Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 00:53, 19 March 2011

Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche, February 2006
Born	Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (1922-09-08) September 8, 1922 (age 102) Rochester, New Hampshire
Other names	Lyn Marcus
Political party	U.S. Labor Party, Democratic
Spouse(s)	Janice Neuberger (1954–1963) Helga Zepp (1977–present)
Children	Daniel, born 1956
Parent(s)	Jessie Lenore Weir Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Sr.

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (Template:IPA-en; born September 8, 1922) is an American political activist and the founder of several political organizations known collectively as the LaRouche movement. He has been a perennial candidate for President of the United States, since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party, failing to attract appreciable electoral support. Often described as a political extremist, he is the founder and contributing editor of the Executive Intelligence Review, and has written prolifically on economic, scientific, and political topics, as well as on history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

He was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in 1988 for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax code violations, but continued his political activities from behind bars until his release in 1994 on parole. His appellate attorney, Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. Attorney General, argued that LaRouche was denied a fair trial, and alleged government misconduct in the prosecution.

Members of the LaRouche movement see him as a political leader in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other commentators, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, have described him over the years as a conspiracy theorist, fascist, and anti-Semite due to his outspoken support of Anti-Zionist claims, and have characterized his movement as a cult. Norman Bailey, formerly with the National Security Council, described LaRouche's staff in 1984 as one of the best private intelligence services in the world, while the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, wrote in the same year that he leads "what may well be one of the strangest political groups in American history."

Biography

Early life

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the eldest of three children of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr. and Jessie Lenore. His father worked for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Rochester; the family later moved to Lynn, Massachusetts. LaRouche described his childhood as that of "an egregious child, I wouldn't say an ugly duckling but a nasty duckling." According to his autobiography, The Power of Reason: A Kind of an Autobiography (1979), he began to read around the age of five, and was called "Big Head" by the other children at school. Third grade was particularly bad; his eyesight was poor and he was made to sit at the back of the class: "The teacher, for her own—undeciphered—reasons, chose to make me her special goat, and put me in the back of the class, where my myopia prevented me from seeing much of anything but blurs ... "

He was told by his parents, both Quakers—his father had converted from Roman Catholicism, his mother from Protestantism—that under no circumstances could he fight with other children even in self-defense. This advice led to "years of hell" for him from bullies at school. As a result, he spent much of his time alone, taking long walks through the woods and identifying in his mind with great philosophers. He wrote 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. He graduated from Lynn's English High School in 1940. In the same year, the Lynn Quakers expelled LaRouche's father for reportedly accusing the Friends of misusing funds, writing under a penname, Hezekiah Micajah Jones. His wife and the 19-year-old LaRouche resigned in sympathy.

University studies, the army, marriage

Template:Quote box4 LaRouche enrolled at Northeastern University in Boston, but left in 1942 after receiving poor grades. He wrote of his teachers that they "lacked the competence to teach me on conditions I was willing to tolerate." As a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector (CO) 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." In 1944, he joined the United States Army as a non-combatant, writing that he served in India and Burma with medical units and ended the war as an ordnance clerk. He described his decision to serve as one of the most important of his life. While in India he developed an interest in and sympathy for the Indian Independence movement; in his autobiography he wrote that many GIs feared they would be asked to support British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, a prospect he said was "revolting to most of us."

While still in the CO camp, he had begun discussing Marxism, and 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 tried to resume his education at Northeastern, intending to major in physics, but left because of what he called academic "philistinism." He returned to Lynn in 1948, and the next year joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), adopting the pseudonym Lyn Marcus for his political work to avoid problems with employers or the FBI. He arrived in New York City in 1953, where he took a job as a management consultant. In late 1954 he married Janice Neuberger, a member of the SWP. Their son, Daniel, was born in 1956.

1960s

Teaching and the National Caucus of Labor Committees

By 1961 the LaRouches were living in a large apartment on Central Park West, Manhattan, and LaRouche's activity in the SWP was minimal as he focused on his career. He and his wife separated in 1963, and he moved into a Greenwich Village apartment with his new partner, Carol Schnitzer, also known as Larrabee, another SWP member. In 1964 he became associated with a faction within the party called the Revolutionary Tendency, which was later expelled from the SWP, and was under the influence of the British Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy. For six months, he worked closely with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had both a "gargantuan ego," and "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."

Template:Quote box4 In 1967 LaRouche began teaching classes on Marx's dialectical materialism at New York City's Free School, and attracted around him a group of students from Columbia University and the City College of New York, asking them to read Das Kapital, as well as Hegel, Kant, and Leibniz. In the spring of 1968, during the Columbia University student protests, he started organizing his supporters under a new name, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). The aim of the NCLC was to win control of the university's Students for a Democratic Society branch—the university's main activist group—and to build a political alliance between the students, local residents, organized labor, and the Columbia faculty.

By 1973, the NCLC had over 600 members in 25 cities—including in Europe, mainly West Berlin and Stockholm—and produced what King called the most literate of the far-left papers, New Solidarity. The NCLC's internal life became highly regimented over the next few years. Members gave up their jobs and private lives to devote themselves to the group and its leader, believing it would soon take control of America's trade unions and overthrow the government. A former member told The Washington Post in 1985 that it was a "seven-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day total immersion." Another said LaRouche demanded "sycophantic obedience," and made clear he was in complete control of the group. He also developed an internal disciplinary technique known as "ego stripping", intended to reinforce conformity and loyalty (see below).

1970s

1971: "Intelligence network"

Robert J. Alexander wrote that LaRouche first established an NCLC "intelligence network" in 1971. Members all over the world would send information to NCLC headquarters, which would distribute it via briefings and other publications. The information would include political developments about supposed behind-the-scenes processes, though Alexander wrote that they were more often flights of fancy than inside information. Douglas Foster wrote in Mother Jones in 1982 that the briefings consisted of disinformation, "hate-filled" material about enemies, phony letters, intimidation, fake newspaper articles, and dirty tricks campaigns. According to George Johnson, opponents were accused of being gay or Nazis, or were linked to murders, which the movement called "psywar techniques."

U.S. government, intelligence agency and military sources told the Washington Post in 1985 that the LaRouche organization, through "dogged work", had assembled a worldwide network of government and military contacts, and that LaRouche researchers sometimes did supply useful information to government officials. Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him, offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas. Norman Bailey, formerly with the National Security Council, said in 1984 that LaRouche's staff comprised "one of the best private intelligence services in the world", and stated in 1985 that he had found them "useful" because of their "excellent" contacts abroad: "They do know a lot of people around the world. They do get to talk to prime ministers and presidents." The top aide to William Clark also stated that, "He had an intelligence operation that gathered information that he thought was important to the national security...When they spoke in terms of technology or economics, they made good sense. They seemed to be qualified in their areas." These comments were contrasted with other comments from government officials that feared a security leak from the government's close ties with the LaRouche Movement.

LaRouche organized the network as a series of news services and magazines, which commentators say was done to gain the movement access to government officials under press cover. LaRouche acknowledged in 1980 that his followers impersonated reporters and others, saying it had to be done for his security. In 1982, U.S. News and World Report sued New Solidarity International Press Service and Campaigner Publications for damages, alleging that LaRouche members were impersonating its reporters in phone calls.

Over the next few decades, LaRouche founded several groups and publications. In addition to the National Caucus of Labor Committees, there was the International Caucus of Labor Committees, the Citizens Electoral Council (Australia), the Club of Life, the Committee for a Fair Election, National Democratic Policy Committee, the Fusion Energy Foundation, the Humanist Academy, the International Workingman's Defense Fund, the Lafayette Academy for the Arts and Sciences, the LaRouche Campaign, the National Anti-Drug Coalition, the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization, the Revolutionary Youth Movement, and the U.S. Labor Party. In 1984 he founded the Schiller Institute in Germany with his second wife, and three political parties there—the Europäische Arbeiterpartei, Patrioten für Deutschland, and Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität—and in 2000 the Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement.

LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review, founded in 1974, came to be known for its conspiracy theories, including 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. His other publications included New Solidarity, Fusion Magazine, 21st Century Science and Technology, International Journal of Fusion, Investigative Leads, War on Drugs, The Young Scientist, Campaigner Magazine, American Labor Beacon, New Federalist, Nouvelle Solidarité, Neue Solidarität, and the Schiller Institute's Fidelio. His publishers and printing services included American System Publications, Campaigner Publications, New Solidarity International Press Service, NSIPS Speakers Bureau, Publication Equities Inc., The New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, and Computron Technologies, Computype, World Composition Services, and PMR Printing Company, Inc, or PMR Associates.

1973: "Operation Mop-Up"

According to LaRouche's 1987 autobiography, violent altercations began in 1969 between his NCLC members and several New Left groups. He wrote that "Communist Party goon-squad attacks" on his members began in Chicago in the summer of 1972, and that during the same year there were attacks on his associates by the Socialist Workers Party. The violence continued, he said, until what he described as a "concerted assault" in March 1973. Antony Lerman wrote that, in 1973 and with little warning, LaRouche adopted more extreme ideas, a process accompanied by a campaign of violence against his opponents on the left, and the development of conspiracy theories and paranoia about his personal safety. He began to believe he was under threat of assassination, including from the Soviet Union, the CIA, Libya, drug dealers, and bankers. Paul L. Montgomery suggested in The New York Times in 1979 that his change of political direction might have been linked to his partner, Carol Schnitzer/Larrabee, having left him in 1972 for a British activist, Chris White (see below). LaRouche apparently spent several months in Germany, and returned with what Montgomery described as a "messianic vision." He spent most of his time in his bathrobe in his New York apartment, and began to suggest there was a conspiracy against him, led by the Rockefeller family and the British.

Between April and September 1973, during what LaRouche called "Operation Mop-Up," NCLC members began physically attacking members of leftist groups that LaRouche classified as "left-protofascists"; a New Solidarity editorial in April titled "Death of the CPUSA," said of the Communist Party that the movement "must dispose of this stinking corpse...". He wrote: "Immediately readers will obtain a taste of our ruthlessness in the way we proceed to finish off the Communist Party ... This mopping-up operation ... is one of numerous tactical rehearsals of our own membership in the development of those qualities of ruthless leadership necessary to lead the North American working class forces to workers' government in this decade." Armed with chains, bats, and martial-art nunchaku sticks, they assaulted Communist Party, SWP, and Progressive Labor Party members, on the streets and during meetings. At least 60 assaults were reported between April and September 1973. The operation ended when police arrested several of LaRouche's followers in Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and New York City.

LaRouche wrote in 2000 that the FBI had been using the Communist Party during this period to bring about his "personal 'elimination'." He cited an October 1973 document, obtained in 1992 through the Freedom of Information Act, 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 the FBI help them anonymously. LaRouche wrote that this took place as part of COINTELPRO, a series of covert, and often illegal, FBI projects, which ended officially in 1971, aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.

1973: U.S. Labor Party

LaRouche founded the U.S. Labor Party in 1973 as the political arm of the NCLC. The party became highly controversial. The New York Times called it a "cult-like right-wing political organization"; a former member, Gregory Rose, said in the National Review that it was a "self-styled Marxist organization"; while the LaRouche movement 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."

A two-part article in The New York Times in 1979 by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery said LaRouche had turned the U.S. Labor Party—at that point 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. LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $100 million libel suit. His press secretary said the articles were intended to "set up a credible climate for an assassination hit." The Times alleged that members had taken courses in how to use knives and rifles; that a farm in upstate New York had been used for guerrilla training; and that several members had undergone a six-day anti-terrorist training course run by Mitchell WerBell III, a former Office of Strategic Services and CIA operative, who said he had an ongoing relationship with the CIA. Journalists and other publications the party saw as unfriendly were harassed, the Times wrote, and it published a list of potential assassins, or what it called "terrorists," that it saw as a threat. According to the newspaper, LaRouche expected members to devote themselves entirely to the party, and place their savings and possessions at its disposal, as well as take out loans on its behalf. Party officials would decide who the member should live with, and if someone left the party, his remaining partner was expected to live separately from him. LaRouche would question spouses about their partner's sexual habits, the Times said, and in one case he reportedly ordered a member to stop having sex with his wife because it was making him "politically impotent."

The Times wrote that 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).

Blum wrote that, from 1976 onwards, party members were transmitting intelligence reports members of left-wing organizations 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, Zionist mobsters, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Justice Department, and the Mossad.

"Ego-stripping" and "brainwashing" allegations

According to The Washington Post, LaRouche began writing in 1973 about the use of certain psychological techniques on recruits. In "Beyond Psychoanalysis" (September/October 1973), he wrote that a worker's persona had to be stripped away to arrive at a state he called "little me," from which it would be possible, according to the newspaper, to "rebuild their personalities around a new socialist identity." To become politically potent, the newspaper wrote, his members had to "confront their sexual problems, such as their fear of and desire for their sadistic mothers."

The New York Times wrote that the first such session was in the summer of 1973, involving a German member, Konstantin George, who had left the movement to live in East Germany. When he returned, according to the newspaper, LaRouche said he discovered during a session with George that a plot to assassinate LaRouche had been implanted in George's mind. LaRouche recorded another of these "ego-stripping" sessions, as he called them, this time with a 26-year-old British LaRouche member, Chris White, who had moved to England with LaRouche's former partner, Carol Schnitzer. In December 1973, LaRouche asked the couple to return to the U.S. to attend a conference; White reportedly broke down during the flight, shouting that the CIA was planning to kill Schnitzer and LaRouche. LaRouche recorded the session that followed, and had his followers send the tape to The New York Times as evidence of an assassination plot. According to the Times, "here 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." During one session, the Times wrote, "Mr. White complains of a terrible pain in his arm," then LaRouche can be heard saying, 'That's not real. That's in the program'." White ended up confessing that he had been tortured and programmed by the CIA and British intelligence to kill Schnitzer, and to set up LaRouche for assassination by Cuban frogmen. LaRouche told the Times that White had not been mistreated and that a physician, Gene Inch, a LaRouche movement member, had been present throughout.

After the White incident, according to 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. In two weeks in January 1974, the group issued 41 separate press releases about brainwashing. That month, one activist, Alice Weitzman, expressed skepticism about some of the claims. According to The New York Times, LaRouche sent six NCLC members to her apartment, where she was held captive for two days until she alerted a passer-by throwing a piece of paper out of her window asking for help. The members, who were charged with unlawful imprisonment, told police she had been brainwashed to help the KGB, and needed deprogramming. They were charged with unlawful imprisonment, but Weitzman was reluctant to testify and the charges were dismissed.

1974–1977: Liberty Lobby, political shift

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 merging the former into the latter; he denied receiving any assistance from the Soviets. He made a presentation to a Baath Party conference in Baghdad in 1975 about his "Oasis Plan," a proposal for Arab-Israeli peace based on the construction of water projects; in the same year, New Solidarity began running articles favorable to Iraq, extensively quoting Saddam Hussein.

LaRouche established ties with the Ku Klux Klan and the Liberty Lobby in 1974 as part of a swing to the right. In a 1980 article for The Nation, Frank Donner and Randall Rothenberg said that LaRouche made successful overtures the Liberty Lobby and George Wallace's American Independent Party, and that the U.S.L.P's racist policies endeared it to many members of the Ku Klux Klan. Gregory Rose, an FBI informant within the U.S.L.P., described the contacts with the Liberty Lobby as extensive; George and Wilcox said that while the contact is often used to imply "'links' and 'ties' between LaRouche and the extreme right", it was in fact transient and marked by much mutual suspicion. The Liberty Lobby pronounced itself disillusioned with LaRouche's views in 1981, because of what they described as his softness on "the major Zionist groups". According to George and Wilcox, American neo-Nazi leaders did not consider LaRouche an ally, or one of their own, and expressed suspicion over the large number of Jews and members of other minority groups in his organization.

In March 1975, Clarence Kelley, director of the FBI, testified before the House Appropriations Committee that LaRouche's NCLC was "a violence-oriented organization of 'revolutionary socialists' with a membership of nearly 1,000 in chapters in some 50 cities." He said that during the previous two years its members had been "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."

1976: First presidential campaign, alleged harassment of public figures

In 1976, LaRouche campaigned for the first time in a presidential election as a U.S. Labor Party candidate, polling 40,043 votes (0.05 percent). It was the first of eight presidential elections he took part in between 1976 and 2004, which enabled him to attract $5.9 million in federal matching funds; candidates seeking their party's presidential nomination qualify for matching funds if they raise $5,000 in each of at least 20 states. The Washington Post wrote in 2004 that LaRouche had never won more than 80,000 votes in any election cycle.

LaRouche's 1976 platform predicted financial disaster by 1980, and proposed a debt moratorium; nationalization of banks; government investment in industry especially in the aerospace sector, and an "International Development Bank" to facilitate higher food production. His campaign included a paid half-hour television address, which allowed him to air his views before a national audience, something that became a regular feature of his later campaigns. There were protests about this, and about the involvement of the NCLC in public life generally. William Chapman wrote in The Washington Post in September 1976 that LaRouche was asked how he expected a party with a five-year record of harassment and threats to win the election; he did not deny the incidents, but replied, "We are only engaged in an open political attack. We just want to challenge them in debate."

Chapman wrote that several public figures on the left had reported threats and intimidation, and said those responsible had identified themselves as members of LaRouche's NCLC or U.S. Labor Party. The linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky was accused of working for the CIA and being a tool of the Rockefellers; meetings he addressed were disrupted, and threats were made. The philosopher Paul Kurtz, editor of The Humanist, received phone calls at 4 am, and was asked during his lectures at the State University of New York why he was practicing genocide. According to Chapman, sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, specialists on urban poverty, were followed around the country having their speaking tours disrupted, and Piven was almost pushed down a flight of stairs by someone calling her a fascist and CIA agent. Environmentalist Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute, was accused of genocide and told he would be hanged from a lamppost.

Writing in the Post in the same month, Stephen Rosenfeld said LaRouche's ideas belonged to the radical right, neo-Nazi fringe, and that his main interests lay in disruption and disinformation; Rosenfeld call the NCLC one of the "chief polluters" of political democracy. In addition to the allegations reported by Chapman, he cited a June 1976 article by Charles M. Young in Crawdaddy that said LaRouche members had attacked the SWP Party in Detroit, reportedly beating a paraplegic member with clubs. Rosenfeld argued that the press should be "chary" of offering them print or air time: "A duplicitous violence-prone group with fascistic proclivities should not be presented to the public, unless there is reason to present it in those terms." LaRouche wrote in 1999 that this comment had "openly declared... a policy of malicious lying" and was part of "the fraudulent hate-campaign" against him.

1977: Second marriage

LaRouche married again in 1977. 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, standing for election in Germany in 1980 for his Europäische Arbeiterpartei (European Workers Party), and founding the Schiller Institute in Germany in 1984. Paul Kacprzak, who worked for LaRouche in the 70s, told The Washington Post that Zepp had a profound effect on the movement, and that it basically became a German organization. "We'd have classes in German," he told the newspaper. "They'd be teaching German language. We'd be reading German poetry." According to Kacprzak, LaRouche sent round a memo saying that, when he was elected president, his wedding anniversary would be a holiday and all workers would be given a week off.

1980s

National Democratic Policy Committee

From the autumn of 1979, the LaRouche movement conducted most of its U.S. electoral activities as the National Democratic Policy Committee, which drew complaints from the Democrat Party's Democratic National Committee. Democrat Party 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. His campaign platforms included a return to the Bretton Woods system, including a gold-based national and world monetary system; fixed exchange rates; and ending the International Monetary Fund. He supported the replacement of the central bank system, including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, with a national bank; a war on drug trafficking and prosecution of banks involved in money laundering; building a tunnel under the Bering Strait; the building of nuclear power plants; and a crash program to build particle beam weapons and lasers, including support for elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He opposed the Soviet Union and supported a military buildup to prepare for imminent war; supported the screening and quarantine of AIDS patients; and opposed environmentalism, outcome-based education, and abortion.

"October Surprise" theory

In December 1980, LaRouche and his followers started what came to be known as the "October Surprise" allegation, namely that in October 1980 Ronald Reagan's campaign staff had conspired with the Iranian government during the Iran hostage crisis to delay the release of 52 American hostages held in Iran, with the aim of helping Reagan win the 1980 presidential election against President Jimmy Carter. The Iranians had 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 LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review on December 2, 1980, followed by his New Solidarity on September 2, 1983, alleging that Henry Kissinger, one of LaRouche's regular targets, had met Iran's Ayatollah Beheshti in Paris, according to Iranian sources in Paris. Although ultimately discredited, the story was widely discussed in conspiracy circles during the 1980s and 1990s.

Meetings with world leaders, "Operation Juárez"

In 1982, LaRouche had private meetings with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, maintaining frequent contact until her assassination in October 1984. His movement engaged in intensive outreach work in Latin America, producing research papers and gaining access to top government officials, including Peruvian President Alan García. LaRouche himself met with Mexican president José López Portillo and Argentinean president Raúl Alfonsin, and in 1982 authored Operation Juárez, described by King as "a brilliant call to arms against the International Monetary Fund austerity programs". The IMF was the focus of widespread popular resentment throughout Latin America, and LaRouche acquired a reputation "as a serious economist and political strategist" in Latin America. According to King, Fidel Castro developed "his own version of Operation Juárez". LaRouche also met Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Özal in 1987; however, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Özal subsequently reprimanded his aides for arranging the meeting.

Strategic Defense Initiative

In the mid-1980s, the LaRouche campaign supported 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 SDI; King says that LaRouche had been speculating about space-based weaponry as early as 1975, and that his associates had for some years been in close contact with members of the Reagan administration who helped develop the proposal. Paul Gallagher says that 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. Physicist Edward Teller, a principal proponent of SDI and X-ray lasers, told reporters in 1984 that he had been courted by LaRouche, but had kept his distance. LaRouche began calling his plan the "LaRouche-Teller proposal," though they had never met. Teller said LaRouche was "a poorly informed man with fantastic conceptions." 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.

1983: Move from New York to Loudoun County

The Washington Post wrote that LaRouche and his wife moved in August 1983 from New York to a 13-room Georgian mansion on a 250-acre section of the Woodburn Estate, near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. The property was owned at the time by a company registered in Switzerland. Companies associated with LaRouche continued to buy property in the area, including part of Leesburg's industrial park, purchased by LaRouche's Lafayette/Leesburg Ltd. Partnership to develop a printing plant and office complex.

Neighbors said they saw LaRouche guards in camouflage clothes carrying semi-automatic weapons, and the Post wrote that the house had sandbag-buttressed guard posts nearby, along with metal spikes in the driveway and cement barriers on the road. One of his aides said LaRouche was safer in Loudoun County: "The terrorist organizations which have targeted Mr. LaRouche do not have bases of operations in Virginia." LaRouche said his new home meant a shorter commute to Washington. A former associate said the move also meant his members would be more isolated from friends and family than they had been in New York. According to the Post in 2004, local people who opposed him for any reason were accused in LaRouche publications of being commies, homosexual, drug pushers, and terrorists. He reportedly accused the Leesburg Garden Club of being a nest of Soviet sympathizers, and a local lawyer who opposed LaRouche on a zoning matter went into hiding after threatening phone calls and a death threat.

1984: Schiller Institute, television spots

In 1984, Helga Zepp-LaRouche founded the Schiller Institute in Germany, together with LaRouche, American Civil Rights Movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson, and WWII French Resistance leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. In the same year, LaRouche was able to raise enough money to purchase 14 television spots, at a cost of $330,000 each, in which he called Walter Mondale—the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate—a Soviet agent of influence, triggering over 1,000 telephone complaints.

There was a report in November 1984 that LaRouche and his aides met Reagan administration officials, including Norman Bailey, senior director of international economic affairs for the National Security Council (NSC), and Richard Morris, special assistant to William P. Clark, Jr. There were also reported contacts with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the CIA. The LaRouche campaign said the report was full of errors. According to Bailey, the contacts were broken off when they became public. Three years later, LaRouche blamed his criminal indictment on the NSC, saying he had been in conflict with Oliver North over LaRouche's opposition to the Nicaraguan Contras. According to a LaRouche publication, a 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.

1984: NBC lawsuit

In January 1984 NBC's aired a segment on its Nightly News about LaRouche, and in March a "First Camera" report produced by Pat Lynch. In an article for the Columbia Journalism Review in 1985, Lynch wrote that the reports included the allegation that "LaRouche was the leader of a violence-prone, anti-Semitic cult that smeared its opponents and sued its critics." In interviews, former members of the movement gave details about their fundraising practices, and alleged that LaRouche had spoken about assassinating U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The reports said an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would lead to an indictment, and quoted Irwin Suall, the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) fact-finding director, who called LaRouche a "small-time Hitler." After the broadcast, according to The Washington Post, LaRouche members picketed NBC's New York office carrying signs saying "Lynch Pat Lynch," and the NBC switchboard said it received a death threat against her. Another NBC researcher said someone placed fliers around her parents' neighborhood saying she was running a call-girl ring from her parents' home. Lynch said LaRouche members began to impersonate her and her researchers in telephone calls, and called her "Fat Lynch" in its publications.

LaRouche filed a defamation suit against NBC and the ADL, arguing that the programs were the result of a deliberate campaign of defamation against him. The judge ruled that NBC need not reveal its sources, and LaRouche lost the case. NBC won a countersuit, the jury awarding the network $3 million in 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. LaRouche failed to pay the damages, pleading poverty, which Federal District Judge Claude M. Hilton described as "completely lacking in credibility." LaRouche said he had been unaware since 1973 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. 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. When LaRouche appealed, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 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.

1985–1987: AIDS, electoral success

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. 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."

In March 1986, LaRouche NDPC candidates Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart won the Democratic primary for state-wide offices in Illinois, bringing LaRouche national attention. The New York Times wrote that Democratic Party officials were increasing their efforts to identify candidates affiliated with LaRouche in order to alert voters, and asked the LaRouche organization to release a full list of its candidates. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Adlai Stevenson III, withdrew his nomination rather than run on the same slate as LaRouche movement members. The LaRouche candidates lost in November. A month later, LaRouche held a press conference to accuse the Soviet government, British government, drug dealers, international bankers, and journalists of being involved in a variety of conspiracies. Flanked by bodyguards, he said, "If Abe Lincoln were alive, he'd probably be standing up here with me today," and that there was no criticism of him that did not originate "with the drug lobby or the Soviet operation ..." He said he had been in danger from Soviet assassins for over 13 years, and had to live in safe houses. 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 United States "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. Asked about the movement's finances, he said "I don't know. ... I'm not responsible, I'm not involved in that."

1988: Criminal conviction

In October 1986, hundreds of state and federal officers raided LaRouche offices in Virginia and Massachusetts. A federal grand jury indicted LaRouche and 12 associates on credit card fraud and obstruction of justice; the charges included that they had attempted to defraud people of millions of dollars, including several elderly people, by borrowing money they did not intend to repay. LaRouche at first warned law-enforcement officials not to arrest him, saying any attempt to do so would be an attempt to kill him; a spokesman would not rule out the use of violence against officials in response. LaRouche disputed the charges, alleging that the trials were politically motivated. A number of LaRouche entities, including the Fusion Energy Foundation, were taken over through an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding in 1987; the government's use of the sealed order was regarded as a rare legal maneuver.

On December 16, 1988, he 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 fifteen years, but was released on January 26, 1994. The judge called his claim of a political vendetta "arrant nonsense," and said "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." Thirteen associates received terms ranging from one month to 77 years for mail fraud and conspiracy. Defense lawyers filed 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 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark joined the defense team for two appeals, writing 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."

1989: Musical interests and Verdi tuning initiative

LaRouche has an interest in classical music up to the period of Brahms. A motto of a European arm of the LaRouche movement, the European Workers' Party, is "Think like Beethoven." Violinist Norbert Brainin (1923–2005) and bass-baritone William Warfield (1920–2002) were personal friends of LaRouche. Members of his movement are known for their choral singing at protest events and for using satirical lyrics tailored to their targets. Offices of the LaRouche movement typically include a piano and posters of German composers.

LaRouche abhors rock music and other contemporary music. He said that, "Rock was not an accidental thing. This was done by people who set out in a deliberate way to subvert the United States. It was done by British intelligence." LaRouche credits the abandonment of well-tempered tuning systems with the decline of the West. LaRouche movement members have protested at performances of Richard Wagner's operas, and called a conductor "satanic" because he played contemporary music.

In 1989, he advocated that classical orchestras should return to the "Verdi pitch". Orchestras' pitches have risen since the 18th century, because a higher pitch produces a more brilliant orchestral sound, while imposing an additional strain on singers' voices. Giuseppe Verdi succeeded in 1884 in having legislation passed in Italy that fixed the reference pitch for A at 432 Hz, but in 1938, the international standard was raised to 440 Hz, with some major orchestras tuning as high as 450 Hz in recent times. LaRouche's initiative advocated returning to the Verdi standard and was supported by leading opera stars including Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. A spokesman for Domingo stated that this did not imply any endorsement of LaRouche's politics, with which Domingo would disagree, and that Domingo would not have known about the origin of the initiative. Renata Tebaldi and Piero Cappuccilli attended conferences as featured speakers at LaRouche's Schiller Institute, and the discussions led to debates in the Italian parliament about reinstating Verdi's legislation. LaRouche gave an interview to National Public Radio on the initiative from prison. The initiative was opposed by Stefan Zucker, who felt that LaRouche was using the issue to gain more acceptance, and objected to the establishment of a "pitch police". In the end, no legislation was passed in Italy.

1990s

Imprisonment and release on parole

LaRouche began his jail sentence in 1989, serving it at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. From there he ran for Congress in 1990, seeking to represent the 10th District of Virginia, but received less than one percent of the vote. He ran for President again in 1992 with James Bevel as his running mate, a civil rights activist who had represented the LaRouche movement in its pursuit of the Franklin child prostitution ring allegations. It was only the second-ever campaign for president from prison. For a time 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 intelligence report by mail, and at times had information about news events days before they happened. Bakker also wrote that LaRouche believed 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."

LaRouche was released on parole in January 1994, and returned to Loudoun County. The Washington Post wrote that he would be supervised by parole and probation officers until January 2004. Also in 1994, 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 meetings since 1992. 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 he began speaking, he was booed off the stage; one delegate said it was because of his actions against African Americans in the past.

In the 1996 Democratic presidential primaries, he received enough votes in Louisiana and Virginia to get one delegate from each state, but before the primaries began, the Democratic National Committee chair, Donald Fowler, ruled 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. In 1999, China's press agency, the Xinhua News Agency, reported that LaRouche had criticized the Cox Report, a congressional investigation that accused the Chinese of stealing U.S. nuclear weapons secrets; he called it "intrinsically fraudulent," and "a reflection of the kind of scientific illiteracy" of its writers. On October 13, 1999, during a press conference to announce his plans to run for president, he predicted the collapse of the world's financial system, stating, "There's nothing like it in this century.... it is systematic, and therefore, inevitable." He said the U.S. and other nations had built the "biggest financial bubble in all history," which was close to bankruptcy.

2000s

Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement, 9/11

LaRouche founded the Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement (WLYM) in 2000, saying in 2004 that it had hundreds of members in the U.S. and a lesser number overseas. During the Democratic primaries in June 2000, he received 53,280 votes, or 22 percent of the total, in Arkansas.

In 2002, comments made by LaRouche about 9/11 attracted the attention of media and officials in Iran. A subsequent article in the Executive Intelligence Review argued that 9/11 had been an "inside job" and an "attempted coup d'etat", and stated that it "looks like Iran is the first country to formally start questioning the mysterious events of September 11, and hence of the real agenda behind America's War of Terror. …. And no amount of rhetoric about 'conspiracy theorizing' is going to silence this truth." The article received wide coverage in Iran, and was quoted by senior politicians including Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rowhani. The English-language Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran radio station recorded a phone interview with LaRouche on March 4, which was broadcast four times in the space of one week and received coverage in the Farsi press and in Iran's national news broadcasts. In the interview, LaRouche stated his belief that Zbigniew Brzezinski's faction, including Samuel Huntington and Henry Kissinger, was intent on provoking a "clash of civilizations", and that Israel was a "dictatorial regime" "prepared to commit Nazi-style crimes against the Palestinians". The English-language Tehran Times reported on its website, "A U.S. Presidential candidate in the 2000 election, Lyndon LaRouche, has said that the September 11 terrorist attacks had been organized by rogue elements inside the U.S., and were aiming to use the incident to promote a war against Islam."

Also in 2002, in a speech to the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up, LaRouche discussed his proposal for a Eurasian Landbridge, a land transportation system that would include a tunnel under the Bering Strait. According to an online dossier on the Zayed Center compiled by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, LaRouche stated in a subsequent question-and-answer session at the event that the September 11 attacks could not have taken place without connivance from someone inside the Bush administration, pointing to the "'Zionist lobby,' 'Jewish gangsters,' and 'Christian Zionists' as forces that have sought to control U.S. policies towards Israel and have been 'bought by money, the so-called Zionist money, and the mega crowd in New York.'"

Presidential campaign, world economy

He again entered the primary elections for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2004, setting a record for the number of consecutive presidential campaigns. Although Democratic Party officials distanced themselves from him and did not permit him to participate in candidate forum debates, he insisted on running as a Democrat. In a 2003 interview with CBS News, he said he would keep on running as long as he could replicate the vigor of his friend Amelia Boynton Robinson. However, LaRouche did not run in 2008.

In 2008, LaRouche was credited by press in Italy as having forecast the financial crisis of 2007–2009. In December 2008, Ivo Caizzi of Corriere della Sera referred to him 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 Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti was "an attentive reader" of LaRouche's anti-Free Market and anti-Marxist writings. Italian Senator Oskar Peterlini, in a July 2009 speech before the Senate, called LaRouche an expert in the field who had predicted the crisis.

Kronberg libel and harassment suit

In August 2009, LaRouche and others were sued for libel and harassment by Molly Kronberg, the widow of Kenneth Kronberg, a LaRouche movement member and head of the movement's printing company who had committed suicide in 2007. In her suit, Kronberg stated that prior to his suicide her husband's print shop had been singled out for criticism by LaRouche and his associates throughout 2006 and into 2007. She further alleged that LaRouche and his associates had libeled her by stating that she had committed perjury at LaRouche's trial in 1988, and by implying that her support for the re-election of George W. Bush had driven her husband to suicide.

Obama criticism

Also in 2009, during the discussion of U.S. health care reform and Medicare spending cuts proposed by the Obama administration, LaRouche took exception to what he described as Obama's proposal that "independent boards of doctors and health care experts make the life-and-death decisions of what care to provide, and what not, based on cost-effectiveness criteria." LaRouche said the proposed boards – criticized by Sarah Palin and some other Republican politicians as "death panels" – would amount to the same thing as the Nazis' Action T4 euthanasia program, and urged Americans to "quickly and suddenly change the behavior of this president ... for no lesser reason than that your sister might not end up in somebody's gas oven." His movement printed pamphlets showing Obama and Hitler laughing together, and posters of Obama wearing a Hitler-style mustache. In Seattle, police were called twice in response to people threatening to tear the posters apart, or to assault the LaRouche supporters holding them. During one widely reported public meeting, Congressman Barney Frank referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense."

Ideology and reception

History as a struggle between Platonism and Aristotelianism

Template:Quote box4 According to LaRouche, history has always been a battle between Platonists—rationalists, idealists and utopians who believe in absolute truth and the primacy of ideas—and Aristotelians—relativists who rely on empirical data and sensory perception. Platonists in LaRouche's worldview include figures such as Beethoven, Mozart, Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, and Leibniz. LaRouche states that many of the world's ills are due to the fact that Aristotelianism, as embraced by British philosophers like Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Bentham and represented by "oligarchs", foremost among them wealthy British families, has dominated, leading to a culture that favors the empirical over the metaphysical, embraces moral relativism, and seeks to keep the general population uninformed. The people conspiring to maintain the status quo may not be in contact with one another: "From their standpoint, are proceeding by instinct," LaRouche has said. "If you're asking how their policy is developed—if there is an inside group sitting down and making plans—no, it doesn't work that way ... History doesn't function quite that consciously."

Commentators like Johnson in Architects of Fear (1983) and John George and Laird Wilcox in American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others (1996) have written that this philosophy can be applied to any number of situations in a manner that becomes plausible once one accepts its basic premise. In their view, it forms the foundation of a conspiracy theory that justifies paranoid thinking. According to the Heritage Foundation, LaRouche believes that a super elite is in control of world events, a group that includes the Rockefellers, the London financial center, the British royal family, the Anti-Defamation League, the KGB, and the Heritage Foundation itself; other foes include Nazis, Jesuits, Freemasons, Communists, Trilateralists, international bankers, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Socialist International—all supposedly controlled by the British—as well as Hitler, H.G. Wells, Voltaire, and the Beatles as representatives of the 1960s counterculture. Left and right are false distinctions for LaRouche; what matters is the Platonic versus Aristotelian outlook, a position that Johnson says led LaRouche to form relationships with groups as disparate as farmers, nuclear engineers, Black Muslims, Teamsters, pro-lifers, and followers of the Ku Klux Klan—even though LaRouche counts the Klan itself among his foes.

Christopher P. Toumey (1996) has argued that LaRouche's approach to political action consists in first identifying an emotionally charged issue that has attracted widespread media coverage. LaRouche and his associates then conduct in-depth research of the issue and its literature, which is followed by proposing a "simplistic solution", presented in an authoritarian manner. The solutions proposed usually involve major, and costly, centralized restructuring of the economy or national security apparatus. Anyone opposing implementation of the proposal is portrayed as immoral and part of the conspiracy seeking to block the solution proposed by LaRouche, whose charismatic authority in the movement he leads is grounded on the fact that he is believed to possess, and presented as possessing, a unique level of insight and expertise.

Allegations of fascism, anti-Semitism, and racism

From the mid-1970s onwards, the mainstream press and other commentators alleged that LaRouche's statements exhibited fascist and anti-Semitic tendencies. Gary Schaer, a New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman, wrote in 2007, "For more than a generation, Lyndon LaRouche's neo-fascist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic remarks and writings have been well documented by numerous groups committed to fighting prejudice and bigotry." Paul Montgomery wrote in The New York Times that the charges dated to around 1976, when LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party began to include Zionist and Jewish groups in its conspiracy theories. It started a campaign against the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith (ADL), which included setting up a group called "The Provisional Committee to Clean Up B'Nai Brith." Montgomery wrote that material sold by LaRouche organizers in airports and shopping centers included a book that said Jews dominated the drug trade with the help of Jewish bankers. This, despite the fact that the LaRouche movement had Jewish members who had been recruited from the 1960s student movement. LaRouche maintained that he was anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. When the ADL accused him of anti-Semitism in 1979, he filed a $26-million libel suit; Justice Michael Dontzin of the New York Supreme Court ruled that it was fair comment, and that the facts "reasonably give rise" to that description. LaRouche said in 1986 that descriptions of him as a neo-fascist or anti-Semite stemmed from "the drug lobby or the Soviet operation—which is sometimes the same thing," and in 2006 wrote that "eligious 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."

Antony Lerman wrote in 1988 that LaRouche used "the British" as a code word for "Jews", an theory also propounded by Dennis King, a former Marxist-Leninist and member of the Progressive Labor Party in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote a book-length study of LaRouche and his movement, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (1989). George Johnson, in a review of King's book in The New York Times, argued that King's presentation of LaRouche as a "would-be Führer" was "too neat" and failed to take into account that several members of LaRouche's inner circle were themselves Jewish, while acknowledging that LaRouche's "conspiracy theory is designed to appeal to anti-Semitic right-wingers as well as to Black Muslims and nuclear engineers". George and Wilcox (1992) similarly stated that King had gone too far in trying "to paint LaRouche as a neo-Nazi", describing King's code-word theory as "a little conspiracy-mongering of his own". Daniel Pipes wrote in 1997 that LaRouche's references to the British really were to the British, though he agreed that an alleged British-Jewish alliance lay at the heart of LaRouche's conspiracism.

Manning Marable, a professor of African-American Studies at Columbia University, wrote in Dissent that LaRouche realized in the mid-1980s that he needed to build bridges to the black community. He stated that most of the mainstream black community were not fooled, and quoted the A. Philip Randolph Institute, an organization for African American trade unionists, as declaring that ""LaRouche appeals to fear, hatred and ignorance. He seeks to exploit and exacerbate the anxieties and frustrations of Americans by offering an array of scapegoats and enemies: Jews, Zionists, international bankers, blacks, labor unions-much the way Hitler did in Germany." During LaRouche's slander suit against NBC in 1984, Roy Innis, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, took the stand for LaRouche as a character witness, stating under oath that LaRouche's views on racism were "consistent with his own." Asked whether he had seen any indication of racism in LaRouche's associates, he replied that he had not.

Characterizations as extremist

George and Wilcox (1992) said that LaRouche "virtually personifies the extremist style" and described a tendency in the media to preface any mention of LaRouche with the words "political extremist" LaRouche himself complained to a press conference in 1988 that the term "is not on my birth certificate".

Matthias Mletzko, writing in the 1995 edition of the Yearbook of Extremism and Democracy, pointed to LaRouche's connections to other extremist groups and said that the main elements of LaRouche's extremism are conspiracy theories, absolutist claims, and friend/enemy stereotypes. George and Wilcox said that mainstream commentators have legitimate concerns about LaRouche, but that he is most vehemently criticized by authors who "come from extremist ranks themselves", citing the example of Chip Berlet, a researcher for Political Research Associates who was thanked by King for assistance with his research and who published a review of King's book in a Marxist-Leninist U.S. publication, the Guardian. They also said that the "primary evil" of LaRouche's movement lay not so much in their "ideological pronouncements", but in the way they treated their opponents, and in what they termed the "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian nature of LaRouche and his followers". They said LaRouche and his movement should be opposed for those reasons. However they also said that "indiscriminate or unfair repression of this and other extremist groups also represents a danger. The price we pay for a free society is that some people will behave badly. Another aspect of that freedom is that other individuals and groups are free to organize and propagandize against the LaRouche operation, and in this way contain its influence."

Critics

Critics of LaRouche come from across the political spectrum. Mainstream newspapers have identified as critics individuals including Irwin Suall and Mira Boland of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Don Fowler and DNC spokesman Terry Michael, Leesburg, Virginia, Mayor Robert E. Sevila and laywer Polly Girvin, Chairman of Richmond's Commission on Human Relations Edward H. Peeples, Jr., Benjamin Schatz of National Gay Rights Advocates, and organizations including the ADL, the AFL-CIO, and the Leesburg Garden Club.

LaRouche has called his critics "drug dealers" and his followers call them "cretins, communists, traitors or homosexuals". LaRouche has said that whoever believe his critics is "crazy, insane" or "a total illiterate and mental case". According to the Washington Post, a 2002 press release from a LaRouche organization says of critical reports:

"Don't be fooled by these rumors and lies." They originate from Gestapo-style "thought police," and the families of the financial oligarchy who "exert control over politics in the U.S., through the top-down management of 'approved' popular beliefs, and religions, just as the oligarchy of the Roman Empire administered political control through the approved pantheon of pagan gods."

Many critics have reported being harassed by associates and even key aides of LaRouche, and an FBI agent testified in court that harassing critics was one of the jobs handled by LaRouche's security unit. Alleged harassment has included death threats, pet killings and mutilations, protests outside of homes and offices, anonymous phone calls, and false news stories.

Overseas reception in the 2000s

Iqbal Qazwini wrote in the Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat in 2003 that LaRouche was one of the first to predict the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1988 and German unification. He said LaRouche had urged the West to pursue a policy of economic cooperation similar to the Marshall Plan for the advancement of the economy of the socialist countries. According to Qazwini, recent years have seen a proliferation of LaRouche's ideas in China and South Asia. Qazwini referred to him as the spiritual father of the revival of the new Silk Road or Eurasian Landbridge, which aims to link the continents through a network of ground transportation. 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. The interviewer wrote that LaRouche was "quite famous in mainland China today," and seemed to be better known overseas than in America.

Tatiana Shishova interviewed him for Russia Today in 2008, describing him as "the greatest American 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." LaRouche gave an interview in 2009 to China Youth Daily, which wrote that he had warned in July 2007 that unless the United States stopped monopolizing world finances, and united with China, Russia, and India to reorganize the world financial system, a new global credit crisis would be unavoidable.

British investigations into the apparent suicide of a British student at a LaRouche movement event in Germany led to recurring media coverage in Britain and continental Europe in the 2000s, in which LaRouche's movement has been characterized as a far-right, "cult-like" group; LaRouche has described the press coverage as a "hoax" and a campaign against him instigated by political enemies in the United States and Britain.

Selected works

• Marcus, Lynn. The third stage of imperialism. New York: West Village Committee for Independent Political Action, 1967.
• with Tony Papert. Mass action. SDS Regional Labor Committee,1968.
• The philosophy of Socialist education. New York: National Caucus of Labor Committees, 1969.
• with Uwe Henke von Papert. Centrism as a social phenomenon: how not to build a revolutionary party. New York: National Caucus of SDS Labor Committees 1970
• Education, science and politics. New York: National Caucus of Labor Committees, 1972.
• The question of Stalinism today. New York: Campaigner Publications, 1975.
• How the International Development Bank will work. New York: Campaigner Publications, 1975.
• A presidential campaign white paper on agricultural production. New York: New Solidarity International Press Service, 1975.
• The Rothschilds, from Pitt to Rockefeller. 1976
• Dialectical Economics An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy. New York: Heath, 1975. ISBN 0-669-85308-9
• The Case of Walter Lippmann A Presidential Strategy. New York: Campaigner Publications, 1977. ISBN 0-918388-06-6
• How to Defeat Liberalism and William F. Buckley 1980 Campaign Policy. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1979. ISBN 0-933488-03-3
• The Power of Reason: A Kind of Autobiography. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. House, 1979. ISBN 0-933488-01-7
• Will the Soviets Rule During the 1980s?. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1979. ISBN 0-933488-02-5
• Basic Economics for Conservative Democrats. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0-933488-04-1
• What Every Conservative Should Know About Communism. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0-933488-06-8
• Why Revival of "SALT" Won't Stop War. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0-933488-08-4
• with David P. Goldman. The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1980. ISBN 0-933488-09-2
• Operation Juárez: Mexico/Ibero-America policy study. Executive Intelligence Review, 1982.
• There Are No Limits to Growth. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1983. ISBN 0-933488-31-9
• So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics? A Text on Elementary Mathematical Economics. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984. ISBN 0-943235-13-8
• Imperialism The Final Stage of Bolshevism. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984. ISBN 0-933488-33-5
• The Power of Reason, 1988: An Autobiography. Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1987. ISBN 0-943235-00-6
• In Defense of Common Sense. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1989. ISBN 0-9621095-3-3
• The Science of Christian Economy. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1991. ISBN 0-9621095-6-8
• with Paul Gallager. Cold Fusion: A Challenge to U.S. Science Policy. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1992. ISBN 0-9621095-7-6
• Now, Are You Ready to Learn About Economics? Washington, D.C.: EIR News Service, 2000. ISBN 0-943235-18-9
• The Economics of the Nöosphere Washington, D.C.: EIR News Service, 2001. ISBN 0-943235-20-0

Notes

1. Johnson 1983, p. 187ff.
2. For assertion of unfair trial, see Convictions of LaRouche, aides are upheld by three-judge panel, Richmond Times, January 23, 1990
   • For alleged government misconduct, see Brad Steiger; Sherry Hansen Steiger (August 2006). Conspiracies and secret societies: the complete dossier. Visible Ink. p. 255. ISBN 9780780809215. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
3. Sources for the descriptions:
   • For LaRouche movement staffers arguing that he is a political leader in the tradition of Roosevelt and King, see Boynton Robinson 2008; and Steinberg 2004.
   • For conspiracy theorist, see Lunch with the Chairman, The New Yorker, March 17, 2003.
   • For cult, see The Cult of LaRouche", The New York Times, October 10, 1979; "Cult controversy: Lyndon LaRouche's political network", The Washington Post, 1997; Copulus 1984.
   • For fascist, see Horowitz, Irving Louis. "Left-wing fascism: An infantile disorder", Springer New York, May 1981; and Schob, David E. "The Strange Ascent of Lyndon LaRouche, a Native American Fascist", Houston Chronicle, April 30, 1989.
   • For anti-Semite, see Rosenfeld 1976; Montgomery 1979; Copulus 1984, p. 4, footnote 5; Mintz, May 17, 1987; Lerman 1988; Griffin & Feldman 2003, p. 144; and Blamires 2006.
4. Mintz 1985 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFMintz1985 (help) and Copulus 1984.
5. Montgomery 1974 and King 1989, pp. 17–18, 20, 25–26.
   • For his father's dates (June 1, 1896 – December 1983), see "Lyndon Hermoyle LaRouche", familysearch.org, accessed February 9, 2011.
   • For his mother's (November 12, 1893 – August 1978), see "Jessie Lenore Weir", familysearch.org, accessed February 9, 2011.
6. Johnson 1983, p. 201.
7. For the parents' religions and other details, see Witt 2004, p. 3, and King 1989, p. 4.
   • For "years of hell" and bullying, see LaRouche 1979, pp. 38–39.
   • For spending time alone and identifying with philosophers, see LaRouche 1979, pp. 55, 58.
   • For the particular philosophers he read, see LaRouche 1987, p. 17.
8. For his graduation, see Tong 1994.
   • For his father's expulsion, see King 1989, pp. 5–6.
   • For an entry mentioning LaRouche in Quaker records, see Stattler, Richard. "Guide to the Records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in New England", Rhode Island Historical Society, 1997, p. 92.
9. ^ Witt 2004, p. 3.
10. King 1989, p. 6.
11. LaRouche 1987. For the importance of his decision to serve, see pp. 37–38. For his attitude to the Indian independence movement, see pp. 18–20.
12. LaRouche 1987, pp. 62–64, and King 1989, p. 7.
13. LaRouche 1979, p. 4.
14. King 1989, pp. 8–9.
15. King 1989, p. 9.
16. LaRouche 1970.
17. Wohlforth, undated.
18. Fraser, Steve. NCLC Frame Up," Great Speckled Bird, February 22, 1971.
    • Also see LaRouche 1987, p. 116.
    • The NCLC was at first called the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) Labor Committee.
    • For LaRouche's teaching, see King 1989, pp.13–14.
19. King 1989, pp. 17–18.
    • Also see Rose, Gregory F. "The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC", National Review, March 30, 1979.
20. For the Washington Post interviews, see Mintz 1985 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFMintz1985 (help).
    • For members giving up their jobs, and for ego-stripping, see Montgomery 1974 and Witt 2004, p. 3.
21. For Alexander, Alexander 1991, p. 948.
    • For Foster, see Foster 1982, p. 30.
    • For Johnson, see Johnson 1983, p. 190.
22. For Bailey 1984, see Copulus 1984.
    • For Inman, McMahon, Bailey's 1985 statement and the rest, see Mintz, January 15, 1985.
23. Johnson 1983, p. 189.
24. "LaRouche Says His Supporters Take Covert Roles in Campaign", The New York Times, February 15, 1980: "Lyndon H. LaRouche, the former head of the U.S. Labor Party who is now running as a Democrat, has said that his campaign workers impersonate reporters and others, contending that the covert operation is needed for his security."
25. Lynch, Pat. "Is Lyndon LaRouche using your name?", Columbia Journalism Review, March–April 1985, pp. 42–46.
    • Also see Mintz, January 15, 1985.
26. Copulus 1984, pp. 2–3.
27. Rausch 2003.
28. For the list of companies, see Copulus 1984, pp. 2–3.
    • Also see Mintz, John. "Loudoun Newcomer Lives On Heavily Guarded Estate", The Washington Post, January 13, 1985.
29. LaRouche 1987, p. 117.
30. Lerman 1988, p. 212.
31. Mintz, December 18, 1987.
32. ^ Montgomery 1979.
33. New Solidarity, April 9–13, 1973.
    • For the Village Voice, see Hentoff 1974, pp. 8, 10, and for its discussion of the editorial, see p. 30.
    • Also see Alexander 1991, p. 946.
34. Montgomery 1974 and Hentoff 1974, pp. 8, 10, 30.
35. Alexander 1991, p. 947.
36. King 1989, pp. 23–24.
    • Also see Clines, Frances X. "Two Held in a Double Street Gang Stabbing on Lower East Side", The New York Times, October 11, 1973.
37. LaRouche, March 10, 2000.
38. LaRouche, February 9, 1998.
39. For the founding date of 1973, see U.S. Labor Party (1973–), National party conventions, 1831-1976," Congressional Quarterly, 1979, p. 197.
    • Also for 1973, see "Justice Department Drops Investigation Of U.S. Labor Party", The New York Times, September 19, 1977.
    • For The New York Times description, see Blum 1979.
    • For Gregory Rose in the National Review, see Rose 1979.
    • For the LaRouche movement, see "A Brief Biography of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr", Executive Intelligence Review, July 28, 1995, accessed February 9, 2011.
    • Also see Watson, Francis. "U.S. Labor Party," Heritage Foundation, Institution Analysis No. 7, June 1978.
    • Reich, Kenneth. "Quits Leftist Camp", Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1977: "Three and four years ago, the tiny U.S. Labor Party, preaching Marxist revolution, was engaged in a bitter fight with the Communist Party over which was a purer representative of left-wing tradition.

      "But now the Labor Party, under the same leadership, has moved to the right, has joined with persons in the South who are heirs to George C. Wallace's American Independent Party tradition, is soliciting help from orthodox Republicans and even had an information table at a big GOP fund-raising dinner in the Biltmore here last month."

40. Kenney 1980.
41. ^ Blum 1979.
    • LaRouche hired WerBell as a security consultant for protection against an assassination threat and to train his security staff; see Donner & Rothenberg 1980.
42. Blum 1979.
    • The newspaper wrote that, by the late 1970s, 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 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. 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. See Blum 1979, Shenon 1986, and Sims 1996, p. 63.
43. Witt 2004, p. 3.
    • Marcus, L. (Lyndon LaRouche). "Beyond Psychoanalysis", The Campaigner, Vol 6, Nos. 3–4, September/October 1973.
    • Also see Marcus, Lyn (Lyndon LaRouche). "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party", The Campaigner, Vol. 7, No. 1, Nov. 1973.
44. Montgomery 1974.
    • Also see Witt 2004, p. 3.
45. Tourish & Wohlforth 2000, p. 74.
46. Montgomery 1974, p. 51, column 5.
47. Montgomery 1974, p. 51, column two.
48. Montgomery 1974, p. 1.
    • "Trial Date Is Set for 6 Radicals Accused of Kidnapping Woman", The New York Times, January 24, 1974.
    • "6 Marxists Here Absolved of Imprisoning a Member", The New York Times, February 27, 1974.
    • Also see Tourish & Wohlforth 2000, pp. 74–75.
49. Perlman 1984.
50. BOYER, EDWARD J (May 31, 1986), "Court Bars Democrats' Bid Against LaRouche Hopefuls", Los Angeles Times, p. A1
51. Donner & Randall 1980 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDonnerRandall1980 (help)
52. George & Wilcox 1992, pp. 317–318, 322
53. ^ Rosenfeld 1976.
    • For Kelley's statement, also see "Nomination of Hon. Andrew Young as U.S. Representative to U.N.", Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session ... January 25, 1977, p. 49.
54. Witt 2004, p. 3.
    • See "Federal matching funds", BBC News, February 22, 2000.
55. Dabilis, Andy. "Labor candidates explain platform," The Sunday Sun, (Lowell, Mass), May 30, 1976, p. B5.
    • Also see Johnson, Donald Bruce. National Party Platforms: 1960–1976. Volume 2, University of Illinois Press, 1978, p. 1007.
56. ^ Chapman, William. U.S. Labor Party: Far to the Left Of the Far Left," The Washington Post, September 12, 1976.
57. For Rosenfeld in The Washington Post, see Rosenfeld 1976.
    • For LaRouche in Executive Intelligence Review, see LaRouche 1999 harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFLaRouche1999 (help), July 2, footnote 25.
58. For the election, see "Dunkle Kräfte", Der Spiegel, September 22, 1980; pdf here; Google translation.
    • For the Schiller Institute, see King 1989, pp. xiii, 41.
59. Bradley 2004.
60. Benshoff, Anastasia. "Bush and Clinton aren't the only candidates in presidential race," Associated Press, August 27, 1992.
61. Tipton 1986.
62. The Boston Globe, February 26, 1980.
63. "Rightist LaRouche started out as a Marxist", Chicago Sun–Times, March 20, 1986, p. 4.
64. For the first publication in EIR, see Barry 1991.
    • For more information about the evolution of the theory, see Emerson 1993 and Pipes 2003.
65. For the meetings, see Mintz, John. "Some Officials Find Intelligence Network 'Useful'", The Washington Post, January 15, 1985
    • That LaRouche kept in touch with Gandhi, see Singh, Jasjit. Indo-US Relations in a Changing World: Proceedings of the Indo-US Strategic Symposium, Lancer Publishers in association with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1992, p. 84.
    • For Operation Juárez and Latin America, see King 1989, p. 51.
66. For Özal reprimanding his aides, see "Turkish Chief Meets LaRouche By Mistake", Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1987.
    • For the Alfonsin meeting, see Mintz, January 15, 1985 (see above).
67. Gallagher 2004.
    • King 1989, p. 61
68. Siano 1992.
69. LaRouche, February 1, 2003.
    • LaRouche's promotion of space colonization included dealings with German scientists and engineers who had worked under the Nazi government during the Second World War, some of whom had emigrated to the U.S. 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. LaRouche also collaborated with Ehricke on ideas about the colonization of the moon and Mars; after Ehricke's death, LaRouche sponsored the "Krafft Ehricke Memorial Conference," and in 1988 delivered a national TV broadcast titled "The Woman on Mars." See Siano 1992, LaRouche Political Action Committee 1988, and King 1989, pp. 80–81.
70. ^ Mintz, John. "Loudoun Newcomer Lives On Heavily Guarded Estate", The Washington Post, January 13, 1985.
71. Zepp-LaRouche 2004.
72. For the cost of the spots, see Lowther 1986 harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFLowther1986 (help).
    • For Mondale, see Rutenberg, Jim and Stelter, Brian. "Obama, purse swelling, plans half-hour tv ad", The New York Times, undated.
    • For the 1,000 complaints, see "TV Viewers Irate Over Slur at Mondale", Associated Press, October 24, 1984.
    • For his allegations about Henry Kissinger, see "Lyndon H. LaRouche to speak on ABC-TV at midnight", PR Newswire, March 26, 1984.
73. For Bailey and Morris meetings, and for LaRouche saying the report was mistaken, see "CIA admits talks with rightist pol", Philadelphia Daily News, November 1, 1984.
    • For DEA, DIA, and CIA, see Green 1985.
74. Mintz 1985 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFMintz1985 (help).
75. Hume 1986 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFHume1986 (help)
76. St. Petersburg Times 1987
77. "LaRouche Lawyers Seek North's Notebooks", Associated Press, April 7, 1988.
    • "It's Time for Truth-In-Justice in Virginia: The LaRouche Cases in Virginia", Executive Intelligence Review, October 12, 2008.
78. ^ Lynch 1985, p. 42.
    • For information about Pat Lynch, see "Pat Lynch", The Huffington Post, retrieved February 14, 2011.
79. Mintz, John. "Critics of LaRouche Group Hassled, Ex-Associates Say", The Washington Post, January 14, 1985.
80. LaRouche, Lyndon. "LaRouche testifies on his case", Executive Intelligence Review], undated.
    • "Have the mass media brainwashed your neighbor about Lyndon LaRouche?", Executive Intelligence Review, undated.
81. "LaRouche Jury Gives $3 Million to NBC-TV", The New York Times, November 2, 1984.
    • Mintz, January 15, 1985.
    • Associated Press, February 24, 1985.
    Constantini & Nash 1990.
82. "Judgment is reduced in LaRouche-NBC Case", Associated Press, February 24, 1985.
83. "LaRouche to pay $250,000 to NBC", Associated Press, September 20, 1986.
    • Also see "NBC Gets a $258,459 Check To End LaRouche Court Fight", Associated Press, November 16, 1986.
84. LaRouche v. National Broadcasting Company, 780 F.2d 1134, 1139 (4th Cir. 1986).
    • " Memo from AOL libel suit", Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 13, 2000, accessed February 9, 2011.
85. Roderick 1986.
86. Frantz 1986, p. 2.
87. "Democrats step up LaRouche alert", The New York Times, April 26, 1986.
    • Also see Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. "The links between LaRouche and New York corruption", The New York Times, April 1, 1986.
88. Kaufman 1988.
89. McLaughlin 1986 harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFMcLaughlin1986 (help).
90. "LaRouche Calls Critics Insane, Wants Regan Put in Jail", Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1986.
    • Also see "LaRouche sees death plot by drug dealers Soviets", Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1986.
    • McLaughlin, Neil. "LaRouche Meets Press; Strange Ideas Abound", Associated Press, April 11, 1986.
    • Estill 1986.
91. Eichel 1986
92. Shenon 1986.
    • Frantz, Douglas. "Raid bares LaRouche dark world", Chicago Tribune, October 12, 1986.
    • "LaRouche Groups' Bank Assets Frozen in Fraud Scheme", Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1986.
    • "Guardians Named for Woman Over $850,000 LaRouche Gift", The New York Times, October 30, 1986.
    • "Screening of Jurors Begins in LaRouche Trial", The New York Times, September 22, 1987.
    • For the charges of defrauding, see Murphy, Caryle. "LaRouche Convicted of Mail Fraud; 6 Associates of Extremist Also Found Guilty in Loan Solicitations", The Washington Post, December 17, 1988.
    • Howard, Alison. "Elderly Seek Refunds From LaRouche", The Washington Post, May 23, 1990.
93. ^ "LaRouche Gets 15 Years for Cheating His Backers, IRS: 6 Aides Also Get Prison Terms, Fines," Associated Press, January 27, 1989.
    • Mintz, John. "LaRouche Indicted in Conspiracy; Justice Dept. Alleges Va.-Based Extremist Tried to Scuttle Probe", The Washington Post, July 3, 1987.
    • Also see Mintz, John. "Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche", The Washington Post, September 20, 1987.
    • Edds 1995.
94. "U.S. Agents Take Over 3 LaRouche Companies", Associated Press, April 21, 1987.
95. "LaRouche Convicted of Mail Fraud; 6 Associates of Extremist Also Found Guilty in Loan Solicitations", The Washington Post, December 17, 1988.
    • "LaRouche Appeal Is Rebuffed by Supreme Court", The Washington Post, July 4, 1989.
    • For LaRouche's sentencing, see ":LaRouche receives 15-year sentence", Associated Press, January 28, 1989.
96. Clark 1995 and Ford 1995.
97. LaRouche Jr., Lyndon H. (December 26, 1988), "Correspondence: Classical Composition", The New Republic, vol. 199, no. 26, p. 6
98. Smith, Susan J. (September 29, 1986), "BONN EXHIBIT DEPICTS GERMANY'S BEETHOVEN CULT", Boston Globe, Associated Press, p. 12
99. For friendship with Brainin, see "Fund-Raiser for LaRouche Draws Complaints at GU", The Washington Post, December 7, 1988.
    • For friendship with Warfield, see "Exonerate LaRouche". LaRouche in 2004. Archived from the original on February 28, 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2008. LaRouche's Schiller Institute paid for the advertisement. William Warfield has been active in various LaRouche organizations.
100. Fitzgerald, Michael (January 2, 2008), The Record, Stockton, Calif., Michael Fitzgerald column: Plenty of weirdness in 2007, Washington {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
     • Milbank, Dana (April 27, 2005), "Where Does the Bean Soup Fit In?", The Washington Post, p. A.05
     • RODDY, DENNIS (July 30, 2004), "LAROUCHIES, ANARCHISTS DOTH PROTEST, BUT NOT TOO MUCH", Pittsburgh Post - Gazette, p. A.9
     • Yamamura, Kevin (November 10, 2006), Governor begins Mexico visit with praise for Dems, Washington, p. 1 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
101. Roderick, Kevin (October 14, 1986), "Raid Stirs Reports of LaRouche's Dark Side", Los Angeles Times, p. 1
102. HUME, ELLEN (February 16, 1980), "LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label", Los Angeles Times, p. A20
103. Taylor, Robert (November 9, 1994), "Divining the world via music and math", Boston Globe, p. 93
104. Church, Francis (September 16, 1989), "SHALL LYNDON LAROUCHE CALL THE TUNING PITCH?", Richmond Times - Dispatch, p. A-37
     • Ng, David (May 31, 2010), "Protesters greet start of 'Ring'; Lyndon LaRouche supporters decry the production; inside, responses are mixed", Los Angeles Times, p. D.4
105. "Shall Lyndon LaRouche call the tuning pitch?"], Richmond Times Dispatch, September 16, 1989.
     • "As Pitch in Opera Rises, So Does Debate", The New York Times, August 13, 1989.
     • "Eavesdropping", The Hour, May 2, 1989.
     • "A Revolution in Musical Tuning – Return to Verdi’s Scientific Pitch C=256 Hertz", Schiller Institute website.
106. Dorr 1992.
     • Also see Howe, Robert F. "LaRouche Announces Race for House From Jail Cell", The Washington Post, June 23, 1989.
     • For it being the second campaign from jail, see Morrison, Pat. "Felons Make Lineup for State's Presidential Primary", Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2004. The first to stand from jail was perennial Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in 1920.
107. Witt 2004, p. 2.
     • Also see Bakker & Abraham 1996, pp. 250–251.
108. Pea, Peter and Smith, Leef. "LaRouche Back in Loudoun After 5 Years in Prison", January 24, 1994.
109. Goodstein 1994
110. Quinton 1996.
111. Bligh 2008.
     • 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. See LaRouche v. Fowler, August 28, 1998.
112. "U.S. Scholars Refute Cox Report," Xinhua News Agency, June 4, 1999.
     • LaRouche, June 4, 1999.
113. "LaRouche Vows to Change U.S. Politics if Elected President," Xinhua News Agency, October 25, 1999.
114. For the founding of WYLM and the membership figures, see Witt 2004, p. 2, and Silva 2006.
     • For the Democratic primaries figures, see "Is Lyndon a Democrat?", The Economist, June 22, 2000.
115. Alinejad 2004, p. 105–106
116. For LaRouche on his speech to the Zayed Center, see LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. "The Middle East as a Strategic Crossroad", Schiller Institute, June 2, 2002.
     • For the post-speech material, see Anti-Defamation League 2003.
     • For LaRouche's Eurasian Landbridge proposal, see "Bering Strait Conference in Moscow Hears From LaRouche and Gov. Hickel On War-Avoidance Through Economic Development", LaRouche Political Action Committe, April 24, 2007.
117. Roberts, Joel. Lyndon LaRouche Tries Again. Perennial Presidential Candidate Makes 8th Run For White House, CBS News, May 2, 2003
118. Klein, Avi (November 2007), "Publish and Perish: The Mysterious Death of Lyndon LaRouche's Printer", Washington Monthly
119. For Caizzi, see Caizzi 2008.
     • For Peterlini, see Minutes of the Italian Senate, July 21, 2009, p. 50. Google translation: "Our appeals and those of many other influential experts in the field, like that of American economist Lyndon LaRouche, have unfortunately remained unanswered, with the result that today we face a crisis that threatens to become a disaster like that of 1929. Today, everyone is calling for a new Bretton Woods, including Minister of Economy and Finance Tremonti."
120. For Kenneth Kronberg's position within the movement, see The Washington Post, May 1, 2007.
     • For the lawsuit, see Wagoner 2009.
121. Overley, Jeff. "LaRouche activists press message; Demonstrators battle health care overhaul by likening ideas to Hitler's policies", Orange County Register, August 23, 2009.
     • LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. "Act now!", LaRouche Political Action Committee, May 24, 2009.
     • LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. "LaRouche: 'With This Statement From Him, The President Now Deserves Impeachment'", LaRouche Political Action Committee, July 22, 2009.
     • For similar criticisms from some Republicans, see "First thoughts: What we saw yesterday", MSNBC, August 13, 2009.
     • For the pamphlets and posters, see Schultz 2009.
     • For the police being called, see McNerthney 2009.
     • For Barney Frank, see CNN, August 19, 2009.
     • For Frank, also see Mackey, Robert. "Visitors from Planet LaRouche", The New York Times, August 25, 2009.
122. Toumey 1996, p. 85ff.
     • Johnson 1983, pp. 187ff.
     • George & Wilcox 1996, pp. 285ff.
     • For the English empiricists, see also Robins & Post 1997, p. 196.
     • For the list of friends and foes, see Johnson 1983, pp. 22, 188, 192–193.
123. Johnson 1983, p. 198
124. Copulus 1984, p. 2.
     • Johnson 1983, p. 187ff.
     • George & Wilcox 1996, pp. 285ff.
     • Also see Robins, Robert S. and Post, Jerrold M. (1997). "Lyndon LaRouche: The Extremity of Reason," Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred. Yale University Press. Discussing LaRouche's view of history, they write (p. 194): "We have found no person who has developed a more complex, or more ingenious, paranoid theory than Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr."
     • For the relationships LaRouche has formed, including with Klan followers, see Johnson 1989, p. 2.
     • For the list of friends and foes, see Johnson 1983, pp. 22, 188, 192–193. See p. 22 for inclusion of the Klan among his foes.
     • For LaRouche on his philosophy, see LaRouche, Lyndon. "The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites", The Campaigner, May–June 1978, p. 5ff.
125. Toumey 1996, p. 86
126. For example, see Rosenfeld 1976; Horowitz 1981; Lerman 1988; Griffin & Feldman 2003, p. 144; and Blamires 2006.
     • Also see Chavis, Benjamin F. "LaRouche Invades Black Community", Washington Afro-American, August 12, 1986.
127. DOBLIN, ALFRED P. (October 29, 2007), "Lyndon LaRouche found a friend in Englewood", The Record, Bergen County, N.J., p. L.09
128. Copulus 1984, p. 4, footnote 5.
     • Also see Binder, Sarah. "Commonwealth candidates cause concern", The Canadian Press, September 1, 1984.
129. For the drug lobby quote, see McLaughlin, Neil. "LaRouche Meets Press; Strange Ideas Abound", Associated Press, April 11, 1986.
     • Also see "LaRouche alleges conspiracy from Moscow to White House", Associated Press, April 19, 1986.
     • LaRouche, September 17, 2006.
130. For Lerman, see Lerman 1988, p. 213.
     • For Johnson, see Johnson 1989, p. 2.
     • For King's PLP membership from 1963 to 1972, see George & Wilcox 1992, p. 313; for commentary on the code word theory, see George & Wilcox 1992, p. 321. Quote: "Dennis King goes to considerable lengths to paint LaRouche as a neo-Nazi, even engaging in a little conspiracy-mongering of his own. King maintains, for example, that words like 'British' were really code words for 'Jew.' Obviously, people of good will can disagree on the relative 'threat' LaRouche and his crew have represented to the republic, but we feel that King goes too far. There are numerous LaRouchean political indiscretions and the courts will take care of the criminal matters. Questionable assertions are unnecessary."
131. Pipes 1997, pp. 137, 142.
132. Manning 1998 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFManning1998 (help)
133. George & Wilcox 1992, pp. 317, 322
134. ^ George & Wilcox 1992, pp. 312, 324–325
135. Clancy, Paul (May 6, 1988), "LaRouche vows he'll 'raise hell'", USA TODAY, p. 02A
136. Mletzko 1995
137. George & Wilcox 1992, pp. 324–325
138. KRAWZAK, PAUL (February 21, 1994), "Democrats fear 1986 LaRouche repeat", State Journal Register, Springfield, Ill., COPLEY NEWS SERVICE, p. 6
139. Boland : Pae, Peter; Smith, Leef (January 27, 1994), "LaRouche, Paroled After 5 Years in Prison, Returns to Loudoun", The Washington Post, p. a.11
     • Fowler: KROPF, SCHUYLER (April 29, 2003), "LaRouche gets hook as Dems set debate", The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., p. B.1
     • Girvin: "LAROUCHE FOES IN LOUDOUN HOPE FOR CONVICTION", Richmond Times - Dispatch, Richmond, Va., United Press International, p. B-2, October 12, 1987
     • Peeples: Springston, Rex (April 23, 1986), "EX-LAROUCHE 'SUCKER' FEELS VINDICATED", Richmond Times - Dispatch., p. 1
     • Schatz: GROSS, JANE (October 9, 1988), "Californian With AIDS Seeks A Law for Broader Disclosure", New York Times, p. A.1
     • Suall: RODERICK, KEVIN (November 6, 1986), "THE STATE ELECTION LaRouche Trounced on All Fronts but Vows to Keep Trying", Los Angeles Times, p. 5
     • Michael and AFL-CIO: "Reagan lieutenant joins Soviets, drug runners on extremist's hate list", The Ottawa Citizen, p. E.4, April 10, 1986
     • Sevila and Leesburg Garden Club: Springston, Rex (April 4, 1986), "LAROUCHE EVOKES FEAR IN VA. TOWN WITH THE CANDIDATE CAME GUNS AND HIS BODYGUARDS", Richmond Times - Dispatch, p. 1
140. "drug dealers": Woodward, Bob; Pichirallo, Joe (February 2, 1988), "Wide Panamanian Corruption Is Alleged by Former Consul; Noriega Aide Calls Charges 'Ridiculous'", The Washington Post, p. a.01
     • "cretins, communists, traitors or homosexuals": Mintz, John (September 20, 1987), "Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche", The Washington Post, p. c.01
141. Lowther, William (March 30, 1986), "U.S. extremist grows as political force", Toronto Star, p. B.1
142. Witt 2004
143. RODERICK, KEVIN (November 20, 1986), "Prop. 64 Records Seized in State's LaRouche Probe", Los Angeles Times, p. 3
     • HOUSTON, PAUL (Apr 29, 1986), "In Spotlight After Illinois Victories LaRouche: Cult Figure or Serious Political Leader?", Los Angeles Times, p. 1
     • Hume, Ellen (March 28, 1986), Wall Street Journal, p. 1 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |firt= ignored (help)
144. Anonymous phone calls: "LAROUCHE FOES IN LOUDOUN HOPE FOR CONVICTION", Richmond Times - Dispatch, Richmond, Va., United Press International, p. B-2, October 12, 1987
     • Death threats: Springston, Rex (=April 23, 1986), "EX-LAROUCHE 'SUCKER' FEELS VINDICATED", Richmond Times - Dispatch., p. 1 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
     • False news and pet killings: Hume, Ellen (March 28, 1986), "LaRouche Group, Long on the Political Fringe Gets Mainstream Scrutiny After Illinois Primary", Wall Street Journal, p. 1. Royko, Mike (March 31, 1986), "LAROUCHITES KEEP FUR FLYING", Chicago Tribune, p. 3
     • Pet mutilations: Springston, Rex (April 4, 1986), "LAROUCHE EVOKES FEAR IN VA. TOWN WITH THE CANDIDATE CAME GUNS AND HIS BODYGUARDS", Richmond Times - Dispatch, p. 1
     • Protests: Royko, Mike (July 25, 1986), "LAROUCHITES TEST POSITIVE FOR FLEECE", Chicago Tribune, p. 3
145. ^ For Asharq al-Awsat, see Qazwini, Iqbal. "Major International Crises Need a Giant Project to Overcome Them", Asharq Al-Awsat, January 23, 2003.
     • For People's Daily, see Tang 2005.
     • For Russia Today, see Shishov 2008.
     • For China Youth Daily, see Hui, Ju. "The Current World Financial System is Unsalvageable", China Youth Daily, July 24, 2009.
146. Wardrop, Murray. "Fascist cult 'may have killed Jewish student'", The Telegraph, May 21, 2010.
     • "New inquest into Jeremiah Duggan's death in Germany", BBC, May 20, 2010.
     • Küppers, Kirsten. "Als Jeremiah verloren ging", taz, November 22, 2003.
     • For LaRouche's view, see LaRouche, Lyndon. "Duggan Hoax Rewarmed Again", Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee, November 8, 2006.

References

Books or chapters about LaRouche

Alexander, Robert Jackson (1991), "The Strange Case of the National Caucus of Labor Committees", International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822310662

Blamires, Cyprian (2006), "Lyndon LaRouche", World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576079406

Gilbert, Helen (2003), Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium, Red Letter Press, 2003, ISBN 9780932323217

George, John; Wilcox, Laird M. (1992), "The LaRouche Network", Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America, Prometheus Books, p. 312ff, ISBN 978-0-87975-680-2

George, John; Wilcox, Laird M. (1996), "The LaRouche Network", American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others, Prometheus Books, p. 283ff, ISBN 978-1-57392-058-2

Johnson, George (1983), "The 'New Dark Ages' Conspiracy", Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics, J.P Tarcher, ISBN 0874772753

King, Dennis (1989), "Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism", Doubleday, ISBN 9780385238809

Knight, Peter (2003), "LaRouche, Lyndon", Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576078124

Lerman, Antony (1988), "Le Pen and LaRouche: Political Extremism in Democratic Societies", in Frankel, William (ed.), Survey of Jewish Affairs 1987, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, p. 202, ISBN 9780838633229

Mletzko, Matthias (1995), "The LaRouche-Organization: In the Gray Zone between Extremism, Cultism and Political Exoticism", in Backes, Uwe; Jesse, Eckhard (eds.), Yearbook of Extremism and Democracy (7th ed.), Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers

Rausch, John David (2003), "Executive Intelligence Review", in Knight, Peter (ed.), Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, p. 245, ISBN 9781576078129

Robins, Robert S.; Post, Jerrold M. (1997), "Lyndon LaRouche: The Extremity of Reason", Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-07027-6

Toumey, Christopher P. (1996), "Plague", Conjuring science: scientific symbols and cultural meanings in American life, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 9780813522852

Tourish, Dennis; Wohlforth, Tim (2000), On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, M.E Sharpe, ISBN 0765606399

Books (general)

Alinejad, Mahmoud (2004), "Political Islam in Iran and the emergence of a religious public sphere: The impact of September 11", in Van Der Weer, Peter (ed.), Media, War, and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-33140-4

Bakker, Jim; Abraham, Ken (1996), I Was Wrong, T. Nelson, ISBN 9780785274254

Davidson, Osha Gray (1990), Broken heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto, Free Press, ISBN 0029070554

Fraser, Clara (1998), Revolution, She Wrote, Red Letter Press, 1998, ISBN 0932323049

Hunt, Linda (1991) , Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990, St. Martin's Press

Griffin, Roger; Feldman, Matthew (2003), Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Volume 5, Routledge, ISBN 0415290201

Jacobs, Harold (1971), Weatherman, Ramparts Press, ISBN 671207253 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)

Johnson, Donald Bruce (1978), National Party Platforms: 1960–1976, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252006887

Markus, Andrew (2001), Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2001, ISBN 1864488662

Pipes, Daniel (2003), "October Surprise", in Knight (ed.), Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2, ABC-Clio, pp. 547–50 {{citation}}: |editor2-first= missing |editor2-last= (help)

Pipes, Daniel (1997), Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From, Free Press, ISBN 0684831317

Seife, Charles (2008), Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Penguin Group, ISBN 0670020338

Sims, Patsy (1996), The Klan, University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 081310887X

Weir, David; Dan, Noyes (1983), Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc, ISBN 0201108593

News articles

Associated Press (February 24, 1985), "Judgment is reduced in LaRouche-NBC Case", The New York Times.

Associated Press (August 10, 1986), "Court Fines LaRouche $2,000 For Not Answering Questions", The New York Times{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Associated Press (April 19, 1986), LaRouche alleges conspiracy from Moscow to White House{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Associated Press (September 20, 1986), "LaRouche to pay $250,000 to NBC", The New York Tomes.

Associated Press (April 7, 1988), "LaRouche Lawyers Seek North's Notebooks", The New York Times.

Barry, John (November 11, 1991), "Making of a Myth", Newsweek.

Bartley, Robert L. (June 9, 2003), "Joining LaRouche In the Fever Swamps: The New York Times and The New Yorker go off the deep end", The Wall Street Journal.

BBC News (May 20, 2010), Fresh inquest into student death.

Blum, Howard (October 7, 1979), "U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy", New York Times.

Bradley, Paul (February 8, 2004), "An old thorn back in Democrats' side; for the eighth time, Lyndon LaRouche is seeking the presidency", Richmond Times.

Brubaker, Bill (April 12, 2008), "Incest Verdict Is Bittersweet For Daughter Of Minister", The Washington Post.

Caizzi, Ivo (December 18, 2008), "LaRouche's prophecy: to return to fixed exchange rates", Corriere della Sera.

Chapman, William (September 12, 1976), "U.S. Labor Party: Far to the Left Of the Far Left", The Washington Post.

Chicago Tribune (April 10, 1986), LaRouche sees death plot by drug dealers, Soviets.

Clark, John; Weibel, Mike (January 18, 1987), "Frankhouser 'broken' by arrest in LaRouche probe", The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.

CNN (August 19, 2009; video), "Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall", CNN {{citation}}: |last= has generic name (help); Check date values in: |date= (help).

Cohen, David (February 11, 2004), "Drop-Outs Ask Students to Join LaRouche Cause", The Daily Californian.

Degen, Wolfgang (April 19, 2007), "Nur die Legende hat ein langes Leben", Wiesbadener Kurier, retrieved February 13, 2011.

Der Spiegel (September 22, 1980). "Dunkle Kräfte"; pdf here; Google translation.

Donner, Frank; Rothenberg, Randall (August 16, 1980), "The Strange Odyssey of Lyndon LaRouche", The Nation, p. 142–147.

Dorr, Robert (September 20, 1992), "Activist in Franklin Probe Is LaRouche Running Mate", Omaha World—Herald

Edds, Margaret (April 2, 1995), "James S. Gilmore III: Intense, All-Business Attorney General Already Has Stepped From Allen's Shadow", The Virginian-Pilot.

Edelman, Eric (July, 2010), "A Special Relationship in Jeopardy", The American Interest Magazine {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).

Eichel, Larry (April 10, 1986), "LaRouche speaks his mind", Philadelphia Inquirer, p. A18.

Emerson, Steven (March 1993), "No October Surprise", American Journalism Review.

Estill, Robert (April 10, 1986), "'Forgotten majority' cited by LaRouche", The San Diego Union, p. A2.

Ford, Brian (August 20, 1995), "LaRouche Pushes For Exoneration", Tulsa World.

Foster, Douglas (January 1982), "Teamster Madness", Mother Jones, p. 28ff.

Frantz, Douglas (October 12, 1986), "Raid bares LaRouche dark world", Chicago Tribune.

Goodstein, Laurie (September 2, 1994), "Nation of Islam Official Assails Jewish Group; ADL Accused of Conspiring Against Blacks", The Washington Post.

Green, Stephen (January 19, 1985), "A merchant of political hate", The San Diego Union.

Hentoff, Nat (January 24, 1974), "Of Thugs and Liars", The Village Voice.

Houston Paul (April 29, 1986), "In Spotlight After Illinois Victories LaRouche: Cult Figure or Serious Political Leader?", Los Angeles Times.

Hume, Ellen (March 28, 1986), "LaRouche Group, Long on the Political Fringe Gets Mainstream Scrutiny After Illinois Primary", Wall Street Journal.

Johnson, George (June 18, 1989), "A menace or just a crank?", The New York Times.

Kaufman, Jonathan (August 5, 1988), "LaRouche group called adept at smear tactics", Boston Globe.

Kenney, Charles (February 17, 1980), "Fringe Candidate or a Threat? The Lyndon LaRouche Campaign", Boston Globe, p. 1.

King, Dennis; Lynch, Patricia (May 27, 1986), "The Empire of Lyndon LaRouche", Wall Street Journal, p. 1

Klein, Avi (November 2007), "Publish and Perish: The Mysterious Death of Lyndon LaRouche's Printer", Washington Monthly.

"LaRouche Calls Critics Insane, Wants Regan Put in Jail", Los Angeles Times, p. 6, Apr 10, 1986.

Los Angeles Times (Jan 27, 1989), LaRouche Gets 15 Years for Cheating His Backers, IRS 6 Aides Also Get Prison Terms, Fines.

Lowther, William (March 30, 1986), "U.S. extremist grows as political force", Toronto Star.

McLaughlin, Neil (April 10, 1986), "LaRouche sees world conspiracy to kill him", Associated Press.

McNerthney, Casey (July 14, 2009), "LaRouche supporter threatened for linking Obama to Hitler", Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Mintz, John (January 13, 1985), "Loudoun Newcomer Lives On Heavily Guarded Estate", The Washington Post.

Mintz, John (January 14, 1985), "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right", The Washington Post.

Mintz, John (January 15, 1985), "Some Officials Find Intelligence Network 'Useful'", The Washington Post.

Mintz, John (Jan 31, 1987), "Prosecutor Moves to Disarm LaRouche Guards; Lawyer for Security Men Tells Judge They Would Not Resist Law Enforcement Officers", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (May 17, 1987), "LaRouche Filings: Plots, Spies; Judges Tomorrow to Sift Myriad Motions Filed by Corps of Lawyers", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (July 3, 1987), "LaRouche Indicted in Conspiracy; Justice Dept. Alleges Va.-Based Extremist Tried to Scuttle Probe", The Washington Post.

Mintz, John (September 20, 1987), "Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (September 22, 1987), "Jury Selection Begins in LaRouche Fraud Case; Lawyers Say Trial, Which Could Last 3 Months, Promises to Be One of the Strangest", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (October 20, 1987), "Trial of LaRouche and 7 Aides May Be Delayed; Case of One Defendant May Be Severed, Heard First in Boston Federal Court", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (October 21, 1987), "Judge Delays Trials of LaRouche, Six Associates; Case of Former Ku Klux Klan Leader Frankhouser Is Severed and Will Be Tried First", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

Mintz, John (December 18, 1987), "Defense Calls LaRouche, Followers 'Most Annoying'; Trial Begins for Leesburg Group Accused of Obstructing Probe Into Its Fund-Raising", The Washington Post{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link).

McLaughlin, Neil (April 11, 1986), "LaRouche Meets Press; Strange Ideas Abound", Associated Press.

Montgomery, Paul L. (January 20, 1974), "How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery", The New York Times.

Montgomery, Paul L. (October 8, 1979), "One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on His Erratic Path", New York Times.

Morrison, Patt (Jan 5, 2004), "Felons Make Lineup for State's Presidential Primary", Los Angeles Times, p. B.2.

Overley, Jeff (August 23, 2009), "LaRouche activists press message; Demonstrators battle health care overhaul by likening ideas to Hitler's policies", Orange County Register.

Perlman, Jeffrey A. (May 27, 1984), "No Longer Written Off by Political Opponents, LaRouche Elbowing Into Limelight", Los Angeles Times.

Quinton, Robinson (September 30, 1996), "Million Man drive dips to hundreds; Gathering backs probe of CIA", The Commercial Appeal.

Ray, Linda (October 29, 1986), "Breaking the Silence: An Ex-LaRouche Follower Tells Her Story", In These Times.

Reardon, Patrick; Greenbaum, Kurt (March 20, 1986), "Larouche element is an extreme case", Chicago Tribune

"The right response/LaRouche links Regan to drug money, but has praise for White", Houston Chronicle, Apr 10, 1986.

"Rightist LaRouche started out as a a Marxist", Chicago Sun - Times, p. 4, March 20, 1986.

Ritchie, Murray (September 6, 2009), "SNP leadership outsider challenged over 'support' for US extremist", The Herald.

Roderick, Kevin (1986a), "Authorities See Pattern of Threats, Plots Dark Side of LaRouche Empire Surfaces", Los Angeles Times {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |DUPLICATE DATA: date= ignored (help).

Roderick, Kevin (1986b), "LaRouche Wrote of Using AIDS to Win Presidency", Los Angeles Times {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |DUPLICATE DATA: date= ignored (help).

Rose, David (January 4, 2009), "Defectors tricked us with WMD lies, but we must not be fooled again", The Observer {{citation}}: Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help).

Rose, Gregory F. (March 30, 1979), "The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC", National Review.

Rosenfeld, Stephen (September 24, 1976), "NCLC: A Domestic Political Menace", The Washington Post.

Schob, David E. (April 30, 1989), "The Strange Ascent of Lyndon LaRouche, a native American fascist", Houston Chronicle.

Schultz, Erin (July 23, 2009), "Obama's plan blasted as Nazi-like: LaRouche demonstrations across the North Fork question health care policy", The Suffolk Times.

Shenon, Philip (October 8, 1986), "LaRouche warns U.S on any move to arrest him", The New York Times.

Shishov, Tatiana (June 29, 2008), "Globalization: The Greatest Scam of the XX Century", Russia Today.

Siano, Brian (May 1992), "The Skeptical Eye: Big Head's Back", The Humanist, vol. 52, no. 3.

Silva, Christina (April 14, 2006), "Colleges consider stressing danger of pressure groups", Boston Globe.

St. Petersburg Times (July 9, 1987), LaRouche claims security council behind indictment.

Tang, Yong (November 22, 2005), "'I'll get to China sometime': Interview (VIII)", People's Daily.

Tipton, Virgil (March 31, 1986), "LaRouchies set sights on Missouri", Chicago Tribune.

The New York Times (October 10, 1979), The Cult of LaRouche.

"Kenneth L.Kronberg: Sterling Businessman", The Washington Post, May 1, 2007.

Toner, Robin (April 26, 1986), "Democrats step up LaRouche alert", The New York Times.

Tong, Betsy (June 12, 1994), "Class acts most likely to ... Notable graduates of Boston area high schools", Boston Globe.

Toner, Robin (April 4, 1986), "LaRouche Savors Fame That May Ruin Him", The New York Times.

Wagoner, Jane (August 25, 2009), "After suicide, Leesburg widow sues LaRouche", Loudoun Times-Mirror.

Wald, Matthew (December 10, 1987), "LaRouche Taken In By Aide, Trial Told", The New York Times.

Witt, April (October 24, 2004), "No Joke", The Washington Post.

Van Deerlin, Lionel (March 24, 1986), "Kooks right out of the Twilight Zone", Chicago Tribune.

Journal and other papers, records

Anti-Defamation League (September 15, 2003), The Zayed Center, retrieved August 16, 2009

Bligh, Gur (2008), "Extremism in the Electoral Arena: Challenging the Myth of American Exceptionalism", Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 5, p. 1367 {{citation}}: |chapter= ignored (help)

Constantini, E.; Nash, M.P. (1990), "SLAPP/SLAPPback: The Misuse of Libel Law for Political Purposes and a Countersuit Response", Journal of Law & Politics, p. 417 ff

Copulus, Milton R. (July 19, 1984), "The LaRouche Network" (PDF), Institutional Analysis, #28, Heritage Foundation, retrieved February 13, 2011

Horowitz, Irving Louis (May 1981), "Left-wing fascism: An infantile disorder", Society, Vol 18, Number 4, Springer New York

Lynch, Pat (March 1985), "Is Lyndon LaRouche using your name?", Columbia Journalism Review

Manable, Marable (Spring 1998), Dissent, vol. 45, no. 2, New York, pp. 69–77 http://kanda-db1.ggasoftware.com/Summary/Dissent/V45I2P69-1.htm {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Wohlforth, Tim, "A '60s Socialist Takes a Hard Right", Public Eye, retrieved September 4, 2009 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |note= ignored (help)

"Individual Record: Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved February 13, 2011.

"Individual Record: Jessie Lenore Weir". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved February 13, 2011.

LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr.: Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report (PDF), U.S. Office of Government Ethics, May 2, 2003, retrieved February 13, 2011

LaRouche publications

Boynton Robinson, Amelia (January 18, 2008), "Statement in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.", LaRouche PAC website

Clark, Ramsey (April 26, 1995), Open letter to Janet Reno, Schiller Institute, retrieved October 27, 2009{{citation}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

"Clinton Campaign Pulls Nation Back From Brink" (PDF), Executive Intelligence Review, January 25, 2008

"Have the Mass Media Brainwashed your Neighbor about Lyndon LaRouche?", Executive Intelligence Review, undated (a) {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

"Save the American Republic From the British Empire!" (PDF), Executive Intelligence Review, October 19, 2007

"Summary of Relevant Evidence on the Record Demonstrating the Innocence of Lyndon LaRouche And Co-Defendents", Executive Intelligence Review, undated (b) {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

"Support LaRouche for President", Executive Intelligence Review, Feb 27, 2004, retrieved September 6, 2009

Freeman, Debra Hanania (September 24, 2004), "The War Plan for November: LaRouche's Leadership in the Democratic Party", Executive Intelligence Review

Freeman, Debra Hanania (January 18, 2008), "Clinton's Fight for `Invisible Americans' Can Save the U.S.", Executive Intelligence Review

Gallagher, Paul (March 12, 2004), "SDI and the Jailing Of Lyndon LaRouche", Executive Intelligence Review, retrieved February 13, 2011

LaRouche, Lyndon (June 27, 1970), "How The Workers League Decayed", NCLC internal document

LaRouche, Lyndon (1973a), "The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach", The Campaigner {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |DUPLICATE DATA: date= ignored (help)

LaRouche, Lyndon (1973b), "Beyond Psychoanalysis" (PDF), The Campaigner {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |DUPLICATE DATA: date= ignored (help)

LaRouche, Lyndon (October 1974), "The Conceptual History of the Labor Committees", The Campaigner

LaRouche, Lyndon (May–June 1978), "The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites" (PDF), The Campaigner

LaRouche, Lyndon (1979), The Power of Reason: A Kind of Autobiography (PDF), New Benjamin Franklin House, ISBN 9780933488014

LaRouche, Lyndon (January 10, 1986), "The End of the Age of Aquarius?", Executive Intelligence Review, p. 40

LaRouche, Lyndon (1987), The Power of Reason: An Autobiography, Executive Intelligence Review, ISBN 9780943235004

LaRouche, Lyndon (February 9, 1998), "The Tale of the Hippopotamus", Executive Intelligence Review

LaRouche, Lyndon (June 4, 1999), "A Scientifically Illiterate Hoax", Executive Intelligence Review

LaRouche, Lyndon (June 11, 1999), "Star Wars and Littleton", Executive Intelligence Review

LaRouche, Lyndon (March 10, 2000, accessed August 25, 2009), "'He's a Bad Guy, But We Can't Say Why'", Executive Intelligience Review {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

LaRouche, Lyndon (June 2, 2002), The Middle East As A Strategic Crossroad, Schiller Institute website

LaRouche, Lyndon (February 1, 2003), What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?, Answers From LaRouche, National Cadre School

LaRouche, Lyndon (September 17, 2006), Britain's Bernard Lewis & His Crimes, LaRouche political action committee, retrieved February 10, 2011

LaRouche, Lyndon (November 8, 2006), Cheney Behind Press Campaign, Duggan Hoax Rewarmed Again, LaRouche political action committee, retrieved November 17, 2009

LaRouche, Lyndon (February 15, 2008), "Bloomberg Fools Them Again", Executive Intelligence Review

LaRouche Political Action Committee (April 25, 2007), Bering Strait Conference in Moscow Hears From LaRouche and Gov Hickel on War Avoidance Through Economic Development, retrieved February 13, 2011

LaRouche Political Action Committee (May 5, 2007), Russian Academy of Sciences Celebrates 80th Birthday of Prof, Stanislav Menshikov; LaRouche Is Featured Guest

LaRouche Political Action Committee (1988), The Woman on Mars

LaRouche Political Action Committee (July 22, 2009), LaRouche: "With This Statement From Him, The President Now Deserves Impeachment

"Operation Mop-Up: The Class Struggle Is for Keeps", New Solidarity, April 16, 1973

"Death of the CPUSA", New Solidarity, April 9, 1973

"III. Political Prisoners in Virginia: It's Time for Truth-In-Justice in Virginia", Executive Intelligence Review, archived from the original on 2007-11-14, retrieved 2009-11-18

Campaigns for Public Office, Schiller Institute, undated {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Schlanger, Harley (April 11, 2008), "LaRouche Youth Bring Reality, Provide Leadership to Party", Executive Intelligence Review

Steinberg, Jeffrey (August 13, 2004), "LaRouche Will Lead Democrats to November Landslide Win", Executive Intelligence Review

Zepp-LaRouche, Helga (July 16, 2004), "The Schiller Institute Turns Twenty!" (PDF), Executive Intelligence Review

Further reading

Template:Misplaced Pages-Books

• LaRouche Political Action Committee, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• Executive Intelligence Review, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• World Larouche Youth Movement, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• Schiller Institute, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• Atkins, Stephen E. "LaRouche, Lyndon Hermyle," Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups. Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN 0313315027
• Beyes-Corleis, Aglaja (1994). Verirrt: Mein Leben in einer radikalen Politorganisation. Herder. ISBN 3-451-04278-9
• Berlet, Chip (1981). "War on Drugs. The Strange Story of Lyndon LaRouche," High Times, May 1981.
• Berlet, Chip; Bellman, Joel (October 10, 1989), "Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag", Public Eye, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• Hearst, Ernest; Berlet, Chip; Porter, Jack (2007), "Neo-Nazism", in Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 15, Macmillan
• Kalimtgis, Konstandinos and Goldman, David (1978). Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against The U.S.. New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co (LaRouche).
• King, Dennis and Radosh, Ronald (1984). "The LaRouche Connection," The New Republic, November 19, 1984, p. 15.
• King, Dennis (1982). "LaRouche: A Dictatorial Mind at Work", New America, April–May 1982.
• Kirby, Terry (2004). "The Cult and the Candidate", The Independent, July 21, 2004.
• LaRouche, Lyndon (1976–2008). Footage of LaRouche on the financial collapse, YouTube, accessed September 7, 2009.
• Political Research Associates. Articles about LaRouche, retrieved February 13, 2011.
• Riggs, Carol (1996). Lyndon LaRouche: A Study in Political Extremism. George Mason University.
• Roberts, Paul (1995). An American Fuhrer: Lyndon Larouche and the Politics of Paranoia. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312021615\
• Rowell, Andrew (1996). Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement. Routledge. ISBN 0415128285
• Schiller Institute. "Meet Lyndon LaRouche", accessed February 10, 2011.
• The Nizkor Project. "Partners in Bigotry: The LaRouche Cult and the Nation of Islam", accessed February 10, 2011.
• Zuckert, Catherine H. and Zuckert, Michael (2006). The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy. University Of Chicago Press, p. 11ff. ISBN 0226993329

Newspaper archives of material on LaRouche

• The New York Times, before 1981.
• The New York Times, 1981–present.
• The Washington Post, before 1987.
• The Washington Post, 1987–present.
• Mintz, John. "The Cult Controversy", The Washington Post, includes a series on LaRouche by Mintz and links to other Post articles on LaRouche.
• Los Angeles Times, before 1985.
• Los Angeles Times, 1985–present.

v t e LaRouche movement
History	Lyndon LaRouche Views of Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon LaRouche U.S. presidential campaigns California Proposition 64 (1986) LaRouche criminal trials
Active organizations	Australian Citizens Party Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität European Workers Party Executive Intelligence Review LaRouche movement National Caucus of Labor Committees Schiller Institute Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement
Defunct organizations	Curtin Labor Alliance Fusion Energy Foundation North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada U.S. Labor Party
Members	Robert Beltran Adrian Bennett James Bevel Michael Billington Amelia Boynton Robinson Norbert Brainin Anton Chaitkin Jacques Cheminade Billy Davis Sergey Glazyev Paul Goldstein Janice Hart Hulan Jack Kenneth Kronberg Stanislav Menshikov Theo Mitchell Robert James Moon Kesha Rogers Nataliya Vitrenko William Warfield Frederick Wills Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Members who separated from the movement	Nicholas F. Benton Robert Dreyfuss F. William Engdahl David P. Goldman Laurent Murawiec Webster Tarpley
Critics	Chip Berlet Daniel Patrick Moynihan John Rees
Related persons	Jeremiah Duggan Daniel Estulin Erik R. Fleming Roy Frankhouser Victor Gunnarsson Zbigniew Jaworowski Gordon M. Johnson Karen Kwiatkowski Eric Lerner Fred Newman Friedwardt Winterberg J. L. Chestnut
Wikiquote Wikimedia Commons

Template:Persondata

• 1922 births
• Living people
• American anti-war activists
• American conscientious objectors
• American fraudsters
• American military personnel of World War II
• American people convicted of tax crimes
• American people of English descent
• American people of French-Canadian descent
• Anti-Zionism
• Conspiracy theorists
• LaRouche movement
• People from Rochester, New Hampshire
• United States presidential candidates, 1976
• United States presidential candidates, 1980
• United States presidential candidates, 1984
• United States presidential candidates, 1988
• United States presidential candidates, 1992
• United States presidential candidates, 1996
• United States presidential candidates, 2000
• United States presidential candidates, 2004
• U.S. Labor Party politicians
• American people convicted of fraud
• American politicians convicted of crimes