WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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You'll find them at airports and shopping In 1976i
centers selling newspapers and magazines. They're "Carter a
well-dressed and fast-talking. They plug economic rorism," w
growth and nuclear power. They denounce drugs, ' links betty
liberals and Ralph Nader. But appearances are the Instit
deceiving. These conservative-looking and talking. connected t
political salesmen are not conservatives-they're and dourest
pro-Soviet.
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:They masquerade as representatives of the Na- "Wall Str
tional Democratic Policy Committee, the New tional terra
Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS), the Another re
National Anti-Drug Coalition, the Fusion Energy Studies, cl
Foundation- and the Executive Intelligence Review. for 90 per
They used to operate as membes of the National Communist
Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) and. the Western int
U.S. Labor Party (USLP). All of these organi- anti-Comm
zations lead to one man-Lyndon H. LaRoucheIr. Ga.) becau
LaRouche, a former member of the Trotskyite of "alleged
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emerged as the leader of a faction of the Students
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for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s. run by the New York-based . Council on Foreign?
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America. These operatives tirelessly and mindless- Robert Moss and Rep- McDonald for charging
ly promote the bizarre conspiracy theories of :Soviet manipulation of the anti-nuclear movement.
LaRouche, who ran as the USLP candidate for in the West. Executive Intelligence Review labeled
these charges as "wild conspiracy tales.::'.';,
President in 1976 and campaigned for the ,
Democratic nomination in 1980. -4.. ?A.-1978 book distributed- by 'the USLPope, .
Inc., an alleged expose of who controls the world's
In a series of lectures given in 1976, "What Only --narcotics trafficking, curiously ignored the role of
'Communists Know," LaRouche described his net- -- every.Communist power except Red China in. the
work as a part of the "world's Marxist labor move- - dope_trade. This is not surprising, since a Soviet
ment" which together with "allied Communist .:commentator is cited as a source for some of the
forces within the capitalist sector generally are allegations made in-the book.::--.:,.
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working overnight, constantly, to bring into being Also Of. interest is how the: LaRouche group
a new Marxist International.:." 'reacted'to The Spike, "the best-selling:novel about
In that same year, however, LaRouche appeared Soviet espionage and disinformation operations
to reverse course," ordering his followers to pursue written by Robert Moss and former Newsweek cor-
"tactical alliances" with'conservaiives_LaRouche . respondent Arnaud deBorchgrave. LaRouche said
became critical of the drug lobby, the anti-nuclear the book. "promotes belief in a non-existent aspect
movement, and the left-wing Institute for Policy of the. Soviet KGB.....".Another -review, of the
Studies. ~? _ . :book in, their newspaper, New Solidarity, rejected
LaRouche also concocted conspiracy theories : the book's claim that the -Soviet -Union-:was a
involving the Trilateral Commission, the Council ;primary .Sponsor, . of international ,terrorism.
on Foreign Relations, the Rockefellers, the British According to New Solidarity, the real sponsor is
and "Zionist agents." z"Anglo-American intelligence,"-of.which Robert.'
1 Moss is supposed to be a member.:
Yet his supposed attacks on the left always
seemed to result in attacks on responsible con- Last July New Solidarity published an interview
servatives and Western intelligence agencies, -with Gen. Nino Pasti, identified as a retired NATO
diverting attention away from Soviet military officer who was "to become a member of
aggression. `the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
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