Wattana had been the head of the Thai Students Association in the United States, when he studied at Seton Hall University.
[8] The organization attracted a number of Buddhist monks, the most prominent being Kittiwuttho Bhikkhu, who infamously said that killing communists was not a sin.
[4] Nawaphon attracted considerable support due to the common feeling that these national principles were threatened by left-wing forces.
[2]: 82 Nawaphon played a key role in the anti-leftist agitation that led to the Thammasat University massacre on 6 October 1976,[4] in which members of the organization were involved.
Thongchai therefore suggested that Nawaphon may have been "a phantom organization intended to inflate the image of the right-wing movement" that had no base of its own but took credit for counterinsurgency operations by the ISOC.