WHO AND WHAT IS LYNDON LAROUCHE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100320010-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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.
LaRouche, a former member 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. =
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an article,
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 I
Robert Moss and Rep. McDonald for charging
Soviet manipulation of the anti-nuclear movement
in the West. Executive Intelligence Review labeled
these charges as "wild conspiracy tales.:',
' '-A 1978 book distributed- by the USI:P -Dope .
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
-dope-trade. This is not surprising, since a Soviet
.commentator is cited as a-source for some of the
I
' allegations made in.the book.: _ . _ . : _ ..;
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, LaRoucheappeared = Soviet espionage and disinformation operations
to reverse course, ordering his followers to pursue written by Robert Moss and former Newsweek 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
Studies, :::. : book i 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." r"Angl~Amencan intelligence," of. which Robert.'
! _ Moss is supposed-to be a member::'
Yet his supposed attacks on the left always
Last July New Solidarity published an interview
seemed to result in attacks on responsible with Gen. Nino Paso identified as aretired NATO -
servatives and Western n intelligence agencies, mihtary officer who was "to becomeaa member of
diverting attention away from Soviet
=the Italian Communist parliament on th
aggression. e Corn-
In a series of lectures given in 1976, "What Only
Communists Know," LaRouche described his net-
work as a part of the "world's Marxist labor move-
ment" which together with "allied Communist
forces within the capitalist sector generally are
working overnight, constantly, to bring into being
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