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THREAD re: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), World Anti-Communist League (WACL), 'Feathers of Condor,' Committee to Free Afghanistan (CFA), and Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) led by Yaroslav Stetsko, a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator+war criminal. 1/??
The ABN, founded in 1946 by the S.Bandera-led faction of the Org. of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), was soon, if not from the get-go, sponsored by British intelligence until the early 1950s. B's deputy Stetsko led the ABN til he died in 1986. 2/??
After the CIA (which sponsored a rival postwar breakaway faction of OUN-B led by Lebed and Hrinioch) convinced MI6 to dump Bandera, Stetsko et al, the ABN leader went to Taiwan in 1955 where he allied his "Bloc" with the newly founded Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL). 
ABN chieftain Veli Kajum-Khan was an "Uzbek anticommunist aristocrat," Nazi collaborator, and Gerhard von Mende protege — they were "old friends and collaborators" according to the CIA. In July 1957, Khan was the guest of the King of Saudi Arabia (Ibn Saud) in Mecca. 4/??
In 1961 an Aramco PR rep, Shakeeb Amawi, represented Saudi Arabia as an observer of APACL's 7th annual conference. In 1988, repping the KSA, Amawi delivered a eulogy for Chiang Ching-Kuo (Kai-shek's son & successor) with Mrs Slava Stetsko & retired General John Singlaub. 5/??
In 1972 the 6th annual conference of the World Anti-Communist League convened in Mexico City, hosted by WACL's Mexican chapter, a front group for the Tecos (Tecolotes=Owls), a neo-Nazi cult HQ'd in Guadalajara, where WACL's Latin American affiliate (CAL) was created that year.
In 1974, the American Council for World Freedom (ACWF), a US WACL affiliate with close ties to the American Security Council (ASC ), hosted the 7th WACL conference in Washington DC. Yaroslav Stetsko and a Chilean Senator (Pinochet rep) also spoke: 7/??
The 8th annual WACL conference met in Rio de Janeiro on April 23, 1975, chaired by the League's leader in Brazil, and the next president of WACL, Carlo Barbieri Filho, who had "excellent personal contacts with [the] gov't of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Jordan," among many others. 8/??
According to Benjamin Arthur Cowan: "Rumors continue to swirl around Barbieri, whose entanglements seem to have ranged from São Paulo banking scandals to WACL itself to Central America’s civil wars and even...serving as the treasurer for Condor." scielo.br/pdf/rbpi/v61n2… 9/??
WACL-8 inaugurated the Middle East Solidarity Council, the League's 3rd regional organization (1-APACL, 1954; 2-CAL, 1972). A few months later, Barbieri, "supposedly seeking funds, traveled to Saudi Arabia ... and called on the King," Faisal bin Abdulaziz. 10/??
Later in 1975, "representatives of five South American intelligence services held a secret meeting in the city of Santiago, Chile...[&] agreed to launch Operation Condor..." (Fernando López) but the "U.S. [routinely] aided & facilitated Condor operations" (J. Patrice McSherry).
McSherry, "Predatory States": WACL's 1980 Buenos Aires conference "seems to have been a defining event in the exporting of the Condor system from the Southern Cone" to Central America, which the new US WACL chief & ASC member ret-Gen. Singlaub frequented.
In 1978 a disillusioned UK WACL leader, Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, submitted a report on WACL to the US embassy in London which fwd'd it to the FBI, which has kept it under lock & key. The Brit identified the KSA among the foreign governments sponsoring WACL.
According to Scott+@jonleeanderson, Sheik Ahmed Salah Jamjoom, a former Finance Minister for King Saud and Faisal, was "leader of the Arab contingent" at the 1979 WACL conference in Paraguay and "reportedly subsidized" the neo-Nazi Norwegian Front delegation's travel costs. 14/??
As late as 1990, Jamjoon (w. close ties to/a member of the Saudi royal family) represented the Middle East Solidarity Council on WACL's executive board. His daughter married Yassin Kadi/Yasin Al-Qadi, sanctioned by the UN in 1999 and 2000 for his suspected ties to al-Qaeda. 15/??
According to Helga Baitenmann, the Committee for a Free Afghanistan (CFA) was founded in 1981 by Karen McKay, "a lieutenant colonel in US army special forces reserve and a specialist in psychological warfare...with the [WACL's] financial and participatory support..." 16/??
@DrKyleBurke, "Revolutionaries for the Right": "From 1983-1987, McKay & [ret.Gen. Theodore] Mataxis traveled regularly to Peshawar & the Afghan-Pakistan border ... As she later recalled, her missions to meet the mujahedin had the full blessings" of the CIA, DoD, and POTUS. 17/??
@DrKyleBurke also tells us, "The Afghans had special significance for the exiled partisans in the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations...[and] in the Afghans, exiles from Eastern Europe tended to see themselves...[that is, as] part of the anticommunist revolutionary vanguard." 18/??
Pictured here in NYC on May 2, 1981 at the 24th annual American Friends of the ABN conference: Mr & Mrs Stetsko, "Mr. L'Mere Yonoussi, committee member of the Afghan Association of Freedom Fighters, Abdulah, a spokesman for the Afghan Mujahideen," and Roman Zvarych (@Dienekes19).
On 6.30.1941 OUN-B deputy leader Yaroslav Stetsko declared the "renewal of Ukr statehood" (really-a Nazi puppet state) in Lviv hoping Hitler would support him (he wouldn't). The next day an OUN-B militia carried out a Nazi-led pogrom in Lviv. 40 yrs later:
The year the ABN's fascist power-couple Yaroslav & Slava Stetsko met Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Jeanne Kirkpatrick — 1983 — former Aramco PR rep Shakeeb Amawi represented Saudi Arabia at that year's WACL meeting in Luxemburg, also attended by @KatyaYushchenko (K.Chumachenko).
In 1984, FBI said it "has not & is not investigating WACL," & ret-Gen. John Singlaub (of Op.Phoenix & Iran-Contra infamy) became the WACL prez & started to help Oliver North, a leader of the National Security Council's "Project Democracy," smuggle guns to Nicaragua death squads.
After Bush proposed a "further and final toast" to "a free, democratic Nicaragua" at a 40th anniversary ABN dinner in DC, he suffered a minor OUN-B election scandal in '88, and on the brink of USSR's collapse, warned against OUN-B's "suicidal nationalism":
In 1960 the ultra-religious Yaroslav Stetsko gave a speech in fascist Spain in which he addressed the threat of nuclear war: "We shall either be victorious together, or else we shall perish one after another! ...[God willing we] cannot possibly become the object of destruction!"
"Liberation wars are holy wars..." In 1981 in NYC with Afghan mujahideen, 40 years after helping organize a Ukrainian (OUN-B) militia that Simon Wiesenthal remembered as more cruel than the Nazis, Yaroslav Stetsko's speech epitomized his deep-seated "suicidal nationalism": 25/25
