Willis Carto

Anti-Semite Mentor

Willis Carto has come into contact with virtually every significant figure on the radical right and he remains perhaps the most influential anti-Semite in the United States. It has been said that no other fiqure has done as much as Carto to forward anti-Semitism and keep it alive in the US.

Liberty Lobby

In 1955, Carto announced that he was organizing "a lobby for patriotism," which eventually became known as Liberty Lobby, the most influential right-wing extremist propaganda organization that has ever existed in the United States. While managing Liberty Lobby, Carto created a network of extremist publications and organizations such as the magazine American Mercury and the Washington Observer Newsletter, journals promoting anti-Semitic propaganda. Carto also founded Western Destiny, a magazine which produced racist, Nazi articles. All of these publications are no longer in existance.

The "publishing arm" of Liberty Lobby, Noontide Press, continues to promote the sales of anti-Jewish and pro-Nazi propoganda. Examples of Noontide Press distributions:

  

National Youth Alliance

Carto organized support for the racist Alabama governor George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election and produced a pamphlet about Wallace's views. After infighting and defections, Carto took over the Youth for Wallace movement and renamed it the National Youth Alliance which recruited members at college campuses and aimed to "smash" liberal causes.

One of Carto's associates in the national Youth Alliance was William Pierce, an American Nazi Party propagandist. Carto and Pierce separated and Pierce took over the National Youth Alliance and renamed it the National Alliance, the most active neo-Nazi organization in the US.

The Spotlight

Carto's aim has always been to perpetuate anti-Jewish opinion and to forward Nazi ideals. His vessel for acccomplishing this was Liberty Lobby, which in 1975 began a publication called The Spotlight, which contained articles about conspiracy theories and other nonsense.

The publication featured articles against tax increases, trade agreements with the former Soviet Union, gun control, gay rights, pornography and the welfare system, all of which seemed reasonable at the time. However, the publication also served to forward Carto's false propoganda about world history and the belief that Jews are the chief threat to us all.

The Spotlight became the leading rag of "the far right" and became a venue for skinheads, militia groups, neo-Nazi groups and other hate groups such as the World Church of the Creator, the National States Rights Party of Georgia and the Christian Defense League. It also promoted the Liberty Lobby radio shows, another means of disseminating Carto's hate propoganda and Nazi agenda.

Institute for Historical Review

Carto and his wife, Elizabeth, founded the Institute for Historical Review in 1978. The IHR's mission is to forward the idea that the Holocaust never occurred, that 6 million Jews were not murdered. IHR publicly offered a reward of $50,000 for verifiable "proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz." This money (and an additional $40,000) was eventually paid in 1985 to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who sued the IHR for breach of contract for initially ignoring his evidence (a signed testimony of his experiences in Auschwitz).

Carto eventually lost control of the IHR and Noontide Press due to his dirty business practices and he started another publication called The Barnes Review, which had the same goal of promoting Holocaust Denial and anti-Semitic information. On March 26, 2003, Swiss authorities issued an arrest warrant for Carto for embezzling millions from the IHR and its parent company.

American Free Press

The American Free Press was founded in 2001 as a successor to Carto's The Spotlight publication, which ceased in 2001 when Liberty Lobby went bankrupt. The American Free Press continues Carto's misssion of hate except with now stronger ties to neo-Nazi organizations such as the National Alliance and anti-Semites such as William White, and promotes the books of these radical groups.

Willis Carto Today

Supposedly "retired", and now living somewhere in Northern Virginia not far from Liberty Lobby Board of Policy member Arnaldo Lerma, Carto's "tree of hate" continues to spread its poisonous leaves of deception. Men like Carto do not "retire", they just become more covert about what they do, hoping to avoid the lawyers, police and good citizens seeking truth and justice.