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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 5, Number 18, May 9, 1978 May 9-15,1978 Vol. V No.18 EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW New Solidarity International Press Service [THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY BLANK] May 9-15, 1978 ISSN 0146-9614 Vol. V No.18 EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW P.o. Box 1972 GPO New York, N.Y. 10001 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 1 Republicans Move to Destroy Dollar 1 London's Trap: Turn 'Miller's Boom' into 'Miller's 2 U.S. Stake in W. German-Soviet Deals Recession' 4 Schmidt-Brandt, Kissinger Draw Battle Lines 4 Banking: Miller Starts Bank War to Hurry Dollar 5 FEF Conference: U.S. Is Model for S. African Crash Development 5 World. Finance: IMF Meeting-Only Realistic Plan 8 -Mexican Representative on Using Debt for 6 -Mexico Presents Development Plan to IMF Development 7 Energy: Fukuda Calls for Joint Fusion Research 8 Book Review-P�rt II: 'A Tool of Power: The Political History of Money' SPECIAL REPORT 1 Inside the Bilderberg Society ECONOMIC SURVEY 2 -The Participants 4 -Current Deployment 1 Miller's Whole Program-Replaying 1929 U.S. REPORT COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 1 Republicans Carry the Load for Kissinger 1 Izvestia Names Raskin, IPS Role in Terrorism 2 -Tidewater Strategists Fumble on Taxes and Foreign Policy 2 -Kemp: Make GOP 'Party of Growth' 3 Vance: U.S. Security Tied to Development 4 Young: Humanity Applauds U.S. Industry 5 Soviets: Vance Initiatives Must Be Extended 5 Labor Party to Ask Kissinger Indictment For Treason 6 Foreign Policy: Congress and the F-15 Sale 7 WashingtonWhispers -Who's Doing It? 8 LaRouche: What Nixon Still Doesn't Know :': EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW is published by Campaigner Publications, Inc. 231 W. 29th Street, New York City, N. Y. 10001 Subscriptions by mail for the U.S.: 3 months - $125,6 months - $225,1 year - $400. Address all correspor.dence to: Campaigner Publications, Inc. P.O. Box 1922, GPO New York City, N.Y. 10001 © 1978 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Production Editor Nancy Spannaus Tessa DeCarlo Deborah Asch International-Nora Hamerman U.S. Report-Stephen Pepper. Economics-David Goldman. Energy-William Engdahl • Military Strategy-Paul Goldstein Counterintelligence-Jeffrey Steinberp. Defense & Diplomacy-Konstantin George • Europe- Vivian Freyre Science & Technology-Morris Levitt. Soviet Sector-Rachel Berthoff • Middle East-Robert Dreyfuss Asia-Dan Sneider Africa-Douglas DeGroot Latin America-Robyn Quijano • • • Law-Felice Gelman Press-Fay Sober • IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE The British banks and their partisans here business and labor, and the Administration in the U.S. are out to "prick the bubble" and gathered to hear and discuss the Foundation's send the U.S. economy into a bear trap... that program for making today's race-war hot­ market sources say will mean a dollar crisis spot into a nuclear-powered industrial and full-scale depression dead ahead... This center... with extensive excerpts from a week's INTERNATIONAL report tells how Mexican official's speech on why the Grand Old Patriots in the Republican indebtedness can be either an impassable Party achieved top billing in the operation ... obstacle to development... or an important through sheer stupidity . .. backed up by a way to achieve it... documentary survey in ECONOMICS of the way the Federal Reserve Chairman Miller is it it it setting the trap. .. and also in ECONOMICS, a report on how Miller's "bank war" is directed The political moves against that positive at the same treasonous goal... thrust stemmed from a policy center.. and this issue's SPECIAL REPORT provides a first-time-ever scoop on how the process it it it . works ... a story from inSide the notorious Bilderberg Group and its recent conference... The way out of the trap is also presented in that describes. the "let's get the Soviets" INTERNATIONAL . with the latest on the strategy Henry Kissinger and his cronies billions in long-term deals being arranged were purveying at the behest of the Anglo­ between West Germany and the Soviet Dutch monarchists... and gives a rather Union... a story that has yet to be given any different-and far more accurate-view of attention in most of the U.S. press .. how this ultraprivate cabal operates than delineating the trade-and-development you've read anywhere else ... plus a list of orientation on which U.S. economic survival some of the conference participants ... hinges... Plus a report on the Fusion Energy Included: a demonstration of how the Foundation's just-concluded conference on Bilderberg line went into immediate "The Industrial Development of Southern operation... with a blow-by-blow report on how Africa" .. where representatives from South Britain's aristocratic scum deployed in the Africa, several black African states, U.S. week following their get-together ... INTER· NATIONAL U.S. REPORT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC SURVEY COUNTER· INTELLIGENCE Our U.S. REPORT backs up the charges of The Soviet government newsdaily Ivestia the Republican role in the "bear trap" plot. .. has "named the names" of some of the most with the story on how the U.S. Senate's 38 central figures behind the terrorism in Italy, Republicans got royally Bilderbergered ... and around the world... and in COUNTER· You can compare their policy statement... INTELLIGENCE we present the text of the which we've excerpted... with the way Lords Izvestia charges against the Institute for Home and Carrington laid out the same line on Policy Studies and IPS chief Marcus Raskin ... their return from the Bilderberg meet... And with an analysis that shows how the. all the while, as our report tells, the GOPers unprecedented Izvestia article is related to boast that they're cleverly "using" Henry Italian Premier Andreotti's tough stand Kissinger ... In the same section, some more against the Red Brigades kidnappers... to the positive signs from both the Republican Party Palestine Liberation Organization's and the Democratic Administration.. crackdown on the terrorist agents in its own including some reported exclusively here .. ranks... and to the prospects for Mideast that nevertheless define the lack of a peace ... competently directed political counterpole to the British-led traitors... a counterpole that #I #I #I must include the program and policy direction of the U.S. Labor Party . To drive the point OUR APOLOGIES: A series of technical home, the Labor Party's chairman, Lyndon H. difficulties has forced us to shorten this issue LaRouche, takes a look at the selections from of the Executive Intelligence Review as we Richard Nixon's memoirs currently being prepare to go to press. Our next issue, serialized in newspapers around the world ... however, will include our usual full range of and dissects the weaknesses that have made THIRD WORLD, ENERGY, and other the GOP easy prey for Kissinger et aI.... coverage... INTERNATIONAL Capitulation to Kissinger: Republicans Move To Destroy Dollar This week stupidity emerged as the number one enemy representatives severed their communication with the of the United States. Not the British monarchists bent on Labor Party with protests that the party policy leader­ returning the U.S. to the status of a third world colony. ship role is unimportant and unnecessary. Further in­ Not their chief henchman Henry Kissinger. But blind vestigation shows that their authorities on this matter stupidity on the part of well-meaning "patriots." That is are R. Heath Larry, the hated head of the National the significance of the statement against the Carter Association of Manufacturers and former U. S. Steel Administration signed and issued this week by all 38 public relations chief; and Jack Farmer, a Mondale Republicans now sitting in the U.S. Senate. crony, who this week used a seminar of the Bankers' The Kissinger line swallowed whole by the Republican Association for Foreign Trade to coordinate counter­ senators this week - with its attack on the Carter organizing against the Labor Party. A similar pattern Administration for alleged capitulation to the Soviet has emerged in Western Europe against the Labor Union, its endorsement of racist Ian Smith's internal Party's co-thinker organization, the European Labor solution for Rhodesia, and its call for a massive arms Party. The additional purpose of the slander campaign in buildup - is the exact same line that went out from the Europe is to convince European financial and business Bilderberg conference of Anglo-Dutch monarchists two leaders that there exists no effective political counter­ weeks ago (see Special Report). For a few votes come pole in the U.S. ready to join the Europeans in a world­ November, the senators of Lincoln's Republican Party wide development drive. have sold the Union down the river into bondage to the British Empire. The Miller Operation By undercutting the ability of the Carter As the Republican leadership lines up behind Henry Administration to pursue a foreign policy for world peace Kissinger, U.S. bankers have been bewitched by Miller and the economic policy of high-technology exports and into trading two week of profits for ten years of world cooperation on fission and fusion power to depression. The fact that the stock market did not fall guarantee that peace, the Republicans have left the calamitously by the end of the week and that the dollar United States wide open to the City of London assault on continues to maintain itself is evidence to the contrary of the dollar. U.S. economic policy is now in the hands of Miller's plans to put the U.S. economy through the British ally, asset stripper G. William Miller, the so­ wringer. Employing the same tactic it used so success­ called "fiscal conservative" whose avowed intention is to fully in 1929 (see Economics), the City.of London is fight inflation by putting the U.S.
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