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U. S. -Soviet Showdown? EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW September 12-17, 1978 u. S. - Soviet Showdown? • NSC coup plans revealed • How USSR sees Carter • Brzezinski's East Europe • Chinese seek allies destabilization scenario against Soviets New Solidarity International Press Service [THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY BLANK] Editor-in-chief Fernando Quijano Manalinl Editor Tessa DeCarlo Contributinl Editon Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. Nancy Spannaus Criton Zoakos Christopher White Intemational Nora Hamerman U.S. Report Stephen Pepper Konstantin George Economics David Goldman Counterintellilence Jeffrey Steinberg Military Intellilence Paul Goldstein europe U.S.-Soviet Vivian Zoakos Science &r TechnololY Morris Levitt Showdown? Soviet Sector This week's cover story. in our Rachel Berthoff U.S. REPORT, is an expose of Middle East National Security Advisor Zbigniew Robert Dreyfuss Brzezinski's attempt; underway Asia since late August. to grab control Daniel Sneider over Carter Administration Africa Douglas DeGroot policymaking in order to swing the latin America weight of the U.S. government fully behind his "China Robyn Quijano Card" and "Middle East Treaty Organization" strategy Dennis Small for containment of the Soviet Union. Law Our team of analysts headed hy Stephen Pepper has Felice Gelman pieced together a step-by-step grid of the key moves in the Press Brzezinski couP. along with a package of interviews and Fay Sober press reports that indicate the thinking of the Brzezinski EnerlY William Engdahl and allied Zionist Lobby camp. As well, our report presents the key Soviet statements warning against the Production Editor Brzezinski plan. including an unprecedented attack on the Deborah Asch role of Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. And, in their own words, why Brzezinski's Maoist Chinese allies are Executive Intellilence Review is published by New Solidarity preparing for thermonuclear war. International Press Service On the other side of the picture: continuing moves by P. O. Box 1922, GPO, sane Administration forces favoring detente. plus New York City, N. Y. 10001 indications that the Democratic Party is fed up with Subscriptions by mail Zionist lobby interference in policymaking. for the u.S.: U.S. 3 months-$125, On the cover: National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and a map 6 months-$225, showing the key targets for inclusion in his confrontation strategy. 1 year-$400. Details on page 9. ISSN 0 146-9614 © 1978 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THIS ISSUE: REVIEW Europe, Arabs, Japan Build Mideast THIS WEEK Development Option Brzezinski Coup Attempt Threatens ThermonuclearWar .•.................... Will a failure at Camp David lead 5 to war? Key European leaders, Europe, MideastAllies Counter War Drive ............5 working with Japan and Arab New Antl-USLP AssassinationTh reats .............•.6 leaders are working to create a LaRouche targeted by Black Guelph-Zionist terrorne tworks "safety net" option for Mideast peace outside the Camp David EuropeanLabor Party Gains Victory framework. Details in our Against Bundespost ......................•.........7 INTERNATIONAL section include full coverage of the development U.S. REPORT package Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda is presenting to Arab U.S.-Soviet Showdown? ..................... .......9 leaders, moves by the Vatican, and a 1. Brzezinski Pulls NSC Coup . .............•...• . 9 report on a basket of three-way 2. How The Soviets See Garter.................. 12 trade deals being worked out to 3. China Seeks Allies Against Soviets ...........14 develop the region. page 19 4. Despite Brzezinski, Detente Moves Continue .....•..........•....17 5. Democrats Want Mideast Peace ..............17 British-Israeli Terrorism In the United States INTERNATIONAL An in-depth report by U.S. Labor Europe, Arabs Build Mideast Development Option ...19 Party Chairman Lyndon Includes Japanese plan for H. Mideastdevelop ment LaRouche, Jr., on the history, who's who, methods and motives of Papal Intervention Into Middle East Conflict .........21 British-Israeli terrorist networks in Mediterranean-Mexico Development Is the United States is featured in this Focus of Three-WayTrade Deals .•.........•.......22 week's TERRORISM section. British Set Up Plan Includes information on the role of To Ruin Helmut Schmidt .....••.••.•............... 24 the Mafia, the drug trade, British banking and insurance companies, and more. (page 47) Plus, in our COUNTERINTELLIGENCE report, LaRouche identifies his would-be assassins. page 41 © 1978 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Vol. V, No. 35 September 12-17,1978 Mexico's Strategy For Development Our SPECIAL REPORT features key portions of Mexican President ECONOMICS Jose Lopez Portillo's 33,OOO-word State of the Nation address in which U.S. Only Question Mark the Mexican President detailed for For New MonetarySystem ......•.••....•..••....•.25 Final preparationsfor launching EMS the Mexican population his strategy Bank of England's for building an industrialized Mexico using the wealth from Deflation Scenario Unfolds •......•.................27 Garteris pushed toward another Mexico's vast oil and natural gas August 15 debacle reserves. Also, the dirt on efforts by Deregulation Axe Sharpened Senator Ted Kennedy and elements For Airlines, Trucking ..••.••.••............•....•.•29 of the Zionist lobby to block Mexico's development plans. pale 31 SPECIAL REPORT Mexico's Strategy for Development...•..•.•...... 31 Key portions of President Lopez Portillo's State of the Nation Address NEXT ISSUE: Kennedy, Zionist Lobby Grab for Mexico's Oil •.•...•.............•.•....••. 36 Marijuana is an "ideal crop," Terrorists Deployed to Halt requiring "no elaborate technology Lopez Portillo's Development Program .........•...39 or hybrid seeds." What drug officer said this? Answer: an official at the World Bank! COUNTERINTELLIGENCE In our next issue, the drug scandal laRouche: "I Name My Would-Be Assassins"....... 41 of the century - how the World Guyana End of Assassination Plot .....•...........•44 Bank. International Monetary Fund. and allied banks are pushing marijuana. cocaine. and heroin as TERRORISM an alternative to industrial British-IsraeliTerrorism In the USA ...............•.47 development in the Third World - A report by U.S. Labor Party and the advanced sector. Chairman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Coverage will include interviews with World Bank and other drug­ pushers, an in-depth study of the THIRD WORLD banking networks .that handle the Who Are Afghanistan'sNew Leaders? ..............41 billions in world drug money flows. Featuring a speech by Prime Minister the latest in the IMF's efforts to turn Nur Mohammad Tara kki the Caribbean into one gigantic drug plantation. and a review of Mexico's successful antidrug Paraquat program. [THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY BLANK] THIS WEEK Brzezinski Coup Attempt Threatens Thermonuclear War During the monill of August the National Security the U.S. dollar is treated as dispensable because the Council under Zbigniew Brzezinski has moved to take U.S. is valued only as an enforcer and not a producer operational control of the U.S. government. This fact in a renewed cold war. Finally this is the real context has' been reported by high officials in several in which the U.S. tolerates, even allies, with the Nazi executive departments. Falange and the Begin government because it serves The facts that demonstrate this takeover are these: the NSC's strategic aims. beginning in early August Brzezinski personally Complicit in Brzezinski's attempted takeover are intervened to back up James Schlesinger in an Walter Mondale, the architect of the war on Congress, attempt to sabotage the proposals by Prime Minister James R. Schlesinger and W.M. Blumenthal. It is the Fukuda that Japan and the U.S. cooperate to develop policies of these men that have caused the collapse of fusion energy. The same pair forced a review of the President Carter's popularity. Fire them and the agreement that Dresser industries would send oil administration will rebound in the polls. technology to the Soviet Union. Then while top Everyone should realize that three decisive steps officials were absent, Schlesinger and Brzezinski must be taken to avert disaster: 1. the United States formed a voting majority to suspend the deal. should fully support the actions of our European allies The fact that the deal has now gone through does and Arab friends to support a new credit facility for nothing to change the fact that the NSC has been busy world development initiated by the West Germans and getting control of policy on trade-related matters. French at Bremen and ratified by Western leaders at Memoranda were sent by the NSC during the last ten Bonn. 2. The U.S. should make explicit to Israel that days of August to heads of executive departments any adventurous course she may undertake in the setting forth new guidelines of control over these Lebanon, towards the Syrians, or that threatens the departments. Saudi oil fields will be taken without hope of U.S. Finally, on Aug. 26, the NSC promulgated as policy assistance. 3. There must be a congressional the view that the Soviets could be discounted as a investigation of the usurpation of powers by the NSC threat in the Middle East because they were too pre­ far beyond its original congressional mandate to occupied with dissension in the Socialist Bloc and by coordinate,
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