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'''Robert Edward Miles''' also known as '''Bob Miles''' ([[January 28]], [[1925]] – [[August 16]], [[1992]]) was pastor of the [[Mountain Kirk]] and a leader of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Robert Miles grew up in the Washington Heights area of [[New York City]] and graduated from George Washington High School in 1940. In the 1980s he organized the [[Free Association Forum]] and held fascist meetings at his farm in Cohoctah, Michigan.
==Life==
As a young teenager he was part of the Youth Battalions of [[White Russian]] Fascist forces led by [[Anastasy Vonsyatsky]] which were based in [[Connecticut]].  He was involved in street battles along side the [[German American Bund]] and [[Christian Mobilizers]] against the [[Young Communist League, USA|Young Communist League]] in New York’s [[Union Square]]. When the [[Hitler-Stalin Pact]] was signed he volunteered for the [[Free French Army]] thinking at the time the alliance between [[National Socialist Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] was genuine and lasting. After his service with the French army he returned to the United States in 1942. 

During [[World War II]], he served with the [[United States Navy]] in the [[Philippines]]. After the war, He married and moved to [[Cohoctah, Michigan]].

He campaigned for [[George Wallace]] during the [[United States presidential election, 1968|1968 presidential race]]. He became [[Grand Dragon]] and national chaplain of the [[United Klans of America]] in 1969. Miles was sentenced to nine years in federal prison in 1973 for planning an attack on empty school buses that were to be used in a racial busing program, after six years was was released from prison. He returned to Michigan and lived on his farm, which became a gathering place right wing leaders. Miles was pastor of the Mountain Church (Mountain Kirk), which preached [[Dualism]]. He published a newsletter called ''[[From The Mountain]]'' until 1989. 

==Works==
* ''33/5: A Field Manual on Racial Organization''

==See also==
* [[Lineage of American Fascist organizations and individuals]]
* [[List of fascist mysticisms and religions]]
* [[Fort Smith Sedition Trial]]

==External links==
* [http://greatwhitedesert.org/dir/index.php?title=Robert_E._Miles Writings by Pastor Robert E. Miles]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090912064009/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-05-22-klan-usat_x.htm Exit the dragon: Klan sale goes quietly]


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