Dougie,

Like plenty of them. The founder of what would evolve into the Heritage Foundation, Laszlo Pastor, was the leader of the pro-fascist Arrow Cross in Hungary and was wirking with Hitler in 1944...

Also finding their ways into the Heritage Council, Radi Slavoff and Ivan Docheff, both from the Bulgarian National Front allied with Hitler, Valerian Trifta of the Iron Guard in Romania which was also allied with Hoitler and the fascists, etc, etc...

If you'd like to read page after page of folks who ended up in your party a must read is "Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party" written by Russ Bellant...

Bobert