not as dramatic.
>
> At the end of the war, he -worked for a farmer in Germany, then
> as a painter
> in France, until sailing to Argentina. There he found two benefactors, a
> doctor "who had a good friend at the Canadian Embassy" and a priest in the
> Romanian Orthodox Church in Canada. Under their patronage, Ciuntu
> emigrated
> to Canada. Still wanted in Romania for war crimes, he went to work in the
> steel mills and slipped into the emigre' community of Windsor. It
> ended his
> flight, but not his mission, for in North America he was reunited
> with Viorel
> Trifa.
>
> Trifa, who had exhorted the Legionnaires to war against "the kikes" in the
> name of National Socialism, escaped to Italy in 1945. There he taught at a
> missionary college for five years before emigrating to the United
> States. In
> 1952, he was named bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America.
> Three years later, he led the opening prayer for the United States Senate,
> the invitation extended by Vice-President Richard Nixon.
>
> By then, Trifa was using the Romanian Orthodox Church to keep the
> Iron Guard
> movement alive in parishes throughout the United States and
> Canada. Under the
> auspices of the World Church Service, according to a 1972 official Church
> publication, "the Episcopate inaugurated a program of theological
> training in
> this country and of recruiting parish priests from among Romanian Orthodox
> priests who left Romania after World War 11 due to the communist
> takeover in
> Romania. Most of the priests who took refuge in Europe or on the American
> continent were given a chance to serve under the jurisdiction of the
> Episcopate."
>
> Those recruited were often not priests but Iron Guard killers. At least
> seventeen of the forty-six priests listed in the publication have
> been linked
> to the Iron Guard by Holocaust researchers. By the 1970s, those that had
> skinned children alive in 1941 could be found throughout the United States
> and Canada on pulpits, clad this time not in green shirts but in priests'
> robes. Churches regularly held masses in memory of fallen Legionnaires,
> altars were adorned with Legion flags, and the fascist salute was
> exchanged.
>
> As the spiritual leader, Trifa oversaw a complex and multifaceted fascist
> network in the United States. The Iron Guard was resurrected not
> only through
> the Church but also through various front groups, newspapers, and
> periodicals.[3]
>
> Ultimately, Trifa's past caught up with him. Almost solely due to
> the efforts
> of Dr. Charles Kremer, a Romanian Jew whose family had been annihilated by
> the Iron Guard, Trifa was stripped of his citizenship after years of court
> cases and was deported to Portugal in 1984. Even then, his "spiritual
> children" did not abandon him.
>
> Your Eminence,
> When you came:
> We were few; but with your help we are now many....
> We were divided; you leave us united....
> We were weak in our faith; you made us strong....
> We were unaware of our heritage; now we are proud of our origin.[4]
>
> The political arm of the Iron Guard is still directed by Horia Sima in
> Madrid. Over the years, he has published several books, which
> carefully avoid
> discussion of Legionary atrocities or blame them on agents
> provocateurs. Not
> wishing to dwell on the past, Sima's Iron Guard has joined the global
> anti-communist movement and has achieved legitimacy through its
> international
> affiliations, including the World Anti-Communist League.[5]
>
> Chirila Ciuntu, a Romanian delegate to World Anti-Communist League
> conferences, remains an active Guardist. According to Howard Blum
> in his book
> Wanted!, Ciuntu is "the most important figure in the resurrection
> of the Iron
> Guard in America. As treasurer of the American legionnaires, he
> collects the
> contributions from the American nests and personally delivers
> these monies to
> Sima in Spain.... 'What do I do in Spain? I buy books,
> anti-Communist books.
> We find that Jews are Communists. We find that everywhere we live the Jews
> are trouble.'"[6] Through this husky retired steelworker, the
> Legionnaires of
> "Captain" Codreanu, the assassins of at least three Romanian
> prime ministers,
> the killers of at least a thousand of their countrymen, the men who urged
> "Romanization" through the eradication of Jews and Freemasons,
> have formed a
> liaison with their compatriots around the world.
>
> With the collapse of Nazi Germany, hundreds of thousands of
> Ukrainians found
> themselves in displaced persons camps at the end of the war.
> Among them were
> thousands of Nazi collaborators, including Stetsko and his followers.
> Although the camps were searched for possible war criminals, the
> Ukrainians
> had little to fear, for one of their last missions before fleeing
> the Soviet
> onslaught had been to gather up every stamp, seal, -and
> letterhead that might
> prove helpful in exile. In safehouses, they forged passports,
> produced bogus
> seminary records, and even made up fake Nazi hit lists of
> Ukrainians slated
> for execution for anti-fascist activities. Those on the lists, of course,
> were the Ukrainians who had been steadfastly loyal to their
> German masters.
> With such documents in hand, the collaborators simply headed west into the
> displaced persons camps administered by the British or the Americans.
>
> In the camps, the Bandera-Stetsko Ukrainians, with their secret
> police still
> intact, continued the pogroms that they had initiated in the
> Ukraine. Rival
> nationalists, Jews, even fellow collaborators—anyone who had evidence or
> firsthand knowledge of the genocide in the Ukraine and who could not be
> counted on to keep silent-were murdered. As a result of these
> purges, the OUN
> emerged as the "Voice; of Ukrainian emigres.[7]
>
> Most importantly, the Bandera-Stetsko forces were aided by their
> British and
> American captors, who recruited hundreds to conduct espionage activities
> against the Soviet Union. An American reporter who toured the
> camps in 1948
> discovered that the Counter-Intelligence Corps "concerns itself
> almost wholly
> with anti-Soviet intelligence. This work has led it into liaison activity
> with the present Nazi underground, so its interest in apprehending former
> allies of the Third Reich has dwindled."[8]
>
> Harry Rositzke, a former high-ranking CIA official, refers to
> this policy in
> oblique fashion in his book, The CIA's Secret Operations:
>
> Agent candidates were recruited from displaced persons camps in
> Germany, from
> among recent Soviet military defectors in Europe, Turkey, Iran and South
> Korea, and through the auspices of various emigre groups.
> Military defectors
> and men sponsored by an emigre group were carefully interrogated
> and assessed
> by their prospective case officers. Our spotters in the DP camps helped
> interview recent refugees and brought likely candidates to our notice.
>
> What Mr. Rositzke did not know, or is not admitting, is that among these
> candidates were a good many Nazi collaborators and men wanted for
> war crimes.
> The emigre groups he refers to were usually ones like the OUN.
> The American
> officials involved with the OUN recruitment program revised the group's
> history, stating that they had "fought bitterly against the
> Germans." It is a
> claim embraced today by Stetsko but contested by most experts.[9]
> Among them
> is John Loftus, author of The Belarus Secret, who spent two years as an
> investigator for the Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investigations in the
> Justice Department:
>
> This [revision] was a complete fabrication. The secret internal
> files of the
> OUN clearly show how most of its members worked for the Gestapo or SS as
> policemen, executioners, partisan hunters and mu-nicipal
> officials. The OUN
> contribution to the German war effort was significant, including
> the raising
> of volunteers for several SS divi-sions.[10]
>
> With such prominent benefactors, many Eastern European Nazi
> collaborators not
> only ensured that their war crimes would go unpunished, but were
> also able to
> reorganize. With American government funds, the OUN formed a regional
> anti-communist federation, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
> (ABN), which,
> according to a former high ABN official, also received funding from Great
> Britain and "substantial" assistance from the postwar West German
> government.
>
> Much has been written about different Nazi networks—ODESSA Kamaraden-werk,
> etc.—that were created after the war to enable war criminals to escape and
> work in exile toward the formation of a Fourth Reich. No other
> organization,
> however, approaches the scope, depth, or influence of the
> Anti-Bolshevik Bloc
> of Nations. Since its inception, it has grown to become the
> largest and most
> important umbrella for Nazi collaborators in the world. The organizer and
> chairman of this "ex-Nazi International" is none other than
> Yaroslav Stetsko.
>
> Though still largely controlled by the Ukrainians under Stetsko,
> the ABN now
> has chapters from other Soviet republics as well and from all of
> the Eastern
> European countries under Soviet control. A prime criterion for membership
> appears to be fealty to the cause of National Socialism- ABN officers
> constitute a virtual Who's Who of those responsible for the massacre of
> millions of civilians in the bloodiest war in history.
>
> After Stetskol the most important official of the Bloc in the
> 1940s was the
> chairman of its council of nations, Alfred Berzins. Described by
> Stetsko as
> "also a former prisoner of Nazi concentration camps," Berzins was
> in reality
> a Latvian who volunteered to serve in a Nazi sponsored police battalion
> responsible for the roundup and extermination of his nation's Jews and
> Communist Party members. In February 1942, he joined the Latvian
> SS and was
> awarded the German Iron Cross, First Grade. In exile, he was
> secretary of the
> Central Committee of the Dangavas Vanagi ("Danaga Hawks"), an organization
> composed of the Latvian SS officers and government ministers who
> oversaw the
> Final Solution in their country. Until his death, he lived under
> his own name
> in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
>
> As chairman of the ABN Central Committee in the 1950s—a position
> he continues
> to hold—Stetsko overcame nationalistic differences and embraced
> fascists from
> all regions. Today, Byelorussian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and
> Croatian Nazi collaborators, to name but a few, are all represented in the
> ABN. The Croatian delegation is made up of Ustashi from the Croatian
> Liberation Movement of Pavelic and Hefer. The Bulgarian chapter is the
> Bulgarian National Front Inc., the front group for the fascist Bulgarian
> Legionnaries of World War II. The Romanian delegation is composed of Iron
> Guardists.
>
> The bloc has not even taken the basic step of drawing some of its officers
> from younger, untainted members. On a 1980 list of its central committee
> members, the overall leaders of its various activities, at least
> seven of the
> eleven listed are accused of being war criminals.
>
> Through its headquarters in Munich and its main branch in New
> York, the ABN
> has gone a long way toward promoting a version of modern history
> that bears
> no resemblance to fact. All mentions of the various members'
> services to the
> Nazis have been purged in favor of laudatory passages about the great
> sacrifices they endured in their struggle for world freedom and
> independence.
>
> Despite its origins and membership, the ABN does not meet in
> secret covens in
> mountain hideaways. It is an extremely visible international network that
> publishes magazines, holds demonstrations, and lobbies elected
> officials in
> the United States and Western Europe. It has branches in England, the
> Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Argentina. It created the
> European Freedom Council, whose Western European members consist
> of prominent
> conservatives, as well as the requisite Nazi collaborators. Chapters of
> American Friends of the ABN have been established in cities throughout the
> United States, including Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles,
> Cleveland, and Miami.
> Its officers meet with congressmen and senators to solicit
> support, and both
> Democratic and Republican officials have been honored guests at its
> functions. Serving on its honorary committees have been
> high-ranking former
> military officers, including General Daniel 0. Graham (former
> director of the
> Defense Intelligence Agency), General Bruce Holloway (former commander in
> chief of the Strategic Air Command), and General Sir Walter Walker (former
> British commander in chief of Allied Forces-North).
>
> An examination of one ABN chapter's activities in one year alone
> illustrates
> the degree of access to elected officials that they have attained. In
> September 1981, the Chicago chapter of American Friends of the ABN elected
> new officers. Among those elected were John Kosiak, a Byelorussian Nazi
> collaborator- Romanian Iron Guardist Alexander Ronnettj Anton Bonifacic, a
> former official in the Croatian Ustasha foreign ministry- and George
> Paprikoff, who had belonged to the pro-Nazi Bulgarian Legionary
> movement. The
> following month, they accompanied the visiting Yaroslav Stetsko as he
> addressed a joint session of the Illinois state congress and had a private
> audience with Governor Jim Thompson. In June 1982, several members went to
> Washington, where "they were briefed by CIA and FBI officials,
> Secretary of
> the Department of Interior James Watt, Chairman of the Board of
> Governors of
> the Federal Reserve System, and Secretary of the Department of Commerce
> Malcolm Baldridge, as well as have had [sic] an opportunity to privately
> converse with Senators Charles H. Percy and Alan J. Dixon and Congressman
> Henry J. Hyde."[11]
>
> Today, in Ronald Reagan, the ABN has found the closest thing ever
> to a White
> House ally. On July 13, 1983, Yaroslav Stetsko, a man who went to
> prison for
> participating in the murder of Polish officials, who once proclaimed his
> devotion to the Nazis, whose followers assisted in the slaughter
> of Jews in
> the Ukraine, sat in the center of the front row of a reception
> hall to hear
> Reagan announce, "Your dream is our dream. Your hope is our
> hope." Afterward,
> he shook the president's hand and posed for photographs.
>
> "Whatever we may think of Reagan," Roman Zwaryz, an ABN official, told a
> reporter in 1984, "the Captive Nations Week ceremonies during the Reagan
> Administration have been at least an indicator of a basic,
> fundamental shift
> in American foreign policy and it has led to certain tactical changes that
> have benefited us. For the first time in twenty, twenty-five years, we are
> being consulted as to the content of [Radio Liberty] broadcasts being sent
> into the Ukraine. Prior to the Reagan Presidency, no one in the foreign
> policy elite in the U.S. saw it even necessary to contact us."
>
> The effect of those consultations could be seen in 1985; at the
> beginning of
> Reagan's second term in office, congressional investigators found
> that Radio
> Liberty and Radio Free Europe were broadcasting "unacceptable material ...
> characterized as anti-Semitic, antiCatholic or even anti-Western" into the
> Soviet bloc. Among the offending broadcasts was "a positive description of
> the Nazi unit Galizien [Galician SS], which was responsible for allowing
> Ukrainians to murder thousands of Jews in Lvov.[12]
>
> >From the forests of Zhytomyr to Washington DC, from the journal,
> Our Front in
> 1940 to the White House, from the OUN Manifesto of 1940, the
> political basis
> of the ABN, to this year's grand commemoration of the ABN's fortieth
> anniversary, to the raising of the ABN emblem in the hallowed halls of
> Congress, in this citadel of freedom ... the road has been hard and
> difficult.... We were able to traverse the hard and bitter road from the
> forests of Zhytomyr to the White House only with your continuous
> support!—ABN
> Central Committee, 1983.[ 13]
>
> Perhaps no other European fascist group escaped quite as intact as the
> Croatian Ustasha. Although thousands of lesser officials and soldiers were
> captured by either the Soviet army or Tito's partisans (and almost always
> summarily executed), virtually the entire leadership escaped.
>
> Responsible for the slaughter of a million of their countrymen,
> the Ustashi
> were able to elude justice through a combination of Allied incompetence,
> Vatican complicity, the chaos of postwar Europe, the mutual
> suspicions of the
> United States and the Soviet Union 7 the generous assistance of
> the Argentine
> and Spanish governments, and the solidarity of Croatian emigres
> in every part
> of the world.
>
> Thousands of Ustashi retreated with the German troops in May 1945 and
> attempted to surrender to British forces at the Austrian border. [14] When
> the British refused them entry, the Ustashi improvised. Ante
> Pavelic clipped
> his recognizable bushy eyebrows, donned a beard, and, with an Argentine
> passport, slipped into Austria under the name "Ramirez." He hid in the
> Convent of St. Gilgin until picked up by British occupation forces. He was
> released and surfaced two years later in Italy dressed as a priest and
> secreted in another convent. It is believed that from there, with a new
> Argentine passport under the name "Pablo Aranyos," he sailed to
> Buenos Aires
> in 1948.
>
> Stejpan Hefer also escaped into Austria. He was there on August 19; 1946,
> when the Yugoslav government filed documents asking for his return to
> Yugoslavia to stand trial for war crimes. The American and British
> authorities were apparently unable to locate the former governor-general
> among those in the displaced persons camps, for he surfaced a
> year later in
> Italy. From there he sailed to join his poglavnik in Argentina.
>
> Hefer was helped out of Europe by the most important Croatian
> escape route,
> which operated out of the Instituto di Santa Jeronimus (Institute of St.
> Jerome) at 132 Tomaselli Street in Rome. This Catholic foundation, run by
> Fathers Draganovic and Levasic, facilitated the escape of thousands of
> Ustashi to South America.
>
> "The organization [St. Jerome]," U.S. State Department agent
> Vincent La Vista
> reported in 1947, "provides free food, board and eventually
> clothing to its
> members. It would appear that necessary sums come from Vatican
> circles, who
> had previously actively supported this organization in 1923-1941.
> Membership
> of Ustascha and Catholic religion are compulsory for help and
> assistance in
> leaving Italy. "[15]
>
> The Institute provided passports for fugitive Ustashi through two
> sympathetic
> officials in the foreigner's police branch of the Italian government. Once
> the passports were signed by the Italian officials, Father Levasic would
> deliver them to the Argentine consulate, where immigration permits were
> quickly issued. Shipping space was then arranged for the next
> available space
> on a ship bound for Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the refugees could receive
> assistance from a group of exiled Croatian Catholic monks. In this way, as
> many as five hundred Ustashi a month were able to slip away.[16]
>
> Besides whatever aid they may have received from sympathetic priests or
> fellow fascists, the Ustashi were also greatly assisted in their escape by
> the simple fact that no one was really looking for them. In 1948, the
> undersecretary of state for foreign affairs of Great Britain
> announced that,
> in spite of the fact that Yugoslavia had petitioned for the extradition of
> eighteen hundred Ustashi to stand trial for war crimes, the British
> government would assist in the cases of only nineteen, "who rendered such
> signal service to the enemy that it would be difficult if not
> impossible for
> us to justify a refusal to consider surrendering them."
>
> Among those select nineteen was Pavelic, whom the British had previously
> captured and released. As for the others who were wanted for war crimes,
> including Stejpan Hefer, "we propose to take no further action and we will
> not now accept any fresh requests for surrender. We feel that it
> is time for
> this matter to be brought to an end. "[17]
>
> Portraying themselves as victims of communist persecution whose
> only "crimes"
> were to be Croatian patriots, the Ustashi quickly set up front groups in
> their exile communities. In 1956, Pavelic founded the Croatian Liberation
> Movement (HOP), with its headquarters and its supreme council in Buenos
> Aires. Stejpan Hefer, the loyal henchman, was named to the
> supreme council.
>
> In exile, Hefer made no attempt to hide his allegiance to the
> Ustasha. cause
> or his bitterness at the United States and Great Britain for
> having failed to
> accept the Croatians as allies: "The great Western powers
> preferred to fight
> against the idea of nationalism because of their own selfish
> reasons.... The
> Western democratic powers also accepted the propaganda of Tito and the
> Yugoslav Communists and proclaimed Croatian nationalism and Croatian
> revolutionary struggle for freedom ... under the leadership of
> the Croatian
> USTASHA Movement as nazi-fascism."[18]
>
> After rival Croatians attempted to assassinate Pavelic the following year,
> the poglavnik sought refuge in Spain. He lived quietly and reclusively in
> Madrid until his death from natural causes in December 1959. He
> is buried in
> a secret cemetery outside Madrid.
>
> On Pavelic's death, the leadership of the HOP passed to Stelpan
> Hefer. Other
> factions appeared, each claiming to be the true inheritor of the Ustasha
> creed- some were more than willing to display their adherence to Pavelic's
> teachings by acts of terror. One, the Croatian Revolutionary
> Brotherhood, a
> hit squad formed in Australia in 1961, is composed mainly of
> second-generation Croatians who have maintained close ties with the old
> Ustasha network.
>
> The brotherhood has been responsible for much of the "secret war" waged
> against the Yugoslavian government during the past fifteen years,
> including
> the bombing of a Yugoslav passenger plane in 1972 that killed twenty-seven
> people and the 1976 hijacking of a TWA plane in New York that
> resulted in the
> death of a New York City policeman. And, like their older compatriots, the
> new generation of Ustasha has shown itself to be willing to rely
> on the help
> of sympathetic third parties.
>
> Two Croatian terrorists, assisted by five conspirators on the outside,
> entered the Yugoslav Embassy in Stockholm in April 1971. Their target was
> Vladimir Rolovic, the Yugoslav ambassador and the man who two
> years earlier
> had given the Australian government a report on Croatian
> terrorist activities
> originating there. For exposing their operations, Rolovic's punishment was
> death. After binding and taunting the ambassador, the Croatians
> killed him,
> instantly becoming causes celebres in Croatian emigre circles around the
> world.
>
> In reaction to their subsequent life sentences, three other Croatians
> hijacked a Swedish plane in September 1972, demanding the release of their
> seven comrades. The Swedes released them and all except one, who
> refused to
> leave the Swedish prison, were then given asylum in Spain. They
> contacted the
> vacationing Paraguayan president, General Alfredo Stroessner, in
> West Germany
> in 1973.
>
> Stroessner, moved by their plight, agreed to take them in seasoned
> "anti-communist freedom fighters" were hard to come by. The Paraguayan
> president immediately put them to work training his country's army and
> police. One, Jozo Damjanovic, would later kill the Uruguayan ambassador to
> Paraguay (mistaking him for the new Yugoslav ambassador), while
> another, Miro
> Baresic, would be discovered serving as a bodyguard at the
> Paraguayan Embassy
> in Washington and be deported back to Sweden.
>
> The leader of the Croatian killers was Dinko Sakic of the
> Ustashi. Sakic is
> wanted both for his World War II war crimes as a concentration camp
> commandant and for his role as Pavelic's chief of cabinet. He is
> accused by
> the Yugoslav government of coordinating much of the anti-Yugoslav reign of
> terror in the 1970s. In 1979, he attended the World Anti-Communist League
> conference in Paraguay.
>
> The Ustashi and their progeny have sought to keep themselves in
> fighting form
> for the day when they will "liberate" Croatia. Croatians were recruited as
> mercenaries by Rafael Trujillo in 1959 for help in putting down
> the rebellion
> against his savage rule of the Dominican Republic. In the 1960s, Croatian
> mercenaries fought in the Congo, and Croatian exiles in Australia
> reportedly
> offered that government a thousand men to help out in the Vietnam war. In
> 1972, in a mission dubbed Operation Phoenix, twenty Croatian nationalists
> slipped into Yugoslavia on a combat mission, only to be wiped out by the
> Yugoslavian army.
>
> The Ustashi continue to have a great deal of strength within
> Croatian emigre
> communities throughout the world, including in the United States. They now
> portray themselves as "democrats," "in harmony with the American
> tradition of
> freedom and independence." But such Croatian newspapers as Danica and Nasa
> Nada, the latter the official newspaper of the Croatian Catholic
> Union of the
> United States, continue to pay reverence to their fallen poglavnik and his
> Ustasha cause.[19]
>
> The Ustashi have managed to get their voices and demands heard not only
> through acts of terrorism but also through the forum of international
> organizations like the World Anti-Communist League. After the
> death of Hefer
> in 1973, his place as head of the Croatian chapter of the League
> was taken by
> Anton Bonifacic, another former Ustasha official, living in Chicago. As
> president of the fallen Pavelic's Croatian Liberation Movement,
> Bonifacic now
> represents Croatia at League conferences, giving speeches and passing
> resolutions on the continuing struggle for the independent state
> of Croatia,
> liberally rewriting history in doing so.
>
> Whereas ... the Croatian Nation was subjected to the
> unprecedented genocide
> in which massacre about one million of Croatians were slaughtered by
> Communists or Serbs, who were opposed to the Cro-atian
> self-determination and
> national independence-. Therefore, the 11th. conference of the
> WACL resolves
> ... to declare
> that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, this
> artificial creation
> of Versailles et [sic] Yalta, should be substituted by free,
> independent and
> democratic states.[20]
>
> Interestingly, Taiwan, the chief sponsor of the WACL, is one of only two
> nations in the world to recognize the Croatian Liberation Movement as a
> legitimate government-in-exile.
>
> The extent to which the Ustashi have been able to influence world
> opinion and
> portray reports of their past crimes as nothing more than communist
> propaganda is perhaps best illustrated by the machinations over April 10,
> 1941.
>
> April 10, 1941, was the day the Germans invaded Yugoslavia and established
> the Ustasha regime. Today, among both the old Ustashi and the
> new, April 10
> is known as Croatian Independence Day to Yugoslavians, especially
> Serbs and
> Jews, it is remembered as the day their Holocaust began. During
> his tenure as
> governor of California, Ronald Reagan passed a resolution recognizing the
> date as Independent Croatia Day as a favor to his Croatian
> constituents. He
> later rescinded the proclamation and apologized to the Yugoslav government
> when informed of the true significance of April 10.
>
> A simple, if embarrassing, mistake- but others haven't picked up
> the cue. In
> a pamphlet put out by the National Republican Heritage Groups Council, a
> branch of the Republican Party, entitled "1984 Guide to Nationality
> Observances," there is this heading under April 10:
>
> Croatian Independence Day The Independent State of Croatia was declared by
> unanimous proclamation in 1941 thus ending an enforced union with Royalist
> Yugoslavia in which Croatian independence was subverted and
> threatened. Lack
> of Western support and Axis occupation forced the new state into an
> unfortunate association with the Axis powers.
>
> The Ustasha historical revisionists could not have said it any better.
>
> We have examined the history of three Nazi collaborators who
> belonged to the
> World Anti-Communist League. We did not have to cull membership lists or
> examine the backgrounds of all League members to find them; they
> were chosen
> virtually at random to serve as examples. They are not the three
> "bad apples"
> of the League, they are, in fact, in the company of many other
> war criminals,
> some of whom committed even worse crimes.
>
> A frequent attendee of League conferences was a silver-haired elderly man
> named Dimitri Kasmowich. Kasmowich returned from exile to his native
> Byelorussia with the invading Germans in 1941. Designated police chief of
> Smolensk, he purged the area of Jews, partisans, and Communist
> Party members,
> destroying entire towns and villages to clear the path for the
> Nazis. As the
> war began turning against Germany, Kasmowich was sent to an SS commando
> training center in Germany; he returned to Byelorussia to lead a unit of
> Byelorussian Nazis of the Abwehr-sponsored "special intelligence
> operations"
> section in guerrilla warfare behind the Red Army front lines.
>
> Escaping to Switzerland, Kasmowich later surfaced as a refugee rations
> officer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) in
> France. In a displaced persons camp, he was recruited by British
> Intelligence
> and smuggled to England, where he lived under the name
> "Zarechny." Returning
> to Germany in the 1950s, he organized Byelorussian Nazi
> collaborators for the
> U.S. State Department's Office of Policy Coordination while working as an
> accountant for the U.S. Army. The result, the Byelorussian Liberation
> Movement, was designed to gather information and carry out intelligence
> missions for the Americans. Due to this high status within the
> Byelorussian
> emigre community, Kasmowich headed the Liberation Movement delegations to
> World Anti-Communist League conferences from 1966 until the late 1970s.
>
> Today, the Byelorussian Liberation Movement is still the official
> Byelorussian League chapter. Leadership has passed on to John
> Kosiak; he too
> meets the requirements of a war criminal. Appointed an engineer in
> Byelorussia by the SS, Kosiak used slave labor to repair war-damaged
> factories, and he constructed the Jewish ghetto of Minsk. He
> lives in Chicago
> and has been active in Republican Party politics.
>
> Theodore Oberlander, the German commander of the Ukrainian
> Nightingales, has
> continued his partnership with Yaroslav Stetsko through the World
> Anti-Communist League. A staunch Nazi, Oberlander joined the Nazi Party in
> 1933 and was made an honorary officer of the Nazi SD (Gestapo) in
> 1936. The
> Ukrainians accused of carrying out many of the purges in the Lvov area in
> June 1941 were under his command.
>
> After the war, Oberlander became a member of the Bundestag,
> controversial for
> his habit of carrying a loaded gun onto the assembly floor. He
> served as West
> German minister of refugee affairs until 1960, when details of his wartime
> role became known and he was forced to resign. A year later, German
> prosecutors dropped the charges against him, citing "lack of
> evidence," and
> stating that they had heard testimony from at least 150 Soviet citizens
> attesting to his innocence. What was not said was that most of these
> character witnesses were Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and members of the
> OUN/B in exile.
>
> In other words, Oberlander was cleared largely on the testimony of men who
> had served under his wartime command. Oberlander's special
> relationship with
> Stetsko—each knowing intimate details of the crimes of the other-continues
> today- Oberlander is a high officer of the ABN's European Freedom
> Council and
> leads German delegations to World Anti-Communist League conferences.
>
> The presence of Nazi collaborators in the League, both
> individuals and entire
> organizations, is staggering.
>
> St. C. de Berkelaar, who heads an organization in the Netherlands
> called Sint
> Martinsfonds, attended the 1978 League conference in Washington, D.C. Sint
> Martinsfonds is a brotherhood of three to four hundred former Dutch SS
> officers.
>
> Ake Lindsten, chairman of the Swedish National League, headed the Swedish
> delegation to the League conference of 1979. Lindsten was a
> member of a Nazi
> youth group in his native country during World War II and has
> been censored
> by the Swedish government for his group's racist proclamations.
>
> The Slovak World Congress, the Slovakian chapter of the League,
> is composed
> of Nazi collaborators and their progeny. They are represented in
> the League
> by Josef Mikus, who was an ambassador for the Nazi-puppet Slovak
> government
> in World War II.
>
> The Latvian chapter of the League is controlled by the Danagaus Vanagi
> ("Danaga Hawks"). Operating out of Munster, West Germany, and publishing a
> newspaper in Canada, the Hawks are a band of Latvian leaders who
> assisted the
> Nazis in exterminating the Jews of their Baltic homeland.
>
> If one wants to find Nazi collaborators, it is only necessary to
> examine the
> European chapters of the World Anti-Communist League.
>
> With the creation of the World Anti-Communist League, there came into
> existence a worldwide network of fascism. Today, League conventions afford
> the opportunity for the old-guard war criminals to meet with, advise, and
> support the new-guard fascists. Thus today a man like Chirila Ciuntu, who
> helped slaughter "Communist-Jews" forty-five years ago, can sit
> down in the
> same room with an Italian fascist who killed "Reds" ten years ago
> and with a
> Salvadoran who is killing "subversives" now.
>
> pps. 33-45
>
> --[notes]--
> FOREWORD
>
> 1. WACL Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 2 (Seoul, Korea: Freedom Center,- June
> 1983), p. 77.
>
> 2. Major General John K. Singlaub, "A New Strategy for the 1980's,"
> address at the United States Council for World Freedom and the
> North American
> Region of the World Anti-Communist League meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on
> April 23,1982 reprinted in ABN Correspondence, vol. 33, nos. 4/5
> (New York:
> JulyOctober 1982), p. 25.
>
> 3. On the October 18, 1984, edition of the ABC television news show
> Nightline, Nazi investigator Charles Allen alluded to this in
> discussing the
> historical origins of the CIA unconventional warfare manual that
> had recently
> surfaced in Honduras: "In the early 1950s, up through 1957, at
> Fort Meade in
> Maryland, counterinsurgency programs were put there and installed there by
> all intelligence agencies in the United States, led by the,CIA—CIA and
> military intelligencein which the Nazi experience was drawn
> upon.... Indeed,
> there were booklets of that period that were executed along the lines of
> counterinsurgency. I think there is a direct, concrete continuum
> relationship
> between that early period of the '50s when such war criminals and
> collaborators were used in these counterinsurgency programs as
> instructors,
> and the Nicaraguan pamphlet which has just been released."
>
> Part I
>
> ONE
>
> 1. "Colom Argueta's Last Interview," Latin America Political Report,
> vol. 13, no. 14,
> (April 6, 1979).
>
> TWO
>
> 1. Victor Livingston and Dennis Debbaudt, "Bishop Trifa: Prelate or
> Persecutor?"
> Monthly Detroit (July 1980), pp. 67-68.
>
> 2. Chirila Ciuntu letter to coauthor, January 17, 1985.
>
> 3. Alexander Ronnett, Romanian Nationalism: The Legionary Movement
> (Chicago: Loy-ola University Press, 1974), p. 7.
>
> 4. Hans Rogger and Eugen Webber, The European Right (London:
> Weidenfeld
> and
> Nicholson, 1965), p. 522.
>
> 5. Ronnett, op. cit., p. 26.
>
> 6. Livingston and Debbaudt, op. cit., p. 64.
>
> 7. Jane Biberman, "His Magnificent Obsession," The
> Pennsylvania Gazette,
> (February 1983), p. 25.
>
> 8. Lynda Powless, "The War That Won't Go Away," Windsor Star
> (Windsor,
> Canada: February 12, 1983), p. B12.
>
> 9. Leigh White, Long Balkan Night (New York: Charles Scribners Sons,
> 1944), pp.
> 147-48.
>
> 10, Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of European Jewry (New
> York: Quadrangle
> Books,
> 1961), p. 489.
>
> 11, Ciuntu letter to coauthor, January 17, 1985.
>
> 12, Powless, op. cit., p. B12.
>
> 13. Diary of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris,
> Kriegstagebuchaufzeichnung uber die
> Konferenzim Fuhrerzug in l1nau, (September 12, 1939).
>
> 14. "For the purpose of delivering a lightning blow against the Soviet
> Union," a German intelligence officer wrote, "Abwehr 11 ... must use its
> agents for kindling national antagonism among the people of the
> Soviet Union
> ... I contacted Ukrainian National Socialists who were in the German
> Intelligence Service and other members of the nationalist fascist
> groups....
> Instructions were given by me personally to the leaders of the Ukrainian
> Nationalists, MeInyk and Bandera, to organize ... demonstrations in the
> Ukraine in order to disrupt the immediate rear of the Soviet Armies."
>
> Alexander Dallin, The German Occupation of the Soviet Union (New York: St.
> Martin's Press, 1967), p. 116.
>
> 15. John Alexander Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism (Littleton, Colorado:
> Ukraini-
> an Academic Press, 1963), p. 63.
>
> 16. Surma (Lvov, Ukraine: July 2, 194 1).
>
> 17, Hilberg, op. cit., p. 204.
>
> 18. Ibid., p. 205.
>
> 19. Even the sympathetic John Armstrong admitted as much in Ukrainian
> Nationalism: "Their instrument was the SB or Security. Service, forged by
> Mykola Lebed, [the third man in OUN/B] years previously. Though
> the extent of
> the 'purges' of 'unreliable elements' (primarily East Ukrainians, but
> including some former Melnyk partisans ... ) is uncertain, there is little
> question that it was sufficiently great to arouse extreme
> disaffection among
> the non-OUN/B elements in the enlarged partisan movement."
>
> 20. Hilberg, op. cit., pp. 329-30.
>
> 21. Allan A. Ryan, Jr., Quiet Neighbors (New York: Harcourt Brace
> Jovanovich, 1984),
> p. 144.
>
> 22. Fitzroy Maclean, The Heretic (New York: Harper &
> Brothers, 1957), p.
> 124.
>
> 23. Ibid., p. 125.
>
> 24. The Ustashi had a religious mandate in the time of their exile and
> early days of power, enjoying the support of much of the Croatian Catholic
> clergy. Franciscan monks joined Ustasha batallions, and Pavelic bestowed
> medals on nuns and priests for their roles in defending the Fatherland.
>
> When the Ustashi were ushered into Zagreb by the Germans,
> Archbishop Stepinac
> of Croatia immediately offered his congratulations to the
> poglavnik and held
> a banquet to celebrate the founding of the new nation. He ordered the
> proclamation of the independent state to be delivered from all
> pulpits of the
> Catholic Church in Croatia on Easter Sunday and arranged to have
> Pavelic be
> received by Pope Pius XII. "God," he extolled in the newspaper Nedelja on
> April 27,1941, "who directs the destiny of nations and controls
> the hearts of
> kings, has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a friendly and
> allied people, Adolf Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our
> oppressors.... Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and
> loyalty to
> our Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic."
>
> Miroslav Filipovic, a Franciscan monk, served for two years as
> the commandant
> of the Jasenovac concentration camp, supervising the extermination of at
> least one hundred thousand victims. On May 25, 1941, a priest,
> Franjo Kralik,
> wrote in the Katolicki Tlednik, a Zagreb newspaper: "The Jews who
> led Europe
> and the entire world to disaster-morally, culturally and
> economically—developed an appetite which nothing less than the world as a
> whole could satisfy.... The movement for freeing the world from
> the Jews is a
> movement for the renascence of human dignity. The all-wise and
> Almighty God
> is behind this movement."
>
> Some Catholic priests disagreed with Ustashi methods for a more
> basic reason.
> After recounting stories he had heard of hundreds of women and
> children being
> thrown alive off a cliff, the Bishop of Mostar lamented, "if the Lord had
> given to the authorities more understanding to handle the conversions to
> Catholicism with skill and intelligence with fewer clashes, and at a more
> appropriate time, the number of Catholics would have grown at
> least 500,000
> to 600,000."
>
> 25. Government of Yugoslavia Petition for Extradition, submitted by
> Yugoslav Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Acting Secretary of United States
> Department of State, August 19, 1946.
>
> THREE
>
> 1. The various "rat lines" running out of post-war Europe have been
> discussed at length by others, the Nazi collaborators now found
> in the World
> Anti-Communist League were assisted by many different ones.
>
> Perhaps the most important and widely-used escape route was through the
> refugee offices operating in Rome under the sponsorship of the Vatican
> Church. At these offices, without identification of any kind, a fugitive
> could, with the aid of a sympathetic priest, obtain an affidavit with an
> alias name and a false background. With this new identity, the
> fugitive could
> obtain an International Red Cross passport.
>
> The Catholic Church's role in this operation is surely one of the blackest
> marks in its history. In pursuit of propagating the faith, the priests who
> ran the refugee offices assisted nearly anyone, regardless of political
> background, as long as they attested to being anti-Communist Catholics.
>
> When a U.S. State Department investigator, Vincent La Vista, tried to
> determine why so many refugees were emigrating to South America, he
> discovered, "that in those Latin American countries where the Church is a
> controlling or dominating factor, the Vatican has brought pressure to bear
> which has resulted in the foreign missions of those countries taking an
> attitude almost favoring the entry into their country of former Nazis and
> former Fascists or other political groups, so long as they are
> anti-communists."
>
> Other fascists were saved by Reinhard Gehlen. As head of the German Fremde
> Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East), Gehlen had been the overseer of the Nazi
> collaborator forces in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during
> the war. At
> the end of the war, Gehlen had a vast network of thousands of agents
> stretching from Bulgaria to Lithuania. In 1946, Gehlen was flown to
> Washington, D.C. where he explained this network to the Americans.
> "De-Nazified," he became the head of the West German intelligence
> agency, his
> network intact and now working for the Americans.
>
> "He opened the eyes of the Americans," Iron Guardist Alexander
> Ronnett wrote
> in admiration on the occasion of Gehlen's death, "and convinced
> them of the
> communist danger. The majority of American political and military leaders
> based their knowledge about the Soviets on Gehlen's documents.
> The American
> Intelligence Service incorporated Gehlen's network. . . " Potomac
> (Chicago:
> April 1, 1980), p. 38.
>
> Gehlen was also defended by former Deputy Director of CIA Ray Cline, who
> claims he knew the former Nazi officer well, on the October 18,
> 1984 edition
> of the ABC television news show Nightline.
>
> 2. Maurizio Cabona, An Interview with Horia Sima, Commander-in-Chief
> Legion of the Archangel Michael (N.P., presumably reprinted in the United
> States or Canada, 1977), p. 17.
>
> 3. On the surface, these different offshoots represent a
> wide range in
> political outlook. They range from the vicious Jew-baiting of
> George Boian,
> to the geopolitical ruminations of Dr. Alexander Ronnett.
>
> Boian, a bullet-headed, balding man, operates the Boian News
> Service and the
> newsletter Fin Daciei out of his home on East Ninety-first Street
> in New York
> City. His writings constantly rail against America's "yarmulked
> bosses" and
> contend that the Jews are in total control of the United States.
> In 1980, he
> took what was surely an inordinate amount of credit for the election of
> Ronald Reagan as President and the defeat of Elizabeth Holtzman (who had
> spearheaded the Congressional pursuit of Trifa) for the Senate. Boian is
> hardly a pariah within the Iron Guard community; a 1980 photograph shows
> Archbishop Trifa patting him on the shoulder at a church reception in
> Michigan.
>
> All of which stands in considerable contrast to the writings of Alexander
> Ronnett, a practicing doctor in Mount Prospect, Illinois, Chairman of the
> Romanian American National Congress and a member of the World
> Anti-Communist
> League. Ronnett's magazine, Potomac, which consists mainly of reprints of
> articles by conservative columnists and favorable editorials on
> the Pinochet
> government in Chile, never mentions the Iron Guard or voices overt
> anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, Ronnett, whose real name is
> Rachmistriuc, is a
> long-time Iron Guardist who, according to Holocaust researchers,
> participated
> in the January 1941 revolt and is accused of being one of the primary
> financial supporters of Guard activities in the Midwest today. He has
> published monographs bearing the Guardist symbol, as well as a
> laudatory and
> apologetic history of the Iron Guard, dedicated to "the memory of the
> Legionary martyrs who so willingly gave their lives for the freedom of the
> Romanian Nation." In fact, even his Potomac magazine has the Guard symbol
> cleverly placed in each corner of the cover.
>
> 4. Solia (Publication of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America,
> June 1984).
> p. 6.
>
> 5. A pamphlet issued by Sima's headquarters on the occasion of the
> Legionary Movement's fortieth anniversary, XL Anniversary of the
> Foundation
> of the Rumanian Legionary Movement, 1927-1967 Declarations of the
> Legionary
> Movement Concerning the Fate of the Free World and the Tragedy of the
> Rumanian People, Madrid, Spain, (October 1968), throws the support of the
> Movement "already a veteran in the struggle against communism," into the
> ranks of the respectable conservative causes of the time.
>
> Along with the dubious rationale of "the sacrifice of American
> young men in
> Vietnam, directed to the containment of communism and to the stoppage of
> Communist aggression in Asia, is the only bright point in the political
> position of the western powers," it urges that Taiwan be allowed
> to enter the
> Vietnam War and to invade the Chinese mainland.
>
> "The Legionary Movement salutes the patriotic reaction of these
> Christian and
> nationalistic forces of South America, which with the help of the armed
> forces, have restored law and order in those nations." The
> passage concludes
> that the movement "points out with admiration the role women have
> played in
> such events."
>
> 6. Howard Blum, Wanted! (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times
> Book Com-
> pany, 1977), p. 134.
>
> Also, in the November/December 1979 issue of Tara Si Exilul (The
> Land and the
> Exiled) the magazine of the Legionary movement published in
> Madrid, Ciuntu's
> prominence is noted:
>
> "In St. Nicholas Church in Detroit, Father Dumitru Mihaescu celebrated the
> memorial service for the Captain [Codreanu] after which they
> remembered the
> events when the highest Romanian of all time was killed.... Under the
> leadership of Chirila Ciuntu, the Legionnaires from Windsor, Detroit and
> other centers had a commemorative meeting which evoked the deeds of the
> Captain and his great sacrifice in the service of the nation and God."
>
> The presiding priest, Dumitru Mihaescu, was another Iron Guard leader who
> participated in the January 1941 massacre. Trifa had arranged to have
> Mihaescu brought from his Argentine exile to the United States to
> serve as a
> priest.
>
> 7. The OUN/B was also assisted in their rise to post-war
> prominence by
> Josef Stalin's demands that Soviet subjects found in American and British
> Displaced Persons camps be returned to the Soviet Union. All
> those affected
> knew that to return to the Soviet Union would almost certainly mean death,
> especially if the Soviet authorities had suspicions of one's collaboration
> with the Nazis. Eastern Ukrainians, those from Soviet regions,
> were slated to
> be sent back while the Western Ukrainians, Bandera and Stetsko's
> followers,
> were exempt due to their Polish origin. Eastern Ukrainians would only be
> harbored and helped to escape the repatriation if they would accept the
> Bandera-Stetsko leadership.
>
> 8. David W. Nussbaum, New York Post, November 21, 1948.
>
> 9. The chief American protector of all the Eastern European Nazi
> collaborators was
> Frank G. Wisner, head of the State Department's secret Office of
> Policy Coordination, who openly bragged about his role in concealing
> OUN members from war crimes investigators.
>
> "Luckily," he wrote the Immigration and Naturalization Service in
> 195 1, "the
> attempt to locate these anti-Soviet Ukrainians was sabotaged by a few
> farsighted Americans who warned the persons concerned to go into hiding."
>
> After protecting them from prosecution for war crimes, Wisner
> smuggled many
> OUN members, along with hundreds of other Eastern European Nazi
> collaborators, into the United States.
>
> "In wartime," he wrote in defense of his actions, "a highly nationalistic
> Ukrainian political group with its own security service could
> conceivably be
> a great asset. Alienating such a group could, on the other hand, have no
> particular advantage to the United States either now or in wartime."
>
> Wisner later committed suicide.
>
> 10. Thomas O'Toole, The Washington Post, November 8, 1982; p. A-3. 7
>
> 11. ABN Correspondence (New York: March-April 1983), pp. 29-30.
>
> 12. Jack Anderson, The Washington Merry-Go-Round, April 19, 1985.
>
> 13. ABN Correspondence (New York: September-October, 1983).
>
> 14. Those who did get into Austria had a friend. Father Vilim Cecelia,
> who had served as a military chaplain and performed absolution for Ustashi
> forces during the height of the massacres of Serbs and Jews, had been
> transferred to Austria in 1944. He was in place when the Ustashi began
> slipping across the border in 1945, in the meantime taking it
> upon himself to
> found the Croatian Red Cross, without affiliation or approval of the
> International Red Cross.
>
> At the end of the war, the International Red Cross, wanting to keep the
> Serbian and Croatian refugees apart to avoid strife, gave Cecelia interim
> permission to continue running his camp under their protection until a new
> organization could be formed. With this stamp of approval, Cecelia was not
> only able to receive medical and food supplies from the parent
> organization
> but also had the authority to dispense International Red Cross identity
> cards. It can be assumed that many Ustashi were able to change their
> identities and continue their journeys to safety through the good
> offices of
> Father Cecelia.
>
> 15. "Organization for clandestine departure from Italy and entry into
> Argentine of Croat (Yugoslav) War Criminals—'Ustaschi." (Attachment to
> Vincent La Vista report to State Department from unnamed agent in Buenos
> Aires, July 16, 1946).
>
> 16. Archbishop Saric, who had declared that Almighty God was
> behind the
> movement "for freeing the world from the Jews," escaped to Spain and lived
> there until his death in 1960. Vjekoslav (Maks) Luburic, the
> Ustashi who had
> been in charge of Croatian concentration camps, escaped to
> Hungary, Austria,
> France, and, finally, to a Spanish monastery. Archbishop Stepinac, the
> "Father Confessor" of the Ustashi, was arrested by the Yugoslav government
> and sentenced to seventeen years in prison for war crimes. Portrayed as a
> victim of communist persecution, Pope Pius XII ordained him a cardinal and
> Cardinal Stepinac Associations, urging his release, were established in
> Croatian emigre communities throughout the world. He was released after
> serving only a few years of his sentence.
>
> 17. Another example of Western indifference to locating
> fugitive Ustashis
> is the case of Andrija Artukovic. The Ustasha Minister of
> Interior, Artukovic
> oversaw the Croatian government's genocide policies and supervised its
> concentration camps. If measured by sheer numbers of victims, he
> is probably
> the most important war criminal still alive and unpunished today.
>
> Although captured by British authorities in Austria in 1945, Artukovic was
> released and eventually arrived in the United States in 1948. The
> following
> year, his true identity was discovered and deportation proceedings begun
> against him. In response to the case an aide to Deputy Attorney General
> Peyton Ford wrote in 1951: "Altho [sic] it appears that deportation
> proceedings should be instituted, Artukovic and/or his family
> should not be
> sent to apparently certain death at the hands of the Yugoslavia
> Communists.
> Unless it can be established that he was responsible for the deaths of any
> Americans, I think that deportation should be to some
> non-communist country
> which will give him asylum. In fact, if his only crime was against
> communists, I think he should be given asylum in the U.S."
>
> Under such protection, Artukovic lived freely and under his own name in
> Surfside, California for the next thirty-three years. In November 1984, he
> was arrested and denied bail pending the outcome of a new
> deportation hearing.
>
> 18. Stejpan Hefer, "Croats Condemned to Extermination in
> Yugoslavia," Our
> Alternative (Munich, West Germany: Press Bureau of the
> Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of
> Nations 1972), p. 51.
>
> 19. On April 23, 1958, the Chicago newspaper Nasa Nada
> carried an article
> by Father Cuturic, a Croatian Catholic priest defending the "persecuted"
> Andrija Artukovic.
>
> "And what are they trying to do to one of our real leaders, Andrija
> Artukovic—Croatian and Catholic-who is being defended by the real
> champions
> of freedom, justice, and truth against the godless Jews, Orthodox,
> communists, protestants everywhere? They call our leader, Andrija
> Artukovic a
> 'murderer.' No, we Ustashi must keep our dignity."
>
> 20. 11th. WACL Conference Proceedings, April 27-May 1978 (Washington:
> Council on American Affairs, 1978), resolution no. 22, pp. 89-90,
> --[cont]--
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