Inside the League
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson
(Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986)
This is the only book I know on the World Anti-Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is really in two distinct sections. The first half is a shortish history of WACL, its prominent supporters and founders, and though it is patchy and incomplete, this is by far the best account I know of. The second half is really an account of the rise of the death squad politics of Central and South America, and while the people described are indeed linked to WACL, the authors do not show that WACL per se had much to do with the slaughter.
The first section, WACL’s history, is particularly useful for this country because it contains the best extant account of the Anti Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and its figurehead Yaroslav Stetso, a bunch of Nazi-collaborators, murderers and anti-Semites funded after WW2 by the US and UK governments. As the scabs of the history of the immediate post-war years are picked, ABN and Stetso will get more and more attention. (Incidentally, there is not the slightest chance of the British government doing anything about the ex-Nazis now living in this country. To expose them would entail exposing their links to British intelligence. It is a safe bet that not a sheet of official paper with their names on it now exists in Whitehall.)
As this is the first book on WACL I am in no position to evaluate it. However, as the first book it is, for the moment, invaluable. Somebody in this country should put it out, and fast.