Trevor Loudon is a

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author, speaker,

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, blogger, and far-right conspiracy theorist. He was vice president of

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, a

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and

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political party from 2006 to 2008. Loudon is the author of five self-published books on

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, and was featured in a 2016 documentary titled ''Enemies Within''. He also founded the website ''KeyWiki.org'', a

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-format project, which contains articles on left-wing and centre-left political groups, as well as articles about non-famous individuals within communist parties, primarily in the United States, and lists the names of their members.

Career

Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand

Loudon has been involved in politics in

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for many years, such as the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand (CFSFNZ), a group which published dossiers on people involved in the

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, declaring them to be

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and "connecting the dots" between them and their supposed

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masters. Loudon established the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand in June 1986 to expose 'Soviet/Marxist subversion' in New Zealand. Loudon argued that the New Zealand government should cease all diplomatic and trading relations with the Soviet Union on the grounds that it was a hostile, totalitarian dictatorship seeking world dominance. The group advocated a ban on the importing of Soviet

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and

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cars on the grounds that they had been built through slave labour. Other activities carried out by the CFSFNZ included staging protests, collecting information on the Labour Party and left-wing groups, and circulating pamphlets in Christchurch during the

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s which attacked the

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and local Christchurch-based Members of Parliament

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and

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. Loudon became the public face of the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand."Footpath melee brought unforeseen profile," ''The Press'', 2 September 1987. In addition to his

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and pro-ANZUS stance, Loudon claimed that New Zealand's communist parties particularly the

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and their front organisations had infiltrated the Labour Party,

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, and left-wing groups like the Council of Organizations for Relief Services Overseas (CORSO) and the anti-

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. By 1987, the group had a mailing list of about 800 people. It also maintained links with other conservative groups including Stanley Newman's pro-

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Plains Club, the

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and some Christian groups. The CSFNZ also published its own newspaper which ran from May 1988 to November 1990.

U.S. politics

In June 2019 he was a scheduled speaker at a conference run by a group called "Texans Against Communism" in partnership with "Texans United for America" along with the leader of the

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and Joey Gibson of

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. There were around 20 attendees.

Personal life

He is a self-described student of the

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which has a world view which is a combination of

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, Eastern mysticism and the anti-communist ideas of the American

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. In 2006 he wrote on his blog that he had "studied at Z.A.P. from 1976 to 1982, 1986/7 and 1999 to current. I am enjoying my studies immensely at the moment and plan to continue indefinitely."

Self-published books

*''Barack Obama and the Enemies Within''.

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, 2011. . *''The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress''.

, 2013. . *''White House Reds: Communists, Socialists & Security Risks Running for US President, 2020''.

, 2020. .

References

External links

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