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They shredded documents and made plans to fly indicted members to Germany: John Mintz, “LaRouche Group Harried Probers, FBI Tells Court,” Washington Post, October 10, 1986.
killing the prosecutor in charge of the case: Frantz, “Raid Bares LaRouche Dark World.”
the FBI descended on LaRouche’s 172-acre property: “Officers Raid LaRouche’s Headquarters,” Baltimore Sun, October 7, 1986.
“I will not submit passively to arrest”: Philip Shenon, “LaRouche Warns U.S. on Any Move to Arrest Him,” New York Times, October 8, 1986.
IRS officials were seen toasting one another: Bryan R. Chitwood, “Raid Leaves Officials ‘Ecstatic.’” Loudoun (VA) Times-Mirror, October 16, 1986.
forty-five references to Victor Gunnarsson and the assassination of Olof Palme: Associated Press, “LaRouche Notebooks Refer to Slain Swedish Prime Minister, Sources Say,” December 5, 1986, http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1986/LaRouche-Notebooks-Refer-to-Slain-Swedish-Prime-Minister-Sources-Say/id-519c7a99aecaad8beb917e06b7f94cf3.
“The potential threat to America’s democratic values and institutions”: Irwin Suall, The LaRouche Political Cult: Packaging Extremism (New York: ADL, 1986), pp. 39–40.
the Swedish authorities had asked for his assistance: Associated Press, “LaRouche Notebooks Refer to Slain Swedish Prime Minister, Sources Say.”
Ulf Karlsson: Bondeson, Blood on the Snow, p. 98.
Front pages ran censored photgraphs of Kerstin: “Kvinnan som polizen söker” [Woman sought by the police], Aftonbladet, April 23, 1987; “EAP-kvinnan I polis-förhör” [EAP woman in police interrogation], Aftonbladet, April 25, 2017.
Kerstin and Cliff had taken refuge: Ulf Nilsson, “Svenskan gömmer sig för polisen” [Swedes hiding from the police], Aftonbladet, April 24, 1987.
“The area is fenced off”: Ibid.
“Not moved”: “Hon Försvann med sin son” [She disappeared with her son], Aftonbladet, April 24, 1987.
Kerstin had moved in the opposite direction: Gun Fälth, “EAP-kvinna förhörd av polisen” [EAP woman questioned by police], Dagens Nyheter, April 26, 1987.
drove to the Tegin family home: Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme, p. 515.
Kerstin had given birth to a son: Births column, Dagens Nyheeter, January 23, 1986.
interviewed by another Swedish detective: Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme, p. 515.
his attempts to communicate with a Swedish naval commander: Ola Tunander, The Secret War Against Sweden: U.S. and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (London: Frank Cass, 2004), p. 300.
“I survived the great Leesburg panty raid”: “LaRouche,” Loudoun (VA) Times-Mirror, October 16, 1986.
blamed everything on the Russians: Nancy Spannaus, “Reveal Soviet Role in Ordering Leesburg Raid and Jailings,” Loudon (VA) County News, October 17, 1986.
They held a Halloween costume party: United States v. Roy Frankhouser, LaRouche Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/downloads/TestimonyofLandeggerBardwell.pdf.
Dozens of NCLC members were indicted: Matthew L. Wald, “3 Larouche Aides Charged with Obstruction,” New York Times, December 17, 1986.
“The purpose of this frame-up is not to send me to prison”: Caryle Murphy, “LaRouche Convicted of Mail Fraud,” Washington Post, December 17, 1988.
Jim Bakker, freshly jailed for similar crimes: Jim Bakker, I Was Wrong (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), p. 250.
LaRouche barely knew how to switch it on: Information from Carol White.
“a political dirty operation”: Leslie Maitland Werner, “LaRouche Assets Are Seized in U.S. Bid to Collect Fines,” New York Times, April 22, 1987.
during surgery to remove some anal polyps: John Sigerson, “Bush Is Informed of Responsibility If LaRouche Is Killed in Prison,” Executive Intelligence Review, September 29, 1989.
putting AIDS patients into quarantine camps: “Eyewitness Account of the AIDS Crisis in Europe,” Executive Intelligence Review, April 4, 1986.
He made a panic-mongering tour of Europe: “Feedback,” New Scientist, December 5, 1985; Thomas Boghardt, “Operation INFEKTION: Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign,” Studies in Intelligence, December 2009.
overtures toward right-wing Catholic organizations: Marla Minnicino, “NCLC Conference: Toward a New Moral Renaissance,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 9, 1989.
“traced those efforts through the Ruskin circle at Oxford University”: John Sigerson, “Philosophical Association Heralds ‘Decade of LaRouche and Leibniz,’” Executive Intelligence Review, September 14, 1980.
“Anyone’s list of great leaders of our last two centuries”: Warren Hamerman, “The ‘Beethoven Principle’ and the LaRouche Movement,” Executive Intelligence Review, September 14, 1990.
“stay-behind agents” of “Buckley family-style Carlist Gnosticism”: Lyndon LaRouche, “How Bertrand Russell Became an Evil Man,” Fidelio, Fall 1994, https://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/943a_russell_lhl.html.
“Sunday activity”: Tony Papert, internal memo, International Caucus of Labor Committees, November 1, 2000, LaRouche Planet, http://www.laroucheplanet.info./pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Library.NOCATHOLICSALLOWED.
“spreading slime-mold of tiny pro-Carlism-polluted schools”: William J. Wertz, “Catholic Schools Plot Exposed: Who Is Snuffing Your Neighbor’s Kittens?,” Executive Intelligence Review, April 19, 2002.
a master’s thesis on the German playwright and poet Friedrich Schiller: Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy, “Goethe’s Egmont and Schiller’s Stage Adaptation: Structure, Characters, Language, and Music” (master’s thesis, Duke University Press, 1991).
setting up an institute in Schiller’s honor: See Helga Zepp-LaRouche, “The Story of the Schiller Institute,” Executive Intelligence Review, January 1, 1985.
working under a professor named Vladimir Treml: Certificate obtained from National Student Clearinghouse.
a project funded by the Office of Net Assessment: Copies of Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers on the Second Economy in the USSR archived at www.dtic.mil include cover notes indicating funding by the Office of Net Assessment.
Gross revenues of 300 to 1,800 million rubles: Clifford G. Gaddy, The Size of the Prostitution Market in the USSR, Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers on the Second Economy in the USSR (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990).
Other scholars studied: Karl-Eugen Wädekin, Private Agriculture in Socialist Countries: Implications for the USSR (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987); Michael V. Alexeev, Underground Market for Gasoline in the USSR, Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers (Durham, NC, 1987); Kimberly C. Neuhauser, The Market for Illegal Drugs in the Soviet Union in the Late 1980s, Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990).
a member of its Military-Economic Advisory Panel: David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 252.
“If you come from a ‘good background’”: Tessa DeCarlo, email message to the author, July 10, 2017.
He was awarded his PhD in May 1991: Knight-Ridder Financial News, Michael DuVally, “Yeltsin Holds the Key to Gorbachev’s Fate,” Tallahassee Democrat, August 20, 1991.
he went to Russia to visit collective farms: See “Clifford G. Gaddy,” Brookings Institution, https://www.brookings.edu/experts/clifford-g-gaddy/.
an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University: Angela Stent, director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, email message to the author, April 29, 2017.
a key contributor to “Order from Chaos”: “Order from Chaos: Foreign Policy in a Troubled World,” Brookings Insitution, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/.
“Cliff Gladly”: Lyndon LaRouche, Morning Briefing, December 3, 2004, LaRouche Planet, http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/downloads/bfg1203.txt.
“a former LaRou
che associate who has sold out himself”: Jonathan Tennenbaum, “Washington Is Heading for a New Iraq War,” Executive Intelligence Review, March 1, 2002.
the NCLC counterintelligence staffer: Michelle Steinberg, a member of LaRouche’s counterintelligence staff, turned up at a Brookings event on March 23, 2009. See Brookings Institution conference transcript, “US-Russian Leadership for Global Financial and Energy Security,” http://www.ifs.ru/download.php?id=658. Steinberg’s authorship of the notebooks is suggested by “Did FBI, NBC Try to Frame LaRouche in Palme Death?,” Executive Intelligence Review, July 24, 1992, and by her attempts to use the courts to oblige the Boston branch of the FBI to release “any and all documents pertaining to and surrounding the United States government’s release of and/or disclosure of evidentiary material and any other documents turned over to the Swedish Police or other Swedish authorities.” See Michelle Steinberg, Appellant, v. United States Department of Justice, Justia, http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/23/548/482742/.
“Mum, I’m frightened”: See April Witt, “No Joke,” Washington Post, October 24, 2004; Stuart Winer, “Jewish Student’s Death in Germany Was a ‘Set-up,’ Expert Says,” Times of Israel, May 20, 2015; Matthew Taylor, “‘Suicide’ Student Jeremiah Duggan May Have Been Pressured by Cult, Court Hears,” Guardian, May 21, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/briton-jeremiah-duggan-may-have-been-pressured-by-cult-court-hears.
“electromagnetic lobotomy”: Stieg Larsson, “Enerström gripen för skott mot polis,” Expo, November 30, 2003; “Psykdömd Palmehatare mister läkarlegitimation,” Dagens Nyheter, September 23, 2005, http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/psykdomd-palmehatare-mister-lakarlegitimation/.
a beautiful dossier compiled by a former MI6 officer: Ken Besinger, “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,” Buzzfeed, January 11, 2017, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html.
the woods in Deep Gap, Watauga County: Sources for the murder of Victor Gunnarsson and the trial of L. C. Underwood, FindLaw, http://caselaw.findlaw.com/nc-court-of-appeals/1435151.html; “Former Assassination Suspect’s Body Found in WNC,” Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, January 15, 1994; Clark Cox, “N.C. Mountain Murder Reveals Mysteries on Two Continents,” Richmond County (NC) Daily Journal and Moore County Citizen News-Record, December 10, 1995.
He had been supplanted by Christer Pettersson: Bondeson, Blood on the Snow, pp. 112–57.
In 2011, his appeal was rejected: “Court Upholds Murder Conviction of L. C. Underwood,” Watauga Democrat (Boone, NC), January 19, 2011, http://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/court-upholds-murder-conviction-of-l-c-underwood/article_707f4c42-2616-5096-9d17-73d39c2f4dbd.html.
“Far to the right”: “Hatet mördade Palme” [The hate killed Palme], Aftonbladet, November 9, 1995.
17: THE END OF THE WORLD
“The British Isles has been the British Isles”: LaRouchePAC webcast, September 19, 2014, LaRouchePAC, https://archive.larouchepac.com/node/31786.
“You don’t define the behavior of mankind based on given facts”: LaRouchePAC Policy Committee, May 11, 2015, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20150511/lpac-policy-committee-may-11-2015.
“Schwarzenegger is a sex maniac”: LPAC Manhattan Project: Town Hall Event with Lyndon LaRouche, February 6, 2016, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20160206/lpac-manhattan-project-town-hall-event-lyndon-larouche-february-6-2016.
“Well it’s very simple!”: LPAC Policy Committee, November 30, 2015, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20151130/lpac-policy-committee-november-30-2015.
“If you get Royal Family out of the picture”: “Fireside Chat with Lyndon LaRouche,” March 3, 2016, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20160229/fireside-chat-lyndon-larouche-march-3-2016.
accusing his old friend of being part of the latest CIA plot: “Varning! CIA-agent sedd i Danmark!” [Warning! CIA agent seen in Denmark], Ny Solidaritet, August 1, 1975.
“at a time when our programmatic influence”: Bill Jones, “CIA-agenten Vale har aldrig varit ELC-medlem” [The CIA agent Vale has never been an ELC member], Ny Solidaritet, November 7, 1975.
“Paranoid delusion”: John Gray, The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom (London: Penguin, 2015), p. 54.
“He got that mustache”: “LaRouchePAC Talk Obama as Hitler—Sterling, VA,” April 1, 2010, LaRouchePac, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWj8C4EPV-U.
the African American Students Association at Swarthmore College: Richard Phalon, “A Socialist Caucus Denounces Gibson and His Enemies—Baraka and Imperiale,” New York Times, September 10, 1973.
which, of course, he meant the British: “British Unleash ‘Panama Papers,’ to Escalate Regime Changes Globally, Provoke War,” April 6, 2016, LaRouchePAC, https://larouchepac.com/20160406/british-unleash-panama-papers-escalate-regime-changes-globally-provoke-war.
“Does this strike anyone else as a very fishy story?”: Clifford G. Gaddy, “Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?” April 7, 2016, Brookings Institution, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/04/07/are-the-russians-actually-behind-the-panama-papers/.
18: CLIFFHANGER
Terry Whitmore returned to Mississippi in 2001: “Terry Whitmore,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 25, 2007.
breathed his last in New Jersey in 2004: U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014, Ancestry.com online database, Provo, UT.
his boss was a former CIA officer: Paget, Patriotic Betrayal, p. 4; James R. Hagerty, “Bob Kiley, ex-CIA Agent, Cleaned Up Subways and Made Them Reliable,” Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2016.
“He’s a festering pustule on Satan’s rump!”: “Don’t Be a Chump for Trump,” LaRouche PAC, https://larouchepac.com/20160229/ny-times-blows-whistle-killer-hillary-clinton.
America’s best chance to defeat the British Empire: “British Frantic to Destroy Trump, Save the Empire,” LaRouchePAC, February 1, 2017, https://larouchepac.com/20170201/british-frantic-destroy-trump-save-empire.
plotting a “color revolution”: Michael Billington, Rachel Douglas, and Marcia Merry Baker, “Obama and Soros—Nazis in Ukraine 2014—U.S. in 2017?” Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2017.
“I sensed a note of poetry”: John Sigerson, “On Composing a New Future,” Executive Intelligence Review, March 3, 2017.
more evidence of British perfidy: “The Foreign Power Corrupting U.S. Politics Is Britain, Not Russia,” LaRouchePAC, January 13, 2017, https://larouchepac.com/20170113/foreign-power-corrupting-us-politics-britain-not-russia.
Bill Jones, bowling a softball question: White House Daily Briefing, February 1, 2017, C-SPAN, https://www.c-span.org/video/?423339-1/sean-spicer-briefs-reporters-white-house&start=1644.
The “Senior Fellow” became a “Former Expert”: “Clifford G. Gaddy,” Brookings Institution, https://www.brookings.edu/experts/clifford-g-gaddy/.
Donald Trump’s chief adviser on Russia: John Hudson, “Trump Taps Putin Critic for Senior White House Position,” Foreign Policy, March 2, 2017; Nicholas Schmidle, “General Chaos,” New Yorker, February 18, 2017.
“the Manchurian Candidate”: David Remnick and Evan Osnos, “What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning Wiretap Tweets,” New Yorker, March 4, 2017.
The official announcement might have come sooner: Karen de Young, “Trump Adds Russia Scholar as a National Security Council Director,” Washington Post, March 28, 2017.
Newspaper profiles discussed Hill’s experience: Steve Robson, “Revealed: Coal Miner’s Daughter from County Durham Set to Be Donald Trump’s Top Adviser on Russia,” Daily Mirror, March 4, 2017, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-coal-miners-daughter-county-9961725; Kyle Scott Clauss, “Fiona Hill, Trump’s New Russia Expert, Went to Harvard,” Boston Magazine, March 2, 2017, http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/03/02/fiona-hill-russia-trump/.
A blogger in Moscow: John Helmer, “Vladimir Putin Is Safe If Donald Trump’s Expert on Russia I
s Fiona Hill, But Is Trump?,” Dances with Bears, May 15, 2017, http://johnhelmer.net/vladimir-putin-is-safe-if-donald-trumps-expert-on-russia-is-fiona-hill-but-is-trump/.
to accuse her of being a mole for George Soros: “Roger Stone: Soros Mole Infiltrates Trump White House,” June 1, 2017, Infowars.com, https://www.infowars.com/roger-stone-soros-mole-infiltrates-trump-white-house/.
“Disgusting”: “Strobe Talbott: The Full Transcript,” June 5, 2017, Politico.com, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/05/strobe-talbott-brookings-foreign-policy-interview-politico-215226.
The American Deserters Committee marches against the Vietnam War, Stockholm, February 1968.
Flanked by a pair of interviewers, the Intrepid Four—Michael Lindner, Craig Anderson, John Barilla, and Rick Bailey—explain their actions to a Soviet television audience in November 1967.
President Lyndon B. Johnson pins a Purple Heart medal to the pillow of Terry Whitmore—who will soon desert to Sweden, via Tokyo and Moscow.
Private Ray Jones, the first Vietnam deserter to arrive in Sweden, poses with his wife, Gabriele, on the eve of his trial in April 1968 for absence without leave.
Young American exiles in Sweden—Bill Jones, the chairman of the American Deserters Committee, along with Michele Lloyd and her husband, Jim McGourty.
Six deserters, smuggled from Japan to the Soviet Union, arrive at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, May 1968. From left to right: Kim Jin-Su, Mark Shapiro, Terry Whitmore, Philip Callicoat, Joe Kmetz, and Edwin Arnett.
The offices of the American Deserters Committee, housed in a building owned by Verdandi, a Swedish temperance society.
Olof Palme, Sweden’s education minister, marches through Stockholm with Nguyen Tho Chan, the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow, on February 21, 1968, to protest the war in Indochina.