WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700008-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EVENTS
7 FEBRUARY 1981
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Who - and .,Wh "
You'll find them at airports and shopping 1
In 1976,
centers selling newspapers and magazines. They're "Carter anc
well-dressed and fast-talking. They plug economic r,r;cn, ? wh
growth and nuclear power. They denounce drugs,
liberals and Ralph Nader. But appearances are
links- betwee
the Institute
connected to
and domestic
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 member 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. LaRoucheIr.
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.
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
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. '
The. report
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of "alleged"
In 1979 EE
an article, "Who Are the Environmentalists?" -
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
,
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
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. I 'reacted to The Spike, the best-selling:novel about
In that same year, however; LaRouche appeared i Soviet - espionage and disinformation operations
to reverse course, ordering his followers to pursue
"tactical alliances" with'conservaiives. LaRouche
became critical of the drug lobby, the anti-nuclear
written by Robert Moss and former Newsweek cor-
respondent Arnaud de Borchgrave. LaRouche said
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 irk their newspaper, New Solidarity,,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.
j he book's claim -that the -Soviet -Union--was a
primary sponsor- - of _ international ?terrorism.
'According to New'. Solidarity, the real sponsor is
"Angla-American intelligence,"-of.which Robert-'
rMoss is supposed to be a member::"'
Last July New Solidarity published an interview
with Gen. Nino Pasti, identified as a retired NATO
military officer who was :`to become a. member of
the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
which claimed that the anti-nuclear movement was
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