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Interviews Investigation Economics 30 Helga Zepp-LaRouche 4 Is VVashington behind The president of the Schiller Institute EUl"ope's currency crises? in Germany, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche The worst speculative attacks on was recently elected the chairman of European currenciesin the postwar a new political party, the Civil Rights period, plus the launching of trade Movement Solidarity. She outlines WaIl measures by the United States the need for a broader perspective for against Europe, are not the German patriots, now that they have wOlkings of "the magic of the achieved the reunification of their matketplace," but represent a nation. Former U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuel· dellberate effort at destabilization. lar (third from left) meets with the General Command of El Salvador's FMLN guerrillas. Under the U.N.­ 6 Methyl bromide ban run "peace accord," the guerrillas are taking over the Departments country, and the military is being disbanded, in accord defeated at Copenhagen with U.S. policy. conference 14 Report from Rio Although the ecological fascists did War breaks out on privatization. 46 U.S. put terrorists in power manage to implement a large part of in EI Salvador; Colombia their agenda, the delegates from 87 15 Dateline Mexico next nations refused to ban production of The Torricelli Corollary. During an International Seminar on methyl bromide by 1995, as Peace Negotiations organized by demanded by Washington. 41 Report from Bonn the Jesuit-run Center for Research "A strategy of tension." and Popular Education in Bogota, 9 Currency Rates Colombia, speakers boasted that the 42 Australia Dossier U. S. governmentis bringing to 10 Australia becomes ecologist Zionist lobby is frantic over power communist narco-terrorist police state LaRouche. forces throughout Ibero-America, to eliminate national sovereignty. 13 China warns Britain: 43 Panama Report 'Choose us, or chaos' Another Kissinger rip-off. I Books 16 U.S. Unemployment 69 Music Views and Reviews Coverup Original instruments cantabile. 52 What the British taught the Nazis about eugenics 17 Agriculture Eugenics, Human Genetics and 72 Editorial Oilseeds were never the real issue. Fifty years later. Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics i 18 Business Briefs in Britain, by Pauline M.H. Photo credits: Cover, U.N. Photo 178028/M. Grant. Pages 21, 24, Mazumdar. Carol White. Page 30, EIRNS. Page 48, El Espectador. 56 A look at anti-human ecologism's forebear The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist: Darwin, by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.

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20 Japan cold fusion 28 Second coup attempt 60 Claims ofU.S. recovery are conference sets new strikes hated Venezuelan a political hoax direction for science President The current babbling about an An on-the-scene report by Carol Carlos Andres Perez, the darling of economic recovery has nothing to White from the Third International the International Monetary Fund, do with reality. but is intended to Conference on Cold Fusion, held in succeeded in putting down the check any inclinations the Clinton Nagoya, Japan. Three and a half rebellion, but not because he has administration might have to years after Stanley Pons and Martin any support from within his own undertake a fundamental policy Fleischmann first captured country. shift. headlines with their announcement that they could produce fusion in a 30 Nations of the North must 62 It's all on tape: 'Kidnapers, test tube at room temperature, there be in solidarity with the Inc.' plot to nab Lewis du is a body of experimental results South Pont Smith which confirms their contention. An interview with Helga Zepp­ Excerpts from the record of the LaRouche. government'ss.urveillance of a 25 Evidence of a nuclear event team charged with conspiring to 32 The cowardly murders of kidnap a political associate of foreigners must be stopped Lyndon LaROl¢he. The gang goes A policy statement by Helga Zepp­ to trial on Dec.114. LaRouche. 66 Senate 'October Surprise' report confirms EIR's We reported 34 Freemasons caught Correction: allegations . incorrectly in our last issue (page orchestrating the neo-Nazi 67) that Washington, D.C. Park revival in Germany Police had arrested Rev. James 68 Eye on Wa�ington Bevel and historian Anton Chaitkin 37 Italians call for reopening Clinton advisers head for Europe. while they were leading a rally at of files on the assassination 70 National News the statue of KKK founder Albert of Enrico Mattei Pike. The arrest was actually made A report from Milan on a by federal Park Police. conference sponsored by EIR and the Schiller Institute. Only if a new Mattei emerges, will Italy be able to overcome the economic crisis and the Anglo-American destabilization.

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44 International Intelligence �TIillEconoIDics

Is Washington behmd Europe's currency crises?

by William Engdahl

Thereis compelling evidence that, beginningin June or early tary System, has been the basis for strong growth in intra­ July, only days after Denmark's "no" vote to the proposed EC trade flows. Once currepcy parities become subject to Maastricht Treaty for European union, which included plans wild speculative runs, indu�tries are much more cautious for a Europeancentral bank , a dominant partof the u. s. estab­ about cross-border trade ties4 lishment launched an all-out financialand economic destabiliza­ The attacks on the weakdr European currencies began at tion of western Europe. The objective of thisoperat ion, which the end of last August, wheJ1l Washington began to deliber­ has seen the most severe speculative attacks on European cur­ ately let the dollar slide. Any�ne who knows how the Europe­ renciesin the postwarperiod andthe launching of intense trade an currency market operates, knows that when the dollar war pressures via agricultural and steel tariff threats against falls sharply, hot money goqs almost automatically into the European imports, appearsto be to render Europeaneconomic German mark, Europe's stropgest currency. stability impossible for thefo rseeable future. That is what happened last August, putting strains on The charge of deliberate U.S. economic and financial the relationship between the deutschemark and some of the warfare against the countries of the European Community weaker European currencies �ied to it, namely the Italian lira, (EC) is as dramatic as it is serious. the British pound, and above all the Swedish kroner. The According to reports fromNew York internationalinvest- Swedish Central Bank was f�rced to boost overnight interest 0rs in early July, the "word" was leaked in the New York rates to 500% by mid-Septerpberto prevent a collapse of the ' financialcommunity that funds should be pulled out of Euro­ currency, at that time the '1weakest link" in the European pean markets. "Our New York investors shocked us in July Exchange Rate Mechanism (�RM) group of fixedcurre ncies. when they told us to sell their holdings in Scandinavian According to Swedish banking circles, U.S. interests in­ bonds. We told them they shouldn't over-react to press head­ cluding friends of Henry Kissinger and the secretive New lines over Maastricht, and they replied, 'We have informa­ York financial speculator George Soros launched a massive tion that by the end of this December, the currencies of the speculative attack on the !¢roner and the pound sterling, entire European Community will be in a free float,' " R.G. which forced the latter to leave the ERM on Sept. 16. On the Andersen, a major Scandinavian bond investor with a leading Swedish side, the chairmaq of the Swedish-based Volvo, financialho use, told EIR. Pehr Gyllenhammer, is repQrted to have been especially ag­ gressive in dumping his nation's currency. Gyllenhammer Franco-German ties targeted enjoys close City of London and New York ties. He is a According to information made available to EIR from member of the board of the;London Pearson Group, which European and U.S. sources, the target of the politically driv­ includes the London-New York investment bank Lazard en attacks on European monetary stability is to force a rupture Freres. And he has close ties to Kissinger, and is a board in the tie linking France and Germany, the two nations which member of Kissinger Associates. have formed the core of European economic growth since The September currenc� attacks, which were led in vol­ the opening of the Common Market in 1959. A rupture in the ume from New York banks;and financial institutions, suc­ 13-year agreement of the 12 EC member countries to support ceeded in weakening the ERM structure. The Italian lira was a zone of currency stability, then termed the European Mone- forced to float following weeks of efforts to hold its value.

4 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 The Spanish peseta was devalued by 6%, and the British European currency stability was launched. Again, according pound sterling was taken out of the ERM, leaving it to float to currency traders, it came from New York financialhouse s. freely. As in September 1931, when the pound unilaterally "The tip-offwho was behind this was during the November left the gold standard, it seems that key voices inside the Thanksgiving holidays in the United States, when New York British establishment are positioning themselves for further closed down. During those few days, suddenly the attacks attacks on European stability. on the Irish, Danish, and French curr�ncies ground to a halt. This role of British perfidyinsi de the EC this past Septem­ They started up again Nov. 30, after tlieU.S. holidays," said ber was detailed in the Nov. 30 London Guardian. According one European trader. to that report, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Again, the intent of the concerted GAIT and currency Lamont, a former N .M. Rothschild's banker, blocked a pro­ assaults is to finishwhat was started ib September, namely, posal by the head of the German Bundesbank, Helmut Schle­ to break the Franco-German currency axis and thereby weak­ singer, at an emergency Sept. 5 EC finance ministers gather­ en the entire fabric of the EC trade region. ing at Bath, for a quid pro quo of significant German interest rate cuts in exchange for a comprehensive revaluation of the The elusive George Soros fixed currency values of the ERM countries. In addition to One of the central speculators involved in the latest at­ Italy, Britain had what was regarded as a far overvalued rate tacks on Europe, beginning with the mid-November attack for sterling, given its depressed economy. The Guardian on Sweden's kroner, which this time was forced to leave the reported that Lamont, who chaired the Bath meeting, used ERM, is reported by London currency traders to again be his position to block real debate on the dramatic German George Soros. Soros, an elusive billipnaire who reportedly proposal, demanding instead a unilateral German rate cut. made $950 million in the September pound sterling crisis, is Since Sept. 16, when sterling left the ERM, the British known to enjoy close ties to the U.S, establishment. There governmenthas continued to play a perfidious role behind are even reports that Soros has quite privileged channels to the scenes in aggravating underlying European tensions. But the New York Federal Reserve Foreign, the U.S. agency the fundamental goal of forcing a break in the German­ which would have the most intimate confidential data on the French link on monetary parity failed. On Sept. 23, the Ger­ state of other European central bank reserves. "These attacks mans joined with France to defend the franc. According to on European currencies are political, not based on any eco­ estimates, the cost of this defense was high. During the entire nomic considerations by traders," one financial source told ERM crisis, the Bundesbank reportedly spent $58 billion of EIR . "If someone like Soros had privil�ged information from its foreign currencyreserves to support the lira, sterling, and contacts inside the New York Federal Reserve, he would then the franc. But the waters calmed during October as the know precisely where the weak targets are. His uncanny speculative frenzyabat ed. It seemed for a time that the threat success in the past two months suggests this may be the case. to the Franco-German "core Europe" had been defeated. It's quite a scandal if so. " Adding fuel to the fire, on Nov. 30, when the Commerce The agricultural 'wedge' Department announced imposition of I>enalduties on imports Then, beginning in October, Washington threw a new of some $1 billion worth of European steel, an EC spokesman wedge into German-French relations. The U.S. government stated, "The U.S. has been using legitimate trade policy threatened all-out "trade war," including a 200% tariff on instruments to harass foreign competitors and to divert world French wine exports, unless the EC agreed to the deliberately trade flows." Both Washington trade :ultimatums (oilseeeds outrageous U.S. demands for cuts in European "oilseed" and steel) escalated pressure on the various European coun­ production, which it claimed was hurting U.S. soybean ex­ tries while currency speculators like Soros undermined the ports to Europe. According to Brussels sources, the U.S. stability of the ERM link. position had little to do with any legal rights under the Gener­ The Washington assault against continental Europe, al Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GAIT), but strictly with which has the backing of a powerful: faction in the City of politics. The farm supportissue , as one European grain trader London, is designed to tum Europe fr(j)m the world's strong­ termed it, "is the perfect 'wedge' issue to split Germany and est trade and industrial region which c�uld bring stability and France. France is the most important agricultural exporter in growth to eastern Europe, into a gaggle of petty, squabbling the EC, while German machinery and industrial exports countries. Their private argument is: 'ilf the United States is faced a threat from any Washington trade war, as Bonn saw in a state of internaleconomic and finapcial chaos, let's make it." According to European reports, Washington demands certain Europe is as well, so they are unable to challenge would force up to 35% of all European farmland to be "set our global role." If they succeed in fostering such disarray, aside," making the United States the unchallenged world through British "balance of power" maneuvers to play France food supplier in coming years, and throwing entire regions of off against Germany or vice versa, �he "Anglo-American France and the rest of the EC into permanent rural depression. special relationship," in effect since the 1919 Versailles Trea­ In this tense climate, in mid-November, a new attack on ty, would once again be decisive in E\.lropeanaff airs.

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 5 Methyl bromide ban defeated at Copenhagen conference by Rogelio A. Maduro

The ecological-fascist drive to ban more chemicals necessary The eco-fascists drafted the rules of the protocol in such to human life suffered a setback in Copenhagen, Denmark a way that it only requires the signature of 20 countries to as representatives of 87 countries met Nov. 17-25 to update impose a ban enforceable on all countries. It was not surpris­ the regulations promulgated by the 1987 Montreal Protocol ing, therefore, that the timetable for banning some chemi­ which set phase-out dates for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) cals, determined at earlier cOllferences, was moved up to an and other allegedly ozone-depleting substances. Although earlier date. It should be emphasized that 25 countries, out the eco-fascists did achieve a large portion of their agenda of a total of 87, voted against each and every single item in during the meeting, they failed to implement a sought-for the agenda. But as the eco-fascists hoped, the new protocol ban against the important pesticide and fumigant methyl bro­ calls for: mide, and against hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), • a ban on CFCs by the end of 1995 instead of the year which serve as substitute refrigerant gases, among other uses. 2000; The delegates refused to implement a ban on all produc­ • the fire-extinguishing balons to be banned by the end tion of methyl bromide by 1995, which was the major plank of 1993; of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administra­ • methyl chloroform, used in dry cleaning, to be banned tor William K. Reilly. Because of fierce opposition, Reilly by 1996 instead of 2005; had to settle for an agreement to freeze production at 1991 • carbon tetrachloride td be banned by 1995 instead of levels by 1995. The plan to ban all HCFCs by the year 2000 2000. also fell through, and the greenies had to settle for a ban by To the surprise of most d�legations, one more family of 2020. Though neither delayed ban is in any way sane, it does chemicals, the hydrobromdfluorocarbons (HBFCs), was show that resistance is mounting. banned at the conference. This latest ban, to go into effect Two major developments at the conference helped to by the end of 1995, demonstrates what kind of a sham the derail the plans of the eco-fascists. The first was the release Montreal Protocol is. HBFCs, a very promising family of of a resolution drafted by world-famous volcanologist and chemicals which has demonstl-ated tremendous capabilities as former minister of France Haroun Tazieff, which was signed fireextinguishers , were not even included in the conference by more than 100 scientists from 12 nations. The resolution, agenda until two weeks before the conference. In essence, the entitled "Seven Good Reasons to Reverse the Montreal Pro­ eco-fascists decided to ban H$FCs on the spur of the moment. tocol," exposed the pseudo-science fraud of the ozone deple­ HBFCs were banned despite the fact that no research whatso­ tion theory. Shortly before the meeting began, a folder with ever has been conducted to d¢termine whether they represent the resolution and other materials was put at the place setting any danger to the ozone layen or whether HBFCs can survive of each delegation, and was the first item opened by the long enough to rise to the stratosphere. Scientificevidence is delegates. Denmark's leading daily, Berlingske Tidende, clearly deemed irrelevant to this whole process. covered the Tazieffresolution in a front-page story, as did the Paris daily Le Figaro. As many as 20-40 million deaths per year The second intervention occurred during the conference The Copenhagen conference almost fell apart over the when Israel and several southern European nations joined issue of an international fundto help developing countries with Third World agricultural producers to oppose the ban bear some of the enormous dosts of the ban on these chemi­ on methyl bromide. The proposed ban on this chemical was cals. Although this fund had! been established during a con­ fought fiercelyby Israel and Kenya, with backing by other ference in London in 1992, the advanced-sector nations had users, including France, Italy, Spain, and Greece. Observers failed to deliver on even the pittance they had promised Third noted that there was a clear "North-South" fightbeing waged World countries. After a laSt-minute deal, advanced-sector at the conference. There was no consensus on any replace­ countries agreed to provide tjheso-call ed Montreal Multilat­ ments for CFCs, and most Third World countries were op­ eral Fund with $113 million in 1993 and $113 million in posed to this ban as well. 1994. This money will suppsedlygo toward helping devel-

6 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 oping countries pay for CFCs recycling equipment and manu­ facturing alterations, and to meet other costs resulting from a conversion from cheaper CFCs to the much more expensive replacements (if any replacements even exist). In reality, this fund is a cruel joke. Experts now estimate that the cost of banning these man-made chemicals may be as high as $5 trillion by the year 2000. On top of that, it is expected that the collapse of the international cold chain, through which perishable foods are stored and transported, will result in an increase in the death toll from hunger, starva­ tion, and related food-borneand other diseases of 20-40 mil­ lion persons per year, and these figures do not include the consequences if methyl bromide were banned (see EIR, Dec. 4, p. 22). This death toll should be compared to the alleged threat from ozone depletion. According to Reilly, the ban on all these chemicals will prevent 20,000 deaths from skin cancer in the United States over the next 75 years. Setting aside the Haroun TazieJf. a French volcanologist and former government severe scientific criticisms that this claim has received from minister. drafted a resolution. signed by more than 100 scientists the medical community, Reilly's threat boils down to 267 from 12 nations. calling for overturning tlie Montreal Protocol. The unscientificand unnecessary ban on GFCs and other useful hypothetical skin cancer deaths per year (many medical ex­ chemicals will lead to 20-40 million deaths every year if not perts estimate the death toll to be zero). But this is still lower revoked. than the number of estimated deaths from fires as a result of the ban on fire-fighting halons! The tragedy of this conference is that so much money and radiation. The Australian delegates we e everywhere hysteri­ effort is being spent on dealing with the non-existent threat cally warning all the delegates they ame across about the of ozone depletion when there are real catastrophes occurring dangers of sunbathing and UV. One wag commented that in the world today. On the same day that the Copenhagen their tags should have read "Australian Skin Cancer Scare conference was ending, another conference was taking place Bikini Team." Of course, these white-skinned Anglo-Saxons in Dakar, Senegal. This conference, sponsored by the Orga­ did not explain to their audience that cases of skin cancer are nization of African Unity (OAU), was convoked to examine almost non-existent among Australian natives. In the end, the desperate situation of African children today. The tragedy however, the ploy backfired, as the Australian delegation is horrifying. Drought, famine, gastrointestinal diseases, became the laughingstock of the conference. AIDS infections ofthe parents, and poverty have reduced the life expectancy of African children dramatically. At present, Greenies cry 'foul' one out of every four African children will die by the age of Although previous meetings of the Montreal Protocol five. In 1990, some 4.5 million African children died because signatories have commanded extensi�e press coverage, this of malnutrition or lack of medical treatment. one was barely mentioned by the news media. The eco­ The data, collected by the OAU and the United Nations fascists were not too happy, either. I Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef), show that the threats Mostafa Tolba, who has overseen the negotiations to ban besieging African adults are not much better: Nearly every CFCs as director of the U . N. Environment Program (UNEP), second African citizen suffers from malnutrition, lack of said that "tens of countries expressed different views, at least clean water, or HIV infection. AIDS was a major item of 25 countries created difficulties at every step; nonetheless, discussion at the Dakar conference, since more people are this meeting was definitely a step forward," noting that de­ sick with AIDS in Africa already than in the entire rest of the spite fierce opposition, "the measures agreed here are the world. The ban on CFCs-based refrigerants will have a direct strongest package of global environmental law ever enact­ impact upon the health and well-being ofthese AIDS victims. ed." Tolba emphasized that stronger aotion was needed: "The Even in conferences that deal with ozone depletion, there question remains, however, is this enough? We know the is sometimes room for entertainment. This conference was answer is no. I am scared that ozone depletion will accelerate . no exception. The free entertainment was provided by the We cannot rest until the ozone layer i safe." Australian delegation. It was quite apparent to observers at Greenpeace condemned the results of the conference. the conference that the role the Australians had been assigned Spokesman Bill Hare told IPS wire service, "While we ac­ by the Anglo-Saxon bloc was to scare attendees over the knowledge the major progress on CFCs and halons, the bene­ dangers of skin cancer from increases in ultraviolet (UV) fitshave been swamped by the agreement to continue the use

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 7 of HCFCs and methyl bromide. Governments have taken a there have been more than 20 theories claiming that man's vast and pointless risk which threatens human health, ocean activities were going to deplete the ozone layer. The theory ecosystems, crops, and wildlife." that CFCs would deplete the ozone layer is just one of those The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said that it was theories debated during the 1970s in what became known as "pleased" with the treaty, but staff member MichaelOppenhei­ the "Ozone Wars." All of these theories were discredited by mer said the group was "critical" of the decision to allow contin­ the end of the decade, and the debate subsided. The debate ued production of HCFCs and methyl bromide. Oppenheimer was not restarted until 1985, as part of a deliberate strategy. told the New York Times, "It's basically half a loaf. I'm glad The first phase of the eco-fascist strategy was to seek a they did what they did with the major ozone depleters." But treaty laying the groundwork for a phaseout of and eventual ban on CFCs. That treaty would serve as the basis for further internationaltreaties banning all kinds of activities conducted by man. This firstphase wa� achieved by the signing of the For thejirst timethere wasorganized Montreal Protocol in 1987. The second phase was to add oppositionto the mob qfeco- jascists HCFCs, methyl chloride, and carbon tetrachloride to the trea­ that controls the Montreal Protocol ty. The third phase, launched in November 1991, was to add methyl bromide to the list. The fourthphase , which the eco­ process. Thisopposition has been fascists were about to launch, was to revive the claims that slowly building over the pastseveral fertilizers and solid booster rockets were a threat to the ozone years, asmore and more scientists layer. The rejection of a ban on methyl bromide at the Copen­ hagen conference has temporarily derailed this schedule. and experts have decidedto expose The immediate plans of tI!leeco- fascists are to ensure that the ozone depletion theory and the Reilly launches a campaign in the United States to ban methyl ban on CFCs as a sham. The bromide. They are also countingon the full support of Vice President-elect Albert Gore, the great champion of environ­ publication qfThe Holes in theOzone mental causes in the U.S. Senate. They expect to parlay a Scare hasplayed a major role in U.S. ban on methyl bromide,into an internationalban . catalyzing this opposition. Derailing the eco-fascist juggernaut The most significant event of the conference was that for the first time there was organized opposition to the mob of regarding the opposition to a methyl bromide ban, Oppenhei­ eco-fascists that controls the Montreal Protocol process. This mer said, "They leftan importantpart of the problem unfinished opposition has been slowly I building over the past several and they'regoing to have to revisit it soon." years, as more and more scientists and expertshave decided According to EDF international counsel Scott Hajost, to expose the ozone depletion theory and the ban on CFCs as "governmentshave donetheir duty by speeding the elimina­ a sham. The publication of The Holes in the Ozone Scarehas tion of CFCs in industrialized countries, but their actions on played a major role in catalyzing this opposition. Having HCFCs and methyl bromide are not commensurate with the sold more than 30,000 copies in its English, German, and magnitude of the problem." Hajost told IPS that "even when French editions over the past fivemont hs, the book provided ' CFCs levels begin to decrease in the atmosphere, continued the scientificcommun ity and the public a full picture of the use of HCFCs and methyl bromide could significantly extend deceit and lies involved in the ozone scare. the period of ozone depletion." The opposition's intervention at the conference, howev­ er, was prepared in less than three weeks. In this time, the Gameplan temporarily blocked Tazieff resolution was circulated to several hundred scien­ There are two fundamental reasons why the eco-fascists tists, and more than 100 of them endorsed it. Although the and their promoters in the news media are demonstrating conference is now over, dozens of endorsements of the reso­ such rage at the result of the conference: This is the firstdefeat lution continue to arrive. they have suffered at such aU. N -sponsored. international As the conference date approached, a team of French, gathering. And second, they were ready to launch the fourth German, Danish, and American opponents ofthe treaty trav­ phase of their ozone depletion scare strategy, which has now eled to Copenhagen to distribute the resolution to all the been derailed. delegates and to ensure that the truth was told. As detailed in the book by this author and Ralf Schauer­ At the same time, in Fmnce, Tazieff, a legend among hammer, The Holes in the Ozone Scare: The Scientific Evi­ the scientific community for his exploits as a volcanologist dence that the Sky Isn't Falling (Washington, D.C.: 21st willing to risk his life in taking samples of flowinglava during Century Science Associates, 1992), over the past 20 years volcanic eruptions, went on the offensive. In interviewswith

8 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 leading European press, Tazieff detailed the contents of the resolution and his opposition to the destruction of modem society through the ban on CFCs. Currency Rates French television reported Tazieff's statements through­ out the first day of the Copenhagen conference. Television The dollar in deutschemarks . network M6 made the story the lead item on its evening news New York late afternoon fixIng program, and included an interview with Tazieff. i Le Figaro newspaper covered the story in a front-page 1.70 j article. A large box proclaimed "Ozone Layer: The Scientific 1.60 Controversy," followed by a half-page article in the Science ... section, reprinting the seven points of the resolution. In Co­ /, i"""""" IV 1.50 7 penhagen, Berlingske Tidende, the most important newspa­ per in Denmark, covered the Tazieff appeal and identified 1.40 V some of the most prominent signers. At the conference itself, a team of pro-life and pro-sci­ 1.30 ence organizers, including a reporter from EIR , carried out 10114 10m 10/28 1114 11111 11118 11115 ll10l a series of interventions. Early on the first day, an organizer The dollar in yen placed a folder with the resolution and other materials de­ bunking the ozone-depletion fraud on the desk of every dele­ New York late afternoofixing n gation attending the conference. Its impact was compounded 140 by the fact that any attendee who had picked up a Danish newspaper thatmorning could read front-page articles on the 130 same resolution they had on their desks. A few hours later, the delegates received photocopies of 120 the article that had appeared in Le Figaro. Throughout the - afternoon, the truth squad continued leafletting and shaking 110 up the conference. They also intervened at press conferences given by several delegations. 100 One of the most interesting press conferences was that of 10114 10/21 10128 1114 11111 11118 11115 ll10l the new head of the U.N. Environment Program, Indian The British pound in dollars Minister of Environment and Forestry Kamal Nath, who New York late afternoonfixing pointed out that he was there as an Indian minister, not as head of a U.N. chapter. EIR reporter Geoff Steinherz pre­ 1.80 sented Nath in the question period with the facts of U.S. National Security Study Memorandum 200, which said that 1.70 reduction of world popUlation was an issue of national securi­ 1.60 EIR , "'" ty for the United States (see May 3, 1991), and also """'- referenced the Anglo-Americans' policy of technological '--- "" 1.SO � �-- apartheid, and asked if there had been discussions on that I in the Indian government. He thanked the reporter for the 1.40 question and said that the Indian government was aware of 10114 10/21 10128 1114 11111 11118 11/25 ll10l the issues raised. He added that India had experienced being able to import technology but not to export it. Afterthe press The dollar in Swiss francs conference, he asked for a copy of NSSM-200, which was New York late afternoonfixing delivered to his table later thataft ernoon. 1.SO EPA head Reilly was also confronted by EIR on the fact that following the EPA ban on DDT, several hundred million .- 1.40 1.0' - Iv""- people had died in the Third World as a result of malaria, � - I""'" and was asked whether a similar result would not occur from 1.30 ./ the ban on CFCs. Reilly nervously responded that although he had read the points objecting to the ban on CFCs, he said 1.20 he believed that there had already been enough discussion regarding the scientific issues and the it was sound to ban 1.10 ozone-depleting chemicals. 10114 10/21 10128 1114 11111 11118 11/25 ll10l

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 9 Australiabeco llles ecologist police state A "NewAge"qfenvironmental law is being imposed on Australia. (Thefirst articleon this issue appeared in our Nov. 27 issue.) Nigel Gleeson reports.

In the past 5-10 years, the destructive power of the environ­ groups are an integral partof this plan, and are made up of mental movement in Australia has stretched its gangrenous people in the community wh

10 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 sometimes only a little, sometimes a great deal. To know the clearing of vegetation in that area, whether the Decade of Land Care is moving in the direction of The management of wilderness a¢as is further definedas its overriding vision, it will be necessary to chart community restoring and preserving "the capacity of the area to develop attitudes and behaviors." without human interference." The dtrector can also restrict The plan is reevaluated every three years so that controls access to part or the whole ofthese ar�s whenever he wishes. over the individual are periodically tightened. The New England Wilderness NOfnination, implemented The worst aspect, however, is that laws enacted to fulfill by the Armidale WildernessSo ciety J which consists of four the requirements set out by the plan make the DLCP look young, inexperienced university stu�ents and an older col­ lenient. league, covers an area of approximat�ly 250,000 acres, tak­ The Wilderness Act 1987 No. 196 New South Wales ing in huge tracts of private prope�y, perpetual leasehold is a good example of the manipulative ability within the land, and vast timber and mineral respurces. guidelines of governmentpoli cy. The Armidale Wilderness Societf requests in this nomi­ The Wilderness Act states yet again the need "to promote nation "that all logging, roading, cll$ring or any other pro­ the education of the public in the appreciation, protection, and posed development cease," until the 4irector has assessed the management of wilderness." These educational programs are area. i clearly defined in this act as whatever activities the director of They also say that "any areas th� adjoin the wilderness National Parks and Wildlife considers necessary to change the that are undisturbed by modem actif.'ity, or are capable of behavioral attitudes of the people. Also very clearly defined is regenerating to this state within a rea�onable time period, or the power ofthe directorto carry out any actions that he consid­ that are essential for the managem�nt of the wilderness, ers necessary in carrying out directions from the minister for should also be included within the npmination." Their idea environment. A person reading this act soon begins to wonder of a reasonable time period is the lifespan ofthe longest-lived who this almighty director is, who seems to be able to instigate species of tree in the area. I anyactions or restrictions he wishes. Part of the management practice� recommended by the Armidale Wildeness Society include$ that all trails and roads The wilderness czars within wilderness areas be closed a�d allowed to revert to forest, while no controlled fires are ito be lit, and any fires This all-powerful director can declare any area a wilder­ I ness whenever he wishes, providing he is of the opinion that that do start be allowed to bum umlontrolled. The society the land is or can be restored to an unmodified state, or is an clearly does not have any experience in land management, area he thinks is needed for the management of wilderness, as is evident in these two recommen�ations. regardless of how developed the area may be. The nomination concludes that "i�olated wildernessareas But the director is not the only person empowered with are vulnerable, that no one wilderne$ area is sufficient,and such far-reaching authority. The act also allows for "any that migratory species need a chain otwildernessareas along person, body or organization, including a statutory author­ the entire forest system," which runs 12,000 miles from Cape ity," to nominate any area of land to be declared as wilder­ York in northern Queensland to Viqtoria in the south. The ness, "even though it is not the owner ofthe land concerned." Armidale Wilderness Society also n minated 225,000 acres A wilderness nomination that is defeated through costly for the proposed Werrikimbe Wilde ess and 500,000 acres legal procedures (by some miracle that has never happened for the Macleay Gorges Wilderness,t !for a grand total of just to date), can be renominated instantly. This leads to the situation where someone may nominate a farmer's land for wilderness set-aside simply because he or she doesn't like 1 the farmer or from other personal motivation. The director, GIVE THE GIFl THAT by law, must act on any of these nominations within two years, while any nominations that have passed through gov­ CHALLENGES THEIR MINDS, ernmentand have been declared wilderness have generally Without Straining Th( ir Eyes... always been enlarged by the director. While it is under nomination, an area cannot be devel­ EIRAUDIO RE PORT oped or modified, which means that a farmer can be restricted One Hour Each \Veek. from developing his land indefinitely simply through a run­ Exclusive Interviews G nd News. ning series of nominations. The definition of development Statements by Lyndon LaRouche. is another example of how the laws are interpreted. The l $500 for 50 issues. Sent FIrstClass. Wilderness Act says that the definitionof development in the Make checks payable!to: act means: a) the erection of a building in that area; b) the EIR News SerVice carrying out of work in, on, over or under that area; c) the p.o. Box 17390. Washington. 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EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 11 under I million acres to date. One might suggest that it would interpret these laws as suits, the occasion. The definition beeasier to set aside those areas not to be nominated, but the of "take" is: "Take, in relation to any fauna, includes fact that those areas might be owned by drug traffickers and hunt, shoot, poison, net, snare, spear, pursue, capture, politicians could prove too embarrassing. disturb, lure or injure, and without limiting the foregoing also includes significant modification of the habitat of the Closing off production fauna which is likely to adversely affect its essential The nomination of wilderness areas is only one of the behavioral patterns." multiple environmental laws that assails primary producers To ensure that these laws are facilitated, the director in Australia. The Endangered Fauna Act New South has been given the power to issue stop-work orders that Wales, among others, doesn't even require the zoning of come into effect immediately and require no prior warning land to be able to destroy primary producers. Under that could possibly avoid loss of capital outlays on a this act, primary producers are required to carry out condemned project. environmental impact studies whenever they wish to devel­ Another form of environmental legislation, called Total op their resources, which still adheres to the definition of Catchment Management (TCM), presents an interesting development as stated earlier. To carry out one of these idea on policing of these IlI.ws: "One approach taken to studies requires a Aus $200 application fee and an overall control natural resources degradation is to use regulations cost of Aus $10,000 and up, with no limit. These costs and legislation which tell people what to do and how to are not recoverable if it is deemed that there will be an manage their land. Punishment is part of this approach impact on the environment. If an endangered species or and those not obeying the law are prosecuted. The Environ­ a likely habitat for an endangered species is found in the mental Offences and Penalties Act 1989 is one example area, then the area will be closed to all production. of this method." If a grazier (rancher) happens to accidentally kill or "TCM takes an approach based on cooperation. The take a plant or animal considered part of an endangered basic assumption in TCM is that landowners and users species, he faces a fine of $100,000 and two years will generally try to do the right thing, particularly when imprisonment. This is another example of the ability to there is peer group pressure and agency commitment.

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12 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 world at large provide eloquent proofs that in the absence of political and social stability, it is irltpossible to carry out effectiveand meaningful reforms. If ¢hina, a vast and popu­ China warns Britain: lous country, should plunge into chao$, it would be a disaster not only for the Chinese people, bu. indeed for the whole 'Choose us, or chaos' world. It is with a sense of responsibility to the Chinese people and to the world that we hajve adopted a planned and systematic rather than rash and �aphazard approach to by Mary Burdman economic and political restructuring. 'r World stability and peace are be�t by "economic diffi­ During a visit to London on Nov. 16, Chinese Vice Prime culties, social unrest, ethnic conflict$, and religious strife" Minister Zhu Rongji delivered a speech to the Royal Institute in certain regions, Zhu told the RIIA. But Beijing has its of International Affairs (RIIA), the premier think tank of answer. Deng Xiaoping's "socialism with Chinese character­ the British establishment, in which he touted the alleged istics" has "gone into high gear" since the beginning of this successes of China's economic "reform" program, and year. Zhu claimed an industrial gr0'Yth rate of nearly 20% warnedthe British leaders that his country could plunge into and an increase in gross domestic product of over 10%. chaos if anything is done by the westernpowers to destabilize When dealing with Chinese statisti9s, however, percentag­ the communist regime. The speech was blacked out by the es can be misleading. China was among the world's poorest international press. nations when it began its reforms in 1978; rail transport, con­ Zhu was promoted to vice prime minister for the State struction, trade, and so forth had almost been halted by the Council last year and became a full member of the Chinese previous 10 yearsof the Cultural Revolution. Zhu merely assert­ Communist Party (CP) Central Committee and Politburo ed that "the policy of reform and opeIiiog up initiated by Mr. Standing Committee only during the 14th Party Congress in Deng Xiaoping has capturedthe hearts and minds of our people October. In his speech, he was at pains to distinguish between who will carry it on till all its set object:fvesare attained." the economic crisis in the former Soviet Union, and the step­ by-step reform process of the "Chinese model. " Zhu has been 'No' to shock therapy . given the appellation "the Chinese Gorbachov" by western Zhu is certainly aware of the ternble crisis unleashed journalists, which, he clearly realizes, could be most unfortu­ by the imposition of International �onetary Fund "shock nate for his career in the party hierarchy. The name is more therapy" austerity on Russia and eas�rn Europe, and made fitting because of Gorbachov's hard-core communist soul clear that China doesn't want any of itt "Over the past decade than any illusions westernersmight have about his reformist and more, we have gradually introdliced in China a market tendencies. During the April-June 1989 democracy demon­ pricing system. I may say that China hltsalready broken away strations in China, Zhu and current CP Secretary General from the traditional model of the planded economy in its most Jiang Zemin organized "workers' crowd control forces" to importantaspects and irreversibly embarked on a brand new subdue student demonstrators in Shanghai, where Zhu was course of development," Zhu stated. i then mayor, the Taipei Inside China Mainland magazine "Here, I would like to point out that we take an incremen­ reported. tal approach to economic reform, p�icularly price reform. Zhu, who is fluent in English, was sent to Britain to Though price rises have caused a de*ree of anxiety, on the discuss economic and trade relations. His visit was planned whole, they have not led to major sqcial unrest, agony, or long before the eruption of the British-Chinese confrontation shock. Having lived with price reform formore than 10 years, over Hong Kong, and, no doubt, went ahead so that Zhu people have become more familiar w�th and adapted to mar­ could deliver a clear message to London that the communist ket mechanisms. They are better prepjaredeconomically and old guard has every intention of retaining its control in the psychologically for market fluctuatiok Such a change is of People's Republic of China. far-reaching significance, for market �conomy is no longer a textbook term but a living reality in the everyday life of the Socialist dictatorship Chinese people." : Zhu's speech must be seen in light of the speech delivered Zhu said that price reform is onl� the first step toward on March 9 to the RIIA by Chinese Foreign Minister Qian a market economy. China faces m*y problems. "Prompt Qichen. Qian said that only a socialist dictatorship can rule reforms" in raw materials and energy; prices, still fixed, and China's huge population, and that the West would do better in transport, especially rail, are "high,y necessary for allevi­ not to interfere: ating longstanding shortages in infra�tructure and basic in­ "A big country like China, with its 1.1 billion people, dustries and improving our economic structure," he said. cannot possibly develop without regulation by macro-plan­ None of the steps in market reform "¢ould be accomplished ning ....The past and the present both of China and the overnight. "

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 13 Report from Rio by Silvia Palacios

War breaks out on privatization est in buy�ng any state company at all. Collor's privatization director confesses: If we hadn't given "If we ha4 demanded that 30% of the value of t�e companies had to be away our patrimony, no one would have bought it! paid in cruzeircl>s, we would only have sold three co�panies." Further, he com­ plained, ',the infrastructure and elec­ tricity sectors which attract foreign in­ vestment ithroughout the world, are A mere reformulation of Brazil's to halt the use of junk bonds in the being con�idered strategic" by Itamar, privatization program on orders of acquisition of state companies. Thus, and thererore exempted from priva­ President ltamar Franco was enough purchases with so-called "rotten cur­ tization. i to totally exasperate the bankers and rency" (debt paper, expired bonds, Even [if the Franco government their mouthpieces inside Brazil, who and other such artifices), the center­ hadn't hardened its position vis-a-vis are terrified that a major source for piece of the privatization program of the banks land the InternationalMone­ capital speculation is about to be cut the former Collor de Mello govern­ tary Fundj. the pressures to keep Col­ off. Their hysteria has increased in di­ ment, will no longer be permitted. lor's economic austerity policies are rect proportion to the growing number The theft that such a policy had intensifyih . In a recent meeting with of exposes of the fraudulent mecha­ permitted is now coming to light. For 200 busi1essmen from southern Bra­ nisms being used by bankers to buy example, on Nov. 26 , Jornal do Bra­ zil, congIl!ssman and arch-monetarist up state companies. sil commented that one of the victims DelfimN�tto strove to separate Col­ The battle got under way on Nov. of "rotten currency" was the state oil lor's mo�al behavior from his eco­ 20, when President Franco suspended company Petrobras, which in the pro­ nomic pr�gram, which he described the auction ofthe state-owned fertiliz­ cess of selling off some of its subsidi­ as "formtdable." And on Nov. 12, er company Ultrafertil, primarily be­ aries, received more than $1 billion in Francisc� Gros, the former Central cause there were three wildly different funny money, but on its 1992 balance Bank president who continues to act price tags that had been placed on the sheet the company will have to report as its pre$ident, addressed a group of company. The first, set in June 199 1, the sales at a market value of only bankers ,t the annual international fixeda value of $408 million; the sec­ about $550 million. symposiujrn of the Credit Lyonnais ond and third, both set in September Worse still, it is now being re­ group, w�ere he virtually issued a call 1992, set it at $195 million, which vealed that the Collor governmentat­ to boycotlthe new Brazilian govern­ was to have been the final sale price. tempted, during its final days, to give ment, ustng the shopworn line that The presidential challenge to this the last piece of the pie to the specula­ Franco h�s "populist instincts," and procedure triggered a crisis within the tors, and that the present tumult in that under his reign, "the state seems team in charge of state privatizations, BNDES is because, on the initiative again to �e viewed as a benevolent ending with the resignation of Marcos of the "previous administration," they being that can solve all problems." Vianna, vice president of the National had wanted to accelerate the sale of Collor himself gave a delirious in­ Development Bank (BNDES), the the state companies before the Senate terview t1 the Nov. 14 London Finan­ government agency responsible for could approve Collor's impeachment. cial Time�, in which he accused Fran­ the program. In an interview with the A closer look at the behavior of co of d$troying his achievements: daily 0 Globo, Vianna stated that he Collor and his gang of thieves is af­ "He is pushing Brazil toward the fifth "considered the privatization program forded by the comments of Eduardo world. � is talking about freezing the only really important legacy left Modiano, president of BNDES under tariffs, r¢ducing interest rates, and by Collor." Collor, who in a Nov. 27 interview submittinJgeach privatization to Con­ The only thing known for certain with 0 Globo attacked Franco's pro­ gress for �pproval. " is that the governmentseeks to change posal that at least 30% of the value But while President Franco has re­ the privatization process to leave un­ of companies to be privatized would peatedly Iscoffed at the "moderniza­ touched those companies considered have to be covered by cash in the fu­ tion" lob�yists and has declared that of strategic importance by the Brazil­ ture . Modiano admitted that without "the st04k exchanges don't worry ian Constitution, but not to abandon the use of "rotten currency," no one me," he �s giving too long a lease on it. In particular, the governmentseeks would have shown the slightest inter- life to hi� enemies.

14 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Cota Meza

The Torricelli Corollary that has condemned the Torricelli Act Mexico's loyalties to the new world order are being tested by has yet stated, is �hat it is an open ag­ gression against tineju ridical order es­ Washington's H limited sovereignty" doctrine. tablished by the Organization of American States (OAS), which spec­ ifies: "Article 18. No state or group of states has the right to intervene, direct- 1y or indirectly, no matter what the Days before the U.S. presidential such foreign debt reduction programs. motive, in the int�rnal or external af­ elections, George Bush signed the so­ If it were a joking matter, one could fairs of another. called Cuban Democracy Act into even say that the sanctions served as "Article 19. No state may apply law, following its approval by the a good reason to maintain relations or encourage coercive measures of an Congress. The bill was also backed by with Cuba, since these U.S. "assis­ economic or political nature to force Bill Clinton. The Torricelli Act, as it tance" programs have never meant the sovereign willof another state and has come to be known after its spon­ good news for the economies and pop­ to obtain advanta$es of any kind." sor, Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), ulations of recipient nations. Ironically, the firstcountry against is the economic corollary of the The Torricelli Act has been repu­ which the sanctions authorized by the Thornburgh Doctrine, approved by diated on a world scale, a reaction Torricelli Act h�ve been applied is the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this which suggests that its objective is not Mexico, which is on the verge of fi­ year, which authorizes U. S. law en­ Cuba afterall . For example, the mem­ nalizing the North American Free forcement officers to arrest any for­ ber states of the European Community Trade Agreement with the United eign national, in any country in any "judge the extraterritoriality of U.S. States and Canada. On Nov. 19, a dip­ part of the world, without respect for jurisdiction in prohibiting U. S. firms lomatic scandal btoke out when it was national laws or sovereignty. or subsidiaries headquarters in Europe learned that the management of the Both the Thornburgh and Torri­ from trading with Cuba as unaccept­ Maria Isabel Shet1atonHotel in Mexi­ celli laws form part of the Pentagon's able." Further, they do not accept that co City had canceled its contract with "Guide to Defense Planning," a 46- "the United States should unilaterally the National Tourism Institute of page document whose contents were determine and restrict trade relations Cuba. The Cuban governmentwas to leaked by the New York Times on with any foreign country which has have held its Second Tourism Ex­ March 8, 1992 . not been collectively designated by change in the facilities of that hotel The Torricelli Act is specifically the United Nations Security Council." chain. The hotel management argued designed to intensify the economic Mexico's Foreign Affairs Depart­ that "the Sheraton, by belonging in blockade against Cuba, but more than ment has issued an official communi­ part to U.S. capital, should not give anything else it represents the imposi­ que rejecting the Torricelli Act and service to any company that has to do tion of the concept of limited sover­ "any effort to apply the laws of a coun­ with Cuba." eignty against Third World nations. try extraterritorially." Foreign Secre­ The Cuban governmenthas issued Formally, the law authorizes the U. S. tary FernandoSola na rejected such ef­ a protest to the FOlJeignAffairs Depart­ government to take reprisals against forts "to apply the laws of a country ment, which, oUlt of fear of losing any states and corporations which beyond its borders." A declaration by Washington's favpr, has yet to issue a "lend assistance" to Cuba and at the the Mexican House and Senate was reply. The bigg�r question facing same time maintain trade relations issued to the same effect. The vice Mexico after the Sheraton incident is with the United States. president of the Latin American Bish­ what the Salinas government's posi­ Sanctions against targeted states ops Conference, Cardinal Juan Jesus tion will be at the next OAS meeting in range from denying them economic Posadas Ocampo, stated that the Tor­ Washington. Will it protest the Torri­ assistance, refusing to sell them weap­ ricelli Act "was issued with bile, with­ celli Act, presenting itself as a victim ons, denying them access to the Enter­ out knowledge, and without much ofU .S. "extraterritoriality"? Afterall, prise for the Americas initiative or truth. " Bush will leave officeon Jan. 20, but other free-trade programs, and ex­ What neither the Mexican nor any President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has cluding them from the Brady Plan and other Ibero-American government two more years to face the music.

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 15 u.s. Unemployment Coverup

22% through November 1992 Last 3 months

'17'4% 20%

18% . , �:17.1%::: b Sep Oct Nov 16%

12.4% 14% 12.3%

12.2% 12% 12.1% Sep Oct Nov 10%

1 ' 5% G 8% .... 7.4% ...... , 7.3% " 6% ' 7.2% � Sep Oct Nov 4% 1971

Data used for unpublished unemployment rates Explanatory Note (thousands) Civilian Part-Hme, Total un.m- Unpub- Unpu," In November, over 6.1 million jobless and 6.5 million more : labor OftlClal Wlnt . ICOIonilc plur.d and Omclll 1I .... d IIlb.d semi-employed peoPle were ignored by the U.S. government's fore. unemployed lob now reasons Inderemploy.d U-Sb rill R.1I 1 Rill ! Bureau of Labor Statist cs in its calculation of the official (U-5b) c btC+d) (btC)/I Y.ar (a) (b) ( ) (d) ( ('/I) (btC+lf)/I unemployment rate. Tf bring out the truth, EIR Is publishing 2,198 10,172 4.9% 9.6% 1970 82,771 4,093 3,881 12.3% the rates you would se if the government didn't cover up. 1971 84,382 5,016 4,423 2,452 11,891 5.9% 11.2% 14.1% a 1972 87,034 4,882 4,493 2,430 11,805 5.6% 10.8% 13.6% The widely publicized ¢lfficlal unemployment rate is based on 4,510 2,343 11,218 4.9% 9.9% 12.5% 1973 89,429 4,365 a monthly statistical sampling of approximately 57,000house­ 1974 91 ,949 5, 156 4,514 2,751 12,421 5.6% 10.5% 13.5% 1975 93,775 7,929 5,271 3,541 16,741 8.5% 14.1% 17.9% holds. But in order for sbmeoneto be counted as unemployed, 1976 96,158 7,406 5,233 3,334 15,973 7.7% 13.1% 16.6% the respondent memb41rof the household (often not the per­ 1977 99,009 6,991 5,775 3,368 16,134 7.1% 12.9% 16.3% son who Is out of work) must be able to state what speCific ef­ 1978 102,251 6,202 5,446 3,298 14,946 6. 1% 11.4% 14.6% 1979 104,962 6, 137 5,427 3,372 14,936 5.8% 11.0% 14.2% fortthat person made In the last four weeks to find a job. If no

1980 106,940 7,637 5,675 4,064 17,376 7. 1% 12.4% 16.2% specific effort can be cited, the jobless person is classified as 1981 108,670 8,273 5,835 4,499 18,607 7.6% 13.0% 17.1% "not in the labor force"and Ignored In the official unemployment 1982 110,204 10,678 6,559 5,852 23,089 9.7% 15.6% 21 .0% count. 1983 111,550 10,717 6,503 5,997 23,217 9.6% 15.4% 20.8% 1984 113,544 8,539 6,070 5,512 20, 121 7.5% 12.9% 17.7% But nearly 6 million of tl)esediscarded people are also reported 1985 115,461 8,312 5,933 5,334 19,579 7.2% 12.3% 17.0% on the monthly survey �ndicating that they "want a regular job 1986 117,834 8,237 5,825 5,345 19,407 7.0% 11.9% 16.5% 1987 119,865 7,425 5,714 5, 122 18,281 6.2% 11.0% 15.2% now." EIR's Unpublishfd Rate 11s calculated by adding these 1988 121,669 6,701 5,373 4,965 17,039 5.5% 9.9% 14.0% discarded jobless to tl1e officially "unemployed." The Unpub­ 1989 123,869 6,528 5,395 4,656 '16,579 5.3% 9.6% 13.4% lished Rate 2lncludes" in addition, over 6 million more people 1990 124,787 6,874 5,473 4,860 17,207 5.5% 9.9% 13.8% forced Into part-time�rk for economic reasons such as slack 1991 125,303 8,426 5,736 6,046 20,206 6.7% 11.3% 16.1% work or inability to find! a full-time job. These people show up Monthlydata (seasonallyadjusted) as employed in the offiCialstatistics even if they workedonly 1991 : one hour during the survey week. November 125,374 8,602 5,932' 6,408 20,942 6.9% 11.6% 16.7% December 125,619 8,891 5,932' 6,321 21,144 7.1% 11.8% 16.8% For comparability with �the official rate, the EIR rates are cal­ 1992: culated on the same base figure, the BLS defined civilian labor January 126,046 8,929 6,118' 6,719 21,766 7.1% 11.9% 17.3% February 126,287 9,244 6,1 18' 6,509 21,871 7.3% 12.2% 17.3% force. This figure comptises all civilians classified as either em­ March 126,590 9,242 6,1 18' 6,499 21,859 7.3% 12.1% 17.3% ployed or unemployed. For a number of reasons the civilian April 126,830 9,155 6,310' 6,272 21,737 7.2% 12.2% 17.1% labor force can be co'1sldered as a bloated figure. Its use as May 127,160 9,504 6,310' 6,524 22,338 7.5% 12.4% 17.6% June 127,549 9,975 6,310' 6,040 22,325 7.8% 12.8% 17.5% the divisor in unemplbyment rate calculations thus further July 127,532 9,760 6,178' 6,324 22,282 7.7% 12.5% 17.5% masks the depth of t� unemployment problem. Large seg­ 127,437 9,700 6,178' 6,326 22,204 7.6% 12.5% 17.4% August ments of the populatiol'1, might not under healthy economic September 127,273 9,572 6, 1 78' 6,304 22,054 7.5% 12.4% 17.3% who October 126,959 9,334 6, 178' 6,469 21,981 7.4% 12.2% 17.3% conditions be forcedto seek work, have become a partof the November 127,238 9,193 8,178' 8,583 21 ,934 7.2% 12_1% 17.2% civilian labor force ove� the past 25 years of "post-industrials0- ciety" economy. This 1r1cludesyoung mothers, the elderly, and , The wanta job now figure is compiled quarterly. The figure used for monthly calculation of the Unpublished Rate 1 is that from the most recent available quarter. many college studentS.

16 Economics EIR December 11 , 1992 Agriculture by Marcia Meny

Oilseeds were never the real issue than an objective analysis of the prob­ Last February, a French Senate report warned of the U.S. drive lems induced by the differentagr icul­ tural policies, the I to sink Europe with "economic liberalism ." United States has apparently succeeded in having it ac­ cepted by most nations participating in the current negotiations. "Loaded with all sins, the CAP has become, in the byes of the interna­ If you get your news only from the tending U . S.-domina ted economic tional community, fa useful scapegoat U.S. media, you would think that the liberalism throughout the world. and the perfect excUse for an eventual only reason why European farmers The senators warned, "The Com­ failure of the negotiiations .. .. have taken to the streets is because mission on Economic Affairs and "We must say : it clearly: Behind they are hotheads and are reacting Planning formulates the wish that the the alibi of free ltrade, the United with "typical" violence against the re­ necessary defense of the agricultural States wants to ta�e back the market cent deal struck by U. S. and European interests of the Community continues share it has lost, to oust the Communi­ Community (EC) negotiators over oil­ to prevail over the concern to make ty from the interna�ionalmarkets, and seeds. CAP compatible with the conclusions to dismantle our Common Agricultur­ In reality, the "deal" is a set of proposed in the GAIT negotiations. al Policy. sweeping measures that will subvert "Otherwise, it would mean a uni­ "If we came back from the United the agricultural base of Europe. For lateral renunciation by the Communi­ States convinced that it was impera­ example, as much as 35% of arable ty of its natural commitment to being tive not to yield to American pressure, acreage could be proscribed from pro­ a great agricultural power." the delegation also ibecame convinced ducing food or feed crops. These pro­ The Senate report noted that with that the effort under the GAIT negoti­ posals follow similar deep cuts made the arrival of the senators in the United ations to reform CAP should be resist­ this spring in the EC Common Ag­ States, "it rapidly became clear that ed .. .. ricultural Policy (CAP) at the behest the agricultural file wouldbe monopo­ "All denials as;de, as it is envis­ of the United States. lizing the core of our tour and of the aged, the reform oD the CAP is written In fact, the recent U. S. trade war meetings. Most of the American rep­ the same way, with:its system of direct belligerence over oil seeds is an at­ resentatives we met were very unre­ aid closely tied to deficiency pay­ tempt to pit France (the largest EC sur­ ceptive to openings made by members ments, its forced I1and set-asides, its plus food producer) against its EC of our delegation to discuss other is­ indexing of EC prices down to interna­ partners, especially Germany, and sues (the intellectual property, servic­ tional levels, its ijnancing by taxes make way for U.S. financial and eco­ es, and the Airbus dispute) and sys­ rather than the cl.flsumer, from the nomic domination. tematically brought the discussion standpoint of rallying toward the This latter agenda was exposed in back to the agricultural problem. , American agricultl1ral philosophy. ' a report to the French Senate issued in "This stress on the agricultural file "It is necessary to reform the CAP February 1992, and based on a mis­ has reinforced the delegation's feeling after 30 years," the senators agreed. sion of 10 French senators to the Unit­ that, within the current multilateral But, they continued, the EC cannot ed States during Sept. 15-17, 1991. negotiations, it is the United States proceed "to limit iis own agricultural French journalist Christoph Lavernhe that willfully makes the 'liberaliza­ potential and to withdraw from inter­ has provided EIR with excerpts from tion' of agricultural trade the central national markets. The delegation re­ the Senate report, which we have point, and the eventual occasion of jects such a hypothrsis .... translated, in order to give back­ failure of those negotiations. " "The dispute b¢tween the United ground to the current upheaval in Whether by "profound conviction States and the Community does not Europe. or tactical position, the Common Ag­ stem from a conflict between two log­ The conclusion of the February re­ ricultural Policy has been systemati­ ics, one protectionist and one liberal, port was that Washington was using cally placed in the position of the ac­ but rather from co�petition between the General Agreement on Tariffs and cused .... two exporting pow�rs whose practices Trade (GAIT) and the issue of "re­ "This analysis, whose Maniche­ are incompatible �ith the principles form" of the CAP as weapons for ex- anism makes it more like a witchhunt of free trade."

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 17 Business Briefs

CentralAsia sionment with western aid" and "growing re­ assume Ukraine's 16% share of the $70 billion sentment against western investors, who are fonner Soviet debt, in exchange for Ukraine New economic group seen as rapaciously using Russian raw materi­ renounQing all claims to the $146 billion owed als without contributing to the economy," the to the U.S.S.R. by Third World countries. said to be 'formidable' Nov. 26 Wall Street Journal-Europe com­ Russia has also agreed to grant Ukraine a share mented. "The decision also potentially sets a (presumably 16%, but the exact figure is not Five fonner Soviet republics(Turkmenistan, precedent for internationalcompetition on oth­ confi�d), of Russian liquid assets in the Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Az­ er natural resources development in Russia, fonnof foreignexchange and gold reserves, as erbaijan), and Mghanistan, joined the Eco­ including the development of the huge Udokan well as �iamonds and non-gold precious met­ nomic Cooperation Organization (ECO) of copper project. Rio Tinto Zinc Corp.of Britain als, like platinum. Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey on Nov. 28, Reu­ and Broken Hill Proprietary Co. of Australia Observers believe that the agreement is a tersreported. The expanded regional grouping are competing with a Russian consortium for precursor to a broad accord between Russia includes 600 million square kilometers (372 that contract." and the West, involving debt rescheduling and million square miles) and about 300 million Yeltsin's decree overturns an agreement westerqcreditors writingoff part of the fonner people. that had been signed by the Soviet government Soviet Clebt in return for receiving so-called Oil-rich Kazakhstan, the largest of the in 1989 with Conoco Inc.; the Oslo-based en­ creditor rights on part of the Third World debt Central Asian states, has opted for observer ergy and minerals company Norsk Hydro AS; owed to the fonner U.S.S.R. status while it tries to gain entryinto the Euro­ and the Finnish BarentsGroup. Sources affinn pean Community, Minster of State for Eco­ that the deal had been strongly backed in past nomic Affairs Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali said. months by acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaid­ Ali predicted that the induction of the Cen­ ar.A Norsk Hydro officialon Nov. 25 charac­ tral Asian states would transfonn the slow­ terized the Yeltsin decree as "a setback." Drug rafficking moving economic grouping into a formidable The Russian consortium, Rosshelf, "had t forcewithin 5-10 years. "They [CentralAsia] the importantpolitical backing of the military , Gr ce probes Israeli role will force us," he said. "They feel that they which was concerned about having foreign have been held back for decades and they want builders and a foreign excavation in an area in h�roin� manufacturing to catch up with the rest of the world as fast where nuclear submarines regularly conduct I as possible ....This will be a link between military exercises," the paperreported. Ross­ Greek Foreign Minister Mikhail Papakonstan­ Europeand the East and the South at the heart helf chairman Yevgeny Velikhov, aftermeet­ dinou $et with Israeli Ambassador to Greece of Eurasia. " ing Yeltsin on Nov. 25, declared, first "The David Sasson on Nov. 17 to present evidence Differences exist in the approaches of the principle is to provide Russian industry with that Isfieli cargo ships had been regularly three ECO founding members, which have ap­ new jobs and to support its development." transportingacetyl anhydride, requiredforre­ pearedincreasingly as competitorsrather Rosshelf expects to create 250,000 new jobs than finingQpium into heroin, to the Greek ports of as cooperators, analysts say. But Ali dismissed and bring orders valued at $2.5 billion to Rus­ Thessa/oniki and Piraeus, covertly bound for these fears, saying that all offereddistinct sia as a result of winning the contract. three Macedonia. Sasson categorically rejected the advantages that would strengthen the blocrath­ compl int, but Thessaloniki Chief Prosecutor er than divide and weaken it. q Tsikhl4s has announced that the Greekgovern­ ment '-Vill intensify efforts to prevent the al­ International Credit leged ' uggling, and the Greek government has an ounced that it will continue its investi­ Russia Russia, Ukraine divide gation nto Israel's role. AccordingE to Balkan sources, U.S. offi­ old Soviet debt, assets Gas project award cials Utwrence Eagleburger and Brent Scow­ croft a(e believed to have been personally in­ favors national group Russia and Ukraine have reached an agree­ volve� in fostering the cultivation of opium ment on sharing the foreigndebt owed by and poppyjn Yugoslavia beginning in 1962, when President Boris Yeltsin has signed a decree to the fonnerSoviet Union, as well as on shar­ both were attaches in Belgrade. Since that awarding a development project for a 3 trillion ing fonner Soviet assets. The agreement was time, ppium cultivation or trafficking (the cubic meter gas deposit in the BarentsSea to a worked out in talks between Russian Foreign "BulglPianconnection") has played an impor­ consortium of Russian companies closely Trade Minister Pyotr Aven and Ukrainian tantroIb in Yugoslav politics. The ongoing war linked to the military-industrial complex, dis­ Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Ivan has alsb created a situation where most of the placing a foreignconsortium that had already Herta. fonner Yugoslav states are desperate to ac­ been working on the project. Under the tenns of the agreement, which quire foreign exchange for the purchase of The decision "reflects a growing disillu- will soon be signed in Moscow, Russia will anns qr to barter with anns-smugglers.

18 Economics EIR December 11, 1992 • 'JEFFRY SACHS describes the root of Russia1s economic problems barding the aircraftwith radarand radio waves AIDS in simple term�," Investor's Business at a Frenchnaval base, also to study the effect Daily said of the Harvard professor on the aircraft's electronic systems. Burma threatened with and architect �f "shock therapy" in widespread infection November. "j'Stalin loved steel mills. He had t�tal disrespect for piz­ The American System zerias,' Sachs �aid recently. He puts AIDS is now becoming a serious problem in Russia's solut�on in simple terms, Burma, as young Bunnese girls who had been Hamiltonian polices said too: 'Stop the �teel production. Give kidnaped or sold into Thai brothels are re­ us some pizzerias.' " turned to their villages, the BBC reported on better than 'free trade' Nov. 24. • CHINA fa¢es famine if agricul­ There is a big traffic in Bunnese girls, The policiesof first u.s. Treasury Secretary ture is neglecte�, the official Chinese many as young as 7-8 years of age, to Thai Alexander Hamilton are a positivealternative Farmers' Dailjwarned on Nov. 26. brothels, but the scandal, especially over the to the insanities of the General Agreement on Several times lSince 1949 "a weak­ extremely high rate of AIDS infection in these Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and "free trade," ened agricultu¢ dragged the national places, is causing the Thai police to crack columnist Dan Atkinson wrote in the Nov. 28 economy dowd," it warned. i down. The police are returningthe girls to Bur­ London Guardian. ma, but some 50% of those sent back are al­ The pro-GATT propaganda is the latest • SOUTH KOREA is a model for ready HIY positive. Many of them disappear example of the priorities of the policy elites Russia, one "�ose to Russian reali­ when returned to Burma, but others are mak­ being "out of whack with those of ordinary ties and to the vost-communist men­ ing it back to their hill villages, bringing AIDS people,"Atkinson wrote. The constant drum­ tality of the Rljssians," the Moscow with them. Already,some hill tribesare in dan­ beat about a "boost to world trade" of $100- newspaper Kuranty commented on ger of extinction within a matter of years due 200billion is "without a shred of evidence" to Nov. 23. "Soljth Korean society is to AIDS, the BBC reported. back it up. "Who in this country (or France or egalitarian witihout a marked gap, America) imagines freerworld trade will mean manifest in theiWest, in the incomes anything but higher unemployment and de­ of different parts of the population." struction of family farming?" Atkinsonasked. Aerospace "In short,who wants freetrade? Not the Amer­ • HOSPITAJ.S in the United ican worker. Not the French farmer. Not the States are quatantining tuberculosis Airbus sets commercial recession-stunned British economy." patients in an �tempt to combat new Atkinson charged that "at any given mo­ drug-resistant strains, the Nov. 28 non-stop flight record ment, the strongesteconomy in the world will Washington P�st reported. always favor free trade.... Free trade is a The new Airbus A340 jetliner flew a world tool, not a religion. It's usefulwhen you'reon • LIFE EXtECTANCY among record non-stop commercial flight of 12,500 top, less so when you'reon the way down. children in Africa is dramatically kilometers, from Frankfurt, Germany to Ho­ What makes GATTso dangerous is that it cre­ dropping because of drought, pover­ nolulu, Hawaii on Nov. 21,the LondonFinan­ ates an international bureaucratic priesthood ty, and AIDS ! infection of parents, CUll Times reported. The total airborne time charged with guarding the sacred flame." according to fi$ures released by Uni­ was 15 hours and 21 minutes. Atkinson noted that Bill Clinton has been cef and the Or�anization of African TheA340 has beendesigned to fly263 pas­ accused of supporting "managed" rather than States. sengers on 14,500-kilometer non-stop trips in freetrade. "If only he were; he could then fol­ 16-17 hours, and is expected to make viable low in the finetradition of America's firstand • LOW FIq!:QUENCY electro­ very long-distance routes that cannot now be besttreasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, magnetic field$ (EMF) do not pose a economically flown with a Boeing 747. who advocated 'orderly commerce between health hazard" the Nov. 20 What's Airbus has spent about $3.5 billion on de­ the states. 'To the GATTcrowd, the Hamilto­ New newslett¢r of the American veloping the aircraft,and another $1.5 billion nian tradition of trade management is anathe­ Physical Society reported, based on on testing its safety and performance. About ma. Not only is it not what they believe in, it is the findingsof a review panel formed 1,200design modificationshave been made so an alternativeto the industrialpillaging, wage­ by the Oak Rid�e Associated Univer­ far.Tests have included firingdozens of frozen cutting and environmental wreckage created sities. The White House Office of chickens at the fuselage and engines to simu­ by freetrade. And to the high priestsof GATT, Science and 1);:chnology Policy re­ late bird strikes; flying into a severe thunder­ there can beno alternative.Ergo, the progres­ quested the review because of allega­ storm (in which the aircraftwas struck by light­ sive, industry-building, nation-building ideas tions that EMflincreased the risk of ning 17times) to study the effecton the A340' s of Hamilton and his successors must be miscarriages llIJdcancer. electronic "fly by wire" systems; and bom- heresy."

EIR December 11, 1992 Economics 19 ITillFeature

Japan cold fusion conference sets new direction for science

by Carol White

The Third International Conference on Cold FusiOJl held in Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 21-25 marks a turning pointfor this extraordinary new field of research. Now, three and a half years after Stanley Pons and MaI1in Fleischmann first captured headlines worldwide with their announcement that they could produce fusion in a test tube at room temperature, there is a body of experimental results which confirmstheir contention. A high point of the conference was the showing of a video produced by Stanley Pons featuring four different experiments in whi�h cold fu sion was occurring. These cells went from a temperature of 40°C to a rapid boil and boiled out their contents in around 11 minutes. The video used ti�-lapse techniques to show the boiling, while a clock was shown ticking off the 600 to 720 seconds which it took for the 2.5 moles of water heavy water in the cell to boil off. A rough estimate establishes that, at best, 40 minutes would have b�en needed to achieve the same result by plain electrolysis, were a nuclear reaction, not occurring. (The 40-minute figure discounts heat loss from the cell, due to radiation.) Since the energy requirements for such a boiloffare 100,000 joules, calcula­ tions approximate that a power input of 144.5 watt� would have been required. In fact, the power input was 37.5 watts, of which roughly II watts were lost to radiation from the cell. Thus, there was a more than 400% energy gain. Stanley Pons estimated that he achieved a power density of 2.7 kilowatts per cubic centime­ ter in these experiments.

Controlling the experiment Japanese scientists have confirmedexcess heat ,in many laboratories, although only experiments by Akito Takahashi of Osaka University approached these high levels of excess heat-as well as boiloff, on occasion. It is now the case that re­ searchers, particularly in Japan and at the Stanford �esearch Institute in Palo Alto, California, regularly achieve similar repeatability, ,although, on average, at lower

20 Feature EIR December 11, 1992 Stanfo rd Research Institute cold fu sion researcher Michael McKubre is shown a cold fu sion experiment ;/� at Hokkaido University in Japan. The Third � International Conference Cold Fusion, held in Nagoya, gave impetus to new effo rts in international cooperation in the field.

excess powers. A key feature which affects repeatability of Another variable is the change of current from low to the experiment is the varying quality of different batches of high density (although there are successful variations from palladium: At least 30% excess heat can be expected by an the slow-loading procedures recoclmended by Pons, such experienced researcher using a "good" batch of palladium, as the saw-tooth loading practiced by Akito Takahashi [see whereas no results may come from a "bad" batch. Clearly, "Japan Achieves Big Breakthrough� in Cold Fusion," EIR, there are questions regarding metallurgy that still have to be March 20, 1992]). Another area to be researched in detail is resolved. how the treatment, and compositi

EIR December I I, 1992 Feature 21 cathode over time. Telegraph (NIT) senior Scie ist Eichii Yamaguchi, who Fleischmann also discussed what he believes to be the made significant findings of h lium-4, in a palladium plate important role of heat in promoting the reaction once the to which deuterium had been ntroduced by gas loading, as palladium has been loaded to a ratio of 0.6 deuterium of the well as a number of results sul stantiating the production of palladium atoms, which is known as the beta phase. In the significant amounts of excess reat as reported by Dr. Akito lower loading, or alpha phase, the lattice releases heat as it Takahashi over this past year. I is loaded, whereas in the beta phase, loading is endothermic. Dr. Edmund Storms from os Alamos National Labora­ Fleischmann commented: "The trick is to cram the deuterium tory in New Mexico and Dr. F ancesco Cell ani from Frascati into the lattice, get the lattice into the endothermic regime, National Laboratory in Italy b th reported at Nagoya on their and then let the temperature rise." positive results repeating the kahashi experiment. Indeed, Another new feature in this year's cold fusion conference one hallmark of the year has en the beginning of a broad­ was the appearance of an array of results from experiments based, collaborative effort. using light water (H20), as opposed to the usual heavy water ! (D20), in which a nickel rather than a palladium cathode was Japan's large commitm�nt used, and excess heat was consistently generated. Among the Of the more than 300 scientists, industry representatives, scientists present, many questions were raised about possible and press who attended the co�ference in Nagoya, the largest chemical reactions occurring due to the presence of carbon delegation were the 200 Japanese. Research in that country in the electrolyte, but there was general agreement that there is a need to explore this new area of the research which appears to be unfolding. Dr. Jean-Pierre Vigier from France, an editor of Physics Review Letters A, represented this out­ Cold fusion cell look in his remarks at the closing session: "The key question is that we know we have excess heat . . . but from the point Homogeneous O-Ioad from two si,*,s of view of the basic interpretation of the new facts . . . there i are new effects in condensed matter and we have to under­ To anode stand what is happening with that. . . . There is something new at stake. Everything hangs now on the light water and hydrogen experiments. "

'Dedication and courage' Broadening international collaboration was a theme stressed at the conference. In the closing panel, Michael McKubre, who heads the premier U.S. research team based at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), pointed out that the field is too broad for what he called either a "horizontal or a vertical monopoly of talents." While SRI has been known in the past for its secrecy regarding experimental protocols, McKubre was quite open in discussing his work in detail with a variety of researchers from around the world and in proposing joint experimental projects. Conference chairman Prof. Hideo Ikegami, of the Na­ (mm) tional Institute of Fusion Science, closed the conference on a high note of optimism, declaring that Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons had opened up a new branch of scientific To anode To cathode Coplantin let inquiry for mankind with their discovery of the occurrence tertJperature : 20·C constant by chiller of fusion in a solid state rather than a gaseous plasma. Flow rate : constant "What is being created is an entirely new fieldof research Pd from traditional nuclear science," he said. "Now, we can properly name what we used to call cold fusion 'fusion in the solid state.' This is a most important subject for science­ "- one on which we have been working so patiently, with dedi­ Polyethyl�ne cation and with courage-for our future generations, for Pt those who will live in the twenty-firstcentury ." To illustrate, he cited the work ofNippon Telephone and Source: EIR, March 20. 1992.

22 Feature EIR December 11, 1992 is taking off in a big way, with the involvement now of the chairman of Technova to kindly read this message expressing Japanese Ministry oflnternational Trade and Industry, which my convictions, on my behalf. has proposed a budget of $25 million for the research over the "I am delighted that the Third International Conference next four years, beginning with the next fiscal year. Industry on Cold Fusion is being held on suc'" a grand scale here in contributions to the research should at least double that the city of Nagoya, in Japan. I am pl�ased to welcome emi­ amount. nent cold fusion researchers from all qver the world. It is my Even this year, extensive resources have already gone fondest hope that you will be able �o exchange ideas and into the program, exemplifiedby the building of a new scien­ information in spirited, open, and proquctive debates to make tific research complex in Hokkaido, which now houses Ja­ this a most fruitful occasion. pan's Institute of Minoru Research Advancement (IMRA) cold fu sion research center, and an extension of the older facilities located in France to include an IMRA Europe sci­ "Pleasecontinue to work with all ence center at Sophia Antipolis. When I visited the IMRA your might to make thiS newform qf Japan laboratory, it seemed to me that the building (only part of which is occupied by IMRA) and equipment would have energy a reality, beca�e you Q[fe r cost in the range of $20 million. The IMRA laboratories are such hope to the coming generations financed by the Aisin Seki Co. whose honorary chairman is qfthe twenty1irstcentuhJ. Yo u will Minoru Toyoda, a senior member of the same family which produced Toyota automobiles. IMRA-the acronym is obvi­ help them tofU Jfi.llthe iri,greatest ously derived from his name-was founded in the hope of dreams and ambitionsfor the fostering scientific research collaboration between Japan fu ture. "-MinoruToyoda and, intitially, France. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were offered re­ search facilities at IMRA Europe by the Japanese, after their situation in the United States was made intolerable by accusa­ "For a long time, I have held the strong belief that equita­ tions not only that their work was flawed, but even that it ble growth in the world economy during the twenty-firstcentu­ was deliberately fraudulent. Were it not for the Japanese, it ry will only be achieved by the harmi>niousdevelopment of is most likely that this extraordinary new window on nuclear science and technology, through inteOlational cooperation. phenomena would have been open for only a brief time. "To make this belief a reality, I e�tablished Technova in Certainly the actions of the U.S. and British science estab­ Tokyo in May of 1978, as an organiz�tion which would have lishments were intended to drive the two cold fusion pioneers complete freedomto participate in th · international forumof into oblivion. Not only did the Japanese company Technova research. During the 14 years since it inception, in the ever­ offer financial support and laboratory facilities in France to changing world of international re �arch, we have made Fleischmann and Pons, but the two experimenters have also steady progress, thanks to the help of stme ofthe best minds in embarked on an equally ambitious program in Japan itself. the world, even under changing inte�ational circumstances. Technova has been veryactive in the �evelopment and appli­ Plan for international research cooperation cation of advanced technology, and in adapting advanced Minoru Toyoda addressed the conference participants at technology to practical uses. We have also actively promoted a banquet on Oct. 23, 1992. Unfortunately, Mr. Toyoda, 79, the international interchange oftechn logy and ideas. Tech­ was ill and unable to attend; nonetheless his speech was nova's staff and advisers have madt continuous progress, delivered on his behalf. Toyoda, who was born on Aug. 3, leaving their mark both nationally an internationally. 19 13, has been a warm supporter of the efforts of Martin "I recall that, in June 1982, at th ' Eight Annual Summit Fleischmann and Stanley Pons since their firstannouncement of Developed Nations, in Paris, Fren h President Mitterrand of the possibility of cold fusion on March 23, 1989 , and he stressed the necessity for cooperatio between science and continues to support those researchers who follow in their technology. I examined future tren s, and envisioned an footsteps. ever-growing need for progress thr ugh the promotion of "My name is Minoru Toyoda and I am honorary chairman science and technology. With the c peration of my many of Techno va, Inc. friends from beyond our borders, in ly 1985, I established "I was invited by Professor Ikegami, chairman of the IMRA Europe, an international resqarch and development committee of this international conference, to the dinner to­ laboratory, located in Sophia Antipofis, which is a research night, but because of a slight problem with my health, the park in the suburbs of Nice, Franc . The laboratory began doctor has advised me to excuse myself from official func­ operations in June 1988, and it has b n actively involved in tions. I sincerely regret that I will not be able to enjoy meeting advanced research since, mainly in t e fieldof energy. and conversing with all of you. I have asked Mr. Kyotani, "When I established IMRA Euro� , I had a vision, world-

EIR December 11, 1992 Feature 23 wide in focus, to set up a global structure for the development engrossed in the research. It as my judgment that IMRA of future technology. I named this project the 'IMRA Plan.' Europe, located, as I said be ore in Nice, in the south of It had its research base in Japan , Europe, the U.S. and the France, would provide the ide I environment for them. So I rest of Asia, under the name IMRA . Its purpose was to net­ offered this facility, and now, Ihey are giving their undivided work these four regions together in order to make more effi­ attention to advancing their re earch there . cient use of human resources by exchanging people and "Furthermore , in July of this year, to advance cold fusion ideas, while winning the world's confidence in order to research more effectively, we have opened IMRA Japan in achieve our goals. This plan progressed steadily, and now, New Sappora Techno Park, in Hokkaido. With the coopera­ IMRA Japan, IMRA Europe, and IMRA America have al­ tion of various experts we are working on cold fu sion right ready begun work. Today, we are planning the establishment here in Japan . of IMRA Asia. "To assure the success of technology, obviously there aI "Thus I have enthusiastically put my heart into promoting must be support from a wide variety of scientific fields. In the development of future technology. At the same time , I other words the harmonious development of science and have always felt anxious about the issue of alternative ener­ technology is precisely the r ght way to achieve valuable gy . The dire need to replace drained petroleum resources is results which can contribute to1 mankind . The reason we sup­ a stark warning for the twenty-first century . port cold fusion research act" ity is because, as a business "I fe lt strongly concerned in March 1989, when Dr. enterprise , we feel that we contribute more to science. Fleischmann and Dr. Pons announced the cold fu sion phe­ "Moreover, cold fusion is just something to be studied nomena. Fortunately enough, Dr. Kunimatsu [president of by a single enterprise or a si Ie nation. I am confident that IMRA Japan] who is a common friend to both professors, it will become a precious asset all mankind, as the ultimate, was working in my affiliated company, and through that ideal form of energy, so that must be shared among all of connection, I was able to invite both professors to Japan, the nations of the Earth. where we became good friends. After. close conversations "Therefore , it is my h and my message to you, the with them, I became even more firmly convinced of the cold fu sion researchers: ,,,U"'1 ._vutinue to work with all your importance of cold fusion. energy a reality, because you "Later, when Technova received ajoint research proposal ions of the twenty-first from Professors Fleischmann and Pons, I was determined to ful fiII their greatest dreams do everything I could to offer them an opportunity to work to their hearts content, and allow them to become totally

Thomas O. Passel/, Electric Power Research Institute project director, presents gifts to his hosts at Japan's high-technology laboratory IMRA. EPRI funds the Stanford Research Institute's cold fusion effort in the U.S. ; IMRA Europe, based in France, is the home base for cold fusion pioneers Martin Fleischmann and Stanley POllS.

24 Feature EIR December 1 I, 1992 proton and two neutrons. (The tw04ness of deuterium comes from the fact that the two nucleo�s-the proton and neu­ tron--double the weight of the nUfleus, and the three-ness Evidence of of tritium from the fact that it has tl)ree nucleons.) The addi­ tion of neutrons to the hydrogen �ucleus contributes to a a potential instability which favors tIlepossibili ty of fusion. nucleareve nt The ability of a chemical reaQtion to trigger a nuclear reaction opens up not only the possi/bilityof achieving nucle­ by Carol White ar fusion under extraordinarily favorable conditions, but oth­ er new scientific frontiers as well i It is one of the ironies How can it be that a nuclear reaction can be induced to occur of the last three years, that the f.ilure of the cold fusion in a palladium cathode (a negative electrode) which has been experiment to produce neutrons an41tr itium (in the expected packed with deuterons (heavy hydrogen nuclei which contain I: I ratio that occurs in hot fusion)� combined with the fact a neutron in addition to a proton), by electrolysis and at that the numbers of neutrons and tJP,e amount of tritium pro­ room temperature? Is this a new kind of fusion reaction? Is, duced are far too low to account fot the generation of excess instead-or in addition-some other nuclear reaction oc­ heat by a traditional fusion process,!is considered a drawback curring? Perhaps some entirely new kind of chemistry can be to establishing the new field. I involved? What is actually occurring locally within or at the Yes, cold fusion is anomalou�, but it also will be an surface of the palladium lattice? The discovery of helium-4 enormous technological boon to g�nerate a nuclear reaction production by Dr. Eichii Yamaguchi may not answer these which is relatively aneutronic and tjree of radioactivity. questions but it does establish that a fusion process is oc­ The announcement by Dr. Eiqhii Yamaguchi, a senior curring in the palladium lattice, at least under the conditions scientist with Nippon Telephone a.d Telegraph (NIT), that of his gas-loading experiment. he had found helium-4 in a cold I fusion experiment, was The mere probability that cold fusion could occur at room greeted with great excitement a�ong conference partici­ 44 temperature in a metal lattice is something like I in 10 or pants, who comprehended that itl represents a major step forward in understanding the cold *,sion phenomenon. 1 chance in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The Yamaguchi experiment Dr. Yamaguchi was one of th¢ first physicists to begin The emission of neutrons and the production of tritium, as a researching cold fusion. He recefved some support from byproduct of the production of excess heat, is a recognized NIT, although, until recently, hijs cold fusion researches indicator of the occurrence of a fusion reaction in high-energy were definitelysubordinated to his �ther work as a solid state systems; however, the numbers of neutrons and amount of physicist. His work has had a cert in amount of ambiguity, tritium found in cold fusion experiments are far too low-by because-aside from one extraord nary heat burst achieved magnitudes, for neutrons, as great as a billion times-to by loading deuterium into a palla! ium plate-using a gas­ account for the excess heat produced. While the experiments loading method, he normally gets *e same amount of excess last year by Melvin Miles at the Naval Weapons Center indi­ heat release from the palladium rilate whether it has been cated that the production of helium-4 may be the missing link loaded with hydrogen or deuteriurrj. to account for the additional heat, he was unable to generate Well before the news broke of Martin Fleischmann and sufficientheat again to repeat his experiment. Most probably, Stanley Pons's claims to have achieved a fusion reaction at he believes, this was because the design of his calorimetry room temperature using the tools o� electrochemistry, Yama­ allowed too great a rise in heat during the early loading guchi was studying the anomalous properties of hydrogen. period. When he heard of the Fleischmaqn-Pons claims on March Heretofore, it has been generally accepted that chemical 23, 1989, he was skeptical that fusiqm was actually occurring, energies are far too low, by orders of magnitude, to affect but he was well aware that there were many unknown aspects any nuclear process, much less permit the fusing of nuclei. of the behavior of hydrogen. Yam*guchi chose to conduct a While the production ofhelium-4 is not typical of hot fusion, gas-loading experiment rather thaI) repeat the Fleischmann­ it is an understandable pathway for the occurrence of the Pons design using electrolysis, be4ause he was interested in reaction. capturing fusion products from th� electrolyte which is far Hydrogen is the first element in the chemical table, and easier to do under vacuum conditi�ns. Furthermore, he con­ it is predominantly composed of one proton in its nucleus tends that the greater purity of thel vacuum environment re­ and one electron which orbits the nucleus. Deuterium is hy­ moves the questions raised by the possible contamination of drogen in which there is a neutron as well as a proton in the electrolytes in explaining an anomalous event. It is also, nucleus of the atom, and still one electron. Tritium has one in his view, more amenable to t�e application of various

EIR December 11, 1992 Feature 25 spectroscopy techniques. he released the chamber and reaFhed in to touch the palladi­ His design calls for the coating ofone side ofa palladium um, he burned his hand. A further indication that a fusion plate with a very thin oxide and putting a thick gold film event had taken place was the condition of the plate itself. on the other. The oxide inhibits the release of hydrogen or The color disappeared from the gold surface, indicating that deuterium from the cathode, and the gold acts as an absolute alloying must have taken place there . For this to have oc­ barrier to its diffusion. The gas-loading technique that he curred, the temperature must h�ve reached at least 800°C. used is fairly standard; in this instance the oxide was manga­ Furthermore, the sample was uniformly bent. The oxide sur­ nese oxide. At the time when he began his experiments he face was expanded, while the gpld surface had shrunk. The had available to him a 15-year-old accelerator, which was gold surface is 10 times as thick ,as the oxide-2,OOOA. just about to be decommissioned. Over several months, he was able to use its vacuum chamber for his experiments. A nuclear event The vacuum chamber is the heart of an ion implanter and The simultaneity of the four !eventswas also very impor­ accelerator. The one he used was about half the size of a tant in convincing Yamaguchi Ithat he had seen a nuclear hotel dining room. The advantage of utilizing this vacuum event, rather than a chemical on¢. Fully confident now of the chamber was that he was easily able to calibrate neutron reality of the phenomenon of cpld fusion, he proceeded to emissions. In normal use ofthe accelerator, deuterated palla­ repeat the experiment 20 times, but he has never seen such a dium would be bombarded with deuterons and would rou­ result again. By this time, he h�d to release the accelerator tinely emit high-energy neutrons. that he was using and build his own test device, which was After placing the palladium (already co�ted on one side completed in April 1990. I with manganese oxide) into the vacuum chamber, Yama­ He then began a new experimental series, which gave guchi then heated the chamber to between 300° and 400°C. him highly repeatable results. Inifact, he got 100% reproduc­ He annealed the palladium in order to force hydrogen out of ibility of excess heat, explosiveigas release, and bending of the palladium lattice. Then he introduced deuterium into the the plate. However, the amoun� of heat was three orders of chamber in a gaseous form and he began to reduce the temper­ magnitude less than in the July 4 experiment. Most disquiet­ ature gradually. As he did so, the deuterium gas penetrated ing, the experiment worked equally well when he loaded the the surface of the palladium (still uncoated by the gold, but palladium with hydrogen as with deuterium. This, of course, having a thin oxide layer of only several angstroms). again raised the question of wbether he could be seeing a Afterthe palladium was loaded to about 60% with deuter­ genuine nuclear reaction. ons (typically the highest loading possible except by electrol­ The design of the experiment was changed, because he ysis), then the other side was plated with gold, and the cham­ was now injecting electric cUf11ent onto the surface of the ber was evacuated. The period of loading before the gold plate, on the oxide side, whic� he did at the stage after was plated onto the palladium was about two days. Once the the loading and the gold platillg. This works because the gold was introduced onto the palladium plate, the deuterium deuterium atoms in palladium ij.ave an effective charge. In could leave only by penetrating the oxide layer, which was these experiments, there were $0 observed neutron bursts. very thin, only 200A. Even though the oxide layer is not He estimates that he got excess �eat of about 1 watt per 0.9 impermeable to the deuterons or protons, it slows them up cubic centimeters, as compared: to the firstresults where he before they are transported out from the plate, creating a estimates achieving a power density of around 500 watts. Of pileup near the surface. Yamaguchi calls this an accumula­ course, with this kind of experirp.ent, calorimetry is difficult tion layer. and can only be a rough approxiimation. The power release The surface of the palladium plate that he used was 9 occurred two hours after the injeftion of current. He reported square inches. When the plate is brought from a chilled state these results in October 1990 atl the first cold fusion confer­ to room temperature, it begins to bend at either end, thus ence held at Brigham Young Umiversity in Provo, Utah. "It further concentrating the deuterium in the region of its center. occurs two hours after injecting current," Yamaguchi said. The sample bends away from theoxide layer which becomes "I reported this at the conferenc� in Provo in October 1990; the outside of the newly curved plate. Yamaguchi likens then I had to conclude that this probably occurred because of the process of the emission of deuterons or protons to what some unknown chemical reacticlm, with fusion occurring at happens when a sponge is squeezed. the limit of the effect," such as that which occurred in the On July 4, 1989, Dr. Yamaguchi witnessed an extraordi­ July 4, 1989 experiment. I nary event. His neutron counter registered the emission of In his new series of experiments, Yamaguchi had intro­ 106 neutrons. The gas release was so explosive, he said, that duced an electric current, which 4:reated apotential difference not only was the interlock activated, but the pump was also between the two sides of the palllldiumplate, and this electron broken. Yamaguchi estimates that the entire amount of gas wind may have had a remarkable effect on the phenomena that had been in the palladium plate was released within one that he observed. These phenC!lmena were observed only second. He was wearing nylon gloves at the time, but, when when the gold surface was posidvely charged. With a rever-

26 Feature ,EIR December 11, 1992 sal of the current direction, there was no expansion on the & Technology, "New Insights on Water and Sonolumines- oxide surface nor excess heat evolution. How to explain cence.") : these results remains open, but clearly, in the new series Other models such as those of Nobel Prize laureate Julian of experiments, Yamaguchi had departed still further in his Schwinger and MIT's Peter Hagelstein also suggest the im­ design from the "conventional" electrolysis experiment. Be­ portance of coherence phenomenon. Akito Takahashi has a cause of the nature of the explosive gas release, which fol­ multi-body fusion model which, however, is not supported lows upon heat bursts, it would appear that the electric current by the energetics of the Yamagudhi results-although, of acts to heat the palladium, creating a temperature gradient course, the experimental conditions in this gas-loading ex­ perpendicular to the surface, rather than to create electro­ periment may, in fact, mean that a different nuclear process is migration. occurring than in the typical Fleischmann-Pons experiment. In this latter series of experiments, he used a more sensi­ I tive neutron detector than he had in the beginning, and he added a sensitive charged-particle detector instead of contin­ uing the neutron detection only. (This is a silicon diode pro­ It remainsthe casethqtt last winter's duced by EG&G or Camberra, both American companies, electrolysis experimerlt by Osaka which have a preamplifier, amplifier, and multichannel ana­ University'sDr. Akito Takahashi, in lyzer in order to detect the energy spectrum.) On one occa­ sion, with a deuterium-loaded plate, he detected charged which he useda pallqdium-plate particles, having a maximum energy of 3 million electron corifiguration, rather than the needle­ volts (MeV), a result which occurred only in l out of 64 like cathodejavored by Fleischmann experiments. However, this one time, there were three such bursts and these were strongly correlated to excess heat pro­ and Pons,is still the most dramatic duction. Yamaguchi believes that these may have indicated validation qfthe resultsjo und by the tritium production which was of too small an amount to two coldjusionpioneers. measure directly.

New results Yamaguchi's new results came after he purchased a high­ ly sensitive quadripole mass spectrometer which allowed him Takahashi results replicated to measure helium-4 in situ. The emission of helium-4 gas It remains the case that last winter's electrolysis experi­ was strongly correlated in time with heat emission, and the ment by Osaka University'S Dr. Akito Takahashi, in which increase of the loading ratio, and only occurred when a deu­ he used a palladium-plate configur.tion, rather than the nee­ terated gas was used. Nonetheless the amount of helium dle-like cathode favored by Fleisdhmann and Pons, is still detected was in excess of the measured heat increase, sug­ the most dramatic validation of the results found by the two gesting the presence of radiation. With the new spectrometer, cold fusion pioneers. Dr. Takah¥hi was able to produce he was also able to detect the production of tritium. The alpha 70% more heat than could be accQunted for by any known particles (i.e., helium-4 nuclei) that were emitted had an chemical means, over a continuous two-month period of op­ energy offrom 4.6 to 6 Me V, and protons were also detected eration of his experiment. In SUbsequent experiments, Dr. at energies of 3 Me V (proton emissions indicate the presence Takahashi varied some of the conditions of the experiment, of tritium), but the amount of these was small compared to particularly with regard to the currents which he applied, and the emission of helium-4. he achieved lower excess power, in the range of 20 to 30%­ This indicates that in condensed matter-the palladium still an important confirming result. lattice-fusion occurs by an unusual route, producing low The Takahashi experimental design was successfully quantities of tritium and helium-3, but also producing heli­ confirmed at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Dr. Ed­ um-4. Such a reaction would have a negligibly small proba­ mund Storms, who also got 20% elf,cessheat in an extremely bility in a typical high-energy fusion reaction. The probable careful closed-cell experiment. Stdrms also determined cer­ absence of high-energy gamma radiation is also anomalous tain crucial characteristics in the palladium which influenced from the point of view of hot fusion, but is explained by the success or failure of experiments, by comparing results Fleischmann and Pons along the lines of the superradiance using materials from two batches of palladium supplied by model of cold fusion of University of Milan physicist Giulia­ Tanaka Metals. One batch of palladium' worked, while the no Preparata, in terms ofthe existence of coherent phenome­ other was decisively flawed. na which allow the interaction of the fusing deuterons with The Third International Conference on Cold Fusion is the palladium lattice. (Dr. Preparata explained his superradi­ already forcing a shakeup in those entrenched circles who ance theory in the Spring 1992 issue of 21 st CenturyScience chose to deny the reality of the phenomenon.

EIR December 11, 1992 Feature 27 • �TIillInternational

Second coup attempt! strikes hated Ve nezuelan President

by Cynthia R. Rush

For the second time this year, members of the Venezuelan Rather, knowing that discon�nt within the ArmedForces Armed Forces attempted to overthrow President Carlos An­ is widespread, the U.S. governmenthas spent the 10 months dres Perez and the free-market austerity policy he has im­ since last February's coup attempt directing psychological posed on his nation on behalf of the International Monetary operations in the country to discredit any military nationalists Fund (IMF). At approximately 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, units who might attempt to overthrow perez's corrupt government. of the Air Force and Navy seized several of the country's Air Even though CAP, as he is knolWn, governs with a popular Force bases, took over all but one national television station, backing of under 10%, Washiqgton is determined to keep and went into action with the intention of capturing Perez at him in power to be one of its cont�nental spokesman on behalf the Miraflores presidential palace, put him on trial, and in of a "democracy" characterize� by free-market austerity, the interim form a combined civil-military government. A limited sovereignty, and emasculation of the institution of videotape of Col. Hugo Chavez, leader of last February's the Armed Forces. coup attempt by the Army's "Bolivarian-200" group, was Shortly after last February's! coup attempt, the Bush ad­ aired on television as the rebellion began. ministration sent heavyweight LjIigiEina udi, U.S. ambassa­ Leaders of the uprising indicated that had they succeeded, dor to the Organization of Amerj.can States (OAS), to Vene­ they would have held elections "as soon as the emergency zuela to warn that the United i States would do whatever were over." A statement they prepared which was to have necessary to keep its boy in power. It is almost certainlythe been read on national television, explained that "the citizenry case that some of the developments which led to the failure has stoically tolerated the looting of the nation, the degrada­ of this most recent coup attempt are the result of operations tion of its institutions, and the mockery of the democratic which Einaudi set up in the co�ntry months ago. For their ideal. . . . The repudiation of Carlos Andres Perez's govern­ part, Perez and his cronies are willing to do anything to stay ment has been expressed in a thousand different ways by all on, even if it means plunging t� country into civil war and sectors of national life ....We have taken on the historic permanent anarchy. responsibility of insurrection, not against the constitutional order, systematically violated by Perez's government, but Warfare and looting against a regime which is destroying the nation and, with By late in the day on Nov. �8, units from the Army and each day that passes, threatens to liquidate the concept of National Guard had in effect putldown the rebellion, and had Fatherland and state." retaken the Air Force bases rebel forces had seized. These The coup failed, however, not because the corrupt Perez included the La Carlota and Fr$cisco de Miranda bases in is not despised or because the population wouldn't welcome Caracas, and the Maracay base iin Valencia, which was the his ouster. In the days following Nov. 27, politicians of every center of the uprising. Heavy CIOmbat occurred at all three stripe have called for his resignation and warned that only before they were retaken. Thro*ghout the day on Nov. 27, more chaos, and possibly more coup attempts, will ensue if rebel pilots flew Mirage and F-16 fighter jets over Caracas, he remains in office. bombing the presidential palacQ, the Interior Ministry, and

28 International EIR December 11, 1992 , the headquarters of the political police, the DISIP. Psychological warfare I Close to 1,200 rebels are under arrest, and the death toll But the dirty operations go well b4yond this type of black­ from combat as well as heavy rioting and looting in Caracas mail and bribery. According to Brig�dier General Visconti, is estimated by some sources to be as high as 230. Shopping neither he nor any of his Air Force or Navy allies ever intend­ centers and stores in Caracas's poorer neighborhoods were ed to show a video of the impriSO ed Colonel Chavez on destroyed, as residents hauled away food, clothing, and any­ television. He explained that he an Adm. Hernan Gruber thing else they could find. had prepared a videotape "in which I, standing at attention Ninety-three Air Force officers, led by Brig. Gen. Fran­ next to our patriotic symbols, was to lave spoken to Venezue­ cisco Visconti Osorio, escaped from Venezuela on Nov. 27 lans on the causes and possible con�equences of our move­ and flew to Iquitos, Peru , where they have been granted ment." Instead, not only was the dhavez tape shown, but ' political asylum by the government of Alberto Fujimori . In three unshaven, leftist thugs carrying assault rifles, who were explaining his decision to grant asylum, Fujimori said, unknown to any of the military Ie ders, appeared on the "What we have to preserve here is the security, the life, and screen claiming to be representative of the rebellion. integrity of these 93 military men." According to several press sourc s, it was the appearance Visconti told reporters that he decided to leave Venezuela ofthese leftists whichfr ightened vie ers. "People were terri­ with his men when it became clear to him that forces loyal fiedof these guys," one politician to d the Washington Post. to the government"had orders to eliminate us. . . . We used " If an admiral in full military re ia had delivered that the Air Force for dissuasive purposes while the other side speech, we would now have a milit dictatorship in Vene­ machine-gunned anyone they saw. So when we saw that they zuela." Another military source told the Washington Times, wanted to massacre us, we decided to leave for Peru ." Perez "Those three guys, all of whom wer� civilians, demoralized has sworn that all officers involved in the coup attempt will everyone. The coup failed because e face of Visconti was be court martialed for treason in summary trials over the next not there." IO days. Brigadier General Visconti told t�ei Venezuelan press that he had never seen the three thugs fore and doesn't know �' u.s. involvement why his video was not shown. He Iso denied having any In the aftermath of the coup attempt, CAP has boasted association with leftists. Another Ve ezuelan officerin Peru, that, except for a small minority, the Armed Forces as well Capt. Mauro Araujo, added that h s group had never had as the population rejected efforts to overthrow him, thus any link to Colonel Chavez's Boliv ·ans and, as for ties to displaying "absolute proof of loyalty." In Venezuela, "de­ leftists, "I can't even stand to lookl at those people." "We mocracy is for today and forever," he said in a Dec. 1 press are not criminals," he said, "we ar� not murderers. We are conference. Both during and after the coup attempt, Perez Venezuelans who love their countryE j" and his ministers charged that the military rebels were just The attempt to identify military rationalists with leftists "bad officers" allied with members of leftist groups such is the culmination of the campaign bfgun by the Venezuelan as Bandera Roja and Tercer Camino, holdovers from the government after February's coup jattempt. To isolate the guerrilla days of the 1960s, and accused them of cruelly five commanders who led that effo , government officials assassinating "humble Venezuelans." Their primary pur­ deliberately separated them, placin three at Caracas's San pose, he lied, was to sabotage municipal and state-wide elec­ Carlos prison and Col. Chavez and 01. Arias Cardenas at a tions scheduled for Dec. 6. prison in Yare. In subsequent mo ths, a concerted press But as the Washington Post admitted on Dec. 2, the lack campaign attempted to link inciden s of bombings and vio­ of popular support or widespread military backing for the lence, as well as any other crimina activities, to Chavez's coup had nothing to do with loyalty to CAP. For nine months, group. the Post reported, "the United States had helped Venezuelan Venezuela's foreign minister, t: rmer general Fernando military intelligence weed out potential subversives and had Ochoa Antich, took this further i an interview with the effectively convinced the country's business community that Buenos Aires daily C larin. Lumping together the Bolivarians 'there would be no normal relations with the United States­ with Argentine Army nationalists 1 by Col. Mohamed Ali public or pri vate' -if a military coup succeeded." Seineldfn, and with Venezuelan l�ftists such as Bandera According to foreign diplomats quoted in the article, the Roja, Ochoa said these groups wer nited by their "extreme campaign included attempts to bribe military officers into nationalism." Colonel Chavez, he aid, "is a man of leftist submission with offersof better housing, promotions, higher thinking, linked to those violent loups whose maximum pay "and even Russian-made Lada sedans" to buy their loyal­ expression is [Peru's] Shining Path." It was only after Cbavez ty. Venezuelan businessmen confirmed that the United States appeared on the television screen, 04hoa said, that "anarchist had threatened that if CAP were overthrown, the U. S. would groups appeared, calling for the co�lective assassination of cease purchasing Venezuelan oil, the country's major source Venezuelans, and later expressed t*s with concrete actions of export revenues. in which they killed innocent peopl�." ! EIR December 11, 1992 International 29 Interview: Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Nations of the North must b in solidarity\\lit h the South

The fo llowing interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, presi­ Now, the reason why the same approach should be en­ dent of the Schiller Institute in Germany, was conducted larged, is that now that Germa y is unified,we need a broader by Nora Hamerman by phone on Dec. 3, shortly after a perspective. We are still patriots, but that cannot be just for conference in Kiedrich, Germany at which a new political ourselves-not for Germany alone-but if you look at the party, the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, was fo unded. world crisis, the condition 0 the developing countries, the crisis in the East, it's very clear that Germany as an industrial EIR: In 1985, you catalyzed the founding of a movement power has a lot of what is nee�ed for the development of the called Patriots for Germany, dedicated to getting the Berlin Third World and the East. We are basically thinking like Wall demolished and Germany reunified. Later, the Patriots Friedrich Schiller, who said that each patriot has to be a good ran candidates for public office. Can you describe what you world citizen at the same time, and therefore, we have now think were the achievements of the Patriots, and why you initiated a citizens' Civil Rigpts Movement Solidarity, be­ believe a new framework is needed for intervening into Ger­ cause of the absolute need to show solidarity with those man politics today? countries which are now in crisis. It's exactly what the pope Zepp-LaRouche: Remember that in 1985, no one in Ger­ called for, that the rich countries of the North must show many thought that German unification would be a realistic solidarity with the poor countries of the South. goal. As a matter of fact, the late Willy Brandt [former chan­ So our new movement which we have initiated, merging cellor] called the perspective of unification, which is written the LaRouche movement and the Martin Luther King move­ in the German Constitution, "the lie of our lives." ment at the recent conferencei here in Germany, is based on If there was any possibility of German unification dis­ the idea of caritas and solidarity as the economic form of cussed at all, at best it would have meant that it would occur Christian agape. in a neutral framework, a kind of Finlandization. Against that, the Patriots for Germany were initiated, and if you read EIR: Founding a "Civil Rights Solidarity" movement in Eu­ the founding principles today, you will see that already then, rope is astounding, because there is no tradition of a civil we predicted that German unification could only take place rights struggle in Germany �omparable to the black civil if the Soviet Union would collapse economically, and col­ rights struggle led by Martip Luther King in the United lapse as a system. States. Can you explain how this very original idea evolved, Extremely important in this development, was the trip and describe some of the variohs forces who are collaborating my husband Lyndon LaRouche and I took in October 1988 to in it? Berlin, where Lyn predicted and proposed an early German Zepp-LaRouche: Well, that s not quite true. As a matter of unification because of the economic decay in the Soviet fact, there was something lik a civil rights movement, even Union, and proposed that the unified Germanyshould collab­ if in a different form, when the Prussian reformers around orate in a development plan for Poland, using western tech­ vom Stein and von Humboldt, introduced all the reforms in nology and industrial power to make Poland a model of simi­ Germany at the beginning 0 the 19th century which later lar developments of other East European countries. I, at the were fought for by the civil rights movement, i.e., the end same occasion, proposed that Berlin under these circum­ of slavery, the end of Knecht-schaft ; and it was only due to stances should soon be the German capital. the reactionary Congress of ienna that that development In other words, we were the only ones thinking in terms was interrupted. 'III of the collapse of the Soviet Union and German unification; It was exactly the fact that that spirit against slavery and that's why, when the peaceful revolutions occurred in was very alive among the German classical thinkers around I the fall of 1989, we were the only ones really prepared for Schiller, Humboldt, and the �russian reformers , and the in- this development, and we supported it through leaflets en­ fluencethey had on the German population, which explains couraging the peaceful demonstrators to continue. We were why it was especially the Germans who were key in the fight later told by many, that that was an extremely important against slavery in the United States during the time of the intervention. Civil War, why the Germans supported Lincoln, and why

30 International EIR December 11, 1992 they were totally against the philosophy of the Confederacy. in Bosnia and Croatia? It was that strong German influence in American politics Zepp-LaRouche: Today, unfortunately, if we look back to against which Teddy Roosevelt was deployed. 1989, one must say that Europe did miss its great historical So, there is a tradition linking that fightin Germany, with chance totally. that fight in the United States. It was Lyndon LaRouche who, tn 1989, when he pro­ When Lyndon LaRouche demanded that we must rebuild posed an economic infrastructure program for Europe, espe­ the civil rights movement, this occurred because both civil cially easternEurope , correctly said tlhatEurope would meet rights and human rights in the United States are today in its historical chance only if it would ltam the lesson from the much worse shape than during the 1960s. If you look at the fact that not only communism had collapsed and therefore situation of the justice system, the absolute brutality with the economic theory of Karl Marx was discredited, but also which the death penalty is used as the legal version of what that the Anglo-American world was in a depression, and the Ku Klux Klan lynching policy used to be in the 1920s, if therefore the economic theory of AdamSm ith and liberalism you look at the hardships caused by the economic depression, was equally discredited. He said thatiEurope had to returnto then you see that a civil rights movement today is much more its own economic tradition of Leibnit, Alexander Hamilton, important, even in the United States, than in the 1960s. and Friedrich List, and especially to J!,ring its economic poli­ Then take the fact that the philosophy of the Confederacy cies into cohesion with Christian ptinciples, and that that today rules the United States, and not only domestically in would then be the basis for the definition of an industrial terms of justice and so forth, but also in terms of foreign policy for easternEurope . policy; look at the ThornburghDoctrine [authorizing the sei­ Now unfortunately, the Kohl governmentdid not act on zure of foreign nationals abroad], which is basically the con­ this basis-in large part, I believe, �cause the key German tinuation of a Confederate philosophy toward the Third banker, AlfredHerrha usen, was assa$sinated because he pro­ World. posed quite similar policies for PolantI. There is now a heavy In addition to that, we are in a global depression. We are debate, both in German circles as well as in Italy, about the heading toward the biggest crisis, maybe not only of this cui bono of these murders, pointing to the Anglo-American century, but maybe of civilization in general. And if this geopolitical intentions. I crisis is accelerated through the ongoing global depression, As a result of this, the Kohl govttnment did not develop then the entire human race is threatened by a new Thirty an industrial policy for the East. Thby left the definition of Years' War. the economic policy entirely to the A�glo-Americans and the It is my conviction that we will only come out of this International Monetary Fund [IMF]. and that has led to the crisis if we establish a just, new world economic order, end present total collapse and catastropije looming in the East. oligarchism in all its forms, and end slavery on the planet Even in east Germany, this has led toitotal economic destruc­ once and for all. So, therefore, there is an urgent need not tion which indeed has created a sodial basis for these neo­ only to rebuild the civil rights movement in the United States, Nazi movements to grow. but internationally. And that's exactly what we have started However, I want to stress emph/t.tically, that despite the to do with the creation of this new movement in Germany. fact that, unfortunately, there are some neo-Nazis now in The Civil Rights Movement Solidarity is a movement for existence, this has been in large p� orchestrated by the Germany, but at the same time, we have created an interna­ Anglo-Americans-through the Ku Klux Klan in the United tional advisory board assembling many prominent personali­ States, which supplied the majority e>fthe literature of these ties fromIbero-Amer ica, easternEurope , the United States, groups; through the skinheads, whidh is a British phenome­ Africa, China, and many other places, to symbolize the inter­ non, not a German phenomenon-� it all smells very heav­ national character of this movement. ily of Tavistock creations, if you lpok at the rock music, which was also tested in institutions aike the [British] Tavis­ EIR: There is major news coverage all over the world ofthe tock Institute, a kind of Clockwork! Orange scenario. And violent neo-Nazi gangs in Germany. As usual, it is slanted while there are some neo-Nazis today, they are also manipu­ toward blaming everything on the Germans and their govern­ lated by intelligence services in a s$tegy of tension against ment, to the extent that the Israeli governmenthas protested Germany, following a geopolitical intention to weaken to Bonn. My question is in two parts. Germany. a) First, to what extent do you hold Chancellor Helmut To answer the second part of YOQr question, the question Kohl and the German elites responsible for the current break­ I have is, why are those who are s9 upset about Germany down, and to what extent are the provocations coming from right now, not upset about the genocide in Bosnia? outside Germany? This is the big moral question, because what is going on b) Second, would you comment on the Israeli position, in Croatia and especially in Bosnia, the genocide committed given the circumstances of what many people feel is a Nazi­ by the Serbians, is without parallel in�his century. And again, like policy by Israel toward the Palestinians in the Occupied the Balkans war would not have started without the geopoliti­ Territories and Israel's failure to condemn Serbian genocide cal encouragement of James Baker and Peter Lord Carring-

EIR December 11, 1992 International 31 ton, again because of geopolitical wish to permanently have a war in the Balkans as a means to destroy the potential for Eurasian development.

EIR: At Kiedrich, the conference passed two resolutions. The cowardlymurders of One was on the issue of political asylum, and the other dealt with the murders of Turks which recently occurred in Molin. foreigners must be stopped Could you tell us what these resolutions expressed and how they will be used? The fo llowing statement was issued by Helga Zepp ­ Zepp-LaRouche: The issue of asylum is right now the hot­ LaRouche on Nov. 24 on the attacks on fo reigners in test issue debated in Germany, and indeed, it is true, all Germany. Mrs. Zepp-LaRf/uche is the fo under of the schools, all sports halls, and so forth are filled up with refu­ Schiller Institute internation,ally and the chairman of the gees, because Germany, contrary to other European coun­ Civil Rights Movement Solh{arity. tries, has taken a very large number(I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of refugees), unlike England or France The cowardly and criminal arson attack in Molin, in which or Italy. two Turkish women and on� young lO-year-old Turkish But obviously, if the South and the East collapse, then girl growing up in Germany were killed and nine other many, many more refugees will eventually run away from people injured, some seriously, must finallyrouse citizens starvation and war, and therefore what we have resolved at to action against these racist, chauvinist gangs. In the face this conference is that the answer cannot be to close the of the more than 3,000 attacks by autonomist and right­ borders, which will not function in any case. And I have radical perpetrators of viol�nce during this year, which stated emphatically that if Europe tried to keep refugees away have already claimed 16 fatal victims, the failure of the through both new walls and through guns, then that would government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl is apparent. be the moral end of Europe. These are the results of the debate on asylum which has The only answer can be, to bring development to those been conducted by all the p�ies in a reprehensible way. regions where the people are coming from. But that would Over last weekend, citiz�ns joined together in a "Civil be the opposite of the IMF policy. It would mean going with Rights Movement Solidarity�" in order to oppose this omi­ massive economic development for eastern Europe and the nous development in Germahy. There we linked up close­ South�rnHemisphere . ly with the civil rights movCjll1ent of MartinLuther King, Concerning the murders at Molin, we" are demanding an which fought for decades a�ainst racism between whites absolute ruthless policy against these neo-Nazi groups. They should be forbidden, but also there must be an absolute ruth­ less investigation about their foreign intelligence agency links. in Peru, or the Serbs in the Balkans, committing brutalities of unbelievable dimensions, th�n you develop a new under­ EIR: In your speech to the Kiedrich conference you spoke standing of why the Christian IljOtionof man is so important. of the need to make a real revolution in Germany, and said Because you can see that in q:ultures where the Christian that Germany has not yet had a revolution. Please develop notion of man is lacking, it comes to these atrocities. There­ for us the historical high points of German history as these fore, this Christianization Wthe East, and France the task take the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, if you take Shining Path to develop Africa. This was all the more importantbecause it

32 International EIR December 11, 1992 and blacks, and against the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and autonomist scene. in the United States. • In the longer view, however,' the achievement of For the restoration of internal peace in Germany, the internal peace in Germany depends ()n a decisive change following measures must be taken: in course away from the failed econotnic and foreign poli­ • The safety of those foreigners living in Germany cy of the federal government since !reunification. In the must be protected under all circumstances. For that pur­ face of the world economic crisis, the murderous policy pose, the local police forces need the broad support of the of free trade at any price and of wnolesale privatization population. The fact that the greatest number of attacks under InternationalMonetary Fund cOnditions must final­ occur in states led by the Social Democratic Party shows ly be abolished. The 7 million unemployed or underem­ the bankruptcy of the "soft line" which has stood in the ployed people in east and west Germany must findwork in way of police requirements during the past years. These large-scale Eurasian construction pr�ects. Not shrinkage, requirements include a functioning registration service, but construction in the East and in the South of the world which can identify the still-unknown perpetrating circles must determine the course of the next�ears. IfI werein the and persons; protective custody; and severe punishment government, I would immediately submit an appropriate of deeds which involved bodily injury and murder. construction and investment plan, and call upon the minis­ • Federal legal measures and competent state legal ters to make Germany's cooperation in the international measures must be employed to rigorously uncover, stop, governingbodies of the European Community, the Gener­ and prosecute the men behind the right-radical terrorism, al Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , and the Group of including the involvement of foreign intelligence services Seven contingent upon whether the f"\lndamental direction in their organization and propaganda work. The examples of world economic policy is changed in the direction of a of the connections of neo-Nazi groups to KKK leaders policy of construction. and skinheads keep increasing, without the circles of these This change in course must alsp find expression in persons, who have been known for years, being prose­ bringing about an end to the war in: former Yugoslavia, cuted. which has robbed many people of their last hope for hu­ This is all the more important, because the huge cam­ man kindness coming from the Gerqtan people. The new paign of filth, which was fomented by British and Ameri­ "Civil Rights Movement Solidarity"iintends to contribute can press outlets after reunification against a supposed with all its strength to restoring in Germany constitutional "resurgent Fourth Reich," only becomes effective propa­ rights, fundamental human rights, and,. firstand foremost, ganda through the bloody provocations from the neo-Nazi the inviolability of life.

occurred afterthe destruction of the Thirty Years' War, and those areas which badly need it, in • similar way to how de therefore this is why we have to go back to these ideas to Gaulle definedit for France, who s8lid that Frenchmen were look for concepts of how to overcome the crisis today. not some cows eating grass, but that they had a mission in the I pointed out the continuity of this Leibnizian tradition, world, namely, the development especially of the Southern influencing Bach, influencing and making possible the Ger­ Hemisphere. man Classical period, from Lessing to Schiller, who had this extremely beautiful concept of a beautiful soul as the highest EIR: You referenced the Schleicher effort in 1932 to save task of man-to develop a beautiful soul. And what could Germany in the last days of the Weimar RepUblic. Could you be more important, than to have such an idea? tell us brieflywhat Schleicher's ide� were, and why he was I gave a short summary of the high points of German overthrown and replaced by Hitler� Am I right in thinking culture and tradition, to point on the one side to the tremen­ that this was an operation engaging I both the left and right? dous wealth, including cultural wealth, of Germany, but to Like most aspects of the resistance �o Nazism in Germany, draw from there the same conclusion as Schiller did at the this history is totally unknown to most Americans. end of the "Universal History" presentation he gave in 1789 Zepp-LaRouche: Around von Schleicherthere werediffer­ in Jena, where he said that if you look at the contributions of ent groups of professors, industrialists, and others , like Dreg­ all of these generations of the past, then you have to have a ger, Leibenbach, and so forth, who developed very concrete noble desire to contribute with your life in the best possible ideas on how the depression, which was caused by the Ver­ way to enlarge that and give it to coming generations. sailles Treaty and the monetarist poljcies of that time-quite Now, it is that attitude which we must have, not only for similar to the IMF policies today-could only be overcome Germany, but really for the world, which needs exactly our through a dirigist program of productive credit generation for contribution. So from that standpoint, I defined a positive infrastructure. mission for Germany, to contribute to the development of When von Schleicher took office in December 1932, he

EIR December 11, 1992 International 33 began to implement that program; and had he had only six months' time, Hitler could have been stopped. Unfortu­ nately, through the treason of von Papen, who met at the beginning of January with Hitler in the house of the banker SchrOder, it was decided to put Hitler into power, and there­ fore the von Schleicher option was defeated. FreelTIasOns caught This only could function because it was the Anglo-Amer­ ican policy to put Hitler into power, because they admired the neo-Nazirevival his race policy, a scandal which must be discussed and which is described at length in the book George Bush: The Unau­ by Umberto Pascali thorized Biography, by Anton Chaitkin and Webster Tarpley. I The reason why the Anglo-Americans thought it in their The Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, the masonic interests to put Hitler into power, was guided by motives order associated with Ku KhJx Klan founder Gen. Albert similar to why the U.S. government today is tolerating the Pike, is in the eye of the hurriclanein Europe. A confidential American KKK support for the neo-Nazis in Germany. memorandum-known by th¢ code name "Operation 3K" Hitler was as much against the Germans as against the and first revealed on Nov. 3() in the Italian daily Unita­ Jews, and it must also be emphasized, that when the German details a plan to destabilize Germany and Europe as a whole, resistance again and again tried to contact the British or the using the Ku Klux Klan and th¢ former East German commu­ Americans or the Swiss, they normally gave the contact and nist secret services, the Stasi,1 to create neo-Nazi groups to the names of those immediately back to the Gestapo so that provoke a wave of violence. ! this resistance was then smashed again and again. As regular readers of EIR frnow, Lyndon LaRouche and Rev. James Bevel launched fa mobilization in September EIR: In a few days I will be addressing a conference of the 1992 during their independ�t presidential campaign, to Movement for Ibero-American Solidarity in Colombia, one bring down the Pike statue in Washington, D.C., which is a of the nations which has been targeted for destruction by the blight upon the American cap�a1. Anglo-American oligarchy. You yourself were recently in Already at the beginning pf 1992, observers in Europe South America and participated in a conference in Brazil had called attention to the problem that would be caused by celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Evangelization, and waves of desperate refugees from the war in the Balkans, promoting Ibero-American integration. Do you have any from the collapse of the econqmies of the former East bloc, message which you would like to convey to our collaborators and from the systematic destItuction of the Third World. It in Colombia, about how best they can contribute to the world was the usurious approach df the International Monetary coalition for peace and development which you are or­ Found (IMF) and its pusher, lIarvard University economist ganizing? Jeffrey Sachs, that had led to a situation in which these refu­ Zepp-LaRouche: The world coalition to overcome the gees would flee their countries looking for some way to global depression and to establish ajust, new world economic survive. i order has already brought together a vast variety of people "There will be something I similar to the invasions from who, even though they come from completely different cul­ the East at the end of the Rpman Empire," one observer tures, nations, and religions, all agree that this just, new said. "Nothing will be able tO lstop it. Countries that are still world economic order must be based on the idea of man as prosperous will be overrun. T1hereis nothing they can do to imago viva Dei. Because only if you have the human dignity stop that. Of course, then it Iwill be easy to stir up racist and inalienable rights of man defined on the highest level, reactions and the most int�nse destabilization you can namely, in the image of God, can such an alliance function. imagine." I That's my message to the people in Colombia, because The revelations now coming out about "Operation 3K" the question is, the image of what? Of what God? And to are a confirmationof this hYPQthesis. think about that, and to develop a clear understanding of that, At the same time, a book just released in Germany (The is exactly the key to the ability to develop Christian love, RAF Phantom, Why Politics �nd Economics Need Terror­ because it has tremendous implications for the sense of iden­ ists), approaches another aspejctof the same criminal opera­ tity of each person. tion: the use of terrorism to eQable foreign powers to control I'm totally convinced that we only can win if each person a country. The book, which !iraws heavily from EIR , also develops in him or herself this sense of agape. This is a very quotes extensively from an in¢rview with Col. Fletcher Pro­ concrete question, and it starts with each of us. It starts with uty that appeared in Unita oni March 19. Prouty is the real­ you. And on that basis, we have to build a movement around life model for the "Mr. X" o� Oliver Stone's movie "JFK." the world. The interviewer was AntoniolCipriani, co-author of the re-

34 International EIR December 11, 1992 of "covert operations," a mechanism l!Iasbeen created to be inserted into a real, spontaneous mov!!ment-a mechanism which, because of this, becomes invis�ble. The ultimate objective of the 3K �an is that of favoring the destabilization of Germany, and lO make sure that the orchestrating specter of the Reich becomes more and more real. The result is to stir up anti-German feelings wit�in public opinion, to weaken, as a consequence, the image �f Europe, marred by in Gerlllany racism and ethnic rivalries, and to fa*or the idea of a "Pax Americana," mediated through masoni� channels, as the only possible alternativeto chaos. An ambitious project, planned mqre than one year ago cent revelations. within some U.S. circles of the so-cal�ed "Black" Masonry, The revelations triggered a chain reaction that is still is the subject of the confidential memorandum. Operation going on. Major Italian media picked up on the charges, but 3K also envisions the possibility of unleashing an anti-Semit­ even more explosive are the private reactions at all levels in ic wave in Poland (where there is a f/ivorable situation for European countries. From Italy, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, that) and to manage the "emergency" of the easternEuropean Elio Toaff, stated that the neo-Nazi revival is not "spontane­ refugees, above all from former Yugpslavia, to fuel intol- ous" and that behind it there is one "puppet master." This erance. i thesis is shared by Justice Minister Claudio Martelli, while All this, of course, does not meanithat the movement of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Giorgio N apolita­ the Nazi skinheads in Germany, and to Iilesser extent in Italy, no, said, "Let's not transform Germany into a devil," but has been created artificially. On the contrary, an attempt is rather look into what is really behind the neo-Nazi terrorism. being planned to manipulate a spontan�us phenomenon and, We publish here a translation of quotes from these articles as a consequence, to exploit as much a�' possible all its desta- and interviews, which have been totally blacked out by the bilizing potential. U.S. media. Already many months ago, the German press had ex­ (Note . It may be helpful to American readers to explain posed the presence in Germany of emi$saries of the Ku Klux the term "Black Masonry." In Italy, this refers not to ethnic Klan, flown into Europe to proselytfze. This was not an divisions within the Masonry, which exists in the United extemporaneous operation, because alSo in the United States, States, but to affinitiesto Fascism, since Mussolini's Fascism the Ku Klux Klan, even though it is a 4espised organization, used the color black as its symbol, such as the "black shirts" has maintained, throughout the 1980s ,: several contact points of the Fascist private militias. The references to U.S. "Black with elements of the State Departmertt, elements that were Masonry" in the following articles clearly identifiesthe Klan connected more or less organically t� the Black Masonry. with the Italian Fascists.) The presence of the U.S. racists of t"e Ku Klux Klan was not a casual matter. Besides, through ithe intelligence chan­ 'u.s. plan to provoke the rebirth of Nazism' nels that run through the NATO lodgej" someone decided to Unitii, by Antonio and Gianni Cipriani, Nov. 30: recruit some former Stasi agents, to be: used in the streets in The operation by U. S. Masonry aims to favor the creation order to provoke clashes and to raisel the "temperature" of of "gangs" and to stir up anti-German feeling in Europe. the tension. Some former agents havje been identified and They have been using Ku Klux Klan and Stasi people. arrested by the police during the vario�s demonstrations; But It is called in code "Operation 3K": to favor the formation the presence of such people has alway� been explained as an of gangs of neo-Nazis in Germany to destabilize the country, attempt by nostalgics from the old communist regime to do to evoke the threat of the Reich, and to weaken Europe. An harm to the reunified and democrati� Germany. No! The operation planned more than one year ago with the collabora­ former Stasi agents acted on behalf of pther instigators. tion of sectors of the U.S. "Black" Masonry, which used It is difficultto say-and after all� not even the experts men from the Ku Klux Klan and former Stasi agents .... are able to give an evaluation-to what extent "Operation The operation, in code, is called 3K, where 3K stands 3K" was able to increase the wave of the neo-Nazi violence for Ku Klux Klan, the U.S. ultra-racist organization created that is rocking Germany. It is, howeV!er, interesting to note in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, by Gen. Albert Pike, that there are sectors of the pro-Ameqcan Masonry that are grand masonic chief of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish contributing to the spread of the Hitl�rian credo. Thus vio­ Rite. An operation intended to contribute to the growth of lence, fear of a return of Nazism are �lements functional to the xenophobic and neo-Nazi wave in Germany, by favoring a precise strategy-a strategy which ithe Catholic Church, the aggregation of youth gangs and the spreading of the Hit­ among others, is well aware of. Again$t the Catholic Church, lerian "credo." Practically, as always happened in the history one year ago, those same circles lau�hed the campaign of

EIR December 11, 1992 International 35 the "Argentine archives," aiming to show that in the immedi­ dedicated to Gen. Albert Pike, who created the racist organi­ ate postwar period, the Vatican was engaged in helping Nazis zation in 1965 . Albert Pike was a friend of Giuseppe Mazzini, to escape to South America, becoming a de facto accomplice and was, in his day, one of the masters of the Masonry of the of the people responsible for genocide and a great many cruel Ancient and Accepted Scotti�h Rite, the biggest in the U. S., war crimes. In those years, the church favored the flight of with more than 4 million me�bers. several Fascists and Nazis, but at the same time, the Anglo­ It is significant that weeks ago, when black [African­ Americans recruited directly former SS men and members American] political groups protested in front of the Pike of Mussolini' s republic, into those parallel military structures statue, asking for its removal I, it was precisely the American that remained active for more than 40 years. And the fo rmer Masonry (Scottish Rite) of the so-called "SouthernJurisdic­ Nazis who "converted" to Atlanticism always kept close links tion" that defended the memory of the racist general. An with the nostalgics of the Reich. even more significant fact: From the investigation of the The emergency around the Nazi skinheads seems to be Italian magistrates on Masonry-conducted in the context here to stay, for a longer period. According to the experts, of a broader investigation oil the P-2 lodge-emerged the the conditions have already been created for a long period of existence of an "Albert Pike" lodge in San Mango d' Aquino, intolerance. And unfortunately, there are signs that add to in Calabria. It is a covert lo�ge; the names of its members the hypothesis of a possible escalation of the phenomenon. are confidential. Last March, when "Operation 3K" had already been planned, Given these facts, the r\'!velations of Unita assume an investigative circles had gathered information on a probable, alarming importance .. ..In �act, members of the Stasi have major anti-Jewish action, such as violence against a syna­ been arrested during demonstrations of the Nazi skinheads gogue. Today, the main fear is that the Jews and the immi­ in Rostock. An important role was indeed played by strange grants could start responding to the neo-Nazi violence with "neo-Nazis" with a red past, Ilike Andreas Pohl, today chief similar violence, and that armed self-defense groups would of the National Front of the extreme right, and until the day be created. Of course, this would mean destabilization. And before yesterday, a memberl of the KPD-ML, the German in Italy, unfortunately, the authorities have the same fears . Communist Party Marxist-Leninist. ... There are clear signs indicating that some minorities or demo­ cratic political groupings that are the target of the Nazi skin­ 'Ku Klux Klan against'Germany?' heads are thinking about organizing self-defense. There are Il Giorno, Dec. 1: those who are talking about weapons. And it happens that in Is the neo-Nazi phenom4non aimed at weakening Ger­ our country, the ghost of the strategy of tension and that of many, and maybe also Italy!1Is the rage of the unemployed double extremism is resurfacing. unleashed against the mass; of the immigrants-who are escaping their martyred lands-being used as a picklock to 'Strange contacts between KKK and break a future "United Euro{1e," which is beginning to raise German skinheads' its head politically, economically, and militarily? Is it just Avvenire, the main Catholic daily in Italy, by Maurizio fiction?Maybe, but it was PresidentBush himself, only few Blondet, Dec. I: months ago, who pointed hi� finger against Helmut Kohl's . . . The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, one Dennis Germany ....He did it in the most institutional of places: Mahon of Tulsa, Oklahoma, boasted publicly about it in Congress. There, a few hours after the Los Angeles riots, several interviews: In the summer and fall of 1990, he was Bush told the congressmen tbat the European "locomotive," in Germany, where he was in contact with German "com­ the engine of the rising fedenation [i.e., Germany], was not rades" to train them in fighting techniques. The German credible anymore, because it cannot solve its racial prob­ branch of the American secret and racist organization an­ lems .... nounced its birth during a skinheads concert in Ingberg at the Now, the disquieting hypothesis of an occult direction end of September 1991. A leaflet with the symbol of the that manipulates the actions iOf the neo-Nazis, has surfaced KKK was distributed .. .. again ....A first answer comes from Unita . ...In Italy, Unita of Nov. 30 argued that the inauguration of the [those involved in this plan ate] members of certain masonic German branch of the KKK is part of a secret plan prepared lodges that were dissolved m(/)nthsago, such as, for example, "by some U.S. circles of the so-called black masonry" aimed the Colosseum Lodge ....[The powerful Rome-based Col­ at "destabilizing Germany. ". . . The newspaper of the PDS osseum Lodge included am(/)ng its leading members Elvio [Unital quotes a "confidential memorandum." One week Sciubba, the "ambassador" of the Southern Jurisdiction to ago, news about the same supposed destabilization plan ap­ the easternEurope, where heicontributed to establishing new peared in the Polizei-Zeitung, the magazine of the German lodges affiliated with the "Pike Masonry." Sciubba's name federal police .. ..But one fact is certain: In a park in Wash­ was recently mentioned in the Italian Senate by Senator Brut­ ington, the capital of the United States of America, stands ti, during a debate on the contacts between Mafiaand Mason- the statue of the founder of the KKK. It is a monument ry-ed.] I

36 International EIR December II, 1992 Conference Report

i Italians call fo r reopening of files on the assassination of Enrico M�ttei by Claudio Celani

On Nov. 27 in Milan, Italy, an international conference on all officialcer emonies honoring Ils brother, but has always Enrico Mattei, founder of the Italian oil company ENI who refused to speak, decided to appef at the Schiller-EIR event died mysteriously in 1962, took place under the sponsorship because, as he explained to the organizers, this conference of the Schiller Institute and Executive Intelligence Review. fully respected the spirit of his �rother's work. Umberto The Mattei issue is a hot one, especially in the present situa­ Mattei's few but moving words reminded the audience of tion, when Italy is struggling for post-Yalta political and Enrico Mattei's total dedication �o his country and to his economic independence. The conference made clear that work-a dedication which the lt�lian nation seems to have only if a new Mattei emerges, will Italy be able to overcome forgotten. Especially Italians seeJjn to have forgotten some­ the economic crisis and the Anglo-American destabilization thing Mattei never ceased to rep¢at: "A country like Italy, that aims to break the country up. which has no raw materials, no ,gold, in reality owns the Thirty years ago, on Oct. 27, 1962, Enrico Mattei's air­ biggest wealth in the world: its br�ins." plane crashed in Bascape, outside Milan, in what everybody Describing the figure of Enricp Mattei is a hard job, said understood as a political assassination. Mattei, by building a the next speaker, Prof. Marcello ¢olitti. Colitti, who joined national-owned oil cartel (firstcalled AGIP, then ENI), and ENI in 1956 and today is manager of an ENI division called challenging the oil multinationals in seeking independent Ecofuel, explained that it is diffitult to describe somebody deals with producing countries, threatened to destabilize the who belonged to "a generation of giants, so big in comparison Yalta order, or "superpower condominium," which runs to us that they would not fitin th�s room." Mattei was, and world affairs. Since then, Italian leaders have preferred to still is, an example for us: a mo�al example, a person who cover up his assassination, and have even smeared his charac­ conceived his work as "an expr�ssion of charity" and was ter, while Italy's political history has become one of destabili­ able "to motivate the youth by cquvincingthem of the lead­ zations and of "limited sovereignty." er's design." Mattei had underst'i>od a deep truth, that "the The main outcome of the conference was a resolution rich need the poor"; this is an �conomic lesson which is calling upon the Italian authorities to "reopen the Mattei file," most valid today, said Colitti. "Aica pitalist economy has an i.e., to officiallyreopen the investigations to findout whether unbridgeable mechanism, whichj can be overcome only by or not there was foul play in the crash of the ENI founder's enlarging the basis of the econpmy. Since technological aircraft. progress is based on production iof capital goods, you can Equally important are the economic lessons of Mattei's have it only if the industry has al market-that is, if capital accomplishments, which have been the object of smear cam­ goods are exported." This was tljle basic economic concept paigns by biographers and media outlets over the years. This inspiring Mattei's deals with dev{lloping countries, and must was discussed at the Milan conference in connection with the inspire a recovery program to ov¢rcome today's bottleneck, American economist Lyndon LaRouche's economic pro­ "the dramatic constriction of investment in the advanced gram for a European "Productive Triangle," as the natural countries. " continuation of Mattei's development effort. Mattei, Colitti added, was aj model for his idea of the state. The state must supply capital for economic develop­ 'A generation of giants' ment. But during the past two d!,!cades, the Italian govern­ Guest of honor at the Milan conference was the Mattei ment has done the opposite: It haSicol lected money to finance family: Enrico's brother Umberto, with his wife, and En­ "income," that is, market demaqd in place of investments. rico's sister Maria. Umberto Mattei, who has participated in Also in his idea of political power, Mattei must be an exam-

EIR December 11, 1992 International 37 pie: "Power was a necessity in order to be able to do what is position was not isolated, but w�s supported by a political necessary ." Mattei always abhorred power as "arrogance," and economic culture that saw in la rapid economic develop­ something which was incompatible with his ideas, as well as ment the instrument of a rebirth �f Italy, also morally, after despising the concept of colonialism. the horrors of the war and the Mu�solini decades." Mattei's opponents were wrong, Vitali explained, be­ 'The world would look different' cause they considered "economi� development as a linear Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president of the Schiller Institute phenomenon, as action-at-distanqe of particles-an absurdi­ in Germany, took the flooras next speaker. Mrs. LaRouche ty in physics as well as in phy�ical economy. And from compared the world strategic situation at the moment when physics, we can borrow a conctlpt, 'critical mass,' which Mattei was killed, to the situation in 1989 afterthe fall of the allows us to explain phenomena $uch as rapid economic de­ Berlin Wall, and the developments following what she called velopment." Following Mattei's death, economic develop­ a punctum sa liens , a critical historic branching-point. In ment was been denied to Third I. World countries, and the 1962 , when Mattei was killed, the Anglo-Americans were exceptions (Taiwan, South Koreaj)only prove the rule. determined to prevent at all cost a coming together of four Catholic leaders of the western world: German Chancellor 'Mattei, the Italian enemy� Konrad Adenauer, U.S. President John Kennedy, French Prof. Nico Perrone, teacher pf modem history at Bari President Charles de Gaulle, and Mattei himself. Adenauer University, has carried out origi�al research on the circum­ and de Gaulle had already made an alliance, and there was stances of Mattei's death, and �ported on how he found the "danger" that, at the end of the Algerian war, no conflicts declassifieddoc uments from the �entagon and the U. S. State could prevent the rapprochement of de Gaulle and Mattei, Department, which he publishe� in a recent book entitled and therefore a strategic alliance for national independence Mattei, The Italian Enemy. The �k has been published by ofItaly, France, and Germany. "I am convinced that if Mattei the major Italian publisher Mondaj:lori, but strangely enough, had not been killed, and had Adenauer not been overthrown, only 7,000 copies were printed, !half of which never went today the world would look much different," said Helga into circulation. Of the 3,500th �t reached the bookstores, LaRouche. the publisher immediately withdrejw 30% ofthem, and a little If we look at developments after 1989, we see how the later, another 30%. As a result, !Perrone's book cannot be world lost a similar chance with the elimination of a key found in any bookstore in Italy. I figure whowas an obstacle for the Yalta powers: the German Professor Perrone recounted �w, following Mattei's in­ banker Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank. dependent deals with oil-producin� countries, the representa­ With the elimination of Herrhausen, the only person among tives of the oil multinationals in t�e U.S. administration be­ Germany's ruling elites who dared to challenge the Interna­ gan to be alarmed. Especially �fter Mattei's openings to tional Monetary Fund and World Bank dictatorship on eco­ China and to Moscow, the alarm I reached red-alert level. In nomic policy disappeared, and the monetarists' "shock thera­ 1961, former U. S. Secretary of State Averell Harriman flew py" had a clear way to destroy any possibility of Eurasian to Rome to meet the ENI presidentlto check out his intentions. development. After Harriman, State Departmen� insider George Ball came In 1989, Lyndon LaRouche, who was already a political to Rome and asked Mattei, in a p�lite way, for an "explana­ prisoner of the Bush administration, proposed a development tion" of his economic initiative�. That meeting was very plan called the European Productive Triangle, but after the tense, but from the records it appejars as if a compromise was elimination of Herrhausen and of Detlev Rohwedder, the first reached, and a future meeting be�ween Mattei and the chief manager of Germany's Treuhand company (responsible for of Standard Oil was mooted. the privatization of eastern Germany's agro-industrial sec­ In the meantime, a press catlpaign against Mattei was tor), none in Germany dared to move in that direction. Today, going on. Mattei was described �s "the most powerful man the Productive Triangle is still the only viable economic strat­ in Italy," who was maneuvering to drive his country out of egy for Europe, Mrs. LaRouche said. the NATO alliance. Many articl�s against Mattei appeared in the U. S. press-in minor new$papers which never reach 'Density of development' Italy-but the articles are neverth�less regularly clipped and EIR researcher Paolo Vitali reviewed Mattei's fight land on the table of the President �f the United States. against the "free market" doctrine, which has always found And then came the crisis. O� Oct. 22, 1962, Kennedy support among those large private industrialists who were announced that the U.S. Navy would blockade all Soviet part of oligarchical and freemasonic dynasties. Mattei "could ships en route to Cuba. The cris!s committee at the White not accept that under such nice words as 'free market' or House (Excom) met in Kenned�'s office. They discussed 'necessity for governmentbudget cutting,' a fraud was com­ bombing Cuba, and the date in�icated is Oct. 28 or 30. mitted by clearly identified national and international inter­ The voice of Defense Secretary Itobert McNamara is heard ests, who had nothing 'free' to offer at all. Luckily, Mattei's shouting, and a Soviet retaliatioq is presented as certain to

38 International �IR December 11, 1992 come in Italy and Turkey. That same day, Mattei's plane One hand behind four murders crashed in a mysterious accident in northern Italy. "It is The final part of the conference was devoted to the hottest unpardonable," said Perrone, "that a serious investigation of theme of the day: "Is there a connection among the assassina­ that plane crash was never made." tions of Mattei, Kennedy, Italian Ptime Minister Aldo Moro, and Herrhausen?" The special guest on this panel was Col. LaRouche's program Fletcher Prouty, formerchief of SpeciW Operationsat thePenta­ Paolo Raimondi from the Schiller Institute presented gon, and the man who inspired the I character of "Mr. X" in some programs which are in line with Mattei's investment Oliver Stone's film "JFK."Prouty c6uld not attend in person plan for reviving the physical economy in the world and in because ofillness, but sent a videotaPed interview. (The quotes Italy, and to pull the world out of depression. Raimondi given here are retranslated from the IWian transcript.) presented Lyndon LaRouche's program for a Paris-Berlin­ "What these men were proposing," Prouty said, "was far Vienna Productive Triangle, which calls for a Eurasian net­ away from the way of doing busihess and politics at that work of high-technology infrastructure in transport, commu­ time. That is why they are dead, killtd by forces who opposed nications, energy, and scientificresearch, that will transform a change." Prouty focused on the strategic value of transpor­ continental Europe into the locomotive for the world recov­ tation. "He who controls transportajtion controls the world." ery. He recalled that in 1980, LaRouche had already elaborat­ An example is the oil crisis in 1973, which was triggered not ed a specificprogram for Italy, entitled "A Gaullist Solution by the producing countries, but � the owners of the oil to the Italian Monetary Crisis," which, starting from the tankers-i.e., the multinationals. introduction of a so-called "heavy lira," suggested a series The intervieweralso asked Prouty: "Mr. Prouty, Lyndon of actions to be undertaken against Italy's "black economy" LaRouche is the most recent great �an who is a victim of the and, through the nationalization of the central bank, the cre­ establishment. Do you think we can do something to bring ation of new credit to realize large infrastructure projects. justice for LaRouche?" Prouty ansv,tered, "I think he is trying Such programs elaborated by LaRouche are based not on to communicate to people the gr�at value of technology, monetarist calculations or on approaches like the IMF's of [Friedrich] Schiller's teachingsf the basic teachings for shock therapy, but rather on the concept of potential popula­ mankind ....I encourage this kinp of technological devel­ tion density, identifying the real economic value in the devel­ opment that LaRouche has been pU$hing for years and years, opment of man's creative capacities, and in the increase of to improve mankind and operation� in this world." population. Marivilia Carrasco, from the Ibero-American Solidarity The non-existent RAF terrqrists Movement in Mexico, spoke against those in Italy who have Anno Hellenbroich, of EIR Nachrichtenagentur in Ger­ been proposing a "free trade pact" between easternand west­ many, put the death of German banker Alfred Herrhausen ern Europe. Such a proposal was recently made by Romano into a different light than the official accounts. Now, three Prodi, an economist and former industrial manager, who has years after his death, the police h�ve still not yet found the a reputation as "anti-liberal. " Prodi, a senior adviser to the murderers. The police thesis is that Herrhausen was killed New York investment house Goldman Sachs, has proposed by the "third generation" of the Rep Army Faction (Baader­ the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT A) as the Meinhof) terrorists; but there is m�ch evidence to contradict model to be followed. Carrasco countered by reporting the that interpretation. ugly truth about NAFT A, which will further increase unem­ Using photographs, Hellenbroich demonstrated how the ployment in the United States and collapse incomes in dynamic of the terrorist bombing o{Herrhausen' s automobile Mexico. proves that it must have been carried out by specialists. Maurizio Blondet, senior journalist for the Catholic Why was Herrhausen assassin�ed? Six weeks before, he newspaper Avvenire, reporting on a recent visit to the United had presented a program for a development bank for Poland, States, gave a first-hand view of the effects of 15 years of which was supposed to be a model,forall of eastern Europe. U.S. deregulation policy, and of the effect of "a specific Herrhausenha d also wanted to suqstantially reduce the debt form of dirigism, called liberalism," on the Anglo-American of the eastern European countrie�-something the World economies. America, Blondet said, "is losing its working Bank and the InternationalMoneta �y Fund could not tolerate. class. I am convinced that behind the ghettoization of the The Italian situation was disct/ssedby Gianni Cipriani, black population, there is a deliberate policy to exclude the co-author, together with his brother Antonio, of a book enti­ blacks from the active labor force." This is "a deliberate tled Limited Sovereignty. Cipriani drew a parallel between brake to development." Americans elected Clinton, Blondet the left-wingterrori sm which devastated Italy in the 1970s, said, in the hope that he will an end to all this. Clinton has and the currently emerging right-w1ng extremism, a "maneu­ already promised investments, whose magnitude is insuffi­ verable mass" ready to be used t,o launch a new wave of cient; but it is important that at least a discussion has now terrorism,this time from the "right," The centers that steered been provoked. left-wing terrorism are the same t�at are now preparing the

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Fru Ndi surrounded by the mil tary,cut three of his four phone lines, and placed the SOl office under surveillance. How long will Biya be These emergency actions r main in effect, as condi­ worsen for the Camero< nian people. Due dictator in Cameroon ? tions to the desperate economic straits brol ght about by the programs of International Monetary Pund and Biya's corruptleader­ On Fr iday, Nov . 13,Mr. Nkwain , speaking fo r the For­ ship, government workers have. gone without pay for three eign Affa irs Ministry of Cameroon at the National Press to four months, leading to frequ nt impromptudemonstra- � Club in Washington, D. C., reportedthat opposition presi­ tions, according to reports fro n Cameroon . The SDF is dential candidate John FruNdi has been under house arrest distributing thousands of leafte s and press releases daily forseveral weeks as partof a state of emergency to contain exposing the government' s human rights violations and violent activities in Cameroon's North West Province, demanding thatCameroonian s e given their basic rights, which includes the city of Bamenda. Mr. Nkwain , repre­ that B iya step down, and that Fru Ndi be released fro m 'senting the dictatorial government of President Paul Biya, house arr est . was constantlychallenged by the packed ro om of Camer­ The rights that are being d nied to Cameroonians by oonians from the Social Democratic Front (SDF) andthe the Biya dictatorship include t e right to walk the street Cameroon Student Association (CAMSA) concerningthe without a pass, the right to read nongovernmentnewspa­ outrageous human rights abuses of the Biya government. per, the right to travel from e pe part of the country to SDF leaders report from Cameroon that conditions another , and the right to have public meetings without inside the country are intolerable and that Biya is only fear of arrest. able to hold onto power by the brutal use of the Army Recently, the United State! and Germany have taken against the people . Thecri sis in Cameroon reached a new some ac tion by suspending aie to the Biya government, level when Biya declared himself the winner of the Oct. and Canada and Great issued statements of II presidential elections, despite evidence that John Fru condemnat ion . SOP leaders ho that when more interna­ Ndi, chairman and presidential candidate for the SDF, tional pressure is broughtB ritato beinf aveon Biya, under the wors­ was leading in four of the eight pr ovinces before the gov­ ening economic conditions Cameroon , he will be ernment ordered an end to the vote counting. On Oct. 27, forced out of office. They wer , very happy to hear about in order to contain widespread anger at Biya's flouting of the founding of the Civil Right Movement-Solidarity in the election process, the government declared a state of Germany (story, page 30), an wanted to know how to the home of this movement.-Lain� deence Freeman emergency in the NorthWest Province, had join new I new black terrorism: intelligence, military, and political cir­ "'tem Eumpe. M". LaRou explained the two diametri­ cles, connected through freemasonic networks to Anglo­ cally opposed conceptions at the root of the two plans: American power centers. NAFT A and similar schemesJ Iallow investments wherever l It is astonishing, Cipriani said, how two documents cast the labor force is cheaper, wher as the triangle program calls light on the current Italian developments. One is the "Plan for investments precisely where the labor force costs more­ l for Democratic Rebirth," written more than 10 years ago i.e., where it is more Productiye-and the spinoffs for the by Licio Gelli, Grand Master of the famous Propaganda-2 entire world are greater. j masonic lodge; the other is a letter written by Aldo Moro A special contribution was al so made by Raffaele Morini, when he was a prisoner of the Red Brigades, before they head of the InternationalEnrico Mattei Foundation and presi­ killed him in 1978. In Moro's letter, only recently discov­ dent of the Pavia chapter of Volol ntari della Liberta, the parti­ ered, he accuses the United States (i.e., Henry Kissinger) of san formation that Mattei had led nationally during the libera­ wanting to eliminate him because they wanted to transform tion war against Fascism. Morini has announced his own the Christian Democratic Party (DC) into a more "docile" independent initiative to reopen the Mattei case, having kept, for 30 years, a piece of Mattei ' s plane, which demonstrates instrument of the Anglo-Americans. "A new generation of I DC leaders is being bred," Moro warned. that it was destroyed by a bomb. Written greetings to the c01erence came from the chair­ Productive Triangle or free trade? man of the Christian Democratic group in the lower house of During the discussion period, a trade union leader asked Parliament, Gerardo Bianco, a ong with a message from the about the difference between LaRouche's Productive Trian­ mayor of San Donato, the city outside Milan which grew out gle proposal and the free trade plan now being pushed for of the ENl complex built by Mattei.

40 International EIR December 11, 1992 Report from Bonn by Rainer Apel

, A strategy of tension' the KKK is very �ctive in Berlin and German investigators of the neo-Nazis haven't touched the environs, nowadar,s, the NSDAP-AO operation of Gary Lauck was the first networks abroad that are steering the violence. to massively (and rather easily) pene­ trate eastern Geltmany, through its bridgehead in Hungary, the source said. Any pUblicatjon of information On Nov. 30, German police report­ many keep referring to in public. such as this was banned by the com­ ed the arrest of two suspects in a neo­ Many questions arise. Petersen's munist regime and its intelligence Nazi arson attack that had killed three apartment was, mysteriously, left un­ agency, the Stasir In 1988, indepen­ Turks and injured nine others in the sealed for three days afterthe arrest of dent researchers at the eastern Berlin town of Molin the week before. Found its tenant. It would have been interest­ Humboldt Univtfrsity and Leipzig during the police search of the apart­ ing to see what incriminating material University were �revented from pub­ ment of one of the suspects was aU. S. the gang leader had in his house, but lishing reports on the existence of a Confederate flag, the "Stars and this apparently was removed. Also neo-Nazi milieu ijn eastern Germany, Bars," symbolizing the group's link to strange is the news that Petersen actu­ upon directives ftom the "very top." the Ku Klux Klan in the United States. ally was to have been arrested several The group was forced to disband. A senior intelligence source days before the Molin incident, Another dis�ident investigative linked to the U. S. and Israeli secret charged with arson in the early Sep­ group at the IfIucation Ministry, services told EIR that the current acti­ tember cases. The prosecutor had filed which was looking into neo-Nazi ac­ vation of the neo-Nazis in Germany is the arrest order, but the district judge tivities at univ�rsities and public part of "a strategy of tension" on the in Lubeck decided that there was no schools, was alSO' disbanded. part of intelligence networks of the reason for any arrest. Why? What remainfd intact, however, United States, Britain, France, and Is­ The answer to this question may was two sections of the Stasi, Sections rael, aimed at weakening the unified shed light on why the officialGerman 20 (penetration pperations) and 22 Germany politically and economi­ probe into the role of a certain KKK (counter-terrorislll), which were offi­ cally. Grand Dragon from qklahoma, Den­ cially dealing wit� the neo-Nazi prob­ As for the two arrested suspects, nis Mahon, in the Klan's underground lem. Files on wh�t they did, and how Michael Petersen (25) and Lars Chris­ recruitment activities in Germany, has they did it, are, mrsteriously, no long­ tiansen (19), little information has not produced results, although it was er available. And! if there are files left been released, but what has is indica­ launched a year ago. over, they are npw in the hands of tive. For example, it turnsout that the Where does this slowness come the government in Bonn, which has a home of Petersen in Gudow, a small from? Is it the uncooperative ness of policy of declar�ng all data that in­ town near Molin, was a gathering American authorities toward German volve sensitive aspects of East-West point for neo-Nazis and skinheads. ones on certain sensitive issues? Is it intelligence operations in the 1970s Neighbors reported that they would because German authorities have no and 1980s "top s�cret, classified" ma­ meet there to sing racist and Nazi access to crucial data of the FBI­ terial that can't be made public. songs and have beer-drinking orgies. which, according to well-informed The same Stllsithat had groomed These often took the form of rampages sources, seems to be protecting Ma­ left-wing terroris:m in what was then outside the house, and members of the hon? The latter aspect is being looked West Germany, was apparently nur­ group had been involved in three other into by members of the German par­ turing neo-Nazi groups as well. The arson attacks on refugee lodgings in liament. fact that the Stasi did not intervene the region in September. A well-informed source who has against an opera�ion run by "western The evidence demonstrates the ex­ studied the origins and structure of agent" Gary Lauqk into East Germany istence of a violence-prone cult group neo-Nazi groups in the former East from Hungary, d6es not come as a sur­ linked to the widespread racist skin­ Germany told this author that an prise, either: The$tasi was, afterall, a head/neo-Nazi counterculture, rather "American connection" has existed partner in U . S. i�elligence operations than the "lone assassin" profile which among the easternGerman neo-Nazis like Oliver North's arms-peddling the higher security authorities in Ger- since at least the mid-1980s. While affair.

EIR December 11, 1992 International 41 AustraliaDos sier by Lydia Cbeny

Zionist lobby is frantic over LaRouche ber of allegations about Australian What has lsi Leibler more up set: the CEC's exposure of his Jewish community figures. Police be­ corruption, or its program fo r economic development? lieve these documents are based on Internal SecurityUnit and Bureau of Criminal Intelligence material." Isherwood asks, "Have the police been investigating Leibler and T he November issue of the Austra­ from the "right" and the "left" (see Abeles, as is clearly implied by the lian Institute of Jewish Affairs' Bonn, P. 41). above, and if so, for what?" (AHA) magazine Without Prejudice Douglas reminded the audience lsherwdod noted that the career of has devoted a 17-page feature to at­ that Leibler's friend Edgar Bronfman, Leibler's friend Bronfman is perhaps tacking the growing influence of Lyn­ just weeks before the East German relevant in this regard. He added that don LaRouche in Australia, claiming communist regime fell, was given the an entire chapter of the international that "there is no doubt that it [the highest civilian honors by dictator Er­ bestseller Dope, Inc., written by the LaRouche movement] has a disrup­ ich Honecker. Bronfman and Leibler editors of EIR , is devoted to the Bronf­ tive capacity never before seen in this are co-chairmen of the World Jewish man family. country." Congress. Isherwdod detailed the political The Australian Jewish News on Isherwood reiterated his challenge history of David Greason, the author Nov. 27 quoted AHA Chairman lsi to Leibler to a public debate. "As to of the AHA article commissioned by Leibler that "LaRouche and his fol­ his claims that the LaRouche move­ Leibler. "Talk about 'neo-Nazism'!" lowers seem to be in step with the ugly ment, and by clear implication our­ Isherwood laughed. "Greason found­ recrudescence of the right-wing ex­ selves, are 'anti-Semitic' and 'neo­ ed the violence-prone neo-Nazi Na­ tremist neo-Nazism which has re­ Nazi,' " Isherwood said, Leibler is tional Action group in the early 1980s, cently manifested itself in Germany." "grossly misinformed or is just a plain while at the same time being a member The daily Melbourne Age on Nov. 26 liar." of the Australia-U.S.S.R. Society. joined the chorus, printing the AHA's Isherwood continued, "Since the Upon quitting National Action, Grea­ call for an investigation into the activi­ charges in the AIJA piece are so obvi­ son joined the far-left International ties of LaRouche's Australian friends, ously nonsensical, then why is Leibler Socialist Organization." in particular the Citizens Electoral so hysterical? Is it perhaps because the "So whp is Greason, really?" Ish­ Councils (CEC) , an anti-free-trade CEC on July 5 put in a submission erwood as�ed. "Is he still secretly a political organization that has just set regarding lsi's brother Mark into the neo-Nazi? Is he a radical leftist? Is he up a national headquarters in Mel­ joint Committee of Public Accounts a police agent-provocateur? Or is he bourne. inquiry into tax avoidance schemes, just a general all-around sleaze, whom Maurice Hetherington is now run­ and Mark apparently felt compelled Leibler findsuseful for dirty jobs?" ning a high-profile campaign under to resign all his official tax advisory Isherwood insisted that the real the CEC banner for a seat in the Feder­ positions? Or is it that lsi has some problem with "this bluster about neo­ al Parliament, and the organization dirty little secrets in his own closet?" Nazism" is that there are essential pol­ plans to run dozens more candidates Isherwood noted that the AIJA ar­ icy issues that are being obscured. in the near future, around the CEC's ticle complains that a major purpose "This country is in a bottomless eco­ economic reconstruction plan called of LaRouche's "so-called 'intelli­ nomic coll�pse!" He added that, as the "Sovereign Australia." gence network' in Australia is to 'spy' AIJA article fearfully noted, the CEC CEC Secretary Craig Isherwood on Melbourne Jewish community and EIR magazine will cosponsor an and Al Douglas, an American from figurelsi Leibler and businessman Sir international conference in Mel­ EIR 's Asia-Pacific desk, held a press Peter Abeles. . . . Senior Victorian bourne on March 12-13, entitled conference at the Melbourne Town police fear . . . that confidential re­ "Economic Reconstruction for Sover­ Hall on Dec. 2. Douglas gave an over­ ports from the Internal Security Unit eign Nation States, Post-International view of the modus operandi by which and the Bureau of Criminal Intelli­ Monetary Fund." At this conference, Leibler's U.S. friends in the Anti­ gence may have ended up in LaRou­ he said, the CEC will detail its eco­ Defamation League themselves de­ chite hands. LaRouche documents nomic reconstruction program, "Sov­ ploy neo-Nazi provocateurs-both seen by senior police contain a num- ereign Australia."

42 International EIR December 11, 1992 PanamaReport by Carlos We sley

Another Kissinger rip-off poverty grows, 'said Ford, a former Besides making Panama safe fo r drugs, the invasion has given co-owner of the drug money-laun­ dering Dadeland: Bank of Florida. Kissinger and his cronies a chance to make a buck. While the g�vernment has accu­ mulated signific,nt savings this year, that money is to pay the banks, said Comptroller Gtfneral Ruben Dario Carles, an alumnus of Chase Manhat­ T he Washington law firm ofArnold ceding the invasion, for which job the tan Bank. He and Treasury Minister and Porter has been retained by the law firm collected hefty fees through Mario Galindo, another Chase alum­ U.S.-installed government to advise a fictitious"Panaman ian government" nus, are engaged in a factional dispute on the foreign debt, it was announced set up by the United States in Coconut with Ford over the presidential nomi­ in Panama in November. Arnold and Grove, Florida. nation of their party, Molirena. Porter is the law firm of William D. After the invasion, Arnold and The two are .lso engaged in a run­ Rogers, a partner in Kissinger Associ­ Porter picked up another $1 million ning dispute with Attorney General ates and the lawyer for Henry Kissing­ from the U.S.-installed government Rogelio Cruz, who tried to fire Cus­ er and for Acting Secretary of State of drug banker GuillermoEndara, to lift toms Chief Rodrigo Arosemena for Lawrence Eagleburger, formerly of the same sanctions designed by senior aiding and �etting smuggling. Kissinger Associates. partner Rogers. These days, besides Among other tQings, Arosemena, a Arnold and Porter is expected to running destabilization operations protege of Galindo, is accused of help­ take millions of dollars for its advice. against the Peruvian military and trying ing Haim Yazuri, currently detained The local law firmof Treasury Minis­ to keep Venezuela's CarlosAndres Per­ in New York, launder millions of dol­ ter Mario Galindo, which reportedly ez in power, Rogers is running around lars in Panama. � has also been retained, is expected to lbero-America with Kissinger selling The Nov. 28 Washington Post re­ rake in up to 10%, Panama's Radio the North American Free Trade Agree­ ported that the attorney general is now Anc6n reported on Nov. 27. Even 1 % ment. He is also pushing the nations of under fire for r�leasing money from of the debt service would be a consid­ the hemisphere to do away with their frozen cartel ac¢ounts. "Even before erable amount, since public debt is armies and to instead pay the debt, the invasion thel Bush administration well over $6 billion and fast growing, much of it owed to Chase Manhattan had concerns about possible links be­ despite the fact that this year alone Bank, a Kissinger client. tween Cruz and the Cali Cartel," it Panama has paid out about $1 billion Their proteges have learned well. said, reporting �hat EIR readers have to the International Monetary Fund The U.S.-installed government is of­ known for nearly six years: that Cruz and other supranational financialinsti­ fering to settle ongoing strikes for was on the board of First Interameri­ tutions, while receiving virtually no back pay at the Social Security admin­ cas bank, co-owned by Cali Cartel new money. istration, the postal system, the Na­ kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela Rogers and his law firm played a tional University, and other agencies, and (a detail omitted by the Post) Jor­ key role in creating the crisis that in­ by giving the workers interest-bearing ge Luis Ochoa, of the supposedly rival stalled the current governmentof drug bonds that mature in 10 years. If they Medellfn cocain� cartel. bankers, all the while making money agree but cannot wait 10 years for their Roberto EisJnmann is quoted say­ at each step of the disaster. It was from money (and most can't), the drug ing that Cruzis "pne of our major trag­ Rogers's office in Washington that bankers that run the government will edies." Eisenmann is identified only Panamanian banker Gabriel Lewis buy up the bonds at a hefty 40% dis­ as "publisher of La Prensa," without Galindo, business partner of Colom­ count, making millions in profits. reference to his co-ownership of bia's former President and cocaine But the government does have Dadeland Bankl The Post reported cartel ally, Alfonso L6pez Michelsen, more than enough cash to settle the that the SuprernF Court reprimanded ran the opposition to Gen. Manuel workers' claims, says Panama's Sec­ Cruz for unfreezing the accounts, but Noriega. Rogers designed the eco­ ond Vice President Guillermo "Billy" it does not menijon that Chief Justice nomic sanctions applied by the Ford, according to El Panama Carlos Lucas L6pez sat with Cruz on Reagan and Bush administrations to America of Nov. 29. "It is a crime to the board of First Interamericas, as did squeeze Panama in the two years pre- keep the money in the banks" while Galindo.

EIR December 11, 1992 International 43 InternationalIntel ligence

vehicles, fuel, and warehoused goods. The revelations have caused panic and Cambodia charges Among the lame excuses given by embarrass\llent in Buenos Aires, since Les­ U.N. with appeasement spokesmen for the U.N. and the British forc­ telle works closely with the U.S. Drug En­ es in Bosnia: The Serbians would shoot forcement Administration and the U.S. em­ The Cambodian government on Nov. 24 down any plane using the base; airlifting bassy, and was named last year to the criticized the United Nations for its failure food to Bosnia would cost too much; the presidency of the regional anti-drug organi­ to impose sanctions on the Khmer Rouge. Iranians would deliver arms to the Bosnians; zation IDEC, with U.S. backing. While the A high-level spokesman of the government the U.N. has a policy of land convoys. Argentine :government of President Carlos in Phnom Penh, which includes both Prince An American special forces expert, Menem cl�ims that Noguera Ve ga is insane, Giles Pace, said in a program prepared by Sihanouk as head of state and Prime Minis­ Brazilian �nti-drug authorities say they have Jenkins and shown in October on British ter Hun Sen, stated in a press conference found his information useful and coherent television, that were Tu zla to be opened, that sanctions are the only way to get the and have used it to make important drug relief would no longer have to snake through Khmer Rouge to drop its resistance to the arrests. Noguera told the daily La Nadon the arduous land route from Split. Pace told U.N. peace plan. that he h�s only revealed "I % of what I Jenkins that he met with the British ambas­ know." The Khmer Rouge, backed by the Chi­ sador in Zagreb to press him to open the Presidtnt Menem is said nese communists, killed an estimated 3 mil­ to be worried Tu zla base, and was given "short shrift." "If lion people during their brief rule (1975-79). about the $candal and has ordered the state they were to use the airport at Tu zla," said intelligence agency to carry out a thorough The Cambodian spokesman also at­ Pace, "it would change the whole complex­ investigation. tacked as "outrageous" the statement by ion of the situation. They don't want the U. N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros­ world to see a functioning Bosnian gov­ Ghali, claiming that the Cambodian govern­ ernment." ment, as well as the Khmer Rouge, is vio­ Jenkins concludes his article: "Is it on Egyptian press signals lating the cease-fire. As it does in former the grounds of cost, or out of a desire to Yugoslavia, the U.N. is taking an "even­ shift tqward Iraq withhold legitimacy from the Bosnian gov­ handed" approach, blaming both sides for ernment as anything more than a caretaker the increasing violations of the cease-fire, The Egyptian government-backed daily Al for refugees, that the U.N. persists in ignor­ rather than condemning the genocidal Gamhuriy has published a number of arti­ ing the Tuzla airport? . . . As winter closes � Khmer Rouge. cles showihg a shift in Cairo's anti-Iraq poli­ in on the estimated 600,000people stranded On Nov. 25, Yasushi Akashi, the head cy, according to the Palestinian daily Al in the Tu zla region, the U.N. and the Minis­ of the U.N. operations in Cambodia, warned Quds on Nov. 25. try of Defense have an urgent case to of rising military tensions after touring sev­ In an �ditorial commentary, the Egyp­ answer." eral provinces of the country. He said these tian papen attacks the "anti-Iraq paranoia" might lead to an outbreak of fighting when of the Per�ian Gulf states, saying "it is no the dry season comes, and said that the situa­ longer useful for Arab nations to continue tion is "particularly tense" in the three north­ Argentine officials the punishment of Iraq and the Iraqi people. ern provinces. ...It is npt true that Iraq is a danger to the implicatedin drug trade Gulf state�. The danger now comes from the eastern gate," i.e., Iran, "from the Turkish U.N., Britain side with A scandal has erupted involving the head of soldiers �ho are still staying in northern the Argentine government office for combat­ Iraq," and from the United Nations inspec­ Serbia against Bosnia ting drug trafficking,Alberto Lestelle. A "for­ tors still irlBaghdad. The commentary also mer" drug trafficker and informant, Mario warns of blans to cut off the southern part The United Nations and British forces in Noguera Ve ga, who is now beingheld in Bra­ of Iraq, and asserts that "it is not enough to the Tu zla area of northeastern Bosnia are zil, has charged Lestelle with involvement in have a sequrity agreement between Kuwait refusing to open the Tuzla air base, because drug trafficking and money laundering, and and the United States, Great Britain, and it would legitimize the Bosnian govern­ says that Lestelle sent him to Brazil to assassi­ France in order to give protection from the ment's control over the Tuzla region, ac­ nate another Argentine drug trafficker, Sergio fictional �anger of Iraq .... It is time to cording to a report by Paul Jenkins in the Di Fiore. Di Fiore allegedly stole documents open a nel/

44 International EIR December 11, 1992 BTiI ldly

• THE ORGANIZATION of the Islamic ConfereJitce, consisting of 47 Islamic countries, has vowed to put pressure on the U.N. Security Coun­ cil to intervene militarily to end Ser­ asylum seekers allowed to stay," according Spain seeks satellite bian aggression against Bosnian to the newspaper. Muslims. OIC foreign ministers met The document proclaims: "Individuals to spy on Africa in Saudi Arabia Qn Dec. I. According are not entitled to protection under the Gene­ to the group's sefTetary general, they va Convention merely because they come Spain is interested in purchasing an Ameri­ are requesting an end to the military from countries in which levels of security, can spy satellite, the International Herald embargo on Bosnia "so the Muslims economic opportunity or individual liberty Tr ibune reported on Nov. 24. European mil­ can have weapons." are below those of the (EC) member states. itary sources have told EIR that Spain's in­ . . . Those who genuinely feel compelled to terest in such technology is directed at North • ISRAELI soldiers were killed in leave their own countries should seek pro­ Africa. a recent military exercise whose pur­ tection in the firstsafe country to which they Spain is one of several NATOcountries , pose was to plan the assassination of come." along with Italy and France, which have set Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nas­ Applications can be deemed "manifestly up a special committee to monitor the politi­ rallah, according to a report in the unfounded" if there is "satisfactory protec­ cal situation in North Africa in anticipation Miami Herald on Nov. 25. Although tion for the applicant in another country," of North-South conflicts. An article in the the death of th¢ soldiers had been or "clearly no substance to the applicant's Nov. 24 London daily the Guardian reports widely reported, this fact was never claim to fear of persecution," or if "the claim that "European intelligence agencies and revealed. is based on deliberate deception or is an U.S. analysts" fear that the Algerian mili­ abuse of asylum procedure." tary junta could fall to the Islamic funda­ • NEO-NAZI groups from around mentalists and that European and American the world were $cheduled to meet in observers are "concerned about the potential secret near Stockholm, Sweden, dur­ impact on Morocco, Tu nisia, and Egypt" as Australia in uproar over ing the last weekend in November, well as the Middle East. under the banner of the World Anti­ homosexuals in military Zionist Congress. After reportsof the conference appeared in the German Europ ean countries move The Australian government's recent deci­ press, the plllce was abruptly sion to allow homosexuals to serve in the changed to a se¢ret location outside to restrict immigration Armed Forces has created a storm of contro­ Sweden. versy. The principal opposition party says it European Community immigration minis­ may overturn the decision, if it comes to • SPAIN'S qtholic Church is or­ ters are planning to create a "fortress Europe power in the next election. ganizing SpaniSh families to take policy" to restrict refugees and asylum­ "I don't believe in general homosexuals Bosnian refuge¢s into their homes, seekers coming into Europe, the London should be discriminated against," Alexan­ and 20,000 havd done so, sources re­ Guardian reported on Nov. 25, citing "con­ der Downer, the Liberal-National coali­ port. The churcH arrangedfor several fidential draft documents" that have been tion's defense spokesman, told reporters. trainloads of SlJPplies to be dis­ circulated to EC member-states. Immigra­ "But . . . if the service chiefs tell me that patched to Bosn�a and Croatia, and is tion ministers were scheduled to meet in they want to reverse the decision . . . then holding parish meetings where fami­ London on Nov. 30 . we'll act on the advice of the service chiefs ," lies are solicited!to take refugees into ' The drafts reportedly show that guide­ he said. their homes. lines will be set up that will allow for classi­ Australia's defense chiefs had opposed fying tens or even hundreds of thousands lifting the ban on homosexuals, saying this • COCOM, I the Coordinating of applications as "manifestly unfounded," would affect morale and threaten discipline. Committee for ,Multilateral Export thereby expediting the ejection of asylum­ Labor Party Prime Minister Paul Keating Controls, which was formed during seekers after a speedy review process. called the move "in line with the tolerant the Cold War to kienyadvanced tech­ The policy package is similar to the dra­ attitudes of Australians generally." nology to com�unist countries, has conian immigration rules which Britain in­ Fred Nile, a leader of the Christian party been dissolved. In its place, a 42- tends to accompany the Asylum Bill that is Call to Australia, condemned "the dis­ nation COCOMj Cooperation Forum soon to come before the House of Com­ gusting, limp-wristed decision" of the Keat­ has been created, to impose a regime mons. But under the new guidelines, such ing cabinet and predicted a voter backlash of technologic�l apartheid against policies would be applied to Europe more against Labor in the next general elections. Iran, Iraq, LibY1' and other countries generally. "When the new system is in "Homosexuals should receive counseling that are on the outs with the "new place, it will establish a fortress Europe poli­ and help, not training on how to kill people," world order. " I cy with a severe reduction in the number of he said.

EIR December 11, 1992 International 45 �TImInvestigation

u. s. put terrorists in power in EI Salvador; Colombia next

by Gretchen Small

For several years now, ElR has charged that in the hypocriti­ on Peace Negotiations" organized by the Jesuit-run Center cal name of "democracy," it is the active policy of the United for Research and Popular Education (CINEP) in Bogota, States government to fo ment and bring to power communist Colombia over Nov. 24-26. �eatured speakers at the seminar narco-terroristfo rces in lbero-America, as the most efficient included several officialsof t�e Central American University means to eliminate those institutions and cultural traditions in San Salvador and others who played key roles in imple­ which have guided national development in the region menting the supranational "peace" accord now being im- ' throughout its history. We warned that unless this policy is posed upon EI Salvador. denounced for what it is, no effective means can be found to The topic under discussion was how the FMLN's friends stop it. in Colombia could repeat the success in El Salvador. Modi­ Many dismissed ElR's evaluation as an "exaggeration," fications would be required, but the CINEP conspirators the result of "extremism." identified the following factors as crucial features of the Recent revelations regarding EI Salvador demonstrate "peace" fraud operation: ; that we have been right, and the skeptics, dead wrong. • EI Salvador served as: a "laboratory" to establish the What is happening under the U.N.-run "peace accord" in principle of limited sovereignty as global law. While the that country is that the military is being dismantled and U.N. operation in EI Salvador is unprecedented, and in the country handed over to the Farabundo Marti Liberation violation of the U.N. Ch�er which prohibits it from Front (FMLN) , the Marxist insurgency of the Americas intervening in internal conflicts, conference participants most closely allied with the Castro dictatorship for the cheered at the news that theI U.N. Charter is to be changed past 12 years. FMLN leaders, even as they now sip liqueur this year, to eliminate "undonditional respect for national at U.S. embassy parties, join the Cuban Communist Party sovereignty. " in the leadership the Sao Paulo Forum, a sort of New • The U.N. accord is rlFsigned to build up the FMLN Age regional "Comintern" tailored to the "post-Cold War" as a political force, by p*oviding the FMLN land and fantasies of Washington. money to hand out to the p�asantry. "This will mean . . . votes, many votes," one �alvadoran participant grinned. Caught red-handed (No wonder that the FMLN has just requested the United This could not have happened without the intervention Nations keep its mission iIn EI Salvador until the 1994 of the United States, as participants in the Salvadoran supra­ national elections are held I) national accord now acknowledge freely. In the pages that • The United States was� and is, "key to force the [Salva­ follow, we publish a shocking report on the discussions doran] governmentto obey �e accords." U.S. pressure can which took place during a three-day "International Seminar be direct-as it was in November when U.S. Gen. George

46 Investigation EIR December 11, 1992 Joulwan, head of the Southern Command, and Joint Chiefs Chainnan Gen. Colin Powell delivered an ultimatum to the Documentation Salvadoran military-or applied through fronts, such as the Group of Four, which threatened economic blackmail against El Salvador on behalf of the United States. President-elect Bill Clinton has already infonned the Salvadorans that his administration will continue the Bush administration policy u. s. gave the full force, participants reported. its greatest ViFMLlNctory • Press coverage favorable to the terrorists is so crucial to selling "peace accords," both internationallyand to a hos­ tile local population, that the press must censor reports of Jesuit priest Rodolfo Cardenal, assist�nt dean to El Salva­ guerrilla atrocities, participants insisted-a tactic well-used dor's Central American University, Who was in Colombia in El Salvador, where the international media promoted the to give a series of presentations on the Salvadoran peace FMLN as "fightersfor justice" against a military painted as process, participated in the Internatioital Seminaron Peace brutal and owned by the "oligarchy. " Negotiations held on Nov. 24, 25, and 26 in Bogota which Thus, the question today in Colombia, the CINEP confer­ was organized by the Center fo r Reseatch and Popular Edu­ ees stated, is that if the FMLN military offensive of Novem­ cation (CINEP). ber 1989 served to bring in the international "mediators," cannot the current bloody warfareof the Simon Bolfvar Guer­ "The peace agreement in EI Salvador Would not have been rilla Coordinator in Colombia bring about the same result? possible without the backing of the United States. Nothing Already, the leading Colombian group in the FMLN/Cuban can be done in Central America without taking into account Sao Paulo Forum, the M-19, has called for the United Nations the approval of the United States," Cardenal declared in re­ or an "independent commission" to replicate the Salvadoran sponse to a question from EIR during t�e CINEP seminar. experience with supranational negotiations. "The United States wanted to neg�tiate since the end of In Colombia, the guerrillas have gone on a rampage since the Cold War. The United States sugg4sted the fonnationof October, bombing the oil pipeline repeatedly. The M-19 a group of 'friends' of the U.N. secretary general, made pulled out of the government, the better to position itself for up of Colombia, Mexico, Spain, and: Venezuela, to avoid an international"mediation" effort. resistance to the direct participation of the United States. I want to say, as I have said in all my presentations, that the On balance, a disaster pressure of the group of four friends has been fundamental The peace accord is nearing its final stage in El Salvador. in resolving the three crises that have emerged during the Following ultimatums delivered by U.S. military and diplo­ peace process. matic officialsin November, the governmentof El Salvador "On these three occasions, the Salvadoran government has presented plans to purge the AnnedForces of all officers had refused to comply with the agreements and the group of unwilling to accept the takeover of the country by the commu­ four friends economically blackmailed the Salvadoran gov­ nist FMLN. According to a list released by the Non-Govern­ ernment. Venezuela and Mexico threatened to suspend subsi­ mental Commission of Human Rights of EI Salvador on Nov. dized oil sales, Colombia and Spain threatened to begin a 30, some 223 offi cers are to be purged by the end of the year, trade blockade, and the United States threatened to stop buy­ beginning with Defense Minister Gen. Rene Emilio Ponce ing coffee from El Salvador. and his deputy Gen. Orlando Zepeda. "The participation of the United States has been key to The list was prepared by a commission appointed by the forcing the governmentto comply. Forexam ple, in the last United Nations with the approval of the FMLN, and given crisis, the military officers who, according to the agreements, the task of "purifying" the Salvadoran military of officers had to leave the Anned Forces for h�ving violated human accused of human rights abuses or deemed "incapable of rights or because they were incapable, of living under a de­ living under democracy." Its deliberations were carried out mocracy, were ready to make a coup d' ¢tat. I'm talking about in secrecy, no justifications were provided for its decisions, a few days ago. They thought that Bush no longer governed and no appeals were allowed. the United States and that Clinton was not yet President, and EIR's Bogota correspondent talked to one military officer so that this was the moment to make a coup d'etat. But just back from a tour of duty in El Salvador with the United Bush and Clinton jointly infonnedthe governmentthat both Nations mission. He summarized the situation, saying, "The supported the agreements, and forced it to comply. At the peace [which] the U. N. has imposed consists of the gradual same time, the chief of the SouthernCommand [Gen. George delivery of power to the Marxists. The United States and the Joulwan] and the chief of the U.S. Joint Chiefs ofStaff [Gen. U.N. decided to give power to the FMLN." Colin Powell] went to EI Salvador and met with the officers,

EIR December 11, 1992 Investigation 47 Atrocities committed by the Shining Path terrorists in Peru. the friends of El Salvador's FMLN . When the Salvadoran guerrillas launched their famous 1989 "offensive," Shining Path fighters joined them. This was the first step toward the phony "peace accords" imposed on El Salvador by the United States. Peru. Colombia. and other nations are now targeted for the same treatment.

and warned them that the United States would not permit a came on Oct. 31, when the coup d'etat in El Salvador. In that way, acoup was prevented. from the agreements because "On numerous occasions when the U.N. secretary gener­ the purging of the Armed had not been carried out. , al could not resolve some problem, he called on the four "The United States and the intervened, and the re- friends. If the four friends could not resolve the matter, or it scheduling was carried out." was considered more a matter for the United States, then the A committee of three lawyers was set up to carry U.S. intervened." out the purge by indicating were the officers who had During his public conference, Cardenal stated that the violated human rights or were "incapable of living in a most important victory of the FMLN in the peace negotia­ democracy." In the begin , people didn't give two cents tions has been winning the distribution of 200,000 manzanas for the success of this '"'v,,, .....,""v. , since they were civilians (approximately 180,000 hectares), "which is going to be without any apparent power. "when the commission de- viewed as the FMLN's most important social triumph, since livered its report and the broke out and the reaction that figure represents more lands than have been distributed of the military was made n, then the success of that under the agrarian reform in all of [EI Salvador's] history." commission was evident," said. These lands were distributed under the command of the According to the report, some 115 military officers are FMLN, and will be administered through cooperatives that to be relieved of duty, mea ing the entirety of the military will receive official government credit. "Of course, this in command would be changed, he explained. The defense min­ the future is going to mean votes, a lot of votes." ister, all the generals, and a the lieutenant colonels would The most critical point leading to the rescheduling of the have to go. agreements was the "purging" and restructuring of the Armed When EIR asked if the �LN expected to win the next Forces, said Cardenal. The crisis occurred at precisely this elections, Cardenal responded: "In my opinion, the FMLN point. The governmentat one point argued that it had already shouldn't win the presidenc and shouldn't have this as its demobilized its rapid-deployment battalions. But in truth, immediate objective. The F r LN is not prepared to win the what they had done was transfer the personnel to other battal- presidency. I have talked wi h them, and the majority are in

48 Investigation EIR December 11, 1992 agreement. Many FMLN leaders think that it were better now will begin to be applied to other countries in the world." to consolidate forces, in the towns, in the assembly, and to Ramos, however, criticized the dquble role ofthe Onusal allow the right wing to take the presidency and discredit itself mission as cease-fire verifier and supervisor of the human by trying to solve the economic crisis. I think the FMLN has rights situation on the one hand, ancil at the same time the learned thelesson of Nicaragua well." diplomatic negotiator. According to I Ramos, this dual role Cardenal also said that the agreement in El Salvador was has prevented Onusal from truly ddouncing human rights possible because "the FMLN acquired the status of a belliger­ violations for fear of creating diplo�atic problems with the ent force," and because the first agreement that was signed Salvadoran government. i between the FMLN and the governmentwas "that of human Mrs. Myriam Melendez, from the El Salvador officeof rights," with very precise clauses and with international su­ national reconstruction, continued �ith a report on all the pervision by the United Nations "which prevented either of agreements signed with the FMLN uMer the supervision of the parties from evading their commitments. " the United Nations since 1989: the :San Jose Accord, the pacts of Geneva, Caracas, Costa Rijca, Mexico, and New U.N. official: EI Salvador is our laboratory York, in addition to the Chapultep¢ agreement signed in EIR's Bogota bureau filed the fo llowing report on the January 1992. Melendez revealed tha� with internationalsup­ discussion which occurred during the Nov. 25 panel on "The port, some $250 million had been o�tained for national re­ United Nations and Its Role in Non-International Armed construction-Qf which $120 million was given directly to C onfiicts, " part of the International Seminar on Peace Nego­ former FMLN combatants to obtain �ousing. tiations organized in Bogota, Colombia by the Center fo r Jesus Antonio Bejarano, Colom*ia's ambassador to El Research and Popular Education (C1NEP). Salvador and former governmentne gotiator with the FARC "The intervention of the Organization of the United Na­ and ELN guerrillas, also spoke at the forum. There are major tions in El Salvador is highly novel and unprecedented. It is diffetences between the peace proc¢ss in El Salvador and the firsttime that the U.N. has a mission in which it intervenes Colombia, he stated. He began withi the fact that the U.N. in an internal conflict," stated Angel Escudero Paz, a U.N. directly entered El Salvador because �he United States want­ officialrepr esenting that organization in Colombia. This in­ ed it to, and El Salvador depended-+and still depends-Qn tervention, he stated, "corresponds to the new role the United the United States, beginning with th� Salvadoran military's Nations has played since the end of the Cold War." dependence on U.S. handouts. In the second place, he said, The official said that although Article 2 of the U.N. the conflict in Colombia is not "gen¢ralized and polarized" founding charter establishes that there should be no interven­ as it was in El Salvador. Thirdly, the conflictin Colombia is tion in member nations without the approval of the nation not an East-West conflictas it was inEl Salvador. subject to the intervention, and establishes unconditional re­ "Coercion by the United States w�s key to the El Salvador spect for national sovereignty, "there is a new orientation in peace process. The formation of the group of four friends the United Nations that will lead to a change in its charter was also at the U.S. 's request," said Bejarano. next year, despite the fact that the charter is not changeable In El Salvador, the mutual lack iof confidence between every year." contending forces was resolved through coercion. There are "This new orientation has been expressed both by [former 1,000 U.N. officials in El Salvador, supervising the cease­ Secretary General Javier] Perez de Cuellar and by [Secretary fire. Of these , 700 are military personnel, 150 are police, and General Boutros] Boutros-Ghali," who have defended the the rest are human rights specialists. In the Colombian case, idea that "when there is systematic violation of human rights, the only solution for resolving the : mutual distrust of the national sovereignty cannot be used as a shield to prevent conflicting parties is the government's proposal that the U.N. intervention." Thus, a change in the United Nations is FARC and ELN establish themselves lin delimited geographic expected this year "to address this new reality." areas. In the case of El Salvador, when there was a violent Another of the changes that is going to be carried out, he incident, there were only two hypotheses: It was either the said, has to do with the U.N. Security Council. There will FMLN or the Army. In Colombia; there are at least 12 be more permanent members of the security council and the hypotheses: It could be any one o� the different guerrilla right to veto will be eliminated. "This is the context in which groups, the paramilitary squads, tne drug traffickers, the the United Nations took charge of the peace mediation in El common criminals, etc. Only if the iguerrilla is established Salvador." in very specificand controlled geogr.phic territories, argued Afterwards, Carlos Guillermo Ramos, director ofa study Bejarano, could a cease-firebe verifiedin Colombia. center at the Central American University in El Salvador, Alejandro Valencia Villa, Univt;lrsity of the Andes pro­ stated that "El Salvador is a kind of laboratory for the United fessor and CINEP collaborator, f01l10wed Bejarano. "One Nations, a sort of experiment, these are words that I like to asks oneself if a comparison could be made between Novem­ use, but they are the truth, a laboratory which, if it works, ber 1989 in El Salvador and November 1992 in Colombia.

EIR December 11, 1992 Investigation 49 One could say that one of the conditions missing [in Colom­ bia] is a generalized guerrilla offensive like that which oc­ curred in 1989 El Salvador. We would have to wait until U. N. militaryiptelligence March 1993 to know if here, too, the conditions exist for a peace intervention by the U.N . " says FMLN no backing He added that the Salvadoran process has yielded several h� I lessons for Colombia. The first is that in El Salvador, the A military intelligence sou1ce fr om the United Nations negotiations were never interrupted by military actions on Organization in EI Salvado� (Onusal) offered thefollow­ either side, as has happened in Colombia. The second is that ing on-the-ground observati�ns of the situation in EI Sal­ the negotiations and dialogue were never restricted as to vador to EIRfollowing the i\fov. 25 conference in Bogota, subject matter, nor was any theme considered postponable, Colombia organized by the ¢'enterfo r Research and Pop­ while in Colombia the government did not want to discuss ular Education (CINEP): i certain issues. The third lesson is that a human rights agree­ ment was signed well before the cease-fire was signed. I have had the opportunity to talk with peasants, with Colombian Ambassador Bejarano intervened at this point the guerrillas, and with SaIlvadoran Army officers. The to insist that in Colombia, human rights protection agree­ peasants did not support th� FMLN. Rather, they feared ments had indeed been signed and that internationalobserv­ the FMLN because if they qidn't collaborate, they could ers had been accepted, but that the problems of violence in be killed. The FMLN was n�ver a large organization, nor Colombia were much more complex than in El Salvador, did it have a chance of winning a military victory. while at the same time they corresponded more to internal The FMLN's actions �ere only massive in 1989, factors that had to be resolved by the Colombians themselves. when they announced their great offensive to take power. In fact, they always carrie� out very small attacks with The press must censor terrorist atrocities mortars, which could be clrrried out with three people During the Nov. 24 presentation, CINEP collaborator in a Renault-4 who later ftqd. These small attacks were and "independent" television journalist Ramon Jimeno magnified by the internatio,al press. Their actions were sp oke about "The Media in the Peace Negotiations." Jimeno simply terrorist. A few pedple could plunge a city or a is the author of a book on the M-19 terrorist assault on the population into darkness, an� these were the great attacks. Colombian Justice Palace in November 1985 entitled The The FMLN's famous 1�89 offensive, which was in Two Occupations (Las Dos Tomas), which presents the ter­ fact the beginning of the p�ace accords imposed by the rorist takeover and the military "seizure" of the palace as United States, was really nb such thing. That offensive comparable. was carried out by men lent from Nicaragua. Nicaragua Jimeno complained of the way in which the press covers sent 7,000 men, and the ofjfensive was carried out with military confrontations during peace talks. He complained 12,000. The other 5,000 wete squads of children under 15 that on various occasions, guerrilla actions were used as a years of age, headed by so�e "internationalists." These pretext to suspend dialogue and that neither the journalists "internationalists" were Cu�ans, Colombians, and Peru­ nor the owners of the media understand that during a dialogue vians who went to support the FMLN offensive. That is, process where there has been no cease-fire yet declared, they were from the FAR�, ELN, Shining Path, the "what the military forces of both sides try to do is express themselves with a show of force and to position themselves better for the negotiations." He criticized the press for de­ I scribing the guerrillas as common criminals, and protested rently ongoing has failed, "� example of the M-19 will that the government had put a price on the heads of the become more important. Its legalization demonstrated that it guerrilla chieftains. did not pose any threat to the i�stitutions and to democracy. He stated that the press had shown its weakness vis-a-vis No matter how many concessiqns are granted to the guerrilla negotiations with the drug traffickersand guerrillas following coordinator [FARC-ELN], thi�. will not pose any threat to the the kidnapings of such famous journalistsas Francisco San­ institutions." tos, son of EI Tiempo's director, and Diana Turbay. Ac­ At the conclusion of J imend' s presentation, CINEP direc­ cording to Jimeno, before those kidnapings, EI Tiempo had tor and Jesuit priest Francisco dp Roux complained of the bloc opposed negotiations but that afterwards, the newspaper had formed by the Colombian medi. association Andarios, whose changed its line and granted space to the demands of the members published a joint deflaration accepting the press traffickers in its pages. Thanks to that, said Jimeno, there censorship established by the s�ate of emergency, which pro­ were negotiations with the narcos and that focus of violence hibits the press from giving pu�licity to the terrorist groups. ended. De Roux said that only EI C olo,."bianocriticized the Andiarios According to Jimeno, when the military operation cur- position, and that later bothEI T¢empoand EIMundo editorial-

50 Investigation ElK December 11, 1992 MRTA ....To give an example of how important the aerial capability which enabled them! to immediately re­ role of these "internationalists" is, the director of [the spond to any FMLN action. This capability, for example, FMLN's] Radio Venceremos is a Colombian. doesn't exist in Colombia, where soldiershave to be trans­ That offensive was a military failure, and afterwards ported by land with the serious threat �f being ambushed. it was very difficult for them to recoup. But at that mo­ The guerrillas today are the ones who are judging the ment, the idea of "the peace" and the idea that nobody military, to determine who will be promoted and who will could win was sold ....At the same time, the FMLN not. Three years ago one saw an army in combat. Today could only operate with international support. Apartfrom one sees a headless, demoralized army, which is going to Nicaraguan backing, there were the refugee camps in be reduced by half and which in time: will be completely Honduras administered by the InternationalRed Cross. In infiltrated by subversion, because it is subversion which those camps, the family members of the guerrillas re­ is determining the promotions. ceived food, health care, and housing, while the other Thus, one can summarize the pea�e the U.N. has im­ victims of the conflictwho were not guerrillas remained posed as consisting of the gradual delivery of power to the without any kind of assistance. Marxists. The United States and the Q.N. decided to give But the guerrillas also went there to rest and recover power to the FMLN. I from their wounds. When they were on Salvadoran territo­ Now the guerrillas are going to bave land, coopera­ ry and the Army chased them, the guerrillas would go tives, administration of credit, and they are going to obtain to these sanctuaries [no-man's lands along the disputed the votes that they never had before. ifheyare also going border between EI Salvador and Honduras] and there the to have money from the state, while :the only obligation Army was restricted. Honduras never dismantled the of the guerrilla is to demobilize. They can say they are guerrilla camps for fear of international reaction .... handing in all their weapons, they c�n present the same In the Red Cross sanctuaries, there were also "Doctors guerrillas over and over again and rec�ive new identifica­ without Borders," who cared for the health of the guerril­ tion to legalize themselves. Since there is no control, the las and their families. All of them were Europeans, pri­ guerrillas can receive two or three pifferent identifica­ marily French. There, recently graduated doctors did their tions, and the FMLN can claim that it has already demobi­ rural internship. lized all its men. Within three years, the state is not going On numerous occasions, the Red Cross intervened to to have any defense, because that h.s already been de­ assist the guerrillas logistically. Sometimes the guerrillas stroyed by the peace agreements, and any little group were besieged and the Red Cross would enter, allegedly can overthrow a decapitated, demoralized, and infiltrated to assist the wounded, but in reality it was to re-supply army. them. The guerrillas which before mortified the people by The most important military victories of the guerrillas demanding their quotas of money, their collaboration, and were in the diplomatic negotiations and on the streets of who used serious threats to get it, will Fontinue to threaten U.S. cities, and not on the battlefield. The firstthing they and demand; only now they will be wearing police uni­ demanded was the dismantling of the rapid-deployment forms, and now they will receive their:quota not only from battalions. These were a few battalions with their own the citizens, but also from the state it�elf.

ly attacked El Colombiano for having done so. is demonstrated the press' ability to manipulate, and how De Roux accused the owners of the media who signed they consider themselves the owners pf public opinion." the Andiarios communique of "negotiating the consciences During the question and answer p¢riod, an incensed jour­ of their journalists. " Immediately, one of De Roux' s collabo­ nalist denounced the terrorist actions pf the guerrillas during rators reportedthat in the city of Cali, the political studies the negotiations, and asked if CINEP was asking the press not department of the Jesuit Javeriana University conducted a to report on "bole teo [a form of protec�ion money] , extortion, poll in September which claimed that 73% of the population kidnapings, assassinations, and vacu�," a variant of extor­ favored dialogue with the guerrillas, while a second poll tion. Jimeno responded that it was a f�ct that the officialarmy conducted in November showed that 83% of the people fa­ financed itselfwi th taxes, which wer¢ a kind of vacuna, and vored a military solution. that all of these guerrilla actions w¢re simply methods of According to De Roux, the guerrillas had done nothing tax collection to maintain themselves. "If one wants to be extraordinary to make the people change their minds. The objective, one must unify one's language. Either you call only thing that had happened was that the press decided to the army's being financed by taxes vacuna, extortion, and oppose the dialogues and to seek the military option. "Thus boleteo, or you call these guerrilla actions tax collection."

EIR December 11, 1992 Investigation 51 �TIillBooks

h What the Britis taught the Nazis about eug�nics

by Mark Burdman

proponents and developers c!>f eugenics, a pseudo-science that these British influential$--including Charles Darwin's Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human cousin Sir Francis Galton an� various sons of Darwin, mem­ Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources bers of the Huxley family, i International Monetary Fund and Its Criticsin Britain founder John Maynard Keyn.es, and others--concocted to by Pauline M.H. Mazumdar promote the reduction in numbers, if not the eventual elimi­ Routledge. New York. 1992 373 pages. hardbound. $74.50 nation, of categories of peo�le whose existence was unde­ sired by them. Such undesirdbles were, in the earliest years of the history of the Eugenics Education Society (the name of the group at the time of its founding in 1907), referred to Pauline Mazumdar's book is written in an objective, academ­ dismissively as "the residuum" and later as "the paupers"; in ic manner. often with technical sections that would tend to order to study them, the eugenics mob sponsored so-called appeal only to someone with a professional interest in genet­ "Pauper Pedigree Projects," tb reinforce the notion of "social ics, and her objectivity often makes it impossible to know class biologically defined." I Eventually, the name "social what her moral attitude is toward the subjects she is describ­ problem group" was used, tb describe what is today often ing. While these three elements conspire to make Eugenics, termed "the underclass." Human Genetics and Human Failings tedious reading at According to Mazumdar, "from its beginning in Britain, times, this problem is more than balanced by the fact that the eugenics spread to many other countries," creating a kind of book is dense with explosive material about one important "eugenics international." It was the British eugenists who, trend in the thinking of British political, scientific, and intel­ years before the Nazis existed, synthesized the philosophical lectual elites from the period of the 1880s until the Second ravings of the late 19th century's Friedrich Nietzsche about World War. Paradoxically, the dry, objective tone has the the Ubermensch ("Supermait" in English) into a coherent effect of making such material all the more shocking, and thought-matrix, to justify m�asures against what Nietzsche her devotion to her subject-matter has produced a lot of useful labeled "the inferior race." lit was these same Britons who, research. Mazumdar has written a book that is required read­ starting about 1930, togethet with the Rockefeller Founda­ ing for those seeking to understand crucial features of the last tion and related circles in tHe United States, promoted the 100 years of history, particularly the period from roughly work of the notorious Gerrrlan race scientist Ernst Riidin, 1880 to the Second World War, and to counter the simplistic including into the 1933 period when Riidin's work provided notions of this period purveyed in our media and university the basis for the Nazis' cOlitpulsory sterilization law, and textbooks. then used his work to promo�e eugenics measures in Britain. For all the voluminously documented crimes of the Beginning in 1929, the same individuals launched the institu­ Nazis, the fact is, leading British circles were the earliest tions of the neo-malthusian population control movement. It

52 Books EIR December 11, 1992 was Sir Francis Galton, the proponent of "hereditarianism," by the U.S. and Germany. The Gua�dian piece is entitled, who declared in 1883 that the "Age of Eugenics" had begun "Churchill's Plan for Race Purity." O�e of the dramatis per­ (the name of the Eugenics Society today is the Galton In­ sonae in Ponting's account, eugenist; Dr. Alfred Tredgold, stitute). also features prominently in MazumfIar's book. Ponting's While it was likely not her intention to do so, Mazumdar biography of Churchill will be publis�ed in 1993. has provided confirmationfor, and added crucial features to, the findingsreported in publications associated with Lyndon 'They should be shipped otT t� unhabited isles' LaRouche over the past 15 years. Her account complements What Mazumdar shows is that the British eugenists I various researchers' documentation of the activities of the sought frenetically to document the bi�logical-hereditary de­ eugenics movement in the United States, such as the Cold terminants of poverty, to provide ost,nsible scientificproof Springs Harbor/Eugenics Record Office group, whose col­ for the proposition that "pauperism �s hereditary" and that laboration with their British counterparts Mazumdar men­ "the poor were pathologically different from the rest of the tions, although she omits the Harriman family's funding of population," so as to be able to argue that there would be such activities. * Mazumdar gives crucial leads on the British no alternative to dealing with this "class," than to practice origin of and inspiration fo r such trends in the u.s. sterilization, involuntary confineme*, or other draconian The book is particularlytopic al, in a historical periodwhere means of control. The "assumed inheritance" of negative I eugenics thinking is being revived. Under conditions of worsen­ qualities made it seem to the Eugenics Society that "if the ing economic depression in the U.S., Britain, and other "ad­ prolificbreeding ofthis class were not controlled, pauperism vanced sector" countries, the recent years' propaganda about and its associated undesirable qualities must necessarily keep "the underclass" can rapidly evolve into an overt racist genocid­ on increasing until the direction of evolution of the human alist belief-structure, aimed at minority groups. This evolution race was reversed," she writes. is discernible in aspects of the propaganda of the American "Associated undesirable qualities' I could mean just about "neo-conservative" movement and in the popularization of the anything to the British eugenics pri�sthood, depending on writings of such quacks as the late William Shockley, whose their tastes. They could range from the supposedly inherited racialist theories werepromoted by George Bush when he was quality of "feeble-mindedness," to ak:oholism, criminality, a congressman. On a global scale, the same trend is perceptible carelessness, improvidence, indlfference, unlimited in the ideology underlying the so-called new world order, a selfishness, unemployability, slum-clwelling, etc. Mazum­ racialist malthusianism that seeks the elimination of "inferior" dar cites the characteristic view of Eugenics Society General non-white peoples, under the guise of concern about "overpo­ Secretary Charles Blacker, that "peoplewho are below aver­ pulation" and "the ecology." age in intelligence should be sterilized, even if they are not Regrettably, Mazumdardoesn 't address this continuity into actually defectives." It was this Bla4ker who actively pro­ the postwarera--except for some hints in the concluding pages moted the ideas of Germany's ErnstR ,din. The two regularly that the eugenics movement has shifted attention to the Third corresponded, and Rudin "sent Blacfcer a copy of the Pro­ World-but rather stops at asserting that the classical eugenics ceedings of the Prussian Landesgesu�dheitsrat [state health movement died out afterWorld WarII, mostly because of the council] announcing that eugenic sterilization was to be per­ emergence of the "welfare state," and also because the Nazis mitted there upon a voluntary basis. This pre-Nazi legislation had so discredited eugenics in the public mind. She doesn't was the first step towards the compulsory sterilization law, take up the issue of its reemergence in new forms and guises. the Gesetz zur Verhii.tungerbkranken Nachwuchses, that was Also, in making what seems to be the correct claim that the to be passed in July 1933, almost irnqtediately afterthe Nazi British version of eugenics expressed a concernwith classmuch accession. Rudin is said to have ha� it already prepared in more than the American and German versions, which were his desk drawer. " , more concernedwith race, she goestoo far in downplaying the As Mazumdar shows, many of the studies that were sup­ racialist element in the British case. posed to prove the phenomenon of linherited "undesirable But, hopefully, a debate on this point is now beginning qualities" never discovered very much in reality, and the in Britain. On June 20, the London Guardian reported the hard-core eugenists came under sevtre attack from certain findingsof British researcher Clive Ponting, on the late Win­ leading geneticists and others. But nopetheless, the scientific ston Churchill's support for sterilization and forced detention patina that was given to class bias � racism conformed to of "mental degenerates" and "the feeble-minded," in order the policy intent of British elites, sUfh that eugenists often to prevent the weakening of the "British race," especially in contributed to governmentadvisory «ommittees. For exam­ light of the growing economic-industrial threat represented ple, Eugenics Society ideas were in�orporated in the 1909 "Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control I * See George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley of the Feeble-Minded," which was p�epared by a joint com- and Anton Chaitkin, Washington, D.C.: EIR, 1992, Chapter 3; and also EIR Special Report on "The Genocidal Roots of Bush's 'New World mittee of members of the Society anq the National Associa­ Order.' " tion for the Care and Protection of the Feeble-Minded, in-

EIR December 11, 1992 Books 53 cluding Churchill adviser Tredgold. Also, when the "Mental and many other 'ills the fleshis Iheir to.' " DeficiencyAct" came into force in 1914, the Eugenics Soci­ To accomplish its goals, the society formed a "Commit­ ety called it "the only piece of English social law extant in tee for Legalizing Eugenic Sterilization," with which Julian which the influence of heredity has been treated as a practical Huxley was associated, and wbich was the vehicle through factor in determining its provisions." which the Eugenics Society fitst made contact with Ernst More often than not, the eugenists' point was made rude­ Rudin in 1930. As Mazumdar writes, Rudin's group in Mu­ ly and crudely, and the most shocking parts of Mazumdar's nich had developed a method of "empirical hereditary prog­ account appear in her quotes from some of the more candid nosis," the "practical result" of �hich "was to be the selection spokesmen. In 1908, one Dr. Ettie Sayer told the (misnamed) of diagnostic categories that wpuld require sterilization for Moral Education Congress, on the subject of "real moral the elimination of pathologicali genes from the population. ...In 1930, needing more d,*a to support its sterilization campaign, the British Society tliIrnedto Rudin." AsMazumdar writes, Rildin's group 'Control of the excessive ifertility' in Munich had developed a method As Mazumdar shows, the ehgenics movement, while an qf"empiricalhereditary prognosis ," outgrowth of the emerging sci�nce of genetics, was rooted in the writings of Parson ThoIktas Malthus, who had been the "practical result" qfwhich "wasto obsessed with the "uncontrolled! fertility of the poor and espe­ be the selection qfdiagnostic cially the paupers." In 1916, Sdciety President Leonard Dar­ categories that would require win stated that the works of �Ithus "unquestionably form Ii sterilizationJo r the elimination qf the starting-point for all specu ation on population, and are still valid in substance." ! pathologicalgenes Jro m the In the last quarter of the 19th century, malthusianism was population.. ..In 1930, needing reinforced by the ideology of "social Darwinism." Mazum­ d more data to supportits sterilization dar presents evidence of an int resting shift in British social policy, consolidated during t�e period from 1859, when campaign, the British Society turned Charles Darwin's Origin of Spdcies was published, to 1886, to Rildin. " when riots by poor people in L�don terrified"the propertied classes." During this period, th� British upper-crust progres­ sively dropped Christian terminology in describing the prob­ lem of the poor. There had bedl a propensity to use the word degenerates": "If diagnosed as so actively anti-social and "charity" in dealing with the poor, even if the content defined morally indirigible as to be unfit ever to live among a pure, by that word had less to do wit� the Christian teachings of St. honest, unselfishand public-spirited people, they should be Paul than with promoting a fordtof "soft"social engineering, classified and shipped off to various unhabited isles." Or, based on the notion that the bxistence of the "residuum" Eugenics Society President Leonard Darwin (one of Charles resulted from lack of sufficient!"morals" or "character." Darwin's several sons to be involved in the society's work) But in the 1880s, "the emphasis changed from demoral­ described the kinship relationships shown in the Pauper Pedi­ ization to degeneration, as thel growth of social Darwinism gree Projects, as being like "rivers, flowingsteadily on wide added a biological side to the1 picture of the casual poor." fronts, carrying on their surface patches of refuse." So, while the Charity Organijzation Society saw "lack of From Cambridge, which Mazumdar identifiesas a hotbed character of the residuum as tht underlying cause of all their of eugenics sentiment in the pre-World War I period, the problems," the Eugenics Education Society felt that "inher­ Rev. William R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, made a speech on ited defect in tum underlay tlk lack of character, and that "Some Social and Religious Aspects of Eugenics," in which control of the excessive fertility of these people would get to he stated: "I cannot say I am hopeful about the near future. I the root of the matter. The ferdlity control method that they am afraid that the urban proletariat may cripple our civiliza­ preferred was that of compuls�ry detention in state institu­ tion as it destroyed that of ancient Rome. These degenerates, tions; campaigns for the detendon of inebriates, of those with who have no qualities that confer survival value, will proba­ venereal disease and of the feeble-minded were all carried bly live as long as they can by 'robbing hen roosts,' as Mr. on vigorously in the Society's �rst few years." As Mazumdar Lloyd-George truthfully describes modem taxation, and will shows, several leading eugenisls, such as Churchill's favorite then disappear ...." One C.S. Stock, in a 1912 document Dr. Tredgold, like Malthus bjefore them, were adamantly published in Cambridge, praised eugenics research as "likely against charity, since this wouJd just perpetuate the "residu­ in the near future to provide us with the knowledge of how urn." Malthus had warned tliat charity "would minimize to rid society of a great incubus of disease, crime, deformity whatever prudential check th� poor were prepared to put

54 Books EIR December 11, 1992 - upon their fecundity," and thereby advised against provision Bride had written in 1913: "The lessons which the eugenist of housing to the poor. seeks to enforce are written out in �ame across every page In sum, the eugenists argued that the primary causes of of zoology: The wiping out of the less perfectly developed destitution were defects either inherited or transmitted in and less adaptive tribes is going 0$ daily before our very utero, and what emerged, as the elements that came together eyes. If this sort of mental pabulum were supplied to those to form the eugenics movement in the beginning of the 20th who are likely to become our public men and leaders instead century, was a melange of Malthus, Darwin, and the specific of the exclusively classical educatio� on which the last gener­ ideas of "hereditarianism" put forward by Darwin's cousin ation has been reared, the eugenists would not preach to Sir Francis Galton, the guru of the eugenics movement. deaf ears." In 1924, the same Mac�ride railed against the In 1929, such ideas branched out to encompass the issue "pernicious doctrine of the equalit� of man," because of of population control, with the formation of the British Popu­ which, he claimed, the doors of immigration were opened lation Society, which had 20 members, 14 of whom were wide and North America had becom¢ filled with a vast crowd members of the Eugenics Society, including Sir Bernard of Mediterranean peoples, who were "outbreeding" their I Mallet, president of the Royal Statistical Society and presi­ Nordic neighbors. dent of the Eugenics Society; Julian Huxley; John Maynard From such Nietzschean inputs, it is not difficult to see Keynes. The British Population Society had its offices within that the British eugenists would be attracted to Nazi race the Eugenics Society's rooms and was affiliated with the science as per Riidin, nor that one branch of the movement, InternationalUnion for the ScientificInvestigation of Po pula­ the "Positive Eugenics Committee," would, in 1934, be par­ tion Problems, headquartered at the Institute for Biological ticularly interested in the political ! measures taken by the Research at Johns Hopkins University. Economist Keynes, fascist governmentsin Italy and in Germany. who later was to found the International Monetary Fund, portrayed unemployment as a sign of overpopulation, Ma­ And the Fabians?

zumdar points out. There are two other aspects to I Mazumdar' s book that require comment. One is the matter of the fieldof genetics . 'Pernicious doctrine of the equality of man' itself. Mazumdar is a professional .n this domain, and be­ Malthusianism and social Darwinism were reinforced in cause this reviewer is a layman, m$ny details flew by him. the early 20th century by the influenceof the English transla­ From the overall evidence present�, however, it is not so tions of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The library of easy to tell what the difference is b�tween genetics as such, the Eugenics Society in London contains the early series of and some version of eugenics thinkiljlg, and Mazumdar occa­ Nietzsche translations, and several books on his work. As sionally seems to equate the two. EVen those geneticists op­ Mazumdar notes, "The commentators at this time generally posed to the hard-core social eugerjics view, favored some saw Nietzsche as the philosopher of Darwinism and evolu­ notion of social engineering, using $enetics research to "im­ tion, whose Ubermensch was the forerunner of a new human prove the race." From other epistet$logical and philosophi­ race, a master-race." cal musings in the book, it would Sejemthat genetics itself is Hence, top Eugenics Society figures Havelock Ellis and rooted in a kind of deterministic materialism and radical R.A. Fisher were heavily influenced by Nietzsche, with the positivism, almost a kind of Gnosti�ism. Much to the point latter searching for "a new natural nobility of worth and here, is the comment of T. H. Huxley, one of the main philo­ birth." Also Maximilian Muegge, a founding member who sophical-scientificinspirers of the ellgenics movement, who occasionally lectured for the Eugenics Education Society, in 1889 stated his "untiring oppositjon to that ecclesiastical wrote in 1909 in the firstvolume of the Eugenics Review that spirit, which in England as everywh¢re else, and to whatever Sir Francis Galton had founded a racial religion: the ideal of denomination it may belong, is the dtadly enemy of science." the super-man would supply the religious feeling of responsi­ The last point, and a somewha. distressing one, is Ma­ bility which would give the science its popular support. Simi­ zumdar's ambiguous attitude toward the Fabian and Marxian larly, there was Georges Chatterton-Hill, a Nietzschean com­ left in Britain. She seems to symp�thize with their critique mentator who wrote an article in the Eugenics Review in of the class-based eugenics propaga�da, while admitting that 1912, directly quoting Nietzsche: "In the whole of Europe, the Fabians had their own quite w�ll-thought-out eugenics the inferior race has now triumphed, in regard alike to their philosophy, as expressed in some a1jrociousviews quoted by color and their brachycephalic features and perhaps even in her from Sidney Webb and J.B.S. iHaldane, both of whom regard to their intellectual and social instincts ....The race saw a classless socialist society as a ¢'oreeffective vehicle for of the Masters and Conquerors is decaying even in a physio­ introducing policies like compuls0rtsteri lization. However, logical sense." she omits some of the wildest eugepics views expressed by Nietzschean ideas were also reflectedin the ideas of Er­ H.G. Wells, George Bernard Sha\\1, and others of their ilk. nest W. MacBride, professor of zoology at Imperial College, The reader would have to have reco+rse to others' researches who organized Eugenics Society courses after 1914. Mac- to fill in this gap in Mazumdar's ot�rwise exhaustive work.

ElK December 11, 1992 Books 55 perfect or nearly so . . . to the tijen-existing conditions.' Out of the millions that perish comes the one perfect being." I

Darwin's tradition today i A look at anti-human It is also interesting to see ®w Darwin's anti -scientific tradition persists today. In the fOlithcomingSpring 1993 issue ecologism's fo rebear of the Schiller Institute quarterlylFidelio in an article entitled "On the Subject of God," Lyndqn LaRouche criticized a re­ by Stuart K. Lewis cent address by Oxford's Rich�d Dawkins, which had la­ beled belief in God a disorder of tije brainanalogous to a "com­ puter virus." The address hadl included the formulation: "These are arbitrary, hereditary �eliefs which people are told at a critical age, passed on froqt your parents rather like a The Life of a TormentedEvolut ionist: Darwin virus." Dawkins had added "th;t 'evolutionary theory' has removed any scientificbasis for guing the existence of God, by Adrian Desmond and James Moore ajr Warner Books , New York, 1991 and said that people who believelin a God who is responsible 808 pages, hardbound, $35 for the order and beauty of the u�iverse are 'stupid.' " Dawkins's attack on the cohctrence of science and faith is just a printout from the beliefs lof Darwin, paraphrased by For anyone who's suspected that the Charles Darwin, author Desmond and Moore as follo�s: "Habits and beliefs had of the dominant atheistic modem theory of evolution called evolved, inextricably linked to *e mental machinery, every "natural selection," had a political and ideological rather than instinct, every desire could be l<�cated here, each and evolu­ a scientificagen da, this book provides a massive compilation tionary inheritance--eventhe a40ration of God; 'love of the of facts to prove it. deity [is the] effect of such orgatIization.' " Darwin thought In some 700 pages of text, the authors show that Darwin, that "instincts pass from gene�ation to generation, coded who published his On the Origin of Sp ecies by Means of somehow in the brain." He evenjthought that "anti-social be­ Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in haviorcan be inherited"-a beliqflater codifiedby the Nazis. the Struggle fo r Life in 1859, was an avid follower of the What kind of person held s�ch views? According to the economic theory of Parson Thomas Malthus (natural re­ authors, "Darwin was living on a family fortune, and thrusting sources can't keep up with population) and based his entire a bitter competition on a starvin� world for its own good." He theory on malthusian tenets. was a petty English squire who tieverworked a day in his life The book portrays Darwin's hostility to the concept of and associated himself with the/ atheistic freethinkers of his imago viva Dei, or man made in the living image of God as day-although he himself was .00 scared to publicly admit the crown of creation, which is shared by Jews and Chris­ much of their anti-Christian billiS. He took over 20 years to tians. The authors say: "Apes failed to frighten him; the publish his theories of evolution because he feared for his rep­ brutalization threat passed harmlessly overhead. What an­ utation. Throughout his life he as�ociated with those who went gered him was quite the reverse, the arrogance of those who to seances and those who belielved in phrenology (judging put mankind on a pedestal," or "Darwin became more and people by the shape of their head*) and claimed the "European more frustrated by an arrogant theology. 'People often talk aristocracy is handsomer than tije middle classes." of the wonderful event of intellectual Man appearing,' he Darwin collected specime�-worms, barnacles, bee­ sniffed, smashing another idol, yet 'the appearance of insects tles-his major occupation. Hel declared, "I am a withered with other senses is more wonderful.' Human chauvinism leaf for every subject except Science," and "Orchids moved [sic] now outraged him." him more than pipe organs, cor�ls more than the Hallelujah Darwin's disbelief in any spark of the divine nature in Chorus." He suffered from a Severe stomach ailment, the man is also evident in the malthusian mechanics of how he cause of which no one could figuke out-to the point of taking thought evolution functions. Instead of a negentropic uni­ quack remedies. His ailments kept him from traveling so verse where natural law guides events to a higher state of much that in 1 870s when he wen�visiting, it was "the firsttime perfection, Darwin believed the hand of evolution is guided in 25 years that Charles had been �nyone 's house guest outside by mechanistic forces, like the magic workings of the "invisi­ the immediate family." While the great detail was certainly ble hand" in the economic theories of Malthus and Adam welcome, when the authors descpbed the period to put his life Smith: in historical context, or his trav�ls on the Beagle, it became a "More and more he realizedt he irony of perfection arising bit much in the last chapter in en4ess descriptions of Darwin 's from cutthroat competition. The perfect adaptive nuance was final days. Who cares about brahdy trickling down his beard 'the surviving one of 10,000 thousand trials--each step being onto his nightdress, or how mady times he vomited?

56 Books EIR December 11, 1992 Countless books have been written on the Second World War. This one sets out to illuminate fhe world views that made it possible, the outlook of the tWQ men who, more than any others, made that terrible history.

The approach Hitler, Stalin, and Probably the most fundamental w3jY in which we learn, and then may come to understand, histryis through biogra­ phy. What is too vast-and, as with Na�ism and Bolshevism, the nature of too hideous-to fathom in a mass of fact, can best be seen tyranny through study ofthe lives ofthe individ al actors. Even when by Molly Hammett Kronberg � history'S outcome is radically different from what its makers purposed, it is those individual men Who made it, and not impersonal forces. Therefore, this double biography iof Hitler and Stalin, Hitler andStalin : Parallel Lives two "great bad men," in Carlyle's phfiilse, contributes enor­ by Alan Bullock mously to our efforts to understand What happened in our Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1992 century. 1.081 pages. hardbound. $35 Comparison of historical figures is usually shallow, at best, but not in this case. For one thing , the personalities of Hitler and Stalin­ Alan Bullock has modeled this fascinating book in some born together, like twins, from the irrationalist and mon­ respects on Plutarch's Lives, the classic of the 1 st century strous delusions of twin ideologies of the end of the 19th A.D. in which the Graeco-Roman historian attempted to century-collided in the greatest war mankind has ever point up the morals he saw inherent in the study of history, known. They were each other's Neme�is. through the device of writing "parallel lives" of the great The personalities were very differeJl1t, in fact, as Bullock conquerors and warlords of the age. shows; so were the ideologies of N�tional Socialism and Here, Bullock arranges and portrays, through lengthy Bolshevism-and yet, in their effect pf terror and misery, twin biographies, an incredible scope of 20th-century histo­ remarkably similar, because they shared the premises of utter ry, and succeeds in making it a moral history, of the type the contempt for human beings' lives and pappiness, and hatred ancients oftenwrote, and most moderns avoid. for the Judeo-Christian culture that e�ch vowed to destroy. The moral and morality which Bullock conveys above all Hitler and Stalin were authentic heirs pf the late 19th centu­ are the value ofthe individual human person; the inestimable ry's radical rejection of past European civilization based on importance of the individual's right to freedom, as expressed notions of reason and progress; radicallrejection of the civili­ best in the remarkable assertion of the Declaration of Inde­ zation which had led to the Ameriqn Revolution and its pendence that all men "are created equal and are endowed by assertions about Man. I their Creatorwith certain inalienable rights, that among these The two men's commonality is crystallized in the Hitler­ are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." The genius Stalin Pact of 1 939-that prelude to their shared "great ad­ of that phrase lies in the words "Pursuit of Happiness"-the venture" (as Hitler called it), of blast�ng Old Europe out of individual's God-given right to a conscience and personality, history. Their collision, of course, \\las the Second World and thoughts, and happiness, of his own. War on the Eastern Front, ultimatelYidestroying Hitler and Directly drawn from the lives of Bullock's two subjects Nazi Germany, and bringing into the center of Europe the is the corollary insight that all ideologies which deny the Soviet colossus. importance of the individual are identical-no matter how Bullock wrote this book as the Soviet power was van­ opposed they superficiallyseem . ishing, probably the firstmajor work pn Stalin to be written In the middle decades of the 20th century, the inalienable in the aftermath of the Soviet empire. Thus, he was in the rights of millions of people were stripped away, and with position of being able to look back on!the Soviet Union, and their rights, their lives. There erupted enormous organized to write from an intellectual distance which strengthens his evil in which masses of people participated, and masses of insights. people died; ideologies of death and destruction which were explicitly philosophically opposed to the truths the Declara­ The ideologies tion of Independence calls self-evident. This 20th-century In Hitler and Stalin, we are confronted with one man eruption culminated, like classical tragedy, in cataclysm­ whom we might call the ultimate Rjomantic, and another War and Holocaust. whom we might call the quintessential Materialist.

EIR December 11, 1992 Books 57 The ideology of Nazism derived from the currents of sacrifice was the slaughter of a people chosen by the other racist, volkische Romanticism best represented at the close God, the God of the Bible. �nd thus, Hitler killed out of of the 19th century by Richard Wagner, the composer of a principle. The extermination of the Jews was not expedient; pagan body of work whose central premise was Un-Rea­ far from it-the huge machirtry involved in the Holocaust son-or, as Wagner expressed it, the salvific role of the was diverted, deliberately, from the effort of "total war." But unconscious impulses to destruction ("cleansing") and re­ the e�ter�inati�n of the Jew� tas the f�nda�ental stateme�t creation, which he believed were carried as biological prop­ of Hltler s beliefs about hiS god, hiS umverse, and hiS erties of the "Germanic peoples." Exaltation of the "Aryan" mission. (Nietzsche's "blond beast"), and debasement and hatred for Stalin killed for different �easons; for expediency, to re­ the "inferior peoples," above all, the Jews. Combined with move obstacles-because he could think of no other way to this, love of Death as being the deepest expression of every deal with opposition, except tp drown it in blood. He killed true emotion. to slake his paranoia, as well, !for he was always terrified, as This was racial mysticism, found in Wagner, Dostoev­ Hitler was not, that the men arbund him were plotting against sky, and countless lesser figures-and it became Hitler's him; that whole classes of pebple, or regions of the Soviet particular variant of the ancient heresy of Gnosticism. Hit­ Union, were secretly sChemin� his downfall, and that of the lerism was, as Bullock says in his 1952 biography, Hitler: A grim, inhuman doctrine he re�r. esented. Study in Ty ranny, the philosophy of the Viennese gutter, the Stalin was a sinister shadqw, the paradigmatic eminence l crudest kind of social Darwinism, made into transcendent grise who haunted his country and his countrymen. The ulti­ religious experience. Hitler absorbed its components as a mate bureaucrat, Stalin achieved and operated his unlimited young man infin de sil�cle Vienna. To this ideology he con­ power through the organizations of the Bolshevik Party and tributed one thing new: his utter, radical literalness . He prac­ the state institutions which flQWedfrom that party in power. ticed what all the others, from Wagner to the Count de Gobi­ Rarely did he step out beforel the Soviet public; at bottom, neau, had only preached. A "terrible simplifier," he put there was no Soviet public. I-le ran a prisonhouse carefully together the bits and pieces of racial villainy and adulation sealed off from the West, a "workers' state" in which every of war which he had imbibed, into a ferocious and systematic worker and peasant was an atom, isolated from all others, world view, at the core of which stood what Hitler called fragmented, dehumanized by tIecr ushing power of the state. the "saving doctrine of the absolute insignificance of the That crushing power was expressed by Stalin in 1936 in individual" (and its complement, the infinite value of the chilling terms: "Do you knoW' how much our state weighs, "Race"). with all the factories, machin�s, the army, with all the arma­ Now tum to Stalin's Materialism. Marxism had had a ments and the navy? . . . And can one man withstand the long theoretical existence when Stalin came to it. "Dialectical pressure of that astronomical weight?" materialism," Vladimir Lenin's own brand, lay ready-made Thus, from 1924 onwards, through the 1930s, Stalin to Stalin's hand. Where Hitler was the theoretician of a Nazi starved millions in Ukraine, l�st they oppose his devastation movement he himself had hallucinated, Stalin never laid of agriculture. He purged thei Communist Party repeatedly, claim to having developed the theory, nor founded the move­ killing virtually every party l�ader who had participated in ment, that became the Bolsheviks. His role was as its only the Bolshevik coup of 1917, land using the Purge Trials of "interpreter ," particularly after he had seen to it that all his the mid- 1930s to extend his tleadly reach into the second, rivals were dead. and third, and further levels. Be used the mechanism of the Materialism taught that human beings were socially de­ Purge Trial to wipe out mos� of the leadership of the Red termined, by physiology, class, economic reality, means of Army. In sum: a reign of terror that consumed millions, and production; and that all history is the product of inexorable fed Stalin's thirst to murder mpre. forces, economic and material, moving inevitably from one Although, as Bullock say$, it is unprofitablefor laymen stage in organization to another. In this world view of Sta­ to debate whether Hitler and Stalin were legally or clinically lin's, the individual is of no consequence at all, certainly not insane-"for whatever their p$ychological condition, in nei­ (as for Hitler) as hero or devil. The only real personality ther case did it disable them Ifrom functioning as masterly is that of the Historical Forces; the human beings are just politicians"-there is no question that the core of Stalin's History's more or less effective handmaidens, and hence personality was pathological �aranoia. Every other human entirely expendable. consciousness was a threat toiStalin; every mind capable of entertaining a thought-even jf a thought in agreement with The personalities Stalin's own dictates-was art "enemy of the people." Thus Hitler's god was the race, but more than that, the pagan Stalin murdered virtually eve:ryone he ever worked with; deity he usually called Providence, whom he believed com­ slavish obedience and doglike loyalty guaranteed no one's manded him to purify the world; a god of war and blood, the life. Not only did he kill off alJ the Leninist leadership of the god of the "Ayran race," to whom the ultimate propitiatory Bolshevik Party; he killed off1the men whom he used to kill

58 Books EIR December 11, 1992 off his colleagues. ment gives way to coldest reason"). Stalin committed breathtaking perfidies with no sign of Of the two, Hitler is more humanj strangely-and more emotion, not even anger or hatred. There is something un­ terrifying. Stalin is the man without � soul; Hitler, the man speakably horrifying about the mood of black humor in which who sold his soul to the Devil. That is why, half a century he acted. Just as mind-destroying Marxist-Leninist "dialec­ later, when our culture requires an tlltimate expression of tical materialism" was the theoretical and cultural expression evil, Hitler is that symbol. of absence of humanity, so his own character had the quality of mechanical force, glacial, deliberate, irresistible. The meaning And, as other human consciousnesses threatened Stalin, What are we leftwith? Their likeness lies in their devotion so they threatened his Materialist world view, in which there to diabolical views of the world whichihave made of the 20th were no people, only classes and forces. century precisely what Nietzsche exultantly foresaw: the age How different was Hitler! His whole political career was in which God is dead, or marked 04t to be killed, by the an unrelenting courtship of the crowd. No bureaucrat, no Satanic figures who would storm hehven and make them­ gray eminence-but the absolute demagogue, the man of the selves gods. people, always in the public eye, always interacting with his Among Nietzsche's hallucinatory! writings on this topic masses, continually stimulated and energized by the swirling is Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), in which he takes the ! mob. Awkward and even shy in private, but supremely con­ phrase with which Pontius Pilate refeI1S to Christ, and makes fidentin the midst of the mass. it refer instead to himself-Nietzsc�e/Lucifer, or perhaps In Hitler, we see a man prey to emotional upheaval, from Superman, in the age without God. That godless pride is the rage and hatred to ecstatic self-identification with his god, a disease of the second half of the 19th ¢entury, and the whole man whose whole life is a battle to impose his monstrous will of the 20th; above all, of Hitler and Stitlin. to power on his own personality, first, and only then on the It is to such Luciferian rebellion t�t Bullock refers when world. Stalin stands before us as a man with no internal he writes of Hitler's "commit[ting] tre sin that the Greeks conflicts; Hitler, as a man who is entirely conflict, held in called hybris, of believing himself to be more than a man."

check by a drastic effort of Kantian will. Hitler achieved a Hearking back to Greek tragedy, BulI lock adds, "No man kind of glacial self-control, himself; a state of remoteness in was ever more surely destroyed by tht'J image he created than which, as Hjalmar Schacht once said, "He never let slip an Adolf Hitler." This is more obviou�ly true of Hitler than unconsidered word." But that achievement was hard won; an Stalin. Stalin won the war and died iq his bed; Hitler lost on artificialimpositi on, by Hitler on Hitler, of his conception of a staggering scale and died by his o�n hand, confronted by what a world-historical figure must be. At the end of his life, the shipwreck, not only of party and lReich, but of his own we see in him the psychological wreckage left behind by such personality. Stalin's shipwreck did not come till many years a "triumph of the will." later, as Bullock writes, when there I1ppeared, scrawled on Like Stalin, he functioned with a horrible efficiency, for the Berlin Wall just before it was demqlished, "Stalin is dead; which his opponents were no match. But with Hitler, one is Europe lives." i conscious of never being very far from the kind of madness Of this book, Bullock commentedf "Looking back, I can­ the ancient Greeks described as Dionysian: A rigid self-con­ not think of a better preparation for �riting about Hitler and trol was required to keep in check an imagination that vaulted Stalin than a close study of ThucYdi4es, Tacitus, and those so high, it threatened to smash its possessor to pieces, as at sections of Aristotle's Politics that de�l with the Greek expe­ last it did. rience of tyranny." One should add thd great classical tragedi­ Where Stalin, with his soulless shark's eyes, flat and ans, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and S4hiller. Their plays ex­ empty, killed untroubled by any emotion, Hitler was a man plore tyranny and its destructionof Jt.1an; and tyrants' self­ whose emotions drove him to kill-because it answered com­ destruction. In their tragedies we see !the effects of that fatal pulsions religious in nature, of a religion altogether barbaric. flaw of hybris, of overweening pridF, in which the tyrant Stalin murdered his closest collaborators, on the off-chance believes himself more than a man, w�ile other men are cor­ that some day they might threaten him. For most of his life, respondingly devalued to nothing. i Hitler turned a blind eye to opposition among the men around Perhaps the horrors of the Se

EIR December II, 1992 Books 59 �TIillNatio nal

Claims of u. s. recov�ry are a politicalhoax .

by H. Graham Lowry

As the U.S. economic depression continues to deepen, the what hundreds of thousands df Americans know first-hand: only noticeable upturn of late has been in the amount of "Big companies, even to this

60 National EIR December 11, 1992 lay off 16,000 workers. McDonnell Douglas, which has laid The ongoing orgy of budget cuts, �ntended to cover the off 17,000 workers in the last two years at its commercial deficit, has only accelerated the collapse fCalifornia's revenue aircraft division in Long Beach, California, recently an­ base. A recent private forecast, for examJllle, projected the elim­ nounced further production cutbacks for next year. ination of 37,000public employees by next June, as a resultof Waves of already-announced mass layoffs will begin hit­ spending cuts adopted in September. T�o months ago, a state ting as soon as Bill Clinton takes office, and no sector of the commission estimated that cuts in fedttal defense spending, economy will be spared-not even the "magical" market­ which cost California 180,000jobs the last two years, will force place, where employment levels in banking, insurance, and another 60,000aerospace layoffs by 19914. Outrightshutdowns financial services are collapsing rapidly. A dozen major cor­ and cutbacks at U.S. military bases in the state are expected to porations in the last six weeks have announced layoffs in the eliminate 21,000civil ian jobs as well. four-figure range, including a total of 15,000 by just three companies: American Express, Borden, and Bristol-Meyer The NAFTA menace Squibb. When you add the devastating cutbacks announced If the next administration is to do anything to reverse this by the auto industry, the evidence is more than sufficientto imminent and massive surge in unem�oyment, it must also definea national economic emergency. General Motors plans discard another hoax-one that Bill

EIR December 11, 1992 National 61 I 1 on tape : 'Kidnapers, It's all InI c.' plot to nab Lewis Pont S$ith du I by Wa rren A.J. Hamerman

On Dec. 14, the trial is scheduled to begin in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia of fivemen charged with conspiracy to Documentation kidnap Lewis du Pont Smith and his wife, Andrea Diano Smith, and to "deprogram" them from their political associa­ tion with Lyndon LaRouche. In pre-trial hearings at the end of November, Judge Timothy Ellis issued the following rulings: Excerpts frani.the tapes 1) He denied the defense's multiple motions for a delay As part of the public record in the federal case against New­ in trial, more time for discovery, and requests for more dis­ bold Smith, Galen Kelly, Dobald Moore, et al., portionsof covery from the government. the more than 60 hours of gov�rnmentele ctronic surveillance 2) He denied defendant Don Moore's requests to loosen have been submitted along tith the pre-trial proceedings. his pre-trial release conditions. We publish a selection ofthesj':here , without alteration, from 3) He ruled on a governmentin limine (limiting) motion the court transcript. The follolwing abbreviations are used: with the following words: "The motion in limine is granted DP= Douglas Poppa (a g�vernmentinforma nt), with respect to evidence concerningthe nature of the Lyndon DM=Donald Moore, Jr. i LaRouche organization insofar as such evidence relates to GK=Galen Kelly I establishing a motive for the alleged kidnapping. This Court UI=unintelligible I has ruled that motive is not a material element of a kidnapping IA= inaudible I offense. The motion in limine is denied insofar as such evi­ i dence may be used to refute the conspiracy charge or to 'Get crazy people to d� it' provide an innocent explanation for conduct or statements From a recorded convers�tion which took place on Sept. relied on by the government to prove the elements of the 30, 1992 in Lovettsville, Vir�inia, shortly before the arrest conspiracy to kidnap charge." of Moore and Kelly: ! The defendants in the case include: GK: ...My current state of thinking on it [how to do E. Newbold Smith, a millionaire from Radnor, Pennsyl­ the physical kidnaping of Sq.ith-ed.] is uh . . . get crazy vania, and father of 36-year-old heir to the du Pont family people to do it. My current thinking of crazy people would fortune Lewis du Pont Smith. The elder Smith has collaborat­ be uh. . . . I ed for years with the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), Henry DM: (VI) i Kissinger, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith GK: No. Crazier, ah cra�ier than that. Either (VI) .... (ADL), and others in a "Get LaRouche" task force. Eight DM: Is there such an anirpal that can still breath air? years ago, Newbold Smith initiated proceedings which led GK: Well, either two, tto types of people. One might to his son being declared mentally incompetent by a rigged be bikers. I Pennsylvania court. DP: Vh, hum. i Donald Moore, one of the principal figuresin the judicial DM: (laughing) oh, yeahf frameup that imprisoned Lyndon LaRouche. Moore is a for­ DP: What's the advanta� of using them over what you mer lieutenant of the Loudoun County, Virginia Sheriffs normally use? Office. GK: I would like to yo� know divorce myself, uh ... Galen Kelly, of Esopus, New York, a self-proclaimed I'd like to, I'd like to find Ij,ewis in some safe and secure "cult deprogrammer" associated with the Cult Awamess place. 1 Network. DP: Right. I Robert "Biker Bob" Point, a New Jersey lawyer. GK: Vh. . i Anthony Russo, a former New York City police officer. DP: (VI)

62 National EIR December 11, 1992 GK: I'd, I'd like, I'd like to contract it out somehow and people thatperhaps have the talent, aM the wherewithal to say, look, here's the dial, you go get this guy and deliver grab him, I would like to contract it out and say you guys go him to such and such a place, and let me know, and ...uh do it. . have no part in the in the conspiracy. OM: That generally fits in with w�at I have to say about OP: Right. it, because, you know the issue that . made clear from the GK: (UI) you know, involved in the conspiracy, so I beginning was you know, I can't obviously in my situation would like to just simply contract it out and no have, no role at least right now, uh, stand up and have somebody point in this or no management uh, involvement in it whatsoever. that fingerat me, you know, the situatlionand quite frankly, OP: Right. such that, you know I have more than reasonable chance of GK: Now, so you need people who have an organization. getting elected [sheriff of Loudoun County-ed.] and if OP: Right. that's the case, we may be able to revi$it one of the GK: And, uh, I think they're even difficultto prosecute, OP: What I think they'd be difficultto get a handle on. OM: Reasonable chance of getting elected OP: Right. OP: Oh, yeah GK: They all look alike. OM: And then, then urn, OP: Right. OP: Somebody comes knocking in your door in the mid­ GK: They disappear, (UI) disappear, they don't talk. dle of uh, OP: Right. OM: Yeah, with a Loudoun County Sheriff's badge and GK: Like organized crime, they talk they're crazy. says come with me. So, I think a lot of things can be accom­ OP: Right, right. plished as I told Doug and I mentioned to you. you know the GK: Biker (UI) are. sheriff's officedoes have a black budget. ... OP: Right. GK: ...I'm afraid of the Soldier of Fortune, both on a GK: It be hard to get a handle on them. competence level. . . OP: Um, hum. OP: Um hum. GK: I think its in left field but uh, Newbold's suddenly GK: and uh, getting stung. become (UI) with bikers. OP: Um. OP: Uh, huh. GK: Bikers are a different story. GK: The other thing would be if, if I was in such (UI) OP: Um hum. which I'm not, some military wanna be's that are skilled. GK: I could see the (UI) doing something like this. OP: Soldiers of fortune people? OP: Pagans? GK: Yeah, I guess (UI) enough, uh, go afterthe SAS, GK: Or, you know bike people. Urn. I just use them as and they're pretty talented guys, and they have a limited an example, urn, what do you think lof their capability of amount experience, more in the last couple years then usual, doing, of doing (UI). thank you, but they want to do something. They're all dressed OP: For money, usually they'll po anything, and the and I remember talking to .... other thing is, are they going to be (llI) what happens if he OM: All dressed up and no place to go. Right? resists. GK: yeah. They loved the Faulklands Islands because, GK: Oh, he's going to resist. man we've been training for years and we ain't. . OP: What are they gonna to do, they gonna kill him. OP: Right. GK: Felony murder doesn't go down (UI) wrong way. GK: We never did shit. OP: Right. OP: Right. OM: That's a bad resolution, let's put it that way. GK: Maybe, you know, the, the there are guys that really want the glamour and excitement, maybe it's time to direct 'It's gonna be messy' soldier of Fortune Magazine. From a telephone conversation between Poppa and OM: Yeah, but we (UI) run the chance of taking one up Moore recorded on Aug. II, 1992: the stem. OM: ...What , the, the problem tihathe 's got, the prob­ GK: Well, that, that, that bothers me with that. lem that I've had all along is especially right now, uh, if OM: Soldier of Fortune thing, now they're startin' to kidnapping, and let's call it what it is. monitor those ads (UI). OP: Right. GK: I'm afraid of that but if I could finda para military OM: Goes Sour. operation someplace, so I don't really want to kidnap Lewis OP: Right. myself, I think it's a mistake uh, I think it's a lot of problems. OM: It's gonna be very messy and too this is a big ass It might just work though, so if it might just work, and i think dude. Newbold is entitled to the shot at it, if you can get some OP: Right.

EIR December 11, 1992 National 63 DM: And so the chances of it being messy are, are ex­ treme. DP: Right. Previous victims testify DM: Are extreme. Vh, you know, if, if, if it would be easier to assassinate him than it would be to kidnap him .. .. on violent abductions

'A murder rap' Attached to the pre-trial motions in this case is evidence From a conversation of Sept. 30, 1992 : presented by previous victitnsof Galen Kelly and the Cult GK: Right. So I think we're in agreement as to what Awareness Network. We print verbatim, unedited ex­ Newbold wants. cerpts fr om these reports' i which are now in the public DM: Yes. record: GK: And therefore, if I was in England (IA) England these days (IA) I would talk to them. I'm a fan of the Soldier Victim 'A' I of Fortune both on the confidence level and getting fucked. On May 5, 1992, at ap roximately 11:50 p.m., I was So I think there's a different story. walking to my car. . . . Wpilep I was walking to my car, I DM: Mm-hmm. did notice a white van par*ed along the left curb of 18th GK: I can see the (IA) doing something like this. Street. The van had markin�s on its right side, a maroonish DM: Pagans? red "TR" and then the rest �f whatever was there had been GK: Or, you know, bike people. I just use them as an painted over with a dull, b¥ge-colored paint. example. What do you think of their capability of doing this? I walked to the car I w�s driving, a red Dodge hatch­ For money usually they'll do anythin . The other thing is are back. I opened the back of ihe hatch and put in a few bags. they going to be so gone what happens if they resist? At that point two men stru1ed walking towards me. They GK: Oh, he's going to resist. were both dressed in "jun�e khaki"-that is, green mili­ DP: What are they going to do? Pick up the phone? tary garb with "leaves" ap,d other camoftage-type cov­ GK: Probably murder them black or white .... erings. They had "jungle" pants and boots. One man was DM: When I say call it quits I guess the thing I'm saying approximately 40-45 yearS old, about 6' (?) tall, with at that point very simply is calling it quits definesitself as a dark, wirey type hair and Ii slim frame. He had a mous­ down and dirty this is what, you know. And it may just come tache, rather long and slightly curling at the ends and a down to calling Galen or I'll try and give him a warning of beard. The other was also �pproximately 45-50 years old, when it's going to blow up and we'll see, you know. In the about 5'8" (?), with a mo� stocky build. He had a grey/ meantime Galen may or may not make contact with some white/brownish multicolo�ed beard. I think he had blue heavy duty bikers, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, or a third eyes (determined later froritthe van ride). Both men were party. white, the taller one had a more olive complexion (though GK: That's the one fear that I have with the biker routine or the mercenary routine, is that something could go wrong and you could wind up with a- DM: Those guys pointing the fingerat you. DP: Adios. (IA) GK: No. GK: See you later. DP: No? (IA) DP: (door closing) (beep) 1425 hours. I never heard so DM: Oh, all right. you mean sneakers up in a ditch. much bullshit in all my life. Unbelieveable. Vnbelieveable. DP: Yeah. Yeah, a felony murder's going to be on my conscience. Sick GK: Yeah. Which my conscience would have a problem bastard. AMF. Turningoff � machine. with but also scares me. i DM: Yeah. 'We could make a nam� for ourselves' GK: I don't get scared of too many things, but that scares From a tape made on SePt. 30, 1992: me. DM: (IA) dollars. You knpw, even ifI (IA) $1 ,000a day DM: Oh, yeah. kind of deal, $50 an hour, hq (IA). I mean, my phone bill. GK: because I can talk my way out of almost any grand He [Newbold Smith-ed.] s�id he was going to help with jury regarding abduction (IA) the phone bill and yet he's �ever, you know, I guess I've DM: Regarding a murder rap or­ never given him a bill actuall . as yet. . . . You know, I need GK: That's (IA) go right up .... to do some of the mechanic 1 things such as I'm going to have to pay for phone bills s well as start the business or After furtherconversation the meeting ends, fo llowed by something that I need a busi ess account or something like the fo llowing comment from government informant Poppa: � ' that. There's two packages, t e Newbold package and it s a

64 National EIR December 11, 1992 really it was hard to tell cause it was dark). "help", "rape", and "who are you". As one of the men As the two men walked towards me, the stocky one grabbed her, she bit him on the wrist. tqe men were yelling started to talk as if to ask me a question. I immediately at her to "shut up". S_ was held do�n on the ground by went to slam the hatch to the car and run to get in the car. the men and they pushed her head down. One of the men At my movements, the two men rushed towards me. I was saying this was a drug bust and that they had evidence panicked, thinking I was being robbed or murdered and that she was selling drugs. the man said that they were screamed at the top of my lungs. They both grabbed me going down to the precinct. S_ could not get a good and threw me to the hood of the car. The taller one had look at their faces because when she was knocked to the hold of my legs, which he spread apart, at this point I ground her glasses were knocked off.'She saw one of the thought I was going to be raped. I felt his crouch up against men flash a badge at her. S_ said that she could not see mine. The other guy grabbed my upper body, twisting it and asked to see it again. The man said that that was my arm and banging me against the car. I was thrashing enough and he did not have to show it to her anymore. and screaming as loud as I could: "H-E-L-P! NO-O-O-O! S_ gave up resisting because she believed she was under H-E-L-P! NO-O-O-O! ..." arrest and might be charged with resisting arrest. The men Next I remember on guy was brutally squeezing my picked her up and she continued screaming ....S_ wrist and twisting my arm in a contorted manner and the was held with her hands behind her back and was being other guy grabbed my ankles, dragging me across to the dragged out towards a van ....Inside the van, in the rear van.! tried to grab the sides of the van with my arms to of the van, was her mother. ...As the van went on, she keep from going in. My right leg got caught under the realized that the man driving the van was her father .... van. Finally, they forced me in, quickly slammed the door Later, when she was at a house in New Jersey (NJ), S_ and started to drive away. . . . At some point towards the observed the name GALEN KELLY :written down on a beginning of the ride, I asked the stocky one who he was piece of paper. GALEN KELLY was.the same man that and he said "Kelly." I said "Kelly who?" and he said S_ had observed outside the window of her apartment "Galen Kelly.". . . several months ago. This man was tIlying to enter their apartment through the fireesca pe window. . . . GALEN Victim 'B' KELL Y was the man that S_ bit wlhen she was being On Tuesday, September 17, 1991, short I y before dragged from her apartment. . . . Once they were at the I2:00 p.m., S_ and her friend J_ were about to leave cabin, the security guards, especially GALEN, kept tell­ their apartment at _ Street, Apartment _, NY, NY, ing her that she had to stay there. GALEN kept saying, when she was grabbed by several men. These men were "You're here. Tough. You're going to stay here.". strangers to her and they knocked her to the ground. She One of the captors referred to this process as did not know what was going on and began to scream "deprogramming."...

package if we're going to do something then we need to kind pretty story you can put together in two weeks and you've of put this thing on, you know, go out and get some business. got a nationally busting story. And then CBS can pick it up We're lucky at the other business-I think we could make a later. ... name for ourselves relatively quickly. DP: Excuse me, I think you've got to go out and make a Moore: If LaRouche dies . name. you've got the name. All you've got to do is market it. From a tape of unknown date: DM: yeah, and I think if 60 Minutes could do something, DM: Yeah, basically that (IA) you know before, well, I don't want 60 Minutes to do something six months from here's what I think as of this moment.! think that, like you, now because they'll do it locally. I mean, locally and then it's very dangerous to try to pull that stunt. I also say that I 60 Minutes can pick it up nationally when you (IA) don't think we have all the information necessary to make DP: Right. the complete decision. Moreover, even if we decide it's a DM: Dave Stat is willing to go out and do something in 'no-go' on kidnapping Lewis, I believe, and as I put the the next couple of weeks and they could get his camera crew expression to Newbold, we need an off-the-shelf plan in case out and watch them come out of a building at II:30 at night, chaos erupts. Definecha os. Chaos could be everything from you know? Getting, you know, just get the shot, with the a search warrant and a blowout with the FBI, and to stake bag, throwing it into the back of the car, looking around, out Wilmington, Delaware, to stake out the house, to Lyndon getting in the car and driving off, a couple of shots like that, LaRouche dying and Lewis is out on the streets so to speak, a couple of long distance shots .... You know, that's a the organization dies.

EIR December II, 1992 National 65 Senate 'October Surprise' report confirms EIR's allegations by Edward Spannaus

The firstof two congressional reports on the so-called "Octo­ attempting to play the role of double agent by acting as an ber Surprise" affairhas been issued by the Senate Foreign intermediary for both the C�er administration and the Re­ Relations Committee. Despite the misleading impression publicans. " The vigorous deninl of Hashemi's double agentry given by much of the press, the report by no means clears has been a key point of attaC:ks on the "October Surprise" the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign of involvement in efforts theory, especially those published by Newsweek, New Re­ to manipulate the Iran hostage crisis. On the contrary, the public, and by former CIA agbnt Frank Snepp in the Village carefully worded report in fact supports much of the evidence Voice. previously presented on the "October Surprise," and particu­ larly that developed by EIR . 'Impossible task' In large part, the Senate report, entitled "The 'October Senate investigators weI'e\ operating under severe con­ Surprise' Allegations and the Circumstances Surrounding the straints, both financial and political, which they readily admit Release of the American Hostages Held in Iran," which was "handicapped" their investigation. Their conclusions, which prepared by the special counsel of the Subcommittee on Near theystress are only "preliminaI1Y ,"must be viewed in thatlight. Eastern and SouthAsia n Affairs and released on Nov. 19, is The central conclusion of the report is that "there is not a sweeping confirmationof EIR ' s groundbreaking coverage sufficient credible evidence" to support the allegation that of this matter going back to 1979-80. As both proponents there was a secret agreement between the Reagan campaign and critics of the "October Surprise" allegations acknowl­ and representatives of the Ayatollah Khomeini to delay the edge, EIR was the firstto break the story, and we presented release of the hostages until after the 1980 election. the most thorough investigation of the role of the Hashemi The report emphasizes th�t this is a preliminary conclu­ brothers and former Justice Department official(and friend sion, because reaching a final conclusion was "an almost of George Bush) J. Stanley Pottinger. It is obvious that the impossible task." Among the factors handicapping their in­ EIR Sp ecial Report on the "October Surprise," published last vestigation was the unavaila�ility of certain evidence, and February, was utilized extensively for background and leads what they describe as "possible efforts to obstuct the investi­ by the Senate investigators. The EIR Special Report, entitled gation." In fact, in commenting on the FBI's "curious" han­ "Treason in Washington: New Evidence on the 'October dling of the Hashemi evidence, the special counsel states: "It Surprise,' "is cited in the firstfootnote of the Senate report, is conceivable that as yet unreviewed FBI evidence could which is a listing of the most important sources of the "Octo­ change those conclusions we are now able to reach." ber Surprise" allegations. The financialcon straints on the special counsel's investi­ At the same time, the Senate report is a striking refutation gation were enormous, and were obviously intended to cur­ of the efforts to debunk the "October Surprise" allegations tail his ability to conduct a thorough investigation. In October by kept "investigative journalists"and by congressional Re­ 1991 , a resolution was introd*ced into the Senate authorizing publicans. Two examples will suffice. First, the reportcon­ almost $600,000 for an "October Surprise" investigation. cludes that William Casey, then the campaign director for Senate Republicans managed to kill the appropriation at the Ronald Reagan, "was intensively involved in the hostage end of November, with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) de­ crisis and likely was dealing with Cyrus Hashemi, either claring that "the Senate shoUild not financea fantasy." As a directly or indirectly." Further, it states, the weight of the result, the entire investigation had to be conducted with only evidence shows that Casey "conducted informal, clandes­ $75,000 of regularly allotted subcommittee funds. (In con­ tine, and potentially dangerous efforts on behalf of the trast, the House of Representativeshas appropriated $1.35 Reagan campaign" in gathering intelligence on the ongoing million for its investigation, the finalreport of which will be hostage negotiations between the Carter administration and issued on Jan. 3, 1993.) Iran. In December 1991, attorneyReid Weingartenwas desig­ Secondly, the report notes in its "Final Remarks": "The nated as special counsel to thd subcommittee. He was provid­ evidence strongly suggests that Cyrus Hashemi was at least ed only a small staff, and was not given independent authority

66 National EIR December 11, 1992 to subpoena witnesses. His request for authorization to travel negotiations was on the issue of the $12 billion in frozen to Europe to interview former Iranian President Abul Hassan Iranian assets, plus the estimated $1:2 billion of the late Bani-Sadr and other witnesses was blocked by Sen. Jesse Shah's wealth. Whereas most other inv�stigators had focused Helms (R-N.C.). Key evidence was either missing (such as on arms and spare parts, EIR showed that Hashemi and Pot­ Casey's calendars and passport for 1980) or was delayed tinger had conducted an extensive study on the Iranian assets (such as FBI tapes and transcripts of the Hashemi surveil­ held in the United States, and had provided a report of this lance in 1980). to the revolutionary Iranian leadership. At the same time, The combined effect of the narrow definitionof the inves­ they were giving contradictory advice to the Carter adminis­ tigation's scope, plus the obstruction of its conduct, means tration and the Iranians, which would pave seriously under­ that the fundamental issues of the treason committed during mined the Carter administration's negptiating position with 1979-80 by Kissingerians in both parties who were support­ the Iranians. ing the Khomeini terrorists, were never addressed in the Internal evidence in the Senate report suggests that Pot­ Senate probe. tinger himself may still be continuin� this course, by mis­ As EIR warned, many of the "October Surprise" allega­ leading Senate investigators on this issfe. When interviewed tions were deliberate dis information designed to discredit all by Senate investigators on Aug. 17, i 1992, Pottinger told serious investigation of what happened in 1980. The EIR them that a trip which Hashemi made tPari s in late Novem­ Sp ecial Report said that "many of the 'sources' have been ber 1980 was to deal with arms procur�ment issues. Howev­ deployed for the express purpose of sowing confusion and er, an FBI report from that period statts the following: "On setting up straw men that can be easily knocked down," and the weekend of November 22 or NO\lember 23 Cyrus Ha­ it cautioned that "most, ifnot all, of the stories about whether shemi will be traveling to Europe to specifically meet with George Bush was in Paris in October 1980 seem to fall in Iranian officials concerningthe Shah' sI assets and the frozen this category." Iranian assets still remaining in UnitedlStates banks." That statement on the reasons for ashemi' s trip is pre­ Useful lines of inquiry ceded by this: "Hashemi and [deleted feel that everything We proposed three lines of inquiry which Congress hinges on the report Hashemi and [delet ed] made to the Irani­ should pursue: I ) Why did the Iranian leadership reject the an governmenton the Shah's assets. IiIashemi believes that offers made by the Carter administration in September-Octo­ Iranian government is basing everythlng on this report. In ber 1980, and why did they conclude they were better off this report Hashemi had advised the Ir�nian government that with a Republican administration? 2) What were Stanley it was his belief that the United States igovernmentcould do Pottinger and Cyrus Hashemi doing during 1980-81, particu­ more than they are doing in regards tD putting pressure on larly with respect to the issue of the Iranian assets? 3) Why the United States banks." were Hashemi and Pottinger then protected from prosecution Pottinger undoubtedly does not f(jar focusing attention by the Reagan administration for their illegal military ship­ on the arms issue, because he has succ¢ssfully evaded prose­ ments to Iran? cution for his involvement in illegal�y shipping arms and The Senate investigation did focus to an extent on the military equipment to Iran-including ombs and explosives b.I first two lines of inquiry, but also expended a great deal of capable of terrorist utilization. effort investigating the politically "hot" issue of whether or In 1984, just as he was about to : be indicted, the FBI not Bush was in Paris in 1980. One entire chapter and por­ discovered that it had "lost" crucial surveillance tapes of tions of other chapters deal with the role of the Hashemi conversations involving Pottinger an� Hashemi. FBI files brothers and Pottinger, but the crucial issue of the obstruction obtained by EIR showed that the FBI h�d conducted an exten­ of justice around the Hashemi and Pottinger cases, of how sive administrative investigation on tpe "Pottinger tapes," and why the Reagan-Bush administration protected them dur­ which apparently ended in mid-1986. ing the 1980s, was excluded from the special counsel's inves­ The Senate report adds a curious tWist to this strange tale tigation. of the "Pottinger tapes." In February 19912, during their second Had the effort that was expended on the wild goose chase search of a government storage facilitY in Newburgh, New of proving or disproving whether Bush was in Paris, been York, FBI officials located 450 Hashe�i surveillance tapes. devoted instead to more important issues, the Senate investi­ Included were the four missing Pottingtr tapes. The FBI says gation could have been far more productive. said that the FBI case agent had foun� the missing tapes in 1986, and had put them back with the other tapes in storage. The assets negotiations The Senate report states that he did this �'without informing his Based upon a review of FBI records released to EIR supervisor oranyone else at the FBI or the Department of Justice one year ago, EIR analysts reached the conclusion that the that he had done so." Thus, if the FBI is to be believed, for six principal means by which Cyrus Hashemi and his lawyer and years, while the controversygrew arounU the issue of themiss­ business partner Pottinger had sabotaged Carter's hostage ing tapes, they were no longer missing. I

EIR December I I, 1992 National 67 Eye on Washington by Kathleen Klenetsky

Clinton advisers is expected to draw "hundreds of top tion, and foresees working with him current and former central bank and closely on such schemes as "worker head for Europe governmentfin ance officialsfrom Eu­ coparticipl1tion. " EIR has learned thata number of key rope, Japan, and the United States," Clintop's victory "is a very posi­ economic policy advisers to Presi­ Collins said. tive development for the SPD," he dent-elect Bill Clinton will almost cer­ Keynote speakers will include the said. "Tl)is kind of generational tainly travel to Europe in mid-January French finance minister and the presi­ change is the same kind of process we for discussions with European and dent of the German Bundesbank. The saw happening in the Federal Repub­ Japanese financialleaders . The venue agenda will deal with the dollar spe­ lic in the 1960s, which led to a change will be the annual meeting of the cifically, and the turmoil in the inter­ of governmentand a whole new kind Group of Seven Council which, with national currency markets generally, ofleadership" for the country, he said. funding from private banks and other along with the General Agreement on He predioted that Clinton's victory financial institutions, serves as the un­ Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and other "means tHat we will experience the officialsecretariat to the G-7. controversial trade issues. same thing in Germany by 1994"­ Washington Post financial affairs Collins also indicated that the Eu­ i.e, an SPP government. scribbler Hobart Rowen reported on ropean infrastructure plan put forward Dettke said that the "key issue" Oct. 29 (a week before the U.S. presi­ recently by European Commission both in the United States and Europe dential election) that the G-7 council president Jacques Delors will be dis­ is "the question of economic policy." meeting would provide Clinton advis­ cussed. He expressed confidencethat Clinton ers with "the opportunity to dispel any The meeting will be moderated by "will put im emphasis on investment global worries about Clintonomics Robert Hormats of Goldman Sachs, and infraStructure," and in this con­ and to convey Clinton's personal as­ the Wall Street investment bank text, pointedto Jacques Delors' recent surances that continued cooperation which has been the primary financial infrastructure proposal as "a very pos­ among the Group of Seven powers has and political power behind Clinton's itive development for Europe that cre­ a high spot on the Clinton agenda." candidacy, and which may provide ates a parallel to Clinton's program, The G-7 council's president, Jay the new administration's treasury sec­ and will bting the global economy out Collins, confirmedthat assessment in retary-firm co-chairman Robert of recessiqm." a recent discussion. "A lot of people Rubin. The Delors and Clinton programs in Clinton's camp are telling him that Hormats told Rowen that the con­ are partic4larly significant in that they he has to do something regarding the ference will be "timely," since "there represent � revival of "Keynesianism, G-7 very soon, especially on currency has been such a power vacuum on in­ and if Eu�ope and the U. S. carry out and trade issues," he said. "This will ternationaliss ues." this program in concert, it will be be the firstchance the Clinton people great." will get afterthe election to meet with Dettke revealed that the Friedrich the top European and Japanese finance Ebert Foundation has had a close people." According to Collins, "five Willie's socialist working relationship with key Clinton or six of the top economics people connection adviser Robert Reich, and that they around Clinton" are expected to attend see in both Reich's writings and in the meeting, which will take place in Clinton's extensive contacts within Clinton's program many reflectionsof Frankfurt, Germany over Jan. 12-13. the Socialist International, especially the SPD' � own economic policy. Although Collins was reluctant to its European affiliates, are ecstatic "We'� basically in sync [with say which Clinton advisers will partic­ over his electoral victory, and are tak­ the Clinton camp] on a lot of things," ipate, he implied that Lawrence Sum­ ing it as a sign that their own political Dettke said, "and we think we can mers, Robert Reich, and Jeffrey Gar­ stars are rising. give some good advice to the Clinton tner will be among them. Summers, in According to Dieter Dettke, who administration." The SPD will send fact, was one of the council's original runs the German Social Democratic a top-level delegation to Washington founders. Party's (SPD) Friedrich Ebert Foun­ shortly after the inauguration to meet Sponsored by Germany's three dation in Washington, the SPD is "ex­ with Clillton and his advisers, he largest private banks, the conference tremely happy" about Clinton's elec- said.

68 National EIR December 11, 1992 Music Views andReviews by Kathy Wo lfe

Original instruments Verdi himself drafted in 1884 for the Bruine was played with such enthusi­ Italian government, still preserved at asm and an easy "looseness" in phras­ cantabile Verdi Conservatory in Milan. Con­ ing, that it sounded as though he were ductor Christopher Hogwood, Good­ improvising. Although this was a The Hyperion Haydn Edition man said, will perform Verdi's great lighter piece, it really highlighted the "Complete Symphonies"; "Requiem" in London during Decem­ registration and sweet tone of the Vol. 9 Nos. 101-2, CDA 66528 ber at the Verdi pitch on original in­ Mozart-era oboe. I Vol. JONos. 9-12, CDA 66529 struments. Vol. 11 Nos. 42-44, CDA 66530 Hanover Band Nimbus Records The performance "Beethoven: The Complete Sym­ recordings phonies on Original Instruments" ; The concert, Giske reports, certainly NI 5144-8 (fi ve CDs), and singly showed offthe capabilities of the in­ The Hanover Band!,named for the in­ "The Hanover Band Plays Hay­ struments. As Goodman told EIR af­ struments of the Hanover era 1714- dn ," Symphonies Nos. 31, 94 , 95 , terward, he is "quite conscious" ofthe 1830, when an orthestra was still a JOO, and J04, Horn Concerto No . 1 distinct registers (different qualities "band," has a gro}Ving discography. in D, and works of Michael Haydn of voice in lower, middle, and high The Hyperion Haydn Edition's "Com­ and Leopold Mozart; NI 1789 (three ranges) that his instruments have. plete Haydn Symp�onies" by the Han­ CDs), and singly Here they are very different from over Band has two releases for the modem ones, which have a homoge­ tour, Vol. 10, Symphonies Nos. 9-12 The Hanover Band, one of today's nized sound, because Wagner and (CDA 66529) and Vol. 11, Symphon­ best orchestras playing original classi­ others who "rebuilt" the instruments ies Nos. 42, 43, and 44 (CDA 66530), cal instruments tuned at the Mozart for the higher pitch deliberately re­ played with great sparkle. pitch of C=256 (A=430), made a moved much of the registration. Because Haydd' s later works after U.S. concert tour Nov. 1-13. EIR's Goodman said it is important to the 1782 Haydn-Mbzart "musical rev­ Howard Giske was able to hear them, know exactly where the instruments olution" are so much more complex, and speak with conductor Roy shift register, and to bring out these my Haydn favoritj;'! remains Hyperi­ Goodman. different registers in the orchestra on's Vol. 9, with Symphonies Nos. EIR asked Goodman about the re­ clearl y, to understand a composer's 101 and 102 (CDA 66528), reviewed lationship between his childhood ex­ musical idea. In concert, the most in EIR on Aug. 14J perience as a boy soprano, and the clearly audible difference was the Of great interest are the Hanover "cantabile" (singing) line of his or­ wind instruments, especially apparent Band's Beethoven "Complete Sym­ chestra. This is unusual in original in­ in the fluteand oboe solos and, in the phonies on Originlll Instruments" on strument performances, most of ensemble, the distinct registral voices Nimbus Records (NI 5144-8), all nine which are so fixatedon "authenticity" of the French horns. symphonies on five CDs. Beethoven that they produce a strict metronomic Most interesting was the Flute is rarely done this well on original in­ "play back" of all the right notes­ Concerto in G major by Mozart, with struments, because he requires much with no poetry. Rachel Brown as flute soloist. The backbone, to be pQlite, and much hu­ Goodman said that while he had no "original instrument" flute really mor. This collectiPn proves we can formal voice training as a boy in the showed off its distinct qualities with its have both Beethoven's instrumental Cambridge King's College Choir, deep lower register, its slightly fuzzy voices, and his gn=!atmusical ideas­ singing has moved him to try to bring middle register, and its bright third that original instlfUment Beethoven a "singing style" to his orchestra. For register. This added another dimen­ need not be brain dead. example, he has the string instruments sion to the beautiful solo, which Also for the U.S. tour, Nimbus "breathe" between musical phr.ases, Brown used well to give a poetic has just re-issued a three-CD collec­ and pause as a human singer would at voicing. tion, "The Hanover Band Plays new ideas, to make each entrance An oboe concerto in C major by Haydn," including Symphonies Nos. clear. LeBrun was a special treat. This piece 31, 94, 95, 100, and 104, the Hom He also had the fascinating news was only recently unearthed from Eu­ Concerto No. 1, an� works of Michael that Giuseppe Verdi will finally get ropean archives, Goodman told the Haydn and �eopold' Mozart the A =432 he demanded in the law audience. The oboe solo by Frank de (NI 1789).

EIR December 11, 1992 International 69 i National News

total of 29 resorts, hotels, and casinos lo­ smacks of a coverup, he said, and "the latest cated in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, chapter of what has been an almost 20-year South Africa, Swaziland, and four "tribal train of Ii�s and deceptions fed to families Bounty offered for homelands." and the restof the public about the status of According to Valenti: "One of Kerz­ the missi1g Americans. " kidnapers of Americans ner's business partners was Shabtai Kalma­ The u.s. government has offered up to $2 nowitch, who was known as the ' white pres­ i million for anyone who helps capture pro­ ident' of [homeland] Bophuthatswana .... Iranian kidnapers allegedly responsible for Kalmanowitch was heavily involved in Is­ killing three American hostages in Leba­ raeli and U . S. intelligence operations Insurance co. funds non. The offer was made in a State Depart­ through his Bophuthatswana-based 'B In­ ment advertisement in the Saudi-owned, ternational.' One Solomon Schwartz of B euthapasia conference London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat International was arrested for weapons Club of Life spokesman Linda Everett blast­ of Nov. 30. smuggling by U.S. Customs in 1984, and ed FHP I,ternational Co. for being the ma­ "There Is a Price We Pay as a Result of claimed that the operation was sanctioned jor baCk Of a Dec . 3-5 conference in Min­ Terrorism, and a Price We Will Pay to Stop by Oliver North. Kalmanowitch also neapolis n "Managing Mortality: Ethics, Terrorism" read the ad's headline. The text, worked with Swiss-based commodities Euthanas a, and the Termination ofMedical accompanied by photos of Beirut CIA sta­ trader Marc Rich to illegally ship Iranian oil l Treatme ." tion chief William Buckley, U.S. Col. Wil­ to South Africa. Rich was indicted in New Everett said: "The conference, which liam Higgins, and a third American, Peter York in 1983 for violating the Trading With promotes! murder as the solution for every­ Kilburn, said in part: "There were three the Enemy Act, and remains a fugitive in thing froJi!'p oor' quality of life to cost over­ American hostages who did not return from Switzerland. Kalmanowitch was arrested in runs, is b�nkrolled by a grant from the FHP Lebanon. Their terrible ordeal did not end Britain in May 1987 for passing $2 million Foundati�n, whose major donor, the FHP in freedom, but ended in their savage execu­ in forged checks. Later that year, while out Internati nal Corp., is a for-profit managed on bail, he was arrested in Israel, accused � tion on the hands of their captors. And to care com any that owns 58 health mainte­ present thesecriminals to justice, the Amer­ of being an agent of the Soviet KGB, and nance 0 ganizations, hospitals, nursing ican government offers rewards up to $2 convicted of espionage." homes, .:Eployee health plans and insur­ million." Valenti has called for a congressional ance co::!�anies. FHP, like any insurance The ad is signed by the State Depart­ investigation into the underworld behind the company ,or managed care plan, makes its ment's Diplomatic Security Service. campaign to establish casino gambling on profits on: services not delivered. " Indian lands. FHP,! she continued, "will certainly profit by this conference's message: Triage patients, �on't treat them." She stressed that, until recently, "the Who wants casinos Hemlockl Society and the Euthanasia Coun­ U.S., Vietnam continue cil lobby hrainwashed the public to believe on Indian lands? that ter inating life-sustaining treatment The presidential campaign of Lyndon POW-MIA coverup and so-c lied 'physician-assisted suicide' LaRouche and the Rev. James Bevel, which While Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and most are com; ssionate acts that relieve human has backed Indians' efforts to block estab­ of his colleagues are rushing to "toslam the suffering; But, at this conference, the death lishment of casino gambling on the Standing book shut" on theinvestigation into Vietnam­ mob has po such pretense, as they join the Rock Reservation in North Dakota, released era prisoners of war and missing in action authors o� Minnesota's murderous 'Health­ an expose of the Swiss, South African, and (POW-MIAs), only Senators Bob Smith (R­ Right' rationing plan, malthusian academ­ Israeli organized crime and intelligence in­ N.H.) and CharlesGrassley (R-Iowa) are try­ ics, and *surance companies in their aim to terests behind the casinos. ing to find out the whole painful truth, said terminate! human life to cut costs." A Dec . I statement by campaign spokes­ Fort Worth, Texas Star-Telegram columnist ! man Philip Valenti said: "The Standing Tommy Denton in a syndicated column on ! Rock Tribal Council is considering a casino Nov. 29. He wrote: "Too much damning in­ I contract with Seven Circle Resorts, a sub­ formation has come from formerly classified sidiary of Tivolino of Switzerland. The intelligence files for [Senate] committee Daily echoes LaRouche president of Seven Circle is one Brian David members and the American people to deny i McMullan." Valenti said that McMullan that govemments in bothWashington and Ha­ magl�v concept worked for Sun International of South Afri­ noi have lied to protect the dark, ugly secret: The Nov .126 issue of the InternationalHerald ca from May 1986 until April 1992, and . Prisoners were knowingly abandoned to avoid Tribune t!an a front-page feature, "America McMullan's resume lists him as "responsi­ political complications." Gets Wotking on the Railroads," which de­ ble for the entire gaming operations" of a The current rush to end the inquiry tails mov,s in the United States to bring about

70 National EIR December ii, 1992 • TRADE UNtONISTS who sup­ port the formation of a third political party met Dec. S-6 in Detroit. The governmentspending for high-speed rail proj­ of the Bank of Credit and Commerce Inter­ conference, orgahized by Labor Par­ ects in America. While much of the article national to the CIA and a variety of agency ty Advocates of Detroit and Cleve­ tried to portray Bill Clinton, Sen. Daniel Moy­ covert operations. land, featured bolth trade union lead­ nihan (D-N. Y.), and others as the driving The excerpts from the newly released ers who support the idea of a new force behind such proposals, EIR readers are book by Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin labor-led politicjll party and those familiar with the emphasis that physical econ­ pointed out that BCCI was an "equal oppor­ who support the! two-party system. omist Lyndon LaRouche put on this aspectof tunity employer" in the political and intelli­ LPA organizers I plan to sign up infrastructure creation during his presidential gence demi-monde. For example, Jackson 100,000 member , and hold a found­ campaign. Stephens, the investment banker from Ar­ y> ing convention iII 1994. Accompanying the article was a map of kansas who brought the bank into the U. S. , "Tomorrow's High-Speed Connections" sent millions of dollars of legal work to Hil­ • LAWRENCa EAGLEBURGER (the source is the Pittsburgh-based High lary Clinton's law firm, gave support to oth­ has less than a rhonth left as acting Speed RaillMaglev Association), which is ers in the Clinton machine, and contributed secretary of stateb according to State very similar to one from EIR's in-depth to George Bush's campaign. Department sppkesman Richard study by Christopher White on magnetic GOP potentate Craig Fuller and Bush Boucher. The te ' for the acting sec­ levitation technology for inter-urban trans­ press spokesman James Lake were also � retary is set at 12 days. When report­ heavily rewarded by their ties to BCCI, and port ("The Case for Maglev: Paying More ers asked what w II happen afterthat , 6). the Pakistani founder of BCCI, Agha Hasan Is Cheaper," EIR , Nov. Boucher said, "Then we'll see." The International Herald Tribune is an Abedi, openly spoke of the involvement of onetime CIA director Richard Helms and English-language daily jointly published by • ROSS PERQT came in second in Washington Post New York other CIA officialsin the bank, according to the and the Maine and Utah according to final Times the reports. t in Paris. election returnsthltt overturnthe omni­ present "media Jtojections." Clinton won Maine with -�9%. Bush and Perot both had 30% of Ithe Maine total, but Perot had slightly more votes. Bush D.C. to cut teachers U .N. environmentalists took Utah with 41j7b, followed by Perot with 26% and Cli ton with 24%. and close schools want Presidio Army base r The latest version of the proposed Washing­ In an affront to what remains of U. S. sover­ • SEN. LLO\lD BENTSEN met ton, D.C. school budget that passed Nov. eignty, the United Nations has asked Presi­ with BilI Clinton on Nov. 24 to dis­ 19 would cut 430 teaching jobs, close 8 dent-elect Bill Clinton to tum over the U.S. cuss the possibility of Bentsen be­ schools, cut another 283 staff positions, and Army base on Presidio Island in San Fran­ coming treasury secretary. The Tex­ slash school-based programs by $8.5 mil­ cisco, as the site for the planning and train­ as Democrat i� chairman of the lion. Officialsadmitted that this will require ing headquarters for the U . N. Environmen­ Senate Finance dommittee. some teacher layoffs, in addition to reduc­ tal Program. tion by attrition. The San Francisco Examiner reported • NEW ORLtANS' city council The budget would also cut programs for on Nov. 23 that a U.N. official has written unanimously pafed a resolution on dropout prevention and to encourage candi­ to Clinton proposing that the United States Dec . I calling on the President of the dates for the National Merit Scholarship. donate the base, scheduled to be closed soon United States to !"remove the statue In addition, the plan calls for closing as part of cuts in the defense budget. The of Albert Pike, Qrand Dragon of the eight more city schools and includes no letter expressed the hope that the base could Ku Klux Klanj" in Washington, money for pay raises for teachers who only a be turned over to the "green helmets" in D.C., "as reques�ed in the resolution week earlier signed a contact for $15 million time for the U. N. to open its environmental of D.C. councihpember William P. worth of increases. "global headquarters" in 1995, the 50th an­ Lightfoot. " niversary of the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco. • THE CIA h�s drafted a report The U.N. claims it would use the com­ which claims th�t Iran is attempting plex to draw up "solutions" to the pollution to build a nucle¥ bomb, and could New book exposes of "modem mega-cities," train "environ­ develop one by ithe year 2000, ac­ mental engineers," and design plans for cording to the New York Times of CIA ties to BCCI "cleaning up major military sites." So far, Nov. 30. The r�port is believed to A Nov. 27 Wall Street Journal column, the UNEP's solutions, for which member have resulted in a State Department "How BCCI Bought Washington," ex­ countries are supposed to pay, have usually order for a review of U.S. policy to- cerpting from the book False Profits, involved drastically cutting living standards ward Iran. i pointed to the increasingly undeniable ties or population--or both.

'EIR December 11, 1992 National 71 Editorial

Fifty yearslat er

This month marks the 50th year of the achievement of forward, but because of thi� , many top-rank scientists a nuclear chain reaction. There are many lessons to be refuse to work in military-related research. The futility drawn from the history of the Manhattan Project, the of secrecy was seen time a�d again in the Cold War, promise realized and aborted of nuclear energy, and so when important breakthroughs had a way of becoming on; but one generally overlooked point in this connec­ known to Soviet scientists, !usually within six months tion has been raised again by Manhattan Project veteran of their discovery . Dr. Edward Teller. Recently, according to a report in the New York He has resurrected his campaign against the imposi­ Times of last Sept. 28, th� U.S. government finally tion of secrecy restrictions on basic science. We whole­ decided to lift some of th¢ secrecy restrictions pre­ heartedly support Dr. Teller on this. A strong nation venting American laser fu sion scientists from sharing guarantees its preeminence by fostering scientific re­ their work with their non-se¢urity-cleared counterparts search in order to lead the field with new discoveries, at home, and most foreign ; scientists as well. Such a I not by hoarding its secrets . move is long overdue. In the "Forum" section of the National Academy of The New York Times arti�le noted that the reason for Sciences magazine Issues in Science and Technology the U.S. declassification of laser fusion was "foreign dated Fall 1992, Dr. Teller wrote on this point: competition." According tb author William Broad, "Our keeping of secrets has often misled and con­ "Scientists in Japan, Germany, Spain, and Italy, striv­ fused our own people but has been ineffective in deny­ ing to harness the power qf tiny, repeated hydrogen ing information to our enemies or competitors . I make bomb-like blasts for the gen¢ration of electrical energy, a proposal hoping that it may help to start a fruitful have openly published the "secrets' for years. Contin­ discussion. Let us pass a law requiring all secret docu­ ued secrecy for similar research in the United States ments to be published one year after their issuance. was seen as stifling the exdhange of ideas, inhibiting This would of course eliminate long-term secrecy and progress, and limiting international cooperation. At might also deter unnecessary classification of docu­ times American scientists �ave been ordered not to ments , because the original invocation of secrecy might attend meetings with foreig� scientists." be subject to criticism and even ridicule when the docu­ Even where classificati<*tis not at issue, the Ameri­ ments are published. There might be very special cases can scientific establishment, in tandem with the U.S. where secrecy of longer duration is needed. I suggest Department of Energy, h�s moved to suppress ad­ that an extension, in tum, might be given on a year-to­ vances in nuclear science. i The most recent example year basis in order to make sure that long-term secrecy is the shameful treatment of cold fu sion. The U.S. not be applied except for truly important reasons." government has yet to graQt Martin Fleischmann and On Nov. 17, as a featured speaker at a meeting of Stanley Pons a patent for the discovery of this remark­ the American Nuclear Society held to commemorate able phenomenon, and the! hostile climate generated the 50th anniversary of the first nuclear chain reaction against them in the United' States was so severe that (on Dec . 2, 1942), Dr. Teller raised the same theme they left the country and are pursuing their researches before an audience of several hundred scientists and in France. engineers . The reported Department of Energy move to raise The crux of the matter is that the people who suffer the curtain slightly on secrecy, by allowing laser fusion most from the U.S. secrecy rule are America's scien­ scientists to request the right to publish their results, is tific community, since classification creates stultifica­ a step in the right directio�, but it is still little more tion. Not only does it cause a preordained breakdown in than a gesture. What is n�eded is a complete policy the kind of fruitful collaboration which drives science overhaul.

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------� SION ·. COLD FU Challenge to U.S. Science Policy

Paul Ehrlich Given society's record in

• managing technology, the prospect of cheap, ine�haustible power from fu sion is "like giving a machine gun to an idiot child. "

Jeremy Rifkin Lyndon LaRouche "It's the worst thing that "These cold fu sion could happen to our planet." e�periments, taken together with other e�periments e�hibiting related kinds of anomalous Na ture magazine results, should "The Utah phenomenon is become fe atured literally unsupported by the elements of a special evidence, could be an artifact, research project-a and given its improbability, is 'mini-crash program' mo�t likely to be one." of fu ndamental research-enjoying the moral and material support of appropriate public Th e New Yo rk Times and private "Given the present state of institutions of the evidence fo r cold fusion, the United States and government wo uld do better other nations." to put the money on a horse."