SIGHTINGS



Neo-NAZI Shooters Are
Stooges Of British
Commonwealth Secret Services
By Anton Chaitkin
Executive Intelligence Review
Originally Published In The New Federalist
7-12-99
 
 
 
 
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, who died July 4 after a Midwest racist shooting spree, was a member of the "World Church of the Creator." The group had gone out of existence in the 1991-93 period, and was revived under the direct control of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's domestic intelligence agency, acting in partnership with other British Commonwealth secret services. Canada's intelligence services report directly to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British secret services.

Smith was recently a student at Indiana University in Bloomington and had passed out literature on the campus for the anti-Christian "Church." The "Church of the Creator" was re-formed in the early 1990s as an arm of the Canadian government-created Heritage Front, Canada's main organization of neo-Nazis. The "Church" members formed the "Security Legion" or paramilitary arm for the Front. The Heritage Front project burst into the headlines in 1994 when Brian McInnis, an aide to former Canadian Solicitor General Douglas Lewis, gave the Toronto Star newspaper parts of a classified document in his possession, stamped "read and destroy." The document revealed that the government had actually {created and funded} the neo-Nazi group through CSIS agent Grant Bristow, who was paid a $50,000 spy-agency salary and laid out some $300,000 to fund the neo-Nazis. Bristow was at this time personally directing the violent racist activities of the "Church of the Creator."
 
The whistleblower, McInnis, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and detained for six hours. He was threatened with prison for violating the British Empire-origin Official Secrets Act, but was apparently not prosecuted. Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee held hearings on the Heritage Front scandal. This official British Commonwealth review body mildly criticized Bristow and the CSIS, but praised the CSIS for maintaining "active" agents in racist groups--supposedly to avert violence. At one point in late 1992, a computer holding names of members of the Heritage Front was stolen from the "Church of the Creator"--i.e., the Front's security office. According to an affidavit by Heritage Front leader Wolfgange Droege, CSIS agent Grant Bristow told "Church" security director Eric Fisher that a certain member had stolen the computer.
 
Fisher, a Canadian airborne special forces veteran, forcibly detained and beat up airborne special forces veteran, forcibly detained and beat up Bristow's suspect. The victim, Tyrone Mason, told the police and Fisher was charged with kidnapping and assault. But Bristow warned Mason to drop the charges, according to Mason's affidavit. - Creation and Re-Creation - "Church of the Creator" was founded originally in the early 1970s by one Ben Klassen, who grew up in Canada but moved to the U.S. and became a Florida State Legislator and millionaire. During 1992, South African police spies revealed they had been assigned to use the "Church" for recruits in an undercover war against the African National Congress. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the "Church," driving it to bankruptcy and to the 1993 suicide of founder Klassen. The Canadian secret service re-creation of the defunct "Church" began well before Klassen's death. By the time the Bristow affair hit the news, the "Church of the Creator" was simply a CSIS-Bristow initiative; well-placed sources say there was then only one member of the "Church" in the United States. In this period, the sources say, Bristow travelled back and forth across the border, "taking law enforcement classes" from the FBI. From about 1996, the U.S. office of this international secret police project was led by Matthew Hale of East Peoria--now notorious as the fatal mentor of shooter Benjamin Smith. The Heritage Front's nominal leader, Canadian Wolfgang Droege, a longtime associate of Klassen, was jailed for his part in a 1981 secret-services-backed scheme of Canadian and U.S. racist mercenaries to overthrow the government of Dominica. After another U.S. term for cocaine pushing, Droege returned to Canada and CSIS agent Bristow asked him to create Heritage Front under Droege's name. In an April 26, 1996 affidavit, Droege says CSIS agent Bristow funded Droege's personal expenses, funded the creation, development, and publicity of the Heritage Front, ran the provocations and harassment against leftist and anti-racist groups, funded and personally ran all aspects of its outreach to the U.S. and other countries, and ran its legal protection from the Canadian authorities. For an example on the legal front, observers were astonished by the 30-day sentence offered by Canadian prosecutors as a punishment for "Church of the Creator" security director Eric Fisher in the Bristow-instigated kidnapping.
 
UPDATE
 
Church Of The Creator Associates Arrested For California NAZI Bombings And Murders EIR 7-13-99
 
James Tyler Williams and his brother Matthew Williams were arrested last week in Redding, California for the murder of a homosexual couple on July 1. The Sheriff's Department has named them also as suspects in the firebombing of three Sacramento-area Jewish facilities, including two synagogues, on June 18. According to news accounts, both men are members or associates of the World Church of the Creator.
 
EIR investigation has established that the neo-Nazi "Church" was re-created from a defunct organization by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the South African secret police. Full coverage of the British-Intelligence-staged Nazi revival will appear in next week's EIR.
 
 
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