Nazis Without Swastikas

Three Dollars
NAZIS
WITHOUT
SWASTIKAS
The Lyndon LaRoucheCult
and Its War on American Labor
By Dennis King
Published
by the Leaguefor Industrial
Democracy
TABLEOF CONTENTS
Page
I.
Introduction
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1
II.
T h e M a k i n g o f a P o l i t i c a lC u l t
.. . . . . .
3
III.
Operation Mop-Up
4
IV.
The Creat Manchurian Candidate Scare .
6
V.
From Marxism to Neo-Nazism
7
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"More American Than Apple Pie" ..
.. . Lz
V I I . L a R o u c h ea n d t h e L a b o r M o v e m e n t
.. . 74
Appendix
A.
A G u i d e t o t h e L a R o u c h eN e t w o r k
B.
W h e r e t h e M o n e v C o m e sF r o m .
Notes
... 79
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NAZIS WITHOUT SWASTIKAS
The Lyndon LaRoucheCult and Its War on American Labor
"It is not necessary
to wearbrownshirtsto bea fascist...ltis not
necessary
to weara swqstika
to bea fascist,..It is nolnecessary
tocall
oneself
a lascistto bea t'ascist.
It is simplynecessary
to beone!"
-Lyndon H. LaRouche
luly 7, 7978
I. INTRODUCTION
Hundreds of labor leadershave been contactedin
recent months by u group calling itself the
" N a t i o n a l D e m o c r a t i c P o l i c yC o m m i t t e e . " V i a m a i l
and telephone solicitation and visits to union halls,
N D P C m e m b e r s h a v e s o u g h t p o l i t i c a la n d f i n a n c i a l
backing for a program which includes lower
interest rates, rapid development of nuclear power,
and an end to Justice Department bribery investigations such as Abscam.
The NDPC's proposals, often well researched,
are presented via attractive brochures and periodicals. The underlying philosophy appears on first
glance to be within the acceptablerange of
American politics-a call for an "alliance of prod u c e r s " ( f a r m e r s , t r a d e u n i o n i s t s ,i n d u s t r i a l i s t s )t o
restore the "American System" of industrial and
scientific progress, with the first step being the
"rebuilding" of the Democrdtic Party along "conservative" (but also pro-labor) lines.
Y e t t h e N D P C i s n o t w h a t i t s e e m s .I t h a s n o
commitment to democracy or to the Democratic
Party, but is a front organization for a totalitarian
cult led by Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche-a wealthy
fanatic who began his career as a Trotskyite
communist,later moving to the far right to become
t h e a p o s t l eo f a c r y p t i c v a r i e t y o f n e o - N a z i s m .
LaRouche and his followers deny being neoNazis. Their published writings, however, clearly
s t a t e t h e b e l i e ft h a t h u m a n i t y i s u n d e r t h e h e e lo f a
subhuman speciesled by the Rothschild family-a
s p e c i e sw h l c h m u s t b e d e s t r o y e di n t h e i n t e r e s t so f
hurnan progress.
To crush this enemy, LaRouche advocates a
three-stage strategy: 1) establish a dictatorship in
America in the name of industrial capitalism;
2) purge the lews; 3) mobilize America for "total
war" to drive the enemy from its last bastions.
When this strategy is pondered in the light of
LaRouche's direct and indirect statements of
s y m p a t h y f o r N a z i G e r m a n y - a n d t h e h u n d r e d so f
NCLC articles since the mid-1970s expressing
v i o l e n t h a t r e d o f J e w s ,J u d a i s m ,Z i o n i s m a n d t h e
State of Israel-it is difficult to imagine a label
more accurate than neo-Nazism to describe the
LaRouchian ideology. (For a full discussionof this
point, seeChapter V.)
LaRouche's cult-which includes a core of disciples who have followed him in his iourney from the
far left to the f ar right-has been in existencesince
t h e l a t e 1 9 6 0 s a n d m a i n t a i n s h e a d q u a r t e r si n N e w
Y o r k C i t y a n d i n W i e s b a d e n ,W e s t G e r m a n y . I t s
official name is the International Caucus of Labor
Committees (in the U.S., the National Caucusof
L a b o r C o m m i t t e e s ) ,a n d L a R o u c h ei s i t s c h a i r m a n .
Outsiders frequently refer to it, inaccurately, as
the U.S. Labor Partv-the name of an NCLC
electoral front disbanded in 1979 when the NCLC
decided to infiltrate the Democratic Party.
The recently formed NDPC is only one of many
front groups which the NCLC uses to sell its
literature at airports, raise funds by phone, and
politically manipulate the public. Other such
groups include the Fusion Energy Foundation
(known for its "Feed ]ane Fonda to the Whales"
posters), the National Anti-Drug Coalition, the
Lafayette Foundation for the Arts and Sciences,
the National Labor Committee to Defend Harrison
W i l l i a m s , a n d a n u m b e r o f b u s i n e s se n t e r p r i s e s .
The network spends millions of dollars each year
promoting LaRouche's ideas on a national and
international scale.
The term "front group" is fully lustified in
describing the organizations within this network.
They are staffed by NCLC members and led by top
L a R o u c h ea i d e s .T h e y s h a r e t h e u s e o f t h e N C L C ' s
research and propaganda staff and of NCLCc o n t r o l l e d t y p e s e t t i n g a n d p r i n t i n g f a c i l i t i e s .I n a
number of cities, they operate out of the NCLC's
offices (the National Anii-Drug Coalition, for
i n s t a n c e ,h a s i t s n a t i o n a l h e a d q u a r t e r sa t 3 0 4 W e s t
58 Street in Manhattan-also the national headquarters of the NCLC).
In their literature, the NCLC front groups rarely
allude to the NCLC's leading role; but they are
quite open about their relationship to LaRouche,
who aspires to be recognized as a major public
f i g u r e ( h e r a n f o r P r e s i d e n ti n L 9 7 6 o n t h e U S L P
ticket and in 1980 as a candidate in 14 Democratic
primaries). Thus, the NDPC proudly lists LaRouche
as chairman of its advisory board, publishes his
pronouncements in its newsletter, and describes
him as a "Democratic Party leader." From the
smooth manner of presentation, one would never
guess that this same LaRouche, in turgid ideological tracts or in closed-door speeches to the
faithful, raves against "subhumans" and praises
the most extreme examples of totalitarianism and
militarism.
The LaRouche cult has been rather successfulin
fooling the general public by projecting a sanitized
image. Its candidate for governor of Pennsylvania
in the June 1982 Democratic primary came in
second out of four, with almost 20 percent of the
vote. Its fundraising efforts during the 1980
Presidential race enabled LaRouche to qualify for
$szo,ooo in federal matching funds. Its periodicals
sell briskly, with one slick monthly,Fusion, claimsubscribers.
ing over 11O,OOO
In addition, the NCLC front groups have
perEuaded a broad smattering of Americansunion officials, businessmen, legislators, clergymen, farm movement activists, and others-to
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endorse LaRouchian rallies and resolutions, and
even to help spread the idea that LaRouche is a
legitimate public figure.
The NCLC has nof been successful,however, in
avoiding critical scrutiny by the national media and
b y l e a d i n g e x p e r t s o n p o l i t i c a le x t r e m i s m :
. The New York Times published a front page
series on the NCLC in October 1979, describing
l i n k s t o t h e K u K I u x K l a n , g a n g a s s a u l t sa g a i n s t
political rivals, paramilitary training at camps in
Georgia and upstate New York, and the preparation of intelligence reports on U.S. anti-apartheid
groups for the South African Bureau of State
Security.
In an editorial accompanying the series, the
Times calledf or a government investigation of the
NCLC and denounced the ideas of LaRouche as
"repulsive in ideology, frightening in their manipulative power over his adherents and hallucinatory in their theories of conspiracy."
. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
released an 18-page report in November 1979
which lashed out at the NCLC's "use... of antifewish hate propaganda-the injection of antiSemitic poison into the American political bloodstream.. ." The report quoted dozens of agtiSemitic statements from NCLC publications.
. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-
tank, issued a report in June 1978 which calledthe
N C L C ' s a c t i v i t i e sa n d l i t e r a t u r e " m o r e b i z a r r e . . .
than those of perhaps any other political extremist
group with which we have had to contend," and
warned that "anyone who allies himself with this
group...does so at his own peril."
. Society,a leading academicjournal, devoted its
May/June 1981 issue to a symposium of articles by
distinguished social scientistsanalyzing LaRouchism
and similar brands of contemporary political cultism. An article by the iournal's editor, Dr. Irving
Louis Horowitz, compared LaRouche's NCLC to
the "Nazi movement in the early 792Os"becauseof
its anti-Semitism, its hatred of democracy, and its
reliance "on organization, swift movement, will-
fulness, and the ability to seizethe critical moment."
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies
are on record as agreeing with much of the above'
A 1975 CIA memo, releasedunder the Freedom of
Information Act, noted the "paranoia" of the
NCLC and described it as being among the most
"rabid" groups of the "political lunatic fringe." A
memo from former FBI director Clarence Kelley
described "beatings" and "brainwashings." And a
1976 memo by Acting Attorney General Harold R.
Tyler, Jr., mentioned the NCLC's acquisition of
weapons and predicted that "acts of force and
violence will continue and, perhaps, take different
directions."
II. THE MAKING OF A POLITICALCULT
Ihe history of the NCLC mirrors the psychological and political vagaries of founder LaRouche,
who exercises total control over its strategy and
tactics.
LaRouche was born into a dissident Quaker
family in Rochester, New Hampshire in 1922.
According to his autobiography, he was a bookish
child fascinated by German philosophy. His personality-he recalls-was that of a "nasty duckling,"
and he apparently imbibed his parents'deepresentment of mainstream Quakerism. (ln recent years,
his writings have been peppered with attacks on the
Quakers as foreign agents and sexual deviants.)
LaRouche declared himself a conscientious objector in World War Two and was sent to a work
camp. He later changed his mind, joined the armed
forces, and was sent to the China-Burma-lndia
theater in a noncombatant role. While in Calcutta,
he initiated contacts with the Communist Party of
India, and he returned to America with the
conviction that "no revolutionary movement was
going to be brought into being in the USA unless I
brought it into being."
ln'1,949, LaRouche ioined the SocialistWorkers
Party (SWP), a Trotskyist communist sectin which
he remained active through the 1950s, chafing
under a leadership which failed to recognize his
talents. He compensated,apparently, by adopting
the name "Lyn Marcus" (from Lenin and Marx). In
'L96Os,
after quitting the SWP, he
the early
participated briefly in the founding of two splinter
groups, the Spartacists and the Workers League.
But his mode of livelihood was hardly consistent
with that of a proletarian revolutionary: He
entered the businessworld under the sponsorship
of his father (a consultant to the shoe manufacturing industry) and then launched his own management firm which pioneered in the use of computer
simulations to help corporations reduce labor
costs.
As the movement against the war in Vietnam
heated up in the mid-1960s, LaRouche,then living
in Greenwich Village and germinating his theory
of the "third stage of imperialism," saw the
opportunity to emerge as a revolutionary leader.
He set up study groups and attracted severaldozen
young people from the Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and the Maoist-oriented Progressive
Labor Party (PLP), promising them a more effective
and high-toned revolutionary strategy. His first moment of glory came in L968, when his followers,
operating under the name "SDS Labor Committee,"
helped to lead the Columbia University student
strike and LaRouche himself lectured on Hegelian
philosophy at a "free university" improvised in a
Columbia fraternity house.
LaRouche's faction began to expand onto campuses across the nation. Splitting from the SDS, it
adopted the name it retains to this day, and it soon
became one of the largest and most visible of
ultraleft sects. (By 1973-74, it would have about
1,200 members.) Like most ideological groups
around the anti-Vietnam war movement, the
NCLC was dogmatic and quarrelsome; but it also
developed qualities akin more to a religious cult
than to a traditional radical sect. LaRouche was
portrayed as an infallible genius, and total obedience was demanded of the membership. A security
staff was established to monitor signs of restiveness. Wild, messianic beliefs were imposed (for
example, that the NCLC would seizepower within
five years). Psychological sessions based on an
"ego-stripping" technique were initiated. Wealthy
young members were pressured to turn over their
trust funds to the organization.
The NCLC soon developed an international
character as LaRouche recruited young Greek and
West German communists. These individuals, who
tended to be more sophisticatedand ruthless than
LaRouche's pampered recruits from American
suburban homes, became the core of his command
structure in New York City.
Central to the NCLC's emerging cultism was a
conspiracy theory of politics-a theory which held
that the Rockefeller family, through control of the
CIA and a vast network of agents on every level of
society,was responsiblefor most of the world's ills.
The Rockefellers,LaRouche taught, were plotting
a n u c l e a r h o l o c a u s t .. . t i m e w a s r u n n i n g o u t . . .
the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of tiny
NCLC. Anyone who failed to acknowledge such
obvious facts was part of the enemy camp. Soon,
t h e N C L C e n e m i e s ' l i s t ,l i k e t h a t o f R i c h a r dN i x o n
during the same period, was burgeoning. The
targets of abuse included not only most of the
establishment, but also dissidents who had dropped out of the NCLC, leadersof rival leftist groups,
and university scholars whose apparent sin was
that they refused to take seriously the economic
and philosophical theories of LaRouche.
At this point, the activities of the NCLC were
often a source of amusement to outsiders, as when
its members campaigned on urban college campuses for "Expanded Tractor Production" or when
they adopted the nickname "Fang" for VicePresident Nelson Rockefeller. Yet the amusement
swiftly ended, in activist circles, when NCLC
members "intervened" at meetings of peacecoalitions and liberal or leftist forums, seizing the
microphone to denounce those present as CIA
dupes, and having to be removed forcibly from the
premises.
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III. OPERATIONMOP-UP
The NCLC's descent into political hysteria and
cultism passed the point of no return, former
members say, in the spring of L973,when LaRouche
launched a campaign of stormtrooper-type street
violence against rival leftists-a campaign which
forced his followers to deepen their commitment
(or get out) and gave them a feeling of having
broken completely with the traditional radical
milieu from which they had been recruited.
The pretext was provided by squabbling between the NCLC and the pro-Moscow Communist
Party USA. The CP charged that the NCLC was a
CIA frong while LaRouche began charging that
the CP was controlled by the FBI and that the only
way to make a revolution was by the NCLC
breaking the CP's "hegemony" over the Left.
The first hint that LaRouche had something
more than ideologicaldebate in mind came in April
1.973inhis editorial in NearSolidarity, "Death of the
CPUSA," in which he predicted that "readers will
obtain a taste of our ruthlessness in the way we
p r o c e e d t o f i n i s h o f f t h e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y .. . .
we [shall] conduct the most ruthless mopping-up
o p e r a t i o na g a i n s te a c ho f i t s r a g g e df o r m a t i o n s . . . . "
Several days later, at a dramatic meeting of his
followers, LaRouche announced-with no advance
discussion-that he in fact intended a violent
campaign to destroy the CP: "From here on in," he
announced, "the CP cannot hold a meetingon the
EastCoast....We'tl mop them up in two months."
Former NCLC members recall being shocked
and frightened by the announcement, but LaRouche
had anticipated their reluctance: "l know you
better than you know yourselves,and for the most
part you're f ull of crap. . ." he said. "This isn't a
debating society any more."
LaRouche proceededto beef up his security staf{
and to require the NCLC membership to undergo
training in street fighting. He organized flying
s q u a d s ,a r m e d w i t h m e t a l p i p e s ,c l u b s , a n d n u m chukas (a Korean strangulation weapon composed
of two sticks attached by a chain). In the following
months, these bands conducted over forty attacks
on members of the CP and LaRouche's former
colleaguesin the SWP.
According to participants, Mop-Up was efficiently
o r g a n i z e d . I n m o s t c a s e s ,i s o l a t e d i n d i v i d u a l s o r
small groups were caught by surprise and overwhelmed. The flying squads often were brought
from out of town-so their faces would not be
recognized-and would leave town before the
police could investigate. Former NCLC members
remember it all with shame. "We'd be ten against
one," said one NCLC defector, "and the CP
member we'd pound on would be some elderly
quy:'
This mayhem could not have continued indefinitely without serious legal consequences(or
without a desperatecounterattack by the targeted
groups), but the NCLC chairman apparently
sensedjust how far he could push things. After a
number of victims had been hospitalized and the
NCLC's violent reputation firmly established,
LaRouche suddenly halted Mop-Up as abruptly as
he had begun it, declaring "victory." In fact, MopUp failed to mop up the CP and only provided its
members with the opportunity to pose as martyrs.
And the NCLC achieved not its hoped-for "hegemony" on the Left, but total isolation.
ln the course of Mop-Up, LaRoucheencountered
resistance among his foflowers: Several dropped
out of the NCLC, while others stayed home sick
when orders came down for a street action. The
NCLC chairman decided this problem was a result
of his disciples'psychosexualfears, and he resolved
to use fear to fight fear:
"l am going to make you organizers. . . ," he wrote
in an NCLC internal discussiondocument. "What I
shall do is to expose to you the cruel fact of your
sexual impotence....I will take away from you
all hope that you can flee the terrors of politics to
'personal
the safety of
life.' I shall do this by
showing to you that your frightened personal
sexual life contains for you such terrors as the
outside world could never offer you."
Behind this threat was LaRouche's "scientific"
theory that his followers had been rendered
politically and sexually impotent by their mothers,
or rather, by an internalized mother-image or
witch-image. The fear of the mother, he taught,
was symbolized by a fear of rats (or sometimes
insects) which he described as "the deeper mental
'underneath'
image which one locates
the immediate impulses for sexual and other social
impotence."
Apparently, LaRouchehad read George Orwell's
1984, in which futuristic interrogators psychologically destroy the hero by exploiting his fear of
rats. What erupted in LaRouche's next public
pronouncement, however, was more bizarre than
anything in'l 9 84 and can only be compared to the
language of the Jonestown suicide tapes:
"Rats!" LaRouche excitedly warned his followers. "See them approaching! See their beady eyes!
So many beady eyesall looking at us!.. ..Shut up!
Do not move! Perhaps they will not be annoyed by
An NCLC street attack during Operation Mop-Up.
our presence!. ... Or, perhaps we can convince
them that we, too, are rats!!!???
"lmpotence! Fear of rats! CIA-rats, KGB-rats,
FBI-rats, trade-union-official-rats, Left-rats generally. Rats! Rats! Rats! Saveyourself! Be impotent!
The rats hate anything which is not impotent!
There are so many rats!
"Gigantic, awfully monstrous beetles, malevolent
beetles with beetle eyes and gigantic sexual organs
a r e c o m i n g t o r a p e u s !. . . .
"Live! Be a rat! Be a sadist! If you are a woman,
find a susceptibleman for your female sadism.You
feel better; you are one of the rats; the rats,
therefore, may not attack you, especially the
gigantic, awful rat of a mother-image inside you."
Insanity? Former associatesof LaRouche say no.
They believe that such rhetoric is calculated
-that
LaRouche has learned the easiest way
to control his followers is to keep them in a
constant state of hysteria so they can't think for
themselves. (Hence, the incessant mobilizations
within the NCLC to prevent impending nuclear
wars, swine flu plagues, and plots against
LaRouche's life.) Certainly, when no wave of
defections followed the tirade on rats, LaRouche
could feel confident that the membership was
totally under his spell.
IV. THE GREATMANCHURIANCANDIDATESCARE
In August 1973, LaRouche warned his followers
of a Manchurian candidate-styleassassinationplot
directed against himself. An NCLC member in
Germany had been kidnapped by the KGB,
LaRouche charged, and programmed as an assassin
to be activated by code words. LaRoucheclaimed to
have foiled the plot by deprogramming the assassin, using powerful psychological techniques
known only to himself.
So far, this was typical NCLC foolishness-until
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher White becameinvolved.
The Whites were a sore point with LaRouche.Mrs.
White had been LaRouche'scommon-law wife and
closest political collaborator during the founding
stage of the NCLC. ln1972, however, she left him
and took up with Mr. White, an English NCLC
member, with whom she settled in London.
In late 1.973, LaRouche requested that the
Whites return to New York for security reasons.
When they arrived on the eve of a major NCLC
conference, Mr. White appeared to be drugged or
distraught. LaRouche claimed to detect brainwashing symptoms and rushed Mr. White into a
deprogramming session. Soon, official announcements began to emanate from LaRouche'sheavilyguarded apartment: Mr. White was indeed a second
M a n c h u r i a n c a n d i d a t e . . .H e h a d b e e n b r a i n w a s h ed in a London basement (by the CIA, not the
KGB) . . . The conditioning had included sexual
tortures and threats of torture involving farm
animals, feces, and coke bottles. . . The victim had
been commanded to kill Mrs. White and to finger
LaRouche for assassinationby Cuban exile frogmen lurking in the Hudson River.
LaRouche mobilized the entire NCLC for a
counterpunch. Press releases were sent out, and
the streets of New York City were inundated with
lurid leaflets alerting America to the alleged plot.
The NCLC chairman insisted that tape recordings of Mr. White's deprogramming would prove
his charges. But when the tapes were played
several days later for a Nezl York Times reporter,
the reporter heard nothing that would even
remotely substantiate the bizarre story. The tapes
did, however, suggest that the deprogramming had
involved considerable duress for Mr. White: "There
are sounds of weeping and vomiting . . .," the
reporter wrote, "and Mr. White complains of being
deprived of sleep,food and cigarettes.At one point
s o m e o n es a y s ' r a i s e t h e v o l t a g e ' . . . . T h e r ei s a l s o
what appears to be an attempt to hypnotize Mr.
White by someone...in the room."
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disbelief, LaRouche was able to maintain the
credibility of this hoax among his own followers by
exploiting the power of group hysteria. In early
January, 1.974,he appeared before an assemblage
of the faithful and drilled them, in repulsive and
frightening detail, on what each of them could
e x p e c t i f k i d n a p p e db y t h e C I A :
"You know what they do to you?" he asked
rhetorically. "When they really start the heavy
programming, first of all they give you heavy
e l e c t r i c s h o c k .H e a u y e l e c t r i c s h o c k . . ..
"But then, you know what they do to you? It's
not the pain that brainwashes people.
" W h a t k i l l s y o u i s w h e n y o u e a t e x c r e m e n ta s a
way of inducing your torturer to lay off the pain. In
permitting a bottle to be inserted in your anus and
sitting on it on a chiir for hours while interrog a t i o n c o n t i n u e s ,a s a w a y o f a v o i d i n gg r e a t e r p a i n .
Lying on the floor and whining like a puppy, as a
way of getting your torturers to lay off ...."
As for the skeptics in his audience, LaRouche
cried, "Any of you who say this is a hoax-you're
c r u d s ! Y o u ' r e s u b h u m a n lY o u ' r e n o t s e r i o u s . T f t e
human raceis at stake.Either we win or there is no
humanity."
Ex-members recall the next few weeks as a
nightmare. Each member was afraid that he or
s h e m i g h t b e t h e n e x t b r a i n w a s hv i c t i m . O r t h a t h e
or she might already have been brainwashed
( L a R o u c h e e m p h a s i z e d t h e s u b c o n s c i o u sn a t u r e
o f t h e c o n d i t i o n i n g ) . T h e N C L C l e a d e r s h i pw a s
flooded with requests for deprogramming by
members who found themselves harboring vaguely
murderous thoughts. One member even went
berserk (reportedly screaming "Cancel me! Cancel
me!") and had to be hospitalized. According to
LaRouche, this unfortunate individual's "code
Carol White
barrier" had "gone out of control."
The hysteria prompted the issuanceof an "intake
procedure" manual by Mrs. White, which advised
that "The brainwashed comrade's version of events
should be taken down, and particular attention
should be paid to his fantasies-reference to
w i t c h e s , d e v i l s ,s e n s i t i v i t yt o h i s s i n g s o u n d s . . . . "
Predictably,a witch hunt atmosphere developed,
with every NCLC member suspecting his or her
comrades, especially if they expressed doubts
about the brainwashingthreat. One woman who
had become skeptical was held captive in her New
York City apartment by NCLC loyalists who
believed she was a potential assassin.The police
were alerted after she threw a note out the
window. Going to the apartment, they heard
screams,forced their way in, rescuedher, and later
arrested six NCLC memberson kidnappingcharges.
V. FROMMARXISMTO NEO-NAZISM
As with Operation Mop-Up, LaRouchecalledoff
t h e a n t i - b r a i n w a s h i n gc a m p a i g na s s u d d e n l ya s h e
h a d l a u n c h e di t . H e d i d n o t r e t r a c t h i s c h a r g e s - h e
simply ceased to refer to the episode, as if it had
never happened. Several of his most active followers dropped out at this point; but those who
remained (those who "passed the test," as one
former member put it) were sufficiently conditioned to acceptLaRouche'ssubsequentlurch from
the farmost left to the farmost right-a transformation which otherwise would have been impossible, given the left-leaning backgrounds of
most NCLC members.
Defectors from the NCLC believe the switchover resulted from LaRouche'srecognition that he
was never going to achieve influence within the
Ieft; and that on the right, he could gain accessto a
much larger potential constituency as well as the
money of wealthy superpatriots.
At first, the shift was justified to NCLC
members as a tactical maneuver-they would serve
as Marxist missionaries to convert the far right.
This proselytizing, however, soon turned into
strategic collaboration. The NCLC joined with
anti-busing forces in Boston in 1974 and ran its
own anti-busing congressionalcandidatein the 9th
C.D., which included the white-ethnic community
of South Boston. Also in 1974, the NCLC nominated a Grand Knight Hawk of the Ku Klux KIan to
run as its candidate for the Michigan House of
R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s6, 2 n d D i s t r i c t . * L n 1 9 7 5 ,i t l a u n c h ed a defensecampaign for Roy Frankhouser, Grand
Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan (and an avowed
neo-Nazi), who was facing trial for aiding and
abetting the transportation of stolen dynamite.
The easewith which LaRouche manipulated the
NCLC into working with open racists was a
result of the pathological contempt for Blacks he
had engendered in both white and Black NCLC
members. An early statement of this outlook was
contained in the NCLC internal document "The
C.P. Within Us" (7973), which ridiculed "liberals"
'compassion'for
for "learning to feel
b e s t i a l i t yi n
B l a c k sd u r i n g t h e C i v i l R i g h t s M o v e m e n t . "
" W e w i l l n o t f e e l t h a t k i n d o f c o m p a s s i o ni n o u r
organization," the document stated. "The deforme d f e e l i n g sm u s t c o m e o u t b u t t h e p e r s o nw h o h a s
them must be made to shudder that he has
a c c u s t o m e dh i m s e l f t o l i v i n g w i t h t h i s b e a s t . "
[ n 7 9 7 6 , L a R o u c h es t o p p e du s r n g t h e p s e u d o n y m
Lyn Marcus, and his group officially disavowed
Marxism, adopting instead a pseudo-conservative
jargon which invoked Alexander Hamilton and
Benjamin Franklin along with Dante and Plato.
The NCLC remained supportive of the Soviet
Union on foreign policy issues, but on domestic
matters it enthusiasticallyendorsedcorporate capitalism. As a sideline, it began to offer intelligence
reports on leftists and environmentalists to the
F B I , t h e C I A , a n d s t a t e a n d l o c a l R e d S q u a d s( a s
r e v e a l e db y a n u m b e r o f g o v e r n m e n t d o c u m e n t s
later released under the Freedom of Information
Act).
The NCLC's shift to the far right soon produced
a network of alliances:
. Klan leader Frankhouser became a trusted
adviser, chatting with NCLC security staffers
almost daily by phone.
. Col. Tom McCrary, leader of the Georgia
Independent Party and former supporter of segreg a t i o n i s t c a n d i d a t e s ,l a u n c h e d a c o a l i t i o n a r o u n d
"issues" with the NCLC and went on a national
speaking tour with LaRouche's chief of staff.
. Willis Carto, founder of the Liberty Lobby (a
Washington, D.C.-based sect which claims the
Holocaust never occurred), overcame his initial
s u s p i c i o n sa b o u t t h e N C L C ' s l e f t i s t o r i g i n s a n d
opened the pagesof The Spotlight,newspaper of the
Liberty Lobby, to NCLC writers. As the NCLC
became increasingly anti-Semitic, Carto-who
peddles Hitler's Mein Kampf via a mail-order book
service-became more and more lavish in his
praise.
. Carto's close friend Mitchell WerBell III-a
former government intelligence agent who had
achieved notoriety as a manufacturer of silent
m a c h i n e g u n s - w a s h i r e d a s L a R o u c h e ' ss e c u r i t y
consultant. By late 1978, NCLC members were
trickling down to WerBell's estate near Powder
Springs, Georgia, to undergo weapons training.
According to former NCLC members, WerBell
becamea political as well as technicaladvisor to the
N C L C , a c h i e v i n ga n i n f l u e n c eg r e a t e r t h a n t h a t o f
any other outsider.
Shortly before linking up with LaRouche,WerBell
had been forced out of the arms business by the
Federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Bureau,
which had discovered errors in his record keeping.
A 1976 settlement, however, had allowed him to
keep his stock of unsold machine guns, described
by government attorneys as "the largest collection
of private guns in the world."
As the NCLC's links to the ultraright became
stronger, its ideology evolved beyond the pseudoBen Franklin stage.By early 1978,it was publishing
a steady stream of articles, speeches,and books by
L a R o u c h e a n d h i s a i d e s e x p r e s s i n gt h e k e y e l e -
'Prior
to election time, Michigan NCLC leaderslearned
to their consternation that the Klansman was really an
FBI informant keeping tabs on both extremist groirps.
But it was too late to remove his name from the ballot.
Mitchell Livingston WerBell III.
ments of neo-Nazism, thinly veiled by terms such
as "humanism" and "Neoplatonism."
The basis of this new LaRouchian ideologywhich continues to be the official doctrine to the
present day-is an anti-Semitic theory of history.
LaRouche and his followers accusethe Jews,especially wealthy Jews, of a vast range of conspiratorial crimes through the centuries: poisoning
medieval Popes, instigating the Black Plague,
trafficking in slavesin early America, assassinating
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy (andJimmy
Hoffa), encouraging heroin addiction in American
slums. LaRouche even dredgesup the hoary charge
of deicide as part of an attack on American Jewish
organizations: "The B'nai B'rith today resurrects
the tradition of the Jews who demanded the
crucifixion of JesusChrist, the Jews who pleaded
'holocaust'
against the
with Nero to launch the
C h r i s t i a n s . T h e s e . . . m o r a l i m b e c i l e sa r e . . . t h e r e surrection of the degradedcreatures who were the
c h i e f e n e m i e so f . . C h r i s t . . . . " 1
To LaRouche, American Jews are a"treasonous"
apparatus acting on behalf of "Britain"-the
Rothschild family and related Jewish-surnamed
bankers in London.* The conspiracy is global,
LaRouche says, operating through a vast network
of agents in both Western and communist nations
and with a goal of genocide against the human
race-to be achievedvia usury, famine, plague and
nuclear war. Unless the conspirators are stopped,
LaRouche predicts, they will succeed in killing
more than two billion people and ushering in a new
Dark Age.
To explain the motives of the conspiracy,
LaRouche borrows from the writings of the
G e r m a n N a z i s .H e c l a i m st h a t a n e v i l " o l i g a r c h y " *LaRouche's
own statements leave no doubt that
"British" is a code word for the Rothschilds and other
wealthv lews.
lnThe'Caseof Walter Lippmann, p. 13, LaRouche said,
"The 1815-1863struggle of the United Statesagainst
its principal adversary, Great Britain, centered around
two points. The first, the most spectacular, was the
British (Rothschild) forcing of a r-eactivationof black
s l a v e t r a f f i c i n t o t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s ' .... " ( H e c o n t i n u e d
throughout the chapter to use "British" and "Rothschild" intercha ngeably.)
Again, in "Anti-Dirigism Is British Tory Propaganda"
t'lew Solidaritv, Feb. 3, 7978), LaRouche stated that
"Itlhe policy-shaping kernel of the enemy forces centere d i n t h e B r i t i s h m o n a r c h y i s a g r o u p o f p r i v a t eb a n k i n g
families.. .. These are notablv the familv interests of the
Lazard Brothers, Barings, N.M. Rothschild, Hill Samuel,
and other small private banking houses."
All but one of the families named are Jewish, and
LaRouche went on to claim that "these same families
directlv control" the kev policv-making institutions of
same
British scrietv. He then ituted, "Britiin-these
families' interests-has controlled the international
opium traffic since early during the 19th century."
28-year-old housewife trains with hatchet at Mitchell
WeiBell's "counterterrorist" training camp near Powder
Springs, Ceorgia.
a conspiratorial elite of usurers opposed to ind u s t r i a l o r s c i e n t i f i cp r o g r e s s - e m e r g e d i n a n c i e n t
B a b y l o n ( a t t h e t i m e o f t h e J e w i s hc a p t i v i t y ) a n d
molded the Jewish religion into a "cult" to be
employed as its fifth column. This oligarchy-the
"Whore of Babylon"-supposedly set itself apart
from humanity, developed a cosmopolitan antihuman tradition, shifted its headquarters to the
West, and conspired through the centuries to
a c h i e v eg l o b a l d o m i n a n c e .
In the era of capitalism, the oligarchy allegedly
moved to London. Under the leadership of the
Rothschilds,and using the Churchill family and the
Free Masons as its cover, it subverted the English
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a r i s t o c r a c y .I t t h e n c o n c o c t e dt h e " c u l t " o f Z i o n i s m
t o s u p p l e m e n tJ u d a i s m a s a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l t o o l .
The ravings of LaRouche and his followers
against the "British" are based not only on the
above mythical history but also on a doctrine of
a n t i - S e m i t i c r a c i a l i s m .T h e L a R o u c h i a n s c, a r r y i n g
their doctrine to wilder limits eventhan traditional
Hitlerism, claim that the "British" have evolved
through moral depravity and inbreeding into
a separate species outside the human race ("the
Zionist-British organism"), not simply into a
s e p a r a t er a c e o f m a n . L a R o u c h ec a l l st h e m " c l e v e r
a n i m a l s ,w h o a r e m a s t e r s o f t h e w i c k e d n a t u r e o f
their own species, and recognize f erally the
distinctions of the hated human species."2Former
Manchurian candidate White (seeabove) says"the
B r i t i s h a r e d i f f e r e n t t h a n u s b e c a u s et h e y a r e n o t
h u m a n " a n d c i t e s" c o n g e n i t a ld e f i c i e n c i e sa n d b r a i n
damage" which he says are "the end product of a
s p e c i a l i z e dp r o c e s so f g e n e t i c e n g i n e e r i n g . " s *
The NCLC seesits historic mission to be the
r a l l y i n g o f t h e h u m a n r a c ef o r a n a l l - o u t s t r u g g l et o
wipe out the "British." White writes: "Let us
j o y f u l l y e n s u r e t h a t t h e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e so f t h e
British system are destroyed so that humanity
' L a R o u c h e ,i f n o t W h i t e , i s a w a r e t h a t s c i e n t i f i cg e n e t i c s
offers no support for the theory of a separate"British"
species.Herici, in "The Secreti Known Only To The
f nner Efites" (The Canpa.igner,M-ay-June1978),LaRouche
c o n c o c t sh i s o w n p s e u d o s c i e n t i t i tch e o r y :
"A heritable varietal change in a speciei can be induced
'environmentally'
t is
w i t h o u t g i n e t i c v a r i a t . i o n . . . . W h at h
. . . i m p l i e si s t h a i w i t h o u t a l ' i e r a t i o no f w h a t i s o r d i n a r i l y
c o n s i d e r e dg e n e t i c m a t e r i a l ,a h e r i t a b l ea l t e r a t i o ni n t h e
hominid stock could be introduced to the effect of
producinq a new variety. lf this new variety were
i l l s t i n g u i i l e d b y a s u i t a b l y s i g n i f i c a n tc h a n g ef r o m o t h e r
varieties, we should be obliged to consider the new
v a r i a t i o n a n e w s p e c i e so n t h i t a c c o u n t . "
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m i g h t l i v e . , . . L e t u s , w i t h r u t h l e s s n e s se, n s u r e t h a t
the job is done correctly now."a And LaRouche
b o a s t s t h a t t h e B r i t i s h " r e c o g n i z eq u i c k l y . . . t h a t I
r e p r e s e n tt h e a n c i e n t a n d f e a r e da d v e r s a r yo f t h e i r
own evil species.The Whore of Babylon recognizes
t h e m i n d o f h e r p o t e n t i a l d e s t r o y e r .S e e i n g . . . t h e
influence of our works, they tense, growling such
p h r a s e sa s . . . ' m o r e d a n g e r o u s t h a n H i t l e r ' . . . . " s
As to specifics,NeruSolidaritysaysthat "America
m u s t b e c l e a n s e d "f o r i t s " r i g h t e o u s w a r " b y t h e
"immediate elimination" of the "JewishLobby and
other British agents" from government, business
a n d l a b o r . 6 T h e N C L C n e w s p a p e ra l s o c a l l s f o r a
"permanent SpecialProsecutor's office" to prepare
treason indictments against American Jews and
p r o - Z i o n i s t g e n t i l e s . TA s t o B r i t a i n i t s e l f ( R o t h s , e w S o l i d a r i l ys u g g e s t st h a t i f
c h i l d h e a d q u a r t e r s )N
i t d o e s n ' t v o l u n t a r i l y c a l l o f f i t s a l l e g e dm a c h i n a t i o n s a g a i n s t h u m a n i t y , i t s h o u l d b e s t o p p e d" b y
force, up to and including the. . .treatment.. .
l a p p l i e d l t o J a p a ni n 7 9 4 5 . " a
T h e s e p r o p o s a l sa r e s u p p l e m e n t e db y o p e n a n d
c o v e r t e x p r e s s i o n so f s y m p a t h y w i t h N a z i G e r many, in articles such as "The Truth About
'German
Collective Guilt.' "e In one pro-Cerman
tract, LaRouche praises the "sound and intense
C e r m a n n a t i o n a l i s te n t h u s i a s m " b e h i n dt h e W e h r macht's 7939-47 drive against Britain, saying
"England was then, as now, the enemy of contin e n t a l E u r o p e ,i n c l u d i n g t h e G e r m a n n a t i o n . " T h e
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symbol of "Britain" (note photo of Queen Elizabeth at top of
pentacle and flanked by two famous fews). Illustration is
irom Nen' Solilarilv, Ociober 77,7978.
article also praises Hitler, back-handedly,as "London's most deadly enemy."lo
I n a d d i t i o n ,L a R o u c h ed i s m i s s e st h e H o l o c a u s ti n
which six million Jews died, as "mythical" (his
German wife, Helga Zepp, calls it a Zionist
"swindle"); and other NCLC writers attack the
Holocaust curriculum in New York public schools
as "viciously anti-German" and as "filth."lr In 7979,
L a R o u c h e a n d h i s f o l l o w e r s w e r e e s p e c i a l l ye n r a g e db y t h e t e l e v i s i o nm o v i e ," H o l o c a u s t , "a n d t h e
NCLC chairman stated at a rally in Michigan:
"[W]hat the peoplewho put this film on...are
p r e p a r e dt o d o t o t h e h u m a n r a c e m a k e s t h e N a z i
thing look like a slight mistake!"rz
But the LaRouchian theories are not directed
exclusivelyagainst the Jews. Although only the
R o t h s c h i l d sa n d o t h e r w e a l t h y J e w s h a v e e v o l v e d
i n t o a s e p a r a t es p e c i e si n t h e L a R o u c h i a nv i e w , a
l a r g e p e r c e n t a g eo f t h e r e m a i n i n g h u m a n r a c e i s
composed of subhuman types, fit only to be
c o n q u e r e da n d d o m i n a t e d .T h e C h i n e s e ,L a R o u c h e
says, are a "paranoid" people, who share, with
"lower forms of animal life," a "fundamental
distinction from actual human personalities."r3
American blacks who insist on equal rights, he
s a y s ,a r e o b s e s s e dw i t h " z o o l o g i c a ls p e c i f i c a t i o n o
sf
m i c r o - c o n s t i t u e n c i e ss' e l f - i n t e r e s t s "a n d w i t h " d i s tinctions...whichwould be proper to the classification of varietiesof monkeys and baboons."raAnd
on and on: Tribal peopleshave a "likeness to a
lower beast."rs Ancient civilizations fell into "an
'heritable'
moral degeneration."l6 LaRouche even
claims,in "A MachiavellianSolution For Israel,"that
" 9 9 a n d4 4 l 1 o 0 t h s o f t h e h u m a n r a c e " i s c o m p o s e d
o f a " b e s t i a l m a s so f i g n o r a n t s h e e p " w h o n e e d t h e
l o v i n g g u i d a n c eo f L a R o u c h i a n" s h e p h e r d s . " l T
T h e t r u e r o l e o f t h e s h e p h e r d s i s i n d i c a t e di n
LaRouche's ma jor book, The Csse 0f Wnlter
L i p p m a n n ,i n w h i c h h e s t a t e s :" W e d o n o t r e g a r da l l
culturesand nationsas equallydeseruingof sooereignty
o r s u r u i o a l . "t e ( L a R o u c h e ' si t a l i c s . )T h i s p r i n c i p l ei s
e x p l a i n e di n t e r m s o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s ' t r e a t m e n t
in the 19th century of the American Indian tribes
a n d o f M e x i c o : " W a s i t . . . c o r r e c t , " L a R o u c h ea s k s ,
" f o r t h e A m e r i c a n b r a n c h o f E u r o p e a nh u m a n i s t
culture to absorb the territories occupied by a
m i s e r a b l e ,r e l a t i v e l y b e s t i a l c u l t u r e o f i n d i g e n o u s
A m e r i c a n s ?A b s o l u t e l yW
. a s i t c o r r e c tt o a b s o r b . . .
the areas taken in the Mexican-AmericanWar?
H i s t o r i c a l l y ,y e s - f o r t h e s a m e r e a s o n . " r e
LaRouche dreams of military world conquest.
B u t u n l i k e t h e N a z i s o f t h e 1 9 3 0 s ,h e w o u l d u s e
A m e r i c a r a t h e r t h a n G e r m a n y a s h i s b a s e .I n a n
article aimed at the Pentagon (to boost his 1980
presidential aspirations),LaRouches aid," lpropose
t o w i n w a r s . . . . " A n d : " T h e p u r p o s eo f w a r i s t o e n d
war by finally securingthe permanenthegemony
of the Neoplatonic-humanist forces over the
g l o b e . " z oI n a s u b s e q u e n t a r t i c l e , h e s a i d " T h e
aggregate result of the development and deploym e n t o f r e p u b l i c a nm i l i t a r y c a p a b i l i t i e sm u s t b e t h e
progessive liquidation of oligarchist and allied
S o v e r n m e n t s g l o b a l l y .. . . " 2 1 T oL a R o u c h e ,t h i s e x plicitly meant that American military might "must
crush Ithe] forces of evil" and bring them under
"firm-handed" rule.22
L a R o u c h ei s a m b i g u o u sa b o u t h i s i n t e n t i o n s v i s a - v i s t h e S o v i e t s .H e i s p r e p a r e df o r d e t e n t e i f t h e
Soviets will convert to some version of his own
philosophy and purge the "British agents" from
t h e i r r a n k s ; b u t i f t h e y d o n ' t , h e i s e q u a l l yp r e p a r e d
t o f i g h t f o r " t o t a l v i c t o r y . . . o v e r t h e l a s t b a s t i o no f
oligarchical policy in any nation of the world"z:
t h r o u g h t h e t a c t i c so f A B C ( a t o m i c ,b a c t e r i o l o g i c a l
and chemical)bombardment, "to the purpose of
exterminating every possible means of opposit i o n .. . . " z a L a R o u c h e t e r m s t h i s m i l i t a r y d o c t r i n e
"total war, "zsthe very term coined by foseph
G o e b b e l st o d e n o t e t h e N a z i m i l i t a r y s t r a t e g y i n
World War Two.
T h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o no f s u c h i d e a sw o u l d o n l y b e
possibleby totalitarian dictatorship-and LaRouche
i s n o t b a s h f u li n d i s c u s s i n g
it.In a\979 presidential
c a m p a i g ns p e e c h ,h e c a l l e do n h i s f o l l o w e r s t o " e n d
NCLC uses"anti-Zionism" as a cover for anti-Semitism.
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the rule of irrationalist episodic majorities, of
British liberal notions of 'democracy.'"26LaRouche
would replace democracy with a "humanist republic," which, he says, would be a "class dictatorshipi n - f a c t " o f t h e " i n d u s t r i a l c a p i t a l i s t s , "a l t h o u g h
power would be exercised by a specialized elite
(LaRouche and his followers) on behalf of the
c a p i t a l i s t s . z zT h e e l i t e w o u l d a c t " t o r e l a t i v e l y
suppress the democratic or other nonrepublican
influences";za
and personalfreedom,as we presently
know it, would be replaced by collectivist duty:
"The society-e.g., the state-does not 'concede'
f reedom to the individual, but demandsthat he or
she partake of it in the general interests of the
s t a t e . " 2 eT h e k e y e l e m e n t i n t h i s s u b o r d i n a t i o n
of the individual to the state would be a radical
transformation of America's criminal code: The
basisfor arrest and trial would no longer be the
actual commission of a criminal act, or even the
intent to commit a criminal act, but simply the
possessionof a "criminal mind"-i.e., a mind
h o l d i n g i d e a sa n d v a l u e s i n o p p o s i t i o n t o t h o s e o f
LaRouche.so
I n l i n e w i t h t h e l a t t e r c o n c e p t ,L a R o u c he i n 7 9 7 8
circulateda document to policedepartmentsaround
t h e c o u n t r y , u r g i n g " s u r g i c a l l y p r e c i s ep r e v e n t i v e
a c t i o n " a g a i n s t l e f t i s t s a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t sw h o
advocateideas that might lead to terrorist acts.
A n d i n l i t e r a t u r ep r o m o t i n g h i s p r e s i d e n t i aa
l spirations, he called for the consolidation of Amerrcan
i n t e l l i g e n c ea n d l a w e n f o r c e m e n t a g e n c i e si n t o a
c e n t r a l i z e ds e c r e tp o l i c e ,w i t h i t s o w n r a d i o a n d T V
s t a t i o n s a n d a W e s t P o i n t - t y p e a c a d e m y ,a n d w i t h
" a u d i t " p o w e r s o v e r t h e e n t i r e e x e c u t i v eb r a n c h o f
government.
VI. "MORE AMERICAN THAN APPLEPIE"
ln 7979, LaRouche attempted to soften his
e x t r e m i s t i m a g e .W h i l e c o n t i n u i n g t h e p r o p a g a t i o n
o f n e o - N a z i i d e a si n s p e e c h e st o h i s f o l l o w e r s a n d
i n p a r t y p u b l i c a t i o n sr e a d c h i e f l y b y N C L C m e m bers and close friends, he publicly deniedbeing a
N a z i o r e v e n a n a n t i - S e m i t e( p o i n t i n g t o a n u m b e r
of young Jews who had imbibed the ideological
k o o l - a i d ea n d r e m a i n e d i n t h e N C L C ) . I n s t e a d ,h e
s a i d ,h e w a s m e r e l y a n t i - Z i o n i s t .
To disarm the public, LaRouche billed himself as
t h e " c a n d i d a t em o r e A m e r i c a n t h a n a p p l ep i e " a n d
b e g a n t o u r i n g t h e c o u n t r y s p e a k i n gb e f o r e u n s u s p e c t i n g c h a m b e r so f c o m m e r c ea n d R o t a r y c l u b s ,
carefully restricting himself to traditional conservative themes and buzzwords. He entered
f o u r t e e n D e m o c r a t i cp r i m a r i e sa n d ,i n N e w H a m p s h i r e , p a c k a g e dh i m s e l f a s a " n a t i v e s o n " b e n t o n
restoring "American" values.
The falsity of this new image was revealed,
however, when LaRouche and his followersunder the pressureof the New Hampshire campaign-suddenly snapped back into their param i l i t a r y m o d e . L a R o u c h eb e g a n p a r a d i n g a r o u n d
t h e s t a t e w i t h a r m e d b o d y g u a r d s ,c l a i m i n g o n c e
a g a i n t o b e t h e t a r g e t o f " B r i t i s h " - i n s p i r e da s s a s s i nation plots. His followers made threatening
phone calls to local Democratic Party officials and
g a t h e r e d " i n t e l l i g e n c e "a b o u t a s s o r t e de n e m i e sb y
posing as reporters. In an interview with the
ManchesterUnion bader, LaRouche openly threat-
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e n e d t o m a k e t h i n g s " v e r y p a i n f u l " f o r a n y o n ew h o
c r o s s e dh i m .
The same inability to maintain a "cover" of
l e g i t i m a c y i s r e v e a l e di n t h e w o r k o f t h e N C L C ' s
front groups, such as the Fusion Energy Foundation. These groups may, nowadays, present
m o d e r a t e - s o u n d i n gl e g i s l a t i v ep r o p o s a l s ,b u t t h e y
H-Bomb
l'se
"su
a.,,*,"o rn".rtl"jrcnutleor
E x p l o s i v ec h o r g e
Alomrc bomb
Curved woll
F i s s i l em o l e r i o l
shoped occordrngto
B u S e m o n n ' st h e o r y
In 1981, the NClC-controlled Fusion Enerqv Foundation
published The Physiral Prinriplesof Thermoniilear ExplosTv
Drlires by Dr. lriedwardt i{intirberg, a West German
s c i e n t i s t c u r r e n t l v w i t h t h e U n i v e r s i t v o f N e v a d a .T h e a b o v e
illustration from-the book shows thi design of a "dry" Hbomb in which "ignition is accomplished using a PrandtlMeyer ellipsoid with a thermonuclear exponential horn and a
cvlinder."
NCLC, which includes physicists and nuclear engineers
among its members, is perhaps the only extremist sectin the
world which understands how to make an H-bomb. This
knowledge adds an especially sinister note to NCLC's
rumored links with unstable Third World regimes in Iraq and
Libva.
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L a R o u c h e a d d r e s s e sf a r m l e a d e r s i n C h i c a g o , f u n e 1 4 , 1 9 8 0 . T r a n s c r i p t o f t h e d a y - l o n g q u e s t i o n a n d a n s w e r s e s s i o n s h o w s t h a t
LaRouchehad done his homework. He talked about agriculture and economics,not conspiracy theories.
a l s o p e r i o d i c a l l yv o i c e a n t i - S e m i t i c i d e a s .I n a d d i t i o n , a i r p o r t a n d s t r e e t p e d d l e r sf o r t h e L a R o u c h e
f r o n t g r o u p s s o m e t i m e sp i c k f i g h t s w i t h i n n o c e n t
p a s s e r s - b y :f o r i n s t a n c e , a n e l d e r l y B ' n a i B ' r i t h
member who was punched to the ground by a
LaRouche follower in Seattle in 7979 after prot e s t i n g t h e L a R o u c h i a n ' sa n t i - Z i o n i s t p o s t e r .
B u t t h e m o s t d r a m a t i c e v i d e n c et h a t t h e N C L C
h a d n o t c h a n g e dc a m e i n t h e f a l l o f t g a t , w h e n a
number of NCLC members in Detroit and other
Midwest cities defected to launch their own
organization. In a series of internal memos,
L a R o u c h ea n d h i s a i d e sr i d i c u l e d t h e d e f e c t o r sf o r
c o z y i n g u p t o " r i c h J e w s " a n d " Z i o n i s t s . "L a R o u c h e
blamed the setback on a plot by the AntiD e f a m a t i o n L e a g u eo f B ' n a i B ' r i t h a n d b o a s t e dt h a t
he would proceed to "crush" the ADL ("this
murderous filth"). He also claimed to have leaked
information to the Mafia that would inducethem
t o " r u b o u t " t h e l e a d e ro f t h e d e f e c t o r s( w h o i n f a c t
had cultivated business and political ties with
r a c k e t e e r s ) ;a n d o n e o f t h e m e m o s e v e n g l o a t e d
o v e r t h e p r o s p e c to f t h e i n t e n d e d v i c t i m w e a r i n g
"cement overshoes."As to the handling of any
NCLC members who might waver in the future,
LaRouche promised a new era of strict discipline:
" F r o m n o w o n . . . l s h a l l f u n c t i o n. . . a s a c o m m a n d i n g g e n e r a lo f a c o m b a t o r g a n i z a t i o n .A n y o n e
who opposesmy orders will, in the moral sense,be
s h o t o n t h e s p o t f o r i n s u b o r d i n a t i o n .. . I a m t h e
'boss."'
To boost the flagging morale of his loyalists,
L a R o u c h e s t a g e d a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e r e n c ea t
M a n h a t t a n ' s R o o s e v e l tH o t e l i n f a n u a r y , 1 9 8 1 . H e
d e m a n d e dp e r m i s s i o nf r o m t h e h o t e l m a n a g e m e n t
f o r h i s s e c u r i t ys t a f f t o c a r r y g u n s - t o p r o t e c t h i m
f r o m a m y t h i c a l I s r a e l ia s s a s s i n",C a r l o s t h e J e w . "
A c c o r d i n g t o e y e w i t n e s s e s ,L a R o u c h e a r r i v e d a t
the hotel in a limousine caravan with armed
bodyguards, while the vicinity of the hotel was
d e l u g e db y N C L C s e c u r i t y a i d e sw i t h c a m e r a sa n d
walkie talkies.
Across the street, a small group of demons t r a t o r s , m o s t l y J e w s , m a r c h e d p e a c e f u l l yu n d e r
t h e l e a d e r s h i po f t h e H o l o c a u s tS u r v i v o r s A s s o c i a tion USA and its youth group, The Generation
After (honorary president, Simon Wiesenthal).
L a R o u c h eb e g a n h i s k e y n o t e a d d r e s sw i t h a t i r a d e
a g a i n s tt h e " a n i m a l n o i s e so f p r o t e s t " o u t s i d e ,a n d
s u g g e s t e dt h a t t h e d e m o n s t r a t o r s b e c o m b a t t e d
with "soap."
T h e d e m o n s t r a t i o no r g a n i z e r sw o u l d l a t e r i n t e r p r e t t h e s o a p r e m a r k a s a s l y r e f e r e n c et o t h e g a s
c h a m b e r s( d i s g u i s e da s b a t h h o u s e s )a t A u s c h w i t z ,
where victims were given a bar of "soap" upon
entry. Whether or not this interpretation is
correct, it is a fact that after the conference
L a R o u c h e ' sf o l l o w e r s f a n n e d o u t a c r o s st h e c o u n try to promote anew their anti-Semitic slogans
( s u c h a s " A D L E q u a l sD r u g s P l u s T e r r o r i s m " ) a n d
to peddle with renewed vigor LaRouche's pamphlet, The Pestilence
Of Usury.
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VII. LaROUCHEAND THE LABORMOVEMENT
O v e r t h e p a s t d e c a d e ,n o e x t r e m i s t g r o u p i n
America has worked as consistently as Lyndon
L a R o u c h e ' sN C L C t o u n d e r m i n e a n d d e s t r o y t h e
American labor movement. The campaign has
moved from lower to higher levels of tactical
sophistication,with LaRouche refining his ideology
a n d c o n s o l i d a t i n gh i s t i e s t o t h e K u K l u x K l a n a n d
the ultrarightist Liberty Lobby.
E s s e n t i a l l y ,t h e r e h a v e b e e n t h r e e s t a g e s .I n t h e
e a r l y a n d m i d - 1 9 7 0 s ,w h e n t h e N C L C s t i l l c a l l e d
itself communist, the basic tactic was prooocation
from withouf; NCLC members would show up ar
p l a n t g a t e s t o p e d d l ea n t i - u n i o n l i t e r a t u r e a n d p i c k
fights. Later, when the NCLC had moved to the
r i g h t a n d g a i n e d s o p h i s t i c a t e dn e w m e n t o r s , t h e
t a c t i c ss h i f t e d t o p r o u o c a t i ofnr o m w i t h i n : A r t i c u l a t e
NCLC members would cozy up to trade union
officials and attempt to manipulate them into
activities designed to undermine the unity of
A m e r i c a n l a b o r a n d i t s a l l i e s .l n t h e l a t e s ts t a g et h e
NCLC, while continuing to use its earlier tactics
when appropriate, is emphasizingsocialprouocation:
a n a t t e m p t , w i t h i n t h e l a r g e r s o c i a la r e n a ,t o d i v e r t
trade unionists away from a fight against the
R e a g a n A d m i n i s t r a t i o n ' s e c o n o m i c p o l i c i e si n t o a
s p u r i o u sc a m p a i g na g a i n s t" u s u r y " a n d " Z i o n i s m . "
The provocation from without began shortly
after Operation Mop-Up and chiefly targeted
workers in the auto and steel industries.NCLC
members would show up at plant gates with
leaflets and with copies of Near Solidarity, the
NCLC newspaper (not to be confused with Solidarity, the official organ of the United Auto
Workers). The NCLC literature urged workers to
avoid strikes as a uselessform of protest and
c o n d e m n e ds t r i k e s i n p r o g r e s sa s C I A - l e d a t t e m p t s
t o d e s t a b i l i z eA m e r i c a . T h e l i t e r a t u r e a l s oa t t a c k e d
u n i o n o f f i c i a l s ( t h e " t r a d e - u n i o n - o f f i c i a l - r a t s " )a s
s e l l - o u t s ,p e r v e r t s , a n d f a s c i s t s .I n p a r t i c u l a r , t h e
NCLC promoted the line that the entire UAW
l e a d e r s h i pw a s n o g o o d , w i t h s p e c i a le m p h a s i so n
then presidentLeonard Woodcock.
W h e n t h e l e a f l e t sa t p l a n t g a t e s b e g a n t o a t t a c k
the officers of UAW locals and rank and file
workers with a reputation for militancy (with a few
foremen thrown in for spice),the result was a rash
of fistfights. The pattern was for the NCLC to
provoke an incident, then rush off to file an assault
complaint and get the union member arrested.
The level of harassment swiftly escalatedto such
a d e g r e et h a t t h e U A W f i l e d a $ 3 0 m i l l i o n s u i t f o r
d a m a g e s a g a i n s t t h e N C L C a n d L a R o u c h e .T h e
d e f e n d a n t s ,i n a n e f f o r t t o p r o v e t h e U A W a t f a u l t ,
submitted affidavits to the court describineseveral
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violent incidents and revealing, inadvertently,
what was really going on.
For instance, NCLC member Theodore Held
stated in an affidavit that he had gone to the exit
gate of GMC Truck and Coach in Pontiac,
Michigan, on February 28, 7975 with the aim of
"photographing a tNCLCI literature distribution"
by two of his comrades, Robert Greenberg and
Craig Hunt. The three apparently expectedtrouble
-Held's affidavit alleged "previous attacks" on
NCLC members at this plant.
When several angry auto workers approached,
Held said, "Mr. Greenberg motioned to me....
As the men stepped into the street I photographed
them." Held then described how the auto workers
chased the leafleters away, with one worker
allegedly delivering a "flying kick" to Held's car.
"l then drove to the Pontiac Policestation," Held
c o n t i n u e d ," a n d f i l e d c o m p l a i n t N o . 3 9 3 2 7 1 . . . . 1
developed the picture I had taken of the men and
Detective Peters took it to the plant the following
Tuesday and made the identificationof the man...."
One could perhaps criticize the UAW members
for allowing themselves to fall into the NCLC's
trap. However, a sample NCLC leaflet filed with
t h e c o u r t i n t h e U A W ' s s u i t s h o w s t h e e x t r e m e st o
which the LaRouche organization was willing to go
to provoke a reaction. The leaflet, passedout at a
Buffalo, N.Y., plant, described the UAW as a
"worthless" and "turncoat" union. It characterized
local and national UAW officialsas "union dogs"
and "goons" and accused both union leaders and
rank and file workers-in lurid detail-of engaging
i n a v a r i e t y o f h o m o s e x u a l a c t s . F o r i n s t a n c e ,t h e
l e a f l e t s a i d o f o n e t a r g e t e di n d i v i d u a l :" H e c a n ' t g o
home to his wife with the smell of sperm on his
b r e a t h . . . s o h e s l e e p si n p a r k s .. . . "
One of the NCLC's favorite enemies was Ed
Sadlowski, a United Steel Workers of America
(USWA) insurgent who was electeddirector of
District 37 in 1974 and ran unsuccessfully for
U S W A p r e s i d e n ti n 7 9 7 7 . L n 7 9 7 4 ,N C L C m e m b e r s
provoked a confrontation with Sadlowski and filed
assault charges in order to embarrass him and gain
publicity for themselves. A welter of NCLC antiSadlowski literature in the mid-1970s alleged or
strongly implied that he was a homosexual, an
alcoholic, a fascist following in the footsteps of
Hitler, and (rather inconsistently) a tool of communists and Jews.
The NCLC attempted to exploit its campaign
against Sadlowski to curry favor with the incumbent USWA leadership, headed until tezz by
LW. Abel; but Abel and the 1.977 victor, Lloyd
McBride, were unenthusiastic about the proferred
alliance. (As early as June L975, Steel Isbor, the
official publication of the USWA, characterizedthe
L a R o u c h eS r o u p a s h a v i n g " t h e m a r k i n g so f a t r u l y
indigenous fascist movement.") Yet in the months
'1.977
preceding the
election, the NCLC, while
directing its main fire at Sadlowski, also chided
M c B r i d e f o r h a v i n g n o " p r o g r a m " ( i . e . ,n o N C L C
program) and for offering the workers "little else
but clean living on the unemployment lines." In
fact, the NCLC's real attitude throughout was that
a / l U S W A l e a d e r s ,b o t h i n c u m b e n t a n d i n s u r g e n t ,
were no good-as illustratedby an NCLC leaflet
which stated, "There's something queer in the
Labor Movement," and which included a drawing
of Sadlowski and a pro-Abel union official engaged
i n h o m o s e x u a la c t s a l o n g w i t h N e l s o n R o c k e f e l l e r
and a company man.
By early 7977, the NCLC apparently decided to
d e e m p h a s i z eo v e r t h a r a s s m e n t( e x c e p ta g a i n s tl e f t
wing union dissidents),in favor of building bridges
t o u n i o n l e a d e r s .H a v i n g t h o r o u g h l y a l i e n a t e dt h e
auto and steel unions, it zeroedin on the Teams t e r s . T h e N C L C p u b l i s h e dT h e P l o tt o D e s t r o yt h e
T e a m s t e r sa, p a m p h l e t w h i c h e x p r e s s e de n t h u s i a s tic support for top Teamster leaders,depicting them
as victims of a conspiracy headedby the Rockefeller
f a m i l y . T h e N C L C b e g a nt o c i r c u l a t et h i s p a m p h l e t
a n d o t h e r l i t e r a t u r e t o T e a m s t e r st h r o u g h o u t t h e
country, and bombarded the Teamster leadership
with research reports and with advice on how to
c o m b a t d i s s i d e n t sa n d m e d i a c r i t i c s .T h e c o u r t s h i p
s o o n b e c a m ea n e m b a r r a s s m e n tf o r t h e T e a m s t e r s ,
and the IBT General Executive Board. at its
January 1978 meeting, adopted a resolution disclaiming any associationwith the "U.S. Labor
P a r t y " ( c h i e ff r o n t n a m e f o r t h e N C L C a t t h e t i m e )
o r w i t h i t s p u b l i c a t i o n s ,a n d p o i n t i n g o u t t h a t t h e
U S L P w a s n o t i n h a r m o n y w i t h t h e a i m sa n d g o a l s
of the trade union movement.
But the LaRouchians were not discouraged,
and they began to fantasize about using the
Teamsters as the centerpiece of a "traditionalist
American System-oriented" faction in the American labor movement. This hypothetical force (with
LaRouche providing the brains and the Teamsters
the muscle) would be dedicated, in LaRouche's
view, to opposing Zionists and liberal members of
Congress. As one NCLC statement put it, the
traditionalist faction would "stand opposed to
forces associated with AFL-CIO Treasurer Lane
Kirkland...and other Anti-Defamation Leaguelinked circles who want to... go with Teddy
Kennedy and his.. .liberalism."
LaRouche undertook to "educate" the Teamsters
i n a n t i - S e m i t i s mt h r o u g h a n a r t i c l ei n t h e O c t o b e r
3, 7978 New Solidarify, called "Jack Anderson and
the Gang That Killed Hoffa" (later reprinted as a
pamphlet). Wrote LaRouche: "l know who murdered Hoffa, and so does every top law-enforcement
officer in the U.S,...We may not know the names
of the thugs sent to do the killings, but we know
who sent them... .The guys who did the hiring are
'most
walking around. . . as the
respected persons'
of the international Zionist community."
LaRouche went on to depict Jews as inveterate
plotters: "The rituals of entry into the synagogue...
include elements of a conspiratorial'password'syst e m . . . . T h i s f e a t u r e . . . o f J u d a i s mw a s s y n c r e t i c a l l y
mangled by the British as the way of seducingJews
into the British intelligence networks organized,
chlefly, around the conspiratorial leading circlesof
B'nai B'rith." (As explained above, "British" is the
NCLC's code word for the Rothschilds and other
J e w i s h - s u r n a m e db a n k e r s i n L o n d o n . )
LaRouche and his followers intended to cast the
nets of their anti-Semitism far beyond the IBT. In
September L978, they announced they would
circulate throughout the labor movement a draft
resolution calling on American trade unionism to
oust the "Zionists" from its ranks and to "mobilize
its resources"against Jews"both inside and outside
the labor movement."
A Near Solidarity article explained that the
attack would in large part be directed against the
leadership of the AFL-CIO. "The recent issues of
AFL-CIO publications provide ample evidence,"
the article said, "that the AFL-CIO is acting as a
malleable tool of the Jewish Labor Committee and
its Zionist lobby sponsors." One piece of "evidence"
cited was a statement by then AFL-CIO president
George Meany, calling on the U.S. government to
place greater pressure on the Soviet Union to
improve the human rights situation for the Soviet
people, including Soviet fews.
The anti-Zionist campaign also provided Neur
Solidarity with an opportunity to take another
swipe at Steelworkers' president McBride. "While
McBride understands. .. the threat represented by
the pseudoleftist Sadlowski. . .," one article stated,
"he has yet to come to grips with the Social
Democratic and Zionist Lobby traitors who enjoy
his closest confidence."
By early 7979, the NCLC was doing its best to
poison the atmosphere in the Teamsters Union
with smear leaflets against dissidents and with a
fresh barrage of tactical proposals to the IBT
leadership, aimed at drawing them into selfdefeating strife with LaRouche'sown pet enemies,
especially the "Zionists." LaRouche then attempted
to publicly compromise the Teamsters. He declared
his candidacy for President of the United States
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a n d , w i t h o u t a u t h o r i z a t i o n ,a n n o u n c e dt h e f o r m a t i o n o f a D e t r o i t - b a s e d" T e a m s t e r C o m m i t t e e t o
E l e c t L a R o r r c h eP r e s i d e n t " ( T C E L P ) .
At this point, only one working Teamster in the
U . S . w a s a m e m b e r o f L a R o u c h e ' sN C L C , a n d n o n e
of the TCELP's officers were Teamsters, working
or otherwise. LaRouche did, however, find a
Teamster general organizer in Detroit who was
w i l l i n g t o l i s t e n t o h i s v i e w s , a n d m a n a g e dt o e l i c i ta
s t a t e m e n t o f e n d o r s e m e n tf r o m h i m i n M a y 1 , 9 7 9 .
T h e N C L C i m m e d i a t e l yc i r c u l a t e dt h r o u g h o u t t h e
c o u n t r y t e n s o f t h o u s a n d so f l e a f l e t sc a r r y i n g t h e
endorsement, plus other leaflets signed by the
bogus TCELP and implying that an endorsement
by IBT General President Frank Fitzsimmons
might also be forthcoming. This opportunism
outraged Teamster Joint Council 43 in Detroit,
which passed a resolution condemning both
LaRouche's methods and his program. Shortly
a f t e r w a r d s , F i t z s i m m o n ss e n t a l e t t e r t o L a R o u c h e
(later reprinted in the Internstionsl Teamster),
calling the TCELP maneuver "false and misl e a d i n g " a n d d e m a n d i n g t h a t t h e L a R o u c h eg r o u p
c e a s eu s i n g t h e T e a m s t e r n a m e .
L a R o u c h e r e s p o n d e dw i t h a c o n c i l i a t o r y l e t t e r
e x p r e s s i n gh i s a c q u i e s c e n c e
in the IBT's "decision
. . . t o r e f u s e t o e n d o r s e a n y p r e s i d e n t i a lc a n d i d a t e
at this time." But he alsorequestedp
, rimly, that he
might be consideredon his merits in the IBT's
f u t u r e d e l i b e r a t i o n s ,a n d h e p r o m i s e d t h e T e a m s t e r s " h u n d r e d s " o f e x e c u t i v ep o s t s i n a L a R o u c h e
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . T h i s o v e r t u r e e l i c i t e do n l y s i l e n c e
f r o m t h e I B T , a n d L a R o u c h eh a s t i l y r e m o v e d t h e
Teamster name from his campaign literature...
until the spring of 19s0 when he suddenly
pubhshed a "Special Teamster Edition" of his
C a m p a i g nN e r u s ,c o m p l e t e w i t h t h e s t a t e m e n t o f
e n d o r s e m e n tf r o m t h e D e t r o i t g e n e r a lo r g a n i z e r .
The construction unions were also a target of
L a R o u c h e ' s1 9 8 0 c a m p a i g n .T h e N C L C h a d p r e v i o u s l y u s e d t h e n u c l e a rp o w e r i s s u ea s a f o c u s f o r
efforts to enlist construction workers as foots o l d i e r si n t h e N C L C ' s i d e o l o g i c a l f e u dr v i t h R a l p h
N a d e r a n d t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t s .N o w . L a R o u c h e
promised to "bring on line the 120 nuclear power
p l a n t s p l a n n e d o r c u r r e n t l y . . . s t a l l e d .. . " ; a n d h i s
followers began to approach construction union
l o c a l o f f i c i a l s f o r e n d o r s e m e n t s .I n C a l i f o r n i a , t h e
L a R o u c h i a n s . s c o r e d a f e w s u c c e s s e sw i t h t h i s
tactic, in part because they adhered to a bogus
"conservative Democrat" rhetoric, concealingtheir
extremism more skillfully than on previous
occasions.
On the eve of the 1980 Democratic Convention,
the NCLC carried out a blatant maneuver to
exploit the trade union movement. The idea of an
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open convention had become popular with many
a n t i - C a r t e r D e m o c r a t s , a n d L a R o u c h ew a n t e d t o
g i v e t h e i m p r e s s i o nh e w a s l e a d i n gt h e p a c k .N C L C
members phoned union of ficials all over the
country, asking them to lend their names to an
open convention ad. According to former NCLC
members who worked on this effort, most union
officials were nlt told the ad was connected with
LaRouche. When it appeared in Neu Solidarity
u n d e r t h e l a b e l o f " C i t i z e n s f o r L a R o u c h e , "a n d
with over 200 labor leaders listed, it may have
convinced naive readers that LaRouche had a
s t r o n g b a s eo f s u p p o r t i n t h e l a b o r m o v e m e n t . Y e t
a large percentage of the names listed were from
the UAW, a union which, as a prominent target of
NCLC harassment, could hardly be expectedto
r a l l y r o u n d a L a R o u c h e p r e s i d e n t i a lb i d .
After the convention, LaRouche's followers
tried a variation on the above trick. They launched
the Committee Against Brilab and Abscam (CABA)
which purportedly would collect money to defend
politicians and construction union officials entrapped by the U.S. JusticeDepartment's Brilab
(bribery-labor) investigations in the South and
Southwest. The CABA announced an advisory
b o a r d i n c l u d i n g t e n c o n s t r u c t i o nu n i o n a n d T e a m ster officials. but the Houston Post checked with
four of the ten and found they had never consented
to the use of their names.
T h e N C L C a l s o l a u n c h e da m o n t h l y n e w s l e t t e r
aimed chiefly at labor leaders, the American
L a b o r B e a c o n( A L B ) . P u b l i s h e d i n D e t r o i t , i t w a s
p r o m o t e d b y a m a s s i v em a i l i n g o f s a m p l ec o p i e st o
union officialsthroughout the country. The ALB
t e n d e d t o a v o i d s u c h N C L C b u z z w o r d sa s" B r i t i s h "
and "Neoplatonic"; yet the enemies it targeted, the
W*
rrrlttl-nU{
LaRouche and Ronald Reaganin New Hampshire during the
1980 Presidential campaign.
virulence of its attacks ("Rat of the Month," etc.)
and its basic ideas, were straight out of Nea)
Solidarity. As always, the thrust was to get the
labor movement to attack LaRouche'senemies,not
labor's enemies.
T h e s ee f f o r t s b y t h e N C L C d i d n o i g o u n n o t i c e d
b y l a b o r ' s t o p l e a d e r s .A l e x a n d e r E . B a r k a n , t h e n
director of political education for the AFL-CIO,
c i r c u l a t e da m e m o r a n d u m i n J u l y 1 9 8 0d e n o u n c i n g
L a R o u c h e a s " e x t r e m i s t , a n t i - A F L - C I O . . .a n t i labor, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and antim i n o r i t i e s . " A n d w h e n t h e A L B a p p e a r e d ,A F L C I O c h i e f L a n e K i r k l a n d a d v i s e dA F L - C I O a f f i l i a t e s t h a t " t h e f e d e r a t i o n ' sp o l i c y i s n o t t o l o i n o r t o
contribute to such groups, but to work only with
individuals and organizations who have proved
t h e m s e l v e so v e r t h e l o n g t e r m . "
Such rebuffs were followed by a mafor embarrassment for the NCLC: In October 1981. both the
publisher and the editor of the ALB, along with
several dozen other LaRouche followers in the
Midwest, resigned from the cult and denounced
L a R o u c h ea s a n a n t i - S e m i t e a n d a n e n e m y o f t h e
l a b o r m o v e m e n t . I n p a r t . t h e d e f e c t i o n sw e r e t h e
r e s u l t o f e x p e r i e n c e sg a i n e d b y t h e s ei n d i v i d u a l si n
t h e r e a l w o r l d o f l a b o r a n d b u s i n e s s ,b u t p o l i t i c a l
rivalries were also involved. A number of the
defectors proceededto set up their own organization to compete with LaRouchein various areas.
They have continued to publish the ALB, purveying the LaRouchian world view minus
L a R o u c h e ' sa n t i - S e m i t i s ma n d m i n u s a n y b o o s t i n g
o f t h e p e r s o n a la m b i t i o n s o f t h e i r f o r m e r l e a d e r .
Only a few weeks after the split, the NCLC
rebounded with new and more sophisticated
tactics to subvert the labor movement. The
U . S . L a b o r P a r t y h a d a l r e a d y b e e n r e p l a c e db y t h e
respectable sounding National Democratic Policy
Committee. Now, the Committee Against Brilab
and Abscam was replaced by the National Labor
C o m m i t t e e t o D e f e n d H a r r i s o n W i l l i a m s( W i l l i a m s
was actually willing to work openly with LaRouche
-see Appendix A). And the fight against the
"British" was replaced, in agita,tionalleaflets, by a
more easily comprehensible fight against high
interest rates, which the NCLC claimedwas the
main problem facing the labor movement.
In essence,however, nothing had changed. The
fight against high interest rates was referred to
also as a flght against "usury:' and LaRouche
published The Pestilence
Of Usury, which identified
t h e c h i e f u s u r e r sa s t h e " B r i t i s h . " L a R o u c h ea n d h i s
followers targeted Paul Volcker, chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, as the number one agent of
the usurers, and urged that he be hanged from "a
s o u r a p p l e t r e e . " T h e N C L C a l s o r e s u r r e c t e di t s
1.r
Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, Helga, on the campaign trail.
c a m p a i g n a g a i n s t t h e l e a d e r so f t h e A F L - C I O a n d
the UAW, accusing them of "squelch[ingl any
attempts by trade unioniststo mount an effective
fight against the high-interest-rate policy of ...
Volcker." Lane Kirkland was termed "Volcker's
'Mole'
in the AFL-CIO" and a "spy and saboteur."
E v e n t h e T e a m s t e r s U n i o n c a m e i n f o r a s h a r eo f
c r i t i c i s m f o r f a i l i n g t o a d o p t L a R o u c h e ' sa n t i - u s u r y
strategy.Lifting the lid for a moment on its basic
contempt for blue-collar workers, the NCLC
published an editorial, "Teamster Stupidity," which
c o n c l u d e d :" . . . t h e l e a d e r s h i po f t h e T e a m s t e r sh a s
thus far pror./enitself to be of two types when it
comes to acting upon this reality: corrupt or
stupid."
The utter cynicism behind the NCLC's posture
o f c o n c e r n f o r t h e f a t e o f t h e T e a m s t e r sa n d o t h e r
trade unions can only be grasped if one unders t a n d st h a t n e i t h e r L a R o u c h en o r h i s l e a d i n gc a d r e
display the slightest commitment to trade union
p r i n c i p l e s i n t h e i r p e r s o n a l , p o l i t i c a l ,o r b u s i n e s s
lives.
LaRouchehimself is no lean and hungry ideologue
- h e i s a w e a l t h y b u s i n e s s m a nw i t h a n e x t r a v a g a n t
lifestyle: a penthouse in New York, a villa in Wiesbaden, round-the-clock bodyguards, limousine
c a r a v a n s ,a n d g l o b e - h o p p i n gj o u r n e y s i n s e a r c ho f
a u d i e n c e sw i t h w o r l d l e a d e r s ( s u c h a s , r e c e n t l y ,
Indira Ghandi and Mexico's Lopez Portillo). As to
the LaRouche-controlled businesseswhich pay for
all this, none are unionized. According to former
employees, wages are substandard and pay checks
are frequently weeks late.
Such practices are reflected in the NCLC's
propaganda efforts, which are chiefly aimed at
influencing big business (the NCLC's trade union
work is essentially a sideline). The number one
NCLC publishing effort today is Executivelntelligence Repiew, a business-oriented newsweekly
pricedat $400 per year.
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The LaRouchians' pro-business orientation has
led them, on occasion,to perform the role of outand-out management flacks. [n7979-80, for example, they were involved in a curious publication,
Op-Craft Nerps,which was distributed by management to members of the rail unions in the Midwest.
Op-Crat't Nears announced that it would help to
"maximize each individual's concern with productivity," and it reduced all labor grievancesand fobsecurity problems to the level of : Let's help
management make more money; we're all in the
same boat. The puzzle of Op-Craft Naarswas partly
solved when it held a public forum in Chicago-and
the main speaker turned out to be a local NCLC
Intelleader, identified as representing Executitse
IigenceReviewand as an "adviser" toOp-Crat't News.
Of course, there is nothing inherently sinister in
sympathizing with the needs of management. But
the NCLC is not simply pro-management: its totalitarian ideology leads it to advocate specific approacheswhich, if implemented, would destroy the
v e r y e x i s t e n c eo f f r e e t r a d e u n i o n s .
LaRouche hints at this in his theoreticaldiscussions of the alleged need for an "industrialc a p i t a l i s t "d i c t a t o r s h i p i n A m e r i c a , t o b e a d m i n i s tered by the NCLC on behalf of big business. In
speaking of the labor movement's role, LaRouche
states it would function as part of the "broader
social base of the leading role of industrial capitalists as such." This would preclude any real
independencefor the unions since,LaRouche says:
"The interests of management and labor are
properly understood to be identical in the final
a n a l y s i s . " A n d : " T h e l a b o r - v e r s u s - i n d u s t r yn o n s e n s em u s t c e a s e ,a t l e a s t i n m a t t e r s b e a r i n go n . . .
national political life." These ideas are remarkably
similar to those of Benito Mussolini when he
c r u s h e d t h e l t a l i a n t r a d e u n i o n s i n t h e 1 9 2 0 s .A n d
if one replaces the word "capitalist" with "commissar," one has the policy of today's communist
regimes in the Soviet Union and Poland.
LaRouche and his followers moved away from
communism long ago, but they retain an admiration for the Soviet bureaucracy and for its role as
the center of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in
today's world. This has led the NCLC into its most
flagrant display of hostility towards organized
labor. When the Polish military cracked down on
the Solidarity trade union in December, L981, the
NCLC jumped to the defenseof the Polish military,
echoing the most discredited lies of Prauda.
'!,982,
On January 25,
the NCLC newspaper
published a front page editorial "Don't Meddle in
Poland," which claimed that "elements of Solidarity" were controlled by Western intelligence
agencies,and describedthe efforts of the AFL-CIO
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Former Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack (right) is
now active with LaRouche's National Democratic ?olicv
Committee. fack is shown at a fanuary 1982 NDPC pres3
conference held to denounce the Abscam prosecution of U.S.
Senator Harrison Williams. On the left is another NPDC
collaborator, New York State Assemblvman Armando
Montano,
to help Solidarity as "deadly games."
"Were those who support the activities of Lane
K i r k l a n d . . . a n d [ h i s ] i l k t o n o w d e s i s tf r o m p r e s e n t
and planned covert operations targeted against the
Polish nation-state, then stability might soon be
returned to that nation," said the NCLC.
O n J a n u a r y2 1 , t h e N C L C n e w s p a p e rp r a i s e dt h e
"broad purge" that was reportedly underway
w i t h i n t h e P o l i s h s t a t e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ." F r o m t h e
first concrete instances of this clean-up," the
NCLC writer said, "the martial regime of Gen.
|aruzelski is removing from positions of influence
some of the hardcore British intelligenceproteges."
In LaRouchian code language ("British" for Jew),
this parallels the charges made by Polish hardliners (and also some West Europeanneo-Nazis)
t h a t " Z i o n i s t s " a r e r e s p o n s i b l ef o r t h e g r o w t h o f
Solidarity.
These statements are only the tip of the iceberg.
Two years ago, when the independent Polish
workers'movement was first gainingstrength and
Edward Gierek was still premier of Poland,
LaRouche wrote an article of sympathetic advice to
Gierek which foreshadowed the recent events.The
article included a mixture of LaRouche-style and
Soviet-style anti-Semitism, calling the growth of
the workers' movement a "Trotskyite insurrection" and stating: "As. . . with sheep generally,
fudas goats appear often to lead political sheep to
fresh slaughter. . . . So the Polish strikers. . . are
marching to slaughter behind British intelligence's
KOR-centered Judas goats." (The dissident group
K O R h a d f r e q u e n t l y b e e n a c c u s e db y c o m m u n i s t
hard-linersof being "Zionist" dominated.)
L a R o u c h et h e n d e s c r i b e dw h a t h e w o u l d d o i f h e
were "in Mr. Cierek's shoes":"My approach to the
g e n e r a l s t r i k e , " L a R o u c h e s a i d ," w o u l d b e a n a l o g o u s t o m y r e s p o n s et o t h e g h e t t o r i o t i n s o m e
m a j o r U . S . c i t y . " H e t h e n w e n t o n t o d i s c u s sp o l i c e
tactics in U.S. inner-city riots of recent years,
d r a w i n g l e s s o n sf o r t h e P o l i s h s e c u r i t y f o r c e s :
"Law enforcement will concentrate...on preidentifying and surveilling the known provocateurs, taking them out of the situation by arrest
and detention. Without the provocateurs, the
o r d i n a r y c i t i z e n s . . w i l l t i r e t h e m s e l v e so u t . . . . "
A n d a g a i n :" l n g e n e r a l .. . u s e f o r c e t o c o n t a i n a n d
separate groups of rioters from one another and
from uninvolved areas of the population. Isolate
and neutralize the agents-provocateurs as inconspicuously and quickly as possible, and let the
d u p e s t i r e t h e m s e l v e sb a c k i n t o a n o r m a l s t a t e o f
mind."
T h e r e y o u h a v e i t . A p e r f e c t d e s c r i p t i o no f t h e
m a r t i a l l a w t a c t i c si m p l e m e n t e dt w o y e a r s l a t e r b y
the Polish military. It is unlikely that LaRouche's
article influencedthe Polishcommunists;but the
article does reveal-beyond any doubt-the antil a b o r e s s e n c eo f L a R o u c h e ' sp o l i t i c s .
APPENDIX A
A CUIDE TO THE LaROUCHENETWORK
National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
T h e c o r e o r g a n i z a t i o n ,c o m p o s e do f a O od e d i c a t e d
L a R o u c h ec u l t i s t s i n a b o u t 2 0 c i t i e sf r o m B o s t o n t o
L o s A n g e l e s .T h e l a r g e s t c o n c e n t r a t i o ni s i n N e w
York City, where the NCLC and most of its front
groups have their national headquarters, and
where the NCLC publishes its biweekly newspaper, New Solidarity, and its theoretical journal,
The Campaigner.
International Caucus of Labor Committees (ICLC).
The umbrella organization for the NCLC and
L a R o u c h i a n" c o - t h i n k e r " o r g a n i z a t i o n si n E u r o p e
and Latin America. The NCLC prefers to use the
name ICLC in most of its publicpronouncements.
United States Labor Party (USLP). The former
e l e c t o r a la r m o f t h e N C L C , t h r o u g h w h i c h h u n dreds of LaRouchian candidatesran for public
o f f i c e i n t h e 1 9 7 0 s b u t w h i c h w a s a b o l i s h e dw h e n
L a R o u c h e b e c a m ea " D e m o c r a t . "
National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC).
The front group through which the NCLC is
a t t e m p t i n g t o i n f i l t r a t e t h e D e m o c r a t i cP a r t y . T h e
N D P C i s s u e s r e p o r t s , h o l d s s e m i n a r s , l o b b i e so n
Capitol Hill, runs candidates in Democratic primaries, and sponsors limited-purpose groups such
as the Committee to Defend Harrison Williams
(seebelow). The NDPC claims to be "committed to
economic recovery through low-interest-credit, a
gold-reserve monetary system, nuclear energy,
farm parity, and an end to drug proliferation."
Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF). A tax-exempt
organization which sponsors tables at airports
where NCLC members sell literature produced by
a v a r i e t y o f N C L C b u s i n e s sa n d p o l i t i c a l f r o n t s .
T h e F E F a l s o l o b b i e sf o r n u c l e a r p o w e r a n d f o r a
crash program to develop f usion reactors. It claims
2 0 , 0 0 0 m e m b e r s a n d o v e r 1 1 0 , 0 0 0 s u b s c r i b e r st o
its glossy monthly, Fusion.
National Anti-Drug Coalition (NADC). Like the
FEF,a nominal sponsor of NCLC propagandasales.
I n p a r t i c u l a r , t h e N A D C p u s h e sD o p e ,l n c . , a b o o k
which alleges that wealthy jews control the
narcotics traffic. The NADC also lobbiesfor stif fer
anti-marijuana laws and publishes the monthly
magazine War on Drugs.
Lafayette Foundation for the Arts and Sciences.
Formerly called the Humanist Academy, this
front sponsorsconcerts and symposiaas a means of
recruiting new followers for LaRouche. It strongly
advocates a purge of jazz and rock music from
American culture.
New Solidarity International Press Service(NSIPS).
The businessarm of the NCLC's intelligence staff,
employing over 50 researchers,writers, and selfstyled security experts. Its files contain potential
smear data on thousands of individuals and
organizations. Information from these files has
been offered on occasionto the FBI, the CIA, state
and municipal police departments, and nuclear
power companies, as well as foreign intelligence
agencies.
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Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). A weekly
newsmagazinepublishedby the NSIPS (seeAp:
pendix B, "Where the Money ComesFrom").
InvestigativeLeads.A monthly NSIPSnewsletter
sent to police chiefs and Red Squad detectives
aroundthe country. Claimsto be privy to detailsof
assortedterrorist plots.
AmericanLabor Beacon.Monthly newslettersent
to trade union officials,it was foundedbv Detroit
NCLC membersin 1980. Its publisherand staff
have sinceresignedfrom the NCLC.
National Labor Committee to Defend Harrison
Williams. With the apparentblessingof former
U.S. Senator Harrison Williams-a convicted
Abscamdefendant-this committeeis utilized to
draw trade union officials into the orbit of the
National DemocraticPolicyCommittee.The Williams committee is the successorto the NCLC's
Committee Against Brilab and Abscam(CABA).
APPENDIXB
WHERETHE MONEY COMESFROM
The NCLC's annualbudget-estimated by some
observers at $5 million or more-is no mystery.
LaRouche, like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, is a
shrewd businessman; and his followers are willing
to work long hours for low pay or as unpaid
volunteers.
The chief source of funds is the sale of periodic a l s a n d b o o k s ( i n c l u d i n g L a R o u c h e ' so w n v o l u m inous outpourings), published under the aegis of
the NCLC's business and political fronts.
At maior U.S. airports and other varied urban
spots where affluent pedestrians can be easily
approached, high-pressure sales teams-usually
c l a i m i n g t o b e f r o m t h e t a x - e x e m p tF u s i o n E n e r g y
Foundation-collect thousands of dollars per day;
and they accept MasterCard.
A telephone boiler room operation, using WATS
lines, follows up the airport and street sales-to
h o o k b u s i n e s s m e ni n t o s u b s c r i b i n gt o t h e N C L C ' s
ExecutivelntelligenceReview($4oo per year), which
many businessmen can write off as a corporate
expense. The slick, weekly newsmagazine claims
over 7,000 subscribers; and even if this is an
exaggeration, EIR is probably the NCLC's number
one moneymaker. (The contents are typical
LaRouchian propaganda, often virulently antiSemitic; but many buyers don't read it carefully
and thus remain only marginally conscious of its
political slant.)
T h e N C L C h a s a l s ol a u n c h e dt h r o u g h t h e y e a r sa
number of commercial firms. One of these,
Computron Technologies Corporation (which recently disassociated itself from LaRouche), became a multimillion dollar success in the late
797Os in the computer software field-thanks
to a mutually lucrative relationship with Wang
Laboratories, a maior manufacturer of mini-
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computer hardware. Computron's clients at
one point included several major corporations
and banks, and it opened a branch office in Abu
Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.
According to former NCLC members, hundreds of
thousands of dollars of Computron revenues were
laundered into LaRouchian political activities in the
late"l.970s.Although Computron went bankrupt in
1 9 8 1 ( a f t e r t h e f a l l i n g o u t b e t w e e n L a R o u c h ea n d
t h e f i r m ' s o w n e r s ) , t h e N C L C c o n t i n u e st o o p e r a t e
a commercial typesetting firm and a small printing
company, along with its network of publishing and
research businesses(direct spinoffs of the NCLC's
political activity).
In the 1980 Presidential campaign, LaRouche
and his followers revealed a talent for squeezing
money out of politically naive farmers, building
contractors, and small merchants. According to
Federal Election Commission records, such individuals contributed a surprising number of
donations to LaRouche'scampaign, helping him to
q u a l i f y f o r $ 5 2 6 , 0 0 0i n F e d e r a lm a t c h i n g f u n d s . I n
addition, NCLC members have long boasted of
receiving help from right wing "industrialists" (as
for a prime-time NBC-TV speechby LaRouche the
night before the 1976 Presidential election-for
which the NCLC paid cash on the barrel).
Of greater importance on a year-in/year-out
basis are the tithes and loans contributed by
hundreds of NCLC members, not a few of whom
e a r n g o o d s a l a r i e sa s d o c t o r s , l a w y e r s , e n g i n e e r s ,
and college teachers. According to defectors from
NCLC, several independently wealthy members
have, through the years, liquidated their trust
funds or turned over their entire savings to help
meet NCLC emergencies, after being told the
future of humanitv was at stake.
the NCLC solicited
In the middle and late "1'97os,
support from the Shah of Iran and from the
government of South Africa. LaRouche even
traveled to Baghdad to meet with officials of the
ruling party in extremist Iraq. According to
Gregory Rose, an FBI informant who once served
a s t h e N C L C ' s c h i e f o f " c o u n t e r i n t e l l i g e n c e , "t o p
N C L C m e m b e r s b e g a n h o l d i n g s e c r e tm e e t i n g si n
1974 with a Soviet UN official and reputed KCB
officer, Gennady Nikolayevich Serebreyakov. But
if such exotic contacts ever resulted in financial
contributions, the amounts were of minor importance in comparison with domestic fundraising.
Most observers agree that the cult gains its income
chiefly from the efforts of its rank and file
membership, supervised by former management
consultant LaRouche, who apparently has resurrected the formula attributed to the late P.T.
Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute."
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NOTES
l. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "New Pamphlet to Document Cult Origins of Zionism," New Solidarily, December 8,
1978. The alleged crimes of the Jews, from ancient to modern times, are also described by LaRouche in "Facts
Behind the New Monetary System," ExecutioeIntelligenceRertiew,August 1976 SupplemenU and "The Secrets
Known Only To The Inner Elites," The Campaigner,May-June 1978. Disciplesof LaRouche have supplemented his
work: see Robert Dreyf uss, "The Method of Philo JudaeusTo Free the fews f rom the Cult of Zionism," and Paul
Goldstein, "B'nai B'rith: British Weapon Against America," both in The Campaigner,December 7978. Also see
Konstandinos Kalmitgis et al.,Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War against the U.5., The New Benjamin Franklin
Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 192s.
2. Lyndon H. LaRouche,"The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites," The Campaigner,May-June L978, p. 64.
3. Christopher R. White, The NobleFamily, published as "special Report No. 11"of The Campaigner,1978,pp.4,77.
a.Ibid.,p. 3r.
Rertiew,October 77 -23,1978, p.
5. Lyndon H. LaRouche,"The elite that can't think straigh t," ExecutiveIntelligence
56.
6. "A War-Winning Strategy," unsigned editorial, New Solidarity, March 27,1978.
T. "Register the Zionist Lobby As Foreign Agents," unsigned editorial, New Solidarity, September 5,1978.
8. "A War-Winning Strategy."
g. Published in Neul Solidarity,October 10,7978. The basic thesis is that rich Jews put Hitler in power and that the
Jews, not the Germans, bear the responsibility for the horrors of World War II.
1 0 . L y n d o n H . L a R o u c h e ," H i t l e r : R u n a w a y B r i t i s h A g e n t , " N e w S o l i d a r i t y J, a n u a r y i o , 7 9 7 8 '
11. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "New Pamphlet to Document Cult Origins of Zionism," New Solidarity, December 8,
7978;Helga Zepp-LaRouche, "The Zionists'Holocaust Today," Neut Solidarity, Ianuary 26,7979; Carol White,
" W i l l T h e r e l l e A N e x t G e n e r a t i o n ? " N e w S o l i d a r i l y ,S e p t e m b e r 7 5 , 7 9 7 8 ; " S t o p T h e D e s t r u c t i o n O f O u r
C h i l d r e n , " U . S . L a b o r P a r t y s t a t e m e n t ,N e u S o l i d a r i t y ,S e p t e m b e r7 5 , 7 9 7 8 .
12. Speechby LaRouche before the Michigan Anti-Drug Coalition, May 20,7979.Transcript was published in Nezrr
Solidarity,June 8, 7979, with editorial corrections in June 15 issue.
1 3 . L y n M a r c u s ( L y n d o n H . L a R o u c h e ) ", W h a t H a p p e n e dt o I n t e g r a t i o n , " q u o t e d i n B r o w n s h i r t sO f t h eS e o e n t i e s ,
Terrorism Information Project, Arlington, Y a., 7977.
14. Lyndon H. LaRouche, The Caseof Walter Lippmnnn, Campaigner Publications Inc., New York, 7922, p. 744.
15. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "The Truth Concerning Pre-Christian Cultures," Neut Solidarity, March 23,7979.
16.lbid.
17. Published inThe Campaigner,March 7978, p.6.
7 s . T h e C a s eo f W a l t e r L i p p m a n n ,p . 3 0 .
re.Ibid.
20. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "The Disorienting Heritage of Clausewitz," New Solidarity, June 76, L978.
2 1 . L y n d o n H . L a R o u c h e ," A R e t u r n t o a F e d e r a l i s t - W h i gM i l i t a r y P o l i c y , "P a r t I I , N e w S o l i d a r i t y ,S e p t e m b e r1 2 ,
1978.
22. "The Disorienting Heritage of Clausewitz."
23." A Return to a Federalist-Whig Military Policy," Part II.
24. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "London Pushes Toward World War III," Nera Solidarity, March 3,7978.
25. Lyndon H. LaRouche, "Harold Brown Is Nuts!" New Solidarity,January 37,7978.
25. Lyndon H. LaRouche,"Creating a Republican Labor Party," New Solidarity,June 22,7979.
27. The Caseof Walter Lippmann,pp.91-92.
28. "Creating a Republican Labor Party."
2 9 . T h e C a s eo f W a l t e r L i p p m a n n ,p . 6 9 .
gO.Ibid.,pp.94-95; alsosee"The German Constitutional State and Terrorism," policy statement (in translation) of
the West German executive committee of LaRouche's European Labor Party, The Campaigner,February 7978,
pp.40-42.
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