Willis Allison Carto (born July 17, 1926) is a notable figure on the American far right. He describes himself as Jeffersonian and populist, but is primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.[1] Carto is today considered to be one of America's most influential political racial theorists through theLiberty Lobby and successor organizations which he helped create. Carto ran a group supportingsegregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign which formed the basis for the National Youth Alliance which promoted Francis Parker Yockey's political philosophy. Carto helped found thePopulist Party served as an electoral vehicle for White nationalist and Ku Klux Klan members such as David Duke in 1988 and Christian Identity supporter Bo Gritz in 1992. Carto's current American Free Press continues in the spirit of the Liberty Lobby's The Spotlight, running columns by Joe Sobran, James Traficant, Paul Craig Roberts, presidential candidate Ron Paul, and others. It continues to promote alternative theories to the 9-11 attacks and support presidential candidates favoring individual liberty.[2] Carto's many other projects also include the Institute for Historical Review which was founded by Carto to promote revisionist history about Nazi death camps.
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At Camelot Production% where Prouty was regarded as a genial, grandfatherly figure, the initial reaction was disbelief. It quickly turned to horror as more infor-mation poured in. The Lobby, it turned out, had been founded by one Willis Carto—an ex-John Birch Society functionary who, in addition to expressing admi-ration for Hitler, believed that Jews were, as he put it, "public enemy number one." He is "a very sincere and well-educated man," Prouty odd."! want to be for the things he's for." That Prouty should be associated, even remotely, with Carto's views, cross pub-lic-relations time bomb. The bad news, though, did Oct end there. Garrison, Stone's staff discovered, had also appeared on the Lobby's radio program; and Prouty had sold the reprint rights to his book to the Lobby's Noontide Press, whose other offerings included numerous works arguing that the Holocaust was "a Jew-sponsored hoax." When questioned, Prouty, the intelligence expert, pleaded ignorance. He had not known of Carto's Nazi leanings, he insisted; nor had he been aware that one of his fellow advisory-board members had been the leader of the Mississippi Ku Molt Man, nor that the Committee itself was the successor to a Lobby-sponsored politi-cal party that in 1988 had nominated former KKK chieftain David Duke its presi-dential candidate. "I'm on [their] board," said Prouty, "hoc! don't know anything about it." As for his publisher's assertion that the holocaust was a lie, Prouty, who claims to have spoken at a National Holocaust Museum ceremony, would say only, "I'm no authority in that area." "My God," moaned a Stone assistant after listening to the rationalizations. "If this gets out, Oliver is going to look like the biggest
Willis Carto
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| Born | Willis Allison Carto July 17, 1926 Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA |
| Known for | Far right advocate |
| Title | Head of Liberty Lobby (defunct) |
Willis Allison Carto (born July 17, 1926) is a notable figure on the American far right. He describes himself as Jeffersonian and populist, but is primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.[1]
Carto is today considered to be one of America's most influential political racial theorists through theLiberty Lobby and successor organizations which he helped create. Carto ran a group supportingsegregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign which formed the basis for the National Youth Alliance which promoted Francis Parker Yockey's political philosophy. Carto helped found thePopulist Party served as an electoral vehicle for White nationalist and Ku Klux Klan members such as David Duke in 1988 and Christian Identity supporter Bo Gritz in 1992. Carto's current American Free Press continues in the spirit of the Liberty Lobby's The Spotlight, running columns by Joe Sobran, James Traficant, Paul Craig Roberts, presidential candidate Ron Paul, and others. It continues to promote alternative theories to the 9-11 attacks and support presidential candidates favoring individual liberty.[2] Carto's many other projects also include the Institute for Historical Review which was founded by Carto to promote revisionist history about Nazi death camps.
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[hide]Early life[edit]
Willis Carto fought in World War II, beginning in 1944 at age 18. His war service served as his beginning point for his growing interest in the subjects of foreign policy, post-war politics, social policies (such as his Jeffersonian & populist beliefs), and in general: governmental power in all measures.
Influences on Carto[edit]
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Willis Carto has been described as a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey.[3] Yockey promotedharsh criticism of the influence of Jews, and Hitler's German National Socialism movement and otherFascist causes. Yockey contacted or worked with the Nazi aligned German-American Bund and theNational German-American Alliance. After the defeat of the Axis in the Second World War, Yockey continued to promote neo-Fascist causes. Yockey also met Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and wrote anti-Zionist propaganda for the Egyptian government, seeing Arab nationalism as another ally to challenge "the Jewish-American power". While in prison for possessing falsified passports, he was visited by Carto who eventually became the chief advocate and publisher of Yockey's ideas. Yockey's best known book, Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology.[3] Later, Carto would define his ideology as Jeffersonian and populist rather than National Socialist, particularly in Carto's 1982 book, Profiles in Populism.[4] That book presented sympathetic profiles of several United States political figures including Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, Henry Ford as well as Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin who used radio to issue antisemitic commentary support some of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.[4][5]
Liberty Lobby and newspapers[edit]
In 1955, Carto founded an organization called Liberty Lobby, which remained in operation under his control until 2001, when the organization was forced into bankruptcy as a result of a lawsuit.[1] Liberty Lobby was perhaps best known for publishing the newspaper The Spotlight between 1975 and 2001.[1]
Carto and several Spotlight staff members and writers have since founded a new newspaper called the American Free Press. The paper includes articles from syndicated columnists who have no direct ties to Carto or his organizations. Like its predecessor, it takes a populist tone and focuses on conspiracy theory, nationalist economics, and Israel. One of its writers, Michael Collins Piper, hosts a weekday talk program on shortwave radio called The Piper Report that is pointedly anti-Zionist and promotes Holocaust denial.[6]
Other activities in the 1950s and 1960s[edit]
In 1966, Carto acquired control of The American Mercury via the Legion for the Survival of Freedom organization. The magazine was once a highly respected periodical associated with H.L. Mencken, but was failing by the time Carto acquired it. It was published until 1980.
Carto ran a group called Youth for George Wallace to aid the third party presidential campaign of George Wallace in 1968.[7] When the campaign failed, he converted what remained of the Youth for George Wallace organization into the National Youth Alliance. As National Chairman for this group, Carto was successful in recruiting William Luther Pierce, who later became famous for his authorship of The Turner Diaries.[7] Eventually Carto lost control of the National Youth Alliance to Pierce, who transformed it into the National Alliance, which is today a white nationalist and white separatist political organization.
On September 10, 1971, the conservative opinion magazine National Review published a detailed critique of Carto's activities up to that point. It was titled "Liberty Lobby - Willis Carto and his Fronts."
Carto, revisionism, and Holocaust denial[edit]
Carto was also the founder of a publishing company called Noontide Press, which published a number of books on white racialism, including Yockey's Imperium and David Hoggan's The Myth of the Six Million, one of the first books to deny the Holocaust.[8] Noontide Press later became closely associated with the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), and fell out of Carto's hands at the same time as the IHR did.[1] The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the proposition that the Nazi Holocaust never happened—a view known as Holocaust denial. The IHR and Carto suffered a significant reversal in 1981 as the result of a lawsuit brought by public interest attorney William John Cox on behalf of Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein. In that case, the court took "judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944." The court went on to say, "It is simply a fact."[9][10] After losing control of Noontide Press and the IHR in a hostile takeover by former associates, Carto started another publication, The Barnes Review, which also focuses on Holocaust denial.
Populist Party (1984–1996)[edit]
In 1984, Willis Carto was involved in starting a new political party called the Populist Party.[1] It quickly fell out of his hands in a hostile takeover by disgruntled former associates. Critics asserted that this Populist Party (not to be confused with the Populist Party of 1889) was little more than an electoral vehicle for current and former Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity members. Olympic athlete Bob Richards (1984), David Duke(a founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a future Louisiana state representative, 1988) and former Green Beret Bo Gritz (1992) were the Populist Party's only three presidential candidates. It folded before it could nominate a candidate for the 1996 elections.
Other activities[edit]
Carto's Liberty Lobby acquired the Sun Radio Network in December 1989, and attempted to use talk radio as a vehicle for espousing his views. It was eventually a financial failure. Liberty Lobby and American Free Press also sponsored the Radio Free America talk show.
In 2004, Carto joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of American Free Press. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream our cause" by reducing internecine warfare. It was written by white nationalist David Duke.
Carto has also been featured as a guest on The Political Cesspool which in its statement of principles represents "a philosophy that is pro-White."
While Carto has been associated with views critical of US and Israeli military policy, his views towards Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq have been more moderate. In 2007, Carto condemned the "genocidal maniacs like Vice President Cheney and commentator Bill O’Reilly" in their support of the Bush administration's attack on Iraq. Carto defended the much-vilified nation of Iran as a "highly civilized, independent, stable country with 6,000 years of proud history" where over "800,000 innocent men, women and children have been killed, and at least one million wounded, an untold number of homes have been demolished, roads blown up, buildings destroyed." Carto warned "now the crooks are prodding America to attack Iran" and condemned "the war cries of cowardly 'neo-con' Israel-firsters who literally demand war against Iran". He feared that American bombs might kill enough Iranians so that Israel will "establish control over the entire theatre and those who presently live there will become Jewish serfs—like the Palestinians." [11] His media outlets have consistently supported candidate and congressman Ron Paul who has consistently maintained a moderate view towards Iran and Muslim nations.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Willis Carto". Anti-Defamation League. 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^ Paul Disowns Extremists’ Views but Doesn’t Disavow the Support
- ^ a b Willis Carto and the IHR
- ^ a b Lyons, Matthew N. and Berlet, Chip. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. 2000, page 188.
- ^ John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero, (Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002), 132
- ^ http://mikepiperreport.com/
- ^ a b Kaplan, Jeffrey. Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. 2000, page 43.
- ^ "Willis A. Carto: Fabricating History". Anti-Defamation League. 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^ "Mermelstein Victory", Heritage, October 23, 1981.
- ^ "Footnote to the Holocaust", Newsweek, October 19, 1981, p. 73.
- ^ U.S. TAKES MORE STEPS TOWARD WAR WITH IRAN
Bibliography[edit]
- Carto, Willis A. (1982) Profiles in Populism. Washington: Flag Press.
Further reading[edit]
- Coogan, Kevin. (1999) Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
- Michael, George. (2008) Willis Carto and the American Far Right. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
- Mintz, Frank P. (1985) The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Piper, Michael C. (1994) Best Witness: The Mermelstein Affair Washington: Center for Historical Review. (Afterword by Carto.) America First Books (e-book)
External links[edit]
- Willis Carto Interviewed on RBN Radio, April 12th, 2007 - MP3
- FAQ: Willis Carto & The Institute for Historical Review
- Ron Paul Friends and Supporters
- ADL: Willis A. Carto: Fabricating History
- Barnes Review
- History Commons
- Willis Carto Timeline
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EXCERPTED FROM THE INVESTIGATOR, SEPTEMBER 1981
This article was bylined Charles Bermant, but most of the material was investigated and written by Robert Eringer.
Willis Carto and Liberty Lobby sued The Investigator and its owner,Jack Anderson, the syndicated columnist. It went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and became a landmark case.
Willis Allison Carto is a trim 56 year-old of medium-build and thinning pate.
Why does the Anti-Defamation League believe Carto to be the leading anti-Semite in the country? And why did the late Drew Pearson describe Carto as a "Hitler fan?"
Why does Scott Stanley, the managing editor of the John Birch Society'sAmerican Opinion, say, "In my opinion, the preservation of anti-Semitism as a movement has occured because the the activities of Willis Carto?"
Carto was born to a family of Huguenot stock on July 19, 1926 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio and served with the Army in the Philippines during World War II. After the war, he attended Denison University.
In 1952, Carto moved to San Francisco and went to work as a debt collector for Household Finance Corporation.
After drifting from one right-wing group to another, he decided to organize "a lobby for patriotism" he would call Liberty Lobby. In an attempt to raise $75,000 seed money, he wrote to 700 conservartives whose names and addresses he borrowed from right-wing mailing lists.
By 1970, Liberty Lobby's annual income had risen to nearly a million dollars.
Another significant benchmark was reached in September, 1975, with publication of The Spotlight, a weekly newspaper with 36 pages per issue and a staff of 25.
Though he was founder, sole owner and motivating force behind Liberty Lobby, Willis Carto's name does not appear on the masthead of The Spotlight. He refuses to be interviewed and keeps an unlisted telephone number.
He directs his operations from a plush penthouse in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and conducts his business from a public telephone, according to Spotlight Managing Editor Jim Tucker.
The Spotlight trafficks in sensationalism, character assassination, innuendoes and outright misrepresentations. Typical of the headlines splashed across its pages are "Soviet Spy in White House," "Rockefeller Named Dope Overlord" and "The Diary of Anne Frank is a Fraud."
Vincent A. Drosdik III, a one-time assistant editror of The Spotlight who says he quit after nine months because he "couldn't take the inside-the-office racism," tells of an instance where a feature was contrived to serve Carto's political prejudices. The target was Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.
"Tito was schedculed to come to town," drosdik recalls. "Carto had this wild hair up his ass about getting Croatian exiles to protest the visit. We couldn't find any. So we went to our typesetter and renamed her 'Ginny Dragonovich.' We quickly made up a poster for her and took her to the Capitol building. Well, the 'protest' lasted all of two minutes--just enough time to photrograph her."
Carto also owns Noontide Press, his personal publishing house, and The Institute for Historical Review, which publishes books, a purported "adademic" quarterly, and stages conventions.
The Institute was set up to disprove that any Jews died in World War II gas chambers. The Institute argues that perhaps 35,000 Jews died of disease and war injuries, but that none died in extermination programs.
The Institute first attracted media attention when it offered a $50,000 "reward" to anyone who could prove that the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust ever took place. The Institute also offered $25,000 for proof of the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary.
An ex-Liberty Lobbyiest says, "Carto has a lot of organizations he sets up solely for the purpose of raising money. They vanish as soon as they've served their purpose." And Birch Society editor Scott Stanley notes that "Whenever you find anti-Semitic literature coming out from some little fly-by-night front, it seems to be associated with the Carto network."
This article marked the beginning of the end of Willis Carto's influence among American populists. For many years thereafter, Carto was mired in lawsuits, self-initiated and as a defendant, and in 2001 Liberty Lobby ceased to exist.
Why does the Anti-Defamation League believe Carto to be the leading anti-Semite in the country? And why did the late Drew Pearson describe Carto as a "Hitler fan?"
Why does Scott Stanley, the managing editor of the John Birch Society'sAmerican Opinion, say, "In my opinion, the preservation of anti-Semitism as a movement has occured because the the activities of Willis Carto?"
Carto was born to a family of Huguenot stock on July 19, 1926 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio and served with the Army in the Philippines during World War II. After the war, he attended Denison University.
In 1952, Carto moved to San Francisco and went to work as a debt collector for Household Finance Corporation.
After drifting from one right-wing group to another, he decided to organize "a lobby for patriotism" he would call Liberty Lobby. In an attempt to raise $75,000 seed money, he wrote to 700 conservartives whose names and addresses he borrowed from right-wing mailing lists.
By 1970, Liberty Lobby's annual income had risen to nearly a million dollars.
Another significant benchmark was reached in September, 1975, with publication of The Spotlight, a weekly newspaper with 36 pages per issue and a staff of 25.
Though he was founder, sole owner and motivating force behind Liberty Lobby, Willis Carto's name does not appear on the masthead of The Spotlight. He refuses to be interviewed and keeps an unlisted telephone number.
He directs his operations from a plush penthouse in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and conducts his business from a public telephone, according to Spotlight Managing Editor Jim Tucker.
The Spotlight trafficks in sensationalism, character assassination, innuendoes and outright misrepresentations. Typical of the headlines splashed across its pages are "Soviet Spy in White House," "Rockefeller Named Dope Overlord" and "The Diary of Anne Frank is a Fraud."
Vincent A. Drosdik III, a one-time assistant editror of The Spotlight who says he quit after nine months because he "couldn't take the inside-the-office racism," tells of an instance where a feature was contrived to serve Carto's political prejudices. The target was Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.
"Tito was schedculed to come to town," drosdik recalls. "Carto had this wild hair up his ass about getting Croatian exiles to protest the visit. We couldn't find any. So we went to our typesetter and renamed her 'Ginny Dragonovich.' We quickly made up a poster for her and took her to the Capitol building. Well, the 'protest' lasted all of two minutes--just enough time to photrograph her."
Carto also owns Noontide Press, his personal publishing house, and The Institute for Historical Review, which publishes books, a purported "adademic" quarterly, and stages conventions.
The Institute was set up to disprove that any Jews died in World War II gas chambers. The Institute argues that perhaps 35,000 Jews died of disease and war injuries, but that none died in extermination programs.
The Institute first attracted media attention when it offered a $50,000 "reward" to anyone who could prove that the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust ever took place. The Institute also offered $25,000 for proof of the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary.
An ex-Liberty Lobbyiest says, "Carto has a lot of organizations he sets up solely for the purpose of raising money. They vanish as soon as they've served their purpose." And Birch Society editor Scott Stanley notes that "Whenever you find anti-Semitic literature coming out from some little fly-by-night front, it seems to be associated with the Carto network."
This article marked the beginning of the end of Willis Carto's influence among American populists. For many years thereafter, Carto was mired in lawsuits, self-initiated and as a defendant, and in 2001 Liberty Lobby ceased to exist.
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