WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EZ'EiiTS
7 FEBRUARY 1981
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Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) and. the Wester inter
U.S. Labor Party (USLP). All of these organi- anti-Comm
They used to operate as membes of the National . Communists
Foundation- and the Executive Intelligence Review. for 90 per c
Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS), the Another repq
National Anti-Drug Coalition, the Fusion Energy Studies, cl
They masquerade as representatives of the Na- "Wall Street
tional Democratic Policy Committee, the New tional terrori
pro- uviet. The report
You'll find them at airports and shopping In 1976,
centers selling newspapers and magazines. They're "Carter anc,
well-dressed and fast-talking. They plug economic rorism," wh
growth and nuclear power. They denounce drugs, links betwee
liberals and Ralph Nader. But appearances are the Institute
deceiving. These conservative-looking and talking connected to
political salesmen are not conservatives-they're and domestic
zations lead to one man-Lyndon ti. LaxoucneJ r. Ga.) becaus
LaRouche, a former member of the Trotskyite
Communist Socialist Workers party (SWP),
emerged as the leader of a faction of the Students
fora 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 Marxist 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...
of "alleged'
. In 1979 E~
an article, "Who Are the Environmentalists?"
which claimed that thean ti-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 `wild conspiracy tales..".'
,==:A-1978 book distributed- by the USLP - 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
allegations made in.the book.:..=-:.:= `" =:: `-.~: ? ?-
Also of . interest is how the' LaRouche group
reacted to The Spike, the best-selling novel about
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
movemenrt, and the left-wing Institute for Policy : of the- Soviet KGB...;.." Another. review, of the
Studies. book u 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." "Anglo-American intelligence,": of which Robert.i rMoss 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 at on responsible con- .with Gen. Nino Paso, identified as a retired NATO
servatives and Western intelligence agencies,
diverting attention away from Soviet uu itary officer who w . as "to become a member of
aggression.' 4 ',the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
In that same year, however, LaRouche appeared
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