FRINGE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY HASSLED OVER U.S. MATCHING FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100640030-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 29, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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A--RT1CILE APPFARID MIAs HERALD
ON ?A, '. _ 29 January 1984
Fringe candidate for presidency.
hassled over. U.S. matching funds
By KEN FIREMAN
For many years, obreivers and
liemw Weshiegcon aursau - critics of LaRouche have wondered
'WASHINGTON - He was a con- publicly how his relatively small
scientious objector in World War II, organization, the US. Labor Party,?
a-mernber of a Trotskyite sect in the which has about 2,000 members na-
10s and '60s, and now is the leader tionwide, could generate such large
of a small, amounts of money (one researcher
highly !died- estimated its annual budget at $4
pained -? and million).
well-financed One major source of funds has
political organi- been the LaRouche-sponsored Fu-
zation that ?sion Energy Foundation, which sup-
some have com- ports nuclear-generated power. Its
pared to a reli- conservatively attired salesmen can
gious cult. be found in airports around the
And Lyndon
H. LaRouche
Jr. is running
for president
L
R
h
a
ouc
e other fringe
candidates, be has raised enough
money to buy 30 minutes of net-
-,vork television time and cause a
minor furor over whether he should
be granted federal matching funds
,{or his campaign.
The 62-year-old ex-Marxist,
making his third try for the presi.
dency. is seeking the Democratic ;
nomination on a stridently anti-So-
let platform.
He used' last week's television
broadcast (which cost him S200,000
in advance) to expound his main
:, campaign theme, which is that for.
mer Vice President Walter Mondale
and the other Democrats have sold
out to the Soviets and that only a
presidential order declaring .a "na.
e tional defense emergency mobiliza-
tion" can forestall an imminent nu.
clear attack by the Soviets.
i
On Thursday, the Federal Elec-
a tion Commission ruled that be is in-
eligible to receive matching funds
for his 1984 campaign because he
(failed to fulfill agreements signed in
1980, when he received more than i
$526,000 in matching funds in his
unsuccessful bid for the Democratic
s nomination.
country, soliciting contributions
and selling expensively priced liter-
ature. Ex-members -say this operation generates gross receipts of sev-
eral thousand dollars a week at air-
ports in major cities.
Darkersourcesi'? _
v right Liberty Lobby as a conduit.
LaRouche denied the charge.
Over the years, other LaRouche
critics have charged him and his
supporters with anti-Semitism,
:physical intimidation of opponents,
Psychological ? indoctrination of
members and a variety of "dirty
tricks." including impersonating re-
porters to gain information.
LaRouche has denied- those
charges an s o ten c ed that
.M _was targeted for harassment an
ov B: B iu roW20 _ nce
pro- onist to nc ers.
Others suggest, darker sources. I
One ex-member of the U.S. Labor
Party. Gregory Rose, citing'
"sources close to" the group,
charged five years ago that extreme
right-wing groups bad secretly fun-
neled large sums into LaRouche's
1976 presidential campaign on the
Labor Party ticket using the far-
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