Thread by @ColonelTowner

1/ This is interesting:

"With the following background on the American First Committee it would be surprising any knowledgeable person would defend it as a patriot organization.

2/ However, in a venom laced diatribe as a response to the former mayor of New York, Ed Koch perennial presidential candidate Pat Buchanan did just that. Buchanan has other embarrassing ties to fascism as well.

3/ In the response, Buchanan listed four names that had signed a recruiting poster for the American First at Yale Law School: Bob Stuart, Eugene Loche, Potter Stewart and Gerald Ford. He also listed three
additional members Senator Peter Dominick, Sargent Shriver and Kingman

4/ Brewester. Brewester later became president of Yale, a university that has close ties with employing former Nazi war criminals. While president of Yale, Brewester appointed Tracy Barnes as a special assistant in charge of community relations.

5/ Barnes was an operations officer for the OSS during the war and resigned a high level CIA position to accept the offer. Barnes was the CIA officer that organized the overthrow of the Arbenz government of Guatemala and selected E. Howard Hunt as

6/ his political officer for the team. William Regnery was also one of the founders of the American Security Council, he was later replaced by his son Henry. Regnery and two other isolationists began broadcasting Human Events and in 1947 started the Regnery publishing business.

7/ Interesting enough the first two titles published by Regnery were critical of the
Nuremberg Trials. The third book Regnery published was another pro- Nazi book attacking the allies air campaign. In 1954, Regnery published two books for the John Birch Society.

8/ He was also the publisher behind Buckley's God and Man at Yale. In light of the publishing of the pro- Nazi books, it is interesting to note that Regnery Publishing was subsidized by the CIA according to Howard Hunt."

Excerpt from "The Nazi Hydra In Fascist America"