Background and Effects of a Nine-Year Crisis

In his 1993 PhD thesis, the New Zealand historian Joel S. Hayward described the California Institute for Historical Review as revisionism's "mover and shaker." And in fact the Institute and its flagship, the periodical The Journal of Historical Review, have had a leading, and often decisive, role in international revisionism since they were established in 1979 and 1980, respectively. However, at almost the same time as Hayward published his doctoral dissertation, the IHR began its decline, initiated by a huge sum of inherited money that caused a major disagreement between IHR's staff and its founder Willis Carto over whether IHR or Carto would control the money. The legal battle over this money has now lasted nine years, and an end is not in sight. In the meantime, the IHR's effectiveness has suffered greatly, and in consequence that of international revisionism scarcely less. More and more critical voices are pointing out IHR's lacks and calling for measures to correct them. The following contribution gives a short summary of the history and background of the current IHR crisis, as well as of critiques by others.

The Institute for Historical Review

Since the 1960s, Willis A. Carto has been quite successful doing business as a right-wing political publisher. In the 1960s and 1970s, he published the American Mercury, a successful political magazine with a right-wing conservative slant. It was in the Mercury that, in 1966, Carto published the first Holocaust revisionist articles to appear in America. Two years later Carto received an anonymous manuscript entitled The Myth of the Six Million, which analyzed inconsistencies in the Holocaust tale. In 1969, Carto published this booklet, which later served as a raw model for Richard Verall's Did Six Million Really Die?, in his small publishing house The Noontide Press. It turned out later that the author of this first Holocaust revisionist work in the English language was David L. Hoggan.

After Holocaust revisionism had gained considerable momentum due to the publications of Paul Rassinier, Franz Scheidl, Thies Christophersen, Arthur Butz,] Wilhelm Stäglich and finally the controversy stirred up in France by Prof. Robert Faurisson, Willis Carto took the initiative and, together with various other revisionists, in 1979 established the Institute for Historical Review, followed by its chief publication, the Journal of Historical Review, in the following year. This periodical replaced Carto's American Mercury, which he suspended at that time to make room for the new publication. Thereafter the mailing list of the former periodical became available to the institute and its new journal.

Even though the IHR was formally an independent entity, it depended heavily on Carto's organizational skills and massive financial support. He viewed the IHR both as his offspring and as his scholarly prestige project. As with other organizations he had founded, such as the Liberty Lobby, Carto was always the gray eminence in the background of the IHR. Formally he exercised no direct influence on the organization, but in fact controlled all lines of authority, choosing, for example, only such corporate directors as would safeguard his interests. Malicious voices might call such board members mere Carto's puppets. But it has to be understood that most of the organizations established by Carto would hardly have been able to survive without his financial input and his organizational skills.

It is, of course, very risky to build a publishing empire in this way, for if the actual power is not in the hands of those who, legally seen, should have it--the board members--any kind of "palace revolt" can lead to serious conflict between those with the actual power, such as Carto, and those who exercise authority formally--and legally.

That is exactly what happened in 1993, after Mrs. Farrel-Edison, reputedly a descendant of the famous inventor Thomas Edison and a longtime supporter of the Institute for Historical Review, died and left a multi-million dollars fortune to the IHR.

Battle over Money

Greed is the death of all friendships. The millions inherited by the IHR might have tempted both IHR's behind-the-scenes management and its staff. As the founder and gray eminence of the IHR, who decided all its major financial matters and was used to dealing with large sums of money, Carto felt entitled to control the inheritance. After all, it was Carto who founded the IHR and had established the relationship with the late Mrs. Farell-Edison. Hence, he simply took control of the millions, which he probably did not intend to spend entirely on Holocaust revisionism.

The IHR's employees, however, insisted that the money had been inherited by the IHR and not by Carto. This fight eventually escalated to an incident in which Carto, his wife, and three others sought to regain power at the IHR by taking physical control of its offices, whereupon one of the IHR's employees, Greg Raven, drew a gun, effectively ending the Cartos' attempt. Subsequently, the IHR's board of directors was changed from a puppet show staged by Carto into one put on by the IHR's employees, in a manner not to be described here in more detail.

The hatred aroused on both sides by this greed and by the ensuing violent confrontation led to lawsuits in which the two sides tried to bankrupt each other. All attempts to mediate failed due to the stubbornness of both sides. The only winners of this ongoing fight have been the lawyers--and revisionism’s opponents. Millions of dollars have been wasted, and years of creative research as well as countless publications have been lost to the bickering.

The Excuse

Of course, no company can function properly if it is permanently engaged in legal fights. It is therefore not surprising that since 1993 the IHR's productivity has been less than adequate. It is also understandable many revisionists have excused the IHR's lack of productivity entirely on the basis of the ongoing legal battles against Willis Carto. Prof. R. Faurisson, for instance, expressed this view recently in an email to the IHR's director Mark Weber as follows:

"I, for one, have witnessed the sheer extent of the work which was yours in the days you had to fight against Carto the Thief and Liar. I remember how, first with Tom Marcellus and then without him, you and Greg, you had to deal with mountains of papers and legal matters. At the time I thought it was an impossible task. I admired you nearly as much as I admired Ernst Zündel in his own uphill climb. This should be remembered forever."

The reader will have noticed that Faurisson takes sides here, and that he insults Carto by calling him a criminal, which is in itself legally actionable.[10] His language gives indication of how irreconcilable is the gulf which separates today's revisionists.

However, things aren't as simple as they seem at first glance. The ongoing legal fight against Carto has of course been a tremendous burden for the IHR, but, since neither side is willing to give in, both must share responsibility for the continuing impasse.

Furthermore, I would like to offer a provocative notion in order to make the reader think: to date the IHR has prevailed in every one of the court cases against Carto. All of Carto's own recoverable assets have been confiscated by the court and transferred to the IHR, and Carto's Liberty Lobby has been forced into bankruptcy. Should it therefore not be Carto who is no longer able to work effectively? But in fact he continues to successfully publish the revisionist periodical The Barnes Review] and the weekly tabloid American Free Press. Despite all its victories, it is the IHR which functions very ineffectively. There may be a variety of reasons for this fact, and I would like to analyze them below, after first proving my thesis that the IHR is working most unproductively.

The IHR's Productivity

A comparison between the productivity of Carto's companies and the IHR is probably unfair: one can argue that Carto has access to a larger circle of supporters and subscribers, and thus greater financial resources, than the IHR, just as it can be argued (but, to date, not proved) that Carto has hidden the money stemming from the inheritance and is using it to finance his enterprises, as well as his legal attacks on the IHR.

I therefore venture to make a completely different, and much more enlightening, comparison: between my production, as one individual, and that of the IHR, an organization. This comparison is an unbalanced one, to be sure, but does it favor the IHR?:

·        My own publishing activity (through my Castle Hill Publishers and Theses & Dissertations Press) is essentially a one-man operation. My persecution due to my revisionist research and publishing work has resulted in my continuous flight during the last several years: from Germany, via Spain, England, Ohio, and Mexico, to Alabama. Because I have often had to change my residence, have been forced to work from aliases, and because my main publishing language is German--with only a hundred million readers worldwide, as opposed to some three billion who can read English--it hasn't been possible for me to build up a worldwide circle of supporters. Since 1999, I have had to live in small rooms or apartments, with office equipment my own only furniture, sleeping on the floor: living "like a monk," as Ernst Zündel observed during a brief visit. In additionally, my financial resources have been heavily drained by my ongoing battle against the INS to receive political asylum in America, which has cost me around $50,000 to date.

During most of the years under consideration, the IHR has employed four persons; has had access to worldwide support by many people (with a potential readership of three billion); has been anchored in a well-defined organization with commodious offices, a board of directors, and a sizeable advisory board; and has had access to many generous donors and supporters. Although the financial means of the IHR have been reduced by the ongoing struggle with Carto, the Institute has also received several hundred thousand dollars as a result of temporary settlements with Carto.

The Mystery of the Edison Millions

When the grand niece of famous American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, Jean Farrel, died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1985, her death began one of the most bizarre chain of events in Swiss and American legal history.

Ms Farrel had been a strong supporter of Willis Carto, publisher of the Populist Spotlight, a Washington-based weekly paper that had become increasingly unpopular in certain circles because of its outspoken and often acerbic articles on current political and economic subjects.

Mr. Carto was also the treasurer of the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, founded in 1952 as a non-profit Texas-based corporation.

In 1980, The Legion created the Institute for Historical Review, an historical revisionist entity that published a reputable journal, gave academic seminars and owned a large historical book sales company called the Noontide Press.

The IHR Journal contained articles of considerable historical interest by reputable historians and academics and had a respectable circulation.

Ms Farrel was well acquainted with, and supported, the work of the IHR and was a personal friend of Carto and his wife, Elizabeth, visiting with them in 1984.

Upon Ms Farrel’s death in 1985, her will was challenged by a friend and Carto had to engage in extensive litigation with Swiss attorneys with the result that by 1990 the Farrel bequest to the IHR of $7 million was reduced to $3 million.

The estate settlement was processed through the Swiss courts without challenge.

Running both the Spotlight newspaper and the IHR proved to be too much of a burden for Carto and he duly hired a staff to run the IHR which consisted of the IHR Journal and the Noontide Press book outlet.

In addition to Tom Marcellus, hired in 1982 as office manager, Carto also hired Ted O’Keefe as Editor of the Journal in 1990 and Mark E. Weber as staff writer and researcher in 1991. In order to develop an Internet connection, Marcellus recommended one Greg Raven, a computer specialist, who was hired in 1992.

Carto had disbursed portions of the Farrel bequest to various historical revisionists, including $5 thousand to French revisionist Robert Faurisson, and also invested in Sun Radio of Clearwater, Florida, that had 200 radio stations available for revisionist program broadcasts.

In September of 1993, the staff of the IHR, through their California attorney, William Hulsy, conducted a coup against Carto, in essence rigging the board of directors, forcing Carto out as treasurer and installing themselves as the sole operators of the non-profit organization and during the course of which Mr. Raven threatened Mrs. Carto with a loaded pistol while screaming threats to shoot her.

This coup was heralded by the seizure of the IHR offices and records, a police raid on the Carto’s San Diego home.

Frantic attempts were made by the new owners to locate and seize for their own use the purported $14 million that they repeatedly stated was hidden in various Swiss bank accounts and safe deposit boxes along with untold millions in gold bars, diamonds and other valuables.

The new leaders of the IHR repeatedly attempted to force Swiss authorities to both have the Cartos arrested for concealing huge sums of money and to locate and surrender to them the purported Count of Monte Cristo hoards of precious metal and gems.

A through investigation by the Swiss authorities disclosed that there were no accounts in any Swiss bank for the Cartos and equally, no safe deposit boxes filled with treasure were ever located.

In 1993, California real estate developer, Andrew E. Allen also became affiliated with the IHR, becoming a director and financial supporter.

In 1994, the new leadership of the IHR liquidated the entire stock of the Noontide Press, realizing $6 hundred thousand in total profits.

This turmoil resulted in numerous lawsuits being filed by both parties and it was eventually decided by a local California court that while Ms. Farrel doubtlessly wished to give her money to Carto for the furtherance of his organizations, she erred in naming the Legion for Survival of Freedom as the entity and not the Carto family as such.

For this reason, the court ruled that the IHR was entitled to the Farrel money.

By now, of course, the $3 million inheritance had grown to a $10 million judgment against Carto with the specter of untold fictional millions of dollars in gold and jewels still hidden in various alleged secret bank deposit boxes.

The judgment was rendered in spite of repeated statements of Swiss authorities that their investigations showed clearly that the Farrel estate had been properly probated in the Swiss courts, that there was only $3 million intended for, and paid to, the Legion and that there were no Swiss safe deposit boxes stuffed with millions in treasure.

As a result of these punitive actions, the Cartos were forced into bankruptcy and there was the spectacle of the allegedly revisionist IHR management seizing and obliterating the Spotlight as a newspaper.

In the course of demolishing the Spotlight, attorneys for the IHR also seized incoming subscriptions from readers as well as payment for books and magazines offered for sale by a branch of the newspaper.

These moneys should, by law, have either been returned to the senders or the subscriptions and purchases honored by the IHR which now controlled the holdings of the Spotlight.

Their refusal to do so, in spite of the law, is resulting in a multi-million dollar class action suit being filed against the attorneys for the IHR.

By their actions, the rebel employees of the IHR have succeeded in destroying not only the publishing programs of the once-respected revisionist organization but also silencing the outspoken Spotlight and driving the Cartos into bankruptcy with the attendant loss of their home of many years.

This entire sorry spectacle appears on the surface to be a classic example of greed and treachery but a careful investigation into all the aspects of it has disclosed a number of factors that heretofore have been carefully hidden from public view.

To look beyond the obvious negative human character flaws, it is necessary to examine what else has motivated the pseudo-intellectual wrecking crew.

Let us consider the activities of the late Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, who passed to his well-deserved reward in January of 1986.

L. Ron Hubbard, as he preferred to be known, was born in 1911. Early on, he displayed a flare for inventiveness that led him into a career as a prolific writer of very bad science fiction. The same creative streak in his duplicitous nature also gave birth to reams of completely fictional accounts of his invented worldwide adventures.

In 1951, Hubbard, whose science fiction writings were not overly rewarding, developed what he called ‘Dianetics’, a pseudo-science that a year later developed into ‘Scientology.’ This was based on the entertaining, though thoroughly groundless, thesis that the true, inner self was actually a ‘Thetan’ a highly developed creature that had evolved over millions of years.

Hubbard, who once told an admiring friend that the best way to make large amounts of money was to found a religion, declared that a box he designed called an ‘e-meter’ could assist credulous and often dimwitted individuals into divesting themselves of various impedimenta such as sexual frustrations and imagined barriers to success such as chronic acne, flatulence and, most important, their money.

It cost the eager seeker after truth a great deal of hard cash, paid to Hubbard’s minions, to become “clear” of their burdens of unconscious life and rise to the supreme level of a “cleared Thetan.”

Hubbard waxed very fat, economically and physically, and kicked. Or rather was kicked out of a number of countries who found his band of dimwitted fanatics socially destructive and completely unproductive.

The great guru then bought an old boat, loaded it up with a crew of trusting converts, many of whom were very attractive and very young women, and set sail to conquer the world.

The world was not ready for the Scientologist fanatics and a bloated and seriously disturbed Hubbard was chased out of a number of countries until he eventually  returned to the United States. 

Because of his bizarre activities, (Hubbard had spent some time in the Langley-Porter Clinic’s psychiatric unit in San Francisco before undertaking his elevation to the Thetan elite. This sojourn left Hubbard with a pathological hatred of psychiatrists), the FBI had developed considerable interest in the failed science fiction Messiah.

There is some humor in this because in earlier times, Hubbard spent a good deal of his time writing letters to the Bureau, denouncing anyone who annoyed him (and there were many) as Communist spies.

His wife, and other Scientologists who had penetrated into the Federal bureaucracy, had been arrested and imprisoned for breaking into government offices and stealing reams of documents intended to blackmail officialdom into recognizing his weird cult as a legitimate church.

By now a raging, incoherent and terrified paranoid, Hubbard hid out in California until felled by a fatal stroke.

With the charred remains of the Great Thetan Leader dumped into the Pacific Ocean from the stern of a chartered sardine boat, his disciples went on with the Master’s work which consisted of attempts to convert anyone with fiscal liquidity to their cult and to secretly infiltrate many of their more fanatic members into various businesses and agencies as possible.

Secret and confidential information flowed from the budding Thetans into the headquarters of Scientology in Los Angeles and this information was quickly put into massive computer data banks. And it was utilized to pressure, and often blackmail, government officials, bankers and other entities into assisting the Scientologists to gain credibility and, more important, money.

This background material is necessary to explain the reasons that lie behind the seizure of the financially successful IHR. In the pre-coup days, the IHR Journal had a paid circulation of over 7,000 subscribers, a figure that has dropped to a low of 228 in 2002.

Mr. Marcellus, as noted above, was made office manager of the IHR under Mr. Carto. Mr. Marcellus, who was a prime mover in the coup, was, and is, an acknowledged member of Scientology. After the seizure of the IHR, Marcellus went on to head an important computer control arm of Scientology. Not a revisionist, Marcellus published a primer on computers from which he is still receiving royalties.

Mr. Greg Raven, hereinafter called President Raven after the title given him by Mr. O’Keefe, was also not a revisionist and was brought onto the staff of the IHR by Marcellus as a computer systems expert. President Raven has also published two books but not books dealing with historical revisionism. His published materials deal with the repair of elderly Volkswagens. Like Marcellus, President Raven is also an active Scientologist.When President Raven is not engaged in libeling people he dislikes on the Internet, he spends most of his time on the same Internet, tracking down space aliens known to be living in the Northern Hemisphere. This piece of astounding information is found in an official court deposition along with other interesting sidelights on the President’s activities.

President Raven has discussed his weird beliefs publically on the Internet. Anyone wishing to do so can read the following strange admissions at President Raven’s very own confessional booth at: www.geocities.com/gnraven

This is a verbatim copy of some of the saner of his public confessions.

“Virtually no one on the Internet has ever asked, "Who is this person who calls himself 'gnraven@yahoo.com'?" In response to the underwhelming curiosity, I am happy to to supply this background information.

Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down upon his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath this bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And the fiery balls of this catfish -- one representing the sun, the other the moon -- whirled cold and lonely through the black hole of space.

For some reason, these insignificant lumps came together to form the first union, our Sun, the heating system. And about this glowing gasbag rotated the Earth, a cat's eye among maggies, blinking in astonishment across the face of time.

The Earth was covered with a molten scum of rocks, which bobbed like rats. Later when there was less heat, the oceans and the sewers began to simmer with a rich protein stew, and the mountains moved in to protect them. Life as we know it was already in progress. Animals without backbones hid from each other or fell down. Clamosaurs and oysterettes appeared as appetizers. Then came the giant sponges, sucking up ten percent of all life (except for the Giant Sea Orphans and Jungle Bunnies, which scared everybody).

Hundreds of years later in the Late Devouring Period, fish became obnoxious. Trilobites, chiggerbites, and mosquitos collided aimlessly in the dense gas. Finally, tiny edible plants sprang up in rows, giving birth to generations of insecticides, and other small dying creatures. A short while later, I was born in Hollywood, California.

My proper title is His Excellency President for Life, LLD, PhD, BVD, LSD, APD, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Specific -- but you may call me Field Marshall Dr. Al-Hadji Raven for short. Like most people my height, I have lead a dull but meaningless life since childhood, when I was kidnapped by Indians and turned into an Alien. If you must speak with me, keep in mind that I am still having some difficulties with your Earth languages and customs.

Now, at this point you're probably asking yourself, "Is he still running that old Macintosh SE/30 with 8 megabites of RAM and that worthless Seagate hard drive, or is he running a dual-processor 500 mHz G4 with 1.5 gigabites of RAM under Mac OS X, two 40 gig ATA hard drives and a 4.7 gigabyte DVD-RAM backup, with three CD-ROM players?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all the excitement I kinda forgot myself. So I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, "Do you feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk?

How to reach me: Home address: Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Work: USRSA
P.O. Box 40
Del Mar, CA 92014
Phone: 858-481-3545, ext. 16.
Fax: 858-481-0624.
Email: greg at racquettech dot com

Pity the poor, but entirely sane, Cartos, and the dwindling, deluded and trusting supporters of the IHR, who have fallen into the hands of an admitted Space Alien, President-for-Life and Imperial Field Marshal Raven.

Mr. Mark E. Weber, hereinafter called Director Weber after the title given him by Mr. O’Keefe, is not a Scientologist and unlike his associates, has never written or published any books at all.

Now that President Raven has become a poster boy for Thorazine, Weber has been elevated to the vacated title of President-for-Life. Perhaps if his sane supporters, both of them, wait long enough, they will be enriched with a Weber website proclaiming himself a valid replacement for God.

The credulous wishing to give money to these lunatics would be better off burning the cash in a barbecue pit in their back yard. They would get about as much use out of the flaming bills as they would by furthering the Greater Los Angeles Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.

Mr. Ted O’Keefe, known as Editor O’Keefe, is not a Scientologist but does have serious psychological problems that cause him to sleep naked in his closet while in the fetal position. He is under the care of a doctor and was recently discharged from his duties by the President and Director. This resulted in a most interesting newsletter being sent out by the former Editor. It is reprinted here in its entirety because of the very clear exposition of the activities, and especially the non-activities, of the leadership of the pirated IHR.

Throughout the long and very expensive legal wars conducted both by the IHR and Carto, the former group has informed their badly shrinking membership that if only Carto would pay them the money the courts had ordered, the IHR would, like the legendary Phoenix, rise from the ashes of fiscal disaster and burst forth upon an astonished and thrilled world.

They certainly raised money and gained support from the gullible and the trusting on this thesis but, in fact, like so many of the other strained and frantic pronouncements of President Raven and Director Weber, there is no truth whatsoever to it.

Official government documents I have obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and which are included here show very clearly that very large sums of money have come into the hands of President Raven and Director Weber. These moneys disclosed in these and other documents available, are in excess of a million dollars!

But this information has never been revealed to the trusting supporters of the IHR who are still asked to contribute “tax free” dollars to the struggling but hopeful leadership.

That such huge sums of cash have come into the IHR’s coffers is beyond doubt but the question is: What happened to this Niagara of cash?            

Instead of being used, as the IHR leadership claims, for the publication of important books, the regular production of a vibrant and informative journal and the production of seminal intellectual conferences, the money has, according to the documents and various court depositions, vanished into the pockets of President Raven and Director Weber.

For example, loyal contributors to the IHR might be interested in the very expensive home purchased by President Raven as well as his equally expensive German sports car.

Documents show clearly that at least some of the income was spent on salaries for former President Field Marshal Raven and Director, now President-for-Life Weber but further queries show that a large amount of money was paid by the IHR to lawyers for their continued, and futile, attempts to get money out of the now-bankrupt Carto, Mr. Allen was being repaid for his $200 thousand loan to the IHR and the rest was channeled into the coffers of the Scientology cult.

Former President Raven is clearly following the precepts of his late Messiah who stated that if one really wants to get rich, one should form a religion.

P.T. Barnum, another buncombe artist in the same stripe as the late L.Ron Hubbard, once said that there was a sucker born every minute. In these combined beliefs, at least, both of these “elevated Thetans” were dead on.

Rats leaving the sinking ship

In 2002, the editor of the once well-read Journal of Historical Review was fired.

Ted O’Keefe, who resumed his job as editor of the Journal of Historical Review (JHR) in February, 2001 after an absence of over five years, then went looking for another job.

The JHR was published by the Institute of Historical Review (IHR). In late 1993, the employees took over the non-profit institution in what was later described by their attorney, William S. Hulsey, as a “terribly disloyal coup d. etat.”

Since that time, the IHR  foundered badly before finally collapsing entirely. Its flagship publication, the readership of the once internationally esteemed JHR, plummeted from over 7,000 paid subscribers before the 1993 coup to only 200 by mid 2002 and less than a hundred a year later.

Mark Weber and Greg Raven were the two main figures who perpetrated the coup and since 1993, have led the IHR. They subsequently became the beneficiaries of a huge judgment rendered by a San Diego County Judge, Runston B. Maino. In September, 1996, Maino awarded the IHR millions of dollars to be collected from Liberty Lobby, then publisher of The Spotlight weekly newspaper, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Willis A. Carto. Following this judgment, Weber and Raven succeeded in shutting down the venerable Liberty Lobby.

Weber and Raven immediately declared their intentions of selling the mailing list of The Spotlight to either the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) or the Scientology cult. However, O’Keefe and a part-time employee, Eric Owens, strongly objected to this plan.

O’Keefe said in an open letter explaining his departure from the IHR: “Raven informed the staff that Liberty Lobby would soon be bankrupt and that the IHR was prepared to sell a key Liberty Lobby asset, The Spotlignt mailing list, to the highest bidder. He mentioned two possible bidders, the Anti-Defamation League and the Church of Scientology. When I protested that such a sale would badly damage IHR’s reputation, Raven defended it on the grounds that the IHR’s’ current situation is not sustainable,’ that without selling the list to the ADL, the IHR has no future.’ He also strongly hinted that firing me and Eric Owens was the only practical alternative…..Throughout the incident, Weber sided completely with Raven.”

O’Keefe also complained that both Raven and Weber refused to reveal any of the financial standing of the corporation to their own board of directors, although he is cognizant that they have taken in many hundreds of thousands of dollars from the demise of Liberty Lobby.

In his 12 page resignation statement, O’Keefe also accused Weber and Raven of deliberately trying to drive him out of his job, and said, “I strongly suspect that (Raven and Weber) deliberately sought to induce in me some kind of mental breakdown through the various kinds of harassment they have subjected me to in recent months.”

Now it seems that although the IHR has received nearly $900 thousand dollars from Carto, somehow this information did not get to the State of California’s Corporations Commissioner. The IHR is a non-profit company doing business in California and must file yearly statements about their status and income. It now appears that a good deal of this money vanished into private pockets, was not used to produce literature and some of it certainly not declared with competent authority.

Apparently an investigation is now in progress into this matter although Federal tax authorities refuse to discuss the status of the investigation except to say that “matters before a Federal Grand Jury cannot be discussed.”

Pity the poor and trusting supporter whose donations will certainly be investigated!