CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100260015-8
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 4, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DOBYNS: I'm Lloyd Dobyns. ur ' rst report
has to do with a candidate for the presidency and his followers. There is no
shortage of candidates, heaven knows. The Federal Election Commission says
there are 168 candidates in this election year, including-at least one robot and
maybe a coyote. Mark Nykanen has a story about one of the 81 candidates for the
Democratic nomination, a man named Lyndon LaRouche. Since his name didn't come
up in the results of the New Hampshire primary, you may not know him. But you
may be aware of at least one of his causes, and you may have run into some of
his followers. There are only 450 or so in the United States; but they're
active.
NYKANEN: They have almost become fixtures in airports all across the country.
They are mostly white, well-educated and earnest. They sell magazines that
promote nuclear power. And they display signs critical of Walter Mondale and
-others. These people are part of a political cult run by Lyndon LaRouche.
LYNDON LAROUCHE (Presidential Candidate): Democrats, let those of us who
remember, take back the leadership of the Democratic Party from-this gang that's
taken it over.
NYKANEN: LaRouche is a presidential candidate. He also ran in 1976 and 1980.
He says he's a conservative Democrat. But party leaders say he has his own-
He says, for example, that the Queen of England is a dope dealer.
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NYKANEN: LaRouche and his followers have formed a tightly-knit organization,
the inner workings of which are not well-known to outsiders. Tonight, we'll
talk to some former members. They call themselves defectors. And we'll look at
LaRouche's involvements in local and national elections; with the Teamsters
Union and the Reagan administration. We'll examine charges that he is an
anti-Semite. We'll also see how LaRouche and his followers have suppressed some
unfavorable news stories and tried to intimidate reporters. LaRouche's public
involvement in politics began in the late 1960s here at Columbia-University. He
was the leader of a splinter group in the left-wing SDS. Students for a
Democratic Society. And at that time, he called himself Lynn Marcus.
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NYKANEN: LaRouche broke from the SDS and recruited other members to join him in
a new, even more militant, left-wing group, the National Caucus of Labor
Committees. In 1973, LaRouche ordered his followers to physically attack dozens
of political opponents. Many were hospitalized.
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NYKANEN: In the late 1970s, LaRouche became an extreme right-winger. Most of
his cult fell into line. He then sought support from conservative Republicans.
But be didn't win over all of them. Gen. Daniel Graham is a former director of-
the.Defense Intelligence Agency. GEN. GRAHAM: Well, I think he's a phony. I
think.the man is picking up issues, people of my conservative stripe, tend to
pport and then making a mockery out of them.
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