Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule 'not to be concerned with current politics but
to try to operate on public opinion.' However evidence suggests that he was a party political
operative with 'free' market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and
achieved - party political influence. The 'main purpose' of his Mont Pelerin Society had 'been
wholly achieved'. Mises promoted 'Fascists' including Ludendorff and Hitler and Hayekians
promoted the Operation Condor military dictatorships and continue to maintain a 'united front'
with 'neo-Nazis.' Hayek who supported Pinochet's torture-based regime and played a promotional
role in 'Dirty War' Argentina is presented as a saintly figure. These chapters place 'free'
market promotion in the context of the post-1965 neo-Fascist 'Strategy of Tension' and examine
Hayek's role in the promotion of deflation that facilitated Hitler's rise to power his
proposal to relocate Gibraltarians across the frontier into 'Fascist' Spain the Austrian
revival of the 1970s the role of (what was presented as) 'neutral academic data' on behalf of
the 'International Right' and their efforts to promote Franz Josef Strauss and Ronald Reagan
and defend apartheid and the Shah of Iran
