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Contents
1 Early life
1.1 University studies and the Army
2 1960s
2.1 1960–1965: Trotskyism
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Early life
LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the eldest of three children of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr.
(June 1, 1896 – December 1983)[5] and Jessie Lenore (née Weir; November 12, 1893 – August 1978).[6] His
father was the son of a French-Canadian immigrant from Quebec, and his mother a descendant of Elder
Brewster from the Mayflower and other prominent Yankee families.
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I survived socially by He attended the School Street elementary school until 1936, when the
family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, after his father resigned from
“ making chiefly
Descartes, Leibniz, and
Kant my principal
his job as a salesman at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in
Rochester to set up his own business. He described his childhood as
peers, looking at myself, that of "an egregious child, I wouldn't say an ugly duckling but a nasty
my thoughts, my duckling."[8] According to his 1979 autobiography, The Power of
commitments to Reason, he began to read around the age of five, and was called "Big
practice in terms of a Head" by the other children at school.[9] He was told by his parents,
kind of collectivity of both of them Quakers (his father had converted from Roman
them constructed in my
own mind.[7]
” Catholicism to marry his mother), that under no circumstances could he
fight with other children even in self-defense.[10] This advice led to
"years of hell" for him from bullies at school.[10] As a result, he spent
much of his time alone, taking long walks through the woods and identifying in his mind with great
philosophers.[11] In contrast, he joked, the childhood peers from whom he had felt so alienated had been
"unwitting followers of David Hume."[7]
He elaborated on his early intellectual development in a second autobiography in 1987, in which he reports that,
between the ages of twelve and fourteen, he read philosophy extensively, embracing the ideas of Leibniz and
rejecting those of Hume, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau, and Kant.[12] He graduated from Lynn
English High School in 1940.[13]
In the same year, the Lynn Quakers expelled LaRouche's father for reportedly spreading gossip about other
members; writing under the name Hezekiah Micajah Jones, LaRouche Sr. allegedly accused the Friends of
misusing funds. His wife and the 19-year-old LaRouche resigned in sympathy.[14]
LaRouche battled and endured "a nasty hepatitis" in 1953 and subsequently arrived in New York City and
occupied himself with "a light management-consulting assignment" and his first marriage in late 1954[15].
LaRouche enrolled at Northeastern University in Boston, but left in 1942 after receiving poor grades. He wrote
of his geometry class that he "could not accept the axioms and postulates," and of his teachers in general that
they "lacked the competence to teach me on conditions I was willing to tolerate."[16]
As a Quaker, he was at first a conscientious objector during World War II, joining a Civilian Public Service
camp, where Dennis King writes he "promptly joined a small faction at odds with the administrators."[17] In
1944, he decided instead to join the United States Army as a non-combatant, serving in India and Burma with
medical units and ending the war as an ordnance clerk. LaRouche describes his decision to serve as one of the
most important of his life.[18] While in India, he developed an interest in and sympathy for the Indian
Independence movement. He reports in his autobiography that many GIs feared they would be asked to support
British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, a prospect he says "was revolting to most of
us."[19]
While still in the CO camp, he had begun discussing Marxism with fellow camp inmates and soon became a
Marxist himself. While traveling home from India on the SS General Bradley in 1946, he met Don Merrill, a
fellow soldier, also from Lynn. Merrill won LaRouche over to Trotskyism on the journey home. Back in the
U.S., LaRouche attempted to resume his education at Northeastern, intending to major in physics, but left
because of what he called academic "philistinism."[20]
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LaRouche returned to Lynn in 1948 and began attending meetings of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He
joined the next year, adopting the pseudonym Lyn Marcus for his political work.[21] He found work as a
management consultant in New York City, advising companies on how to use computers to maximize efficiency
and speed up production. In 1954, he married fellow SWP member Janice Neuberger. Their son, Daniel, was
born in 1956.
Russian academic G. G. Pirogov asserted that LaRouche had, in 1959-60, forecast that a series of monetary
shocks would lead to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system.[22]
1960s
1960–1965: Trotskyism
By 1961, the LaRouches were living in a large apartment on Central Park West, Manhattan, his activity in the
internal life of the SWP minimal as he focused on his career. He and his wife separated in 1963, and in 1964,
while still in the SWP, he became associated with a faction called the Revolutionary Tendency, which had been
expelled from the SWP and was under the influence of the British Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, leader of the
British Socialist Labour League.[23] For six months, he worked closely with American Healyite leader Tim
Wohlforth, who later wrote:
LaRouche had a gargantuan ego. Convinced he was a genius, he combined his strong conviction in his own
abilities with an arrogance expressed in the cadences of upper-class New England. He assumed that the
comment in the Communist Manifesto that "a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the
revolutionary class..." was written specifically for him. And he believed that the working class were lucky to
obtain his services.
LaRouche possessed a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to
give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth. It was
contradictory. His explanations were a bit too pat, and his mind worked so quickly that I always suspected
his bravado covered over superficiality. He had an answer for everything. Sessions with him reminded me
of a parlor game: present a problem, no matter how petty, and without so much as blinking his eye,
LaRouche would dream up the solution.[24]
LaRouche left Wohlforth's group in 1965, and joined the Spartacist League, which had split from Wohlforth. He
left after a few months and wrote a letter to the SWP declaring that all factions of the Trotskyist Fourth
International were dead, and that he and his new partner, Carol Larrabee, also known as Carol Schnitzer, were
going to build a Fifth International.[25] In 1966, the couple joined the Committee for Independent Political
Action, a New Left/Old Left coalition that was running independent anti-war candidates in New York City
elections, and formed a branch in Manhattan's West Village.
1967–1969: 0CLC
LaRouche's faction was expelled from the SDS in 1969 for supporting the New York City teachers' union in the
Ocean Hill-Brownsville strike, and so the former SDS Labor Committee became the National Caucus of Labor
Committees (NCLC), while continuing to function in some SDS chapters outside New York. Despite its name, it
had no significant connection with the labor movement and viewed intellectuals as the revolutionary vanguard.
According to Dennis King, NCLC's internal life became highly regimented over the next few years. Members
gave up their jobs and private lives and became entirely devoted to the group and its leader. The movement
developed an internal disciplinary technique called "ego stripping" (see below), intended to reinforce conformity
and loyalty.[8][28]
1970s
1972: U.S. Labor Party
Further information: U.S. Labor Party
In 1972, he founded the U.S. Labor Party as the political arm of the NCLC.[29] The party
became highly controversial (see below). In a two-part article about it, The *ew York Times
called it a "cult-like right-wing political organization,"[30] while the *ational Review called
it a "self-styled 'Marxist' organization."[31] The LaRouche organization described it in 1995
as "an independent political association committed to the tradition of Benjamin Franklin,
Alexander Hamilton, Henry C. Carey, and President Abraham Lincoln."[32] It was
disbanded in 1979, becoming the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC).
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Antony Lerman writes that, in 1973 and with little warning, LaRouche adopted far-right, even neo-Nazi, ideas, a
process accompanied by a campaign of violence against his opponents on the left. The violence was
accompanied by the development of conspiracy theories and paranoia about his personal safety, often involving
alleged attempts to assassinate him.[34] LaRouche said in 1987 that, since 1973, he has believed he is under the
threat of assassination from a number of sources, including the Soviet Union, the CIA, Libya, drug dealers, and
bankers.[35] According to Boris Mezhuyev writing for a Russian news agency, LaRouche's ideological shift at
this time replaced Marxism with what LaRouche called the American System and the spirit of Franklin
Roosevelt's New Deal.[36]
Between April and September 1973, during what LaRouche called "Operation
Mop-Up," NCLC members began physically attacking members of other leftist
groups, groups that LaRouche had classified as "left-protofascists." Armed with
chains, bats, and martial-art nunchaku sticks, they assaulted members of the
Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Progressive Labor Party, and
others, on the streets and during meetings. There were 60 recorded assaults in five
months.[37] A *ew Solidarity editorial said of the Communist Party: "We must
dispose of this stinking corpse to ensure that it cannot act as a host for maggots and
other parasites... Our job is to pulverize the Communist Party."[38] King writes that
LaRouche halted the operation when police arrested several of his followers on
A 1973 internal FBI assault charges, and after the groups under attack formed joint defense teams.[39]
letter.
LaRouche wrote in 2000 that the FBI had been using the Communist Party at that
time to bring about his "personal 'elimination'."[40] He cited an October 1973 document, obtained in 1992
through FOIA, which noted that the Communist Party USA was conducting a background investigation "for the
purpose of ultimately eliminating" LaRouche and the NCLC; the memo suggested that the FBI help them
anonymously. LaRouche wrote that this took place as part of COINTELPRO, a series of covert, and often
illegal, FBI projects aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United
States which ended officially in 1971.[41]
"Ego-stripping"
In the summer of 1973, LaRouche and the NCLC began using confrontation therapy techniques.[42] LaRouche
told NCLC members that they had to face their psychosexual fears in order to become more effective. In The
Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, he declared that "sexual impotency is generally the
causal root of Left political impotency."[16][42]
In Beyond Psychoanalysis, LaRouche argued that bourgeois elements of a worker's persona had to be stripped
away to arrive at a state he called "little me", from which it would be possible to build a new personality,
centred on a socialist identity.[16] In this "ego stripping" process, members would be subjected to verbal attacks
and personal criticisms by the entire group, until they broke down.[42] This, LaRouche argued, was the point at
which an individual "abruptly 'breaks free' as if from a drugged state; a sudden personality change occurs, in
which the group sees the real person come forth, assume control of himself, or herself, and bring the ego-state
under control." LaRouche therefore viewed the process as "an act of social love."[42]
LaRouche might pick a random candidate for an ego-stripping session, but as in other leftist groups,
ego-stripping sessions were also sometimes used on workers who had failed to perform some task
satisfactorily.[42] One member who left the movement, Christine Berl, later described the experience as "pure
psychological terror."[43]
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One ego-stripping session was recorded—that of a 26-year-old British LaRouche member, Chris White—and
the tape was sent to The *ew York Times by LaRouche activists, who said White had intended to kill LaRouche.
According to the Times, "There are sounds of weeping, and vomiting on the tapes, and Mr. White complains of
being deprived of sleep, food and cigarettes. At one point someone says 'raise the voltage,' but (LaRouche) says
this was associated with the bright lights used in the questioning rather than an electric shock."[44]
White had formed a romantic relationship with LaRouche's former partner, Carol Larrabee. The couple left the
States and moved to England, where they tried to form an NCLC branch. In December 1973, LaRouche asked
them to return to the U.S. to attend a conference. White knew he would be subjected to an ego-stripping session,
and he reportedly broke down during the flight, shouting that the CIA was planning to kill Larrabee and
LaRouche.[43] The ego-stripping went ahead anyway, with LaRouche in attendance. LaRouche can be heard on
the tape telling White that a pain he complained of in his arm was not real, but "part of the program."[16] White
reportedly ended up confessing that he had been tortured by the CIA and British intelligence, and had been
programmed, in the manner of The Manchurian Candidate, to kill Larrabee and set up LaRouche for
assassination.[43] Group members subsequently underwent training on how to detect other agents like White,
and how to withstand the sort of torture they believed White had been subjected to.[43] In the words of April
Witt, writing in The Washington Post, "brainwashing hysteria" took hold of the movement. One activist said he
attended meetings where members were writhing on the floor saying they needed de-programming.[16]
Another activist, Alice Weitzman, expressed skepticism about the CIA claims. According to Dennis Tourish and
Tim Wohlforth, LaRouche sent six members to her apartment, where she was held captive and forced to listen
to Beethoven at high volume, because LaRouche believed Beethoven's music could de-program agents.
Weitzman scribbled a plea for help on a piece of paper, and threw it out of her window. A passer-by contacted
the police, who freed her, but she declined to press charges.[45]
LaRouche founded the weekly newsmagazine, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), and the New Solidarity
International Press Service, in 1974. A strong supporter of fusion power, he founded the Fusion Energy
Foundation the same year.[46]
John Rausch writes that EIR was part of LaRouche's plan in the 1970s to form a global intelligence network. He
organized the network as though it consisted of news services and magazines, which gained the LaRouche
movement access to government officials under press cover. EIR came to be known for its conspiracy theories,
publishing inter alia that Queen Elizabeth II was the head of an international drug-smuggling cartel, and that the
1995 Oklahoma City bombing was the first strike in a British attempt to take over the United States.[47]
Other publications that LaRouche came to run were The *ew Federalist; 21st Century Science and
Technology; *ouvelle Solidarité in France; *eue Solidarität, published by Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität, a
LaRouche group in Germany; and Fidelio, the quarterly magazine of the Schiller Institute.
LaRouche said he met with representatives of the Soviet Union at the United Nations in 1974 and 1975 to
discuss attacks by the Communist Party USA on the NCLC, and to propose that the former be merged into the
latter. He denied receiving any assistance from the Soviets.[48] He visited Baghdad in 1975, and made a
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presentation to a Baath Party conference about his "Oasis Plan," a proposal for Arab-Israeli peace based on the
construction of water projects. In the same year, *ew Solidarity began running articles favorable to Iraq, and
extensively quoting Saddam Hussein.[49]
In March 1975, Clarence Kelley, then the director of the FBI, described
LaRouche's NCLC as, "a violence-oriented organization of 'revolutionary socialists'
with a membership of nearly 1,000 in chapters in some 50 cities ... involved in
fights, beatings, using drugs, kidnappings, brainwashings, and at least one shooting.
They are reported to be armed, to have received defensive training such as karate,
and to attend cadre schools and training schools to learn military tactics."[49]
His 1976 campaign included a paid half-hour television address, which allowed LaRouche to air his views
before a national audience, something that became a regular feature of his later campaigns. There were protests
in 1976 about his television address, and about the involvement of the NCLC in public life generally. Writing in
The Washington Post, Stephen Rosenfeld said LaRouche's ideas belonged to the radical right, neo-Nazi fringe,
and that his main interests lay in disruption and disinformation. The NCLC had been terrorizing a number of
people on the left, he wrote, including Noam Chomsky, Marcus Raskin, and Lester Brown, and had attacked
SWP members in Detroit with clubs, reportedly including a paraplegic member. "We of the press should be
chary of offering them print or air time. There is no reason to be too delicate about it: Every day we decide
whose voices to relay. A duplicitous violence-prone group with fascistic proclivities should not be presented to
the public," he wrote, "unless there is reason to present it in those terms."[49] LaRouche wrote in 1999 that this
editorial comment "openly declared... a policy of malicious lying" and was part of "the fraudulent
hate-campaign" against him.[51]
A year later, in 1977, LaRouche married again. His new wife, Helga Zepp, was a leading activist in the German
branch of the movement. She went on to work closely with LaRouche for the rest of his career, founding the
Schiller Institute in Germany in 1984.
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In 1979, a two-part article by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery appeared in the *ew York Times that
accused LaRouche of running a cult.[52] Blum wrote that LaRouche had turned the U.S. Labor Party—with
1,000 members listed in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America—into an extreme-
right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members. The Times alleged that members had
taken courses in how to use knives and rifles, and had produced reports for South Africa on anti-apartheid
groups in the United States. A farm in upstate New York was allegedly being used for guerrilla training, attended
by LaRouche members from Germany and Mexico. Several members also underwent a six-day anti-terrorist
training course, at a cost of $200 per person per day, at a camp in Powder Springs, Georgia, run by Mitchell L.
Werbell, an international arms dealer, who had served as an advisor to several Latin American dictators and
who said he was connected to the CIA.[30]
The Times reported that U.S. Labor Party members were playing a dominant role in a number of companies in
Manhattan: Computron Technologies Corporation, which included Mobil Oil and Citibank among its clients;
World Composition Services, which the Times wrote had one of the most advanced typesetting complexes in the
city and had the Ford Foundation among its clients; and PMR Associates, a printing shop that produced the
party's publications and some high school newspapers (see below).[30]
Blum wrote that, from 1976 onwards, party members were transmitting intelligence reports on left-wing
members to the FBI and local police. In 1977, he wrote, commercial reports on U.S. anti-apartheid groups were
prepared by LaRouche members for the South African government, student dissidents were reported to the Shah
of Iran's Savak secret police, and the anti-nuclear movement was investigated on behalf of power companies. He
also wrote that LaRouche was telling his membership several times a year that he was being targeted for
assassination, including by the Queen, "big-time Zionist mobsters," the Council on Foreign Relations, the Justice
Department, and the Mossad.[30]
LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $100 million libel suit. His press secretary
said the series was intended to "to set up a credible climate for an assassination hit."[53]
The *ew York Times also reported that U.S. Labor Party members were exchanging almost daily information
with Roy Frankhouser, who called himself the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania, and who had
been accused of being a member of the American Nazi Party. Frankhouser had been convicted in 1975 of
conspiring to sell half a ton of dynamite in connection with a school bus bombing that left one man dead, and
had marched on Fifth Avenue in New York wearing a Gestapo uniform. LaRouche had organized his defense
campaign regarding the dynamite charges. He reportedly called Frankhouser a "high intelligence source," though
he later denied this, saying that in fact he had a low opinion of Frankhouser.[30] It became known that
Frankhouser had been an informant for the ATF and other law enforcement agencies. He said he was working
on behalf of the government and was sentenced to five years of probation instead of the decades in prison he
could have received.[54]
By the late 1970s, members of the LaRouche movement had begun exchanging almost daily information with
Frankhouser, according to The *ew York Times.[30] He introduced them to Mitchell WerBell III, a noted Office
of Strategic Services (OSS) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative, mercenary, accused drug
trafficker, firearms engineer, and arms dealer who said he had an ongoing connection to the CIA.[30] LaRouche
developed close ties with WerBell, hiring him as a security consultant for protection against an assassination
threat and to train his security staff.[55][56][57] It was WerBell who arranged for LaRouche movement members
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to undergo anti-terrorist training. John George and Laird Wilcox say WerBell learned that the way to keep
"LaRouche on the hook was to feed his monstrous ego while jerking his paranoia chain".[58]
In 1979, Frankhouser was also placed on the payroll as a security consultant, after convincing LaRouche that he
was actively connected to U.S. intelligence agencies. A government official later said that Frankhouser was one
of the few people who could call LaRouche directly.[59] Forrest Lee Fick, an associate of Frankhouser from the
KKK, was added as a consultant in 1982.[59] Frankhouser and Fick later testified that, to justify their
$700-per-week paychecks, they had invented connections to the CIA, written memos purporting to be from CIA
agents, and warned of imaginary assassination plots against the LaRouches.[60] George and Wilcox called
Frankhouser's deception "one of the biggest hoaxes in the annals of political extremism" made possible by what
they called LaRouche's obsession with conspiracy theories.[61]
From the mid-1970s onwards, the mainstream press and other commentators repeatedly alleged that LaRouche
and his movement had fascist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Semitic tendencies.[62] LaRouche has argued strongly against
fascism, and religious or racial hatred. He wrote in 2006, "Religious and racial hatred, such as anti-Semitism, or
hatred against Islam, or, hatred of Christians, is, on record of known history, the most evil expression of
criminality to be seen on the planet today."[63] Descriptions of him as a neo-fascist or anti-Semite stem from
"the drug lobby or the Soviet operation—which is sometimes the same thing," according to one of his
publications.[64]
According to Cyprian Blamires, LaRouche has called for a dictatorship led by a "humanist elite," and has shown
hostility toward a range of targets, including feminism, homosexuality, environmentalism, and organized
labor.[65] Tim Wohlforth and Dennis Tourish write that the parallel between LaRouche's thinking and the classic
fascist model is "striking:"
LaRouche, like Mussolini and Hitler before him, borrowed from Marx yet changed his theories
fundamentally. Most important, Marx's internationalist outlook was abandoned in favor of a narrow
nation-state perspective. Marx's goal of abolishing capitalism was replaced by the model of a totalitarian
state that directs an economy where ownership of the means of production is still largely in public hands.
The corporations and their owners remain in place but have to take their orders from LaRouche. Hitler
called the schema "National Socialism." LaRouche hopes the term "the American System" will be more
acceptable.[66]
Antony Lerman writes that LaRouche's overriding ideology is that, as LaRouche put it, "History is nothing but
conspiracies," and that the main group behind the conspiracies are the Jews, mostly wealthy ones such as the
Rothschilds. According to Lerman, LaRouche uses "the British" as a code for Jews to avoid being accused of
anti-Semitism. LaRouche refers to this group as the "Zionist-British organism," and sees them as having
"evolved through moral depravity and inbreeding into a separate species outside the human race," writes
Lerman; the British, led by the Jews, are in control of terrorism and drug networks, and it is the mission of
LaRouche's NCLC to wipe them out.[67] Daniel Pipes argues against Lerman that LaRouche's references to the
British really are to the British, though he agrees that an alleged British-Jewish alliance lies at the heart of
LaRouche's conspiracism.[68] George Johnson writes in The *ew York Times that the allegations fail to take into
account that several members of LaRouche's inner circle are themselves Jewish.[69]
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1980s
0ational Democratic Policy Committee
From the autumn of 1979, with the disbanding of the U.S. Labor Party, the
LaRouche movement conducted most of its U.S. electoral activities within
the framework of the National Democratic Policy Committee, a political
action committee whose name drew complaints from the Democratic
National Committee. Democratic leaders refused to recognize LaRouche as
a party member, or to seat the few delegates he received in his seven
primary campaigns as a Democrat.[70]
"October Surprise"
In the early 1980s, according to a number of journalists—including John Barry in *ewsweek and Steven
Emerson in American Journalism Review—LaRouche and his followers started the "October Surprise"
allegation that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan's campaign staff conspired with the Iranian government to delay the
release of 52 American hostages, in order to help defeat President Jimmy Carter. The Iranians agreed to this,
according to the theory, in exchange for future weapons sales from the Reagan administration. The first
publication of the story was in Executive Intelligence Review on December 2, 1980, followed up in *ew
Solidarity, on September 2, 1983, alleging that Henry Kissinger, one of LaRouche's regular targets, had "held a
series of secret meetings during the week of November 12 in Paris with representatives of Ayatollah Beheshti,
leader of the fundamentalist clergy in Iran." The story said that, "Top level intelligence sources in Reagan's inner
circle confirmed Kissinger's unreported talks with the Iranian mullahs, but stressed that the Kissinger initiative
was totally unauthorized by the president-elect." The allegations were attributed to Iranian sources in Paris.
Although ultimately discredited, the story was widely discussed in conspiracy circles during the 1980s and
1990s.[75]
In 1982, U.S. *ews and World Report sued New Solidarity International Press Service and Campaigner
Publications for damages, alleging that LaRouche reporters were impersonating its reporters in phone calls.
LaRouche and his aide, Jeffrey Steinberg, gave depositions that revealed their policy of pretending to be from
non-existent publications, and of infiltrating the campaigns of competing presidential nominees. Without
admitting guilt, the LaRouche group agreed not to impersonate U.S. *ews reporters in future.[76]
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In the mid-1980s, the LaRouche campaign was noted for its support of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense
Initiative, known as "SDI" or "Star Wars." General Paul-Albert Scherer, a LaRouche supporter and former head
of West German Military Counterintelligence, said in 1992 that LaRouche, whom he described as a "scientific-
technological strategic expert," had been the originator of the SDI. Scherer also said LaRouche had been
involved in backchannel communications between the Reagan administration and the Russian embassy, during
the year before Reagan's announcement of the policy in March 1983.[77]
Physicist Edward Teller, a principal proponent of SDI and X-ray lasers, told reporters in 1984 that he had been
courted by LaRouche, but kept his distance. LaRouche began calling his plan the "LaRouche-Teller proposal,"
though they had never met. In Teller's words, LaRouche was "a poorly informed man with fantastic
conceptions."[78] LaRouche later attributed the collapse of the Soviet Union to its refusal to follow his advice to
accept Reagan's offer to share the technology.[79]
Space colonization
LaRouche's promotion of space colonization included dealings with German scientists and engineers who had
worked under the Nazi government in Germany during the Second World War, some of whom had emigrated to
the U.S. after the war under Operation Paperclip, and had ended up working for NASA. They included Arthur
Rudolph and several other Peenemunde rocket experts, such as Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Adolf Busemann,
Konrad Dannenberg, and Hermann Oberth. When Rudolph was forced to renounce his U.S. citizenship after an
investigation into his past, LaRouche supporters formed a defense fund for him.[78] LaRouche also collaborated
with Ehricke on ideas about the colonization of the moon and Mars.[80] After Ehricke's death, LaRouche
sponsored the "Krafft Ehricke Memorial Conference," and in 1988 delivered a national TV broadcast titled "The
Woman on Mars."[81]
In the same year, LaRouche was able to raise enough money to purchase 14
television spots, at a cost of $330,000 each.[83] In one of them, he called
Walter Mondale, the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate, "an agent
of influence" of the Soviet intelligence services, triggering over 1,000 LaRouche's second wife, Helga
complaints about the spot, which CBS was legally obliged to air.[84] On Zepp-LaRouche, founded the
April 19, 1986, Saturday *ight Live aired a sketch satirizing the ads, Schiller Institute in 1984
portraying Queen Elizabeth and Henry Kissinger as drug dealers.
There were reports in November 1984 that LaRouche and his aides had been meeting with officials of the
Reagan Administration, including several meetings and phone calls with Norman Bailey, then senior director of
international economic affairs for the National Security Council (NSC), and with Richard Morris, special
assistant to William P. Clark, Jr.[85] There were also reported contacts with the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the CIA.[86] The LaRouche campaign said the report was
full of errors.[85] According to Bailey, the contacts were broken off when they became public. Bailey praised
LaRouche's staff that year as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world," though he said he
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disagreed with the movement's ideas and tactics.[87][88] Three years later, LaRouche blamed his criminal
indictment on the NSC because he had been in conflict with Oliver North over LaRouche's opposition to the
Nicaraguan Contras.[89] According to a LaRouche-sponsored publication, court-ordered search of North's files
produced a May 1986 telex from Iran-Contra defendant General Richard Secord, discussing the gathering of
information to be used against LaRouche.[90][91]
LaRouche met with Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and Mexican
President Jose Lopez Portillo in 1985.[87] A Mexican official told The *ew York Times that LaRouche had
arranged the meeting with Portillo by representing himself as an official from the Democratic Party in 1986.[92]
Portillo continued to maintain a relationship with LaRouche, and endorsed his candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1999, according to the LaRouche movement.[93] Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal
reportedly met with LaRouche in 1987, then severely reprimanded his aides who had mistaken LaRouche for
the Democratic Presidential candidate.[94]
LaRouche filed a defamation suit against NBC and the Anti Defamation
League (ADL). The LaRouche organization said the NBC programs were
the result of a deliberate campaign of defamation against him.[95][96] The "Ibykus Farm," where
judge ruled that NBC need not reveal its sources, and LaRouche lost the LaRouche made his home in the
case. NBC won a countersuit, the jury awarding the network $3 million in mid-1980s.
damages, later reduced to $258,459, for misuse of libel law, in what was
called one of the more celebrated countersuits by a libel defendant.[97]
LaRouche failed to pay the damages, pleading poverty, which Federal District Judge Claude M. Hilton
described as "completely lacking in credibility."[98] LaRouche said that, since 1973, he did not know who paid
the rent on the estate, or for his food, lodging, clothing, transportation, bodyguards, and lawyers. The judge fined
him for failing to answer.[99] After the judge signed an order to allow discovery of LaRouche's personal
finances, a cashier's check was delivered to the court to end the case.[100]
When LaRouche appealed, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in rejecting his arguments, set forth a three-
pronged test, later called the "LaRouche test," to decide when anonymous sources must be named in libel
cases.[101]
In 1986, former security consultant Forrest Lee Fick said in an NBC interview that Paul Goldstein, a member of
LaRouche's security team, had suggested killing Henry Kissinger. According to Fick, Goldstein said he had
information about Kissinger's schedule and said they should place a bomb under his car.[102] Goldstein denied
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the charges, and the LaRouche movement tried to obtain the unedited interview, plus information on any
payments given to Fick, to impeach Fick's testimony.[103]
In 1986, LaRouche proposed that AIDS be added to California's List of Communicable Diseases. Sponsored by
the "Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee" (PANIC), it came to be known as the "LaRouche Initiative." The
proposal, Proposition 64, qualified for the California ballot in 1986, with the required signature gatherers mostly
paid for by LaRouche's Campaigner Publications.[104] Opponents said the measure could have required
universal testing and the quarantine of infected individuals, while proponents denied this, arguing that it simply
allowed for standard public health measures to be taken. It was defeated, reintroduced two years later, and
defeated again. AIDS was a leading plank in LaRouche's platform during his 1988 presidential campaign. He
vowed to quarantine its "aberrant" victims who are "guilty of bringing this pandemic upon us."[105]
In March 1986, LaRouche NDPC candidates Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild won the Democratic primary for
state-wide offices in Illinois, surprising the political establishment and bringing LaRouche national
attention.[106] The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Adlai Stevenson III, temporarily left the Democratic
Party rather than run on the same slate as LaRouche movement members. Both he and the LaRouche
candidates lost in November.[107]
On April 10, 1986, LaRouche held a press conference at the National Press Club, attended by up to 200
reporters, during which, according to the Associated Press, he accused the Soviet government, British
government, drug dealers, international bankers, and journalists of being involved in a variety of
conspiracies.[108] Flanked by bodyguards,[109] he said that "If Abe Lincoln were alive, he'd probably be
standing up here with me today," and that accusations by the ADL that he was anti-Semitic, and other criticism
of him, were made on behalf of the drug lobby or a Soviet operation. He said that he had been in danger from
Soviet assassins for over 13 years, and had to live in safe houses.[110] He refused to answer a question from an
NBC reporter, saying "How can I talk with a drug pusher like you?" He called the leadership of the U.S.
"idiotic" and "berserk," and its foreign policy "criminal or insane." He warned of the imminent collapse of the
banking system and accused banks of laundering drug money, saying, "you have to jail the bankers who do
that—like Donald Regan, presently chief of staff of the White House—put them in jail where they belong."[110]
(The White House issued a statement saying LaRouche's charges against Don Regan were "absolutely
groundless and as outrageous as the source they come from."[111]) Asked about the movement's finances, he
said "I don't know. ... I'm not responsible, I'm not involved in that."[112]
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On December 16, 1988, LaRouche was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud involving more than $30
million in defaulted loans; 11 counts of actual mail fraud involving $294,000 in defaulted loans; and one count
of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He was sentenced to prison for fifteen years. The
judge said that the claim of a political vendetta was "arrant (total) nonsense," and that "the idea that this
organization is a sufficient threat to anything that would warrant the government bringing a prosecution to
silence them just defies human experience."[114]
LaRouche's associates received lesser sentences for mail fraud and conspiracy.[113] Jury foreman Buster Horton
told The Washington Post that it was the failure of LaRouche's aides to repay loans that swayed the jury in the
Virginia case, and that the jury "all agreed [LaRouche] was not on trial for his political beliefs. We did not
convict him for that. He was convicted for those 13 counts he was on trial for." [115] In separate state trials in
Virginia and New York, 13 associates received terms ranging from one month to 77 years. The Virginia state
trials were described as the highest-profile cases the state Attorney General's office had ever prosecuted.[116]
Fourteen states issued injunctions against LaRouche-related organizations, three of which were forced into
bankruptcy after failing to pay contempt of court fines.
Defense lawyers filed numerous unsuccessful appeals that challenged the conduct of the grand jury, the
contempt fines, the execution of the search warrants and various trial procedures. At least ten appeals were
heard by the United States court of appeals, and three were appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark joined the defense team for two appeals. Clark wrote that the case involved "a
broader range of deliberate and systematic misconduct and abuse of power over a longer period of time in an
effort to destroy a political movement and leader, than any other federal prosecution in my time or to my
knowledge."[2][117]
LaRouche had the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) register number 15204-083, and he was released from BOP
custody on January 26, 1994.[118]
1990s
1989: Imprisonment
LaRouche began his jail sentence in 1989 and served it at the Federal Medical Center located in Rochester,
Minnesota. From there he ran for Congress in 1990, seeking to represent the 10th District of Virginia, but
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received less than one percent of the vote. He ran for President again in 1992 with James Bevel, a civil rights
activist who had represented the LaRouche movement in its pursuit of the Franklin child prostitution ring
allegations, as his running mate.[119] It was only the second campaign for president from prison ever, following
the 1920 campaign of perennial Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs.[120]
During part of his imprisonment he shared a cell with televangelist Jim Bakker. Bakker later wrote of his
astonishment at LaRouche's detailed knowledge of the Bible. According to Bakker, LaRouche received a daily
briefing each morning by phone, often in German. Bakker reports that on more than one occasion LaRouche
had information days before it was reported on the network news. Bakker also wrote that his cellmate was
convinced that their cell was bugged. In Bakker's view, "to say LaRouche was a little paranoid would be like
saying that the Titanic had a little leak."[121]
LaRouche was released on parole in 1994. That year, his followers joined members of the Nation of Islam to
condemn the Anti-Defamation League for its alleged crimes against African Americans, reportedly one of
several such joint meetings since 1992.[122] In 1996, LaRouche was invited to speak at a convention organized
by the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan and Ben Chavis, then of the National African American Leadership
Summit. As soon as LaRouche began speaking, he was booed off the stage; one delegate said it was because of
his actions against African Americans in the past.[123]
In the 1996 Democratic presidential primaries, LaRouche received enough votes in Louisiana and Virginia to get
one delegate from each state. However, before the primaries began the Democratic National Committee chair,
Donald Fowler, had determined that LaRouche was not a "bona fide Democrat" because of his "expressed
political beliefs ... which are explicitly racist and anti-Semitic," and because of his "past activities including
exploitation of and defrauding contributors and voters." Fowler instructed state parties to disregard votes for
LaRouche.[124][125] LaRouche sued in federal court, claiming a violation of the Voting Rights Act. After losing
in the district court, the case was appealed to the First District Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower court's
decision.[126]
In 1999, the Xinhua *ews Agency reported that LaRouche had criticized the Cox Report, a congressional
investigation that accused the Chinese of stealing U.S. nuclear weapons secrets.[127] LaRouche called the report
"intrinsically fraudulent," and "a reflection of the kind of scientific illiteracy" of its writers.[128]
On October 13, 1999 LaRouche, during a press conference to announce plans to run for president, predicted a
collapse of the world's financial system, stating, "There's nothing like it in this century.... it is systematic, and
therefore, inevitable." He added that the US and other nations had built the "biggest financial bubble in all
history" which was close to bankruptcy.[129]
2000s
2000: Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement
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LaRouche's movement came to international attention in 2003 when Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish student from
the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement, died in
Wiesbaden, Germany, after he ran down a motorway and was hit by several cars. The German authorities
declared his death a suicide. A British court ruled out suicide and decided that Duggan had died while "in a state
of terror."[16] Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him to the LaRouche
movement. A spokesman for the German public prosecution service has said the mother simply cannot accept
that her son committed suicide.[133]
The controversy around Duggan's death has remained in the news; in 2006, LaRouche released a statement
describing the media reports as a press "hoax" orchestrated by Dick Cheney, then the Vice-President of the
United States, and Cheney's wife.[134]
LaRouche again entered the primary elections for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2004, setting a record
for the number of consecutive presidential campaigns. LaRouche was present in Boston during the 2004
Democratic National Convention, but did not attend the convention itself. He held a press conference in which
he declared his support for John Kerry, and pledged to mobilize his organization to help defeat George W. Bush
in the November presidential election.
In 2005, he campaigned against the privatization of Social Security, asserting that this was an issue that could
successfully mobilize the population against the policies of the Bush administration.[135]
In Russia, Maxim Kalashnikov characterizes LaRouche as a well-known dissident and founder of "physical
economy".[136][137] Tatania Shishov, writing in Russia Today, describes LaRouche as "the greatest American
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economist, a prominent politician, one of the first to struggle with the financial oligarchy and its major
institutions - the World Bank and IMF. He has no equal in the field of economic and financial forecasts."[138]
GG Pirogov of the Russian Academy of Sciences calls him "one of the greatest original thinkers of the twentieth
century."[139] Russian economist and LaRouche movement member Stanislav Menshikov says that LaRouche is
among those few economists who look at the root causes, and therefore see what others cannot see.[140]
LaRouche publications report that he addressed both the Economics Committee of the Russian State Duma and
the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007; also that year, a paper by LaRouche was presented by Jonathan
Tennenbaum, a member of the LaRouche movement, at a conference in Moscow on the Russian plan to build a
tunnel under the Bering Strait.[141] On May 15, 2007, he addressed the Russian Academy of Sciences to
commemorate the 80th birthday of Stanislav Menshikov, according to LaRouche PAC.[142] In November 2005,
an eight-part interview with LaRouche was published in the People's Daily of China, covering his economic
forecasts, his battles with the American media, and his assessment of the neoconservatives.[143]
Iqbal Qazwini, writing in the Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat, says that that LaRouche was one of the
first who predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1988, and German unification. LaRouche also urged the West
to pursue a policy of economic cooperation with the socialist countries like the Marshall Plan after World War
II, which rebuilt Germany. Qazwini goes on to say that in recent years there has been a proliferation of the ideas
of LaRouche in China and South Asia, calling him the spiritual father of the new Silk Road or Eurasian
Landbridge, a massive industrial project which aims to link the continents together through networks of
advanced ground transportation accompanied by the creation of industrial and agricultural development zones,
and bring development to areas that had been kept isolated and backward.[144]
Russian economist Menshikov, close to the LaRouche Movement, wrote that, in a July 25, 2007 webcast,[145]
LaRouche was the first to observe disorder in the mortgage sector and to conclude that the financial system was
crumbling.[146] LaRouche subsequently proposed legislation, the "Homeowners and Banks Protection Act of
2007",[147] to halt foreclosures, freeze mortgage rates, and write off speculative debt obligations. Menshikov
asserted that the proposal could have prevented the crisis had it been enacted. According to a LaRouche PAC
release, over 100 cities and several states passed resolutions in support of the bill.[148]
According to China Youth Daily, the official newspaper of Communist Youth League of China, LaRouche
warned in July 2007 that unless US stopped monopolizing world finances, and united with China, Russia, and
India to reorganize the world financial system, a new world wide credit crisis would be unavoidable.[149]
Executive Intelligence Review Senior Editor Jeffrey Steinberg, writing in Belarus government newspaper
*arodnaya Gazeta, says that LaRouche proposed a new system of international relations, built around the joint
work of four leading powers—the United States, Russia, China and India. According to Steinberg, the proposal
would create a core group of powerful nations whose activities would be based on respect for national
sovereignty and aims to establish a rapid economic development through investment in large infrastructure
development projects in Eurasia.[150] LaRouche repeated the call for economic cooperation between the
governments of the US, China, Russia, and India at a November 2007 meeting in Los Angeles of the Forum on
US-China Relations and China's Peaceful Reunification.[151]
LaRouche was credited by a newspaper and two politicians in Italy as having forecast the financial crisis of
2007–2010. On December 17, 2008, Ivo Caizzi of Corriere della Sera referred to LaRouche as "the guru
politician who, since the nineties, has announced the crash of speculative finances and the need for a New
Bretton Woods." The article said that Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti was "an attentive reader" of
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LaRouche's anti-Free Market and anti-Marxist writings.[152] In a translation on a LaRouche website, Italian
Europarliamentarian Mario Borghezio of the Northern League was quoted as calling LaRouche, "an heretical
economist who had forecast the financial crisis much in advance, and who has long since developed a lucid and
deep analysis of the distortions in the world economic system."[153] Italian Senator Oskar Peterlini, in a July
2009 speech before the Senate, called LaRouche an expert in the field who had predicted the crisis.[154]
*ational Journal reports that LaRouche's solution to the crisis includes "fixed currency-exchange rates, massive
spending on new nuclear reactors, and a rejection of all global-warming ideas" and that failure to follow his
advice will result, according to LaRouche, in "a plunge of the planet into a mass-murderous new dark age."[155]
Books by LaRouche
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0otes
1. ^ Executive Intelligence Review, undated(a) 10. ^ a b LaRouche 1979, p. 38
2. ^ a b Clark 1995 11. ^ LaRouche 1979, p. 55
3. ^ Sources for the descriptions are as follows: 12. ^ LaRouche 1987, p. 17
political leader in the tradition of Roosevelt 13. ^ Tong 1994
and King: Boynton Robinson 2008, Steinberg 14. ^ King 1989, chapter one; [1] (http://web.archive.org
2004 /web/20060628151833/http:
conspiracy theorist: Rose 2004 //www.quakermeetings.com
fascist: Schob 1989 /viewRecord_display?anID=TST1919L) ; Guide to
anti-Semite: Reardon & Greenbaum 1986, the Records of the Religious Society of Friends
Lerman 1988, Mintz (May 17, 1987) (Quakers) in New England (http://www.neym.org
political cult leader: Oliver 2003, Mintz 1985, /GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf) 1997.
Copulus 1984 15. ^ LaRouche Jr., Lyndon H. (1979); The Power of
4. ^ Mintz 1985; Copulus 1984 Reason; A kind of an Autobiography; The New
5. ^ FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, Individual Benjamin Franklin House, Publishing House, Inc.; pp.
Record (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search 4. {ISBN 0-933488-01-7}
/PRF/individual_record.asp?recid=940345623) 16. ^ a b c d e f g Witt 2004, p. 3
6. ^ FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, Individual 17. ^ King 1989, p. 6
Record (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search 18. ^ LaRouche 1987, pp. 18–20
/PRF/individual_record.asp?recid=940345622& 19. ^ LaRouche 1987, pp. 37–38
lds=2®ion=-1®ionfriendly=&frompage=99) 20. ^ King 1989, p. 7
7. ^ a b LaRouche 1979, p. 58 21. ^ LaRouche 1987, p. 62–64
22. ^ G. G. Pirogov, conference presentation to the
8. ^ a b Montgomery 1974
Lebedev Physical Institute. [2] (http://www.netda.ru
9. ^ LaRouche 1979, p. 39
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