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FTR #1208 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
NB: This description contains information about the Dalai Lama not contained in the actual program.
Introduction: Continuing our series on the regime of Chiang Kai-shek–all but beatified during the Cold War–we begin by drawing still more on a magnificent book–The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave.
Although sadly out of print, the book is still available through used book services, and we emphatically encourage listeners to take advantage of those and obtain it. Several listeners have said that they were able to obtain the book because it is still in print!
I hope so! PLEASE buy it, read it, and tell others about it, either through conventional means and/or through social media. (Mr. Emory gets no money from said purchases of the book.) It is apparently available from Amazon on Kindle.
We also draw on another, altogether remarkable work by Peggy and Sterling Seagrave–Gold Warriors.
As we approach the close of this series, we “dolly out” and present aspects of how U.S. policy in Asia during the Cold War grew directly out of the “missionary position” that America took toward China–a position that led directly to war in Korea and Vietnam.
Introducing the expansion of American experience with Chiang and his Kuomintang fascists into U.S. Cold War policy in Asia, we present Sterling Seagrave’s rumination about Stanley Hornbeck, a State Department flack who became: “. . . . the doyen of State’s Far Eastern Division. . . .”
Hornbeck “ . . . . had only the most abbreviated and stilted knowledge of China, and had been out of touch personally for many years. . . . He withheld cables from the Secretary of State that were critical of Chiang, and once stated that ‘the United States Far Eastern policy is like a train running on a railroad track. It has been clearly laid out and where it is going is plain to all.’ It was in fact bound for Saigon in 1975, with whistle stops along the way at Peking, Quemoy, Matsu, and the Yalu River. . . .”
The program continues with review of the obituary of general Paik Sun-yup of Korea, whose service in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II has been a focal point of controversy in South Korea. General Sun-yup embodied the ongoing controversy in Korea over Japan’s occupation and the subsequent unfolding of events leading up to, and including the Korean War. “. . . . In 1941, he joined the army of Manchukuo, a puppet state that imperial Japan had established in Manchuria, and served in a unit known for hunting down Korean guerrillas fighting for independence . . .”
A post by German Foreign Policy sets forth Cold War history involving the BND/Gehlen “Org” and China.
Documenting plans to launch a nuclear strike against Peking and Moscow during the Korean War, following up with Nazi-aided Kuomintang tank warfare to finish the conflict and spawning a long Gehlen-Nazi advisory role with Chiang Kai-Shek’s military, the post provides historical context in which the Covid-19 pandemic and the full-court press against China.
“When, during the war on Korea, a nuclear strike against Peking (and Moscow) had been relocated (site of deployment Guam, max. 34 Mark 4 atomic bombs), the successor of the Nazi espionage (Organization Gehlen) in Munich, ensured direct contacts with the Kuomintang. Following the dropping of the atomic bombs, Kuomintang troops were supposed to march, as occupying forces, through contaminated terrain towards Peking. To support the offensive of Kuomintang tanks, considered necessary by Chiang Kai-shek, Gehlen could offer specialists from Munich: from the Reichswehr and Nazi military. . . .”
” . . . . Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg was working with the Organization Gehlen . . . . The Nazi General, who, as hero of the Nazi tank divisions’ advance towards Moscow, had been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, was now in action for Taiwan and the Kuomintang in the battle against Peking. He personally instructed the staffs of the nationalist forces with original documents of the Nazi’s ‘Operation Barbarossa.’ He was personally answerable to Chiang Kai-shek. . . .”
” . . . . In Taiwan, Munzel’s BND group, disguised as a delegation of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn) received Chiang Kai-shek’s son Wego, formerly a cadet in the Nazi military, now an armaments expert with connections to the West German war industry. Chiang Wego’s assignment was comprehensive and clear: to train new recruits for the offensive against Peking by drawing on the German experience gained during ‘Operation Barbarossa’ (followed by Munzel’s testing in Cairo) — and to provide the appropriate weapons. . . .”
” . . . . While Munzel, under BND command, set up a secret ‘experimental battalion’ against China (1968), staff officers of the Taiwan dictatorship studied at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg, quite officially. . . .”
Noteworthy for our purposes, is the exterminationist tactical approach undertaken by the West and drawing on Nazi expertise in drawing up operational plans.
Noteworthy, also, is the continuity of SS activity in, or in connection with, Asia:
- In the 1950’s and 1960’s, German television went “retro” with Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry, broadcasting SS footage of an anthropological expedition to Tibet. ” . . . . The Nazi propaganda’s imaginary projection of a people, weaker than ‘inner Asians,’ who still had maintained their purity and must be protected was seamlessly transmitted. The notorious SS-produced film (‘Geheimnis Tibet,’– ‘Secret Tibet,’ 1943) about Aryan genes in the Himalayan Highlands returned to the big screen of the movies. . . .”
- The broadcast material featured SS war criminal and member of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile Bruno Beger. ” . . . . The West German state was barely a year old, and a nuclear strike against Peking was in the planning stages (1950), when graphically identical cinema posters promoted the relaunch: ‘The original film about the German Tibet expedition.’ The film contains scenes with the Auschwitz criminal Bruno Beger (see Part II). The scenes with Beger, who measures the heads and bodies of the indigenous people comparing them to those of Aryans, conveys racism as a stimulus for murder, seemingly harmless and interchangeable . . . . as the Aryan heritage in Tibetan Asia, threatened with dilution by the yellow peril (from the Chinese state and Han Chinese) . . . .”
- In addition, the film featured voice-over narration by the Dalai Lama’s SS tutor Heinrich Harrer: ” . . . . In the evening program, millions learned how, several years earlier, the omnipresent TV moderator and alpinist hero had met the Dalai Lama — as the godly king in Lhasa, Tibet, who had offered his friendship to the white man from distant Europe and who now finds himself on the run from ‘Red China’ — without his indigenous people. The white visitor, the omnipresent TV moderator was Heinrich Harrer, former SS Oberscharfürer. . . .”
- The Uighurs (also transliterated as “Uyghurs”) also draw on Waffen SS heritage and institutional momentum: ” . . . . The new Uighur generation traveled via Turkey and filled the Muslim ranks of Gehlen’s agents in Munich, who had made their living for decades at Radio Free Europe (RFE), the intelligence operation in the Oettinger Strasse. . . . The elders of the Uighur community in Munich (today the World Uyghur Congress, WUC) are very familiar with the blood propaganda, through their service in the ‘Eastland-Legions’ of the Waffen SS (Turkestan 162nd Infantry Division). Berlin had promised them their own nation with the inclusion of Xinjiang (‘Great Turkestan’), ‘identity,’ and Muslim law, to be able to position the great German ‘Reich’ at China’s borders with Turkmen help. With the defeated rest of the SS division stranded in Bavaria, they still had their hopes and are once again used against China . . . .”
Networking with Isa Yusuf Alptekin at the Bandung (Indonesia) conference was Ruzi (or “Ruzy”) Nazar, an Uzbek national who fought in various Third Reich military formations, including the SS Dirlewanger Brigade. (Alptekin was a key Kuominang associate and the patriarch of the Uighur separatist movementAfter the war.) Nazar was a CIA operative networking with the National Action Party (or National Movement Party) of Alparslan Turkes.
Nazar represented the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations at the 1984 WACL conference in Dallas.
1. Introducing the expansion of American experience with Chiang and his Kuomintang fascists into U.S. Cold War policy in Asia, we present Sterling Seagrave’s rumination about Stanley Hornbeck, a State Department flack who became: “. . . . the doyen of State’s Far Eastern Division. . . .”
Hornbeck “ . . . . had only the most abbreviated and stilted knowledge of China, and had been out of touch personally for many years. . . . He withheld cables from the Secretary of State that were critical of Chiang, and once stated that ‘the United States Far Eastern policy is like a train running on a railroad track. It has been clearly laid out and where it is going is plain to all.’ It was in fact bound for Saigon in 1975, with whistle stops along the way at Peking, Quemoy, Matsu, and the Yalu River. . . .”
2. The program continues with review of the obituary of general Paik Sun-yup of Korea, whose service in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II has been a focal point of controversy in South Korea. General Sun-yup embodied the ongoing controversy in Korea over Japan’s occupation and the subsequent unfolding of events leading up to, and including the Korean War. “. . . . In 1941, he joined the army of Manchukuo, a puppet state that imperial Japan had established in Manchuria, and served in a unit known for hunting down Korean guerrillas fighting for independence . . .”
Paik Sun-yup, South Korea’s first four-star general, who was lionized as a Korean War hero by the South Korean and United States militaries but dismissed by many in his country as a traitor, died here on Friday. He was 99. . . .
. . . . Though widely credited for leading his troops in a pivotal battle of the Korean War, Mr. Paik was a divisive figure in his home country. In 2009, a South Korean presidential committee put him on a list of “pro-Japanese and anti-nation” figures who had collaborated with Japanese colonizers during their rule of the Korean Peninsula. . . .
. . . . In 1941, he joined the army of Manchukuo, a puppet state that imperial Japan had established in Manchuria, and served in a unit known for hunting down Korean guerrillas fighting for independence, though Mr. Paik said he had never engaged in battles with them.
He was a first lieutenant when Japan was defeated in World War II and Korea was liberated. After the country was divided into the pro-American South and the Communist North, Mr. Paik was among the Koreans in Japan’s colonial military who were recruited when the United States was helping to build a military for the South. . . .
. . . . IF Paik Sun-yup is called a ‘hero,’ what does that make Korean independence fighters who lost their lives at the hand of his old Manchuria unit?” asked Kim Won-woong, the head of Heritage of Korean Independence, a group recognized by the government for its members’ struggle for independence.
“If he really wanted to be treated like ‘a Korean War hero,’ he should at least have expressed repentance and remorse for his pro-Japanese deed,” Mr. Kim added, in an interview published last year. “But he never has.”
3a. A post by German Foreign Policy sets forth Cold War history involving the BND/Gehlen “Org” and China.
Documenting plans to launch a nuclear strike against Peking and Moscow during the Korean War, following up with Nazi-aided Kuomintang tank warfare to finish the conflict and spawning a long Gehlen-Nazi advisory role with Chiang Kai-Shek’s military, the post provides historical context in which the Covid-19 pandemic and the full-court press against China.
“When, during the war on Korea, a nuclear strike against Peking (and Moscow) had been relocated (site of deployment Guam, max. 34 Mark 4 atomic bombs), the successor of the Nazi espionage (Organization Gehlen) in Munich, ensured direct contacts with the Kuomintang. Following the dropping of the atomic bombs, Kuomintang troops were supposed to march, as occupying forces, through contaminated terrain towards Peking. To support the offensive of Kuomintang tanks, considered necessary by Chiang Kai-shek, Gehlen could offer specialists from Munich: from the Reichswehr and Nazi military. . . .”
” . . . . Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg was working with the Organization Gehlen . . . . The Nazi General, who, as hero of the Nazi tank divisions’ advance towards Moscow, had been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, was now in action for Taiwan and the Kuomintang in the battle against Peking. He personally instructed the staffs of the nationalist forces with original documents of the Nazi’s ‘Operation Barbarossa.’ He was personally answerable to Chiang Kai-shek. . . .”
” . . . . In Taiwan, Munzel’s BND group, disguised as a delegation of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn) received Chiang Kai-shek’s son Wego, formerly a cadet in the Nazi military, now an armaments expert with connections to the West German war industry. Chiang Wego’s assignment was comprehensive and clear: to train new recruits for the offensive against Peking by drawing on the German experience gained during ‘Operation Barbarossa’ (followed by Munzel’s testing in Cairo) — and to provide the appropriate weapons. . . .”
” . . . . While Munzel, under BND command, set up a secret ‘experimental battalion’ against China (1968), staff officers of the Taiwan dictatorship studied at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg, quite officially. . . .”
Noteworthy for our purposes, is the exterminationist tactical approach undertaken by the West and drawing on Nazi expertise in drawing up operational plans.
Noteworthy, also, is the continuity of SS activity in, or in connection with, Asia:
- In the 1950’s and 1960’s, German television went “retro” with Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry, broadcasting SS footage of an anthropological expedition to Tibet. ” . . . . The Nazi propaganda’s imaginary projection of a people, weaker than ‘inner Asians,’ who still had maintained their purity and must be protected was seamlessly transmitted. The notorious SS-produced film (‘Geheimnis Tibet,’– ‘Secret Tibet,’ 1943) about Aryan genes in the Himalayan Highlands returned to the big screen of the movies. . . .”
- The broadcast material featured SS war criminal and member of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile Bruno Beger. ” . . . . The West German state was barely a year old, and a nuclear strike against Peking was in the planning stages (1950), when graphically identical cinema posters promoted the relaunch: ‘The original film about the German Tibet expedition.’ The film contains scenes with the Auschwitz criminal Bruno Beger (see Part II). The scenes with Beger, who measures the heads and bodies of the indigenous people comparing them to those of Aryans, conveys racism as a stimulus for murder, seemingly harmless and interchangeable . . . . as the Aryan heritage in Tibetan Asia, threatened with dilution by the yellow peril (from the Chinese state and Han Chinese) . . . .”
- In addition, the film featured voice-over narration by the Dalai Lama’s SS tutor Heinrich Harrer: ” . . . . In the evening program, millions learned how, several years earlier, the omnipresent TV moderator and alpinist hero had met the Dalai Lama — as the godly king in Lhasa, Tibet, who had offered his friendship to the white man from distant Europe and who now finds himself on the run from ‘Red China’ — without his indigenous people. The white visitor, the omnipresent TV moderator was Heinrich Harrer, former SS Oberscharfürer. . . .”
- The Uighurs (also transliterated as “Uyghurs”) also draw on Waffen SS heritage and institutional momentum: ” . . . . The new Uighur generation traveled via Turkey and filled the Muslim ranks of Gehlen’s agents in Munich, who had made their living for decades at Radio Free Europe (RFE), the intelligence operation in the Oettinger Strasse. . . . The elders of the Uighur community in Munich (today the World Uyghur Congress, WUC) are very familiar with the blood propaganda, through their service in the ‘Eastland-Legions’ of the Waffen SS (Turkestan 162nd Infantry Division). Berlin had promised them their own nation with the inclusion of Xinjiang (‘Great Turkestan’), ‘identity,’ and Muslim law, to be able to position the great German ‘Reich’ at China’s borders with Turkmen help. With the defeated rest of the SS division stranded in Bavaria, they still had their hopes and are once again used against China . . . .”
When, during the war on Korea, a nuclear strike against Peking (and Moscow) had been relocated (site of deployment Guam, max. 34 Mark 4 atomic bombs), the successor of the Nazi espionage (Organization Gehlen) in Munich, ensured direct contacts with the Kuomintang. Following the dropping of the atomic bombs, Kuomintang troops were supposed to march, as occupying forces, through contaminated terrain towards Peking. To support the offensive of Kuomintang tanks, considered necessary by Chiang Kai-shek, Gehlen could offer specialists from Munich: from the Reichswehr and Nazi military. They had accumulated experience — in the suppression of riots and strikes during the Weimar Republic and subsequently during extermination operations and Nazi massacres in the East (“Operation Barbarossa”). Gehlen extended the bloody trail of war crimes committed in Europe to China.
BND Personnel
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg was working with the Organization Gehlen, which, in 1956 became West Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND). The Nazi General, who, as hero of the Nazi tank divisions’ advance towards Moscow, had been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, was now in action for Taiwan and the Kuomintang in the battle against Peking. He personally instructed the staffs of the nationalist forces with original documents of the Nazi’s “Operation Barbarossa.” He was personally answerable to Chiang Kai-shek.
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg’s comrade-in-arms, Oskar Munzel, also seemed to be of value to Gehlen and the BND, because of his experience in tank combat (3rd Nazi tank division, offensive against Moscow). Tank combat was central to Taiwan’s military plans to raze Peking. During the planning of a nuclear strike (April 1951), Munzel was active in Africa — as counsel to the feudal Farouk regime in Cairo, which was seeking Munzel’s advice for its planned combat at Egypt’s eastern border.
Munzel knew the enemies, Cairo was worrying about. Munzel had constantly encountered them during the advance on Moscow: the Jews, ordered to be summarily liquidated, now being tracked down by Munzel and 70 other West German Nazi experts in Cairo — during the planning for wars with Israel.
His career brought Munzel to Münster, to the tank troops of the Bundeswehr (1956). Following his probation, he commanded a BND clandestine mission in the underground war against China.
Operation “Ming Teh”
In Taiwan, Munzel’s BND group, disguised as a delegation of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn) received Chiang Kai-shek’s son Wego, formerly a cadet in the Nazi military, now an armaments expert with connections to the West German war industry. Chiang Wego’s assignment was comprehensive and clear: to train new recruits for the offensive against Peking by drawing on the German experience gained during “Operation Barbarossa” (followed by Munzel’s testing in Cairo) — and to provide the appropriate weapons.
Via Munzel’s BND group, which linked its own office in Taiwan to structures of the President’s intelligence service (codename “Ming Teh”), these weapons came from West Germany — with the approval of the West German foreign minister: tank shells from Bölkow (later MBB), bazookas from Diehl, “Mars” propellants and warheads, explosives and chemicals from Dynamite Nobel.
Under the disguise of being German faculty members at Taiwan’s cultural college, the West German officers of the “Ming Teh” group expanded their influence. The front directed against Peking was reinforced and now also became visible. While Munzel, under BND command, set up a secret “experimental battalion” against China (1968), staff officers of the Taiwan dictatorship studied at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg, quite officially.
Stimulus for Murder
The armament projects for a war against China were in line with extermination concepts, which revived the colonial stereotype of the “yellow peril” in imperial disguise (“red dragon”) and were not averse to an ethical mandate in their pursuit of defense. The Nazi propaganda’s imaginary projection of a people, weaker than “inner Asians,” who still had maintained their purity and must be protected was seamlessly transmitted. The notorious SS-produced film (“Geheimnis Tibet,” “Secret Tibet,” 1943) about Aryan genes in the Himalayan Highlands returned to the big screen of the movies.
The West German state was barely a year old, and a nuclear strike against Peking was in the planning stages (1950), when graphically identical cinema posters promoted the relaunch: “The original film about the German Tibet expedition.” The film contains scenes with the Auschwitz criminal Bruno Beger (see Part II). The scenes with Beger, who measures the heads and bodies of the indigenous people comparing them to those of Aryans, conveys racism as a stimulus for murder, seemingly harmless and interchangeable: sometimes as the purity of a people which must be protected from tarnishing by Jews, and at other times, as the Aryan heritage in Tibetan Asia, threatened with dilution by the yellow peril (from the Chinese state and Han Chinese). The brighter the appearance of the original figure, the bleaker the shadow of its antithesis deserving liquidation.
As soon as Peking had reaffirmed its claim to Tibet, the West German film industry gave its stamp of approval (“FSK” — Voluntary Self Regulation) to the SS-film: since June 5,1950 approved for age 12 and older; (extension of the approval in 1956; in its new version since January 5, 2000 approved for all ages).
Portrayal of Foreign Peoples
Colonial racism which provokes emotions in the underground war, and, using an ethical pretext, diverts attention from the hunt for prey (the resources and markets, the landscapes and lives), was revived on West German television. Archaic pictures of remnants of indigenous peoples, threatened with early death by market competition, obscured the focus on the aggressive maneuvers aimed at “Red China” by BND espionage, military staff and arms industry.
As if Radio Free Europe (RFE) and its Munich BND agents had needed help, the public television’s first (ARD) channel provided a gigantic stage for several decades (1963 — 2009), to its foreign peoples series — with focus on Tibet.
Imperial
In the evening program millions learned how, several years earlier, the omnipresent TV moderator and alpinist hero had met the Dalai Lama — as the godly king in Lhasa, Tibet, who had offered his friendship to the white man from distant Europe and who now finds himself on the run from “Red China” — without his indigenous people. The white visitor, the omnipresent TV moderator was Heinrich Harrer, former SS Oberscharfürer. He had joined the SA during the underground struggle for an Aryan Germany, had been received by Adolf Hitler as the conqueror of mountains, sent to the peaks of the Nanga Parbat (for “athletic training for the impending war,” 1939). Harrer embodied the white mission: transcend all barriers of the world with robust forces, a friend to harmless races, and invincible to competing powers.
In an ethnological TV series, (with more than 50 ARD telecasts of 45 minutes, accompanied by radio and press features) colonial racism reached a higher imperial level: Portrayal of Foreign Peoples (with TV focus on Tibet) in the underground war against resistance to the market (PR China).
Clandestine Reinforcements
When parties in Bonn rewarded an insurgency of the Tibetan nobility (1987) with open attacks against Peking (“human rights violations in Tibet”), and demanded an increase in the number of scholarships for Tibetan exiles in Germany, Munich’s agents on the foreign peoples front had long since made headway: for scholarship applicants of another people that could infringe on the national cohesiveness of the People’s Republic, to the extent that its Turkish-Muslim separatism became violent: Uighurs from Tibet’s neighboring region, the autonomous region Xinjiang.
Following the example of “Ming Teh,” the group of BND military smuggled in through DAAD, the Uighur milieu in the Bavarian capital was provided clandestine reinforcement — legally financed from the usual funds of the exquisite association for academic exchange.
USW Biblis
The new Uighur generation traveled via Turkey and filled the Muslim ranks of Gehlen’s agents in Munich, who had made their living for decades at Radio Free Europe (RFE), the intelligence operation in the Oettinger Strasse. The radio station — in the meantime expanded to include another pillar of the US financiers (Radio Liberty) — was appealing, from German soil, in its Uighur program (USW Biblis and Lampertheim) for resistance against the influx of Chinese citizens, the alien-blooded Han, who are liquidating the purity of the ethnic majority population in Xinjiang (“genocide”), for Muslim law and “identity” in a separate nation.
Great Turkestan, Tibet, Hong Kong
The elders of the Uighur community in Munich (today the World Uyghur Congress, WUC) are very familiar with the blood propaganda, through their service in the “Eastland-Legions” of the Waffen SS (Turkestan 162nd Infantry Division). Berlin had promised them their own nation with the inclusion of Xinjiang (“Great Turkestan”), “identity,” and Muslim law, to be able to position the great German “Reich” at China’s borders with Turkmen help. With the defeated rest of the SS division stranded in Bavaria, they still had their hopes and are once again used against China — as the Nazis had used the indigenous inhabitants in the Himalayan Highlands, whose region of settlement (Tibet) and the region of the Uighurs (Xinjiang) make up a third of China’s territory.
If Hong Kong is included, it seems that the western side has several levers at its disposal for use in the fight against China: first, internal disintegration (ethnic-based insurgency movements at China’s periphery, social dislocation in metropolitan areas) and second, external military intervention (having Chinese from the base in Taiwan fight Chinese.)
Leading Role
In the underground war, the second option has gained new importance since the EU, under German influence has intensified its Taiwan policy against Beijing. This permits Berlin to use, the politically developed, ideologically elaborated special relationship with the Kuomintang — which has been maintained since the days of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht — to play a leading role in the western alliance against China.
Nuclear War
In all phases of China’s emergence, German global policy advancing eastward has been on the side of China’s enemies. When, with the founding of the People’s Republic, (1949) the emergence seemed irreversible and a nuclear war was planned against China, Western Germany aided with clandestine reinforcements and military know-how. Still in the ruins left by the Nazi regime, the global policy of the successor state resorted to the historical heritage of the colonial crimes committed in China: to stand up to the criminal potency of its wartime competitors in the struggle for Greater Asia — even with nuclear war.
It remains worthy of this reputation.
3b. Important background information on this item of the program is contained in FTR#‘s 547, 548 among other programs. (Mr. Emory mis-identified the numbers of the programs in the audio file for this broadcast.)
Key facts about the Dalai Lama were set forth by former key aides of his.
In addition to a belief in demons and a reliance on magic rituals (some of them sexual in nature), the Dalai Lama’s brand of Tantric Buddhism espouses a militant, warlike and intolerant nature toward other religions. As noted by the Trimondis, there are some similarities between this perverted manifestation of Buddhism and the Wahhabi/Muslim Brotherhood’s perverted manifestation of Islam.
The Dalai Lama’s brand of Tantric Buddhism contains what might be a viewed as “Buddhist jihadism.” In addition, the Trimondis take note of the significance of the Kalachakra Tantra ceremony performed by the Dalai Lama, a subject to which we will return later in the broadcast. In addition, Tantric Buddhism’s apocalyptic vision of a climactic war of the religions (“Shambala War”) bears some similarities to the fundamentalist Christian vision of Armageddon.
An interview with Victor and Victoria Trimondi by James C. Stephens; 9/11/2003
TRIMONDI: The XTV Dalai Lama, the God-King of Tibet is the highest representative of Tantric Buddhism, established in Tibet in the 8th century, A.D. Tantrism, the last stage in the history of Buddhism (since the 5th century A.D. in India) is based on ritual and magic formulas. Not unlike other religions it also has ‘skeletons in its closet’ which it carefully conceals as a guest in the Western world. Tibetan Tantrism is a belief in spirits and demons, secret sexual practices, occultism, mind control, and an obsession with power.
In contrary to every democratic custom, the present Dalai Lama consults with the Nechung Oracle, a monk who is possessed by a Mongolian War God, on all-important state decisions. What primarily concerns us about the interreligious ceremony in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. is the level of naivety in the West. For the past 25 years, the Dalai Lama has quietly performed the Kalachakra Tantra (‘The Wheel of Time’), the highest of all ancient Tantric initiations for tens of thousands of spiritual novices in the West; introducing Tantric ideology, secret sexual practices, and magic rituals integrated into the context of his religious-political world view.
Critical voices have been raised, while he continues to secretly transmit the Kalachakra’s prophetic vision of the establishment of a universal Buddhocracy (Shambhala) in which spiritual and worldly power are united in one person, the ‘world emperor’(Chakravartin), wherein other religions will no longer exist. . . . . In the Kalachakra Tantra is prophesized the establishment of a Buddhocratic Empire, a clash of civilizations will arise as the military forces of Buddhism wage war against the armies of non-Buddhist religions.
Murderous super-weapons possessed by the Buddhist Shambhala Army are described at length and in enthusiastic detail in the Kalachakra Tantra Text (Shri Kalachakra I. 128 ‑142) and employed against ‘enemies of the Dharma (Buddha’s teachings).’ Over the last five years in the German speaking countries, these shadow-aspects of Lamaism have lead to a vast, steady and increasing stream of criticism in the media. During the Kalachakra-Initiation of the Dalai Lama last year in Austria there were very controversial debates on TV and radio stations and press media. The internationally well known newspaper Der Standard published an article entitled ‘A Warrior Ritual with the Dalai Lama: The Kalachakra’.
The German Weekly of Christian intellectuals ‘Der Rheinische Merkur entitled an article: ‘What is hidden behind the Kalachakra Tantra? Supremely ferocious warriors!’ STEPHENS: Who are these non-Buddhist enemies spoken of in the Kalachakra Teachings? I’ve seen articles in the Buddhist magazines the Shambhala Sun and Tricycle about Lamas dressing up in military uniforms. I thought Buddhism was a peaceful faith? TRIMONDI: The secret text of the Kalachakra explicitly names the ‘leaders’ of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as the opponents of Buddhism: ‘Adam, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mani, Muhammad and the Mahdi’ describing them as ‘the family of the demonic snakes’ (Shri Kalachakra I. 154). The final, Armageddon-like battle (Shambhala war) ends in the total victory of the Buddhists. The official Kalachakra-Interpreter Alexander Berzin openly compares the principles of the Islamic ‘Jihad’ with that of the Shambhala war. As in the Islamic martyr-ideology Shambhala-Warriors, who will be killed in the last battle have earned passage into the [Buddhist] paradise.
The military scenarios in some Buddhist Centers such as the Shambhala training camps of the deceased Lama Chögyum Trungpa, have until now only a symbolic meaning, and yet they are interpreted as a spiritual preparation of the prophesized great Shambhala War. In the imagination of some Lamas all participants in a Kalachakra initiation have the questionable privilege of being reborn as ‘Shambhala Warriors’ in order to be able to participate in the coming apocalyptic battle either as infantry or officers, dependent on rank. High lamas of particular lineages have already been assigned to commanding positions in the future. . . .
3c. Next, the Trimondis note the influence of Tantric Buddhism (and other Eastern religions) on the philosophy of SS chief Heinrich Himmler. They also note that well-known German Buddhist teachers Durckheim and Herrigel have been doctrinaire Nazis. In addition, the Trimondis note that the Dalai Lama has maintained close connections with other Nazis and fascists over the years, including “the French SS- collaborator, convinced anti-Semite, recognized Orientalist and Kalachakra Tantra expert Jean Marques-Riviere (in his absence convicted and given the death sentence for turning Jews over to the Gestapo in France).” The Aum Shinrikyo guru Shoko Asahara was also a friend of the Dalai Lama and was influenced by the ideology of the Kalachakra Tantra. (For more about the Aum Shinrikyo cult, including the influence of Hitler on the Dalai Lama’s friend Shoko Asahara, see FTRs 35 and 69.)
An interview with Victor and Victoria Trimondi by James C. Stephens; 9/11/2003
“TRIMONDI: In our historical essay Hitler — Buddha — Krishna — an Unholy Alliance from the Third Reich to Today, we show that the warlike and racist ideas of Heinrich Himmler of the SS and of other well known Neo-fascists have been fundamentally inspired by elements of different Asian religions, such as Vedism, Buddhism, Lamaism and that prominent German Zen Teachers-Durckheim & Herrigel have been convinced Nazis.
It’s really shocking, in the ‘SS-Ahnenerbe’, which was the academic brain trust of the SS, that its Chief Heinrich Himmler, was openly engaged in ongoing discussions with the most distinguished German Orientalists of his time in the construction of a new Indo- Arian Nazi-Religion. After WW II, this discussion was continued by prominent neo- fascist ideologues. Both of our books have stimulated a great discussion about the ideological sources of religious fundamentalism and about the clash of civilizations. . . .
TRIMONDI: It is a fact that the Shambhala War Ideology of the Kalachakra-Tantra has led to aggressive behavior, megalomaniacal visions and conspiracy theories both in the history of the Asia as well as in that of religious fascism and neo-fascism. Already in the SS-Ahnenerbe, where Heinrich Himmler’s Nazi-Religion was born, there was an interest in the contents of the Kalachakra-Tantra.
The influential fascist and cultural philosopher Julius Evola saw in the mythic world of Shambhala an esoteric center of a sacred warrior race. This vision is today still firmly anchored in the religious ideas of the international far-right movement. That alone makes it necessary for the Dalai Lama to distance himself clearly from the war-mongering Shambhala Myth.
Instead of this he has cultivated friendly contacts with people such as the ex-SS men Bruno Beger (convicted as helping to murder more than 86 Jews) and Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet (a chronicle of his experience with the Dalai Lama over seven years prior to his exile to India). The Homepage of the Government of Tibet in Exile shows the XIV Dalai Lama between Bruno Beger on his right and Heinrich Harrer on his left. Beger has been a member of the famous SS-Tibet Expedition organized by the SS in 1938/1939 whose primary goal was to find traces of an ancient, lost indo-Arian religion in the Himalayas.
Some occult leaders in the SS were convinced that Tibetan Lamas are the key holders of these Indo- Arian Mysteries. Beger is highly respected by the Government of Tibet in Exile as a chief witness for the political independence of the country in the 30’s and 40’s of the last century. [Emphasis added.] Nearly unknown until now are the contacts of the Dalai Lama with the French SS- collaborator, convinced anti-Semite, recognized Orientalist and Kalachakra Tantra expert Jean Marques-Riviere (in his absence convicted and given the death sentence for turning Jews over to the Gestapo in France).
The founder of an esoteric Hitler movement, the ex-Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano (promoter of an extremely racist SS-mysticism, which is based on Tantric practices and on the idea of the Shambhala Warriors) met the Dalai Lama four times. Well known became his relationship with the Japanese terrorist, Shoko Asahara, whom he described, even after the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, as his ‘friend, albeit an imperfect one’. Only later he did distance himself from the Guru. Asahara’s Doomsday Philosophy was mainly influenced by the Shambhala Ideology and by Tibetan Tantrism.”
4. Networking with Isa Yusuf Alptekin at the Bandung (Indonesia) conference was Ruzi (or “Ruzy”) Nazar, an Uzbek national who fought in various Third Reich military formations, including the SS Dirlewanger Brigade. After the war, Nazar was a CIA operative networking with the National Action Party (or National Movement Party) of Alparslan Turkes.
Nazar represented the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations at the 1984 WACL conference in Dallas.
. . . . He did not have the right to speak at the conference, but he was able to organize a press conference for the journalists who had come from the four corners of the world to cover the event, including around thirty from the USSR. Ruzi told the press office of his plans, and they informed journalists and delegates of the press conference to be given by Ruzi Nazar, observer delegate from Turkestan and a former officer in the Turkestan Legion. [The Turkestan Legion was a Third Reich military formation–D.E.] Meanwhile, the chairman of the Bandung branch of the Masyumi Party told Ruzi just half an hour before the press conferee was due to begin that a North Caucasian guest called Seyit Shamil had arrived from Turkey. He had been unable to take part in the conference, as he had not been invited. Ruzi told the chairman that he should bring this guest straight in and seat him beside himself at the press conference. Seyit Shamil was the grandson of Sheikh Shamil, the national hero of the North Caucasus, who had fought for its independence against the armies of the tsars. Seyit Shamil had wanted to come to Bandung along with the Uyghur leader Isa Yusuf Alptekin, the former prime minister of the Republic of East Turkestan, which had been broken up by Chinese armies in 1949. But Shamil was the only one to obtain a visa, as the Chinese government had put pressure on the Indonesian government to stop Alptekin being given one. They had gone together from Istanbul to Karachi, where Alptekin had again applied for a visa and been turned down. The Uyghur leader decided to wait in Pakistan for Shamil to return. . . .
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