Crusading for Christ & Country
The Life & Work of Lieutenant Colonel “Jack” Mohr

LTC Gordon “Jack” Mohr. This photo was taken in Japan, when Mohr was a Captain. The patch indicates that he was in the 9th Corps of the US Army. Notice the serious expression on his face.

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War shapes societies. The so-called “forgotten war,” the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, shaped America in many ways. It was the first genuinely hot conflict between the free world, led by the United States, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union. Events in Korea led to a multi-decade Cold War which either blew hot or threatened to blow hot in many parts of the globe. The Korean War also came as a surprise. A bigger surprise was the fact that the American military, which had so overwhelmingly triumphed in the Second World War, had atrophied in just five years. The first year of the conflict was filled with humiliating retreats and setbacks.

The war also shaped America in that the conflict caused the national security state to come into being. Before the Korean War, America relied on a small peacetime military that was intended more as a constabulary force with a cadre of professional officers and non-commissioned officers who were ready to provide leadership to a rapidly-expanded force that would be called up in the event of a crisis. After Korea, the US created a massive military-industrial complex, robust intelligence services, and built large military formations that were continuously deployed abroad. Both the military-industrial complex and intelligence services turned out to be easily corrupted.

Domestic politics was affected by the war as well. Before Korea, domestic politics was dominated by the Democratic Party, which still governed according to the principles laid down by Franklin Roosevelt. Few “rocked the boat,” and a conservative movement opposing the New Deal didn’t exist. The presidency of Roosevelt’s successor, Harry Truman, was fatally wounded by the Korean War, allowing the Republican Party to make a comeback after decades out of power.

Many also realized during this period that Communists had captured many of the institutions of American culture. The “McCarthy Era,” so named by frightened liberals in response to Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade, really should be called the Korean War Era, since Communists were busy putting Americans in body bags in the Far East at the time. Although the notion was considered a fringe idea at the time, some white Americans discovered during the war that they’d been displaced by Jews at the top of society and that the organized Jewish community was acting in ways that harmed white Americans. George Lincoln Rockwell was one such man who was radicalized during his service in the US Navy during the war. Another soldier who was radicalized by the war was Gordon “Jack” Mohr, who eventually became a prominent member of the Christian Identity movement and a fighter against American support for Zionism.

The Road to the Korean Conflict

The United States first became involved in Korea when Japan surrendered in August 1945. The collapse of the Japanese Empire happened so quickly that American policymakers had to make fast decisions about how to manage those parts of the Japanese Empire that were not under American control, especially Japanese-held Manchuria and Korea. The job fell to mid-grade government officials in “Swink” — the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, or SWNCC. Soviet forces had conquered Manchuria within a few days of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan and then crossed the Yalu River with an army of 120,000 men. The men of Swink proposed that Korea should be divided between the Americans and the Soviets at the 38th Parallel, with the Communist forces in the north and the Americans in the south, leaving Korea’s final disposition to be settled later.

The Americans also established the US Military Advisory Group, which came to be called the Korean Military Advisory Group, or KMAG. Its purpose was to build up the South Korean military. The task was a difficult one. Korean industry, such as it was at the time, was mostly located in the north, and the new Soviet-backed government there was uncooperative. The Koreans were also mostly illiterate. The Japanese had burned the Korean archives and kept the Koreans as a whole uneducated. Those Koreans who worked for the Americans were sullen and temperamental.[1]

The Americans were completely unmoored in Korea. Other than the children of missionaries who had worked in Korea, no American knew anything about Korean culture or the Korean language. KMAG advisors were frustrated when their translators argued over the proper Korean term for such basic things as “machine gun.” Not that the South Korean military had much equipment; most Korean regiments were equipped with old bolt-action rifles that had been captured from the Japanese. The South Korean army was also equipped with the outdated M-3 howitzer, the range of which was a mere 7,600 meters. And not only did the South Koreans have to learn how to fight, but they had to deal with banditry and Communist sympathizers.

First Lieutenant Jack Mohr in KMAG

Jack Mohr was one of those who served in KMAG. Born in Chicago in 1916 and raised by adoptive parents in rural Michigan after his parents were killed in a car accident, Mohr was of old-stock Pennsylvania Dutch, English, and German ancestry. He had enlisted in the US Army as a Private immediately after Pearl Harbor and served in the 2nd Armored Division, receiving a battlefield commission in North Africa. After being wounded and then recovering in Arkansas, he was sent to the Pacific. He was discharged at the end of the war as a First Lieutenant, having served in the occupation of Japan, where he learned some Japanese. After the Second World War, he worked as a rancher in North Dakota and attended a Northern Baptist Church in Minot, although he was not particularly religious. He suffered a crop loss due to a hailstorm, and was himself pinned under a tractor. He was ready to do something new.

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While he pondered his future, the Army called. He was offered a commission as a First Lieutenant if he agreed to go to Korea as an advisor. He was assigned to a Korean regiment in the southwest; none of his troops had ever even driven a car or operated a telephone. (Southwest Korea remains an anti-American region today.) Many of his troops were criminals who had avoided jail by joining the army. Additionally, Communists were sent to enlist. On October 28, 1948, his regiment revolted. The Communists had told his troops that the North Koreans were about to triumph, and that if they mutinied they’d be offered choice government jobs after the revolution. The revolt was part of a wider pro-Communist social movement in Korea that opposed the US-backed government of Syngman Rhee.

Mohr’s regiment was soon besieged by the local police, but the latter surrendered after they ran out of ammunition. The Communists then murdered the police officers with bamboo spears. While they were cutting the wife of the Police Chief into pieces, Mohr reached for his pistol — they’d allowed him to keep it — and he was knocked unconscious. He awoke in a prison cell. After two weeks of torture and abuse, he was tried and sentenced to be executed by a “Peoples’ Court,” but a friendly South Korean Sergeant faked his execution and helped him to escape to a local mission. Loyal South Korean troops eventually arrived and put down the revolt. While being held prisoner, Mohr decided to become a devout Christian.

Mohr then returned to the southwest with the South Korean army and worked to bring in those renegade soldiers and Communists who had refused to surrender and who were still hiding in the hills, and was fired on three times. The Korean War officially started on June 25, 1950 — but like all wars involving non-whites, the conflict had started long before whites had recognized the seriousness of the situation, as demonstrated by Mohr’s imprisonment and torture two years earlier.

The Americans were caught completely unprepared by the outbreak of the Korean War. The North Koreans attacked on a Sunday morning, and many of the Americans in Seoul were hung over from a party the night before. Mohr hadn’t attended the party, so he was the only officer who was in shape to do anything. He went to the front lines and tried to destroy some of the advancing tanks, but the anti-tank weapons he had were unable to penetrate the thick armor of a T-34. Nonetheless, he was afterwards awarded a Silver Star for his heroism.

Mohr had several other near misses during the war: he was strafed by an American F-80 during a friendly-fire incident, the back of a jeep he was riding in was hit by a North Korean 122mm artillery shell, a sniper’s bullet blew off his hat, and he had a close call during a mortar bombardment. He spent more than 200 days on the front lines.

When the American diplomatic mission evacuated Seoul in the early days of the conflict, Mohr and another officer took control of some of the classified documents that were kept in the US embassy. Many of these documents were intelligence reports that had been sent to the ambassador in the weeks before the North Koreans’ attack, describing North Korean deployments which indicated that an attack was imminent. None of the reports had been forwarded. Mohr was able to get these reports to US Senator William Knowland through a soldier who was being redeployed, and Knowland called attention to them publicly. By this time, however, the Democrats had already circled their wagons to protect themselves from any criticism of Truman’s handling of the war, and Knowland was forced out of the Senate as a result.

When Mohr returned to the States, he was sent to work at the US Army Public Affairs office at the Presidio in San Francisco. His boss told him to give lectures on the situation in Korea on the condition that he had to be able to support any claims he made. His career as a preacher and public speaker began then. A Los Angeles judge attended a lecture Mohr gave at an American Legion post in Slaina, California, and he invited Mohr to give a lecture on a radio program called The Breakfast Club.

Later, Mohr helped to write the code of conduct for prisoners of war. This was in response to the fact that many Americans who had been POWs in North Korea ended up making pro-Communist statements, and there was a panic about brainwashing. This became a central plot device in the 1962 movie, The Manchurian Candidate. Mohr was promoted in 1963 to Lieutenant Colonel and retired in 1964 — just before America’s involvement in Vietnam began in earnest.

By this time, Mohr’s reputation had grown by word of mouth, and he became a fundamentalist Southern Baptist minister. In 1966 or 1967, he was invited by the John Birch Society to join their speaking circuit. His lectures had to be pre-approved by the Society, and his first speech was called “The Missing Alternative is Victory,” and was about the Vietnam War. It was a spiritually-based message and was well received. He ended up giving thousands of talks for the Society.

Theology Matters

Mohr’s theology at this time was not very different from that of ordinary American Fundamentalist Protestantism. He had been taught in church that modern Jews were God’s “chosen people.” In Korea, he had only awoken to to the evils of Communism, but once he began speaking about Communism to the mainstream media, he noticed that it resulted in him being called an “anti-Semite.” Mohr didn’t understand this at first, and he said nothing about Jews or Zionism at the time.

Then, while lecturing on the college circuit, he was attacked by a group of a dozen disheveled people at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. They were seated in the front row at his lecture, and threw marshmallows which they first put into their mouths. Finally, either a brick or a rock hit him in the face, causing him to loose several teeth. It turned out that those who had attacked him were all Jews.

Undaunted, he continued to speak. On the college circuit, he ran into a number of radical groups that one would refer to as antifa today, but which were then called the New Left. Mohr noticed that these groups were always led and organized by a Jew from a wealthy family.

In the summer of 1979, Mohr spent some time studying the issue by reading Jewish literature, and he soon realized that Jews were the primary organizers behind Communism. Indeed, Jews openly boasted about this. It was then only a short step for Mohr to realize that the real problem was Jewish control over America, Zionism, and Israel. At a subsequent question-and-answer session following one of his lectures, he was asked about Zionism, and said that America should stop giving blank checks to Israel. This wasn’t a very radical statement, but it put him at odds with the John Birch Society’s leader, Robert Welch.

Mohr soon broke with the Society, and then wrote to several hundred fundamentalist preachers to explain his point of view, and said in effect that he would not preach about the Jewish Question but would speak his mind if asked a question about it. Soon thereafter, his appearances at revivals were all cancelled.

Mohr nevertheless continued to preach on his own volition, and eventually concluded that the Anglo-Saxons and related people in Western Europe are the true Israelites. His writings present his evidence for this, as taken from Bible verses:

• The New Testament consists of many letters to the Israelites across the Roman Empire. By the first century AD, the Kingdom of Israel and the Ten Tribes are said to be “lost,” according to Jewish scholarship. These references indicate that the Apostles understood that the Israelites in fact existed across the Roman Empire and were not only the Jews living in Palestine. For example, James 1:1 says: “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”
• The Anglo-Saxons and related peoples have spread the Gospel across the world. Most missionary activity is based in the US or Great Britain.
• The British royal family has sat on its throne for centuries, with only a brief interregnum during the English Civil War, after which the British restored their rightful King, Charles II. This is prophesized in Genesis 49:10: “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come . . .”
• All Anglo-Saxon countries are wealthy. Conversely, the so-called State of Israel’s economy is entirely dependent upon handouts. The Jewish settlements that have been built in the Occupied West Bank are paid for by Americans either via direct government subsidies or through swindling operations with names such as “Followers of Christ for Israel.” Additionally, all of the Zionist Entity’s weapons are provided by either America or Europe.
• Mohr rejected the interpretation found in the Schofield Bible which claims that God blesses those who bless the Jews. Of this he wrote:

[Claiming] this promise was made to the Jews, is intellectual dishonesty of the worst order, since there were no such people as Jews, until more than 1200 years after Abraham’s time. Then you compound your falsehood by telling your people “God has blessed America because we have been good to the Jews.” This is what Falwell, Van Impe, Thieme, Webber, Swigert and a host of others teach. But any American with any intelligence at all, can see through the falsehood of this statement. What has been the era of America’s worst problems? In what era have we lost two wars, to nations smaller than many of our states? In what period has America’s spiritual apathy become a national problem? In what era has crime and immorality swamped America? You know the answer. It has been since 1948, the year we recognized “Satan’s Kids,” as the rightful owners of Palestine. Could it be that God is punishing us for our presumptuousness?

Mohr’s views put him completely at odds with mainstream American Protestantism. Most fundamentalists at the time followed Dispensationalist theology. This idea holds that Christians and Jews are on parallel tracks of salvation, and promises that Christians will be “raptured” at a point that is always in the (very) near future. Dispensationalism has brought American Christianity, especially in its Protestant forms, into the fold of the original Christian heresy: that of those Judaizers who sought to put racial Jews at the top of Christ’s movement.

Mohr’s Struggle

It is not surprising that a veteran of the Korean War who had personally witnessed Communist atrocities would eventually conclude that Jewish control of America was a disaster. Truman’s administration had squarely been under the control of what Wilmot Robertson called the “liberal-minority” coalition. It was Truman, after all, who recognized the so-called State of Israel. Truman also desegrated the military, turning every regiment into a dysfunctional organization filled with racial strife.

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The Korean War and the conflict in Vietnam were the price America paid for the Jew Robert Oppenheimer’s building of the atomic bomb, which in turn ended the war against Japan without an invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Some of the Jewish scientists in the Manhattan Project then gave the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets, which helped change the balance of power in Asia and made the Korean War inevitable. Additionally, Jewish fingerprints were all over Communism itself, despite the fact that many Communists were not Jews.

What is striking is that Mohr didn’t come to understand the Jewish Question until he was 63. Although he had worked for the John Birch Society, he didn’t know that Revilo Oliver had already realized that Robert Welch would never confront Zionist power and had resigned in protest. Although it is perhaps understandable given that skepticism about the Jews was kept very much under the surface of American culture at the time, and gaining access to such perspectives was difficult. It was the same with Mohr’s own work: Everything he wrote had to be printed, sorted, bound, and mailed, and postage was costly.

Mohr wasn’t only attacked by violent Leftists, also. He was audited by the IRS, and also lost his Army pension. Such tactics were pioneered by the Kennedy administration in order to suppress Right-wing radio in the early 1960s. Mohr was also always subjected to media hit pieces wherever he spoke. In one such case, after giving an ordinary sermon the local paper ran letters from attendees who claimed that he had sounded like Hitler. This was obviously part of a coordinated media strategy.

Mohr continued to publish almost until the day of his death in 2003. Many of his final writings were critical of America’s involvement in the Yugoslav Wars. He was especially critical of the Kosovo War. America “won” in the Balkans, but its involvement there had always been unnecessary. Not only did the war create the criminal state of Kosovo, it also allowed the media to hone its ability to lie about “genocide” where it wasn’t actually happening, while ignoring the actual genocide of the Palestinians.

Mohr’s obituary described his last days thusly: “Picture a soldier being carried out of a battle on a stretcher, propped up on one elbow, firing his army .45 towards the enemy line and you have pictured Col. Mohr as he left this world.”

References

https://israelect.com/reference/JackMohr/

T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963).

Note

[1] Koreans are still sullen and temperamental today. I’ve always been disappointed with a Korean’s professionalism outside of a classroom environment.