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05/24/01
Friends:
Here's some important information from the Institute for Historical
Review. It deserves a wide circulation.
Kevin Alfred Strom
===begin essay by Mark Weber===
A Response to Recent Spotlight Attacks
By Mark Weber, Director, Institute for Historical Review
weber@ihr.org
April 3, 2001
Since late December, The Spotlight -- the weekly paper of Liberty
Lobby -- has been publishing, in nearly every issue, a series of
articles attacking me, Greg Raven, Ted O'Keefe, Bill Hulsy and
others associated with the Institute for Historical Review (IHR).
Many of these articles appear under the heading "Spotlight on Mark
Weber," and several are supposedly based on "inside information"
provided by my wife, Priscilla Gray Weber. Not coincidentally, she
and I are in the middle of a contentious divorce.
I dislike reading, much less responding, to such vicious and untrue
attacks. Normally I ignore such rubbish, believing that to respond
is generally a waste of time. But this recent series has been so
relentless and strident that it calls for a response.
First of all, there is nothing really novel about these attacks.
They are new only in their intensity and virulence, not their
essence. Since late 1993, Willis Carto, the man who controls The
Spotlight and Liberty Lobby, has been using the paper to attack the
IHR, telling readers that I, together with other evil
"conspirators," "thugs," "crooks," and "criminals," have subverted
and destroyed the IHR by turning it over to control by the CIA, the
Israeli Mossad or the Church of Scientology, or combinations of all
three. (For much more on all this, see the on-line "Willis A. Carto
Information Site," http://homepage.mac.com/lsf/ , or "Willis Carto's
Hidden Record," a booklet available from the IHR.)
One recent issue, for example (Jan. 29), cited "explosive" inside
information to announce that I am a secret "friend" and a "buddy" of
Irv Rubin, head of the "Jewish Defense League," the terrorist outfit
that, over the years, had repeatedly harassed the IHR. Another
recent issue (Feb. 12) suggests that, even at the age of 19, I was
operating as an undercover CIA agent in West Africa, and that my
teaching job at a secondary school in Ghana was a "cover story." In
the "Spotlight on Mark Weber" series, my name appears weekly in
block letters under an illustration. These have included photographs
or drawings of, variously, a rat, a weasel, a snake, a toilet bowl,
a cockroach, and a devil.
Entirely typical of The Spotlight's technique is an item on the
front-page of the January 22 issue, which encouraged readers to
telephone Harvey Taylor and Jack Riner, "two sincere patriots [who]
have been unwitting pawns in the conspiracy to destroy Liberty Lobby
and The Spotlight." Taylor and Riner are long-time IHR supporters
and members of the Board of Directors of the IHR's parent
corporation. Readers were told that "Taylor and Riner have been
manipulated by Mark Weber and his CIA handler, Andrew Allen." The
paper gave their private home telephone numbers. More than 30
persons called Taylor, one of them to threaten his wife. (Riner was
away from home during this period.)
Taylor spoke with a number of the callers, explaining that it is
Carto and The Spotlight who have been lying. He mentioned, for
example, that Carto had forged fraudulent corporate documents to
enable him to embezzle millions of dollars from the IHR.
The very next week (Jan. 29), an "Important Notice," also on the
front page, told readers that Taylor and Riner are not really
"sincere patriots" after all. "The Spotlight has learned," it said,
that Taylor had been "a willing player in the conspiracy even before
it surfaced," and had been acting as a "double agent, reporting back
to Mark Weber and his handlers." Moreover, "there is also new
evidence" that "Taylor twice committed perjury." Readers were also
promised "additional evidence of Taylor's duplicitous
double-dealing."
All this is pure Carto: brazenly violating the privacy of a "sincere
patriot" by prominently publishing his home telephone number as an
open invitation to harassment, and then, when this apparent attempt
at intimidation backfires, denouncing the victim as a newly-exposed
"double agent."
What's behind Carto's campaign?
In 1993 the IHR and its parent corporation, LSF, terminated its
relationship with Willis Carto and his wife, Elisabeth, after
information had come to light showing that they had been diverting
money from the IHR. Our lawsuit to recover the diverted funds came
to trial in November 1996 in California Superior Court in San Diego
county. After considering voluminous evidence, including
witness-stand testimony by the Cartos and many hundreds of pages of
documents, Judge Runston G. Maino concluded that the Cartos,
together with Liberty Lobby and several associates, had improperly
diverted $6.43 million from IHR/LSF. He ordered the defendants to
pay back this amount, plus several years' interest. True to form,
The Spotlight has repeatedly vilified Maino, calling him, for
example (Dec. 31, 2000), an "obviously biased, confused and
vindictive judge" who "contemptuously flouted the clear law and
facts." What readers are not told is that it was Willis Carto who
decided to entrust his own fate, and that of Liberty Lobby, to this
"obviously biased" man. At the outset of the 1996 trial, Carto
decided to forego a jury, and instead have Judge Maino decide the
case on his own.
Winning the judgment against the Cartos and Liberty Lobby was one
thing; enforcing it has proven quite another.
Over the years we made numerous efforts to resolve the destructive
Carto-IHR dispute. In 1999 we concluded an agreement with Carto and
Liberty Lobby that should have ended the seemingly interminable
name-calling and legal wrangling. Unfortunately, but not entirely
unexpectedly, Carto and Liberty Lobby soon broke the agreement.
They're now liable for the entire amount of the 1996 judgment, plus
years of accumulated interest -- altogether now more than $12
million. And that's why we're back in court.
Meanwhile, my strife-ridden six-year marriage was coming to an end.
After I filed for divorce in September 2000, my soon-to-be ex-wife,
Priscilla, repeatedly vowed to hurt me, my colleagues and my
friends. To make good on this pledge, she turned for help to both
Willis Carto and the Anti-Defamation League, the powerful Jewish
organization that over the years has fiercely attacked me and the
IHR (for example, on the ADL web site). In December she met for
lunch with two ADL officials: Joyce Greenspan, the head of the ADL's
local, Orange County office, and a woman from the ADL office in Los
Angeles.
But while the ADL did not offer any money, Carto proved more
forthcoming.
Working together with him, she provided "inside information" that
Carto used to produce a series of false and malicious Spotlight
articles. In return (as Priscilla has acknowledged to me and
others), Carto paid, or arranged to have paid, $3,000 to her divorce
attorney. The Cartos also gave her a few gifts, including a computer
printer. As Priscilla has also told me and others, Carto embellished
and twisted even what she "revealed," so that the Spotlight articles
supposedly based on her "candid interview" are doubly unreliable.
For more than seven years, Willis Carto and Liberty Lobby have tried
to destroy the IHR through the courts, initiating a dozen lawsuits,
including three against me personally. Fighting off these attacks
forced us for years to divert precious money and time from
productive work. But now, having failed in the courts, Carto is
limited to hurling abuse in the pages of his weekly tabloid.
While we fully expect the Spotlight smears to continue with
undiminished ferocity, their actual impact is ever more negligible.
We are pleased, for example, that not a single prominent or
reputable person, and no one who has independently looked into the
matter, endorses The Spotlight claims. Personally I have been
gratified by the many calls and letters from friends and supporters
around the country who contacted me to express their sympathy and
solidarity, and to voice their indignation at Carto's sordid
campaign.
With the Carto threat now largely behind us, we can devote ever more
time and resources to productive work. Building on last year's
highly successful 13th IHR Conference, and with a steadily growing
staff, we are publishing more books and putting out more tapes. Our
flagship Journal of Historical Review is getting back on schedule,
with Ted O'Keefe as the new (and returned) editor. We are working
ever more closely and productively with scholars, journalists,
writers and activists around the globe. Our enemies are
understandably enraged that the IHR is generating unparalleled and
increasingly respectful media attention, both in the US and abroad,
most recently in connection with our role in organizing the banned
"Revisionism and Zionism" conference in Beirut.
In all this, the Spotlight campaign, however personally aggravating
it might be, is now merely a vexatious irritant. It cannot deter us
from making the IHR an ever more effective voice for historical
awareness.
========end Weber essay, begin article from the Spotlight==========
"Gun for Hire," The Spotlight (Liberty Lobby) -- May 18, 2001
Folks familiar with the downfall of the once-respected Institute for
Historical Review (IHR), taken over in 1994 by a profit-mad gang of
lawyers and parasites, may think of Greg Raven as merely a common
gunsel and thug. But this would be wrong. He's more-or less-as the
case may be.
It now turns out that Raven's denials that he is a paid agent of the
Church of Scientology may be true. In fact, it may be true that no
real Church of Scientology exists.
It has come to light that this organization is actually owned by a
group of lawyers, most of whom are not even Scientologists!
The record shows that Scientology, its names, trademarks,
copyrights, logos - even including "LRH," the initials of its
founder- L. Ron Hubbard- are the property of a separate
corporation, Religious Technology Center, Inc. (RTC). And RTC is
completely separate from Scientology. It receives fees, commissions
and payments every time that the sect's names appear in any of the
printed material it puts out.
RTC is hidden in a corporate maze. It lists its official address in
care of a little professional mail drop at 419 Larchmont Avenue in
Los Angeles called Village Mail Call.
And yet this obscure corporation owns the multi-million dollar
Scientology empire! How many veteran followers of L. Ron Hubbard
know this? The board of directors of RTC is composed of lawyers
for the most part, few if any of whom are Scientologists. One of
these is Lawrence E. Heller, a longtime Scientology lawyer.
Significantly, Heller was also the lawyer for Mel Mermelstein, the
"holocaust survivor" who sued the IHR and Liberty Lobby for millions
of dollars in 1991. In the courtroom, Mermelstein's performance was
so poor that the judge dismissed his suit before the trial. At this,
Heller lost his mind and physically attacked Liberty Lobby's
attorney, Mark Lane, who had (easily) made Mermelstein look like a
fool.
The entire entertaining and revealing story is covered in Michael
Collins Piper's book, Best Witness.*
Here is the legal notice and Heller & Co. requires be printed in
every publication issued by Scientology: It is reprinted from
International Scientology News magazine issue No. 16, released in
May, 2001 by Church of Scientology International, 6331 Hollywood
Blvd., Suite 801, Los Angeles, CA 90028-6300. It is printed on page
47 at the bottom in extremely light 4-point type. This message
appears on all official "Scientology" publications. It proves that
Scientology is owned by Religious Technology Center, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ron Hubbard
Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted
works of L. Ron Hubbard. SCIENTOLOGY, the new FLAG logo, Flag
Service Organization, corporate symbol, SCIENTOLOGY symbol, GOLDEN
AGE OF TECH symbol, OT, FLAG, FREEWINDS, HUBBARD, LRH, LRH DEVICE,
SMI corporate symbol, I HELP logo, CLEARSOUND logo, CLEARSOUND,
E-METER, STANDARD TECH, STUDENT HAT, MARK SUPER VI/VII E-METER
configuration, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM, NED, SAINT HILL, SHSBC,
FREEWINDS logo, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM logo, Religious Technology
Center symbol, DIANETICS, THE BRIDGE, Lion symbol, SUPER POWER,
FSSO symbol, "RON" signature, CSI corporate symbol, OT symbol, Solo
Auditor symbol, FSO corporate symbol, Sea Organization symbol and
Sea Organization coat of arms are trademarks and service marks
owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its
permission. SCIENTOLOGIST is a collective membership mark
designating members of the affiliated churches and missions of
Scientology. Services relating to Scientology religious philosophy
are delivered throughout the world exclusively by licensees of the
Church of Scientology International with the permission of
Religious Technology Center, holder of the SCIENTOLOGY and
DIANETICS trademarks.
Heller and the others who sit on the board of directors of RTC are
all known to be closed to the notorious Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) which is, in turn, a division of the Mossad, Israel's
powerful and ruthless intelligence agency. No one has ever doubted
that the ADL is an illegal organization which operates inside the
U.S. in open and flagrant violation of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act.
But no American politician or newspaper will question the bona fides
of the ADL because all are terrified of its power. The ADL-with
some 2000 offices around the country-can rub out any political
ambition very easily because it can control every "mainstream"
newspaper through its control over the advertising that makes a
newspaper profitable.
Raven has never been questioned as to his relationship to Heller and
the other lawyers who control the RTC and through it, Scientology.
Is Raven paid for his intelligence work as was Roy Bullock, the
famed ADL spy who narrowly escaped jail? (Bullock was first
unmasked as an ADL spy by this newspaper in 1986.)
To pay Bullock, the ADL sent funds to a Los Angeles lawyer, Bruce
Hochman, who in turn paid Bullock out of his office account. This
eliminated a paper trail and invoked the doctrine held sacred by
lawyers, the "attorney-client privilege." This covert means of
financing Bullock made it possible for Bullock to deny that he was
paid by the ADL.**
Is this how Raven is paid by Heller or one of his associates? Does
the ADL send "fees" to Heller from which Heller pays Raven? And
what connection exists between Heller and fellow Los Angeles lawyer
Bruce Hochman? In any event, it is unmistakable that Heller and
crew control Scientology through their RTC. The evidence indicates
that they also control and manipulate Greg Raven and the IHR.
* Best Witness is available at $10 from Liberty Library, 300
Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20003.
* The bizarre story of Roy Bullock, the ADL's longtime top
undercover informant, is told in The Garbage Man, available at $10
from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC
20003.
Copyright 2001 Liberty Lobby Inc. All rights reserved. To subscribe
to The SPOTLIGHT Newspaper, call 1-800-522-6292. www.spotlight.com
--------end Spotlight article, begin essay by Ted O'Keefe-------
Comment by Ted O'Keefe:
The Spotlight has claimed for years that the Institute for
Historical Review has been controlled by the CIA, the Mossad, the
Church of Scientology, etc., without ever supplying the least
evidence for its assertions. Now, as usual at the instance of its
splenetic publisher, Willis Carto, the paper wants to show that the
Church of Scientology is controlled by the Mossad.
If reliance on a Jewish lawyer constitutes Mossad control, Spotlight
readers may do well to tremble for the Spotlight, and the Liberty
"Lobby" which issues it, since the mighty influence of Mark Lane in
LL (read: Willis Carto's) counsels is undisputed.
The precise relationship between the Church of Scientology and the
Religious Technology Center is not made clear by the (admittedly!)
public announcement quoted in the Spotlight story [above]. As one
who worked under Carto for nearly eight years, I question whether
the lines of responsibility and control there could be any murkier
than in any of Carto's numerous operations over the years.
In any case, once again Carto, who is beginning to sound more and
like his attorney's former client, the late Jim Jones, provides zero
evidence for his contention that the IHR is under some hostile
outside control. Nor do any of the major revisionist figures
associated with the IHR -- Arthur Butz, Robert Faurisson, Ernst
Zuendel, Germar Rudolf, et al. -- buy that argument.
I'm pained to see that the Spotlight continues to undermine
Americans' right to keep and to bear arms by whining about its
publisher, Willis Carto's, comeuppance on October 16, 1993, on IHR's
premises, at the hands of loyal IHR employees. I will merely remind
you that, earlier, Carto had removed from the IHR assets now put at
over $12 million. To regain control of the IHR (after its board had
dismissed him) and to safeguard the millions he had siphoned off
from it, Carto hired three goons -- one of them black -- off the
streets of San Diego; assembled an arsenal of tree branches, clubs,
and the like; lured the male employees of IHR out of its offices on
a ruse; and attempted to hold two women employees against their
will. After we returned, and fought it out with Carto and his thugs
for five minutes or so -- Greg Raven put a stop to the melee by
drawing a 9 mm pistol, preventing any further injury (Mark Weber was
on his back being pummeled in the face by Carto's 250 pound
[populist?] Negro hireling). (Not to say that Willis Carto had gone
soft on the race question: after he and his wife were led away in
handcuffs by the police, we discovered a projected article for the
revamped Journal of Historical Review entitled, succinctly,
"Eisenhower -- 1/4 Nigger!") This incident, by the way, Carto calls
a "coup" -- by IHR's employees.
The immediate moral, perhaps: Don't bring a tree branch to a gun
fight.
The larger issue: the intellectual and moral integrity, and
viability, of historical revisionism (on the very cutting edge of
world efforts to counter and expose the Jewish propaganda), on the
one hand, versus the rule or ruin tactics of a "populist" legacy
hunter, autodidact, and curmudgeon who has achieved nothing of
substance (compared to the resources he has tied up) throughout his
career, and who now, nearly 76 years old, seems to have room for
little else to manufacture smears of his revisionist and racialist
rivals for the edification of the credulous.
The amount Carto owes IHR -- over $12 million from a bequest to the
Institute which he collected and diverted while acting as IHR's
agent -- is not in dispute between him and IHR. He continues to
claim (against all court rulings) that he has retained to right to
do with the missing millions as he sees fit, presumably (as he told
then IHR director Tom Marcellus) to advance unspecified "good
causes."
Who of Carto's friends, or of activists and theorists and supporters
neutral in our dispute, has ever asked him what use he's made out of
that windfall? Where has the money gone? Where is the
accountability?
Nothing Marc Rich ever did has cost our people, in this time, what
the loss of these assets -- and the frittering away, if not
defalcation, of unknown other millions over the past several decades
-- has meant and will mean to our struggling efforts to supply a
responsible and effective voice for research and publicity on the
questions that matter.
Ted O'Keefe
tjok@ihr.org
================end O'Keefe essay==================
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Kevin Alfred Strom.
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