International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics

International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics ("Bellant states that the oil billionaire Hunt brothers and Jesse Helms are members of the IAAEE")

"The initial directors named were Garrett and three others. Robert Kuttner (1927-1987), a biologist, was associate editor and a regular contributor during the 1950s to the periodical Truth Seeker, controlled by Charles Smith. Although Truth Seeker was originally the house organ for a late 19th century society of freethinkers and atheists, Smith and Kuttner transformed this small circulation newsletter into a rabidly antisemitic and racist outlet with such lead stories as "Jew-Led Levelers Plan to Suppress Racial Truth" (Smith, 1958) and "The Nordic as the Natural Leader of the White Race" (Kuttner, 1958). According to Mintz's (1985) careful analysis of the history of the far right, Kuttner provided the more scientized and academic versions of Truth Seeker's racism. Both Smith and Kuttner condemned religion for promoting ideas of racial equality, Truth Seeker frequently described Christianity as "Jewized," as was anyone who denied the inequality of races. Kuttner figured prominently in the far-right Liberty Lobby, as an editor of the Mankind Quarterly, and as a member of Roger Pearson's Northern League. Thus his activities overlapped heavily with Garrett's during this period...

"A second founder of the IAAEE was Donald A. Swan (1935-1981), a graduate student in economics at Columbia during the 1950s...

"The founding directors also included Alfred Avins, an attorney, legal scholar, and leading member of the Liberty Lobby, and A. James Gregor, a political scientist now at Berkeley and a noted expert on the history of fascism. Gregor wrote on National Socialism and race and contributed articles to Sir Oswald Mosley's postwar fascist journal, The European.(16) Gregor's work often drew heavily on that of Corrado Gini of Rome, Mussolini's eugenicist and scientific advisor, who became an editor of Mankind Quarterly. Other initial directors were Frank McGurk, a psychologist who taught at Lehigh, West Point, Villanova, and Alabama College and whose work on racial differences was mentioned earlier; 96-year-old Lawson Purdy, former New York City tax commissioner and civic leader in the 1920s; and John Brockenbrough Fox...

"The International Executive Committee of the IAAEE also included Corrado Gini and Robert Gayre, Lord of Gayre, a Scottish anthropologist...

"The IAAEE, primarily through the efforts of Gayre, Gates, and Garrett, began the publication of the journal Mankind Quarterly, as well as a series of IAAEE monographs on race. Publication of Mankind Quarterly commenced in 1960 with Gayre as editor, Gates and Garrett as "honorary associate editors," and most of the IAAEE Executive Committee on the "honorary advisory board." Within a year, Kuttner, Swan, and Gregor were appointed as assistant editors, and McGurk became an honorary associate editor in 1971."


 * Former Director, Pioneer Fund