(One 30-minute segment)

In late 1999, parts of the for­mer Soviet Union were beset with vio­lence and blood­shed. Groups impli­cated in the vio­lence have a his­tory of involve­ment with inter­na­tional fas­cism. The pro­gram begins with dis­cus­sion of the assas­si­na­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter and Par­lia­men­tary Speaker of Arme­nia. Com­ing shortly after U.S. State Depart­ment offi­cials attempted to nego­ti­ate a set­tle­ment in the long-running con­flict between Arme­nia and Azer­bai­jan, the killings were accom­plished by mem­bers of the Dash­nag party. The Dash­nags are an Armen­ian ultra-nationalist group that actively col­lab­o­rated with the Third Reich and other fas­cist groups from East­ern Europe and the for­mer Soviet Union. After recount­ing some of the details of this col­lab­o­ra­tion, the dis­cus­sion high­lights the Dash­nag assas­si­na­tion of the Pri­mate of the Armen­ian Ortho­dox Church in Amer­ica, Arch­bishop Leon Tourian, in 1933. (The Dash­nags accused him of being a Soviet sympathizer.)

Next, the pro­gram high­lights Dash­nag col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Chris­t­ian Mobi­liz­ers, an Amer­i­can fas­cist group that sym­pa­thized with Hitler. The Mobi­liz­ers and their leader, Ger­ald L.K. Smith, were the direct pre­cur­sors of the con­tem­po­rary Aryan Nations. In the course of set­ting forth the his­tory of the Dash­nags, Mr. Emory spec­u­lates that the con­tem­po­rary incar­na­tion of the group may be col­lab­o­rat­ing with either the Under­ground Reich and/or ele­ments of intel­li­gence ser­vices. (The most likely sus­pects would be the BND or fas­cist ele­ments within the U.S. intel­li­gence estab­lish­ment.) The blood­shed in Arme­nia was largely eclipsed by the war in Chech­nya, pre­cip­i­tated by the inva­sion of neigh­bor­ing Dages­tan by Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ists asso­ci­ated with the Wahabi sect. (For more on Wahabism in the for­mer Soviet Union, see FTR-103.)

A con­ser­v­a­tive Islamic sect based in Saudi Ara­bia, the Wahabis have been mak­ing their pres­ence felt in many parts of the world in recent years. Prior to, and dur­ing, World War II, Ibn Saud (the first king of Saudi Ara­bia) and his men­tor Jack Philby were allied with Nazi Ger­many. Their asso­ciate Allen Dulles (who helped to cor­ral Saudi oil wealth for Amer­i­can petro­leum com­pa­nies) was a Third Reich col­lab­o­ra­tor, as well. The Wahabi attack on Dages­tan threat­ened a key petro­leum pro­duc­ing region in Rus­sia, pro­vok­ing the retal­i­a­tion that fol­lowed. In light of the his­tory of Wahabism, the pos­si­bil­ity that (like the Dash­nags) the Chechen gueril­las are being manip­u­lated by ele­ments asso­ci­ated with fas­cism and/or the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity should not be too read­ily cast aside. As dis­cussed in FTR-103, per­haps the best known expo­nent of con­tem­po­rary Wahabism is the Saudi ter­ror­ist Osama Bin Laden. (Like the Chechen war­lord Khat­tab, Bin Laden got his mil­i­tary train­ing fight­ing with the anti-Soviet gueril­las in Afghanistan.)

After dis­cussing ten­sions between the U.S. and Afghanistan over the Taliban’s con­tin­ued hos­pi­tal­ity to Bin Laden, the pro­gram sets forth busi­ness con­nec­tions between Bin Laden’s fam­ily and George W. Bush. Bush’s Arbusto Energy com­pany was begun, in part, with money from one James Bath. Bath’s reputed asso­ci­a­tions run from the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency to the failed BCCI. The later was a finan­cial insti­tu­tion involved in drug deal­ing, ter­ror­ism and arms traf­fick­ing. (It was used by Oliver North for some of his Iran-Contra machi­na­tions.) Bath was the Texas busi­ness rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Bin Laden’s fam­ily and the money he used to help start Arbusto may very well have come, in part, from Bin Laden’s fam­ily. (Like the Dash­nags and the Wahabi sect, the Bush fam­ily has an his­tor­i­cal alliance with the Third Reich.) (Recorded on 11/14/99)