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1. Draw­ing on mate­r­ial from Kevin’s sem­i­nal work Dreamer of the Day: Fran­cis Parker Yockey and The Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tional (soft cover, Autono­me­dia, copy­right 1999, ISBN I-57027–039-2), this pro­gram sets forth a hypo­thet­i­cal con­struct advanced in the book. Hypoth­e­siz­ing an inter­na­tional fas­cist milieu orig­i­nat­ing from (though not coter­mi­nous with) the ide­o­log­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion of the Waf­fen SS, Kevin terms this milieu “The Order.” (This entity is not to be con­fused with the 1980’s Amer­i­can Nazi orga­ni­za­tion of the same name.)

2. Begin­ning with analy­sis of Kevin’s dis­cus­sion of the work of fas­cist occultist Julius Evola in Vienna dur­ing the con­clu­sion of World War II, the pro­gram doc­u­ments Evola’s oper­a­tions on behalf of the SD (the SS intel­li­gence service.)

“Evola’s SD work at the end of the war is shrouded in mys­tery. His­to­rian Richard Drake says that while he was in Vienna, ‘Evola per­formed vital liaisons for the SS as Nazi Ger­many sought to recruit a Euro­pean army for the defense of the Con­ti­nent against the Soviet Union and the United States.’ Accord­ing to his own account, Evola spent his time liv­ing incog­nito while doing ‘intel­lec­tual’ research. But what kind of research?”

(Dreamer of the Day, pp. 319–20.)

3.

“While Evola was in Vienna, the SD sup­plied him with a series of arcane texts plun­dered from pri­vate libraries and rare book col­lec­tions. The SD bureau that pro­vided him with these doc­u­ments was Amt VII, an obscure branch that served as an RSHA research library. With this pre­cious archive, Evola closely stud­ied Masonic rit­u­als and trans­lated cer­tain ‘eso­teric texts’ for a book called His­to­rie Secrete des Soci­etes Secretes. It never appeared because Evola claimed that all his doc­u­ments were lost dur­ing the Russ­ian bombardment.”

(Ibid.; p. 320.)

4.

“But why would the SD actively involve itself in Evola’s arcane research at a time when hun­dreds of thou­sands of Russ­ian sol­diers were sweep­ing into the Reich? And why would Evola choose to live in Vienna under a false name and devote his time to such a strange project? Could the answer to this ques­tion be found in the cryp­tic ref­er­ence to Evola’s ‘efforts to estab­lish a secret inter­na­tional order’ in the 1938 SS report?”

(Idem.)

5.

“I believe that Evola’s Vienna project was inti­mately linked to the devel­op­ment of what I will call ‘the Order,’ a new kind of Knights Tem­plar designed to suc­cess­fully func­tion sub-rosa. Well before the end of World War II, the intel­li­gence and finan­cial net­works of the Third Reich were hard at work prepar­ing under­ground net­works to sur­vive the com­ing Allied occu­pa­tion. Escape lines to South Amer­ica and the Mid­dle East were orga­nized. Bank accounts were cre­ated in Switzer­land and other neu­tral nations to finance the under­ground with plun­der the Nazis had looted from occu­pied Europe. But how was this secret empire to be man­aged, except by a vir­tu­ally invis­i­ble ‘gov­ern­ment in exile’?”

(Idem.)

6. Like SS chief Himm­ler, Evola saw the SS as the suc­ces­sors to the Ksha­triya class (the Hindu war­rior caste.) See­ing Ger­many and Europe as suc­cumb­ing to “bar­bar­ian inva­sion,” Evola saw a pagan, anti-Christian mys­ti­cism as nec­es­sar­ily anti­thet­i­cal to the Judeo-Christian cul­ture which, he felt, had led the West to decline before the “Bol­she­vik hordes” of the Soviet Union and the “chew­ing gum impe­ri­al­ism” of the United States.

“For years, Evola had been fas­ci­nated by knightly orders as expres­sions of the Ksha­triya caste of war­rior aris­to­crats. In the for­mal struc­ture of the SS, he saw the pre­cur­sor to a new Orden­staat, a State ruled by an Order. He also under­stood the great advan­tages pro­vided by medieval orders of chivalry due to their transna­tional com­po­si­tion. Cru­sad­ing orders, like the Knights Tem­plar and the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, were pan-European, with sep­a­rate ‘national’ sec­tions (‘langues,’ or tongues) uni­fied through a Coun­cil presided over by a Grand Mas­ter. After the col­lapse of fas­cist state power, a new Order, an ‘invis­i­ble col­lege’ of sorts, was needed not only to manip­u­late bank accounts and travel sched­ules but to have policy-making func­tions. Nor could it sim­ply be run under the aus­pices of the Vat­i­can, since Evola believed that Rome’s down­fall had been caused by the accep­tance of Chris­tian­ity by the dom­i­nant fac­tion of the Roman elite. The Emperor Constantine’s offi­cial embrace of the ‘gen­tle Nazarene’ in 313 A.D. had cul­mi­nated, a hun­dred years later, in Alaric’s sack of Rome. With the Amer­i­can chewing-gum impe­ri­al­ists threat­en­ing in the West, and the new Huns sweep­ing in from the East, was the sit­u­a­tion in1945 really so dif­fer­ent? The Order was a ves­sel for those ‘Her­metic’ ele­ments of the con­ser­v­a­tive Rev­o­lu­tion, old rul­ing class, and new Nazi elite not entirely beholden to the polit­i­cal, cul­tural, and reli­gious ‘Guelf’ wing of the Euro­pean aris­toc­racy which remained ide­o­log­i­cally to the con­tin­ued prop­a­ga­tion of the rul­ing Chris­t­ian mythology.”

(Ibid., pp. 320–1.)

7.

“This account of the ori­gins of the Order is obvi­ously spec­u­la­tive, and I advance it as hypoth­e­sis, not fact. Yet if I am cor­rect the SD really did have a need for Evola’s unique tal­ents. With his exten­sive knowl­edge of mat­ters eso­teric and occult; his fas­ci­na­tion with secret soci­eties and knightly Orders; his Waf­fen SS transna­tion­al­ism; his ties to some of the high­est fig­ures in fas­cism, Nazism, and move­ments like the Iron guard; and his loyal ser­vice to the SD, Baron Evola was a per­fect can­di­date to help the­o­rize a new under ground Order. As the SD’s equiv­a­lent of Albert Pike, the for­mer Con­fed­er­ate Army gen­eral who designed the rit­u­als for the Scot­tish Rite Masons in the late 1800’s, Evola’s task was to help cre­ate the inner orga­ni­za­tional and rit­ual struc­ture for the Grand Mas­ters of a secret Sham­bal­lah whose finan­cial nerve cen­ter was care­fully hid­den away in Swiss bank accounts.”

(Ibid.; p. 321.)

8. Kevin felt that this orga­ni­za­tion (reflect­ing the ide­o­log­i­cal stance of an ele­ment of the Waf­fen SS) would be pan-European in scope and ori­en­ta­tion, and not nec­es­sar­ily entirely chau­vin­is­tic from a Nordic or Ger­manic racial and national stand­point. Nour­ished by bank accounts secreted abroad, this hypo­thet­i­cal orga­ni­za­tion func­tions in an under­ground fash­ion. (The funds that nour­ished this insti­tu­tion would nec­es­sar­ily have derived from the Bor­mann Organization.)

9. The Order appears to have estab­lished osten­si­bly friendly rela­tions with the West.

“With the war rapidly com­ing to an end, how­ever, the Order lacked the time to imple­ment its plans. With sup­port from the top RSHA lead­er­ship, a decep­tion game was begun with both Allied intel­li­gence and the Catholic Church. Uti­liz­ing Wall Street and Vat­i­can fears of com­mu­nism, some of Himmler’s top cronies, like SS Gen­eral Karl Wolff, became Damascus-road con­verts to a ‘kinder, gen­tler’ SS eager to estab­lish friendly rela­tions with both the Amer­i­cans and the Holy See.”

(Idem.)

10. This orga­ni­za­tion may very well have begun work­ing with the U.S. intel­li­gence appa­rat after the war, as evi­denced by, among other things, the col­lab­o­ra­tion between post-war SS ele­ments and the CIA. Coogan hypoth­e­sizes that CIA direc­tor Allen Dulles may have played a pri­mary role in such an accord.

“Behind the strat­egy of ten­sion there lurked what appears to have been a devil’s pact between the Order and Allen Dulles. Until Dulles was named CIA direc­tor by Pres­i­dent Eisen­hower (and his brother, John Fos­ter Dulles, became direc­tor by Pres­i­dent Eisen­hower (and his brother, John Fos­ter Dulles, became sec­re­tary of state), oper­a­tional links to the Nazi under­ground came pri­mar­ily from the Office of Pol­icy Coor­di­na­tion (OPC), headed by Dulles pro­tégé Frank Wis­ner, the for­mer chief of OSS oper­a­tions in Bucharest, Roma­nia. After the war, Dulles, Wis­ner, Angle­ton, and OPC’s Carmel Offie vir­tu­ally ran covert oper­a­tions in Italy as their own pri­vate affair.”

(Ibid., p. 334.)

11.

“The OPC’s bud­get was $4.7 mil­lion in 1949. Three years later, when Dulles was still only CIA deputy direc­tor, it had reached $82 mil­lion. OPC per­son­nel had humped from 302 to 6,954. OPC was offi­cially incor­po­rated into the CIA in 1952 as the Agency’s direc­torate of Plans. In1956, after Pres­i­dent Eisen­hower estab­lished the Kil­lian Com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate the Agency, it was dis­cov­ered that more than half of the CIA’s per­son­nel and 80 per­cent of its bud­get had been devoted not to intelligence-gathering but to psy­cho­log­i­cal and polit­i­cal war­fare pro­grams. Through­out this entire time, the Dulles net­work was inti­mately involved in com­plex deals with fac­tions inside the post­war SS.”

(Idem.)

12. Another influ­ence on a Dulles/Order col­lab­o­ra­tive rela­tion­ship may have been psy­chol­o­gist Carl Jung, who was con­nected to Dulles and to the Third Reich.

“Did Dulles offer to pro­tect ele­ments of the SS in return for its sup­port for CIA-backed anti-Soviet oper­a­tions in Europe and the Third World? Did he think that grant­ing the Order a cer­tain amount of auton­omy was a small price to pay for bring­ing it into the Amer­i­can camp? Might he even have been per­son­ally com­pro­mised in some way, or manip­u­lated by the Dulles fam­ily psy­chi­a­trist, Carl Jung? Men Among the Ruins, then, may have been less a con­ces­sion by Evola to Amer­i­can power than a sig­nal that some sort of under­stand­ing reached by Dulles and Wolff at the end of the war was now fully operational.”

(Ibid., p. 334.)

13.

“Jung also treated Dulles’s wife, clover, for years. One of Jung’s assis­tants, Mary Ban­croft, was an OSS oper­a­tive in Switzer­land as well as Allen Dulles’s mis­tress. Like Evola, Jung was an expert in myth, sym­bol, and psy­che with a com­plex and ambigu­ous rela­tion­ship to the Third Reich.”

(Ibid.; p. 340.)

14. Sig­nif­i­cantly, the Order appears to have over­lapped, and also worked with, ele­ments of the East Bloc, includ­ing for­mer Soviet and East Ger­man national secu­rity offi­cials. The orga­ni­za­tion also main­tained con­tacts with “anti-imperialist,” Third World lib­er­a­tion movements.

“[Jan] Paulus then reported that the British had uncov­ered the fact that two Russ­ian gen­er­als, Bul­ganin and Kubalov, were work­ing closely with the Nazis; they also found that the Rus­sians had set up a coun­ter­part to Gen­eral Matthew Ridgeway’s SHAPE, headed by a Gen­erl Shugaev, in East Ger­many. The British had ‘con­clu­sive evi­dence.’ That the [Werner] Nau­mann cir­cle main­tained close ties to Gen­eral Vin­cenz Muller, the brains behind the East Ger­man police. Paulus thought that Churchill wanted to use this infor­ma­tion both to warn Wash­ing­ton that Ger­many was unre­li­able and to gain lever­age over Ade­nauer, even to the point of being able to top­ple his gov­ern­ment if necessary.

(Ibid., p. 369.)

15.

“He said that ‘Britain has an extremely exten­sive dossier about the Nazi activ­i­ties which she will reveal later in case Eisen­hower decides to push his broad Ger­man pol­icy too far. For instance, the British have con­clu­sive evi­dence that the Nazi activ­i­ties have been financed by the Ruhr indus­tri­al­ists . . . Addi­tional evi­dence that the Ruhr indus­tri­al­ists have been col­lab­o­rat­ing very exten­sively with the Nazis is the fact when [for­mer Nazi finance min­is­ter] Dr. Schacht opened his bank in Dus­sel­dorf, the min­is­ter of inte­rior and the min­is­ter of eco­nom­ics were present.’”

(Idem.)

16.

“The British par­tic­u­larly feared the Nau­mann circle’s aston­ish­ing influ­ence in the Mid­dle East. Accord­ing to a March 1953 report by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (NSANL), Dr. Gus­tav Scheel, a Brud­er­schaft leader arrested with Nau­mann, main­tained excel­lent ties to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions wish­ing to do busi­ness in the Mid­dle East and Africa first had to approach Nau­mann, Scheel, Sko­rzeny, and the Grand Mufti. Scheel was espe­cially close to Iran’s nation­al­ist leader, Dr. Moham­mad Mossadegh, and sup­ported Iran­ian efforts to nation­al­ize West­ern oil companies.”

(Idem.)

17. In addi­tion, the Order appears to have exploited its con­tacts within both East and West blocs to fur­ther its own fascis­tic and elit­ist agenda, play­ing both sides against the mid­dle dur­ing the Cold War.

“Any purely sec­u­lar inter­pre­ta­tion of the divi­sions in the far right between the ‘pro-Russian’ and the ‘pro-American’ fac­tions of the Black Inter­na­tional that avoids the ‘occult’ would con­clude that polit­i­cal dif­fer­ences divided the two ten­den­cies. An Order, how­ever, is not struc­tured along con­ven­tional polit­i­cal lines. Such an orga­ni­za­tion can dic­tate sharp turns and rever­sals in seem­ingly fixed polit­i­cal log­ics because the ‘polit­i­cal,’ crudely under­stood, is not the moti­vat­ing force.”

(Ibid. p. 360.)

18.

“Whether Yockey or any­one else tilted East or West, and at what time, and to what degree, and for how long, and under what con­di­tions, was essen­tially a tac­ti­cal ques­tion. The Order, like any intel­li­gence agency, was a kind of octo­pus with many ten­ta­cles, not jus a ‘left’ and ‘right’ one. While I believe that there were legit­i­mate pol­icy argu­ments inside the post­war under­ground, as might be expected, I am not at all sure that it is mean­ing­ful to con­cep­tu­al­ize a split inside the Order along rigid ‘East’/ ‘West’ lines. An orga­ni­za­tion like the Order was nec­es­sary pre­cisely to pre­vent the total dom­i­na­tion of post­war Europe by either the Amer­i­cans or the Rus­sians. By play­ing off the U.S. and USSR against one another, the Order equally ensured its own abil­ity to sur­vive and pros­per. In music, the basic theme can some­times be quite sim­ple. The real test is how well you play the com­plex variations.”

(Idem.)

It should also be remem­bered that Fran­cis Parker Yockey, Julius Evola and “the Order” con­sid­ered the United States to be the greater threat.

“There was, in fact, lit­tle ide­o­log­i­cal dif­fer­ence between Evola and Yockey. Like Yockey, Evola believed that the Amer­i­can cul­tural threat to Europe was far greater than any­thing the Rus­sians could come up with.”

(Ibid.; pp. 359–60.)