Allen Zoll

Allen A. Zoll was a far-right American political activist.

In the 1930s, Zoll founded the American Patriots, Inc., a group listed as a fascist group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations during the Second World War.^[1] The group had a publication, American Patriot, and hosted speakers such as Joe McWilliams, an American Nazi sympathiser, and Elizabeth Dilling, author of The Red Network.^[1] The Military Intelligence Corps refused Zoll training at his Citizens' Military Training Camp during the war.^[2] While he was working with American Patriots, Zoll was indicted for trying to extort money from Radio Station WMCA; he was not prosecuted following a not guilty plea.^[3]

Zoll later founded the anti-communist National Council for American Education in 1949^[2] and later founded the American Intelligence Agency, the Federation of Conservatives, the Committee on Pan-American Policy, and the Order of George Washington. Research by Group Research, Inc., which analyzed records of right-wing organizations, said that 17 people who were officers or endorsers of the John Birch Society.^[1] He also formed an alliance with Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby.^[4]

The Anti-Defamation League, who called Zoll a "notorious anti-Semite", said that in 1952 he was an adviser to Russell Maguire of The American Mercury and that he worked with Gerald L. K. Smith for a political committee, leading a group of 250 demonstrators at the 1952 Republican National Convention.^[1]

He was on the staff of Billy James Hargis before becoming a worker in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, where he was kept in touch with Texas oil tycoon H. L. Hunt.^[1]

References

1. Dudman, Richard (24 November 1964). "Goldwater aid was founder of group on U.S. fascist list". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1, 8.
2. "Group Accuses 76 Faculty Members Of Red Leanings". The Harvard Crimson. March 10, 1949.
3. Sand, Robert Morrill (19 March 1953). "Sandscript". Ridgewood Herald-News. p. 18.
4. "Reveal VC (continued from page 1)". The Atchison Daily Globe. 8 December 1967. p. 8.