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"Why Lyndon LaRouche is in Jail"
May 30, 1992
LAROUCHE: There is no need for this depression! By a few
simple actions which I would take within the hour that I were
inaugurated President -- and with your support to whip the
majority of the Congress into line -- I would set into motion
the same, general economic recovery, which Roosevelt accomplished
during the period between 1939 and 1943.
ANNOUNCER: Lyndon LaRouche is the only Presidential candidate
who has had the guts to call our current economic mess a
depression; and who has the program to get us out of it.
That is why Lyndon LaRouche was put into a federal prison,
on the initiative of Henry A. Kissinger and his friends.
Lyndon LaRouche is a political prisoner. He committed
no crime. He is in jail because his ideas represent a political
danger. Evidence already placed before the courts -- including
government documents, and the testimony of government agents
-- prove conclusively that LaRouche is innocent.
The government has admitted that it holds tens of thousands
of additional, unreleased documents from its secret war against
LaRouche. George Bush has been repeatedly asked to release
those files which would show LaRouche's innocence but has
refused.
What has Lyndon LaRouche done, that George Bush must
keep him silenced in a prison cell?
Let's go back in time ten years, to 1982. Although the
American news media refused to report on any of his far-ranging
initatives, LaRouche was very well known, and influential,
among leadership circles particularly in the Third World,
and also throughout the international scientific community.
LaRouche was especially respected for his work in
formulating science policy. He had, for instance, identified
the importance of laser and particle beams in strategic missile
defense as far back as 1977. In 1982, LaRouche worked in
close cooperation with the Reagan Administration, conducting
back-channel discussions with the Soviet Union, to explore
joint U.S.-Soviet development of ballistic missile defense,
as an alternative to nuclear warfare. These ideas were adopted
by the Reagan Administration, under the name, Strategic Defense
Initiative.
At the same time, Lyndon LaRouche continued to organize for
the reform of the international monetary system. Since his days
in India, during World War II, LaRouche had been dedicated to
creating new international monetary institutions which would
provide the equitable benefits of technological and scientific
progress to the nations of the developing sector. LaRouche
repeatedly warned that the U.S. economy could not survive, by
merely looting the developing sector through an ever-increasing
debt burden. LaRouche identified that this policy was not only
immoral; it would destroy the potential markets of the
industrialized nations; and it would hasten a global financial
collapse.
Let LaRouche continue the story in his own words:
LAROUCHE: During the spring of 1982, I was the first to use the
term "debt bomb," to describe the debt crises which was about to
explode. During June and July of that year, I conveyed to
various governments of Ibero-America and to our own government my
recommendations for immediate action to prevent this debt crises
from triggering a collapse in the solvency of the U.S. banking
system and thus triggering the conditions for a new worldwide
financial collapse.
During August 1982, the "debt bomb," exploded in Mexico.
For a period of approximately an hour during that month, the
entire world financial system was on the edge of a total
collapse.
However, the Reagan administration refused to accept
my proposals, which could have stopped the world financial
crises right at that time. Instead, the Reagan administration
brought in Henry A. Kissinger and adopted Kissinger's policies.
My proposal for solving the financial crisis of the Western
Hemisphere is called Operation Juarez. This is the name of
a report which I prepared at the request of leading circles
in South America and Mexico, a report which I submitted to
those governments and to our own government at the beginning
of August, just weeks before the Mexico crisis exploded.
Since August 1982, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger's associate
Lane Kirkland, and officials of the State and Treasury
Departments have concentrated the major part of their political
efforts in Washingtion and in Mexico and South America in
an effort to prevent the policies I present in Operation Juarez
from being adopted. ["Stopping the Present Spiral of Worldwide
Financial Collapse": nationwide network TV broadcast, June
1, 1984]
ANNOUNCER: When he spoke these words in 1984, LaRouche did not
know that, in addition to personally touring Ibero-America to
subvert Operation Juarez, Henry Kissinger had also sent a letter.
VOICE ONE: "To William Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation. August 19, 1982. Dear Bill: I appreciated
your letter forwarding the flyer which has been circulated
by Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. Because these people have been getting
increasingly obnoxious. I have taken the liberty of asking
my lawyer, Bill Rogers, to get in touch with you to ask your
advice, especially with respect to security. It was good
to see you at the Grove, and I look forward to the chance
to visit again when I am next in Washington. Warm regards.
Henry A. Kissinger."
ANNOUNCER: Three months later Kissinger formalized this demand.
VOICE ONE: "November 25, 1982. Dear Judge Webster: We may be
witnessing here not normal radical political action, but a
systematic disinformation campaign supported by some foreign
intelligence service.... Who finances this network of
organizations, newsletters and newspapers? Henry A. Kissinger."
ANNOUNCER: Kissinger's precise formulation -- "supported
by some foreign intelligence service" -- was designed to
legitimate anti-LaRouche operations under Executive Order
12333. 12333 was signed by President Reagan in 1981, allowing
the U.S. intelligence community to violate its own published
guidelines, while operating against any group suspected of
foreign intelligence ties. Executive Order 12333 was the
document which William Casey and Oliver North used, to justify
the Iran-Contra arms scandal.
Kissinger's message got quick results.
VOICE TWO: "January 12, 1983. To Oliver Revell, FBI Investigative
Division. At the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
meeting today, David Abshire raised the subject of the activities
of the U.S. Labor Party and Lyndon LaRouche. He noted that he
and a number of other Americans in public life had been the
subject of repeated harassment by LaRouche and wondered whether
the FBI had a basis for investigating these activities under the
guidelines or otherwise. A number of the members present,
including Edward Bennett Williams, raised the question of
the sources of funding of these U.S. Labor Party activities.
In view of the large amounts obviously being expended worldwide,
the question was raised whether the U.S. Labor Party might
be funded by hostile intelligence agencies." [William Webster,
Director, FBI]
ANNOUNCER: This document triggered a massive dirty tricks
campaign, aimed especially at the LaRouche organization's
finances. The late Edward Bennett Williams, one of the
participants of this secret meeting, explained the goal in a
taped telephone conversation three and a half years later.
EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS: This fellow LaRouche and his gang are
about to be indicted up there in Massachusetts.... I'm going to
have dinner with Henry [Kissinger] next week, and I am going to
talk to him about the whole thing because I think the opportunity
is now surfacing.... [Aug. 7, 1986]
ANNOUNCER: The official excuse for the FBI's war on LaRouche
-- suspicion of foreign intelligence ties -- was absurd, because
one of Kissinger's top allies in the campaign was the Soviet
KGB. Again, LaRouche tells the story in his own words.
LAROUCHE: Nearly two years ago, during a two-day seminar in
Washington, D.C., I proposed a new strategic doctrine for the
United States to an audience which included Soviet officials as
well as representatives of our government agencies. I proposed
that we dump Kissinger's and McNamara's Flexible Response
doctrine, and end the age of thermonuclear terror, through
deploying the kinds of anti-missile defenses which science had
made possible.
My proposals caught fire immediately among influential
circles. With the knowledge of our government, I conducted
exploratory discussions privately with Soviet representatives for
a period of over twelve months. When Dr. [Edward] Teller
announced similar proposals in the fall of 1982, our news media
was no longer able to suppress information about the fact of
this discussion and the new doctrine from the American public.
On March 23, our President not only announced such a
new strategic doctrine for the United States itself; but in
that same nationwide television broadcast, he offered to
negotiate with Moscow to bring the age of thermonuclear
revenge-weapons to an end. If the Soviet leaders had accepted
the President's offer at that time, tonight you and your family
could sleep in knowledge that the age of thermonuclear terror
was being brought to an end.
But the Soviet Union did not wish peace. ["Call for a
National Defense Emergency Mobilization": CBS-TV nationwide
broadcast, January 21, 1984]
ANNOUNCER: Even though LaRouche's beam defense proposal was
posed as a science-driver -- a joint program, whose shared
technologies would help the economies of both countries -- the
Soviets saw it as a new technological race which they could not
win. The decision was made to stop the SDI at all costs, and to
help destroy the man who the Soviets saw as the intellectual
author of the proposal, Lyndon LaRouche.
Right after President Reagan announced the Strategic
Defense Initiative, in a speech on March 23, 1983, the Soviets
broke off all back-channel contact with LaRouche. Slandering
articles began appearing in the Soviet press in June.
Both the anti-SDI and anti-LaRouche campaigns became
the direct responsibility of Fyodor Burlatskii, a long-time
advisor to Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB who had become
Soviet party chief.
It was Burlatskii who gave the Soviet Union's official
line on SDI.
VOICE THREE: "This would create a practically irresistable
temptation for the American military men and politicians:
to inflict a first strike.... In other words, space weapons
are provocative weapons; they are, absolutely, a casus belli
for nuclear war." [Literaturnaya Gazeta, Aug. 10, 1983]
ANNOUNCER: Casus belli: the legal justification for war.
When Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, German political leader
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, attacked Burlatskii for making this
threat, the Soviet official responded:
VOICE THREE: "I did not know if I should be indignant or
laugh about the amusing and ridiculous maxims of the authors,
the conjugal symbiosis of the American LaRouche and his wife,
the German Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who come out...of a nonexistent
party. We will not pay attention to their trivial pretentions."
[Literaturnaya Gazeta, Oct. 26, 1983]
ANNOUNCER: However, Burlatskii and the Communist media actually
paid quite a bit of attention to Lyndon LaRouche.
VOICE FOUR: "They came to Rome from various countries on the
invitation from a certain Lyndon LaRouche.... As the hobby
horse of his electoral campaign, LaRouche has chosen...space
weaponry. He was delighted with the proposals Reagan made
on March 23 of this year.... The get-together showed that both
Reagan and LaRouche have followers in the Old World." [Izvestia,
Nov. 15, 1983]
THIRD VOICE: "Even the 'free' press directly calls
these...neo-facsist organizations protected by the CIA, and
calls its leader, the American Lyndon LaRouche...'Fuehrer.'"
[Literaturnaya Gazeta, March 28, 1984]
ANNOUNCER: Meanwhile, certain sections of the American
intelligence community were arranging their own press attacks on
LaRouche. According to the testimony of Mira Lansky-Boland, a
former employee of the CIA, now an official of the
Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith, planning meetings were
conducted at the New York City apartment of investment banker
John Train, starting in 1983. Boland, who was present, testified
that the meetings included representatives from the National
Security Council, the Anti-Defamation League, the Wall Street
Journal, NBC television network, and others.
The Train meetings planned a campaign to characterize
LaRouche in the news media as a "political extremist."
Prejudicing public opinion of LaRouche in this way, was necessary
to justify the secret government's already-planned railroad
of LaRouche.
This news media dirty tricks campaign went into high gear
with a half-hour special on NBC network. ["First Camera", March
4, 1984] The broadcast used the tried-and-true, black propaganda
technique of assembling so many different kinds of wild
accusations against LaRouche, that, even if the whole thing
didn't make sense, at least one charge would stick in the mind of
the audience.
Then, back to Moscow.
VOICE FOUR: "Lyndon LaRouche is striving to undermine the
influence of communists and other left forces among workers
and student youth.... The scandalous ties of the Reagan
Administration with LaRouche were exposed in a special report
on NBC television.... The acknowledgement by the White House
not only exposes the true face of LaRouche, but it also shows
that the current Washington administration does not shy away
from the services of neo-fascist provocateurs." [Izvestiya,
March 12, 1984]
ANNOUNCER: This Soviet demand that the Reagan Administration
immediately break off all relations with LaRouche, was identical
to one made four days before by Charles Manatt, the chairman of
the Democratic National Committee and a violent foe of the SDI.
Manatt told the Chicago Tribune [March 8, 1984] that "the
shocking White House involvement with the bizarre,
extremist...Lyndon LaRouche" must end.
So by March 1984, we have the amazing spectacle of the
chairman of the Democratic Party, Henry Kissinger, the Soviet
KGB, the American FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, and NBC
network television, all publicly saying the same thing at the
same time: get Lyndon LaRouche!
Against this opposition, LaRouche waged his 1984 Presidential
campaign, highlighting the growing danger to the world economy.
LAROUCHE: Now some fellows will tell you that the kinds of
things I'm talking about, won't work. They will say to you
that everything is just fine; that Kissinger and his friends
have solved the problem of the Latin American debt. Those fellows
either don't know what they're talking about -- don't know
much of anything about this matter -- or else, as in the case
of Kissinger's friends, they are simply lying outright....
Our own internal banking system is in desperate condition. Don't
let the whistling in the dark fool you; we're in trouble.
["Great Projects vs. Kissinger's Genocide": CBS-TV nationwide
broadcast, March 17, 1984]
ANNOUNCER: Meanwhile, in the Fall of 1984, a Grand Jury was
convened. It would sit month after month, trying unsuccessfully
to manufacture indictments against LaRouche.
At the same time, the secret government's press campaign
in America escalated, with thousands of articles and reports,
calling LaRouche everything in the book.
At the beginning of 1986, the Soviets tried a particularly
nasty trick. On March 28, Swedish Premier Olof Palme, a longtime
opponent of Lyndon LaRouche, was assassinated in Stockholm. The
very next day, Georgii Arbatov, the Soviet Union's top expert on
America, told a press conference, "I don't know who killed Olof
Palme, but I know who hated him."
ANNOUNCER: And then Arbatov proceeded to unmistakeably describe
the activities of the European Labor Party, Lyndon LaRouche's
co-thinker party in Sweden.
Within a week, the Stockholm Police Chief, Hans Holmer,
announced that the European Labor Party was a suspect in the
assassination. This became front page news in Europe and the
Soviet Union. The Soviets went so far as to produce a prime-time
"docudrama" accusing LaRouche.
SOVIET ACTOR: The European Labor Party is already a force in
more than ten countries; its headquarters are in the USA. Its
precise goal is the struggle against communism. Fighting with the
Reds, they don't neglect the Pinks either. Listen to the words
of their leader, LaRouche. ["Who Killed Olof Palme?" In Russian,
with English subtitles.]
ANNOUNCER: The story was broken in the U.S. by NBC, which
interviewed Anti-Defamation League official Irwin Suall. Suall
immediately flew to Stockholm to help Holmer with his
investigation. All this was still front-page news.
What wasn't front-page news, was the fact that, weeks later,
the European Labor Party was dropped from suspicion, amid
protests that Police Chief Holmer had tampered with evidence in
order to link the Labor Party with the assassination, and amid
criticism of the U.S. media. Finally, just a few months ago, in
1992, it was discovered that the Scandinavian journalist who led
the attacks on LaRouche in the Palme Affair, one Joergen
Dragsdahl, had been a top KGB secret agent from 1986 on.
In April of 1986, despite the slander campaign, candidates
publicly affiliated with LaRouche, received impressive votes
in several primary elections, and won a statewide contest in
Illinois. The news media went a little crazy.
MARK NYKANEN: The [National] Press Club was packed, reflecting a
growing interest in LaRouche, who says that he comes from a long
political tradition.
LAROUCHE: If Abe Lincoln were alive, he'd probably be standing
up here with me today.
NYKANEN: LaRouche said voter support for his organization
comes from farmers, blacks, and blue-collar workers.
LAROUCHE: They want me to stick it to Washington. That's what
the voters want.
NYKANEN: And, that's exactly what he did today...
ROBERT NOVAK: I think they're scared to death of Lyndon LaRouche.
FIRST ANCHOR: Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche...
SECOND ANCHOR: Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche...
THIRD ANCHOR: Political-political-politi-liti-litical extremist
Lyndon LaRouche.
VOICE FOUR: "LaRouche is now clearly going through a definite
period of growth.... For many in the U.S., the really concrete
question arises: How is it possible that the LaRouchites can act
so openly and fearlessly? In this respect, the Washington Post
wrote...'Why isn't the Internal Revenue Service interested in the
affairs of [this] man...?'" [Sovetskaya Kultura, Sept.30, 1986.]
ANNOUNCER: The next week, on Oct. 6, 1986, the IRS, along with
400 members of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Virginia
State and local police, armed with automatic weapons,
helicopters, and armored cars raided the offices of three
organizations identified with LaRouche. The purpose was to seize
hundreds of pounds of documents, and to deliver indictments which
had finally been manufactured in Boston.
In April, 1987, the Federal government culminated years
of financial warfare, by convincing a judge, in secret, to force
three publishing companies operated by associates of LaRouche,
into involuntary bankruptcy.
Lyndon LaRouche campaigned for President throughout 1988,
despite the attempted destruction of his campaign machine, and
the fact that he was simultaneously on trial in Boston. That
1988 campaign remains memorable for its accurate forecast of
the current economic depression, and for the startling predictions
of the break-up of the East Bloc and the reunification of Germany.
During 1988, LaRouche's trial in Boston came to a standstill
around the issues of government misconduct and its hiding of
evidence. Links to the Iran-Contra scandal were found. The
judge even ordered a search of Vice President Bush's files.
In May, the case was declared a misrtrial. To the prosecutors'
horror, it was found out that the jury had already made up
its mind:
VOICE ONE: "We would have acquited everybody at this point,
and that's based on prosecution evidence. There was too much
question of government misconduct in what was happening in the
LaRouche campaign." [Roman Dashawetz, jurer]
ANNOUNCER: The U.S. government did not attempt to retry the
Boston case, but moved it to Alexandria, Virginia, where a more
cooperative judge excluded all of the arguments which won for
LaRouche in Boston. LaRouche himself was convicted and sentenced to
15 years in prison; six co-defendants received lesser terms.
Lyndon LaRouche entered prison in January 1989. Before that
year was out, LaRouche's 1988 predictions were coming true: the
Berlin Wall was down; the Soviet Union was starting the final
phase of disintegration; and the current economic depression was
starting in earnest.
In October 1989 -- 30 months after the involuntary
bankruptcies of the LaRouche organizations -- the bankruptcy
judge found that the federal prosecutors -- not LaRouche and
his associates -- had perpetrated "constructive fraud" on the
Court; the government's arguments to shut down LaRouche had
been made in "bad faith." The bankruptcies which were the primary
reason for the LaRouche organizations' financial difficulties,
were themselves illegal!
On January 22, 1992, attorneys for LaRouche, including
former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, filed a motion in
Federal court seeking to free LaRouche on the grounds that his
conviction and detention were unlawful. The motion is supported
by six volumes of evidence, discovered after LaRouche was
convicted, but supresed or concealed by the government.
At the same time, from his prison, LaRouche launched a new
bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He will have been
on the ballot in 31 primaries by the time of the Democratic
National Convention. His emergency program to end the depression
in the United States through the creation of six million new
industrial jobs, is being picked up by some Democratic candidates.
His programs for the redevelopment of the nations of the former
Communist bloc, are now widely discussed throughout Europe,
especially Eastern Europe.
Ironically, the international campaign of negative
propaganda, which turned LaRouche into a devil in the United
States, has turned him into a hero in the former Communist
countries, where people understood that the media was controlled.
In late 1990, a leader of the Ukrainian freedom movement, Taras
Chornovil, while on tour in Canada, explained:
VOICE: "To the degree that the Soviet press primarily covered
major developments of the West, such as the SDI program, then the
name of Lyndon LaRouche was portrayed in a severely-negative
light. We, however, have learned to read between the lines of
the official press and understood that if the name of a political
dissident is caricatured in such a negative way, then the
individual must have serious political views."
LAROUCHE: This is Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon
LaRouche speaking, with anger and disgust at the behavior
of not only President Bush, but of other leading commentators
reported by the press, in response to recent developments in
Los Angeles.
Dig out some photographs and memories of Watts in 1965.
Now, overlay those pictures and those memories with
South-Central Los Angeles in 1992. Let's put a caption on these
comparisons: "The Warren Christopher Commission's Policy From
1965 to 1992." Warren Christopher is the partner of Mickey
Kantor, the campaign manager of Bill Clinton.
What have the Christopher policies done in South-Central
Los Angeles from 1965 to 1992? THAT IS THE QUESTION, not
the riot.
From 1965 to 1992, not only in South-Central Los Angeles,
but in the ghettoes in Chicago, in New YOrk City, and in every
other major city in this country with Hispanic and black
ghettoes, the conditions of life are worse; the architecture
is worse; the housing is worse; the homelessness is worse;
the sickness is worse. EVERYTHING IS WORSE.
What does this mean? Twenty-seven years of negligence.
The issue of Los Angeles last weekend is not the issue
of the Rodney King beating or the verdict, or the riots which
were stated by the Maoist gangs and some other drug-running
gangs. That's important, but that's not the primary issue.
The primary issue is, that we have continued to take
increasing percentages of our total population -- not only
black, not only Hispanic, not only Koreans, but others --
and we are throwing them into Hell.
The policies that have ruined this nation, are essentialy
the same policies represented by Bush today, by Clinton today,
and by many others.
Now, some people say you have to choose between
front-runners Clinton and Bush, or perhaps Ross Perot. To
do so would be a mistake, but you say that's realistic. Well,
would you rather vote for what you DON'T want and GET it,
and get more of it, when you've got it up to the neck already;
or would you rather take a chance on a long shot by voting
for what you WANT?
ANNOUNCER: For more information, write:
LaRouche in '92
P.O. Box 690
Leesburg, VA 22075.
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