{{Short description|American fascist leader}}
'''Allen A. Zoll''' (October 21, 1895 – August 30, 1969) was a far-right American political activist.
In the 1930s, Zoll founded the American Patriots, Inc., a group listed as a fascist group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations during the Second World War.<ref name="Dudman1">{{cite news |last1=Dudman |first1=Richard |title=Goldwater aid was founder of group on U.S. fascist list |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34070212/st-louis-post-dispatch/ |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=24 November 1964 |pages=1, 8}}</ref> The group had a publication, ''American Patriot'', and hosted speakers such as Joe McWilliams, an American Nazi sympathiser, and Elizabeth Dilling, author of ''The Red Network''.<ref name="Dudman1" /> The Military Intelligence Corps refused Zoll training at his Citizens' Military Training Camp during the war.<ref name="harv">{{cite news |title=Group Accuses 76 Faculty Members Of Red Leanings|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1949/3/10/group-accuses-76-faculty-members-of/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=March 10, 1949}}</ref> While he was working with American Patriots, Zoll was indicted for trying to extort money from Radio Station WMCA; he was not prosecuted following a not guilty plea.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sand |first1=Robert Morrill |title=Sandscript |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91834492/ridgewood-herald-news/ |work=Ridgewood Herald-News |date=19 March 1953 |pages=18}}</ref>
In 1939, Zoll lobbied against the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter since he was a foreign-born Jew.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senate Body Approves Frankfurter After Hearing His Testimony on Civil Liberties Union |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/senate-body-approves-frankfurter-after-hearing-his-testimony-on-civil-liberties-union |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>
Zoll later founded the anti-communist National Council for American Education in 1949 and later founded the American Intelligence Agency, the Federation of Conservatives, the Committee on Pan-American Policy, and the Order of George Washington.<ref name="harv" /> Research by Group Research, Inc., which analyzed records of right-wing organizations, said that 17 leaders in Zoll's organizations were also officers in or endorsers of the John Birch Society.<ref name="Dudman1" /> He also formed an alliance with Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reveal VC (continued from page 1) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91834263/the-atchison-daily-globe/ |work=The Atchison Daily Globe |date=8 December 1967 |page=8}}</ref>
The Anti-Defamation League, who called Zoll a "notorious anti-Semite", said that in 1952 he was an adviser to Russell Maguire of ''The American Mercury'' and that he worked with Gerald L. K. Smith for a political committee, leading a group of 250 demonstrators at the 1952 Republican National Convention.<ref name="Dudman1" /> In the mid-1950s, Zoll claimed that the United Nations was "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren."<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1954-01-11 |title=The Press: Facts-Forum Facts |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819350-3,00.html |access-date=2025-03-13 |magazine=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
He was on the staff of Billy James Hargis before becoming a worker in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, where he was kept in touch with Texas oil tycoon H. L. Hunt.<ref name="Dudman1" />
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