Inside The League by Scott Anderson and Jon Lee AndersonFor more than a decade, progressive researchers in this country and Europe have uncovered evidence linking some American conservatives and right-wingers to groups racist and fascist movements around the world through a shadowy organization called the World Anti-Communist League. Now the book “Inside the League” exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the living rooms of the Reagan White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of articles on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). With the help of his brother Scott, the two initially began tracing connections between death squads, but soon began unraveling networks and alliances involving terrorists, Nazi collaborators, racists, murderers, anti-Jewish bigots, and right-wing anti-Communist American politicians . The one factor they all had in common was their involvement with the World Anti-Communist League. Latin American death squads, for example, were found to be linked through a Central American and South American right-wing umbrella group called the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL). . The CAL in turn was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), led by a retired American. Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts that the WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task explicitly supported by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and enthusiastic letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years . The WACL also serves as an umbrella for several Eastern European émigré groups founded and led by Nazi collaborators, and there's much more. As the Anderson brothers write: "We looked at the World Anti-Communist League...because it is the only organization in which you find representatives of virtually every right-wing extremist movement that has practiced unconventional warfare. The League is the only constant in this hell; whether we look at Croatian terrorists, Norwegian neo-Nazis, Japanese war criminals or American extremists...." (p. x, author's note). The WACL is more than a club for older fascists and their modern exponents.