WHO AND WHAT IS LYNDON LAROUCHE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100310009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• 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
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, "Who Are the Environmentalists?"
which claimed that theanti-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.':'' ,.::..
:4>~: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 Maixist labor move- dope-trade. This is not surprising, since a Soviet
ment" 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-selling novel 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 Institute for Policy of. the. Soviet KGB...':." Another-review of the
Studies, book in 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." "Angla-?American 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 con-
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servatives and Western intelligence agencies; with Gen. Nino Paso, identified as a retired NATO
diverting attention away from Soviet~y officer who was to become a member of
.. =the Italian Communist parliament on the Com-
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