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Book · 1986 · History

Inside the League

The Shocking Expose of how Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League

by Scott Anderson, Jon Lee Anderson · Recommended by 3 people on 1 podcast

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Read Inside the League by Scott and Lee Anderson. Okay. I I I I I I I I will say this. They're it it is kind of hard to read because these people are journalists.
Alisa Majube · Behind the Bastards · Sep 2022 Listen at 2:51:01

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I'm I'm I'm going to quote from inside the league here about like what they were doing. First through it liaison in the league. The KMT identified the political party in a Latin country that was the most militantly anti-communist.
Christopher Wong Behind the Bastards · Jul 2022
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Now, Moon sends in the Yakuza uh from the book inside the league. On the 1st of October, about a hundred people, including about 30 in special karate training groups, barged into the papers offices.
Mia Wong Behind the Bastards · Mar 2022

Why people recommend it

Inside the League by Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson is a detailed investigative book examining right-wing political networks, death squads, and international anti-communist organizations during the Cold War. The text was prominently featured across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards. Alisa Majube recommended the volume to listeners as an essential source regarding the Unification Church, though co-host Robert Evans noted that its dense structural nature can make it a challenging read. Later, Christopher Wong cited the publication extensively while analyzing the World Anti-Communist League, using it to detail how the Kuomintang identified militantly anti-communist political parties in Latin America and to recount Roberto Du Buisson's descriptions of his training at a political warfare district in Taiwan. Wong also referenced the authors' original 1986 perspective to contrast their historical outlook with the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Additionally, Mia Wong brought up the book when detailing an incident in which Sun Myung Moon utilized members of the Yakuza during an aggressive disruption at a newspaper office. Across these discussions, the podcast hosts relied on the book as a primary documentary resource for uncovering hidden historical connections among authoritarian and extremist groups.

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Alisa Majube Read Inside the League by Scott and Lee Anderson. Okay. I I I I I I I I will say this. They're it it is kin… 1
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“Read Inside the League by Scott and Lee Anderson. Okay. I I I I I I I I will say this. They're it it is kind of hard to read because these people are journalists.”
Christopher Wong I'm I'm I'm going to quote from inside the league here about like what they were doing. First through it li… 3
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“I'm I'm I'm going to quote from inside the league here about like what they were doing. First through it liaison in the league. The KMT identified the political party in a Latin country that was the most militantly anti-communist.”
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“here here's here's from inside the league about his time there. In an interview with a French reporter in 1987, Deuson said that the the courses he took in Beetho, which is uh Beetho a district in Taiwan.”
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“And, you know, this is what the the authors of inside the authors of inside League are writing this in 1986. And, you know, this is what this is what they think is going to happen.”
Mia Wong Now, Moon sends in the Yakuza uh from the book inside the league. On the 1st of October, about a hundred pe… 1
Discussed
“Now, Moon sends in the Yakuza uh from the book inside the league. On the 1st of October, about a hundred people, including about 30 in special karate training groups, barged into the papers offices.”

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