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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 12, Number 35, September 6 �TIillSpecial Reports THE SC IENCE THE SOVIET UNION OF STATECRAFT Will Moscow Become the Third Rome? How the KGB Strategic Studies by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Controls the Peace Movement. Includes transcript of the infamous spring 1983 meeting in Minneapolis at which KGB officials gave the marching orders to Walter Mondale's "peace Operation Juarez. LaRouche's famous analysis of the Ibero­ movement": Destroy the Strategic Defense Initiative! Order American "debt bomb"-a program for continental integra­ #83011. $250. tion. Order #82010*. $100. How Moscow Plays the Muslim Card in the Middle East. A Conceptual Outline of Modem Economic Science. Or­ Some in the Carter administration-and since-hoped to use der #82016. $50. Islamic fundamentalism to make the Soviet Empire crumble. What fools! Order #84003. $250. Religion, Science, and Statecraft: New Directions in Indo-European Philology. Order #83001. $100. Global Showdown: The Russian Imperial War Plan for 1988. The most comprehensive documentation of the Soviet Saudia Arabia in the Year 2023. The thematic task of the strategic threat available. A 368-page document with maps, Arab world in the next four decades: conquering the desert. tables, graphs, and index. Order #85006. $250. Order #83008. $100. The Implications of Beam-Weapon Technology for the Military Doctrine of Argentina. Order #83015. Was $250. Reduced price: $100. IN TERNATION AL The Design of a Leibnizian Academy for Morocco. Order TERRORISM #83016. Was $250. Reduced price: $100. Mathematical Physics From the Starting Point of Both The Jerusalem Temple Mount: A Trigger for Fundamen­ Ancient and Modem Economic Science. Order #83017. talist Holy Wars. Order #83009. $250. Was $250. Reduced price: $100. The Hot Autumn 1983: Separatism, Pacifism, Terrorism. The Development of the Indian and Pacific Ocean Bas­ Who's who in the European terrorist movement and its oh-so­ ins. Order #83022. $100. peaceful support apparatus. Order #83019. Was $250. Re­ duced price: $100. Narco-terrorism in Ibero-America. The dossier that sent the MILITARY AND Colombian drug-runners and their high-level protectors through the roof. Order #84001. $250. ECONO MIC SCIENCE The Terrorist Threat to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. An analysis of the U.S. terrorist underground-the informa­ Beam Weapons: The Science to Prevent Nuclear War. tion the FBI has repeatedly suppressed. Order #84005. Was The year before President Reagan's historic March 23, 1983 $250. Reduced price: $100. speech announcing the Strategic Defense Initiative, this Soviet Unconventional Warfare in Ibero-America: The ground-breaking report detailed the feasibility-and neces­ Case of Guatemala. Order #85016. $150. sity-for beam defense. Order #82007. $250. European Terrorism: The Soviets' Pre-war Deployment. The Economic Impact of the Relativistic Beam Technol­ The dual control of terrorism: Europe's oligarchical families ogy. Order #83005. $250. and the Russian intelligence services. The case of Germany's Economic Breakdown and the Threat of Global Pandem­ Green Party, with profiles of the top families of the interna­ ics. Order #85005. $100. tional oligarchy. Order #85001. $150. THEWESTERN THE MIDDLE EAST OLIGARCHY AND AFRICA The Conspiracy Behind the Trilateral Commission. Order The Real Story of Libya's Muammar Qaddafl. Who placed #81009. $100. him in power? The role of European masonic networks, Ar­ mand Hammer, and the "Billygate" mafia. Order #81004. Was Olof Palme and the Neo-Nazi International. By Lyndon H. $250. Reduced price: $100. LaRouche, Jr. Order #82006. $100. The Club of Rome in the Middle East. The Arab Thought Global 2000: Blueprint for Genocide. The Carter adminis­ Forum and Islam and the West are using Islamic fundamen­ tration's infamous proposal to reduce the world's population talism to retard economic and scientific progress, and plunge by two billion. The promoters of this genocide policy are as the Mideast into a Dark Age. Order #82012. $250. active now as they were when this expose appeared in 1982. Order #82011. $100. prospects for Instability in the Arabian Gulf. Order #82014. $250. We've Got the Goods on Henry Kissinger. Photocopies of the most important articles from EIR's Kissinger Dossier. Or­ Africa: A Case Study of North-South Policy. Exposes the der #84005. $100. "Global 2000" networks that are deliberately blocking Africa'oS development. Order #82017. Was $250. Reduced price: $100. Who Should Not Be Who in the Reagan Administration. Order #84006. $100. Anglo-Soviet Designs on the Arabian Peninsula. Order #83002. Was $250. Reduced price: $100. The Military, Economic, and Political Implications of Is­ rael's Lavie Jet Project. Order #83010. Was $500. Reduced * First two digits of the order number refer to year of publication. price: $250. Order from: EIR News Service P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. Please include order number. Postage and handling included in price. Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor-in-chief: Criton Zoakos Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editor: Vin Berg Features Editor: Susan Welsh Production Director: Stephen Vann Contributing Editors: Uwe Parpart-Henke, From the Editor Nancy Spannaus, Webster Tarpley, Christopher White, Warren Hamerman, William Wertz, Gerald Rose, Mel Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Allen Salisbury Special Services: Richard Freeman Advertising Director: Joseph Cohen Director of Press Services: Christina Huth INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Africa: Douglas DeGroot Agriculture: Marcia Merry We'd like to direct y'our attention to two articles in this issue Asia: Linda de Hovos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, which expose deadly threats to the Western alliance which are un­ Paul Goldstein known to most of the American and world public, thanks to the lying Economics: David Goldman European Economics: Laurent Murawiec and cover-up by the liberal media. Both function as "updates" to Energy: William Engdahl EIR's $250 "Global Showdown" Special Report, issued in July, Europe: Vivian Freyre Zoakos lbero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small reporting on imperial Russia's plans for world domination by 1988. Law: Edward Spannaus Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. First, the interview with SACLANT Admiral Wesley McDonald Middle East: Thierry Lalevee on page 57 outlines the rapid growth of the Soviet military threat to Science and Technology: Marsha Freeman Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: the Atlantic. After you read this you will ask yourself, as we did, Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George whether anyone proposing to cut the U.S. defense budget, or to United States: Kathleen Klenetsky withdraw U.S. military commitments from Western Europe, or to INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee and Sophie Tanapura offer to "bargain away" the Strategic Defense Initiative in a summit Bogota: Javier Almario . with the Russians, could be anything but a conscious agent of Soviet Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Caracas: Carlos Mendez interests: Chicago: Paul Greenberg From that standpoint, we suggest that you read the Feature dos­ Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger sier (page 30) on Armand Hammer, the "capitalist" who flaunts his Lima: Sara MadueflO role in shaping Reagan administration relations with China and Rus­ Los Angeles: Theodore Andromidas Mexico City: Josefina Menendez sia, and who has a record of collaboration with the enemies of Milan: Marco Fanini industrial capitalism since the 1920s. ,Monterrey: M. Luisa de Castro New Delhi: Susan Maitra To sharpen the line between industrial capitalism and Hammer's Katherine Kanter Paris: brand of cultish opportunism, the first eight pages of Economics this Rome: Leonardo Servadio, Stefania Sacchi Stockholm: Clifford Gaddy week give a unique battle report on the fight between the Dope, Inc.! United Nations: Douglas DeGroot Washington, D.C.: Nicholas Benton, International Monetary Fund crowd, and the proponents of industrial Susan Kokinda, Stanlev Ezrol development in Peru, Brazil, and Argentina. Exactly the same point Wiesbaden: Philip Golub, Mary Lalevee, Barbara Spahn is made, closer to home, in Leif Johnson's vivid portrayal of Detroit auto magnate and presidential hopeful Lee Iacocca, on page 12. The Executive Intelligence Review (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) excepl for Ihe second name of Iacocca's brand of "entrepreneurship," as Johnson proves, week of July and firsl week of January by New Solidaril), . International Press Service 101O-/6th N. W., WashinglOn, is fascism. D.C. 20036 (202) 955-5930 The mission of American System industrial capitalism-which EIUYJfHlIUI Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH. Po,tfach 2308. Dotzheimerstrasse 166. 0-6200 Wiesbaden. Federal Republic we are fighting for-is to colonize outer space and use that superior of Germany Tel: (06121) 44-90-31. Executive Directors: Anno science to solve apparently overwhelming problems on earth, such Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig as epidemic disease and desertification. Warren Hamerman presents In Denmark: EIR. Haderslevgade 26. 1671 Copenhagen (01) 31-09-08 an exciting perspective for this in an article inaugurating our Science III Mexico: EIR. Francisco Dras Covarrubias 54 A-3 Colonia San Rafael, Mexico OF. Tel: 705-1295. section, page 24; it is complemented by the interview with former JIJfHlII subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation. astronaut Joseph Allen on page 17, about getting private industry Takeuchi Bldg., 1·34-12 Takatanobab •. Shinjuku-Ku. Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 208-7821. into space. But, as the firsthand
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