Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American lawyer, author, and fascist known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which called for a neo-Nazi European empire.

Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence on white nationalist and neo-fascist movements. Yockey was an antisemite, a reverent proponent of German Nazism, and an early Holocaust denier. In the 1930s, he contacted and worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund. He served in the U.S. Army in 1942–43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies. After legal appointments in Detroit during 1944 and 1945, he worked for 11 months on the War Crimes Tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for secretly and subversively siding with the Nazis. In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, and, after falling out with Mosley, founded the breakaway European Liberation Front in 1949, leading it until it fizzled, around 1954.

During the Cold War, Yockey reportedly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, and argued for a tactical far-right alliance with the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony. He also briefly wrote anti-Jewish propaganda in Egypt, where he met its then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960. His last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who fervently picked up the baton, becoming the leading advocate and publisher of Yockey's writings.