European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Flip Kim a copyright by Robert Dunnavant paramilitary members of the invisible Empire faction at klan special forces Camp near training for what their leaders say is an inevitable race War in police say they represent a new kind of training for a race War stories by David Langford associated press the Kun flux born on Christmas eve of 1865 As a group of Confederate veterans in is evolving into a network of guerrilla fighters in army fatigues training for a race behind the burning Cross is a cadre of Comman the Green berets of the hooded who Are undergoing survival training at hidden Camps scattered from California to they also arc teaching women and children How to klan watchers of the civil rights organizations Are startled at the numbers of people turning out for Kkt rallies in recent particularly in the and the tens of thousands of votes collected by avowed klansmen candidates in recent they Are even More alarmed at this new paramilitary there is no evidence the klan was involved in a recent spate of killings of but this preparation for an inevitable race War comes at a time when police Are investigating the slayings of 11 Black children in Atlanta with four others the killings of six Black men in Buffalo and a sniper attack on Vernon president of the National a former Klansman has been charged with shooting to death two Black men who were jogging with White girls in Salt Lake City and a jury in greens recently acquitted six klansmen and Neo nazis of murder in the deaths of five communists gunned Down at a death to the klan the Community relations service of the Justice department reported last month it was called in to investigate 68 klan related cases during fiscal an in crease of 55 percent Over the previous the Justice department said the incidents involved mainly Cross armed rallies countering minority challenges to police and general harassment of Blacks and at the request of the commission on civil the anti defamation league of Bani brith compiled a report on the guerrilla warfare training in five states and sent it to attorney general Benjamin urging the Fri to renew surveillance of the klan to protect american citizens from further terror ism and he wrote Back that he was going to ask his staff to study Irwin director of the leagues fac find ing he made no Fri surveillance of the klan was curtailed in 1976 by guidelines that require evidence of actual or imminent violence before investigating the actions of Domestic the Kun flux which began 115 years ago in with half a dozen White garbed ghosts terrorizing their recently freed to Day is a Hodgepodge of rival organizations with similar trappings and shared animosities toward communists and assorted since the Fri no longer infiltrates the and the klan never reveals its the anti Defa mation league probably has the Best Hood count of any outside the Adl monitors klan activities through 26 regional Basing membership Esti mates on attendance at klan rallies and the mailing lists of Kkt All Suall there Are probably no More than Active with about sympathize but the membership is particularly in unexpected places such As new More important and More dangerous is the Rise in paramilitary training Suall the main problem is not the another More or less is not the the threat is violence and and a Justice department report that came to Light recently said the most violent of the Kkt leaders was Bill Wilkinson of Denham Imperial wizard of the invisible Empire of the Kun flux a Louisiana farm boy who joined the Navy at 17 and became a decoder on a Polaris agreed to an interview at a Baton Rouge saying he didst allow reporters inside the empires Headquarters in Denham the Imperial no taller than a finished off a filet of Louisiana red lit the stub of a and talked about what he sees As the inevitable race a notion he first got when the Navy sent him to san Francisco and he first saw White women dating Black i feel like its going to be very said who was arrested in september in Connecticut for packing a pistol in Bis suit and who often is surrounded by nighthawks klan Security guards toting sub machine guns and sawed off shotguns at Ive had men shot Down in Many places Carbon Okolona and Ive been shot at in Many instances whose two school age sons Are members of the klan youth if the fact that i say were going to defend ourselves by any Means is then in if the fact that i say were facing a race War in this country is then in last Wilkinson showed up in Washington at a congressional hearing conducted by John chairman of a House subcommittee on crime investigating whether links exist Between any govern mental bodies and violence prone organizations such As the klan and Neo nazi Conyers says the klan has paramilitary and psycho logical warfare training Camps in North Carolina and in Addi it operates klan youth corps Camps in san san Bernardino and los Peoria and Chi Oklahoma Denver and and Tus Tuscaloosa and Wilkinsons invisible which has an estimated to first Drew National attention in May 1979 when 100 of its hooded members engaged in a shootout with demonstrators of the Southern Christian leadership conference in four people were today it operates one of its klan special forces Camps not far from the scene of that the called my Lai for the vietnamese Village where soldiers killed scores of is hidden near three reporters taken there blindfolded in september found half a dozen tents in a secluded Valley with 10 men and one All dressed in military style the full the klan consists of 15 the klan commandos hone their marksmanship with m16 rifles and practice Searcha destroy missions at combat training sessions one weekend a Accord ing to Terry exalted Cyclops of the Cullman Lavern and commander of the paramilitary the klan special forces Are Here to prepare the White people for survival in the upcoming the paramilitary Arm of the Kun flux klan in Texas Calls itself the Texas emergency Reserve which con ducts survival training courses at Camp Puller near the town of Anahuac two weekends a month for 200 to 500 that program Drew National attention when it was revealed that the Camp had also been teach ing guerrilla tactics to about 30 explorer scouts and civil air patrol cadets from Ellington air Force among the instructors were Louis grand drag on of the Texas and Joe a former Marine corps Cook who joined the klan two years training at Camp Puller included tactical military map Reading and How to use particularly a Colt ar15 assault Rifle with grenade Bogart said that in Boot Camp training he had choked other marines into but they didst go that far training the scouts and we didst have the boys choke each Bogart we just showed them How to do Selfita Kolc Imperial wizard Elbert Claude Wilkinson didst like the name his Mother gave so he changed it to just Plain a  to the Kun flux he just As simply declared himself Imperial Wiz today the Stocky Little Man from the Bayou country of Southern who says he always avoided fights until he went to san Francisco and saw Black men dating White has emerged As the figurehead of a Resur gent a Cros Burner jetting coast coast to warn of a coming race thrown out of a congressional hearing one he appears on the Phil Donahue show the Bill whose wife and Mother and two Young sons Are Active in klan was wearing a Navy uniform during the civil rights Battles of the 1960s and first put on a Hood just a few years but today Hes on top in the klan often flying around in a fou seater Piper Chero a gift from a scrap dealer in but he usually flies commercial jets to meet his Busy schedule he the Piper is too who has worked As a deck hand on a Texas shrimp an assistant manager of a Woolworth store and an electrician for a Cement Plant among other is indeed attracting a lot of attention As a self made the Justice department says Wilkinsons is the most violent of the various klan noting the open brandishing of sub machine guns and sawed off shotguns at rallies and a network of hidden commando Camps where klansmen and their women and children Are being taught How to Wilkinson was evicted from a congressional hearing last month when he leaped to his feet and this is a lie As a witness described How four people were wounded in a shootout Between klansmen and members of the Southern Christian leadership conference in de on May in a recent interview on his Home turf in a Baton Rouge restaurant he Doest allow reporters inside his Headquarters in Denham Springs a few Miles away Wilkinson puffed a Cigar and declared we Are the klan Wilkinson talked openly about his rivalry with David the glib graduate of Louisiana state University who until recently headed another klan and How he set up his former Wilkinson said he videotaped Duke trying to sell him his membership list for at a meeting in Northern who subsequently shed his Robe to form the National association for the advancement of White has denied Wilkinsons Wilkinson was Dukes chief lieutenant in the knights of the Kun flux based in the new Orleans suburb of until he split off in 1975 to establish himself As Imperial wizard of the invisible knights of the Kun flux Wilkinson claims to have the largest of several klan organizations competing for the anti defamation league of Bani which keeps close watch on White supremacist estimates he probably has about members out of Kluvers All Wilkinson also talked about the widespread race War he sees on the but he allowed that he has no use for Hitler May have been great for Germany 30 or 40 years but we have no Affinity to the nazis or the National socialist he i dont like the nazi idea of let the Cream Rise to the what they mean is the fellow with the most guns and the most devious mind winds up As the Heil Hitler of the United As for the he Treyve got their place and weve got theres plenty of wide open space in Wilkinson got his first big dose of Media exposure in 1976 when he and two other klansmen paraded in their Robes outside the Baptist Church in in pro test to Jimmy Carters suggestion that the Church admit in the summer of he was addressing a klan rally outside Plains when an irate White Spectator crashed his Jaguar into the speakers injuring 19 people in the Wilkinson was born on the Amite River in Louisiana where his father was operating a fish he and his four Brothers and Sisters grew up working Small patches of Sweet potatoes and Corn As the family moved up and Down the their father going from Job to Job As a finally they settled in population with two general a Post and a Lone Black family that lived about a mile out of like Many other White children in the Rural South of that he Rode a bus 18 Miles on dirt roads to attend a segregated the Only negroes you Ever saw was two old men who would come to the he i talked to All the kids talked to like anybody there was no of they were not in our they were not in our they were not in our after he graduated from High school he skipped one Grade thanks to Good Marks on an aptitude test Wil Kinson went to work As a deck hand on a shrimp boat out of Texas two weeks before his 17th birthday in he went to see a Navy Recruiter and signed after Boot the Navy sent him to a six we Are the klan today Imperial wizard Wilkinson at 1979 demonstration in month radio school in san Diego and then to treasure near san that when the fights it was my first encounter with interracial he it was some thing i never even really knew i  handle i would invariably make some kind of remark and almost 100 percent of the time i wound up in a a communications became a cryptographer or decoder aboard the nuclear submarine Simon which was armed with Polaris when i went on Polaris submarines i had to have a top secret Security clearance because the along with the executive officer and knew the ships of top secret War plans was laying on my desk As communications which is very who married his 18 years ago and now has two sons and 17 spent eight years in the Navy before dropping out and taking a Job As an assistant manager of a Wool Worth store in fort after about a year he moved Back to Louisiana As an electrician at the Ideal Cement in Denham that in about he got involved with the he because of the situation in the the first Public klan function i Ever attended i held in my Back he in Wilkinson joined Dukes an Alliance that lasted Only a that rivalry came to a head last Wilkinson when Duke offered to sell him his membership list for then reduced the Price to a list of klan members is Worth Money to a professional Wilkinson says he gets a year in dues from each of his which includes a subscription to his called the the anti defamation league Esti mates that Duke had about to members at the while Wilkinson says he had no intention of buying the list at any i proceeded to set him i decided that this was a Way to show Wilkinson he was taking Peoples they order a Robe from him and nine out of 10 dont get they order a Book or a Belt buckle or whatever and they dont get every Dollar that was funnelled to him was lost As far As the movement next who who under the a count of the klans by associated press Here is a list of the various Kun flux klan their leaders and estimates of their membership where since the klan does not divulge its membership and the Fri no longer infiltrates the the estimates were provided by the anti def Amati on league of Bani the which monitors the klan through 26 regional bases its figures on attendance at rallies and the circulation of Kkt Publica the count United klans of America Robert Tusca invisible knights of the Kun flux klan Bill Denham knights of the Kun flux klan Don Luscum formerly headed by David confederation of Independent orders of the invisible knights of the Kkt William National knights of the Kun flux klan James be Kun flux klan of California Tom fall miscellaneous Independent which probably to Tal about 500 include the 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