Talk:H. Keith Thompson

One-sided article base on one unfriendly source

This entire article is clearly based on one sensationalistic and decidedly biased book. The one footnote sourcing the professional witch-hunters of the SPLC only makes matters worse. Falange (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The article's citations appear to be from highly biased and unfriendly sources but the text itself is remarkably neutral and informative (though it leaves out salient details, such as HKT's time in Naval Intelligence, and the fact that the Antarctic expedition was led by Admiral Byrd!). Perhaps the "unfriendly" footnote apparatus is just window-dressing.Sallieparker (talk) 22:57, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

H. Keith Thompson - Additional info

Thompson is not alive. He died March 3, 2002.

What follows is a more accurate summary of his background from his FBI files:

• 1940’s = he joined German American Bund
• 6/12/42 – 12/30/47 = Enlisted in U.S. Naval Reserve. Selected for Navy V-12 program in October 1943, completing his training at Drew University (Madison NJ) and then transferred to Naval ROTC at Yale *University in 1944. Commissioned as Ensign upon graduation 1946 and served at Naval Training Station, Newport RI until May 1946. Then ordered to USS Franklin D. Roosevelt where he served until 1946.
• 1946 = Graduated from Yale, A.B. history
• 12/46 to 04/47 = Served aboard USS Mt. Olympus, flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition as a communications officer. Then returned to U.S. and served on temp duty with Naval Dept Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in WDC.
• 12/47 = Graduated from Naval Supply Corp School, Bayonne NJ and accepted commission in U.S. Navy with Supply Corps (serial #482931)
• 12/30/47 = resigned from U.S. Navy in order to accept commission as Second Lieutenant in U.S. Marine Corps (serial 049515)
• 1/1/48 – 6/27/50 = U.S. Marine Corps
• 2/14/49 = General Court Martial on charges of "scandalous conduct tending to destruction of good morals (sex deviate) and Maltreatment of Person Subject to His Orders"
• 5/25/49 = Findings of Court Martial were approved by Commanding General, Marine Base, Quantico VA
• 5/10/50 = Hearing before Secretary of Navy
• 6/22/50 = Findings and sentence approved by Secretary of the Navy

• 1946 – 1952 employed as salesman in NYC for interior decorating firm, E.M. Latson & Co.. Inc. Then became Vice President and Office Manager of Cooper Forms, Inc., 7 Dutch St – NYC (operated by Thompson and his father)

• 1950’s+ = Prominent figure within postwar neo-nazi movement, and founder of American Committee For Advancement of Western Culture; also involved with James Madole’s National Renaissance Party
• 9/12/52 = Socialist Reich Party disbanded
• 9/22/52 = Registered as American publicity agent, public relations counsel, and fund raiser of Socialistic Reich Party of West Germany (aka Sozialisticsche Reichspartei)
• 9/17/54 = Thompson mentioned in House Committee on Un-American Activities Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist Activities
• 9/19/57 = Thompson letter-to-editor in Palestine-Arab Refugee Newsletter
• 11/58 = Contributed to Seaboard White Citizens Council

FBI files:

HQ 105-18598, #7 (7/21/52 Newark field report on “Committee For Freedom For Major General Remer”, p1) states that informant “T-2 advised that (Thompson) was a member of the U.S. Navy from 6/12/42 to 12/30/47; was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1/1/48 to 6/27/50, at which time he was dismissed from the Naval Service by reason on a general Court Martial on charges of scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals and maltreatment of a person subject to his orders. Further, T-2 advised that Keith Thompson was an associate of and in contact with persons alleged to be members of the Communist Party in 1948.” [Informants used by Newark identified as T-1=Naval Intelligence (ONI), T-2 (“another Government agency which conducts security-type investigations”), T-3 (trash cover on his residence).

HQ 100-370871, #1 (8/4/50 SAC Richmond to J. Edgar Hoover (hereafter JEH), p1 – stated that Thompson was “dismissed from the Marine Corps and Navy after conviction by a General Court Mail of (a) maltreatment of a person subject to his orders, (b) striking another person in the Navy…Prior to this dismissal, Thompson was a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps stationed at Quantico VA…” An ONI investigation “indicated that Lt. Thompson was active in supporting Wallace for President and allegedly mistreated personnel under his command (perversion). The records at the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico revealed that Lt. Thompson submitted a resignation to the Secretary of the Navy but the same was refused on 12-31-48 and he was order to stand trial by a General Court Martial.”

HQ 100-37081, #13 (10/7/54 JEH to SAC NYC) contains following notation about Thompson: “During September and October 1953, he was interviewed by Agents of the NYC office and he confidentially furnished detailed information concerning neo-nazi activities in the New York area (105-8229-77).”

09-30-54 = Thompson sent letter to JEH: “I herewith enclose for the records of your organization then following papers: (1) copy of my appointment as American correspondent, accredited to the United Nations, of ‘Der Weg’, Argentine magazine (monthly) published at Buenos Aires in the German language, (2) Copy of the announcement of my appointment…In connection with my journalistic assignment, I anticipate that I shall uncover, from time to time, data concerning the Communist Internationale, its agents, and its links with jewish pressure groups operating in the United States as ‘charitable’ and ‘defense’ organizations. Some of this information, hitherto unpublished, is to be found in my articles appearing in the September and October issues of ‘Expose’. Am I at liberty to forward any such information to you with the reasonable assurance that it will reach you personally?” [HQ 100-370871, #13, 9/30/54 Thompson letter to JEH.] Note: subsequent serial #31 (2/15/57 NYC report) describes Der Weg as “a pro-German, anti-semitic publication”. In addition, informant told NYC that “Thompson had recently placed an advertisement for ‘Der Weg’, the Fascist periodical publication in Argentina, in a local magazine entitled ‘One’ which is alleged to be generally devoted to homosexuals.”

HQ 100-370871, #15 (10/21/54 F.J. Baumgardner to A.H. Belmont): “As you recall, Thompson is a sex deviate who was dismissed from the U.S. Marine Corps by general court martial on June 22, 1950. he has been the subject of a security investigation because of his neo-Nazi activities.”

HQ 100-370871, #21 (10/19/54 Baumgardner to Belmont): “In October 1953 he volunteered information that he was a homosexual.”

The late David McCalden (a former director of Willis Carto's Institute for Historical Review), claimed that Thompson had been appointed in 1941 by Adolf Hitler as "SS-Sturmbannfuhrer" (Major in the SS). [See June 1983 issue of McCalden's Revisionist Newsletter.]

In 1952 Thompson introduced Francis Parker Yockey to George S. Viereck and during the early 1950's Thompson became affiliated with numerous extreme right individuals and groups including James Madole's National Renaissance Party.

In April 1953, Thompson also was a co-founder and National Director of the American Committee for the Advancement of Western Culture (ACAWC)--which was intended to become a planning group for coordination of racial and nationalist activities in the U.S.

By virtue of his ACAWC activities, Thompson became acquainted with a "who's who" of the extreme right in the U.S. -- including Eustace Mullins -- who served as Treasurer of ACAWC.

Among the other assorted bigots and political extremists who attached themselves to ACAWC were:

John H. Monk, Peter L. Xavier, James Madole, Kurt Mertig, Frederick Weiss, Benjamin H. Freedman, Matt Koehl, Guy C. Stephens.

"Confidential informants have advised that Thompson was a member of the Progressive Party of the District of Columbia in 1948 and was a founding member of the Independent Progressive Party of New Jersey in 1948. It is to be noted that Confidential Informants of the Newark Office have advised that the Progressive Party in the State of New Jersey is controlled by the Communist Party.” [Newark 105-1160, #7, 4/22/53 SAC Newark to JEH]

2/1/57 issue of American Legion Firing Line, pages 10-11 has article captioned “Neo-Fascist Activities” which summarizes data on Thompson and it includes the following statement, page 11:

“In 1952, Thompson registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent for the Sozialistische Reichspartei (Socialist Reich Party), a ‘post-war new-style Nazi organization’ in West Germany, now banned by the German Government. (See Washington Post, 9/22/52, p6)…According to the registration statement, Thompson was listed as publicity agent, public relations counsel, fund raiser, and ‘sole agent and representative’ of the Socialist Reich Party, which formally disbanded on September 12. 1952. He has claimed that he is working for the release of 1,045 former German military personnel who have been sentenced as war criminals and has made a statement to the effect that if Herman Goering were still alive and in prison, Thompson would also work for his release. In recent years, he has been listed as a director of the American Committee For the Advancement of Western Culture and a member of the one-man Committee for the Freedom of Major General Remer, a former Hitler supporter. In 1953, Thompson was named as having been affiliated with the National Renaissance Party, a small neo-fascist organization located in New York City.”

Articles about or by Thompson: NY Compass, 10/26/52, p15 = Richard Carter: “Nazis’ U.S. Boy Tells His Goal” American Legion Firing Line 2/1/57 Washington Post, 9/22/52, p6 National Guardian, 3/22/50, p16 and 4/19/50 and 6/7/50

H. Keith Thompson: 4-part autobiographical article entitled "I Am an American Fascist” in Expose Part 1 = published in the August 1954 issue of Expose. Part 2 = September 1954 Part 3 = October 1954 Part 4 = December 1954 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.1.97 (talk) 15:28, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Great information. Not one word in the main article about him being an officer. Thank you! 2003:F3:2708:13E5:1446:C612:9E0B:28A (talk) 14:16, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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