In August 1982, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent a memo to Webster requesting an investigation of the LaRouche movement due to their "increasingly obnoxious" harassment of him,[11] which was raised at a meeting that day of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board by senior member David Abshire.[12][13] Revell replied to Kissinger that there was sufficient evidence to proceed with an investigation.[11] The FBI conducted an investigation but did not find evidence of a violation of Kissinger's civil rights. The investigation was closed in late 1983.[14]
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10-17-1986 Gorbachov attack on LaRouche triggers Leesburg 'panty-raid'
Days following Soviet General-Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov's public attack on presidential candidate
Described by local residents as a giant "panty-raid," at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 6, a force estimated at a total of 400 FBI, state police, and other officials swarmed over the town of Leesburg, smashing doors of businesses and residences at gunpoint, in a manner echoing a typical KGB raid on suspected political dissidents in Russia.
Although the pretext for the raid was a 23-month-long fishing expedition by a Boston, Massachusetts federal grand jury, the federal warrants for the raid were issued only 12 hours before the action. According to the warrants served, the federal action was based chiefly on the unsupported hearsay testimony of a single witness, a disgruntled former employee of a private security firm, one Lee Fick, discharged for cause over a year earlier. According to the warrant, Fick had manufactured testimony alleging a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Boston grand jury proceeding, testimony he had presented at Boston approximately two weeks prior to the raid.
The raid also followed by a week, public exposure of an FOIA-released FBI document, reporting Weld's admissions that the Boston grand jury proceeding was a politically motivated fishing-expedition, targeting presidential candidate LaRouche.
According to the Washington Post's Oct. 7 account of the raid, the action appeared to the Post to be motivated by the success of two LaRouche-linked candidates for high state office in the March 18 Illinois Democratic primary. The Post saw Boston U.S. Attorney Weld's recent confirmation, to occupy the number three post at the Justice Department, as key to the raid itself.
Very high levels in several European and other nations abroad had views differing from the Post's explanation of the raid's political motivation. Each, independently of one another, said that their circles saw the raid as a result of Soviet General-Secretary Gorbachov's public attack on LaRouche, in a Moscow address days earlier. They explained that they had expected some such action against LaRouche within the United States as soon as they read the content of Gorbachov's remarks. They expressed the fear that the raid on LaRouche's friends was a price the State Department was paying in return for the coming week end's Iceland "pre-summit" between Gorbachov and U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Some of these foreign observers represent the highest levels of the Western intelligence establishment. They stated that they had direct knowledge of Soviet pressures on Western governments to eliminate LaRouche. When General-Secretary Gorbachov made the Soviet New Times' attack on LaRouche the theme of his major pre-summit address in Moscow they concluded that "LaRouche's head" is the price Gorbachov is demanding of President Reagan for a "successful Iceland pre-summit." Therefore, they saw the Leesburg raid as a probable sign that Reagan might make major capitulations on strategic issues at that summit.
Few observers thought that President Reagan himself had authorized the "Leesburg panty-raid," but that the decision to unleash William Weld might have come through George Shultz and White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan. Regan is both a LaRouche-hater and a backer of Weld. Soviet pressures on the U.S. government to deal with individual U.S. citizens, are customarily transmitted in oral exchanges with State Department officials, or through Soviet assets.
Representatives of Campaigner Publications are denied entry to their offices at 20 South King St. in Leesburg. In violation of the federal regulations. no observers were permitted to be present while FBI, IRS, Secret Service and other agents ransacked the premises.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI)--Disgruntled perjurer Lee Fick, is a controlled asset of the ADL and NBC-TV News, both of which have been functioning as channels of Soviet influence against LaRouche for a number of years.
Recent investigations have produced conclusive evidence that former Boston U.S. Attorney William Weld is himself a direct asset of Soviet intelligence. Weld, a confessed financial backer of anti-LaRouche leftist causes during the late 1970s, is formally an asset of the Chinese Communist Intelligence Service, together with Albert G. Besser, the attorney for the mob-linked First Fidelity Bank of New Jersey.
The Beijing intelligence network into which Weld is personally integrated, is the Canada-based organization formally identified as the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR), the former organization of the notorious Owen Lattimore. This is known as a direct, two-way link with Beijing's Chinese Communist intelligence Service. It is also the direct link between Soviet and Beijing intelligence operations based in Canada. It is also a common link of Soviet and Chinese intelligence services to certain of the major drug-running rings inside the United States.
The IPR was set up within the Eurasian part of the original Soviet foreign-intelligence organization, the Trust, shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik takeover. IPR's original U.S. base of operations was Harvard University's Chatham House nest around such figures as Prof. William Yandell Elliot, the postwar sponsor of the careers of such figures as Henry A. Kissinger, Canada's Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Canada's onetime Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The Harvard connection to IPR was set up in cooperation with top Soviet intelligence operative Agnes Smedley, a leading figure in the Asia-Americas Communist International intelligence net work of India's M. N. Roy, New York City's China Books, through which the Maoist Progressive Labor Party and Robert Avakian's terrorist organization got their backing, is the leading output of Beijing intelligence connections of that sort inside the U.S.A.
The leading present-day Harvard connections to the Sino-Soviet intelligence network are Jerome Cohen and Benjamin Schwartz, the key U.S. figures in Henry A. Kissinger's opening of the "China Card." Kissinger gained access to Canada based Beijing intelligence channels through these two. Jerome Cohen is the godfather of business deals with Beijing, through his base of business operations at the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind. Former China OSS operative Albert Besser, recently returned from a three-month visit to China, is part of this organization. So is William Weld's wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld, and also Weld himself.
Contrary to popular delusions, the Moscow-Beijing break of the 1956-62 period never stopped close cooperation between the two communist powers' intelligence services in common operations against the United States. During the last half of the 1950s, the newly-formed branch of Soviet foreign intelligence, IMEMO, together with Soviet military intelligence, the GRU, used Canada as a base for liaison through IPR networks, in joint operations against the United States.
Not accidentally, the Soviet GRU recently heaped praise on First Fidelity's Albert Besser, for Besser's attempted operations against LaRouche. Besser and Weld have been close collaborators in Weld's ADL-linked operations against LaRouche, since no later than late October 1984.
Weld's record of connections to dirty political operations against LaRouche dates from 1974 to 1975, when Weld joined with David Rockefeller IV in bailing out a financially troubled radical newspaper in Boston, the Real Paper, then spearheading Soviet-linked operations against LaRouche and LaRouche's aging parents. According to admissions in a 1983 campaign statement, Weld had advanced $18,000 as his part of the bail-out contribution.
The Real Paper operations against LaRouche, during the 1974 period, were directed by two former leaders of the Vietnam War-period "GI Deserters Movement," "Bo"
Burlingham and Andrew Kopkind. The operation was coordinated by MIT's Prof. Noam Chomsky, the son of a Communist family, and a member of the Bertrand Russell organization which had rejoined Soviet foreign-intelligence partnership in 1955. The network of which Burlingham's and Kopkind's Paris-based operation of the early 1970s was a subordinate part, was integrated with Soviet intelligence, through Soviet penetration and virtual takeover of the London Tavistock Institute's London/Glasgow-based "Russian Studies" network. This operation was part of an operation which the KGB ran through both the East German secret police, the Stasi, and the East Germany-based Greek language section of the KGB. Whether Weld knew of these connections at the time is not demonstrated, but this indicates the general character of the influences with which he then associated himself.
Weld is personally a partner with the Beijing Peoples' Liberation Army in producing left-wing propaganda films. His wife, like Besser, is a specialist in China's Taoist "legalist philosophy," completing her qualifying studies under Kissinger collaborator Jerome Cohen. She, like Besser, is an active part of the semi-official State Department back- channels to Beijing set up under Henry A. Kissinger.
Weld is also linked directly to White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As part of the bringing of the traditional drug money laundering bank, the HongShang, into the United States, the Federal Reserve System pushed through arrangements eliminating "audit transparency" for foreign financial institutions doing business inside the United States. Regan, then chief executive officer for Merrill Lynch, used this change in policy to set up a three-way partnership among Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and the international financial house of White Weld. The key White Weld official, until his death, was David Weld, the father of Harvard-trained U.S. Attorney Weld. This arrangement became the pivot of the largest single money-laundering operation in the U.S.A., a major channel for laundering drug-money.
When a U.S. Treasury investigation led to the indictment of the Bank of Boston for $1.2 billion of illegal money laundering, chiefly through the channels of White Weld and Credit Suisse, Boston U.S. Attorney Weld smothered all but one count of the massive indictment, and let Bank of Boston off with a slap-on-the-wrist fine of $500,000. Had Weld not suppressed criminal indictments of responsible bank officials, a continued investigation would have led directly to the doorstep of Donald Regan. Highly reliable sources add, that of their personal knowledge, Donald Regan and William Weld are very close.
It is not surprising, with Donald Regan White House Chief of Staff, that a William Weld already known as "the worst crook" in the federal justice system, would have been appointed to the third-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice!
Donald Regan was also exposed, by a very highly reliable informant as a pivotal figure in the recent cover-up of fraud on AIDS research by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Regan insisted that if LaRouche succeeded in exposing the willful cover-up of AIDS by U.S. governmental agencies that the "seven-year economic policy" of the administration would be destroyed by public clamor for spending to stop the AIDS pandemic. Don Regan was also a key collaborator of Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet pressures, in 1984, in abruptly denying Secret Service cooperation to a highly endangered presidential candidate, LaRouche, thus preventing LaRouche from campaigning effectively. The same Regan has been allied with Kissinger against LaRouche's campaign for reforms of the bankrupt international monetary system.
More important than Weld's direct connections to Soviet intelligence, is the direct Soviet channel through Shultz and Regan into the Congress and White House. As the Wall Street Journal reported in its Oct. 3 issue, it was Shultz and Regan who pulled off the Iceland pre-summit, in the context of negotiations over the release of U.S. News and World Reporter Daniloff. High-ranking Soviet officials have bragged repeatedly that their leading channels of influence into the U.S. government, including the White House, run through Soviet friends in the Democratic Party's leadership; but the usual channels for Soviet pressures for action against U.S. citizens are State Department channels. Corrupt pressures of this sort on both the Justice Department and federal judges usually run through State Department channels, often through the financial circles to which many U.S. officials are closely linked personally.
As the Oct. 7 Washington Post reports, Weld had been itching to run an operation like the Leesburg panty-raid for months. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) FBI release states that Weld solicited collaboration from state officials, including Virginia officials, in a desperate effort to rescue his Boston grand-jury fishing-expedition. The question is, who at a very high level backed the much-frustrated Weld last weekend, allowing him to secure an "obstruction of justice" indictment solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a single, perjured informant? Who allowed Weld to stage the raid as one of the biggest news-media circuses in U.S. legal history? Who allowed a routine search of two office-locations to be turned into a military occupation of an entire Virginia town?
Even much of the U.S. liberal press, no LaRouche-lovers, smell something too rotten for their tastes in this affair. The political backlash against the Reagan administration, inside and outside the United States, is mounting rapidly. Who, exactly, was supposed to be impressed? Moscow? Some of the most senior intelligence figures of the Western world think there is no other explanation.
Weld is linked to international drug-money laundering, and is directly linked to Soviet intelligence channels. Moscow has informed Western governments that it considers LaRouche the number-one danger to Moscow's plans in the world today. General Secretary Gorbachov made that the theme of a major address a week before the Iceland "pre-summit.” Moscow pressure on Shultz, and Moscow influence on Weld, intersecting in the person of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, is the only explanation which fits the facts.
Did Shultz and Donald Regan, in fact, give the green light for this operation, under massive pressures from Moscow? Senior figures in the United States and other parts of the world have a one-word explanation for the Leesburg panty-raid: "Iceland."
EIR October 17, 1986
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EIR March 12, 1993
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More evidence of 'secret government’ role in 1986 raid on LaRouche movement by Edward Spannaus
Information recently obtained under the Freedom of Information Act is shedding additional light on the role of the Reagan-Bush "secret government" team in the raid on facilities associated with Lyndon LaRouche in Leesburg, Virginia in October 1986. That 400-man raid, which culminated in the unjust imprisonment of LaRouche and many of his associates, was intended to result in the same sort of bloodbath which has just been staged in Waco, Texas. The new information provides further confirmation of the involvement of the "Iran-Contra" gang centered around National Security Council staffer Oliver North and his inter-agency task force.
The evidence implicates the FBI's Special Operations Groups (SOG) in the planning for the 1986 raid. These SOG units have been called the FBI's "political hit squads" and were known to have been deployed against critics of North's supply operation to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Also involved in the planning for the Leesburg raid was the secret office in the Pentagon through which the CIA sought Defense Department assistance for covert operations in Central America.
In early January, EIR obtained copies of the secret correspondence between the Justice Department and the Pentagon, by which it was arranged for U.S. military units to take custody of the documents seized in the October 1986 raid. Two large truckloads of documents were confiscated and then were secretly transported to a military base in Arlington, Virginia.
The newly disclosed documents include a memorandum from Kent S. Robinson, the lead prosecutor for the LaRouche frameup trial in Alexandria, Virginia, to William F. Weld, then the head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. The Robinson memo is dated Oct. 1, 1986; it was classified "Secret" and also stamped “Urgent." It states: "Attached please find a draft of a letter from you to the Director, Joint Special Operations Agency, OJCS, requesting the assistance of the military in providing secure office space for the storing of documentary materials we hope soon to seize from the LaRouche organizations."
The director of the Joint Special Operations Agency (JSOA) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to whom the Weld letter was addressed, was Maj. Gen. Tom Kelly of the U.S. Marine
Corps. Kelly sat on the National Security Council's elite counter-terrorism working group, along with North, the FBI's Buck Revell, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, and other officials from the Pentagon, State Department, and CIA. This NSC group was known as the Operations Sub-Group of the Terrorism Incident Working Group (OSGITIWG), and it played a key role in the Iran-Contra operation.
JSOA was created in 1984, and incorporated the functions of the Special Operations Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and related functions such as psychological warfare and civil affairs. Some say that Gen. Richard Secord played a key role in the creation of ISOA; although he had retired from the Pentagon by that time he still was a paid consultant and sat on the Special Operations Policy Advisory Committee (SOPAG) which oversaw JSOA and the Joint Special Operations Command based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Secord attended every known meeting of SOPAG in 1984 and 1985. General Kelly, the JSOA director to whom the Weld letter was sent, and Kelly's predecessor at JSOA, were also members of SOPAG.
The Weld letter was sent to the attention of Col. B.R. Hooten, chief of the Support Activities Branch of JSOA at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was Hooten's branch which made the arrangements for the seized LaRouche documents to be secretly taken to Henderson Hall at Fort Meyer, Virginia. Colonel Hooten's Support Activities Branch serves as the "focal point" office in the Joint Chiefs of Staff; historically, the "focal point" office was the point of contact (POC) for the CIA when it needed Pentagon support, going back to the days of the CIA's counterinsurgency programs in Vietnam.
The Support Activities Branch still played this role in 1986, as shown by a document released by the congressional Iran-Contra committee. This was a March 7, 1986 message from North to Poindexter, s¢nt under the super-secret "Private
Blank Check" caption in order to bypass the NSC staff. The undeleted portions of the March 7 message begins with a reference to "the OSG/TIWG plan," and states that "CIA approached DOD [deleted] to conduct joint . . ." It then mentions "a call back to the [deleted] POC" from "Col. Hooten," in which Hooten said that "there were War Powers Act implications to the request."
North goes on to complain that the Joint Chiefs of Staff want a written request "tasking the CIA/DOD planning." North protests that "this is wrong," that this is something "that Dick Secord has bitched about" and that such a rigid requirement "destroys the very purpose for which OSG was established."
OSG shows up on the FBI side also. The Oct. 1, 1986 memorandum from Kent Robinson to Weld, enclosing the draft of the Weld letter to JSOA, concluded with the following: "This letter should not be mailed. Rather, [deleted] FBI Special Operations Division, will pick it up from you and hand carry it to the appropriate person. He may be reached at 324-5675, and should be contacted once the letter is signed."
There is no FBI "Special Operations Division.” However, there is an "Aviation and Special Operations Unit" at FBI headquarters, which is the unit reached by the phone number in the Robinson memo. Its duties involve surveillance of all sorts, not just aerial surveillance. This unit oversees all FBI aviation programs and Special Operations Groups. SOGs exist in all of the FBI's major field offices, and handle "special cases," sensitive cases such as terrorism, foreign nationals, espionage, etc.
In July 1986, North and Revell deployed the FBI SOGs against a prominent opponent of the Contra operation, Jack Terrell, who was working with the Christic Institute and its lawsuit against North, Secord, et al. Declassified documents show that on July 17, 1986, Revell called North to get information on Terrell. In a memorandum to Poindexter on the same date, North claimed that Terrell was a participant in the disinformation/active measures campaign against the Contra operation. The North memo says: "The FBI has notified the Secret Service and is preparing a counter-intelligence/counter-terrorism operations plan for review by OSG-TIWG tomorrow."
The next day, July 18, 1986, there was a meeting in the FBI's Washington Field Office; the official memorandum of the meeting states that "we need full-time SOG coverage on Terrell."
The Weld letter to JSOA also states that Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore Greenberg had already informally contacted someone to inquire about the availability of the space at Henderson Hall. It is highly significant that contact with the Pentagon's Special Operations Agency was initiated by Greenberg, who is one of the spookiest characters in the entire U.S. Department of Justice.
Greenberg is known to have extremely close ties to the CIA and the Israeli Mossad; some believe his strongest loyal ties are to the latter. While he was a federal prosecutor in Alexandria, Greenberg handled every case coming through
that court involving the CIA or the intelligence community, including the Wilson-Terpil case, the Dale Duncan/Yellow Fruit case (involving Army special operations personnel), and numerous others. Greenberg was also consulted on the involuntary bankruptcy used in 1987 to illegally shut down three publishing companies identified with LaRouche.
Military involvement in a domestic criminal case is flagrantly illegal, and it shows the outlaw character of the U.S. government's conduct in the LaRouche case. By law the military units involved cannot be engaged in domestic law enforcement or domestic covert operations. But why, then, was the military involved in the raid?
Even though the documents had been seized under both federal and state search warrants, and were supposed to be in the joint custody of the FBI and the Virginia State Police, the Virginia authorities were denied access to the documents for several weeks while they were being held at Henderson Hall.
Just who was rummaging through the documents during the first days and weeks after the raid? Was it Oliver North and his gang? Was it allied networks in the secret government, trying to ferret out the names of military and intelligence sources in contact with LaRouche's associates? Or was it done so that evidence could be tampered with, and false leads manufactured, in the event the Leesburg raid turned into the Waco-style bloodbath that many of those conducting that raid wanted?
The military's special operations apparatus has in fact been a key part of the "secret government" apparatus since the Vietnam era, and it was closely linked to the illegal Iran Contra operation run by North and Secord. When the late CIA director William Casey told North to set up a covert mechanism for supplying the Contras in Central America, North naturally enough turned to personnel from Special Operations. Among those recruited by North was special operations veteran Secord. North and Secord recruited heavily among special operations veterans to help set up the Contra supply operation. One of these was Master Sgt. John H. Cupp.
Five months before the Leesburg raid, Secord used his National Security Agency-supplied encryption device to send a secret message to North, which stated that "our man here claims Lewis has collected info on LaRouche.” "Our man here" was the above-cited John H. Cupp. "Lewis" was Frederick Lewis, another special operations veteran.
Five months later, on Oct. 6, 1986, North and his gang seemed to have found a better way to "collect info on LaRouche"--through use of the secret government apparatus which spreads from the FBI SOGs to the most secret parts of the Pentagon. http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1993/eirv20n11-19930312/eirv20n11-19930312_074-more_evidence_of_secret_governme.pdf
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