WHO AND WHAT IS LYND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700061-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EVENTS
7 FEBRUARY 1981
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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
pro-Soviet. The report
They masquerade as representatives of the Na- "Wall Street
tional Democratic Policy Committee, the New tional terrori:
Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS), the Another repc
National Anti-Drug Coalition, the Fusion Energy Studies, Clair
Foundation- and the Executive Intelligence Review. for 90 per cc
They used to operate as membes of the National.. Communists
Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) and. the Western intell
U.S. Labor Party (USLP). All of these organi- anti-Commui
zations lead to one man-Lyndon H. LaRoucheJr. Ga.) because
LaRouche, a former member of the Trotskyite of "alleged"
In 1979 Ex
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Communist Socialist Workers party (SWP), ? an article
Who Are the Environmentalists?"
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emerged as the leader of a faction of the Students whichclaimed 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. Executive Intelligence Review labeled
LaRouche, who ran as the USLP candidate for `these charges as `wild conspiracy tales.:' -;
President in 1976 and campaigned for the - :? . ? .
N 9.1978 book distributed by the USI:P;:'Dope,.,
Democratic nomination in 1980. Inc., an alleged expose of who controls the world's - I
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 apart 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.:." reacted'to The Spike, the best-sellingnovel 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 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 tnstitute for Policy .) of. the. Soviet KGB.....'..' Another. review= of the
? book
Studies. i4 their newspaper, New Solidarity rejected
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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,":ofwhich Robert?
Moss is supposedto be a member.:
Yet his supposed attacks on the left always
seemed to result in attacks on responsible con- Last July New Solidarity published an interview
servatives and Western intelligence agencies, with Gen. Nino Paso, identified as a retired NATO -
diverting attention away from Soviet - military officer who was "to become a remember of
.the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
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