a paper bag containing $95,000 in cash: Les Brown, “NBC Ordered to Sell Time to Labor Party,” New York Times, November 2, 1976.
“Parroting such code words as ‘trust,’ ‘love’ and ‘unity’”: “Is Jimmy Carter Brainwashed? Democrat Linked to Institute Terrorists,” New Solidarity International Press Service, July 6, 1976.
he was awarded the Bronze Star: Peter Bourne, Men, Stress, and Vietnam (New York: Little, Brown, 1970).
In 1972 he persuaded his friend Jimmy Carter: Peter Bourne, “Jimmy Carter,” Petergbourne.co.uk, http://www.petergbourne.co.uk/articles7.html.
“But there was no psychological manipulation”: Peter Bourne, email message to the author, February 27, 2016.
he borrowed Peter’s name for his hero: Kathleen Ryan O’Connor, “Bourne in Oxford,” GTC Magazine, 2009, http://petergbourne.co.uk/Bourne-in-Oxford.pdf.
he thought Michael Vale and Bill Jones had been spooks from the start: Mats Widgren, Skype interview with the author, September 30, 2016.
“an agency of North American origin”: Aktuellt, Sveriges Radio AB, TV2, Sweden, October 22, 1975.
“I cannot deny that it is an American intelligence organization”: Ibid.
“That it is now expanded to Europe”: Håkan Hermansson and Lars Wenander, Uppdrag: Olof Palme: Hatet, Jakten, Kampanjerna [Mission: Olof Palme: the hate, the hunt, the schemes] (Stockholm: Tiden, 1987), p. 116.
Few in the Swedish media took issue: “USA-styrt spionage mot Palme” [US controlled Espionage against Palme], Aftonbladet, October 13, 1975; “ELC finansieras av CIA” [ELC financed by CIA], Aftonbladet, October 14, 1975; “Anklagas för CIA-stöd” [Accused of CIA support], Norrtelje Tidning, September 14, 1977.
Håkan Hermansson’s 1975 pamphlet: Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad.
“that the CIA, through its refusal to comment”: W. E. Colby to Ben Bradlee, February 18, 1974, CIA document RDP88-01314R000300380046-2, http://www.cia.gov.
a substantial dossier on the Labor Committees: Memo, CIA file RDP88-01315R000300590044-0; “Stop Rockefeller’s Nazi Doctors,” CIA file RDP88-01315R000300590040-4; Telegram to the Office of the President, CIA file RDP88-01315R000300590053-0, http://www.cia.gov.
maintained by Michael Schneeberger: Memorandum on Lyndon LaRouche, September 19, 1977, within security file on Mitchell Livingston Werbell, CIA file 1993.08.05.15:16:44:840028, http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=104117&search=schneeberger#relPageId=1&tab=page.
“We were concerned”: Michael Schneeberger, email message to the author, July 4, 2015.
the CIA conceded that there was no Russian money in his purse: Memorandum on European Labor Committee, CIA file 0001078242, January 4, 1976, http://www.cia.gov.
just over 50 percent of the popular vote: “1976 US Presidential Election Results,” David Leip’s US Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1976&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0.
Lyndon LaRouche had scraped 0.05 percent: Ibid.
Turner had commanded a destroyer: Jimmy Carter, “Director of Central Intelligence Nomination of Stansfield Turner,” February 7, 1977, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7644.
“Undercover case officers or agents”: Stansfield Turner, Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985), p. 210.
“I’m not suggesting that he was advocating”: United States v. Roy Frankhouser, testimony of Charles Tate, November 3, 1987, LaRouche Planet, http://www.laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Money.Tate3.
“a fascist group in its classical concept”: Private papers of Stieg Larsson, Expo magazine, Stockholm.
Executive Order 11967: Jimmy Carter, “Executive Order 11967—Executive Order Relating to Proclamation of Pardon,” January 21, 1977, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7366.
a court-martial and prison sentence were still possible: Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), p. 350.
so-called coat hanger brigade: http://www.lyndonlarouche.org/larouche-abortion2.htm.
An FBI setup: Bill McAllister, “Ogden Hopes to Be Spoiler in Va. Race,” Washington Post, August 16, 1977.
“a dangerous international terrorist”: Rick Hampson, “Labor Party Candidate Adds Color to State Race,” Danville (VA) Bee, July 21, 1977.
“the freak show of Virginia politics”: Ibid.
“Whig coalition”: “Mrs. Gaddy Supports Alan Ogden,” Danville (VA) Register, August 23, 1977.
“It was only through President Carter’s intervention”: “Criticizes Paper, Ogden, Gaddy,” letter to the editor, Danville (VA) Register, August 27, 1977.
Ogden secured only 0.8 percent of the vote: Our Campaigns, http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=26401.
Fraud at the polls: “1977 Labour Party Results Point to Election Fraud,” Executive Intelligence Review, November 15, 1977.
“the real America”: “Vad är ‘det verkliga Amerika’” [What is “the real America”], Ny Solidaritet, September 9, 1977.
a German journalist who had reported from Beijing: James M. Markham, “LaRouche Fringe Stirs in Germany,” New York Times, June 30, 1986.
a literal slow boat to China: Hedgehog [pseud.], How It All Began, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.HIABChapter5Swarthmore.
Edward von Rothkirch was a chancer: Hedgehog [pseud.], Smiling Man from a Dead Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.PalimpsestWorld.
Roy Frankhouser was a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan: Ibid.
Instead he went to a Star Trek convention: Matthew L. Wald, “Larouche Taken in by Aide, Trial Told,” New York Times, December 10, 1987.
a figure code-named “the Major”: Information from Molly Kronberg.
LaRouche instructed his acolytes to hand over the cash: Information from Molly Kronberg.
LaRouche met with representatives of the Reagan transition team: Dennis King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (New York: Doubleday, 1989), p. 127.
He also had coffee with Admiral Bobby Ray Inman: John Mintz, “Some Officials Find Intelligence Network ‘Useful,’” Washington Post, January 15, 1985.
a modest consultative role in the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative: Lyndon LaRouche, “I Remember Ronald Reagan,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 18, 2004.
an NCLC intelligence specialist met with a contact from the Soviet mission: See King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, pp. 61–81.
move his headquarters from New York to Leesburg: John Mintz, “Loudoun Newcomer Lives on Heavily Guarded Estate,” Washington Post, January 13, 1985.
an estate that had once been the home of the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev: “Private Properties,” Wall Street Journal, April 24, 1998.
Björn Ulvaeus and Frida Lyngstad of ABBA: Stieg Larsson, “ELP/ELC General Information,” private papers of Stieg Larsson, Expo magazine, Stockholm.
Cliff spoke in favor of extraterrestrial lasers: Clifford Gaddy, “The Question of Beam Weapons and the Present Strategic Crisis,” in Beam Weapons: The Strategic Implications for Western Europe (Washington, DC: EIR Special Report, 1983), pp. 7–8.
Kerstin delivered a tirade against the peace movement: Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy, “How to Counter Appeasement and the So-Called Peace Movement,” Beam Weapons, pp. 18–20.
urged NATO to open a front beyond the earth: Michael Liebig, “Why the New Strategic Doctrine Based on Beam Weapons Must Replace NATO’s ‘Flexible Response,’” Beam Weapons, pp. 21–25.
The LaRouchians declared that the demonstrators were controlled by Moscow: introduction, ibid., pp. 7–8; “EIR Oslo Conference Upsets Appeasers,” Beam Weapons, p. 50.
“Clacking busybodies in this Soviet jellyfish front”: Matthew L. Wald, “Small Town in Virginia Tense Host to LaRouche,” New York Times, April 11, 1986.
popularizing and weaponizi
ng a minor rock group called the Beatles: Konstandinos Kalimgtis, David Goldman, Jeffrey Steinberg, et al., Dope Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against the U.S. (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1978).
“Once caught in the environment defined by Russell”: Ibid., p. 376.
the view that she had a jeweled hand in the 9/11 attacks: “It Was Your Bloody Hand that Unleashed 9/11, Queen Elizabeth!,” April 21, 2017, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20160421/it-was-your-bloody-hand-unleashed-911-queen-elizabeth.
likes to pull on a gray wig and tiara: “Live Rally from HSBC in Manhattan,” March 2, 2015, LaRouchePAC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whzqW6VXt2U.
“sleep with young boys at the Carlyle Hotel?”: April Witt, “No Joke,” Washington Post, October 24, 2004.
The judge dismissed the case: “Nancy Kissinger Freed in Airport Row,” Philadelphia Daily News, June 10, 1982.
“Nancy Kissinger made one mistake in etiquette”: Bob Greene, “Let’s Give Nancy One More Round,” Detroit Free Press, March 14, 1982.
a Kissinger joke book full of obscene cartoons: Some of the Latest and Bawdiest Jokes About Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Arcana Press, n.d.)
They planted stories in the overseas press: See M. T. Upharsin, “Kissinger Watch,” Executive Intelligence Review, December 15, 1989; Umberto Pascali, “‘Operation Gladio’ Reveals That Kissinger Ordered Moro Murder,” Executive Intelligence Review, November 23, 1990.
“His heathen sexual inclinations”: Lyndon LaRouche, “Henry Kissinger: The Politics of Faggotry,” International Caucus of Labor Committees press release, August 3, 1982.
“I wouldn’t want Kissinger dead”: “Cadre School Question and Answer with Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.,” Morning Briefing, December 8, 1992, LaRouche Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.LoveEnemy1.
“Lyndon LaRouche Theatre”: Saturday Night Live, NBC, April 19, 1986.
“Kissinger must die”: King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, p. 153.
“ultimately was just sublimated”: Ibid.
a dartboard bearing an image of Palme’s face: “Sommarnöje med Olof Palme” [Summer entertainment with Olof Palme], Contra 10, no. 4 (1984).
“Sweden’s population is led by a madman”: William Engdahl, “Palme—Djävulens djävul” [Palme—the devil’s devil], Ny Solidaritet, June 11, 1975.
“Behind the Democratic mask”: Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad, p. 5.
“Palme was one step below Satan”: Former member “xlcr4life,” email message to the author, March 2017.
GENTLEMEN: ARE YOU AND OLOF PALME SO ENTIRELY INSANE: Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., “Open Telex to Aftonbladet,” New Solidarity International Press Service, October 17, 1975.
Victor Gunnarsson, a braggartly fantasist of the Far Right: Steve Lohr, “Swedish Suspect Was Once in Rightist Group,” New York Times, March 19, 1986.
Alf Enerström, a wealthy doctor: Granskningskommissionens betänkande i anledning av Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme [The review commission’s report on the investigation following the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme], Swedish State Report, SOU 1999:88, p. 549.
he coughed up around $150,000: Ibid.
Kerstin stood beside Enerström: “Hjärntvätt och fanatism bara ‘lögner i massmedia’” [Brainwashing and fanaticism nothing but “lies in the mass media”], Hallandsposten, September 12, 1984.
“Freedom of speech in Stockholm community radio”: “Närradions ‘Palme-fascisms’” [Local radio’s “Palme fascists”], Aftonbladet, November 22, 1986.
asserting that Palme was part of a heroin-smuggling syndicate: Willaim Engdahl, “Olof Palme and the Malmo International,” Executive Intelligence Review, May 4, 1982.
a secretive and powerful network known as the Black Guelph: Lyndon LaRouche, “Olof Palme and the Neo-Nazi International,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 8, 1982.
“They are presently the single wealthiest political force”: Ibid.
“foul-smelling excretion from a dead world”: EAP handbill, quoted in Hermansson, Mullvadar i socialistisk förklädnad, p. 15.
In May 1979, the EAP circulated a letter: “List mot Palme” [A list against Palme], Aftonbladet, May 17, 1979.
on the front page of the main Swedish evening newspaper: “‘Revolten’ mot Palme var en bluff” [The revolt against Palme was a hoax], Dagens Nyheter, May 18, 1979; “‘Facklig revolt’ var politisk kupp Sabotörer förfalskade namnlista” [“Union revolt” was political coup, saboteurs forged names on petition], Dagens Nyheter, May 18, 1979.
“has been after me for several years”: “Sweden: Swan Song for Socialists,” Executive Intelligence Review, May 29, 1979.
declaring how wounded its members felt: Kerstin Tegin to Sven Romanus, November 22, 1978, Social Democratic Party Press Office, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek [The Swedish Labor Movement’s Archive and Library], Stockholm.
their use of distinctly English idioms: For instance, “toppen av isberget,” a blunt translation of the English “tip of the iceberg,” appears in a report sent by the EAP to the Swedish justice ministry, November 22, 1978.
when her party was accused of extremism or electoral misconduct: “EAP anklagas för medlemsfusk” [EAP accused of member fraud], Svenska Dagbladet, April 6, 1985; “Förnekar medlemsfusk” [Denies member fraud], Nya Wermlands-Tidningen, April 6, 1985.
the Channel TV-2 program Magasinet: Larsolof Giertta, “Varning för EAP—ett antidemokratiskt parti” [Warnings for EAP—An antidemocratic party], Stockholms Tidningen, April 6, 1982, p. 36; “Gör program om EAP: TV-man hotad till livet,” Arbetet, January 27, 1982.
“Okay, Olof Palme”: Magasinet, TV-2, April 14, 1982.
“The general response everywhere is the same”: European Labor Committees, internal memo, January 1982, private papers of Stieg Larsson, Expo magazine, Stockholm.
a smoke screen to make Sweden a safe haven for terrorists and gangsters: Engdahl, “Olof Palme and the Malmo International.”
“a front organization using unwitting Vietnam War opponents: Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., “How a Socialist Quarterly Drifts Toward Fascism,” Campaigner, April 1981.
That bubble burst on the night of February 28, 1986: Jan Bondeson, Blood on the Snow (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), is the best English-language account of the assassination.
An anonymous caller supplied the name: Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme [Criminal investigation after the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme] (Stockholm: Justitiedepartementet, 1999), p. 514.
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he had seen someone who looked like Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy: Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme, p. 514.
urged the detectives to put the EAP in the frame: Ibid., p. 512.
SÄPO had kept their names and addresses on file since 1975: Hotet från vänster, p. 280.
a New Solidarity contributor: Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme, p. 514. This was Ulf Sandmark, still a leading member of EAP today.
They contacted a member named John Hardwick: Ibid., p. 515.
Victor Gunnarsson, a volatile eccentric: For Gunnarsson’s story see Bondeson, Blood on the Snow, pp. 60–75.
“If you say what you think in Sweden today”: Ibid., p. 62.
a cabdriver who claimed that the suspect had jumped into his taxi: Ibid., pp. 68, 74.
Detective Wingren had coached his witness: Ibid., pp. 68–69.
the police recalled him several times to take part in lineups: Ibid., p. 67.
“When there is no certifiably real and solid information”: Hill and Gaddy, Mr. Putin (2013 ed.), p. 7.
“That was his profession in the KGB”: “Mr. Vladimar Putin: Operative in the Kremlin,” Brookings Institution, https://www.brookings.edu/events/mr-vladimir-putin-operative-in-the-kremlin.
The Kappa Alphas were given to marching around in Confederate uniforms: Parent, “Weath
ering Wake”; “No Racism Meant,” pp. 4–5.
“He said, belief is not a belief”: Lawrence Meyer, “Exiles’ Families Say Ford Proposal Not True Amnesty,” Washington Post, September 17, 1974. Cliff’s words are an adaptation of a quote from Albert Camus.
“I recall Cliff mentioning on a number of occasions”: Bruce G. Blair, email message to the author, April 29, 2017.
a report cowritten with a small group of NCLC researchers: Criton Zoakas et al., Global Showdown: The Imperial Russian War Plan for 1988 (Washington, DC: Executive Intelligence Review, 1985).
when Melania Trump sued him: Dan Morse, “Melania Trump Reaches Settlement in Libel Lawsuit Against Maryland Blogger,” Washington Post, February 7, 2017.
“very dangerous” and a “principled adversary”: Zoakas et al., Global Showdown, p. 5.
“Soviet deployed ‘sleepers’ were sent into LaRouche’s environment”: Ibid., p. 9.
“These Stasi operations were run during 1972–74”: Ibid., p. 9.
that Palme’s murder was the herald of a new world: “Dags för Sverige gå med i Nato,” Ny Solidaritet, March 6, 1986.
to avoid questioning by the Swedish police: “xlcr4life,” former LaRouche member, email message to the author, March 2017.
a four-page exposé on the organization: David Gelman, “Lyndon LaRouche: Beyond the Fringe,” Newsweek, April 7, 1986.
“a form of terrorism”: Rogan Kersh, “A Mockery of U.S. Politics,” Old Gold and Black, April 4, 1986.
“laying the blame at the doorstep of the ELP”: William Engdahl, Göran Haglund, and William Jones, A Classical KGB Disinformation Campaign: Who Killed Olof Palme? (Wiesbaden, West Germany: EIR Research, 1986), p. 8.
“a coordinated wave of lies and innuendo”: Ibid., p. 59.
“the public activities of the ELP”: Ibid., p. 32.
a federal investigation in Boston: David Gelman, “Lyndon LaRouche: Beyond the Fringe,” Newsweek, April 7, 1986; John Mintz, “The Lash of LaRouche,” Washington Post, April 7, 1986; “Washington Report Traces LaRouche Money to Leesburg,” Loudoun (VA) Times-Mirror, July 3, 1986.
One million dollars skimmed from credit card accounts: Douglas Frantz, “Raid Bares LaRouche Dark World,” Chicago Tribune, October 12, 1986.
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