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In fact, by their actions, the Courtneys were suppressing "anti-Semitic"
tendencies within the American "right" which is precisely what the ADL had
sought to do since its inception. Thus, for all intents and purposes, the
Courtneys were functioning as ADL assets. And it is highly unlikely that
they would have associated so closely with Guy Banister if they would have
perceived him to be among the "haters" that they so loudly opposed.
The Courtneys were fervent boosters of Guy Banister's former boss at
the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover—and they certainly noted Hoover's claim in his
1958 anti-communist magnum opus, Masters of Deceit, that "some of the
most effective opposition to communism in the United States has come
from Jewish organizations such as . . . the Anti-Defamation League, and a
host of other Jewish groups." 826 Therefore, the ADL would have been very
much in the good graces of Kent and Phoebe Courtney, by any respects. (In
Chapter 7 we discussed Hoover's own ADL connections in some detail.)
THE COURTNEYS AND ISRAEL
However, there is something else that must be noted—and it is
significant indeed: Kent and Phoebe Courtney, in fact, were devoted
supporters of Israel. Their perception of the Middle East state was
remarkably similar to that of the CIA's James Angleton and others of that
mode who proclaimed Israel as some sort of bulwark against Soviet
aggression—a theory that lost much of its luster after the fall of the Soviet
Union as a Cold War target for American anti-communists.
In any case, Kent Courtney outlined this theory in an editorial in yet
another of his publications, The Patriot Tribune, which he published out of
Pineville, Louisiana. In a May 28, 1970 editorial entitled "Israel Can Stop
Russian Expansion" Courtney laid to rest any doubts about his support for
the Zionist cause. He wrote, in part:
"Israel—the historic, ideological homeland of the Jews—is also the
shrine of all Christians. Today, Israel is surrounded by enemies who were
administered a stunning defeat in June 1967. Israel stands at the traditional
crossroads of history and if Israel is allowed to fall, everything relative to
Christian history in Israel will be destroyed by the revengeful Arabs, and the
atheistic, nihilistic communists will be satanically delighted, in the
destruction of all the symbols and shrines of Christianity . . .
"Israel today stands surrounded by enemies with her back to the sea and
the Arabs have promised each other and the world that they will push all the
Jews into the Sea in a war of annihilation. And the Communist Russians,
who themselves continuously persecute the Jews inside the Soviet Union
are now supplying the anti-aircraft guns, fighter planes, bombers, tanks,
artillery, the pilots, and the technicians which the otherwise untrained,
undisciplined Arabs cannot effectively use." 827
The goal of the Soviet Union, Courtney said, was world conquest
without engaging their own troops in direct confrontation with the United
States. According to Courtney, then-President Richard Nixon could: