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“There is a strong possibility that the government”: Quoted in Hedgehog, Smiling Man from a Dead Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.UnityNow3.
“the successful seizure of world power within the decade”: Marcus, “Politics of Male ‘Impotence.’”
making secret trips to East Berlin: “East Germans Brainwash American to Spy on ICLC,” New Solidarity, August 10, 1973.
“He wished to be interrogated, and stuck to it”: LaRouche, The Power of Reason: 1988, p. 140.
12: THE BRAINWASHERS
“you are an empty, stinking hulk”: Lyndon LaRouche to Carol White, August 25, 1972, National Caucus of Labor Committees records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
the Angry Brigade: Gordon Carr, The Angry Brigade: A History of Britain’s First Urban Guerrilla Group (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2003).
voice on the end of the line was Greg Rose: Greg Rose later turned FBI informant on the NCLC. See Gregory F. Rose, “The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC,” National Review, March 30, 1979.
“There are sounds of weeping and vomiting on the tape”: Paul Montgomery, “How a Radical Left Group Moved Toward Savagery,” New York Times, January 20, 1974.
“Lyn, we’ve done it”: Christopher White, “On the Track of My Assassins,” Campaigner, February/March 1974.
“an actual battlefield report”: Nikos Syvriotis, “‘Strategy’ Conference a Battlefield,” New Solidarity, January 11, 1974.
“In cases directly known to us”: Bob Dillon, Phyllis Dillon, et al., Memorandum to the National Executive of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, January 2, 1974, National Caucus of Labor Committees records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
“We,” said the reply, “are the only people in the world”: Janice Chaitkin to Phyllis Dillon, January 10, 1974, National Caucus of Labor Committees records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
identified as a setup from the start: White, “On the Track of My Assassins.”
went on a Manhattan radio station: Gordon Hammett Show, WNBC, January 18, 1974. See FCC Reports, 2nd ser., vol. 46, April 12, 1974–May 31, 1974, p. 501, https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306590/m1/533/?q=%22labor%20committees%22.
they produced a handbill: “Brainwashing Cure Leads to Psychosis Breakthrough,” NCLC handbill, January 5, 1974, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300590051-2.pdf.
“A decision to co-opt Warren Hamerman”: Lyndon LaRouche, “Morning Briefing,” October 7, 1974, private collection.
“two insurgent government agencies”: “Injunction Against CIA & NYC Police for Insurrection Against U.S. Government,” NCLC handbill, National Caucus of Labor Committees records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
LaRouche’s concluding speech that night: Lyn Marcus, “Undercover CIA-Police Plot to Take Over U.S.,” New Solidarity Extra, January 3, 1974.
“to discredit the organization”: Ibid.
13: THE ZOMBIE ARMY
“He talked virtually nonstop about his life and his theories”: Montgomery, “How a Radical Left Group Moved Toward Savagery.”
“Marcus has initiated a test for total allegiance”: Jim McGourty [pseud.], “Concerning CIA Agent Vale’s Recent Activities,” unpublished typescript.
“a self-perpetuating mental zombie”: White, “On the Track of My Assassins.”
“in the event of our disappearance”: Letter from Christine Berl and Henry Weinfeld to Phyllis Dillon, April 2, 1974.
In an internal bulletin: Lyn Marcus, “Why Christine Berl Could Be Turned into a Zombie,” NCLC internal memo, New York, April 1, 1974.
laying out the rules of the parallel universe: Lyn Marcus, “The Present Internal Situation,” NCLC internal bulletin, March 25, 1974, Lyndon LaRouche Watch, http://www.lyndonlarouche.org/larouche-internal.pdf.
“permitted us to recruit fantastically”: Ibid., p. 2.
“We are faced with the fearful infinity”: Ibid., p. 7.
“Unless the Labor Committees are able to deploy”: Ibid., p. 5.
“on how Rockefeller caused or is causing the food crisis”: Young, “Mind Control, Political Violence, & Sexual Warfare.”
“There is no agency in the world”: Marcus, “Present Internal Situation.”
“events lost in the fog of time”: Warren Hamerman, email to the author, August 27, 2017.
“offensive counterthrusts”: Warren Hamerman, “What Are the Labor Committees and the Labor Parties?” in How the Labor Party Is Organized to Win (New York: US Labor Party, 1976).
In 1974 he headed an NCLC investigation: Jean Gahururu, “Winning the Peace for an African Renaissance,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 1, 2001, p. 51.
head his campaign to put American AIDS sufferers into quarantine camps: David L. Kirp, “LaRouche Turns to AIDS Politics,” New York Times, September 11, 1986.
“He was a classic bureaucrat”: Hylozoic Hedgehog [pseud.], email message to the author, April 25, 2015.
Vale was a CIA agent: “How Britain Runs the Radical Left,” Executive Intelligence Review, January 16, 1979.
the Tavistock Institute: Lyndon LaRouche, “Notes Concerning the Role of Labor Parties in Immediate Strategic Crisis,” U.S. Labor Party/EAP internal document, August 24, 1977.
“NATO’s Schwarze Kapelle”: “Japan’s Red Army Reactivated in CIA Terror Blitz,” New Solidarity International Press Service, September 23, 1976.
“hit and run ‘probing’ operations”: Warren Hamerman, “Why the Labor Committee Can’t Be Taken Over by Agents,” New Solidarity, December 1, 1975.
“Vale was deployed by British intelligence”: Lyndon LaRouche, “British Intelligence Deploys New ‘Left’-profiled Assassination Capability,” New Solidarity International Press Service, May 10, 1979.
“has by now been determined to be one of the key operatives”: McGourty [pseud.], “Concerning CIA Agent Vale’s Recent Activities.”
“brainwashed gangs of zombies”: Lyn Marcus, “Rockefeller’s Fascism with a Democratic Face,” Campaigner, November/December 1974.
“I strongly do not recommend”: Jay M. Caplan to Jim McGourty [pseud.], November 5, 1975.
“Selling favors to Rockefeller”: “Christina Nelson Campaign Poster,” Executive Intelligence Review, November 3, 1974.
“The check really helped us live like human beings”: Christina Nelson to Jim’s brother, November 16, 1974.
“a key operative for Scandinavia and the Federal Republic”: LaRouche, “British Intelligence Deploys New ‘Left’-profiled Assassination Capability.”
“now working for a network which transports psychotics”: McGourty [pseud.], “Concerning CIA Agent Vale’s Recent Activities.”
“enhanced excitability, motor disinhibition”: Vrono, “Schizophrenia in Childhood.”
firearms training and “Beyond Psychoanalysis” sessions: Quoted in Håkan Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad: en rapport om ELC i Sverige [Moles in Socialist disguises: A report on the ELC in Sweden] (Stockholm: Socialdemokraterna, 1975), p. 19.
“considerable collections of money”: Ibid.
“laboratory for depression”: “Labor Committee Ruins Woodcock’s IMF Game Plan,” New Solidarity International Press Service, July 8, 1974.
“the most appropriate choice for the Rockefeller forces”: “Economic Collapse Destroys Myth of ‘Swedish Way,’” Executive Intelligence Review, April 26, 1976.
“model for social fascist society”: “The Swedish Way: Rockefeller’s Northern Paradise,” New Solidarity International Press Service, June 29, 1974.
They also implied that Israel had lied: Ibid.
Henry Kissinger ordered them banned from the White House: Cable, U.S. Department of State to U.S. Embassy Rome, March 4, 1975, https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE048175_b.html.
“Fascist pressure exerted by the CIA”: Cable, U.S. Embass
y Bonn to U.S. Embassy London, Paris, Stockholm, et al., February 11, 1976.
Cliff Gaddy was named as Stockholm bureau chief: Cliff’s first credit as Stockholm bureau chief appears in Executive Intelligence Review, September 26, 1978.
In 1974 the Stockholm organization had only fifteen members: Lars Åberg, Elisabeth Grundström, Harald Hamrin, “ELC,” Dagens Nyheter, October 24, 1975.
“the CIA’s international terrorist network”: “Tavistock Terror Plays in Sweden,” New Solidarity International Press Service, May 24, 1974.
“these doctors quickly reveal their own insanity”: “ELC Confronts U.N. Sponsored Psychologists on Behavior Modification,” New Solidarity International Press Service, June 29, 1974, pp. 8–9.
a few words in a Swedish newspaper editorial: “Palme Planning a ‘Total Defense’?” New Solidarity International Press Service, December 19, 1974.
“expect to answer to these actions with their lives”: European Labor Party flyer, 1975, quoted in Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad, p. 16.
“I have not been to a single meeting”: “Så här saboterar ELC möten” [How the ELC sabotages meetings], Aftonbladet, October 13, 1975.
“hold your own meetings instead of coming to disrupt ours!”: Ibid.
“They appear at public party gatherings and conferences”: Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad, p. 9.
Hermansson was harassed in his office in Malmö: “Arbetet-man hotad after avslöjandet av EAP” [Arbetet writer threatened after EAP revelations], Arbetet, January 28, 1982.
“Agent Spång” of Langley: William Engdahl, “CIA-terror mot EAP: Agenter mobiliseras I Italien och Sverige” [CIA terror against EAP: Agents mobilized in Italy and Sweden], Ny Solidaritet, January 20, 1976.
a story comparing the European Labor Committees to the Children of God: “Politikens guds barn” [The children of God of politics], Aftonbladet, October 13, 1975.
threw a foil-wrapped hunk of liver at a Catholic archbishop: Rembert G. Weakland, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009), p. 301.
abducting dogs for sexual gratification: Memo, FBI Boston office, April 4, 1975, LaRouche Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/images/Fbidogsex.JPG.
FEED JANE FONDA TO THE WHALES: The LaRouche Network (Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 1984), p. 2; Albin Krebs, “Charges Against Peter Fonda Dropped,” New York Times, October 28, 1981.
a cartoon of Chancellor Willy Brandt in Nazi uniform: Included in Campaigner, June 1976.
Brandt sued for libel and won: “Nazi Justice in W. Germany: ELP Leader Fined Heavily for Spreading Facts About Brandt,” Executive Intelligence Review, November 29, 1976.
A favorite stunt was a three-person operation: Henry Bäck, EAP—ulv i fårakläder? [EAP—wolves in sheep’s clothing?] (Stockholm: Privately published, 1983), p. 26.
“Take, for example, the person who describes the NCLC”: Ed Spannaus, “Beyond Schacht: The Destruction of the Cognitive Powers of Labor,” Campaigner, March 1975, p. 45.
“Cher Ami”: Stanislaus Tomkiewicz to Mark Burdman, July 26, 1978, in author’s possession.
In 1980 he had taken a position at its German headquarters in Wiesbaden: See Mary Burdman, “In Tribute to Mark Burdman by His Wife,” Executive Intelligence Review, July 30, 2004, pp. 7–9.
an essay asserting that the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli: Mark Burdman, “Why Israel Fights Britain’s Wars of Extermination,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 29, 1982, pp. 36–39.
Burdman had died in July 2004: Burdman, “In Tribute to Mark Burdman by His Wife.”
14: OPERATION DESTRUCTION
“The most optimistic view of AD 1990”: Lyn Marcus, “Rockefeller’s Fascism with a Democratic Face,” Campaigner, November/December 1974, p. 42.
He left the CIA in 1970: Paul Lewis, “Harry Rositzke, 91, Linguist and American Spymaster,” New York Times, November 8, 2002.
Military intelligence spying on civilians: See Chtistopher Pyle, Army Surveillance of Civilians: A Documentary Analysis (Washington, DC: Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, 1972).
The FBI sending its agents provocateurs: See Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI (New York: Knopf, 2014).
The Watergate burglaries: See Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2008), pp. 370–72.
heard evidence on MKULTRA: Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, June 1975. See also Dominic Streatfeild, Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006), pp. 67–71.
“They form a society of their own”: Harry Rositzke, The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1977), p. xvii.
“mentioned Dick Ober’s unit”: See Scott C. Monje, The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2008), p. 114.
Hersh’s story ran in the New York Times: Seymour Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years,” New York Times, December 22, 1974.
Operation Destruction: Information from Frank Rafalko.
His report revealed the operational name of: Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, June 1975.
“Beginning in January 1974 with the attempted assassination”: “The Making of Rockefeller’s International Terror Campaign,” Special Report, New Solidarity International Press Service, January 2, 1976, p. B1.
an Executive Intelligence Review article: John Sigerson, “British Revive Operation Chaos,” Executive Intelligence Review, September 5, 1978.
“an extensive operation of the sort catalogued by spooks”: LaRouche, The Power of Reason: 1988, p. 141.
“I have made no public statements”: Richard Ober to Nelson Rockefeller, June 18, 1975, CIA-RDP84-00780R006700040041-2, http://www.cia.gov.
“it was a breach of the code”: Angus Mackenzie, Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), p. 20.
a thick file compiled in the 1950s by the FBI: Richard Ober, FBI file, MuckRock, https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/richard-ober-24564/.
Richard Ober’s father was an agent: Ober details from FBI file and Scottie Fitzgerald Smith’s foreword to As Ever, Scott Fitz—: Letters Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, 1919–1940, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: Lippincott, 1972).
“Well, we sure don’t much like having you here”: Ibid., p. xii.
“I don’t like prying into their private lives”: Ibid., p. xiii.
The bureau put these details on file: Richard Ober, FBI file, MuckRock, https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/richard-ober-24564/.
“a nincompoop who went way beyond his charter”: Rafalko, MH/CHAOS, p. 15.
“Autocratic”: Ibid.
“Truly evil”: Paget, Patriotic Betrayal, p. 391.
“They didn’t fire him”: Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years.”
“I am not prepared to discuss further”: Memorandum, Henry Kissinger to Donald Rumsfeld, December 23, 1974, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/LOC-HAK-424-4-3-3.pdf.
A brief obituary in the Washington Post: “Richard Ober,” Washington Post, September 12, 2001.
“I looked at him and said”: Phyllis C. Richman, “Let Them Eat Sweetbreads,” Washington Post, September 17, 1989.
In October 1973, an American novel was published: Harry Rositzke, Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution (New York: Quadrangle, 1973).
“The practice of criticism and self-criticism”: Ibid., p. 17.
“I envy the young, because I am old”: Ibid., pp. 111–12.
“Sit-ins, love-ins, think-ins”: Ibid., p. 57.
15: THE BELIEVERS
“Call It Tonkin Gulf Syndrome”: Lyndon LaRouche, “LaRouche to Wall Street: ‘It’s Your Crap; You Eat It,’” Ny Solidaritet, July 23, 2014.
“but at least they accept that a horse is a horse”: Oskar Bengtsson, “De andra partierna-Europeiska Arbetarpartiet (EAP)” [The other parties: European Workers Party (EAP)], Contra, no. 5 (1975): p. 4.
“The EAP is in all likelihood”: Hotet från vänster. Säkerhetstjänsternas övervakning av kommunister, anarkister m.m. 1965–2002 [Threat from the Left. The security services surveillance of communists, anarchists, and others. 1965–2002], (Stockholm: Justitiedepartementet, 2002), p. 267, http://www.regeringen.se/rattsdokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2002/01/sou-200291.
“How could any worker”: “European Labor Party Campaigns for 20 June Elections, Fields Candidates in Sweden and West Germany,” New Solidarity International Press Service, June 1, 1976.
the party received 108 votes: “De blanka rösterna ökade stort,” Dagens Nyheter, September 29, 1976; Hotet från vänster, p. 282.
“Don’t throw your vote away!”: “Rösta på EAP till kommunfullmäktige!” [Vote EAP to the council!], Ny Solidaritet Valextra, August 31, 1979.
That year, the party’s total rose to 158: “EAP,” Dagens Nyheter, October 20, 1979.
A few disparaging mentions of Chuck’s name: “Of ‘Atrocity’ and Fakery,” Indianapolis Star, January 9, 1971; John Lofton, “Between Two, Warren Report More Credible Than Mark Lane,” Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun, June 6, 1975.
“Donald Duck” has outpolled the European Workers Party: “Kalle Ankas parti store än EAP” [Donald Duck party bigger than EAP], Dagens Nyheter, September 5, 1985.
“must be financed externally”: Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad, p. 18
some of the NCLC’s resources came from fraud: “LaRouche Receives 15-Year Sentence,” New York Times, January 28, 1989.
even his followers barely registered his declaration: “What We Need in 2016: Alexander Hamilton’s Principles, LaRouche’s Four Laws,” LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20161017/what-we-need-2016-alexander-hamiltons-principles-larouches-four-laws.
the U.S. Labor Party, launched in 1973: National Party Conventions, 1831–1976 (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1979), p. 197.