The Issues of the
So-Called "LaRouche Case":

A Summary

The prosecution and imprisonment of Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche began with a letter from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to FBI Director Webster on August 19, 1982. As a result of Kissinger's repeated efforts to secure an international prosecutorial campaign against LaRouche, Kissinger's cronies on the President's Foreign Intelligence Board (PFIAB) issued a finding in support of Kissinger's proposed action, on January 12, 1983. This finding activated a secret foreign-intelligence operation against LaRouche and his associates under the provisions of Executive Order 12333. The prosecutions, harassments, and convictions of LaRouche and certain associates were solely the fruit of that operation run through the U.S.A.'s so-called "secret government" apparatus.

During the course of the interval 1983-1999 to date, there has been a continuing outpouring of documentation and related revelations of dirty tricks run against LaRouche et al. under the U.S.A. and foreign governments, including collaboration of the U.S. Department of Justice in secret operations directed against LaRouche by secret intelligence services of the government of East Germany (the former G.D.R.).

However, strictly political forms of known operations against La Rouche and his associates by U.S. government agencies, are presented documented to no later than 1968-1969. An official FBI document, dated November 23, 1973, exposed the FBI Washington Headquarters role in a plan to use the Communist Party U.S.A. in a plot to cause the personal elimination of LaRouche. When LaRouche detected and exposed that operation, at the beginning of 1974, the FBI lied in denying that operation, and the New York Times was deployed in a massive libel operation against LaRouche in the effort to cover up the FBI's guilty tracks. The FBI continued that political operation against LaRouche et al. throughout 1974.

In 1975, when LaRouche demanded, publicly, an urgent U.S. Congressional and other relevant investigation of a report of a NATO operation, "Hilex 75," on the basis of a detailed outline published in the German weekly Der Spiegel, the FBI launched a secret foreign-intelligence operation against LaRouche and his associates, named "Operation Kwaterbak," charging that LaRouche's information from Der Spiegel represented LaRouche's penetration of NATO secret-intelligence circles. That operation continued into 1976. Throughout the 1969-1999 interval, politically motivated operations targeting LaRouche et al., have involved private organizations in activities often overlapping secret governmental operations. During the 1974-1976 interval, a leading U.S. trade-union organization was used by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, as part of the operations against LaRouche. Following several developments, including LaRouche's personal message to a relevant labor official, that operation was shut down, with great embarrassment to the U.S. Dept. of Justice for its lawless role in the affair.

More significant has been the role of right-wing organizations such as the notorious Mont Pelerin Society and the Mont Pelerin Society's front organization, the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. As a result, during May 1978, the Heritage Foundation and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) were simultaneously deployed openly in operations against LaRouche which have continued, virtually without interruption, to the present time. These and related private organizations, including periodicals such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, have repeatedly played a supporting role in secret and other politically-motivated government operations targetting LaRouche et al. as intended political victims.

These facts have been widely circulated over the course of the past two decades. There are only four commonly cited reasons why LaRouche was not exonerated by popular demand years ago. First, among those who know and understand these facts, the response is: "His enemies are too powerful for me to take on." The second, more common statement is, "I only know what I hear. What we hear from our sources is, 'Stay away from him'." Third, the facts are brushed aside with statements like, "I don't believe in conspiracy theories." It happens that LaRouche was never charged with anything but conspiracy; take away the prosecution's conspiracy theories, and the charges against him evaporate. The fourth argument is the most interesting, and perhaps the most important: "If what you tell me is true, explain to me what he has done which cause such powerful enemies to hate him so much?" A fair question. Let us keep the answer as short as possible here. There are four issues which have prompted LaRouche's enemies. All involve his specialty, economics. Review the way in which these issues came up, and how such leading LaRouche enemies as Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger reacted.

1. He first became important to leading circles after the August 15-16, 1971 crash of the old Bretton Woods monetary system. Since the beginning of the 1960s, he had given increasing circulation to his long-range economic forecast of that time. He had forecast that, if the policy-shaping trends characteristic of the two Eisenhower administrations were continued, as trends, into the middle 1960s, the present world monetary system would undergo a series of severe monetary shocks during the late 1960s, followed by a crash of the system in its present form. Thus, when the August 1971 crash erupted, LaRouche's reputation and influence spread widely, and caught the attention of leading policy-shaping circles in the U.S.A., and, later abroad. This led into the FBI's explicit statement. in late 1973, of its intention to influence the Communist Party U.S.A. to the purpose of eliminating LaRouche. The FBI continued that campaign of covert operations throughout 1974, and escalated its campaign during 1975-1976. All a matter confirmed by FBI documents themselves.
   
   
2. During 1974-1975, he became part of the effort to to promote the establishment of a new international monetary system, to replace the "floating exchange-rate" system which LaRouche denounced as both wicked and economically foolish. His efforts internationally on behalf of this goal were reflected in the August 1976 Colombo, Sri Lanka conference of the Non-Aligned Nations Movement, where a proposal for a "just new world economic order" was detailed and resolved. This resolution was presented to the Fall sessions of the UNO General Assembly by LaRouche's friend and collaborator, then the Foreign Minister of Guyana, the Honorable Fred Wills.
   
   Secretary of State Kissinger's actions against LaRouche, as officially documented, reflect the reaction. Just as the documented FBI Kwaterbak operation does.
   
   
3. During the Spring and Summer of 1982, LaRouche organized for an emergency policy of response to a general monetary and financial crisis he expected to strike the Americas by no later than September 1982. His proposals were featured in a book-length policy design, entitled Operation Juárez, circulated to the U.S.A., Mexico, and other governments of the Americas in early August 1982.
   
   Plainly, as the documentation shows, Henry Kissinger was not pleased.
   
   
4. Beginning February 1982, LaRouche launched a proposal for establishing a ballistic missile defense based upon what treaty protocol classified as "new physical principles." He proposed that the U.S., its allies, and the Soviet Union, should cooperate in developing such systems to eliminate what was then best known as Kissinger policy of nuclear "Mutual And Assured Destruction (MAD)," and to use those technologies to foster a science-driver recovery of the world's economy.
   
   This proposal became the subject of a back-channel exploration between Soviet official circles and LaRouche, with LaRouche acting in cooperation with relevant U.S.A. officials in the matter of these discussions. At the same time, LaRouche acted to bring these proposals to a wide public audience, in the U.S.A. and abroad. As announced on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced such a policy, which the President named "Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)." Although the President continued to support that option, through October 1986, others in his administration were acting to gut and degrade to a mere sideshow, as early as the Summer and Autumn of 1983.
   
   For a few days after the President's announcement of SDI, LaRouche's role was emphasized to the press by White House sources. A week or so later, the build-up of a new "get LaRouche" campaign began. In October 6-7, 1986, a 400-man plus, military-police armed raid descended upon LaRouche's residence and nearby offices, including some armed parties who had intended to use this occasion to eliminate LaRouche physically at that time. At Reykjavik, President Reagan stuck to the SDI, and LaRouche lived to breath another day; but, LaRouche's enemies, cheated of their intended prey, preparing to build a pretext for indicting and imprisoning the LaRouche they had been forbidden to kill.

So, in July 1987, LaRouche was indicted, in Federal Court in Boston, Mass., on one count of conspiracy, and nothing more. Senator Robert Dole's response to this news, when he heard it, was notably appropriate: "That's what they do to you, when they can't get you for anything else." When it became clear that the U.S. Department of Justice was in the process of losing the case in the Boston trial of LaRouche et al., they dragged the case out to wear the jury panel down. The jury told the Boston press, that they were prepared to acquit the defendants. So, the Department of Justice, rushed in a new indictment, using the notorious "railroad station" at Alexandria, Va. Federal Court. In a thoroughly rigged trial, all defendants were convicted on all counts, with none of them afforded the opportunity to be competently prepared to testify in their own defense.

Despite the mass of evidence showing that the charges and trial were rigged and the prosecution's charges and conduct fraudulent from the outset, no legal remedy against these fraudulent convictions has been permitted to the present day.

Nonetheless, as identified below, outstanding legal professionals of both the U.S.A. and many other nations, have recognized the fraudulent nature of the Justice Department's case from the date of both the Boston trial and the Alexandria convictions.

Documentation

The Curtis Clark Commission Findings

Mann-Chestnut Commission Findings

Letter from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to
Attorney General Janet Reno

Legal citation

U.S. v. LaRouche et al. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, docket numbers 89-5518 and 92-6701.

Related articles and publications

"Independent Hearings to Investigate Misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice," held at Sheraton Premiere Hotel, Tysons Corner, Virginia, August 31-September 1, 1995, published by Schiller Institute, October 1995.

"Blue Ribbon Panel Dissects Injustice in the United States," Executive Intelligence Review, October 6, 1995, Vol. 22, No. 40.

"Have the Mass Media Brainwashed Your Neighbor About Lyndon LaRouche?" pamphlet published by New Federalist, May 1997.

Additional material

The Exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche: A Vital Step Toward Saving the Nation

Summary of Relevant Evidence on the Record Demonstrating the Innocence of Lyndon LaRouche and Co-Defendants

The John Train "Salon"

John Train "Salon" Delivered Perjured Testimony for "Get LaRouche" Trials

Let’s Have Some Truth in Justice in Virginia

Officials Call for LaRouche’s Exoneration