(Two 30-minute segments)

In RFA-36 (recorded in March of 1991), Mr. Emory dis­cussed the Free Con­gress’ activ­i­ties in the Soviet Union and East­ern Europe, as part of an analy­sis of the desta­bi­liza­tion of that region. (The mate­r­ial was drawn from an arti­cle in Covert Action Infor­ma­tion Bul­letin #35 enti­tled ‘The Free Con­gress Foun­da­tion Goes East”.) Includ­ing an amal­gam of domes­tic and Euro­pean fas­cists in its embrace, the Free Con­gress Foun­da­tion appears to have played an impor­tant part in desta­bi­liz­ing the for­mer U.S.S.R. In this broad­cast, Mr. Emory sug­gests the pos­si­bil­ity that they may be engag­ing in sim­i­lar activ­i­ties vis-a-vis the United States in 1999 and doing so on behalf of Ger­many and what he calls “the under­ground Reich” — lit­er­ally a Third Reich gone under­ground. The pro­gram begins with dis­cus­sion of increased fric­tion between Ger­many and both the United King­dom and the United States. A scathing Lon­don Times col­umn about Ger­many has trig­gered a war of words in the edi­to­r­ial pages of the respec­tive coun­tries’ news­pa­pers. The broad­cast enlarges on infor­ma­tion about a Volk­swa­gen adver­tis­ing cam­paign in the Czech Repub­lic that made light of the Ger­man inva­sion of Czecho­slo­va­kia in World War II (see also, FTR-152). Next, the pro­gram intro­duces one of the cen­tral ele­ments of dis­cus­sion — the pres­sure by Ger­many to remove the vital National Secu­rity Agency instal­la­tion in Men­with Hill, Eng­land and the related ECHELON elec­tronic intel­li­gence net­work. (See also FTRs 119 and 152.) Scape­goat­ing NSA indus­trial espi­onage allegedly con­ducted from the Men­with Hill base for some of its eco­nomic dif­fi­cul­ties, Ger­many has com­plained bit­terly through both media and polit­i­cal chan­nels. Inter­est­ingly, the Free Con­gress Foun­da­tion has recently begun com­plain­ing about the ECHELON net­work (includ­ing the Men­with Hill instal­la­tion). This organization’s sud­den burn­ing inter­est in pro­tect­ing the civil lib­er­ties of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens (and for­eign busi­nesses) is more than a lit­tle strange in light of some of the insti­tu­tions and ele­ments which it embraces. The Free Con­gress foun­da­tion was founded by right-wing lynch­pin Paul Weyrich in 1974, the year after he started the Her­itage Foun­da­tion. Weyrich had ear­lier par­tic­i­pated in an attempt to take over the Amer­i­can Inde­pen­dent Party, an amal­gam of Ku Klux Klans­men and John Birchers. Found within the FCF are indi­vid­u­als and ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the milieu of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) was essen­tially a re-naming of the Com­mit­tee of Sub­ju­gated Nations, formed by Hitler in 1943. (See also: G-1 and RFAs 1, 2, 3, 14, 15 and 21.) Com­prised of fas­cist orga­ni­za­tions allied with Hitler, such as the Orga­ni­za­tion of Ukrain­ian Nationalists/Bandera or OUN/B and Hun­gar­ian Arrow Cross, the ABN advo­cated an anti­com­mu­nist approach that not only favored the rolling back of Soviet influ­ence from East­ern Europe, but the dis­so­lu­tion of the Soviet Union into its con­stituent republics. (RFAs 36 & 37 doc­u­ment the role of ABN ele­ments in the desta­bi­liza­tion of the for­mer Soviet Union.) The Free Con­gress Foun­da­tion appears to have been heav­ily involved in the dis­so­lu­tion of the for­mer Soviet Union, uti­liz­ing indi­vid­u­als asso­ci­ated with both OVN/B and Arrow Cross, FCF’s direc­tor of “lib­er­a­tion” activ­i­ties was Laslo Pas­tor, the Arrow Cross vet­eran who cemented the Nazi emi­gre milieu in the United States into a wing of the Repub­li­can party. (See also: RFA-37, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Shows M-24, M-29, and FTRs 29, 48 and 113.) In light of FCF’s involve­ment with, and pro­mo­tion of, ele­ments like ABN, it is odd that they have become born-again civil lib­er­tar­i­ans vis-a-vis ECHELON, Men­with Hill, etc. The broad­cast high­lights the pos­si­bil­ity that the FCF may, in fact, be func­tion­ing as a Fifth Col­umn move­ment for Ger­man indus­try and the “under­ground Reich.” (See also: RFA-37, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Show M-61 and FTRs 87, 90, 96, 99, 102, 103, 109, 122, 123, 125, 127, 134, 145, 152 and 155.) Ger­man cred­i­bil­ity on the issue of elec­tronic eaves­drop­ping is under­mined by dis­clo­sure that they, too, had joined with NSA to encode a “trap-door” func­tion into the encryp­tion tech­nol­ogy of Crypto A.G., the Swiss-based leader in encryp­tion tech­nol­ogy. This func­tion enabled both NSA and the BND (the Ger­man intel­li­gence ser­vice) to eaves­drop on all Crypto cus­tomers. Dis­trib­ut­ing their sup­pos­edly secure tech­nol­ogy to 120 coun­tries, Crytpo guar­an­teed the secu­rity of their sys­tems. In fact, Crypto was a sub­sidiary of Siemens, the Ger­man elec­tron­ics giant, engen­der­ing the NSA/BND col­lab­o­ra­tion on the encryp­tion scheme. (Recorded in August of 1999.)