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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 25, Number 14, April 3, 1998 asterisk). In some cases the same individuals played active, What is somewhat less widely known, is the role that albeit different, roles in the two actions. Richard Mellon Scaife played in the 1980s “Get LaRouche” Following the four charts, which represent overlays of operation, the combined legal and media assault against the data organized by forms of action, we have included an anno- noted American System political economist, and intellectual tated index of names, to help the reader through the maze author of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. of detail. Mellon Scaife directly bankrolled the media salon that churned out a constant stream of Goebbels-like anti- The analysis LaRouche hate propaganda, through such media outlets as It must be emphasized that the data presented in this spe- NBC-TV, Readers Digest, the Washington Post, Business cial report are by no means complete. However, the data pro- Week, the New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal. The vide a road-map of the apparatus under investigation, and Get LaRouche salon was an integral part of the “Public Diplo- will, hopefully, provoke further inquiry into two aspects, in macy” unit, run out of the White House, by George Bush and particular, of the ongoing investigation: his gopher Oliver North, which was later exposed as part First, the institutions and individuals who have been iden- of the “secret parallel government” behind the Iran-Contra tified in both the Get LaRouche and Get Clinton operations fiasco. Both the Iran-Contra guns-for-drugs criminal enter- warrant special investigative followup. prise and the “Get LaRouche” operation were run under the Second, the individuals and institutions that are prominent aegis of Executive Order 12333. in the Get LaRouche operation but are not clearly identified That Mellon Scaife should emerge today as the “Daddy as elements of the Get Clinton campaign, should not be writ- Warbucks” of the propaganda machinery attempting to de- ten out of the probe. In some instances, leading elements stroy the institution of the U.S. Presidency, is absolutely law- of the Get LaRouche drive, including the ADL and several ful. Mellon Scaife cut his teeth, beginning in the early 1970s, prominent current and former Democratic National Commit- as the financier of a combined British-American black propa- tee officials, are considered, by some, to be part of the pro- ganda front, which was such a notorious repository of disin- Clinton machinery. Given that virtually every enemy of formation, that it was banned by law from operating inside LaRouche is also an enemy of Clinton, a more thorough re- the United States. view of some of these cases may help to identify “fifth col- Like his father before him, Richard Mellon Scaife was, umn” problems inside the Clinton camp. and remains, an appendage of the British intelligence appara- tus assigned to penetrate and manipulate the United States on behalf of the British monarchy and the City of London. Profile Forum World Features In 1973, Mellon Scaife took control over a string of Mel- lon and Scaife family tax-exempt charitable trusts. Almost immediately, those trusts became money conduits for a series Richard Mellon Scaife: of Anglo-American joint intelligence operations. This was by no means the origin of Mellon family involvement with joint an Anglophile Goebbels British-American covert intelligence activities, however. Richard Mellon Scaife’s father, Alan Scaife, and several by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg members of the Mellon family, served in the World War II Office of Strategic Services, functioning as a key component of the Anglophile faction of OSS, which worked at cross- Ever since First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her purposes with OSS chief Gen. William Donovan and Presi- attack against the “right-wing conspiracy” to bring down the dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But 1973 marked Richard Clinton Presidency, at the beginning of the year, the name Mellon Scaife’s personal recruitment into the world of clan- Richard Mellon Scaife has become well known. Mellon destine propaganda. Scaife, as the chief executor of the multibillion-dollar Mellon The first of the operations to be funded by Mellon Scaife’s family “philanthropic” empire, has poured millions of dollars “charitable” empire was Forum World Features, one of three per year into the “Get Clinton” apparatus since 1992. Hardly news agencies and about 20 journals that had been created a newspaper slander or a legal action has been launched as part of one of the CIA’s earliest Cold War clandestine against the President that did not enjoy the generous financial propaganda fronts, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, backing of Mellon Scaife, through his various tax-exempt founded in 1950. When the CIA funding of the CCF was foundations—e.g., the Allegheny Foundation, the Carthage exposed in 1965, several Anglophile establishment families Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Mellon Foundation—and his were called upon to take charge of the various CCF fronts, highly secretive Grandchildren’s Trust, which does not have under ostensibly private auspices. Forum World Features was to report its contributions. one such front. 34 Feature EIR April 3, 1998 © 1998 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Brian Crozier, an octogenarian veteran of British intelli- boasting that not only was the ISC’s work “consistently used gence, with long-standing ties to Britain’s MI5 and MI6 intel- by the Thatcher government,” but he said that the ISC “has ligence services, claims, in his autobiography, that he devised set up solid working relationships with the Heritage Founda- the new structure for WFW, forming a holding company tion, the National Strategy Information Center, the Institute named Kern House Enterprises. It was incorporated in Dela- for Policy Analysis, and a number of other Scaife-supported ware, but operated principally out of London, subsuming sev- organizations.” eral British intelligence news agency fronts in the Middle In his autobiography, Crozier reveals that Jock Whitney’s East, and similar CIA fronts operating in Latin America. investment counselor was John Train, the Anglophile banker- Another account suggests that Kern House Enterprises spook who ran the 1983-89 “Get LaRouche” hate-propaganda had actually been created by the grandson of President Theo- effort out of his New York City investment service, Smith dore Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, Jr., who had started Train. Crozier heaped praise on Train as “a man of culture as his intelligence career side-by-side with Richard Mellon well as money. He had lived in Paris and seemed as interested Scaife’s father, in OSS. Kim Roosevelt was the CIA’s “man in the arts as in stocks and shares.” in Teheran” when British intelligence, on behalf of British Apart from Scaife’s direct contributions to the ISC, some Petroleum, orchestrated the overthrow of the Mossadegh gov- $140,000 was laundered to Crozier for his discretionary use, ernment in the early 1950s. At the time the account has him through another one of Richard Mellon Scaife’s projects, the initiating Kern House Enterprises, Kim Roosevelt “was en- Heritage Foundation. trusted with creating the CIA’s publishing empire,” which Unfortunately for Mellon Scaife, shortly after the publica- involved giving “theme guidance” for thousands of books, tion by former CIA agent Victor Marchetti of The CIA and and seed money for other media. the Cult of Intelligence, a memo revealing the CIA hand in The first chairman of Kern House Enterprises, once it was Kern Enterprises/FWF was leaked to a British paper, Time incorporated in 1965, was a raving Anglophile and former Out, in spring 1975. The memo revealed more about the ori- U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James (1956-61), John gins of FWF than had so far been told. It was written in 1968 Hay “Jock” Whitney. He was the owner of the New York by the CIA’s London station chief, Cord Meyer. City-based Whitney Communication Group, a holding com- Meyer’s 1968 memo to Director of Central Intelligence pany for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, and Richard Helms admitted that “FWF was created out of the the International Herald Tribune. Whitney was said to be residue of Forum Service, an activity of the Congress of Cul- “witting” about the CIA hand behind Kern Enterprises/ tural Freedom (CCF), from which the CIA withdrew in 1966.” FWF—to the point that the CIA conduited some $325,000 The memo continues: “In its first two years FWF has provided through his J. Whitney Foundation for this purpose in 1964- the U.S. with a significant means to counter communist propa- 65. ganda.” A handwritten note on the memo adds: “Run with When Richard Mellon Scaife succeeded, by 1973, in the knowledge and co-operation of British intelligence.” The wresting control of the Mellon family foundations, and the memo elaborates that Forum Service was created as one of more secretive trust, from his sister, Cordelia, he stepped in three news agencies within the CCF in 1960 out of Informa- to replace Whitney as chairman of Kern Enterprises/FWF. tion Bulletin, Ltd., whose principal director was Walter La- This was the start of his still-active relation as “benefactor” queur, now at the Scaife-funded Center for Strategic and In- to FWF president Brian Crozier. ternational Studies in Washington. CIA funds to the CCF There is some evidence that even before Mellon Scaife’s underwrote some 20 publications, including Encounter, The 1973 takeover of his family’s coffers, the Mellon family had New Leader, Socialist Commentary, and the international as- had some input into FWF through the National Strategy Infor- sociation of writers based in Paris known as PEN Club.