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Skip Humphrey and the Criminal Abuse of Power in Minnesota Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 20, Number 42, October 29, 1993 Skip Humphrey and the criminal abuse of power in Minnesota by Philip Valenti and a New Federalist Investigative Team We reprint here four chapters, with slight abridgment, from the New Federalist White Paper "Skip Humphrey and the The mob,the ADL,and Humphrey: Criminal Abuse of Power: Case Studies of Corruption, Cov­ plotting with kidnappers er-Up and Official Oppression in Minnesota. " The full docu­ ment can be obtained from EIR. Here is a full listing of Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. "Skip" Hum­ chapters: 1) Introduction-the mob, the ADL and Skip Hum­ phrey III has prostituted his office for political gain, and phrey: plotting with kidnappers; 2) The looting of Minnesota serves as the corrupt "linchpin" of the Democratic Farmer­ from Kid Cann to Carl Pohlad: How organized crime became Labor (DFL) Party/organized-crime axis which has domi­ "respectable" ; 3) Corruption in the Humphrey family: Skip's nated Minnesota since the gangster days of Floyd Olson and moneymen march to prison in the I980s; 4) Skip Humphrey, Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld. If the Humphrey "linchpin" protector of sex criminals: the Jordan child abuse cover-up; is removed, the whole criminal structure must fall. 5) The People vs. "Big Brother" Humphrey: the case of These are the dramatic conclusions of a New Federalist Crow Wing County Attorney John Remington Graham; 6) investigative report, the result of months of in-depth exami­ Fascism with a democratic face: the case of Humphrey's nation of the public record, plus dozens of interviews with environmental gestapo; 7) Humphrey and abortion: case key individuals, and study of private files made available study of a political prostitute. by participants in crucial events. The results of the New the kidnapping and "deprogramming" of Lyndon LaRouche supporter Lewis du Pont Smith. Humphrey aideis caughton FBI wiretap Moore: Well, boy. A voice out of the past. Munson: Listen, we're still working on this LaRouche deal. This is a partial transcript of a telephone call from Rich­ Moore: That is amazing. ard Munson to Donald Moore, which was electronically Munson: I don't know if you knew that. monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Moore: No, I thought it had been shut down. Aug. 2, 1992. The original tapes were entered into the Munson: No, we had been sued by them as well. I court record as U.S. Government Exhibit #1, in the case myself personally, and the prosecutor and also the attor­ of U.S. v. Smith, Kelly, Point, Moore and Russo, No. 92- ney general.And we were sued illPennsylvania over these 420-A, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. warrants that we did, that freeze their bank accounts and Richard Munson is an Investigator in the Office of the get bank records. Minnesota Attorney General. In depositions taken Dec. Moore: I figuredthis thing had been shut down. 7, 1992 (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Munson: Oh, hell no. In fact, we're on the verge of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 92-0396), both Munson charging at least one of their members, and maybe two and Minnesota DeputyAttorney General James Early ad­ here in the next two or three weeks, probably .... mitted prior contact with "former" CIA agent and ADL Moore: First of all, I need to bring you up on some "fact-finder" Mira Lansky Boland, and with ADL agent history here. In 25 words or less I'm no longer working Donald Moore, in targeting the LaRouche movement. for the Sheriff's office. At the time of this conversation, Moore was plotting Munson: Oh, okay. 28 Feature EIR October 29, 1993 © 1993 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Federalist report, summarized below, are expected to fuel Geri Joseph and Dwayne Andreas. poth Joseph and Andreas demands for a formal investigation of the AttorneyGeneral's are super-rich grain traders who made their fortunes by ex­ office, and for the impeachment of Humphrey himself. ploiting the farmers of the region, with the political protec­ The New Federalist investigation was triggered by evi­ tion of the DFL Party. dence released in a 1992 federal trial in Alexandria, Va., Joseph, Andreas, and their wives served as chairmen of proving extensive collaboration by Humphrey's office with the ADL 80th Anniversary Dinner in Minneapolis on June kidnappers, thugs, and spies employed by the Anti-Defama­ 14, 1993, which presented the ADL "Distinguished Public tion League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and the Cult Awareness Service Award" to Walter and Joan Mondale, and which Network (CAN). announced the publication of the "Hubert H. Humphrey First Beneath a thin veneer of respectability, the ADL has for Amendment Freedoms Prize Presentations: 19 77-1992." decades run a nationwide illegal spy network and political Also participating in the ADL <linneras a member of the dirty tricks apparatus, targeting a J.Edgar Hoover-style "ene­ "Honorary Committee" was Fred I�aacs, who went to jail in mies' list" of thousands of American citizens and groups. 1960 along with the other DFUKid Cann-connected racke­ ADL offices in California were raided by the San Francisco teers for looting the old Twin City Rapid Transit Company police on April 8, 1993, revealing massive evidence of illegal (TCRT), about which more will be said on this below. spying and harassment, sometimes on behalf of foreign gov­ The Joseph, Andreas, and Isaacs families are among the ernments such as South Africa and Israel. ADL agents in­ most generous financial supporters of Skip Humphrey"spo­ clude corrupt police and law enforcement officials,who have litical ambitions. participated in all-expenses-paid ADL junkl,!ts to Israel, On Aug. 2, 1992, Humphrey "investigator" Richard while big ADL contributors have included gangsters such as . Munson was caught on an FBI wiretap, in a compromising Meyer Lansky's partner Moe Dalitz. discussion with former Loudoun County, Va.Deputy Sheriff A July 1991 ADL-sponsored excursion to Israel included and ADUCAN agent Don Moore (see .box). Munson and several Minnesota DFL bigshots, like Senate Majority Lead­ Moore were recorded plotting�o destroy the Lyndon er Roger Moe and House Speaker Robert Vanasek. Moe was LaRouche political movement. chairman of Skip Humphrey's failed 1988 campaign for U.S. And, at that very moment, Moore was a ringleader of a Senate. conspiracy to kidnap and "deprogram" prominent LaRouche Minneapolis is a major regional center for the ADL, and associate Lewis du Pont Smith! the Humphrey family is intimately bound, financially and Moore, along with CAN "depltogrammer" Galen Kelly, politically, to ADL bosses and moneybags, like Burton and Lewis Smith's father E.Newbold Smith,and two others, was Moore: All right. That doesn't mean a thing because I'm rules here in Virginia. still conducting LaRouche investigations. I am basi­ Munson: Yeah, we couldn't d(>that here. cally working for an outfit that is out of Chicago called Moore: Yeah. Well, we have a work product rule. CAN, Cult Awareness Network. I still do the same We're very primitive down here. Ylouget to take your ball things, but I no longer have law enforcement powers down and go home. You may get sent hbme by the coach, but here .. .. you get to take the ball. Right now we are awaiting, as a matter of fact, word Munson: What a mess. that the Sheriff [of Loudoun County] may in fact resign. Moore: You probably think you're talking to a legal if that occurs I will be running on the Republican ticket, cave man, and you're right. We've got big clubs down since the Sheriff was a Democrat. here .... Munson: Great. As far as I'm concerned, the enemy of my enemy is Moore: And I will have, to tell you, more than a my friend.You know, that's what the Arabs say, and if reasonable chance of winning. In which case should that you guys are all marching upstre$n to take them out up occur, it's open season on Mr. LaRouche .. .. there in Chicago, hell, man, whenJthe thing's over, I can I have some 16file cabinets full of information. The give you the name of a couple of lI'Vreporters who owe reason why I was-towards the end, I realized that-were me big time for the story when I;.aRouche took out the frankly some serious problems in what we call our CID Illinois primary. There are some people there that would [Criminal Investigation Division] section. So basically, give me an arm just to have a st01)l to whack these people since it was my case and since it had never been given a with. So if you're looking for fmendly faces, I've got case number, I took the documents home. And guess plenty of them. what? The local prosecutor ruled I had every right to do Munson: Well, that's fabulo� and we'd sure like to so. It was my work product. We have a different set of get these guys. EIR October 29, 1993 Feature 29 arrestedand indicted by the federal governmentin September In April, Humphrey called the local police to forcibly 1992 on kidnap conspiracy charges. Over 60 hours of incrim­ expel DFL gubernatorial candid3lte and LaRouche supporter inating tapes of the conspirators were released by the prose­ Andy Olson from a public meetingin Douglas County. Later cution during the trial, including the Munson/Moore dia­ that year, Humphrey, in coordinaltion with several other state logue.
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