SCV 305's last non-profit corporation filing with the District of Columbia was on January 10, 2006. The name of the registered agent is Charles Goolsby and the Director is listed as Richard T. Hines. Goolsby is a producer for the Voice of America who told The Nation's Max Blumenthal in an August 16, 2005 article that he had not been part of the SCV "in a long time." However, SCV 305's corporate filing clearly indicates that Goolsby was the registered agent for the group five months after his denial appeared in The Nation. Goolsby is in charge of issuing International Crime Alert for the VOA and the International Broadcasting Bureau. The criminal alerts, while including global alerts on Osama Bin Laden and various Latin American narco-criminals, does not include any right-wing groups or terrorists.
Richard T. Hines, who owns RTH Consulting, is a top GOP lobbyist who is involved in various neo-Confederate activities, including the annual Confederate Memorial service in Arlington National Cemetery -- a ceremony that honors Jefferson Davis on his birthday and which brings together a "Who's Who" of neo-Confederate luminaries in Washington, DC. Hines' clients include Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, the military dictatorship of the Gambia, and the oil-rich Akwa-Ibom state in what partly constituted the former secessionist Republic of Biafra. Hines has also been a writer for the secessionist Southern Partisan magazine, in the pages of which are found the words of Trent Lott praising the principles of Jefferson Davis and how they apply to the Republican Party and John Ashcroft heaping praise on the Confederacy.
In the past, the Arlington Confederate memorial service has received wreaths from George Allen and his senatorial colleague John Warner. Allen is a longtime supporter of SCV activities, having, as Governor of Virginia, issuing a 1994 proclamation, drafted by the SCV, that declared the month of April "Confederate History and Heritage Month." The proclamation lauded the Confederacy's four-year "struggle for independence." Hines, a native of South Carolina, was involved in the trashing of John McCain in that state's GOP primary on behalf of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Hines learned dirty and race baiting politics from a fellow South Carolinian Republican, the late Lee Atwater, the role model for Karl Rove.
Meet the other neo-cons -- the Neo-Confederates -- George Allen, John Ashcroft, the neo-Nazi National Alliance, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans Jefferson Davis Camp 305.
SCV 305's corporate filing for 1996 also shows that a past director of the group was Jeffrey Addicott, a former Pentagon legal counsel for the Special Forces and now a professor at the St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio and Director of its Center for Terrorism Law. It was recently revealed that Addicott had received a $1 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York to research ways to limit the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and various state FOIAs and sunshine acts. The money was earmarked in the defense authorization act by Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn, a graduate of Addicott's law school.
The 1996 filing also lists David Eno as Commander of SCV 305 (Eno also signed the filing). Eno works in the General Counsel's office at the National Credit Union Administration, the oversight body for credit unions in the United States. Hurley points out the ties between the neo-Confederates in a 2005 press release from his Confederate Memorial Association, which has been single handedly battling repeated attempts by the neo-Confederates to advance their right-wing and racist agendas at the expense of legitimate Confederate historical organizations:
[Now Chief Justice John] Roberts represented the National Credit Union Administration when he was with Hogan and Hartson. In 1997, Roberts argued the NCUA case before the Supreme Court, which dealt with expanding the banking market for credit unions. In that case, Robert M. Fenner was listed as counsel for the NCUA with Roberts. [The Confederate Memorial Association's John Edward] Hurley said that Fenner had employed David Eno as the head of his fraud hotline operation at NCUA. According to Hurley, Eno was a commander of the Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization that sued the Confederate Memorial Association. Kirk Lyons, an attorney who has represented the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation, is an officer in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Eno and Richard Hines, another commander of the Jefferson Davis Camp and the husband of White House Domestic Policy advisor Patricia Hines, were behind the litigation against the Confederate Memorial Association."
The most recent filing from 2006 also lists some other interesting players in SCV 305. They include Thomas Moore, a director. Moore, a graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina and a native South Carolinian, is listed as a consultant for American Business Development Group (A-BDG), a defense lobbying group, and the Washington agent for the Belgian company Fabrique Nationale Herstal (FN), described in his A-BDG resume as "the world's leading manufacturer of military small arms." Moore previously served as the director for defense studies at the right-wing Heritage Foundation and, from 1992 to 1995, worked as a staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee where his portfolio mainly included issues dealing with the anti-ballistic missile defense system, the pet project of Donald Rumsfeld who headed the commission that urged a return to Star Wars defense systems. In fact, from 1988 to 1992, Moore served in the Reagan Defense Department where he acted as the Strategic Defense Initiative liaison to the Congress. FN Manufacturing's U.S. headquarters is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
Moore is also the author of a novel, The Hunt for Confederate Gold. The book is described by Amazon.com as "a mystery, a thriller. . . based on one of America’s most intriguing unanswered questions: what happened to the Confederacy’s gold in 1865? And what might be the consequences if it were recovered today and returned to its rightful owners? And just who are the rightful owners, the U.S. Government, claiming it as contraband of a hundred-and-forty-year-old rebellion; or the Southern people? The Hunt for Confederate Gold is written not just about the South, but for the South; not just by a Southerner, but for Southerners." In the book, a secretive neo-Confederate group is bent on recovering the Confederate gold -- its name is "The Fellowship," the same name used by a secretive right-wing Christian group based in Arlington, Virginia that sponsors the annual National Prayer Breakfast and the name used by a group of white supremacist arsonists who burned down several high-priced homes owned by African Americans in Charles County, Maryland. The Fellowship in Arlington, founded by a pro-Adolf Hitler Norwegian immigrant minister named Abraham Vereide, is an umbrella organization that combines a number of right-wing fundamentalist Christian groups.
George W. Bush chats with noted leaders of extreme right wing groups (left to right): Family Research Council's Tony Perkins; Home School Legal Defense Fund, 1993 GOP Virginia Lt. Gov. candidate, and founder in 2000 of home schoolers' Patrick Henry College (a magnet for intelligence agency interns) Mike Farris; Bush; Prison Fellowship Ministry and Fellowship leader Chuck Colson; and Dr. James Dobson, Focus on the Family.
An examination of SCV 305's articles of incorporation, filed on July 21, 1993 with the District of Columbia, reveals among its original seven directors were, in addition to Goolsby, was Lewis Doherty, listed with the "Western Heritage Fund" located at 107 S. West Street, Suite 180, Alexandria, Virginia. Doherty is also listed, with Goolsby, as one of the three incorporators. Doherty is now a key player with the neo-Nazi National Alliance, headquartered in Hillsboro, West Virginia. It is ironic that Goolsby, who tracks terrorists for the VOA, consorts with the likes of Doherty who represents a violent and terroristic neo-Nazi organization that served as a magnet for Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Another original director was Jim Manship, an Alexandria, Virginia historian who debunked the findings of a Monticello Foundation report that were based on DNA analysis that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Another of the seven founding directors is retired Army Colonel, Father Alister Anderson of the Greek Orthodox Church, who was a Chaplain-on-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans as well as a U.S. Army Chaplain.
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