My last article The Unburied Corpse traced the transatlantic pipeline that funnelled the personnel and ideology of defeated European fascism directly into the security architecture of the American empire and how Japanese fascism was used as bulwark against Mao’s rising China. We saw how SS generals, Nazi spymasters, and death-camp scientists were not prosecuted, but patronized. How the Japan’s genocidal, colonial overlords were rehabilitated to help build an anti-Communist Asian front. This was not a series of isolated moral compromises, but a cold, calculated strategy of recycling counter-revolution.

But this strategy did not end in the corridors of Langley, the bunkers of NATO or the Diet of Japan. The empire, having integrated fascism into its core, began to franchise it. The final and most brutal expression of this system was not in Europe, but in the global South, where the recycled terror of the past was deployed in new laboratories of counter-insurgency to wage a joint war of extermination against the working class and the left. This is the story of that franchise, told through its two most devastating programs: Operation Condor in Latin America and the Phoenix Program in Vietnam