Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British anthropologist, conservationist, eugenics advocate, founder of the Neo Nazi organization Northern League, and publisher of several journals.
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Originally from Great Britain, Pearson joined the British Army Queen’s Royal Regiment in England, April 1945, was commissioned in 1946 from British Indian Army OTS Kakul, North-West Frontier Province (today the Pakistan Military Academy). Served with the British Indian Army in Meerut, (1946) before the Partition of India: with the British Indian Division in the Occupation of Japan, and with the British Army in Singapore (1948), before returning to University in England. Pearson later directed various British-controlled companies in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In 1963 he served as President of the Pakistan Tea Association, Chittagong.[1] He also served on the Managing Committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.[2]
From the University of London, he gained a Master's degree in Economics and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.[3]Pearson grew up in England during World War II and lost his only sibling, a Battle of Britain fighter pilot (238 Squadron), four cousins (three pilots/aircrew) and two school friends, in that war.
In 1958 he founded the Northern League for North European Friendship, an organization promoting Pan-Germanism, Anti-semitism and Neo Nazi Racial ideology.[4][5][6] From the beginning the League was criticized because of its open emphasis on the dysgenic and fratricidal nature of intra-European warfare, and its tendency to attract people such as scholar Hans F. K. Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, and other European nationalists. Pearson resigned from the League in 1961, after which it became more politically oriented. In the 1960'es he came to the US where working together with Willis Carto, he published the Anti-semite magazine The New Patriot under the pseudonym Stephan Langton.[7]
He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977.
Pearson sold his business interests in East Pakistan in 1965 and moved to the United States, where for a period of a few months he contributed to some of Willis Carto’s publications such as Western Destiny and Noontide Press.[8] From 1967 to 1967 as 'Stephan Langton', Pearson published 'The New Patriot', a magazine devoted to "a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question."[9] In 1966 he toured the southern USA and Caribbean, and in 1967 he visited South Africa, Rhodesia and Mozambique, before joining the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in 1968 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. In 1970, he was appointed Associate Professor and head of Sociology and Anthropology at Queens College, Charlotte (now Queens University of Charlotte) but resigned to return to USM the next year as Professor and Chairman of a new Department of Anthropology, offering both Bachelors and Masters degrees.
In 1974 Pearson was appointed Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Research at Montana Tech.[10] During his tenure as dean, the school received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund to support Pearson’s academic research and publishing activities.[10] When a journalist called the various universities at which Pearson had held positions, Montana Tech officials stated they were unaware that Pearson was the person who had edited Western Destiny, a periodical laden with many pro-South Africa, anti-Communist and anti-racial mixing articles, who had penned both articles and pamphlets for Willis Carto's Noontide Press.[10] These race-oriented titles included: "Eugenics and Race" and "Early Civilizations of the Nordic Peoples."[10]
In 1975, Pearson left academia and moved to Washington, D.C., to become president of the Council on American Affairs, President of the American chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, Editor of the Journal on American Affairs (later renamed Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies), and eventually President of University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO), and Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin University. He also served on editorial board of the several institutions, including the Heritage Foundation, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the American Security Council, and that a number of conservative politicians wrote articles for Pearson’s Journal on American Affairs and related Monographs, including Senators Jake Garn (R-UT), Carl T. Curtis (R-NE), Jesse Helms (R-NC), and Representatives Jack Kemp (R-NY), and Philip Crane (R-UT).[8]
Pearson was elected World Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League in 1978 and presided over its 11th Annual Conference held in Washington that year. The initial session of the five day session, which was addressed by two U.S Senators and opened by the Marine Corp Band and Joint Armed Services Honor Guard, was attended by several hundred members from around the world. After the meeting had been condemned in Pravda, the Washington Post published an even more critical attack on both WACL and Pearson's alleged extreme right wing politics.[11]
After the Washington Post article, Pearson was asked to resign from the editorial board of the neo-Conservative Heritage Foundation’s journal Policy Review, which he had helped to found, but his connection with other organizations continued, and as late as 1986 Covert Action criticized his continued association with James Angleton, former chief of CIA Counter-Intelligence, General Robert C. Richardson, and other American Security Council members.[12]
In 1981, Pearson received the library of Donald A. Swan through a grant from the Pioneer Fund.[13] Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which was alleged by Searchlight magazine to have received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund [14] and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly in 1979. Pearson took over as publisher and is said to have editorial influence although his name has never appeared on the masthead. Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal, including J.W. Jamieson, and Alan McGregor.[15] This publication was later taken over by The Council for Social and Economic Studies.
Pearson is also director of the Council for Social and Economics Studies, which owns the Scott-Townsend Publishers imprint, and General Editor of the 35-year old academic Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.