WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700029-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EVENTS
7 FEBRUARY 1981
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You'll find them at airports and shopping
centers selling newspapers and magazines. They're
well-dressed and fast-talking. They plug economic
growth and nuclear power. They denounce drugs,
liberals and Ralph Nader. But appearances are
deceiving. These conservative-looking and talking
political salesmen are not conservatives?they're
pro-Soviet.
. .
- They masquerade as representatives of the
Na-
tional Democratic Policy Committee, the New
Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS), the
National Anti-Drug Coalition, the Fusion Energy
Foundation- and the Executive Intelligence Review.
They used to operate as membes of the National
Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) and the
U.S. Labor Party (USLP). All of these organi-
zations lead to one man?Lyndon H. LaRoucheJr.
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LaRouche, a former inember of the Trotskyite
Communist Socialist Workers party (SWP),
emerged as the leader of a faction of the Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s.
He built his group into a political intelligence net-
work with about one thousand operatives stationed
? in North America, Western Europe and South
? America. These operatives tirelessly and mindless-
ly promote the bizarre conspiracy theories of
LaRouche, who ran as the USLP candidate for
President in 1976 and campaigned for the
? Democratic nomination in 1980.
In a series of lectures given in 1976, "What Only
? Communists Know," LaRouche described his net-
work as a part of the "world's Maixist labor move-
ment" which together with "allied Communist
forces within the capitalist sector generally are
working overnight, constantly, to bring into being
a new Marxist International..." - - -
? ; In that same year, however, LaRouche appeared
to reverse course; ordering his followers to pursue
"tactical alliances" witleconserVatives_ LaRouche
? became critical of the drug lobby, the anti-nuclear
movement, and the left-wing fnstitute for Policy
Studies. .
LaRouche also concocted conspiracy theories
involving; the Trilateral Commission, the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Rockefellers, the British
and "Zionist agents." . .
Yet his supposed attacks on the left always
seemed to result in attacks on responsible con-
servatives and Western intelligence agencies;
diverting attention away from Soviet ?
aggression.
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which- claimed that the anti-nuclear movement was
run by the New York-based Council on Foreign -
Relations and a London institute. But the article
also attacked London. Daily Telegraph columnist
Robert Moss and Rep. McDonald for charging
Soviet manipulation of the anti-nuclear movement
in the West. Executive Intelligence Review labeled
;these charges as conspiracy
f.?,=;.:-A 1978 book distribute& by the USLP.Dope,
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Inc., an alleged expose of who controls the world's.
-narcotics trafficking, curiously ignored the role of
'.every.-Communist power except Red 'china in- the
?dopeirade. This is not surprising,:.since.a Soviet
:commentator is cited as a-source *for some of the
?
allegations made in .the
Also of. interest is. how the LaRotiche group
.:-react-ed to The Spike,' the best-selling:novel abOut
Soviet:espionage and disinformation operations
'written by Robert Moss and fanner Nemisiveeic Cor-
. respondent Arnaud de )3orchgrave. LaRouche Said
'the book "promotes belief in a non-existent aspect
of. the. Soviet KGB..."Another .review of the
tropic*. their newspaper, New Solidarity,,rejected
:_the book's claim that the Soviet .Union-was a
primary _sponsor. of international _terrorism.
::According to New _Solidarity, the real:sponsor is
--"Anglo-AmeriCanlintelligence,""Of_Which Robert.
? Moss is supposed-to be a member: 7,77; ??? ? '
Last July New Solidarity published an interview .
?..with Gen. Nino Pas. ti, identified as a retired NATO -
_military officer who was '..!to become a Member of
1'the Italian Communist parliament on the Corn- t
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