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On 7/4/14 11:37 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Louis Proyect mailto:l...@panix.com>> wrote:
Actually, Larouche used to meet with highly placed officials of the
Reagan administration to finger anti-nuclear activists.
Really? Not doubting your word, but was he ... saner, then?
Comrades have to remember to include the list address when they are
replying, just as I did now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou1.htm
Some Officials Find Intelligence Network 'Useful'
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
January 15, 1985
Norman Bailey recalls that soon after he joined the National Security
Council, he received a call from NSC officials asking him to talk to a
group of followers of right-wing presidential candidate Lyndon H.
LaRouche Jr. who were offering intelligence information to the agency.
Bailey, then NSC's senior director of international economic affairs,
said he found the visitors' intelligence on economics and foreign
affairs surprisingly on target.
He said he met with LaRouche's followers numerous times in 1982 and 1983
in his Executive Office Building office, and three times with LaRouche
himself -- including once for dinner at LaRouche's rented Loudoun County
estate. Bailey said he circulated within NSC a well-researched position
paper that two LaRouche followers wrote about fusion energy.
"Some of them are quite good," Bailey said of LaRouche's associates. He
said that he found them to be "useful" because of their "excellent"
international contacts.
"They can operate more freely and openly than official agencies" such as
the CIA, Bailey said. "They do know a lot of people around the world.
They do get to talk to prime ministers and presidents." Bailey also has
described LaRouche's organization as "one of the best private
intelligence services in the world."
It's a view shared by others in powerful places in Washington.
Through dogged work, the LaRouche organization has assembled a worldwide
network of contacts in governments and in military agencies who meet
regularly and swap information with them, officials and former members said.
In Washington, the LaRouche group has spent the last several years
currying favor with officials of the NSC, CIA, Defense Intelligence
Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration, the military and numerous other
agencies, as well as with defense scientists doing classified research,
according to federal officials and ex-members of the LaRouche group.
"They've made a very concerted effort to influence the government," said
Richard Morris, counselor to Interior Secretary William Clark and
formerly Clark's assistant when he was NSC chief. "Their influence never
went beyond the mid-level. There's no way they could influence the
president."
"They obviously want to impress, with their knowledge, people who are in
the know in Washington," said Ray S. Cline, a former top State
Department and CIA intelligence official who said he was approached by
LaRouche associates in 1980 and has spoken with them a number of times
since. "They're terribly eager to find somebody" in government to talk to.
The LaRouche group stepped up its presence in Washington about 1981,
when President Reagan took office, and it has publicly promoted many of
his initiatives in its publications and on Capitol Hill.
Contacts With NSC, CIA
An NBC documentary in March disclosed the LaRouche group's contacts with
NSC and CIA officials, and in November The New Republic magazine
published an article by reporters Dennis King and Ronald Radosh that
detailed LaRouche's Washington connections. King has reported on
LaRouche's group for six years and has broken many stories about it.
In Reagan's first term, Executive Intelligence Review, a LaRouche-tied
magazine, ran interviews with such officials as Agriculture Secretary
John Block, Defense Undersecretary Richard DeLauer, Associate Attorney
General Lowell Jensen, Commerce Undersecretary Lionel Olmer and
then-Sen. John Tower (R-Texas), at the time chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, The New Republic reported.
High-level Reagan administration officials "have found LaRouche as
useful in supplying information and promoting their policies as LaRouche
has found them in legitimizing his cause," The New Republic said.
LaRouche associates also have been active for years in West Germany,
France, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, India, Thailand and many other
countries, according to LaRouche-tied publications, ex-LaRouche
associates and former government officials. The group has had dealings
with a number of foreign government and military officials, according to
these sources.
LaRouche himself has had pr
