for Freedom and Democracy is responsible for producing what its opponents call "troops of killers", while ostensibly organizing to provide support for Corazon Aquino from the right-wing in the Philippines and for supporting the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) movement in Mozambique. The World Anti-Communist League held annual conferences at various locations throughout the world. Numerous groups participated, including the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. WACL also enjoyed support from many U.S. Congressmen, most notably 2008 presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who sat on the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) Board of Directors in the early 1980s. When his membership was brought up during the election McCain said he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead but there was absolutely no evidence that McCain had ever resigned or asked for his name's removal from the United States Council for World Freedom. Controversial participants of WACL conferences In the World Anti-Communist League, numerous Nazi collaborators and Latin American death squads were active. The prominent individuals who attended conferences included: Ryōichi Sasakawa, gangster and billionaire jailed as a war criminal after World War II Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church (Moon sect) Yoshio Kodama, behind-the-scenes power broker and Yakuza crime lord from Japan Osami Kuboki, member of the Moon sect, president of the International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVC) and the Japanese Unification Church Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Guatemalan politician, “Godfather” of Central American death squads Giorgio Almirante, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement Dsmitryj Kasmowitsch, the Belarusian policeman of Smolensk, who was responsible for fighting partisans Theodor Oberländer, Nazi German politician in the NSDAP, participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, Oberleutnant of the Nachtigall Battalion Ante Pavelić, Croatian Ustaše fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia, responsible for the genocide of Serbs during World War II Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay See also American Security Council Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations Australian League of Rights British League of Rights Croatian Liberation Movement Le Cercle Western Goals Institute Western Goals Foundation References Further reading Books Anderson, Scott & Jon Lee. Inside The League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986. Rodríguez Jiménez, José Luis. Reaccionarios y Golpistas: La