WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201130001-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN M'EidTS
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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which claimed that the anti-nuclear movement was
for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s. run by the New York-based Council on Foreign
He built his group into a political intelligence net- Relations and a London institute.- But the article"
work with about one thousand- operatives stationed also attacked London Daily Telegraph columnist
in North America, Western Europe and South Robert Moss and Rep. McDonald for charging
America. These operatives tirelessly and mindless- Soviet manipulation of the anti-nuclear movement
ly promote the bizarre conspiracy theories of in the West. EzecutiveIntelligenceReview labeled
LaRouche, who ran as the USLP candidate for these charges as "wild conspiracy "
President in 1976 and campaigned for the ~~a"
Democratic nomination in 1980. ?A.1978 book distributed- by the USLP; -Dap''
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 I
meat" 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... ~:.
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 formerNe)$sweek cor-
"tactical alliances" with-conservatives_ LaRouche respondent Arnaud de Borchgrave. 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 I
studies. :book in, their newspaper, New Solidan rejected
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. - _ . ".....
the book's claim that the 'Soviet -Union--was a
primary sponsor.. of international ?terrorism.
`According to New Solidarity, the real sponsor is
}"Angle-American intelligence,"-of Which Robert.'
' Moss is supposed-to be a member:
Last July New Solidarity published an interview
with. Gen. Nino Pasti, identified asaretired NATO
military officer who was `.`to become a member of
."the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
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