lkk@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Larry Kolodney) (03/25/86)
Since Lyndon LaRouche is in the news again, I though I'd repost a
bit of info that appeared here last year.
-lkk
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This is an excerpt of an article documenting ties between Lyndon
LaRouche, the right wing conspiricy theorist and would-be
presidential candidate, and our own Ronnie.
From THE GUARDIAN November 14, p. 8:
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In the past three presidential elections, LaRouche has
denounced Democrats as conspirators of one sort or another.
LaRouche's hostility to the Democratic Party contrasts
sharply with his attraction to the GOP and Ronald Reagan, whose
election he greeted with enthusiasm. James Watt came close to
hiring LaRouche as a consultant until wiser heads put a stop to
it, according to former members of LaRouche's organization.
Neverthe less, two senior NDPC [National Democratic Policy
Committee, LaRouche's front organization -lkk] members were breakfast
guests of Watt in July 1981.
Other Reagan administration officials have treated
LaRouche's rantings as rational. During his tenure as deputy
director of the CIA under Reagan, Bobby Inman met with LaRouche
about half a dozen times. Approximately a dozen meetings between
members of the National Security Council (NSC) and LaRouche and
his aids have taken place. Norman Baily, a former NSC member and
now a Reagan campaign adviser, admitted to "First Camera" [NBC's
60 minutes clone -lkk] that he and others had meetings with the
NDPC, and said that he felt LaRouche followers had some influence
on Reagan policymakers. After the "First Camera" expose of
LaRouche assassination plots, KKK connections and cult
fanaticism, LaRouche stated in a court deposition that he and
Bailey continue a cordial relationship.
LaRouche publications such as New Solidarity praise
cabinet secretaries Caspar Weinberger, Ray Donovan and William
Clark as well as CIA Director William Casey and other Reign
officials. When Labor Secretary Ray Donovan, now under
indictment, was being investigated for alleged links to organized
crime and other wrongdoing in New Jersey, LaRouche people
attempted to defend Donovan and discredit the investigators by
seeking damaging information on them.
An article in the current New Republic magazine by Dennis
King and Ron Radosh further documents ties between LaRouche
operatives and Reagan administration officials. Despite the NBC
and New Republic exposes, and Democratic chair Charles Manatt's
call for an investigation, the media has by and large played down
the connection between NDPC and the administration. The Chicago
Tribune is the only paper that carried more than a mention of the
charges in the original NBC report; it also confirmed the White
House links. Coverage of the testimony in the slander trial
[LaRouche sued NBC for slander, the jury awarded NBC $3 million
in punitive damages -lkk] was virtually nonexistent.
Nor does the Internal Revenue Service seem to be very
interested in the fact that LaRouche has not paid taxes in years
, has mixed non-profit and for-profit funds and has paid members
of his business fronts in cash so that many of them pay little or
no taxes either.
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