Key takeaway: The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) is a Taiwan-based organization connected to a large amount of global terrorism, dictatorships, and genocides in the late 20th Century. These activities received substantial assistance from the United States. The WACL still exists under the name "World League for Freedom and Democracy."

This is intended to be a brief introduction to the subject of the WACL. The sources have been abridged heavily. Please read the referenced sources, if possible.

from https://militarist-monitor.org/world_anti-communist_league/

Last updated: January 9, 1990

The World Anti-Communist League was founded in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan. WACL was conceived as an expansion of the Asian People’s Anti-Communist League, a regional alliance against communism formed at the request of Chiang Kai-shek at the end of the Korean War.

During the 1970s WACL spread to all six continents and chapters were opened in Japan, Europe, Britain, Australia, the U.S. , and Latin America. The organization attracted former Nazi supporters in Europe and in Latin America. The Latin American group, Confederacion Anti-Comunista Latinoamericana (CAL), headed by Raimundo Guerrero, sprang from the roots of Los Tecos, a World War II facist group. (11) CAL was overtly fascist and connected to a chain of rightwing military plots in Latin America. (59)

In 1984, columnist Jack Anderson wrote a series of exposes on WACL connecting the group with death squads operating in Latin America, and once again linking them with fascists, this time in Latin America.

He reported that the "godfather" of the death squads in Guatemala, Mario Sandoval Alarcon, a principal of the CAL, had been on the CIA payroll for 30 years–since the National Liberation Movement (MLN) was organized by the CIA to overthrow progressive President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala.

WACL maintains offices in a Taipei, Taiwan government building, and runs its daily affairs out of "The Freedom Center," a cluster of buildings in Seoul, South Korea.

from https://cpcml.ca/Articles/HistoryofAnti-CommunistLeague.html

The CIA begins decades-long funding of Guatemalan death squad leader Mario Sandoval Alarcon by founding the National Liberation Movement (MLN) as a paramilitary force to overthrow President Jacobo Arbenz.

Death squads practice "extra-judicial killings" in the service of the governing elite, a strategy first developed by the Nazis.

Sandoval later becomes a leading member of the World Anti-Communist League and its Latin American chapter, Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL).

U.S.-backed coup overthrows Arbenz government in Guatemala.

The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) is founded in Taipei, Taiwan under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek to oppose communism around the world through "unconventional" methods.

Prominent WACL members include Byelorussian Dimitri Kasmowich, police chief of Smolensk under the Nazis; Theodore Oberlander, German commander of the Nazi-collaborationist Ukrainian Nightingales which perpetrated the Lviv pogrom and other WWII atrocities; Swedish Nazi Ake Lindsten; and Josef Mikus, former diplomat of the Nazi-collaborationist Tiso regime in Czechoslovakia.

The American Council for World Freedom (ACWF) is founded in Washington, DC as the U.S. chapter of the WACL.

The Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL) is founded as the Latin American branch of WACL by Los Tecos (the Owls), a fascist organization in Mexico led by a landowner's son Cuesta Gallardo, who spent World War II with the Nazis in Berlin.

U.S.-backed coup overthrows Allende government in Chile.

Guatemalan death squad leader and vice president Mario Sandoval Alarcon travels to Taiwan where he is feted by Kuomintang leaders.

Guatemalan officers are sent for training in Taiwan at the Political Warfare Cadres Academy.

Sandoval receives more aid from Taiwan in the late 1970s after his vice presidential term ends.

Operation Condor initiated by the Chilean Secret Police (DINA) and the CIA to coordinate Latin American right-wing security forces, enabling them to hunt down their enemies anywhere in the world. One example is the 1976 assassination in Washington, DC of Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier.

White supremacist and English-born Nazi theoretician Roger Pearson is mobilized by the WACL leadership to rebuild the defunct U.S. branch of the WACL. He is at this time head of the neo-fascist Council on American Affairs.

Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Brigade death squad formed in El Salvador, headed by Roberto D'Aubission, leading WACL member.