Roy Frankhouser

Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr. (also spelled "Frankhauser"; November 4, 1939 – May 15, 2009) was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, a member of the American Nazi Party, a government informant, and a security consultant to Lyndon LaRouche.

Frankhouser was reported by federal officials to have been arrested at least 142 times.

He joined the American Nazi Party in 1960.

When he was 19 he met George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.

He was later described as a protege of Rockwell's. His first recorded arrest occurred at age 22, when he kicked a policeman in the shins during a 1961 protest in Atlanta.

He participated in Nazi party rallies and Klan demonstrations, being arrested often for disorderly conduct.

Fellow Klansmen nicknamed him "Riot Roy".

According to Frankhouser, he lost his eye in an attack by pipe-wielding Jews.

In another version, he lost it during a fight with blacks in a Reading bar.

A third story is that he lost it during the Bay of Pigs invasion.

At a fundraising auction for the Klan, one of his glass eyes sold for $5.

He also had a scar on his head which he said was from a brick thrown by a counter-demonstrator.

Dan Burros, a prominent member of the American Nazi Party, committed suicide in Frankhouser's apartment in 1965 upon seeing the headline of a New York Times article revealing Burros's Jewish background.

Frankhouser became the Grand Dragon of Pennsylvania in 1965.

The following year he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee as part of its investigation of the Ku Klux Klan.

He reportedly pleaded the Fifth more than 30 times rather than answer their questions.

In 1972, he marched down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan wearing a black storm trooper's uniform to defy a city ban on wearing Nazi outfits in public.

That same year, Frankhouser approached the FBI about working as an informant, offering information on groups such as black militants, the Jewish Defense League, the Irish Republican Army and Black September.

The National Security Council approved a mission in which he was sent to Canada to infiltrate Black September, but he was unsuccessful.

Frankhouser was also an organizer of the Minutemen and a member of the National States' Rights Party, the National Renaissance Party, the Liberty Lobby, and the White Citizens Council.

Frankhouser was convicted of conspiring to sell 240 lb of stolen dynamite in 1975.

The charges included selling explosives which were used in the bombing of a school bus in Pontiac, Michigan that killed one man.

During the trial he revealed he was a government informant, saying that he was acting on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

The government denied his assertion.

Though he faced up to fifty-one years in prison, he was sentenced to two concurrent five-year probation terms as part of a plea agreement.

Lyndon LaRouche initiated a legal defense on behalf of Frankhouser.

When the LaRouche movement learned that Frankhouser was an informant, it saw that as evidence of the "FBI-CIA-Rockefeller-Buckley" control of the extreme Right, and an example of how government connections could immunize criminal behavior.

Frankhouser became a security consultant for political activist Lyndon LaRouche in 1979 after Frankhouser convinced LaRouche that Frankhouser was actively connected to U.S. intelligence agencies.

In a 1984 deposition, LaRouche described Frankhouser as "an expert in security matters" who can "detect nasties by their wiggle".

In U.S. v. Frankhauser, Frankhouser testified that he and LaRouche security employee Forrest Lee Fick had invented a connection to the CIA in order to justify his $700 a week salary as a security consultant.

He said that he had persuaded a friend to play a former top CIA official (named "Ed" by Frankhouser, after "Mister Ed") in meetings with LaRouche.

When LaRouche found out about a grand jury investigation, he reportedly told Frankhouser to get the CIA to quash it.

Frankhouser told LaRouche that the CIA wanted him to destroy evidence and hide witnesses.

In 2003 he told a reporter, "I'm accused of everything from the sinking of the Titanic to landing on the moon."

He was convicted of federal crimes in at least three cases, including dealing in stolen explosives and obstruction of justice.

Irwin Suall, of the Anti-Defamation League, called Frankhouser "a thread that runs through the history of American hate groups".

Frankhouser was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.

He attended Northwest Junior High School through the tenth grade, and became active in racist causes.

As a teenager, he collected Nazi paraphernalia and uniforms.

He joined the United States Army and served one year as a paratrooper before receiving an honorable discharge.