Arthur R. Thompson

[5] Before leading the JBS, Thompson's biography reports a career as an anti-communist activist, claiming to have infiltrated Marxist organizations near his Seattle home during the 1960's.

[3] According to his JBS biography, Thompson served on a small city council (unspecified), chaired a local Chamber of Commerce (unnamed), and held roles as a Republican Party official and elector.

[4] Thompson believed that Russian communism remains a serious threat to the United States, and is responsible for much global terrorism[6] including 9/11.

[8] He has criticised both mainstream Republicans and Tea Party movement figures, such as Sarah Palin, for failing to see the nature of the threat from Moscow.

[9] He also believed in a shadowy international conspiracy, including such bodies as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Rockefeller family, that threatens American interests.