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14 Andre Dodin 4 Two million person rally The general secretary of the rebuts Volcker, IMF Society of Exotic Pathology, and "No to the IMF: National professor at the Pasteur Institute in sovereignty comes first," was Paris discusses Africa's cholera emblazoned on the enormous epidemic. banners.

17 Aldo Enrique Cadena 6 The crisis of world debt: The president of Colombia's The West is technically national health workers union talks bankrupt about malaria's resurgence. From EIR's forthcoming Quarterly Economic Report. 18 Dr. Peter de Raadt The World Health Organization's 11 Brazil: The IMF's (WHO) Parasitic Disease Program, negotiating terms Trypanosomiasis Unit, describes the epidemic of "sleeping 12 State Department's freeze sickness." on food aid to Sudan will kill millions Departments 19 Gold 43 Northern Flank Swiss gold plan rears its head. Olof Palme and the A-bomb. 20 Science and Technology 44 Mother Russia New results in light ion beam fusion promise breakthrough by ROC's war on the Vatican. 199Os.

45 Dateline Mexico 22 Business Briefs Nazi-communist pact in Nuevo Le6n.

46 From New Delhi India looks West for defensive arms.

47 Southeast Asia What's at stake for the Non­ Aligned?

64 Editorial The Bonn summit fiasco Volume 12 Number 19 May 14, 1985

Special Report International National

54 The SDl's foes gather momentum in Washington What they are doing, and proposing to do, is frequently unconstitutional, and always close to treason.

56 Can irrationalism promote democracy? The State Department cult-building President Reagan and Chancellor Kohl meeting at the games only the Soviets can win: a White House in March 1984. conference report. 24 The continuing hoax of 34 Bitburg trip strengthens 57 Dope bankers' Weld 'artificial intelligence': the ties despite anti-German blasted in Mexico multi-billion dollar uproar Excelsior blows the U.S. boondoggle The outcome of President Attorney's crime ties. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. looks at Reagan's current trip to Germany, the absurdity called "artificial as of this writing, is a KGB moles target Lyndon intelligence," and the pseudo­ strengthening of German-American 58 scientific beliefs among the relations and of the Western LaRouche at Brookings scientifically-educated personnel alliance, at least temporarily. Institute conference who devote their professions to Documentation: Excerpts from a Who is John Rees really? this useless effort. speech by parliamentarian Alois Mertes, and the letter to Reagan 60 Congressional Closeup from the Reichsbanner Investigation organization. 62 National news

50 The shocking truth about 37 Ask European space Simon Wiesen thai defense initiative Repeatedly arrested by the Nazis General Berkhof of the during the war. he always Netherlands has detailed the miraculous escaped the death proposal. meted out to other Jews. Joe Brewda reports who this celebrated 38 Is the State Department in "Nazi-hunter" really was, and is. collusion with the Soviet ,Union over Greece?

40 Storm clouds gather over Reagan visit

48 International Intelligence �TIillEconomics

Two million person rally rebuts Volcker, IMF by SalvadorLozano

"No to the IMF: National sovereignty comes first," was em­ who justify the IMF's conditions only as long as they are also blazoned on the enormous banner at the head of the marchof applied to the United States. 2 million workers which took place in Mexico City on Labor "It is not a question today of saying", 'since the Interna­ Day, the First of May . The slogan was signed by the Congress tional Monetary Fund is destroying the economy of our na­ of Labor, which comprises all the major trade union centers tions in Latin America, then let's go demand that the Fund's of the country . conditions be applied too to the United States,' as some The May Day rallies, not only in Mexico but in Argen­ people here have proposed. The Fund's conditions would tina, Colombia, Peru, and elsewhere, marked a milestone in cause the workers of the United States the grave problems the political fight against the International Monetary Fund we are suffering from. What we must demand is that the which was initiated by the Schiller Institute with its world­ United States withdraw its backing from the International wide mobilization the weekend of April 13. The May Day Monetary Fund," he stated to the crowd of 20,000 people show of force means that the labor movement of the Americas that gathered on May Day in the square in frontof the Interior is getting ready to tum the smoldering resentmentagainst the Ministry in Cundinamarca. IMF's "loan conditionalities," which are killing whole pop­ Four days earlier, the drug-linked ex-President Alfonso ulations, into political power to end the IMF dictatorship over LOpez Michelsen, proposed that some countries band togeth­ all sovereign nations-including the United States. er to force the United States to accept IMF conditions (some­ • The three main labor organizations of Colombia made thing such figuresas James Baker III and Paul Adolph Volck­ the battle against the IMF the central feature of their er are already taking care of)" demonstration. • The leaders of the main labor groups in Peru supported Paul Volcker, enforcer the Schiller Institute's appeal to make May Day a continent­ Federal Reserve chairman V olcker himself flew to Mex­ wide mobilization against the IMP and drug-trafficking. ico on April 26 to inform the United States' hemispheric allies • In Argentina, the General Confederation of Workers that they would receive no reprieve from InternationalMon­ began on April 30, in Rosario, with a rally of 25,000 trade etary Fund death sentences against their economies, as long unionists, the series of mobilizations which were planned to as he had any say in U.S. policy. "Frankly, I would be a bit combat the submission of Raul Alfonsin' s governmentto the shocked by a political dialogue" seeking to ameliorate the International Monetary Fund. Saul Ubaldini, one of the four debt burden in the continent, he told a Mexico City press general secretaries of the CGT, called for defense of the conference. "I think that there is already a process which has sources of work, production and wages, to fightthe "financial produced favorable and reasonable results not only in Mexi­ fatherland," and "the always untouchables," and to probe co, but also in other countries." If any nations do move "the illicit [parts] of the foreign debt. " toward new debt talks, it would be "disturbing to the private Moreover, Colombian labor, speaking through Jorge financialmarkets where decisions regarding creditworthiness Carrillo, president of the Union of Workers of Bogota and must be made daily," he threatened. Cundinamarca, pulled the rug from under "Third Worldists" Volcker's insolent statements, coming after a private

4 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 meeting with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, set off 19, of the XI Continental Convention of the Otganizaci6n a wave of outrage. Volcker's statements were "blind and Regional Interamericana del Trabajo (ORIT), representing irresponsible," wrote Ivan Molina Ochoa in the Mexican more than 32 million workers, which declared war on the government-owneddaily El Nacional on April 28. To Volck­ IMF and warned that "generalized moratorium may be the er's insistence that no new lending to the region be forthcom­ only way out for our countries," if the choice is between ing from international banks, Molina responded, "This is "saving the creditor banks or rescuing the population of Latin nothing less than the core of the U. S. plan to induce reces­ America." sions [in Ibero-America] from abroad and with it prepare the The declaration came after April 13 rallies across the path for economic occupation, as partners, of the most im­ continent against the IMF inspired by the Schiller Institute, portant debtor nations." which involved many of the same labor union leaders, and Molina charged that Volcker wants to force Ibero-Amer­ set the stage for the outpouring of anti-IMF sentiment at May ica to "accept foreign investments." Our alternative is to Day rallies. Concluding the ORIT meeting, Fidel Velazquez, establish "a common productive region with a common mar­ leader of the Confederation of Labor of Mexico, ratifiedthe ket and perhaps even a common currency," he concluded. call and added that "we need a meeting of debtor nations Volcker was trying to crush any possibility of resurgence which will allow us to counter the influenceswhich the cred­ of Ibero-American joint action against the IMF and for debt itors and international economic organizations have over relief. As he arrived in Mexico City , the Presidents and them." foreign ministers of the eleven major debtor countries of the Volcker's insults tend toward transforming the anti-IMF continent, grouped in the loose confederation of the Carta­ ferment now exploding in Ibero-America, into an anti-Amer­ gena Consensus, called on the ambassadors of the "Big 7" icanism which benefitsonly the Soviet Union. OECD nations, to deliver an appeal for new debt talks to the Bonn economic summit. Peru: no colonialist prescriptions The IMF and the transnational banks have maintained Concerted anti-IMF action by Ibero-American govern­ their balance sheets at the cost of "a drastic contraction of ments has been stalled: The Argentine governmenthas made living standards of our people," said the letter, over the sig­ a deal with the International Monetary Fund to impose the nature of Uruguayan President Julio Sanguinetti. "It would austerity policy followed by the former military regime, un­ be a grave error to believe the debt problem has been solved." der the aegis of the "always untouchables," such as the per­ The mid-April meetings ofthe IMF and World Bank in Wash­ verted ex-minister of finance, Jose Martinez de Hoz, which ington made "no significant progress" in dealing with the can only produce the same devastating results. Brazil is in problem, the statement added. Continuing high real interest limbo, in the wake of the death of its President-elect, Tancre­ rates, declining commodity prices, and net transfer of re­ do Neves, and Mexico is paralyzed. sources out of the continent, must be corrected. "We must But, as a result of elections two weeks ago, Peru may be grow our way out of debt problems," by reactivating the able to catalyze anti-IMF motion. "Peru will pay its foreign economies rather than implementing further austerity. debt without the IMF," Peruvian president-elect Alan Garcia The case of Argentina is illustrative. Monthly inflation is told the Chilean daily La Tercera de la Hora April 26. "We at 30%, and monthly interest has also just gone up to 30%. can't apply colonialist prescriptions in our economies." Gar­ But after a meeting of the cabinet held on April 13, a presi­ cia was elected April 14 in a vote in which only 4% of the dential spokesman announced that another ratchet of "se­ population backed the pro-IMF policies of Peru's existing vere" austerity is "imminent." Businessmen must prepare to government. Garcia said the choice facing Peru was to pay accept new "fiscal oppression," the spokesman said, and or to eat. "We will not follow the IMF's demands," he said, workers should "renounce in part their wage aspirations." because "Peru needs to consume food. A Peruvian eats 20 The announcement came at a moment when the minimum kilos of fish per year, when he should eat 60-70 kilos like the monthly wage is enough to allow a working class family, Japanese. He consumes 29 kilos of rice, when he could eat with luck, to live through one week. 50, or the 150 kilos of a Chinese. Our agriculture is under­ One business leader put it, "The governmentpromised to utilized, therefore we will not follow the IMF demands." wipe out the profits of what was called during the military Garcia has mooted that his firstchoice for foreign minister trial 'the financialfathe rland, ' but this concept of the country is Carlos Alzamora, the career diplomat who presided over continues, because while the speculators are making money, the Latin American Economic System (SELA) in 1982-1984, the real businessmen cannot make profits, the workers only when SELA spearheaded a continental drive for debt mora­ get low wages and mass layoffs , and high inflation is a symp­ torium and renewed economic growth. Picking up one of the tom of the breakdown." central efforts of SELA , and a recommendation of Lyndon LaRouche's influential Operation Juarez economic-strategic Labor declares war on IMF proposal, Garcia said Ibero-America needs a common market Volcker's choice of Mexico for his debtor-bashing ex­ to withstand trade-war pressures from international creditor cursion was calculated. Mexico City was the site, April 17- institutions.

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 5 etary value assignedto the industrial output of all the nations of the West combined. The United States is the world's biggest foreign debtor by far. The foreign debt figures for the United States, which are official figures reported by the U.S. Treasury Department, The West is show that the U.S. foreign debt of $850 billion at the end of 1984 was more than four times that of decrepit Great Britain, technically bankrupt its nearest competitor, and eight times that of the feared Mexican and Brazilian foreign debts. by KathyWolfe The much-feared Latin American debt pales into insignif­ icance next to this. Ibero-America's foreign debt, $295 bil­ lion for the four largest debtors, $380 billion for the continent "We are ending once and for all the idea that credit is a as a whole, is one-quarter of the U.S. foreign debt. sovereign instrument, regulated by individual countries. The figures, which any honest journalist could have com­ Credit is to be regulated and directed according to interna­ piled years ago, show that the IMF's screaming about Third tional arrangement and in no other way ....The United World balance-of-payments deficits is a complete hoax. By States will soon begin to be treated like a developing-sector FIGURE 1. country." U.S. debt is double that of Ibero-America -Martin McLoughlin (Total domestic & foreign debt in billions of U.S. $) Aide to World Bank President Robert McNamara July 7, 1982 There has been a great deal of talk about the possible bankruptcy of the United States, but no one until now has daredto compile the actual financialsta tistics of U. S. A. , Inc. Here compiled, the figures show that the United States now has a debt so large that the mere debt service (a small per­ centage of principal and interest) upon it cannot be paid Ol't of current profits of U.S. production. That is the literal, technical definition of bankruptcy. Moreover, this situation has been deliberately created by Paul Volcker and his supporters in the present administration, including Donald Regan and James Baker, who seek to put the United States, like a Third World debtor, under an Inter­ national Monetary Fund "surveillance" program. Over the past ten years, the United States has bankrupted U.S.A. Europe Japan lbero­ America not only itself, but the entire Western alliance. As of the end Source: EIR Spring 1985 Quarterly EconomicReport. of 1984, the United States had a debt of $6.7 trillion. The interest and principal payments on this amount were over $1 attaining foreign debts of $100bill ion or so, much decried in trillionper year. For the world as a whole, debt is just over the financialpress over the past fiveyears , Mexico and Brazil $20 trillion (Table 1). have merely presumed to join the ranks of once-industrial Of the industrial nations' total of $16. 3 trillion in debt, the countries such as Britain ($189 billion), Canada ($152 bil­ balance is made up of $5.5 trillion from WesternEurope , and lion), and France ($87 billion). Even these figures for ad­ $3.4 trillion from Japan. Approximately $3.8 trillion is the vanced-sector debt, published by the Bank for International portionof the thus-estimated world debt held by the so-called Settlements, are very understated, because they do not in­ developing sector-thaI: is, somewhat less than 19% of the clude trade credits, which are included in Third World debt whole. figures. Of this, only $500 billion (of countries appearing in the If trade credits were included, France and Germany might tables) is Third World foreign debt, an almost irrelevantsum well have foreign debts of over $ 100bill ion each. considering the magnitude of the whole. The interest on the total world debt is $2.4 trillion, if one The U.S. bankruptcy ... assumes a 12% interest rate; assuming a debt maturity of Of the total debt service and retirement, about 36% will eight years, then one-eighth of the debt must be repaid every fall to the account of the United States, in excess of$2 trillion. eight years. On $20 trillion, that comes out to $2.5 trillion in Of this, $500 billion has to be serviced and rolled over every debt repayment. Total debt service-interest and principal quarter: A paper amount in excess of the deflatedtotal of the repayment-is $4 .9 trillion globally, greater than the mon- goods-production segment of annual Gross National Product,

6 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 must be serviced every quarter. postwar interest rates in the United States (Table 2). The annual service and retirement requirement is thus The U. S. consumer used to be a net proVider ot tunds to four to fivetimes the deflated-dollar goods-production com­ the banking system in the form of deposits, the which con­ ponent of GNP. Or: On the U.S. side alone, four-fifthsof the sumers gave to the banks at a much lower rate than the banks amount required in debt service and retirement alone, another made loans back out to consumers. Much of the money would nearly 1.7 trillion paper dollars, is unmoored from the phys­ be loaned by the banks to the Third World. This has now ical economy and its diminishing wealth-producing capaci­ shifted dramatically. Since 1982, a huge reversal in the global ties. That amount (for service and retirement alone) is flow of funds has been organized. Entire chunks of the Eu­ unsecured. rodollar market are being brought back home, and loaned, Taking the United States as a case study, the non-exist­ no longer to the Third World, but to U.S. consumers. ence of the VoIcker recovery is seen most clearly by the fact In 1983, there was a total shutoffof U.S. and other banks' that the U.S. workforce has replaced the Third World as the foreign lending. According to a Feb. 25, 1985 Salomon biggest debtor to the U.S. banking system, with over $2, 175 Brothers study, since 1983, for the first time since the war, billion in household debt, compared to the entire Third World American banks, instead of lending net funds abroad, are debt of some $500 billion. The total U.S. household debt making net withdrawals of funds from abroad, sucking the outstanding has doubled since 1977, the last year of stable Euromarkets into the United States. Total U.S. banks' new foreign lending fell from $111 billion in 1982 to $25.4 billion in 1983-to a mere $300 million for all of 1984. The year

TABLE 1 1984 might even have been the first in which net U.S. bank Total world debt foreign loans actually fell, says Lawrence W. Cohn at Dean (Billion $US) Witter. In 1972, the U.S. goods-producers' wage bill of $196.4 Domestic Foreign Total billion current dollars slightly exceeded the estimated debt­ North America service requirements on total consumer indebtedness at $178 United States 5,858 850 6,708 billion. Canada 552 152 704 By 1984, the consumer debt-service yearly bill had risen Total 6,410 1,002 7,412 to $780 billion, dwarfing even the nominal industrial wage bill of $492.3 billion. The $780 billion service requirements Europe France 834 87 921 on consumer indebtedness alone, inside the United States, is West 1,292 77 1,369 three times the scary total of Ibero-American foreign indebt­ Germany edness, and the principal on $2,175 billion is about 10 times Britain 418 189 607 the Ibero-American foreign debt. Yet, the consumer side total Italy 869 55 924 representsonly abouthalf of U . S. domestic indebtedness. Spain 350 31 381 •••Dwarfs Third World debt Netherlands 310 16 326 EIR Switzerland 260 15 275 The figuresdemonst rate what has said since Britain's Europe total' 5,005 491 5,496 May 1982 Malvinas War against Argentina: that the current financial crisis is not a "Latin American debtors' crisis," but Asia a bankers' crisis. As the figures show, the banks, using the Japan 3,291 103 3,394 Malvinas War as an excuse, made a one-sided decision to Korea 100 25 125 single out lbero-American debtors and to pull the plug on India 128 3 131 them, to use the debt as a weapon to force these nations to Philippines 50 30 80 reorganize their internal economies, halt development, and Indonesia 50 20 70 place them in IMF receivership. Total 3,619 181 3,800 The countries did not go bankrupt; in fact, Argentina and Mexico "were perfectly viable debtors," as one IMF official lbero-America Mexico 714 100 814 put it at the time. "But the banks have made a decision to cut Brazil 1,143 100 1,243 off credit against every nation, bankrupt or viable, until they IMP' Argentina 602 45 647 come to the and submit to the Fund's "conditionalities." Venezuela 300 40 340 This can be seen quite clearly from foreign lending to Big 4 2,759 295 3,044 Mexico and Argentina, which rose sharply throughout the Total' 3,000 380 3,380 1970s, into the second quarter of 1982, then actually fell between June and December 1982 (Table 3). As EIR docu­ Grand total 18,034 2,045 20,088 mented in a study published in our Dec. 13, 1983 issue, this "'ncludes nations other than those listed. was a unilateral lending decision taken by the Ditchley Group

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 7 Table 2 U.S. debt, domestic and foreign (Billion US$)

1972 1976 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

Total 2,046 2,906 4,606 5,043 5,433 6,034 6,708

Foreign $162 200 330 487 619 750 850

Domestic 1,884 2,706 4,297 4,556 4,814 5,284 5,858 Household 1,044 1,654 1,741 1,938 2,175 Mortgage 635 1,101 1,101 1,204 1,334

TABLE 3 Ibero-American foreign debt (Billion US$)

1976 1980 1981 6/82 1982 1983 1984

Mexico 22.8 54 70.0 86.2 82 97 100 Brazil 29.6 61.1 70.0 78 84 92 100 Argentina 5.1 31 35 39 37.7 46.7 45

TABLE 4 Ibero-American domestic debt and debt $ervice (National currencies)

1972 1976 1980 1982 1982 1983 1984

Mexico (bn) Total 625 875 2,437.5 3,730 8,517.5 12,810 17,500 Interest 75 105 675 1,238 4,889 6,789 8,470 Debt service 150 210 968 1,686 5,877 8,326 10,570

Brazil (bn) Total 194 235 8,470 16,657 35,956 97,374 132,846 Interest 31 77 2,998 14,775 39,552 163,588 255,064 Debt service 52 103 3.981 16,657 43,866 175,273 265,692

TABLE 5 Foreign debt and industrial output (Billion US$)

1972 1976 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

Mexico Debt 23 54 70 86 82 97 100 Cement (mn mt) 8.8 12.7 16.4 18.2 19.3 17.0 18.1 Autos (thousand) 170 229 316 369 324 226 241

Brazil Debt 29.6 61.1 70 78 84 92 100 Cement (mn mt) 11.4 18.7 25.9 24.9 25.4 20.9 18.5 Autos (thousand) 437 527 629 605 686 576 515

8 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 bankers' cartel, which was formed in London in May 1982 example, the growth of all three has to be contrasted with the for the specificpurpose ofcutting offcredit to Ibero-America. concomitant declines in the advanced sector. After December 1982, not a single "new money" loan India is exemplary . In 1972, that country produced about has gone to any of the nations of Ibero-America. The entire, 17,000 tractors, against the 220,000 produced in the United and huge, rise in the debt of these countries since December States. By 1982, India was producing 68,000; the United 1982, has been due to the countries' having to borrowmore States was producing 67,000 ! India's economy was being in order to pay their $10-13 billion annual interest bills-the developed to meet a national commitment to produce food borrowings themselves at 13% interest! for the population. Such efforts were matched by attempts to Meanwhile, the total cutback in international lending build up industry and infrastructure in the cited countries, forced these countries to massively expandtheir internaldebt and elsewhere. structures just to stay alive (Table 4). Table 5 shows that production in the Third World was The process of destruction of these countries' imports actually strangled by the rigged debt crisis. was the kind of economic austerity that the IMF and the banks Mexico's cement production rose spectacularl y , from8.8 who cut offthe loans were really after. Brazilian, Mexican, million metric tons in 1972 to 19.3 million metric tons in and Argentine imports were cut $5-10 billion a year, per 1982; that same year, the debt plug was pulled, reducing country, for each of the years 1982, 1983, and 1984, until Mexico's foreign debt as bankers pulled in credit, from $86 each had swung from a $5-10 billion annual trade deficitto a billion in June 1982, to $82 billion in December 1982. Mex­ $10-15 billion annual trade surplus. ican cement production plummeted thereafter, in 1983 to In fact, regarding production in these countries, it is pos­ 17.028 million metric tons, and never recovered fully in sible to assertthat prior to 1982, the year that what is called 1984, coming in at only 18.1 million metric tons. Similarly, "the debt crisis" was being unleashed, these developing­ Mexican steel and auto production peaked in 1981 , fell sharp­ sector nations were outperforming the decrepit advanced ly in 1982, and never recovered. sector. If physical output alone were a criterion in these matters, Though Mexico and Brazil registered higher growth than the currencies of these nations would have appreciated against did India in the production of raw steel and cement, for the dollar, and against the currencies of other advanced-

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monetaryand economic policies, the U.S. economy will continue to describe Thousands 90 an accelerating downward trend in output of goods and in balance of trade. 60 __- IIIiii;;;r-'lr-- • The potential for a 1931-32-style deflationary blow-out or new skyrocketingof dollar exchange-rates, is approaching certainty. Either alternative would be associated with an acceleration of the rate of collapse of goods-output in both the world market and the U.S. economy;'under either alternative, the federal budget deficit would soar. 30 ______� __ 20 ___ _ For information about the Quarterly Report and a new feature, EIR's 1985statistical 10 ______yearbook, please contactyour local EIR representative or RichardFreeman, EIR News 1972 76 80 82 Seroice, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390.

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 9 sector nations, perhaps to the present day. They wereincreas­ ing the productivity of their economies, while the so-called advanced-sector nations were sliding into decline. Currency Rates In fact, the production figures should hike Ibero-Ameri­ can currencies, in real terms, way up against the dollar. The The dollar in deutschemarks dollar's artificial exchange rate against Third World curren­ New York lale afternoon fixing cies has been massively rigged, in order to force the Third 4.00 World nations, when paying their debts. to ship 10-20% more produced commodities, such as steel and food, by volume, 3.3S �

to the United States and other industrial nations, in order to 3.30 earnthe same amount of foreign exchange. \ 3.25 � NATO-area bankruptcy \ 3.20 � Table 1 is suggestive of the buried disaster of domestic 3.15 , debt, especially throughout the advanced industrial sector. IJ"ooo... '" � The much feared $295 billion foreign debt of Ibero-Ameri­ 3.10 fA··/'. ca's Big 4, for example, is only 10.7% of their $2.76 trillion ..". 3.05 domesticdebt, and only 5% of the domestic debt of the United \ I States alone . 3.00 \.., I The domestic debt of the United States, according to the 3113 3120 3127 413 4110 4IV 4124 5/1 Federal Reserve's own "Flow of Funds" figures cited here, The dollar in yen mushroomed from $1.8 trillion in 1972 to $5.86 trillion in New York lale afternoon fixing 1984. In most cases, the internal debt-bubble piling up inside countries, especially in the advanced sector, is shockingly large. The rate of growth of domestic debt in France and

Germany, in their own currencies, is mushrooming, from 3/20 3/27 4/.\ 41U1 4/17 4/24 5/1 DM985 billion to DM2.9 trillion in Germany during the 1972-84 period, for example. These countrieshave expanded The dollar in Swiss francs New York lale afternoon fixing debt in an attempt to keep their economies afloat, printing , domestic money to make up for huge amounts of flight­ 2.85 capital being looted from them through the dollar exchange 2.80 \ rate . It is also clear that West Germany, France, and Italy, for 2.751 \ example, have domestic debts more than ten times theirfor­ 2.70 VV eign debts, and the United States comes close. V\ 2.65 The growth in domestic debt in Ibero-America, it turns , � � out, is far more importantthan that of their foreign debt. This 2.60 IV debt can be almost entirely blamed on the manipulation of 2.S5 the dollar exchange-rate. 1\ J Most ominous, the figures show that the current debt 2.50 \.-� / service of $4.9 trillion cannot be paid out of current world 3/13 3/20 3/27 01/3 4110 01/17 Voll2ol 5/1 production. The domestic interest bill of, for example, France The British pound in dollars for 1984, at FF543.6 billion, is almost as large as the coun­ New york lale afternoon fixing

try's industrial wage bill of FF654billion . The entireannual 1.30 debt service bill in France, assuming 8 years average repay­ 1� 1.25 ment of principal (i.e., 12% of principal repaid annually plus IN-' , interest) rose from FF199 billion in 1972 to FFI.l trillion in 1.20 'J� � 1984, twice the country's industrial wage bill. J.JS '(\J If the industrial workforce cannot produce enough goods, J' even in inflated currency, to meet the debt service, then the 1.10 V

difference is being made up by the banks printing money, 3/13 3/20 3/27 4/3 4/10 4/17 4/24 5/1 andlending out moreto pay standing debt-serviceobligation s.

10 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 EIR, when he was named to a position in the Central Bank­ only seven weeks ag�he made a study of the problem of the foreign debt and reached the conclusions that he laid out in Vienna. He is now replaced by the hard-line technocrat Carlos Eduardo de Freitas, a career functionary in the Central Bank. If the Committee of Creditor Banks of Brazil was alarmed Brazil: The IMF's at Silva de Freitas' speech, the IMF's reaction to the treat­ ment meted out to Ana Marfa J ul, "the iron lady" of its South negotiating tenns American sector, was no less extreme. She showed up in Brazil at the beginning of April; the new government, how­ ever, immediately forbade her traditional pilgrimage in search by Silvia Palacios of economic information, activity in which she formerly en­ gaged in with the same casualness she might adopt in her On the afternoon of April 26, like a bolt from the blue, the own living room-from the presidential palace at Planalto director of the foreign department of Brazil's central bank, down to any ministerial officeshe wished. For her work, she Sergio Silva de Freitas, was suddenly fired. It was the open­ was told, she only needed the information available at the ing shot of a campaign to downgrade the prestige of a nation­ central bank, and to be precise, in the department directed by alist political grouping which opposes the conditions being Silva de Freitas. demanded of Brazil by the InternationalMonetary Fund, the The placing of Brasilinvest in government receivorship­ grouping headed by former Vice-President Aureliano Chaves, its president, Mario Garnero, according to EIR's sources, is who is considered at present the strong man of the govern­ not unaware of the methods often used to launder money ment of President Jose Sarney. from the illegal drug trade--directly affected the business This is the first counterattack by the International Mone­ interests of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and tary Fund to three actions which the new government of the George Shultz. Along with Shultz, former U.S. Treasury republic of Brazil has taken as a minimal defense of its sov­ Secretary William Simon's name appears on the list of foun­ ereignty. The measures were: ders of Brazilinvest. Simon is a member of the board of directors of Kissinger Associates, the most important con­ • The public denunciation by Freitas of the recessionary sulting company of the banks holding Brazil's foreign debt. policy of the internationalfin ancial institutions and the policy Plainly, the IMF demanded the resignation of Silva de of high interest rates of U . S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Freitas in order to hold back the process of investigating Volcker at the Assembly of Governorsof the Inter-American Brasilinvest and the more general illegal operations of bank­ Development Bank (lADB) in Vienna. ing groups linked to international interests-as the precon­ dition for re-opening negotiations on $45 billion in Brazilian • The prohibition against IMF bureaucrat Ana Marfa Jul debt. The agreement must be concluded at the latest in the meeting with whatever ministers she wanted on the pretext firstweek of June, and this is being urged by the president of of seeking "technical information." the central bank, Antonio Carlos Lembruger. According to • Moves to put the firmBr asilinvest, where the Euro­ the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Frank pean oligarchy has been putting the proceeds of its shady Morris: "I had breakfast with Lembruger and he assured me business deals, under court receivorship. that the accord with the IMF and the banks must be concluded at the end of May. " In the speech which Freitas made in Vienna, which was The new republic led by Jose Sarneyda Costa, has gotten virtually blacked out and only made public in its entirety the itself into a real mess by giving in to the IMF's pressures in day after he was fired, he said that: "A country like Brazil the first skirmish. The IMF, in tum, now feels strengthened which still has an enormous social deficit, is sending to the in its bargaining position, enough to try to impose the solution developed world 4% of its GNP ....I doubt that economic of Henry Kissinger: trading unpayable debt for assets in ma­ growth can continue if this enormous transfer of resources jor state enterprises, and at the same time, holding back abroad keeps going on." He added, "Why must the nations investment in the large Brazilian infrastructural projects. with traditional ties to the United States, grouped in the To carry out this scheme-"You can't pay your debts? Western world, and with grave social problems, pay a part Give us your country instead"-the IMF requires the destruc­ of the bill of the discrepancy between the American budget tion of all nationalist political forces. That is what lies behind and its monetary policy?" the campaign to oust political figures inside the government Silva de Freitas is a conservative who comes from the and state firms who show any sign of opposition to IMF business sector. According to information made available to programs. The war has only begun.

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 11 State Department's freeze on food aid to Sudan will kill millions by MaryLalevee

The U.S. State Department and its Agency for International quantities of water evaporate. There was talk about the coun­ Development (AID) have frozen emergency food shipments try becoming "the breadbasket of the Middle East," and it to Sudan, citing the "logistical difficulties" that stand in the could have: Sudan has 40% of the potentially cultivable land way of delivering the supplies to their destination. While of the Arab world, and is strategically situated to supply Sudan's new military leader Gen. Siwar ad Dahab warned Africa with food . Projects were considered to double grain April 21 that one million children could die in the next weeks, production, raise meat output by 140%, and raise sugar out­ of starvation and epidemic disease, stockpiles of U.S. grain put still further to provide a large proportion of the imported are standing useless, behind barbed-wire fences in the city of food requirements of the Middle East. Kosti. Only 5,000 tons of a scheduled 125,000-ton grain But in 1978, Sudan began to run into financial diffi­ shipment, due to arrive between April 1 and May 18, actually culties: The increased price of oil, and falling exports of made it to Kordofan province, for transshipment to the prov­ cotton due to reduced demand for textiles, meant that ever­ ince of Darfur where the crisis is most acute. increasing proportions of export revenues were being spent The State Department, rather than applying American on oil. Debt service became a problem, and ever-increasing know-how to overcome the difficultiesencounter ed, and run­ interest rates increased the debt. ning a Berlin-airlift-style operation, has chosen to let Sudan So, in 1978, Sudan went to the IMF for help. The IMF starve, blaming this on a five-week interruption in rail traffic laid down its conditions: First, the governmenthad to cancel to Darfur. The State Department is charging the new govern­ large-scale development projects. In 1979 a three-year "sta­ ment in Sudan, which took power in April in a coup against bilization" program began, and the IMF called for cutting former President Gaafar Numayri, with blocking the trans­ food subsidies, a ceiling on public-sector borrowing, and port of U.S. grain. currency devaluations. Commercial banks waited for IMF But this is just an excuse; the State Department's geno­ approval before making any loans. cide policy is deliberate. George Shultz's State Department In 1980, the World Bank moved in, with the following is backing to the hilt the austerity "conditionalities" of the orders: International Monetary Fund (IMF), which ruined Sudan's 1) Redirect priorities away from massive development agriculture in the firstplace . State Department policy is still projects in the south and west (the poorest areas). governedby the Carter administration's Global 2000 report, 2) Improve irrigation in the east, for example, the Jezira, which insisted on eliminating half of the world's population to increase production of the cash crop, cotton. by the year 2000. 3) Get back to cotton and stop diversifying (stop attempts We present here an outline of the process by which Sudan to produce food for Sudan's population). was transformed, in a few short years, from a potential bread­ 4) Improve management in marketing and pricing mech­ basket for the region, to an epicenter of ecological and bio­ anisms of cotton . logical holocaust. .5) Increase attention to irrigation for foreign exchange and exports. The end of the 'Great Projects' It is the IMF and World Bank's concentration on cash­ In the 1960s and 1970s, major irrigation schemes were crop production (in this case, cotton), their refusal to finance begun, to extend Sudan's arable land. The most important desperately needed large-scale infrastructure projects, and was the Jonglei Canal project, a 175-mile canal bypasssing insistence on debt repayment as a first priority, that created part of the Nile that winds through the Sudd, where huge the present disaster.

12 Economics ElK May 14, 1985 Then the environmentalists started a massive cam­ officials estimated at the beginning of March that "5 to 7 paign against the Jonglei Canal. The World Wildlife Fund million people risk starvation." Grain stocks were dwindling, and the Society for Endangered Peoples in West Germany, and the prices of sorghum and millet had soared. issued statements in October 1983 attacking the ambitious The effect of the cuts in economic aid was immediate: plans for the canal. The development scheme would destroy Fuel supplies could not be imported, food and other goods the swamp, they protested, where lots of wild animals lived! could not be transported. Factories were closed for lack of Rebels in the south attacked installations near the fuel, raw materials, and spare parts. The gasoline ration was project, and work on the almost completed canal ceased in cut from four to two gallons a week, while the lack of diesel December 1983 . fuel immobilized all public transport in February. Residents Implementation of fu rther IMF demands in January had to line up for more than four hours for bread. 1982 led to widespread rioting and unrest. Slogans on The introduction oflslamic law into Sudan in Septem­ placards of demonstrators in Khartoum read, "We will not be ber 1983, with its brutal penalties not only for crime but for governedby the IMF." Unfortunately, however, the govern­ opposition to the Numayri regime, kept protest muted at first. ment went ahead and cut subsidies, increasing the price of The IMF and World Bank certainly approved the introduction sugar by 62% , devaluing the currency, and cutting the budget. ofIslamic law; it would make it easier to implement austerity. In 1983, the price of gasoline was increased 70 %. The application of the law was ruthless: More hands and feet Exports in 1983 were $670 million, all of which would be were cut offin the 18 months of Islamic law in Sudan than consumed by imported oil, wheat, sugar, and medicine, leav­ have been cut off in 50 years of Islamic law in Saudi Arabia, ing a balance of payments deficit of $1 billion. The budget the heartof Islam! planned $382 million in debt service payments in 1983 , more than half of the export revenue. The IMF turns the screws The 1984 budget was another IMF budget, cutting In February and March 1985, pressure mounted on expenditure and staffing in the health and education minis­ President Numayri to introduce even more savage IMF tries. In October. the currency was devalued by 14.4%. Debt measures. There was a 48% devaluation of the currency in service was now equal to all export earnings. February,,to meet IMF demands. Arrears of debt repayment In 1984, Sudan was in arrears on repayments of debts, to the IMF were then $110 million and were increasing at and so the IMF suspended its standby arrangement, $10 million a week. whereby Sudan would have been able to draw $90milli on. On March 3, Vice-President George Bush visited Su­ The IMF action set offa chain reaction against Sudan, that dan, and reportedly ordered President N umayri to implement one banker said would "doom" talks about rescheduling Su­ the remaining IMF austerity measures, cutting subsidies on dan's foreign debt, now, one year later, at $9 billion. "The essential items like gasoline and bread. $114 million in aid so-called Paris Club of creditor nations won't meet without to Sudan was frozen by the United States, until Numayri gave an IMF plan in place; nor will private creditors renegotiate in to IMF demands. without the IMF plan." Numayri acceded: shortly before his departure on an What was the United States doing? George Shultz's State official visit to the United States on March 27, the price of Department also froze aid, only delivering $44 million of gasoline and diesel fuel was increased between 60% and the promised $225 million in 1984 , pressed Sudan to imple­ 70%, and the price of bread went up 33%. Demonstrations ment further IMF austerity measures, and additionally to sell erupted on March 27, with slogans such as "Down with the offstate-run industries to the private sector. IMF, Down with the World Bank." Later, the chants turned Famine was spreading throughout East and Central Af­ to "Down with America," as the United States was seen rica, due to drought and lack of development, especially lack supportingthe austeritypol icies of the IMF. of irrigation; secessionist movements in Ethiopia were fight­ Still, the State Department was not satisfied. After Nu­ ing governmenttro ops; in Chad, Libyan-backed rebels were mayri met with President Reagan on April 2, the United fightingthe governmentin a civil war. The result: 1.5 million States released only $67 million, two-thirds earmarked for refugees fledinto Sudan, homeless, starving, suffering from oil payments; the $114 million in FY19 85 aid remained frozen. all kinds of diseases. A sleeping sickness epidemic began to A general strike was called on April 3. ravage the south of the country. with high fatality rates. On April 6, following days of violent demonstrations, Cholera and other diarrheal diseases were reported to be the army took power, and General ad Dahab became the reaching epidemic levels. new ruler of the country. His first action was to repeal the In December 1984, the U.N. Food and Agriculture price rises. In his firstpress conference, he said that the new Organization included Sudan for the first time on its list government had two crucial tasks: to reconcile north and of African countries facing "food emergencies." Accord­ south, and to remedy the situation in which between 4 and 7 ing to their figures, the production of the staple crop, sorgh­ million Sudanese were in danger of starvation. um, fell 39% in 1984 . The FAO calculated that Sudan would For this, international assistance, particularly from the need 650,000 tons of emergency food aid. United Nations United States, will be indispensable.

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 13 the lack of clean drinking water, and because there is no Interview: Andre Dodin hygiene.

EIR: Isn't cholera one of a whole group of diarrheal diseases? Dr. Dodin: It is one of a group of gastroenteritic diseases. , Diarrhea is the most severe problem in Africa. The volume of diarrhea in the world, Africa, Latin America, is equivalent to one week of rain in France. And out of that week, Africa counts for at least five days-an enormous amount of water.

Mortality rates soar EIR: What are the implications for the health of children? Dr. Dodin: Children die of diarrhea, of severe diarrhea. The from cholera epidemic WHO [World Health Organization] advises oral rehydration, distributes packets of salt which are added to water. For light diarrhea-which would, associated with malaria, end in Thefollowing interview with Andre Dodin. general secretary death-this oral hydration usually saves people. of the Societyof Exotic Pathology. and professor at the Pas­ teur Institute in Paris. was conducted by Mary Lalevee on EIR: This implies that people have to have clean water. April 26. The interview was translatedfrom the French. Dr. Dodin: There would be no diarrhea if people had clean drinking water. An enormous number of people have no EIR: Could you explain what the present epidemic situation water, and even more have no controlled drinking water. is in Africa? We have heard a lot about the epidemic of cholera in Somalia. Is this a new phenomenon? EIR: Do you have any figures on the number of children Dr. Dodin: It is something entirely new. That is, cholera who die from these kinds of diseases? has only existed in Africa for 10 years. Since the first ap­ Dr. Dodin: No, there are no official figures. Only the WHO pearance of cholera in 1817, and up until 1970, there had risks giving figures for Africa. Officialfigures are necessarily been no cholera in Africa, or only in the ports, never in the wrong and incomplete. You can't give figuresfor deaths in interior. Then cholera arrived in Africa in 1971. It ravaged villages, where there is high mortality. There are no records Guinea, Mali, the region of Chad and Niger, then it emigrated kept. north, toward the Maghreb and Dakar. It spread south of the Equator, appeared in Abidjan, in Zaire, also in East Africa, EIR: There is a conference on epidemics taking place in Zambia, Nairobi, Mozambique; even in South Africa there Abdijan. The number one killer of children under five years were epidemics. That was up until 1980, and it was thought old in West Africa is reported to be measles. then that perhaps cholera would disappear spontaneously. Dr. Dodin: It is not measles by itself, but measles and ma­ However, it did not disappear; it reappeared last year and this laria. It is the association of the two, or measles in association year all over Africa. It has exploded in the form of new with starvation. Measles is only dangerous in association epidemics, 13 years after the first outbreaks, and these epi­ with starvationand lack of hygienic conditions. But it is true demics have caused many deaths. that measles kills enormously. Starvation plus measles, mea­ sles plus malaria-that kills. EIR: How many people are suffering from cholera today? Dr. Dodin: It's impossible to say exactly how many. There EIR: What are the other major epidemics? have certainly been several million people affected. Up till Dr. Dodin: There is an epidemic of meningitis, which reg­ recently, there was a low mortality rate. Before 1980, mor­ ularly appears along a "meningitis belt" which goes from tality was 1-2%, but from 1980 until now, 1985, mortality Ethiopia and Sudan to the region of Dakar (Senegal), includ­ has been much higher, in the range of 10-15% . ing Chad. Thereare cerebro-spinal meningitis epidemics there every year, although there is a vaccine which appears to be EIR: What is the reason for that? effective. But it can't be done everywhere, because the vac­ Dr. Dodin: I think the reason is simple. Living standards in cine must be kept cold during its transportation, and secondly all the Western countries have fallen, and this has had con­ because not everyone can pay for the vaccine. It's expensive, sequences in Africa. And additionally, there have been wars. and the WHO can't distribute it everywhere. Cholera is always transported by soldiers, like in the war Then there is malaria, which is the large epidemic. There between Somalia and Ethiopia, or in Chad. When you have is bilharzia, which doesn't kill, but debilitates children re­ armiesfight ing, cholera is never far away. This is because of markably. It slows growth. Bilharzia is due to parasites, the deterioration of living standards, the lack of correct food, which lay eggs, made of protein and nucleo-protein. These

14 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 nucleo-proteins and proteins take food from the child, divert because the malariahas become resistant to it. For example, the food for theireggs. Thiscauses denutritionand staIvation. in Vietnam, South Africa, and Zaire, malaria resists niva­ There are two epidemics in Africa, one that is as wide­ quine, because the plasmodium has found ways of defense spread as here in Europe: traffic accidents. The second is against nivaquine. malnutrition, the disease of kwashiorkor. It is just incredible, that in 1985 children still die of kwashiorkor, die simply of EIR: Were there any diseases which actually were under hunger and thirst. This does the advanced countries no honor. control in the 1960s which are now recurring? We can sell arms , but we are incapable of providing water. Dr. Dodin: The gastroenteritic diseases. The diarrheal dis­ eases were under control up until the 1960s. Water was dis­ EIR: Has there been a deterioration of the situation in the tributed through a network, it was treated. Now thereis no last 10-15 years? disinfectant, water is not treated. Now there has been an Dr. Dodin: Yes, of course there has been a deterioration. In enormous deterioration, because the Gross National Product the poorer countries, the first cuts are made in the health has deteriorated. budget. Where there was a doctor, they put a nurse; where there were pharmaceutical products, there are none any more, EIR: What should be built in terms of a health infrastructure people have to make do with the local pharmacopoeia. I must network? add that some governments and even international organiza­ Dr. Dodin: First, an information campaign should be car­ tions have griserie [a word meaning intoxication-either ried out, to rebuild the public's confidence in their doctors. physical or mental-ed.], with "barefoot doctors," local That is extremely important. And, what is especially needed products, and the like. This an an insult to people. If you is clean drinking water, wherever possible. To build wells have meningitis, you need antibiotics, not leaves or roots. would not be bad. There is a very strong correlation between the deteriora­ tion in living standards and [the increase in] mortality rates. EIR: It is strange that there are no exact figures for the The curves are absolutely parallel, no matter which country situation in Africa. you look at. Dr. Dodin: You can't have exact figuresin Africa. You can have figures for the cities, for Abidjan, for example, but 20 EIR: How did this deterioration begin, from a medical or 50 miles away from Abidjan, it is much less sure. If a child standpoint? has diarrhea, you don't know why. If a child has diarrhea Dr. Dodin: It is very difficult to say. If there is a weak because of measles, but you count it among cases of diarrhea administration, that's the end. Things deteriorate very, very due to germs, it's wrong, it falsifiesthe figures. quickly. EIR: What do you think of the system of putting famine EIR: And on the level of the economy? victims in huge camps? Dr. Dodin: The deterioration of the economies has occurred Dr. Dodin: It is the worst thing possible for hygiene. It is a with the international crisis. Since the oil crisis, African disaster. You can't provide enough drinking water for such economies have suffered far more than Western economies. enormous camps. It is to the detriment of all. There will Political regimes intervene too. certainlybe outbreaks of cholera, as is happeningin Sudan, in Ethiopia; there will be outbreaks of venereal diseases, EIR: Some diseases had been under control, but are now since camps are ideal places where gonococcus (the gonor­ recurring. rhea agent) and treponema (the syphillis agent) spread. If Dr. Dodin: In the past they were controlled. When there there is one case of plague, there will be cases all over the were nurses out everywhere in the bush, and doctors in the camp. There will be rats . Even in tourist clubs, there are centers, these diseases were under control . Now the nurse is always rats; even with very good hygienic conditions, there disappearing, the posts in the bush are disappearing, every­ are still rats which appear in the rubbish or the food ware­ thing disappears with them. There is necessarilya regression houses. So imagine camps in countries at war, withminimal in hygiene and health care . surveillance. Bringing people together like this is very dangerous. EIR: Was malaria under control 20 years ago? Dr. Dodin: There were big campaigns against malaria 20 EIR: We have proposed that food be broughtto people where years ago, and the WHO announced that we would eradicate they live. malaria. It was a complete fiasco. Now there are some kinds Dr. Dodin: I would go further. I would not bring in quan­ of mosquitoes which can resist insecticide. In places where tities of food, I would bring seeds. If you bring food, there nivaquine was used for chemioprevention, it is not given will be a tendency not to want to produce in the next year. If anymore, or, in some places, nivaquine cannot be given you bring seeds, and insist on their being planted, there will

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 15 germs around us already, that if the living standard declines further, we will have our own illnesses which will be more serious .than the diseases coming from Africa. Planes arrive fromAfrica every day with mosquitoes, but they don't repro­ duce here. So there is little risk of transqlission.

EIR: What do you think then about AIDS? Dr. Dodin: That's a different matter. I can't think or assert anything about it, because we don't know yet exactly what it is. We can only experiment, and draw conclusions from that.

EIR: There is a recurrenceof diseases in the U.S.A., which had disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s, for example tuber­ culosis and .... Dr. Dodin: But that is a different case, they are local dis­ eases. There is no need to import them. If the living standard drops somewhere, then tuberculosisreappears . But you need no import; of course, in France, for example, there might be some bacteria flown in with immigrant wokers, but I don't even believe this to be a serious factor. We have sufficient reserves of Koch bacteria for them to reappear as soon as the living standard falls. You don't have to look outside for this, we have enough bacteria here. Old people, for example, who have a very low living standard-theycough but are resistant. They are in equilibrium with the disease, but they can still A medic carries out hygenic inspection in Kenya in 1956. Today , infect others. even such rudimentary medical care has been terminated, under the pressure of budget cuts . There are diseases that, unlike smallpox, we have never succeeded in eliminating completely. We have never suc­ still be a shortperiod of shortage, but there will be crops next ceeded in eliminating typhoid in France, for example, or year. Food comes from work, it is the transformation of tuberculosis, or poliomyelitis. There is always a reservoir humanenergy in food. If you don't do that, it's useless. which remains. There are always some cases, which may be an infection source, a small one, which does not really bother EIR: What is the danger that the epid$!mics in Africa will us right now, but we have never been able to wipe them out. . spread to Europe or the United States? Dr. Dodin: There is very little danger, they are only brought EIR: Have some of these diseases reappeared in the last 5 in by plane, and this danger can easily be fought. It is suffi­ to 10 years? cient to check people arriving. Right now there is no control Dr. Dodin: Not really. Tuberculosis has slightly reap­ at frontiers. It's hardly worth traveling at 1,000 km an hour peared, there are a few more cases. Also some venereal in the stratosphere, to spend two hours in medical checks diseases. upon your arrival. There are no more medical checks. There is almost no risk. There ill be cases of cholera caught in EIR: What concerns us is that with the deterioration of the Abidjan, and then detected in Paris or London. But given the ec.onomic situation, these diseases will reappear, though not degree of hygiene here, it's unlikely to go far. If the vectors necessarilyfrom outside, as you have pointed out. don't exist, there is no chance of tropical diseases spreading, Dr. Dodin: They will reappear. They won't come from out­ apart from such diseases as meningitis-but these would be side. They will breakout again. single cases here and there . Only one thing would be really serious, and that would be if a case of pulmonary plague EIR: Like, for example, the 1920s influenzaepidem ic. broke out in a plane and it was found out afterarri val. That Dr. Dodin: There is another problem. Since the disco.very could be very serious because it is transmitted by saliva. It of antibiotics, which was tremendous, and led to the reduc­ travels very, very quickly. tio!)of diseases, the germs have becomeresistant to antibiot­ ics, so they reappear because we can't treat them. Some EIR: But withthe decline in living standards here, isn'tthere mistakes were made in the 1950s or so; we didn't know a reduction in the resistance of the population? antibiotics well enough, and we sometimes misused them. A Dr. Dodin: No, I would not stress that. There are enough germ attacked by antibiotics knows how to become resistant.

16 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 · Interview: AIdo Enrique Cadena

gue. In 1983, there were 500,000cases of malaria, and 2,000 died from it. We believe that the fact that malaria eradication is being allowed to be gradually strangled economically, means that in a short time this is going to be an irresistible Malaria, once nearly issue for the country. It is not just a problem for the workers, it is a problem for the Colombian people. And so we thought wiped out, is rising that we had to set aside the usual labor demands to seek a patriotic type of demand. We want this march to succeed in making the government put an economic injection into this by our Bogota bureau campaign, and we want the entire people to know that it is their lives that are in danger. On April 11, employees of the Malaria Eradication Service (SEM) left the city of Pereira in a march that arrived in EIR: There is a lot of talk of the social consequences of the Bogota, Colombia on April 25, to demand that the Ministry adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund. of Health and the national government restore the SEM's Could you tell us if this is one of the consequences of those budget. In 1983 the Service's budget was 2.9 billion pesos; programs, for example, the 2,000 deaths caused by malaria this year only 1 .2 billion were approved. Of that, at the outset as a result of SEM budget cuts? of the march, only 200 million pesos had actually been Cadena: Undoubtedly, yes. First, the consequences of what disbursed. the Fund imposes are suffered by the entire Colombian peo­ Even to return to the 1983 budget is totally inadequate. ple. Second, to pay the high interest rates, they also cut the Two years ago, the country was at the point of definitively budget of public service entities. Moreover, within the Inter­ finishing of/ malaria, but the budget cuts, which started with national Monetary Fund loan, even though we suffered the the Pastrana administration and succeeding governments, consequences in the health sector, not one peso of these loans caused a resurgence of malaria. is for the health sector. One part is for Ecopetrol and another The president of the national health workers union, Aldo for Carbocol. That is, the loan is to help exploit the natural Enrique Cadena, granted the fo llowing interview on April resources and tum them over to U . S. imperialism, and not to 26. Thefact that Cadena sees "u.S. imperialism" as behind alleviate even a part of the crisis which the health sector is the policies of the International MonetaryFund should be a in. warning that the fa ilure in Washington to fight the IMF's looting schemes, will deliver our IMF-oppressed Ibero­ EIR: We have information that there is a cholera epidemic American allies right into the hands of the Soviet Union . in Africa. The blame for this lies with the economic condi­ tionalities of the IMF. This has repercussions around the EIR: What is the basic reason that the Malaria Eradication world, because epidemics do not respect national borders. Service workers are conducting these protestsand marches? That means it will even strike back into the United States. If

I Cadena: The basic reason is that this and previous govern­ you could speak to U.S. citizens, what would you say on ments have been slowly cutting the malaria eradication cam­ this? paign, to the pointthat it is totally paralyzed, and the rise in Cadena: The underdeveloped countries are condemned to endemic diseases is growingbigger and bigger in the country receive every kind of �pidemic. Not just the kind that presents every day. Today 85% of the national territory is endemic itself because of climate, but the cases that come up because territory. Yellow fever is invading the cities, and dengue of the very dependency of these countries. I will just give fever is invading the countryside. In 1969, when the Aedes you one example. Right now there are no rabies vaccines in Aegypti appeared in Colombia, it was only in the cities of Colombia, either for humans or dogs. This exposes us to a Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cali, Riohacha, Maicao and Cu­ thousand dangers. In Cali there was recently a rabies epidem­ cuta. But now, Aedes is found scattered across the whole ic, and in EI Cesar there was another, and throughout the Atlantic coast littoral, the Pacificcoast littoral, the Rio Mag­ country we have rabies epidemic problems coming up, which dalena valley, the Rio Cauca valley, the eastern zone of the are very difficultto deal with. eastern mountain chain, the eastern plains, Putumayo, and the Sarare region. The number of persons affected in 1979 EIR: Getting back to the relation to the imposed economic by dengue is 1,200,000 registered cases, which means that conditions, the National Healthlnstitute says that one reason 50% of the Colombian population has been exposed to den- why they cannot produce rabies vaccines is that they don't

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 17 have anything to feed their laboratory rats .... have the money to pay its employees nor to do any kind of Cadena: It's true. Last night the minister confessed in the experimentation. meeting we had with them, that only this week they managed to pay three months' back wages to their employees. The EIR: When the nutrition of the population is reduced, this same health ministry admits that they don't have money for has repercussions in that people are weaker to resist disease. scientificresear ch. There is no way to bring out a new product Does this have any relevance? because the strains are becoming resistent to all insecticides, Cadena: Indisputably, a country undergoing hunger, a and they say they have no means to bring out new ones country where the infrastructural conditions are too back­ because we are not putting one centavo into research. ward, it is obvious that in such a place, any kind of disease They know, for example, that the effectiveness of the will wreak a lot more havoc . You must realize that the place yellow fever vaccine is not proven, and they don't have the which has the most disease is Los Tugurios, where the poor­ means to do another experiment on it. The entity in charge of est people are , where people are malnourished, and all kinds producing vaccines, and doing research on them, doesn't of disease run rampant.

Interview: Dr. Peter de Raadt

breakdown began during the Idi Amin government. They have no vector control. They have no transport to carry out spraying. This all broke down during the Amin regime and has not been reinstituted. You cannot spray by air, as the flies 'Sleepin sickness' gather under the leaves and are not reached from above. You g must have teams on foot at ground level with tanks and you need cars, Land-Rovers, to bring them and the chemicals in. strikes in Uganda To control the disease in Uganda, I estimate that it would require between $500,000 and $1 million to get the infra­ Dr. Peter de Raadt, head of the World Health Organization's structure-the Land-Rovers, equipment, etc.-set up. Then (WHO) Parasitic Disease Program, Trypanosomiasis Unit, you would need about $200,00 0 per year to spray every year. described to EIR the epidemic of the deadly disease known The first thing required is that you set up a program to as "sleeping sickness." strengthen the capabilities of the local medics. I was there recently and surprised to find teams of doctors still somehow Uganda is the most serious situation in Africa regarding Try­ intact despite their lack of resources. Their morale is surpris­ panosomiasis. There are an estimated 10-20,000 new cases/ ingly intact. If they were properly trained, the man-to-man year of people with the disease there. It is very high. Control transmission of the disease could be stopped. This partof the is insufficientat all points. There is complete breakdown of program would cost maybe $150,000. vector control [ground spraying] in Uganda since Idi Amin's WHO is developing a proposal to the Ugandan govern­ time. I was there in the 1960s and saw not one case ofsleeping ment on steps to identify donors. The U.K. Overseas Devel­ sickness. opment Administration is providing one doctor to go there in The disease has been known in Uganda for 6-7 years. July to make a survey. The USAID? Well, to be honest, I am The German Red Cross came in back then with a small a bit surprised. They seem to have sufficientfu nds, but they program, but the effectshave all been negated by now. The so far have done nothing, though they indicate they are "in­ Ugandan government is badly organized. terested. " They seem to have internaldisorder and constant The disease has a 100% mortality rate. There are two reorganizations going on, which keep a clear policy from strains of this blood parasite. The West African strain takes emerging. several months to years before it attacks the brain. The East The disease is present in epidemic proportions in Uganda African form is highly virulent. It takes only weeks, at most and Sudan. It is a veryserious threat in every country south six months before it is fatal. It creates internal lesions in all of the Sahara except South Africa and Botswana. This is the organs of the body. It can be effectively treated with drugs. danger that without sufficient controls, it will very quickly The treatment is fatal in about 2-3% of cases. break into epidemic levels in all these countries. When I was It is spread by the tsetse fly.There is at present a break­ in Uganda in the 1960s, I never saw one case of sleeping down of control services in Uganda, as well as Sudan. This sickness. It was under effective control until the early 1970s.

18 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 Gold by Montresor

Swiss gold plan rears its head by "good economic news" to help the The Swiss seem to be tightly controlling the gold price to impose dollar in the second. Volcker does, in fact, seem to be discipline on the United States. printing money, which in the fairy tale world of Reuters used to mean that the dollar was debased and went down; now it means that there will be "recov­ ery , " so the dollar rises. "He's worried G old fell $13 in the week ending rapid drops, depending on whither the about collapsing S&Ls," said one May 3 to $3 11, as speculators again IMF seeks to manipulate Reagan in a trader, and indeed, over $7 billion in beganforc ing up the V. S. dollar. The given week. S&Ls collapsed in the week ending dollar had fallen below 3 DM at the If Reagan gives the IMF any trou­ May 3. end of Marchafter the collapse of the ble, the dollar could trend down. Es­ Traders also cited the Soviet-en­ Ohio Savings & Loans, but rose again peciallyas the Congressbegins to slash gendered political uncertainty in Ger- without explanation to 3.23 DM. his defense budget, undercutting the . many, especially the Russian-runBi t­ "They're going to cancel the space President, the dollar could trend back, burg scandal, which hurts the mark program and just ride the dollar up," with jigs and jags, below 3 DM. and makes the dollar a "safe haven" said Fred Stombaugh, First Chicago Gold, if the Swiss have their way, again. "The most optimistic forecasts director of trading. will stay within the $300-$350 range of West German economic growth re­ How true his words may become. for another few months at least. There main below ours," said one. The Anglo-Soviet cartel, which con­ will be recoveries, followed by re­ Most interestingly, the IMF may trols the gold markets and spent most versals, all cynically designed by mar­ be toying with its own fo rm of gold of 1984 dumping gold, has now as its ket makers to disillusion the investor. discipline, externally imposed upon first priority the utter destruction of Why the control? For the moment, the V. S. as a tight austerity policy. President Ronald Reagan's defense the Soviets do not seek to panic Pres­ TheWall Street Journal, which speaks budget, in particular his space-de­ ident Reagan further on the economy, for the Swiss-based Bank for Interna­ fense program (the Strategic Defense for fear that he might throw out Paul tional Settlements, in a May 2 edito­ Initiative). In order to do so, they seek Volcker, James Baker, and other IMF rial "Money at the Summit," proposed to impress America and put it under agents, and rearrange the nation's fi­ an IMF "discipline" gold standard first an International Monetary Fund aus­ nances. Were gold to riseabove , say, presented by then BIS President Jelle terityprogram , as we have said. $350, the President might listen to Zj ilstra in his September 1981 IMF It is clear that the Ohio disaster, those such as Lyndon LaRouche who speech. manufactured in Switzerland by for­ advocate return to a V.S.-controlled The editorial calls on Western mer Swiss Ambassador Marvin L. dollar-gold reserve. heads of state to discuss the 10th an­ Warner(s ee EIR Banking for March), Such a Reagan gold "standard," if niversary of Vietnam because the and the resultant collapse of the dollar fullyrun from the White House, would Vietnam war "abandoned the gold link from DM 3.40 to DM 2.90, was suf­ be the perfect vehicle, with gold priced to the dollar that had anchored the ficient to panic Washington into ob­ at $500-$750 an ounce, for financing Bretton Woods system." Reagan, they eying the IMF's will at the just-con­ the space laser defense buildup. say, should ignore Mitterrand's ver­ cluded IMF meeting. Instead, the Soviets will have sion of a "soft money" new Bretton For the moment, the dollar may be Volcker and other fools point to the Woodsconferen ce, and call for a "hard drivenno further down. "success" of IMFstrategy for the V.S., money" new Bretton Woods. "As Why? As my sabbatical may have for the moment, in creating a strong Western leaders grapple with how to indicated, the gold market is still as dollar. Economic facts are being ma­ fix wh�t broke, they need to be think­ tightly controlled by the Swiss bank­ nipulated in just as unreal a manner. ing about gold or at least some anchor ing interests as it has been for a year, Despite the galloping collapse of V . S. for the system's key currency, and and will for practical purposes stay production, the "bad economic news" . whether parties to such a system are that way for most of the second quart­ such as Ohio S&Ls being closed, prepared to follow economic policies er. The dollar will likely continue a which hurt the dollar in the first quart­ compatible with the system's controlledsee- saw of sharp jumps and er, is now being synthetically replaced discipline. "

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 19 Science & Technology

New results in light ion beam fusion promise breakthrough by 1990s

by Charles B. Stevens

Almost lost among the revelations of major breakthroughs in which 1.5 trillion watts per square centimeter were delivered beam weapons, the April 17-19 University of Rochester con­ to a target in May 1984. This Spring PBFA II delivered an 8 ference on "Lasers and Particle Beams for Fusion and Stra­ trillion watt pulse onto a spot 4 to 4.5 millimeters in diameter. tegic Defense" saw the announcement of advances in the This demonstrated that the Sandia light ion beam focussing Sandia, New Mexico light ion beam fusion program which process is maintained as the current is increased. Proto I puts ensure that commercial fusion energy �an still be realizedby out a 1.4 million volt and 0.4 million amp beam, while PBFA the 1990s despite the general curtailment of the U.S. research I operates at 2 million volts and 4 million amps. PBFA II will effort over the past 8 years. In order to achieve high gain demonstrate scaling with voltage since its lithium ion beam inertial confinement fusion needed for commercial power will have 30 million volts and 5 million amps. These recent generation, it is necessary to deliver energy pulses containing experimental successes demonstrate that PBF A II has the millions of joules at power densities of several hundred tril­ potential of exceeding its original design specs by a factor of lion watts per square centimeter to a small target containing 100. This means that PBFA II will be able to go well beyond hydrogen fusion fuel. The high gain result is that hundreds fusion breakeven for which it was originally designed. of millions of joules of fusion energy are generated in the resulting microexplosion. How it's done As detailed to the Rochester conference, recent experi­ The Sandia program is among the youngest in the fusion ments have shown that the Sandia National Laboratory PBFA field. Beginning in the early 1970s and making use of electron II light ion beam accelerator has the potential of delivering beam accelerators, which were otherwise being utilized to millions of joules at power densities of ten thousand trillion produce intense bursts of x-rays in order to simulate nuclear watts per square centimeter, far above that requiredfor high weapon effects, the Sandia pulsed power effort has placed gain fusion! The PBFA II (ParticleBea m Fusion Accelerator itself at the forefront of fusion research and on the brink of II) will begin operation in January 1986. Fusion target ex­ realizing commercial fusion. In little more than a decade periments are scheduled for early 1988. Sandia converted the inherent high efficiencies and low costs Dr. J. Pace VanDevender, Sandia Pulsed Power Sciences of oil and water insulated pulsed power capacitors and Blum­ Director, and Professor Ravindra N. Sudan, Director of the leins into the frontline fusion program with a minute fraction Cornell University Laboratory of Plasma Studies, detailed of the total program's resources. the experimental and theoretical advances underlying this The scientist most responsible for this is the formerSan­ happy prognosis. Professor Sudan showed thatexperiments dia Pulsed Power Director, Dr. Gerald Yonas, who is cur­ with high currention beam pulses over the past decade have rently the deputy director and chief scientist for President shown that they act contrary to the simple minded pictures Reagan's beam-weapon program. presented by such anti-beam weapon "experts" as MIT's Kostas Tsipis. First of all, instead of diffusing, high current Plasma engineering ion beam pulses tend to non-linearly self-focus to higher In many ways the Sandia particle accelerators are no more power densities. Second, weak magnetic fields do not inter­ complicated than an ordinary spark plug and look very much act and change the trajectory of such extremely high current the same-except on a much larger scale. You begin with a beam pulses. large, high voltage pulse of electrical current lasting tens of Dr. VanDevender reviewed experiments on Proto I in billionths of a second. This is delivered to two pieces of metal

20 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 MAGNETIC INSULATION FIELD COIL (FAST)

1 LOW INDUCTANCE CONVOLUTE

CROSS SECTION OF DIODE

Sandia National Laboratory's Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator (PBFA) may prove capable of delivering energy pulses fa r denser then required fo r fu sion breakeven. The PBFA II will begin operation in January 1986 . which are separated by a vacuum-a sort of glorifiedvacuum moving parts of the Sandia particle beam accelerators are tube diode. One metal piece is called the anode because it "plasma"! has a positive electric charge and the second the cathode Another plasma engineered improvement is to use intense because of its negative charge. bursts of extreme ultraviolet radiation to pre-ionize the sur­ Ordinarily, when the high voltage, high current electrical face of the anode. This allows the more efficient and rapid pulse arrives at the diode, electrons would be accelerated formation of the ion beam when the electrical pulse arrives. from the cathode to the anode and positive ions would be accelerated fromthe anode to the cathode. Because the elec­ Commercial prospects trons are thousands of times lighter than ions, they make it While many technical hurdles remain for converting the across first and thus an electron beam is generated. A thin scientific demonstration of light ion beam fusion into a prac­ foil properly placed at the anode will permit the e-beam to tical, economic power plant, the pulsed power technology pass out of the machine. upon which this approach to fusion is based has made major Alternatively, if a magnetic field is placed across the advances over the past decade, and with the Reagan beam cathode, as originally suggested by Dr. F. Winterberg, the weapon program, this rate of progress will be greatly accel­ lighter electrons will become trapped and prevented from erated. Already advances in high power switching are clear­ proceeding to the anode. In this case the positive ions will ing the way to rapid refiring rates needed for power plants. make it across first anda high current, intense ion beam will Pulsed power has always operated with high efficiencies­ be formed. better than 30% of the input electrical power being converted Besides properly arranging the geometry of the diode to into ion beam output. Continuing work in the beam weapon permit the formation of a focused ion beam, a transparent program is pointing to solutions to the most significant, out­ plastic mesh is introduced between the cathode and anode. standing problem-that of propagating the ion beam over a This mesh is transformed into a plasma-plasma is the ion­ sufficientdist ance in order to decouple the beam generating ized state of matter-when the electric pulse arrives at the diode from the fusion microexplosion . In any case the future diode. The plasma mesh acts as a "virtual cathode" which for light ion beam fusion is bright. It remains to be seen what evens out the intense electric fieldwithin the diode and there­ Gerry Yonas will do with the large resources of the U.S. fore results in an even acceleration of the ions. The chief Strategic Defense Initiative.

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 21 Business Briefs

The 'Recovery' protection by eliminating every unit of blood make a $50 million interest- arrears payment ; that might be infected," said Sandler. Initial the first week of May, which "demonstrates Steel industry screening found 2 to 3 positives per 1 ,000 our commitment to do whatever is possible in 100,000 samples tested. in order to implement our program ....The collapse continues A British specialist on AIDS, Dr. John documentation is virtually completed and Seale, declared, "the potential for the spread has been approved by both sides and the The last of the "Big 7" steelmakers, LTV­ of AIDS in developing countries is almost Argentines want to get the deal done." Republic, has announced its profit state­ unlimited. The overcrowded and unsanitary Brodersohn pledged to pay as much in­ ment, a staggering $156.4 million loss, up conditions in which the bulk of the people terest as possible before receiving the IMF significantly from the$34 million loss in the live, combined with a high frequency of in­ and bank money. Argentina has been in ar­ first quarter of last year. The second largest fections, injuries, and sores which break the rears since Nov. 4, and will still be classified steelmaker, LTV's debt service cost for the skin, make blood contact among family as a "substandard" borrower after the pay­ second quarter of 1984 was $70 million, members practically inevitable, with the ment, according to banking sources. reflecting its purchase of Republic last year. transmission of the virus likely. " Alfonsin's audience was stunned into si­ LTV 's mills currently operate at 69% of In Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire, lence as he announced the new austerity capacity. there is a high proportion of AIDS antibod­ package, saying, "A better standard of liv­ Six of the top seven steelmakers lost ies among tested populations. Peter Piot of ing cannot beexpected this year. " The mea­ money during the first quarter of this year. the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Ant­ sures include increasing the cost of public Average prices for steel have slipped below werp reported, "On current data, we esti­ utilities, fuel, and transportation by 35% to $500per ton . mate the incidence of AIDS in Kinshasa, 40%;increasing the central bank's regulated U.S. Steel's profits fe ll 66% to $58 mil­ Zaire is about 17 per 100,000. This is a interest rates by 2% for the month of May; lion, with capacity utilization of only 60% . minimal estimate and is comparable to or reducing public expenditures for 1985 by Wheeling-Pittsburgh, the seventh largest, higher than the rate in San Francisco or New 12%; freezing job vacancies in the public filedfor bankruptcy in April. York." The cases in Africa are most omi­ sector; and giving public employees options The National Academy of Engineers has nous because they do not involve the high­ for "voluntary retirement" at a percentage put out a study saying that the major inte­ risk groups-homosexuals, heroin-users, of their current salaries. grated steelmakers will have to continue to Haitians, and hepatitis victims. shut down capacity over the next decade to Similar cases of non-risk-group AIDS become competitive with other countries and are now under study in the United States. become "more efficient"-an echo of the Although one out of every four Ameri­ formulations of the European Community's cans aged 15 to 55 has contracted some form InternationalCredit Davignon Plan, which deliberately shut <;>fsexually transmitted disease, the funds to down European steelmaking capacity. fight these diseases are in critically short Schmidt plan for supply, and David Stockman's 1986 budget (adjusted for inflation) will cut the funding decoupling unveiled even further. The Schmidt plan for financial decoupling Breakdown Crisis of Europe from theUnited States was spelled ' out by former German Chancellor Helmut AIDS quietly spreading Schmidt at the Interaction Council meeting Austerity in Paris April 27. He called for the creation to general population of a European Central Bank, centeredaround IMF forces 'war the European Currency Unit (ECU), an in­ The American Red Cross, which provides dependent monetary supply, independent about half the nation's blood supply, began economy' on Argentina interest-rate policies, and protectionist screening blood in March to keep the sus­ monetary intervention against the dollar. pected AIDS virus from spreading through Promising a "war economy" and warning A strengthened European Monetary transfusions, which are blamed for 143 of thatad justmentwas "going to bevery tough ," System and ECU would be acounterweight the nation's official9, 760 cases of AIDS. President Raul Alfonsin announced April 26 to the power of the dollar and the yen, he Dr. S. Gerald Sandler of the Red Cross that Argentina would implement new aus­ said. His IS-point plan is designed to trans­ stated, "The numberone factor that will pro­ terity measures in order to meet IMF form the ECU into a full-fledged Europe­ tectthe nation's blood supply" is for homo­ conditions. wide currency. Schmidt proposes the ECU sexuals and intravenous drug abusers not to The chief Argentine debt negotiator, be more widely used to denominate private­ donate blood. Transfusion "recipients need Mario Brodersohn, said Argentina would sector loans, with legal restrictions on pri-

22 Economics EIR May 14, 1985 Briefly

• FACTORY capacity utilization in the United States, according to the Federal Reserve index, remained un­ changed in March at 80.8%-re­ markably low for a "recovery. " vate use abolished, and ECU coins and giant fraud operation, coordinated by the Moreover, the figure is down almost checks introduced. E. F. Hutton investment firm. 2% from mid- 1984. Since the sum­ In addition, the plan calls for encourag­ Under Attorney-GeneralEd Mees e's di­ mer of 1984, durable goods utiliza­ ing central banks to use the ECU, by in­ rection, Hutton was charged with, and has tion has fallen 1.2%. creasing interest rates paid on their holdings pleaded guilty to, 2,000 counts of wire and of the unit and by making it easier for central mail fraud , and was fined $2 million, plus • EGYPT AND INDIA will banks to trade them for dollars to intervene damages. Afterthe OOJ filedan eight-page strengthen mutual economic cooper­ in foreign-exchange markets. "criminal information" against Hutton in ation, as well as coordinate their ac­ The Schmidt plan was published May 1 U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pennsyl­ tions within the Non-Aligned Move­ by the Royal Institute for International Af­ vania yesterday, DOJ Attorney Steven Trott ment. This will beamong the subjects fairs in London . Its intent, left unstated, is called Hutton's activities "absolute, con­ of discussion when Prime Minister to financially integrate Europe with the So­ scious, and deliberate fraud." Rajiv Ga,ndhi visits Cairo in early viet bloc economies. Already, the primary Hutton reportedly was utilizing thetime­ June. Egyptian Foreign Affairs Min­ use of ECU-denomination in transactions is lapse in check clearance to overdraw on its ister Butros Ghali also reported that for East-West trade and credit activities. accounts with banks. Egypt will be opened to industrial in­ vestment from India.

• WEST GERMANY may sell Trade East-West Trade aerospace technology to Japan, ac­ cording to hints given to the Bonn . Record new French energy supply press April 30 by Economics Minis­ terMartin Bangemann . Japan's Prime U.S. deficit set from Soviets grows Minister Nakasone is said to have signaled interest, and to have offered The u.s. trade deficit for March swelled to France has signed major new energy-related special high-tech deliveries to Ger­ $11.4 billion, bringing the first-quarter fig­ agreements with the Soviet Union. man industry in return. ures to $32.7 billion. The Lurgi France company has signed a At that rate , the 1985 trade deficit will FF I.5 billion contract to carry out a project • EGYPT will face a catastrophe soar to$131 .8 billion, outstripping last year's to build a gas condensation treatmentsystem by early next year at the latest, if the $123.3 billion. for the Tengiz depositin Soviet Central Asia. Nile's water levels continue to drop Wereit not for a drop in petroleum prices An even larger contract, FF2.5billion , becauseof the present drought. Usual for the fourth straight month, the import to­ was signed between the numberone French water depth at the Aswan Dam is said tal and thus the total trade deficit would have engineering company, Technip, and the to be around 184 meters. The level been even higher. Petroleum imports de­ U.S.S.R. This contract involves the con­ now is only 124 meters. Although creased a large 16.8% last month. Imports struction of a complex for the cleaning of thereis still enough water to meet this of all goods in the first quarter of 1985 rose natural gas with a high content of sulfur, in year's electricity and irrigation needs, 26.2% over the level of the fourth quarterof Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. there is not enough for new-land re­ 1984. The April 26 Pravda reports that new clamationpro jects in the desert. contractshave also beensigned betweenSo­ viet Foreign Trade Minister Patolichev and • PERU will export 2,000 tons of some prominent French businessmen, and frozen chickens per month to the InvisibleHand that contracts have beenconcluded between U.S.S.R. from May to October as the Soviet Machino-Import company and partof a deal in which 80% of Peru's Hutton pleads guilty three French firms. debts to the Soviet Union will be paid A recent conference between Soviet and in hard commodities, including food to account fraud French trade representatives in Paris re­ products and textiles which Peru solved to "redress" the French trade imbal­ would not normally export. Peru re­ "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen. ance with the Soviet Union, based largely cently refused IMF austerity de­ Well, that's exactly what happened. Very on decline in Soviet orders for French capi­ mands because its population is un­ few banks are going to question their activ­ tal-goods and growing Frenchpurchases of dernourished. However, the agree­ ity." This was the commentof Assistant U.S. Soviet natural gas. The new trade accords ment with the Soviet Union, it is es­ Attorney Albert Murray, explaining how it do so-by sending French capital into Rus­ timated, will result in shortages of came to be that "small, hometown banks" sia to expand Soviet natural-gas production, chicken inside Peru . across the United States, were roped into a for French purchase !

EIR May 14, 1985 Economics 23 TIillSpecialReport

The continuing hoax of 'artificial intelligence': the multi-billion dollarboondoggle

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

"Intelligence consists not of solving problems; intelligence consists of not having problems," said Berkeley, California philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, on April 17, 1985 , at an Austin, Texas "Symposium on the Humanities." Dreyfus is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained specialist in what is called Arti­ ficial Intelligence. Austin, Texas's mkro-electronics center, is a hotbed of the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle, called ArtificialInt elligence. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) ," was launched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's RLE laboratories, during the 1950s, as an effortto demonstrate that human intelligence could be simulated, and surpassed by digital-computing de­ vices. AI research was launched by a circle including Professor Margaret Mead, who operated through a seed-funding conduit known as the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, a circle continuing the "Unification of the Sciences" project launched circa 1938 under the joint leadership of Bertrand Russell and the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins. The basis selected for attempted achievement of AI, combined the notions of "artificialintelligence" developed by MIT's Professor Norbert Wiener and Princeton's John von Neumann, as popularized in Wiener's 1947 -1948 editions of Cybernetics. Professor Dreyfus devoted his remarks at Austin, to his own explanation of the reasons he suspects AI research continues to be the failure it has been repeatedly admitted to be since the late 1950s. Yet, despite repeated confessions of failure by AI specialists, the percentage of total research and development grants, and pro­ fessorships, continuing to be poured into this multi-billion-dollar boondoggle, has grown over the past 30 years. Since the close of the 1950s, when the first admissions of uselessness of AI research were fielded, the variety of explanations for the failure has been as varied as descriptions of the elephant by the fabled committee of blind men. Dreyfus's purportedexplan ation is noteworthy, as being among the most pathetic heard from such specialists so far. At the Austin conference, Dreyfus said that AI research is permanently stuck, because AI has been based on the premise that human intelli­ gence consists of "reasoning" things out. The "human dimension, involving flesh

24 Special Report EIR May 14, 1985 Like the medieval alchemists who sought to change base metals into gold, today 's proponents of the "Artificial Intelligence" hoax are ignorant of the most basic scientific principles . AI attempts to comprehend human intelligence by means of mathematical analysis based uponfo rmal logic. Shown: "The Alchemist, " by Peter Brueghel the Elder. and feelings," Dreyfus said, "goes beyond reasoning." Rules ence. It is relevant that the famous David Hilbert threw Nor­ and reasoning, he said, are only the most basic aspect of bert Wiener, the author of Cybernetics, and cb-author of human behavior. On such premises, he concluded that the modem "information theory," out of a pre-World War I sem­ objective is to avoid all problems which can not be solved on inar at G6ttingen University. The grounds for this expUlsion, this rudimentary level. was Wiener's stubbornlyper sisting scientificincompet ence. The pouring of billions of dollars into research projects Wiener's incompetence is essentially identical with the lead­ i which have been repeatedly proven absurd, is a prevailing ing features of John von ·Neumalp' s efforts to apply a neo­ fact of the so-called "social sciences," such as anthropology­ positivist definition of formalist mathematics to a "theory of ethnology, sociology, and psychology. There is perhaps no brain-function." Wiener and von Neumaim were among the instance of research-grants for physical science, in which leading opponents of the kind of physics which does explain repeatedly proven absurdity has been so richly funded as in many characteristic features of human intelligence, oppo­ the instance of AI. The reason this AI boondoggle has been nents of the line of development in physics running through so long tolerated by non-scientificci rcles, is obvious enough: Leonardo da Vinci, Leibniz, Euler; and Gauss. the superstitious mystique of Zbigniew Brzezinski's "tech­ This identifiespart of the reasons for the failures of that netronic age," the same mystique which overwhelms the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle called AI. However, the science-ignorant technician confronted with the program­ problem is not merely the a�e for the Wiener-Shannon and ming of a'digital computer. The reasons trained scientists do von Neumann doctrines of "information theory," among sci­ not blow the whistle on this billion-dollar-boondoggle, are a ence-educated specialists. The undeserved aspects of the rep­ \ bit more complicated. utations of Wiener and v. Neumann appear to be valid among Dreyfus's recent explanation for the continued bankrupt­ most science-educated professions today, because the text­ cy of AI research,has the merit of pointing almost directly to books and classrooms, of secondary schools as well as uni­ the pseudo-scientificbelief s among the scientifically-educat­ versities, are saturated with the effluviaof so-called formal ed personnel who devote their professions to this useless logic. Today's student knows almost nothing of the most effort . Tum Dreyfus's explanation upside-down. Instead of important developments, and related controversies, within saying that human intelligence is not rational, simply recog­ the history of modem science, and does not know,' that the nize that the definition of "human intelligence" adopted by foundations of modem science, insofar as its fundamentals AI professionals is absurd. are developed today, were established by a succession of There exists an established body of scientificknowledge , scientificworkers whose work is known only in bits of snatches which does enable us to define"human intelligence's" rudi­ to textbook students of today. These include, notably, Leo­ mentary principles in mathematical-physics terms of refer- nardo, Leibniz, Euler, the celebrities of the, Monge-Camot

EIR May 14, 1985 Special Report 25 Ecole Polytechn ique, and the circle of Carl Gauss in nine­ and other specialties over the recent l30-odd years. Today, teenth-century Germany. Modem secondary and university especially among scientific professionals, the "secular hu­ students of mathematics, are so consistently "brainwashed," manist" and "statistical" standpoints are not only strongly by drill and grill in the delusion that natural science is a correlated, but are functionally interdependent. subject of neo-Aristotelian formal logic, that they must tend In this report, we contrast the proper definitionof "human to conclude that most of the fundamental discoveries upon intelligence," as situated within the history of modem sci­ which physics today depends, were the product of a method ence, with the absurd assumptions, rooted in "statistical the­ of inquiry "totally unscientific" by today's academic stan­ ory," on which Wiener and v. Neumann founded the multi­ dards in mathematical formalism. billion AI boondoggle. The record of bankruptcy of the AI boondoggle, is useful only to the degree it exhibits the impossibility of compre­ Living versus dead matter hending, even defining, human intelligence or human "infor­ It is elementary, for any effort to define human intelli­ mation," by methods of mathematical analnis based upon gence in the language of a mathematical physics, to begin formal logic . It exhibits, at least implicitly, the principle, that with the fact that human beings are living organisms. The precondition for defining living organisms, is to locate a fundamental and infallible distinction, between living and non-living processes in nature generally. Once that is accom­ What keeps the multi-billion­ plished, we must next isolate some infallible, fundamental dollar AI boondogg le going, is the distinction between human and animal behavior. reluctance cdmodem "secular The rigorous definition of the distinction between living and non-living processes was first defined for modem sci­ humanists" to admit, that the laws ence, by the work of Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci, at cdthe universear e not consistent the close of the fifteenth century. The continuing line of with a statistical theory derived inquiry along the lines established by Leonardo, runs through the work on optical characteristics of living processes, by Jro mJormal logic. Louis Pasteur, into lines of inquiry in what is called "non­ linear spectroscopy," today. The physics which is uniquely suited to living processes so defined, is the physics based on what is called "logic" today, and human reasoning, are in­ the methods employed by Carl Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, compatible notions. Ifthis failure of AI were examined against and Karl Weierstrass, during the nineteenth century. the backdrop of Leibniz's denunciations of Descartes, and Before turning to the issues of the distinctions between the raging controversies within nineteenth-century science, human and animal behavior, we summarize the nature of the the fact is most clearly presented to us, thatGaus s, Riemann, case for living processes. We begin with a summary of the Weierstrass, and Cantor, were correct, and their opponents, connection of the initial discoveries in biology, by Pacioli the late-nineteenth-century proponents of "statistical me­ and Leonardo, to the preceding discoveries of Nicolaus of chanics," represented the wrong tum in scientificmethod and Cusa. This is the starting-point from which all successful education. approaches to definitions of living processes has proceeded, What keeps the multi-billion-dollar AI boondoggle going, from then to the present time. is the reluctance of modem "secular humanists" to admit, Modem science began during the middle of the fifteenth that the laws of the universe are not consistent with a statis­ century, with the elaboration of rigorous principles of scien­ tical theory derived from formal logic. The AI crowd, is not tificmethod by Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa (e.g., Cusa's De only historically (Russell, Hutchins, Kurt Lewin, Carnap, Docta Ignorantia)("On LearnedIgnoran ce"). For example, Mead, et al.) "secular humanist"; excepting scientists influ­ Cusa was the first modem thinker to present a heliocentric · enced strongly by religious convictions to the contrary, the hypothesis on the ordering of the solar system (not Coperni­ scientific community at large is dominated increasinglyby a cus). The central feature of Cusa's own original discoveries, Vienna-Circle-flavored sort of neo-positivist "secular hu­ was his discovery of a conception called today "the isoperi­ manism." The case of Charles Darwin's manager, the Julian metric principle" of topology, as later refinedby the work of Huxley who coined the term "agnosticism," indicates the role Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and the Bernouillis. A clear under­ of British "radical empiricism" in shaping "secular humanist" standing of the implications of this isoperimetric principle is thought in the United States. Von Neumann typifiesthe neo­ indispensable for comprehending the work of Pacioli and positivist influences of the "Vienna Circle" upon U.S. uni­ Leonardo, and the later work of Pasteur and "non-linear versities' science departments. These typify theleading pro­ spectroscopy" today. Without grasp of these implications, ponents of the "statistical" faction in mathematical physics themere existence of the biologist teaching biology at the

26 Special Report EIR May 14, 1985 -- .... '" .... constructed within Euclidean geometry is constructed, using , .... / , nothing but construction, without deductive logic . , Therefore , the minimal condition for producing the shapes \ \ constructible within Euclidean space , is what we must best describe as triply-self-reflexive circular action. By self-re­ { t flexive, we mean that triply-self-reflexivecircular action acts \ / upon everything constructed by such circular action. By tri­ , / .... ,; ply-self-reflexive, we mean that, circular action is acting .... '" ...... --- - triply upon circular action itself . Doubly self-reflexive clrcu- This is simply illustrated, as a definition, in the following Simple circular action lar action �ay . At every arbitrarily small interval of circular action, the same kind of circular action is acting, as if at "right angles," upon toat circular action. At every arbitrarily small interval of the second moment of circular action, in tum, a third of the same kind of circular action is action upon the second, as if at "right angles" to both the first and the second. This is the minimal form of isoperimetric action sufficient to define a Euclidean space of construction , the minimal preconditions required to generate a "straight line" and a Creation of line d, by fold­ Ing of half-circle, subsumed "point." under double self-reflexive First principle of measure­ Taking one aspect oftriply-self-reflexive circular action, circular action ment of circular action de­ the following correction must be added to the picture. fined through generation of Human perception is limited to perception of changes a diameter: measurement by one half (180°) (transformations) occurringin a finiteinterval of space-time. Perception of "instantaneous" objects is not possible: "In­ stantaneous" objects of perception do not exist. Therefore, Creation of pointas singu­ we can perceive nothing, except under the condition, that the larity of triply self-reflexive circular rotation. The third act of perception ends at a slightly later point in time than it rotation y folds circular ac­ begins. tion a upon Itself, creating Therefore , the simplest conceivable form of circular ac­ diameter da and the Inter­ section-point P which di­ tion in physical space-time, is in the form of a cylindrical vides diameter d, In half. helix. Or, if the action increases or decreases at a constant rate , the circular action occurs as a self-similar-spiral action on the surface of a growing cone. The firsthelical geometry, is the axiomatic basis for what is called Fourier Analysis. A head of the classroom remains a subject of profound mathe­ geometry based axiomatically upon conic self-similar-spiral matical uncertainty. action, is a Gaussian (constructive) geometry. Other terms Cusa proved that both the axioms and the deductive meth­ for "Gaussian geometry ," are the Gaussian "geometry of the od of the famous Elements of Euclid, are intrinsically absurd. continuous manifold," or Gaussian "functions of a complex Neither points nor "straightness" have any self-evident form variable." of existence in the universe. The isoperimetric theorem proves The history of modem science's progress toward a phys­ conclusively, that the only form of self-evident existence of ics theory of living processes, is summarily as follows. form and matter in our universe, is circular action. The first step was accomplished by Luca Pacioli and However, circular action does not mean the simple draw­ Leonardo. Pacioli, working from the starting-point ofCusa's ing of a circle, as by aid of a compass. To define a "straight "Minimum-Maximum (isoperimetric) Principle," reworked line," we must create a diameter for circular action, by "fold­ the scope of the Tenth through Thirteenth books of Euclid's ing" a circle perfectly against itself. This folding of the prim­ Elements, to reconstruct a proof cited in Plato's Timaeus itive circle perfectly against itself, introduces the first prin­ dialogue: the proof, that only five kinds of regular polyhedra ciple of measurement, measurement by one-half. To create a can be constructed in Euclidean space. During the eighteenth Wint, we must fold a half-circle against itself. By circular century , Leonhard Euler developed a more rigorous proof of action , acting upon these two additional elements created by this. Out of this work, Leonardo developed the foundations circular action, the point and the line, everything that can be of modem optics and hydrodynamics, including a forerunner

EIR May 14, 1985 Special Report 27 ,

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...... - ...... - --- ... , Simplest form of circular Self-similar-Spiral action on action In physical space­ the surface of a growing time: cylindrical helix. cone.

of Riemannian stereographic projection, spherical projective discoveries of a leading follower of Cusa and Leonardo, perspective. Johannes Kepler. Kepler constructed an hypothesis for the As Euler demonstrated the point rigorously, of the five determination of the solar system's orbits, an hypothesis constructable regular polyhedra, four are simply constructed based directly on Cusa's arguments for an heliocentric solar from one, the regular dodecahedron whose surfaces are reg­ system, and the work of Pacioli and Leonardo on Platonic ular pentagons. The construction of both the dodecahedron Solids and the Golden Section. Kepler's solar hypothesis was and the regular pentagon, is based upon preceding construc­ an hypothesis based on the Golden Section, an hypothesis tion of a derivative of circular action, called the Golden which employed astronof!1ical data to demonstrate empiri­ Section. The Golden Section's general significance is, that it cally, that the laws of the universe as a whole were coherent definesthe boundaries of constructability withinvisi ble ("Eu­ with the harmonics determined by the Golden Section. Since clidean") space. The proof, earlier reported in Plato's Ti­ Gauss later proved conclusively, that Kepler's astrophysics maeus, that, in visible space, only five kinds of polyhedra was the correctchoice , and Kepler's critics absurd, the uni­ can be constructed, reflects an effi cient limit determining all verse has such a proven similarity in its underlying principles fo rmsof constructability in "Euclidean space." to living processes; in modernverbiage, we must say that the The first step toward founding biological science, was universe as a whole is essentially "negentropic ," not "statis­ accomplished by Pacioli and Leonardo, by showing that the tically entropic." elementary distinction of living from non-living processes, This implication of Kepler's work: was later extended by is that living processes' forms and morphology of function, Bernhard Riemann, who insisted and shOWed, that, at its are congruent withthe Golden Section. extremes, in astrophysics and microphysics, the -laws of the Until the nineteenth century, at least approximately so, universe must be characteristically "negentropic." Hence, theexplanation of the reason for this morphological distinc­ the contrast between living and non-living processes applies tion between living and non-living processes, was that the only to the very large experimental domain between the as­ so-called Fibonacci series' ratios for successive intervals, trophysical and microphysical extremes. With that qualifi­ converges uponthe ratios of self-similar growth given by the cation, Pacioli's and Leonardo's discoveries respecting the Golden Section. The Fibonacci Series, is classical geometr­ distinction between living and non-living processes, are es­ ical methodfor estimating population-growth, developed by sentially in force to the present time. Leonardo of Pisa. The increase of the number of cells in a That principle ofliving processes is valid as far as it goes, tissue; for example, is a form of self-similar growth of pop­ but inadequate. The deeper implications of a triply-self-re­ ulations, comparable in broad terms to self-similar growth of flexive circular action, are not yet incorporated within it, in populations, at a constant set of birth and death rates. that form. Pacioli and Leonardo showed, that the shapes determined There exist, as visible images, forms which are not con­ by growth of plants and animals, including human beings, structable within Euclidean space. We say that these are were elaborated in forms consistent with the harmonic ratios "incommensurable," in the sense that only forms which can determined by the Golden Section. be rigorously constructed are "commensurable"; any other A century afterLeonardo 's work, this generalization about meaning of "commensurable" is either trivial or false. Those living processes had to be modified slightly, because of the forms which are not commensurable with construction in

28 Special Report EIR May 14, 1985 Euclidean space, all reduce axiomatically to what are called continuing physical processes, was the central feature of the "transcendental functions": functions whose constructability work of such collaborators and followers of Gauss as Lejeune requires such mutually coherent transcendentals as pi, the Dirichlet, Bernhard Riemann, Karl Weierstrass, and Georg Eulerian logarithmic base, and trigonometric functions. This Cantor. That is the physics-significance of the work on to­ principled limitation of visible ("Euclidean") space, was al­ pology accomplished by Dirichlet, Riemann, Weierstrass, ready a central feature of the work of Plato. and Cantor. It is within the framework of the admittedly In the simplest terms of reference, transcendental func­ incomplete accomplishments of these figures, that the dis­ tions reflect the fact, that physical space-time is dominated tinction between living and non-living processes must be by a rotational orientation in space, as triply-self-reflexive resituated. circular action requires. The so-called Cartesian coordinates, must not beseen as axes of reference for primitively "straight­ The bearing of economic science line" action; they must be interpreted as axes of triply-self­ To continue our summary account of the problems of reflexive rotation, and Cartesian space seen also as a mis­ defining "life" and "human intelligence" from the vantage­ leading interpretation of a space whose geometry is that of a pointjust identified, it is most useful to examine the way in Riemannian sphere. which human intelligence shows itself to bethe characteristic The significance of transcendental values, is that they feature of economic processes. By "economic science," we correspond, in physics, to self-similar-spiral action, as the signify that founding of economic science, by Leibniz, on primitive (elementary) form of action, in cylindric or conic which the principles of the United States' founding "Ameri­ functions, as in Fourier Analysis or Gaussian geometry, re­ can System of political-economy" (Alexander Hamilton), spectively. In these geometries, some (Fourier cylindric) or were premised: not the mere "money theories" popularly all (Gaussian manifold) of the transcendental values are con­ taught and practicedas "economics" in the United States and structable with the same efficiencyas constructable forms in Europe today. visible (Euclidean) space. The most characteristic feature of human society, is im­ It happens, that all forms in visible space, which are plicitly defined thus. Whereas, a primitive form of human projections of conic forms of self-similar-spiral action, have society is capable of sustaining a worldwide population of everywhere the metrical characteristics determined by the not more than approximately 10 million individuals, there Golden Section. This is the physics-basis of proof supporting exist nearly 5 billion today. This growth in the potential J. S. Bach's values of "equal tempering" in well-tempered relative population-density of the human species, by nearly polyphony, for example. That is the proper mathematical­ three orders of magnitude, is the most characteristic distinc­ physics meaning of the cited discoveries of Pacioli and Leo­ tion of the human from all inferior species. No lower species nardo. The adequate explanation for characteristic distinc­ could willfully increase its potential relative population-den­ tions of living fromnon-living processes, must therefore be sity by a single order of magnitude. No lower species can sought out within the Gaussian domain. willfully improve its day-to-day behavior by aid of advances To accomplish that, one must first consider the most in scientificand related knowledge. general kind of problem raised by Gauss's discoveries in That circumscribes the range of phenomena to be exam­ geometry. Triply-self-reflexive conic self-similar-spiral ac­ ined, as reflectiveof "human intelligence." tion definesa range of physics-functions which are efficiently Consider only, more narrowly, the effect on population continuous as physical processes, which are nonetheless growth of the irregularly-paced but more or less continuous characterized mathematically by a more or less dense fre­ explosion of science and industrial society's technology, since quency of mathematical discontinuities. In elementary ge­ Cusa set the progressof science into motion during the middle ometry, we already face the problem of algebraic discontin­ of the fifteenthcentury . (The case can be generalized, for the uities, in such forms as points, lines, surfaces, and solids. In study of the technological dynamics of earlierforms of sOci­ physics, these confront us in such forms as what are mistak­ ety.) All advances in technology, and , of potential relative enly interpreted as "elementary particles," and in otherfo rms. population-density, occur principally as technological ad­ The center of the elementary problems confronting the effort vances in qualities of producers' goods, in an increasingly to elaborate a Gaussian physics, is to show mathematically energy-intensive and capital-intensive mode of alteration of how processes which are efficiently continuous in physical basic economic infrastructure and work-places. The source space-time, are continuous in some way despite the genera­ of these advances in technology is the improved power of the tion of what are often increasing densities of mathematical individual human mind, to generate and to assimilate effi­ discontinuities. ciently new conceptions flowingfrom fundamental scientific This problem situates the task of restating Leonardo's progress. distinction of living from non-living processes, in terms of Those aspects of the potential creative powers of the the Gaussian manifold. The problem of densely discontin­ human mind, which bearupon the generation of fundamental uous mathematical functions corresponding to efficiently scientific discoveries, are, in this way , an efficient physical

EIR May 14, 1985 Special Report 29 Time-axis on this economic-process function are sufficient. Riemann's contributions to fundamental advances in physics, center upon his appreciation of the treatment of this problem, of dense discontinuities generated within an effi­ ciently continuous function, by, chiefly, Dirichlet and Weier­ strass. (The question of the detennination, "enumerability," of such discontinuities within an arbitrarily small interval of a function, including seemingly "arbitrary" functions, is a Doubly self-reflexive conic central topic of the 1871-1883 contributions of Cantor.) As self-similar action early as his 1854 habilitation dissertation, "On The Hy­ potheses Which Underlie Geometry," Riemann indicates the general nature of the solution to the problem we have de­ scribed for economic processes. In a famous later paper, his 1859 "On The Propagation of Plane Air Waves of Finite Magnitude," predicting supersonic shock-waves and isoen­ tropic compression of plasmas, Riemann defines an exem­ Time-axis plary case for the application of the relevant principle earlier e i n g l r i i tentatively supplied in his 1854 dissertation. When a true i __ i i '��� � � ��i�� ______� � � � � :9�t!.e� !"- � � �: singularity, such as the indicated sort of discontinuity, is generated within an efficiently continuous process, that de­ tennines an alteration of the metrical characteristics of the local (or larger) physical space-time of the process affected. The characteristic action of the continuous function continues to operate, but the action occurs in a physical space-time Hyperbolic curve whose metrical characteristics have been altered, as the in­ stance of supersonic flight illustrates most simply. In the sort of idealized economic process, which we have portrayed, at the flaring mouth of the hyperbola, a new hy­ perbolic curving, in an altered "economic physical space­ time," begins. The second curve flares into a discontinuity, as did the first, with an analogous continuation of the func­ tion. And, so forth and so on . Relative to the time-axis, the cause in the universe. interval between these discontinuities becomes shorter. This In the case, that a modem fonnof agro-industrial society shortening of the interval definesan harmonic series. is maintaining a constant rate of technological progress, in The degree of higher organization of the economy, has an energy-intensive, capital-intensive mode of production of therefore the following gross characteristics. First, the effect physical goods, the most elementary picture of such econom­ of technological progress (under stipulated, ideal condi­ ic growth, is a picture of an efficiently continuous function tions), is to generate a series of ever-more-frequent "Rieman­ subsuming increasing density of mathematical discontinui­ nian shock-wave-like" discontinuities. Second, the increas­ ties. Doubly self-reflexive, conic, self-similar-spiral action, ing density of such discontinuities, so generated, is harmon­ is the minimal requirement for portraying the effect of con­ ically detennined. Finally, the increasing density of such stant technological progress upon such an economy. Instead harmonically ordered discontinuities of the function, is the of a simple cone, the growth of per-capita potential relative measure of increasingly higher organization of the process. population density, generates a bell-mouthed hom, whose The relationships are made more sensible, by removing side-view cross-section describes an hyperbolic curve, seem­ the implicit assumptions of a Cartesian schema, by projecting ing to zoom off into Cartesian "infinity." The central axis of the function onto a Riemannian sphere, so that the lines of that hom represents a unifonn time-scale. Obviously, the discontinuity obviously do not shoot off into a Cartesiansort action is efficiently continuous, past the interval of that flar­ of "infinity." The proper design of the function, and of the ing of the hyperbolic curve toward "infinity." This is exem­ significance of a Riemann-Weierstrass Surface for plotting plary of physical processes which are efficientlycontinuou s, the function, is more or less obvious at that point. despite discontinuities subsumed by such processes. The economy which corresponds to this function, will Without going into greater detail than is directly relevant describe, in projection, an idealized harmonic growth con­ in this report on AI's incompetency, the following remarks sistent with the Golden Section. The economy thus appears

30 Special Report EIR May 14, 1985 this efficientform of thought, on which the continued exist­ ence of society depends. This form of thought, constitutes

�--������\� ��-r�- �- �- �-�-Cha�-�-=-=nge-= =�---of metric the essence of what is properly defined as "human intelligence. " ------"\_. ------r ----Cha---nge of----- metric-. Ludwig Boltzmann's error Now, we tum our attention to the roots of those popular delusions, which have aided in the perpetuation of the mul­ =s--l::::-----���: tibillion-dollar AI boondoggle. We begin with a few more or less indispensable references to the historical roots of the � problem. Today, it is a popular form of ignorance, to trace the Change of metric emergence of modem science from Francis Bacon's founding of British empiricism. In fact, the utter fraud and triviality of Bacon's writings, is efficientlysy mptomized by the fact, that the fruitless Bacon adopted as the target of his attacks the most profoundly fruitful scientist in all English history to date, William Gilbert. Galileo's fraudulent experimental concoctions, the beginning of the effort to overturnthe work of Kepler, and the Gnostic cultist Fludd's attacks on Kepler, Harmonlcally-ordered are the beginnings of modem empiricism. The comprehen­ series of discontinui­ ties In triply self-re­ sive attack upon science begins with Rene Descartes, of flexlve, self-similar which the work of Newton is merely a parody on this account. conical action The key to this emergence of empiricism and positivism, is that it was begun over a century after the foundations of to be a single living organism, to the effect that sick and modem science were established, and that each of the prin­ dying economies correspond, in these terms of reference, to cipal figures involved in this countercultural attack on sci­ sick and dying forms of living organisms. The U.S. econo­ ence, Descartes included, were agents of the Venice-directed my, under the influence of the now-accelerating "post-indus­ forces behind the disastrous 1516-1653 Counter-Reforma­ trial" trend of the recent 20 years, is such a sick and dying tion. During the sixteenth century, the forces of the Counter­ organism. Reformation merely attempted to stamp out science, by aid Leibniz already showed that "technology" was a matter of the Inquisition. At the beginning of the seventeenth cen­ of the form of internal organization of productive processes. tury, the emphasis on inquisitional methods was replaced by His version of the Principle of Least Action, employed this methods of attempted corruptionthrough cooptation. feature of empirically demonstrable technological progress, In this respect, the Leibniz-Newton controversy is of to assist in proving that Cusa' s isoperimetric principle was relatively trivial significance, essentially a by-product of ef­ also the elementary form of physical cause-and-effect action forts by the Duke of Marlborough's faction, to prevent Leib­ in the universe. niz's appointment as the prime minister of England. It is the The advances in efficientlyemployed technology, which fierce fight against Descartes' evil, first by the circles of are the sole ultimate source of economic growth, represent Desargues, Fermat, and Pascal, followed by a full-fledged the imposition of forms created in the individual human mind, attack by Leibniz, which is the key to the internal history of upon the productive process. Hence, rigorous analysis of the science since the beginning of the eighteenth century. The functionof technological progress is an implicit reflectionof case of Newton's follies, is merely adjunct and essentially the forms of creative mental activity deserving of the title, peripheralto the issue of Descartes. "human intelligence." By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Newton was These Gaussian forms of action, which we have outlined broadly and rightlydiscr edited outside Britain, and Descartes for economic processes, and, implicitly, for human intelli­ was almost in total disrepute even in France itself. Yet, Carte­ gence, are the same forms of action necessarily characteristic sian principles dominate scientific teaching and opinion to­ of living processes generally. However, in man, the princi­ day. How this rather abrupt, nineteenth-century change oc­ ple, characteristic of biological activity defined as distinct curred, involves two distinct, but closely correlated phases from mental activity, the same "negentropic" principle which of action against the tradition of Leibniz. Kepler implicitly proved to underlie the ordering of the uni­ Descartes' reputation was reestablished in 1815, by de­ verse, occurs as an efficient activity of thought itself. It is cree of the pro-feudalist forces behind the 1815 Treaty of

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Projectedim age of hyperbolic cone

Stereographlc projection of harmonically-ordered dis­ continuities onto Rieman­ nian sphere removes 'Cartesian Infinities'

South Pole: Contact of Riemannian sphere with projected plane

Time axis

Vienna. Carnot and Monge were expelled from France's in science, from France to Germany , was more or less com­ leading scientific institution, the Ecole Polytechnique , and pleted. From the 1815-1827 interval, into somewhat later the institution placed under the supervision of the neo-Carte­ than 1857, leadership in world-science was dominated by the sian LaPlace. LaPlace uprooted entirely the educational pro­ circles of Humboldt and Gauss. gram of the Ecole, and handed leading political authority Beginning 1850, an escalating effort was launched, to over French scientific opinion, to his protege, the nasty pla­ attempt to destroy science in Germany, too. There were four giarist, Augustin Cauchy, whose absurd concoctions are rit­ points from which coordinated attacks upon science were ually taught to nearly all victims of elementary differential­ launched: Mettemich's Vienna, Cauchy's France, Britain, calculus courses today. Except for the current of the Carnot­ and within Germany itself. The principal figures of this anti­ Monge tradition typified by the persecuted Louis Pasteur, science effort, included Clausius, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Max­ science died rapidly in France after 1815, to be replaced by well, Mach, Rayleigh, and Boltzmann; the principal targets, the ideologically fascist (Synarchist) positivism emerging from then deep into the twentieth century, have been Gauss, from the corrupted Ecole Poly technique. Riemann, Weierstrass, Cantor, and, to a lesser degree, Felix After 1815, the main currents of French science, like Klein. By the 1880s, the anti-science, or "statistical" faction, Cantot himself, fled to Alexander von Humboldt's patron­ ofneo-Cartesians, had won the fightpolitical ly. The crushing age , in Germany . By 1827, the transfer of world-leadership of Germany , in the wake of World War I, nearly eradicated

32 Special Report EIR May 14, 1985 even the much-diluted German remains of the Leibniz-Gauss modem doctrine of political-economy , "econometrics," tradition. whose only benefit is to guide nations to economic self­ The key point, which must be stressed, if the nature and destruction. Hence, we have the costly AI boondoggle. outcome of these factional struggles within science are to be As we have summarized the case, an effective approach understood , is that, throughout, the anti-science faction pre­ to discovering the commensurability of living processes and vailed not through scientific methods of disputation, but be­ human intelligence is embedded in the internal history of the cause the anti-science faction was deployed with backing development of modem science. However, since the empi­ from the most powerful assortment of pro-feudalistic wealthy ricist and neo-positivist factions of academic life, have been families of Europe . The families either controlled the gov­ embedded in the science profession , politically, increasing­ ernment, and also the dominant institutions of banking and ly, over the recent hundred years, any effort to resume the insurance, or they controlled the universities directly. The line of development of scientific method typifiedby Leibniz outcome of the fight within science was arranged, thus, po­ and Gauss, challenges the politically motivated misassump­ litically, by the simple expedient of determining which fac­ tions imposed uponthe teaching of science over many decades. � , tion's representatives were appointed to key university and related positions. Science's revenge on Bertrand Russell James Maxwell, who was perhaps, in some ways , the Bertrand Russell, a key figure in the thuggery against best of a very bad lot, frankly admitted the nature of his own Riemann, Cantor, and Felix Klein, from as early as the 189Os, largely plagiaristic work in electrodynamics. He frankly jus­ was the grandson and true political heir of the Lord Russell tified what might otherwise be deemed his large plagiarism who dedicated his career to attempting to destroy the United from the extant work of Gauss, Weber, and Riemann on States and everything for which that republic stands. It is the electrodynamics, by announcing that his purpose was to re­ vile stream of radical positivism, which Russell represented capitulate electro-dynamics, to free it from the methods and to the end of his long-overdue demise, which has produced geometrical conceptions of Gauss, Weber, and Riemann. for us today , amid other afflictions, this AI boondoggle. Hence, the absurdities irreparably embedded in the axiomatic Russell was a particularly virulent representative of the fe atures of Maxwell's work . Hence, Maxwell's invention of pro-feudalistic aristocratic families of Europe, a stratum of an "ether-fluid," to avoid the principle of Gaussian physics, powerful families, whose success in imposing their capri­ that only a geometrically ordered physical space-time exists, cious wills upon ordinary people and governments, encour­ rather than Cartesian particles roaming in empty space and ages them to act as if they viewed themselves as reincarna­ time. In an effort to save Cartesian geometry , Maxwell filled tions of the fabled Gods of Olympus. In this state of arro­ Descartes' empty space-time with an ether-fluid. gance, they act as if they imagined themselves not only gods, The discrediting of Max well's hopes for an efficient sort but so powerful that they might pit their wills against the of ether-fluid, so discredited the idea of locating a dynamics Creator Himself. Their ultimate fate , as the great Aeschylos in anything but a Gaussian manifold, that rather than accept­ warned them, is to bring the wrath of the laws of the universe ing Gauss, his factional opponents retreated increasingly from upon not only themselves, but those cowardly or greedy classical dynamics, into substituting statistics for causality. enough to tolerate Olympian insolence against the laws of Among the most significant of the exotic concoctions the Creator. produced by the anti-science faction, was the work of Ludwig So, today , as we have compromised the vital interests of Boltzmann. The most significant feature of Boltzmann's work, the nation and people of the United States, for sake of peace­ is his effort to explain away the occurrence of phenomena ful accommodation with such "families," we have imposed which are not statistically entropic , such as living organisms, upon ourselves those monetary and economic policies of by means of a curious application of LaPlace's arguments, practice which are not only destroying the U.S. economy, "a calculus of statistical fluctuations." If Boltzmann's argu­ but weakening our nation to the degree that we become the ments are applied with consistency, mankind's existence is easy prey of growing Soviet imperial power. Similarly, in based on calendars and clocks which run backwards, while abandoning the principles of science's search for truth, the rest of the uni verse is based on calendars and clocks which whomever that truth may or may not please, we make our­ run forward . (Boltzmann set his own clock straight, in 1901, selves not only prey to the waste of billions on such boon­ by committing suicide at the Thurn und Taxis castle ofDuino, doggles as AI, but cripple that science upon which we must in Trieste.) largely depend, to continue to be able to feed and defend our Norbert Wiener explicitly based his definitions of "neg­ own population. entropy" and "information theory" upon Boltzmann's doc­ AI may reflectthe prevailing prejudices of an extant sci­ trine of statistical fluctuations. The axiomatic premises entific community, but if that is unchangeable, then AI typi­ adopted by von Neumann are , variously, explicitly or im­ fies a society which, according to Aeschylos' principle, has plicitly identical to those cited by Wiener. Hence, we have a lost the moral fitnessto survive.

EIR May 14, 1985 Special Report 33 �ITillInternational

Bitburg trip strengthens ties despite anti-Germanuproar by Vin Berg

Despite the most massive black-propaganda/psychological­ from the thesis that Gennans were to be treated as "collec­ warfare campaign to date in the Soviet Union's drive to split tively guilty" for the crimes of Hitler, said the President, West Gennany from the United States and topple the Bonn assuring the Gennan people that the American people con­ governmentof Helmut Kohl, the outcome of President Rea­ sider today' s Gennanya reliable and democratic ally. gan's current trip to Gennany to commemorate the defeat of Kohl, for his part, had infonned a Time magazine inter­ Nazism, as of this writing, is a strengthening of Gennan­ viewer a few days earlier, "I consider the most importanttask American relations and of the Westernallia nce. I have is to contribute toward making the ties between the To this degree, President Reagan's show of stubborn Federal Republic and the Western community irreversible, detennination in going ahead with his visit to the Bitburg and part of our basic political philosophy. . . . When the Cemetery, where several dozen Gennanwar-dead are buried; President is in Bitburg, he will encounter a wave of sympathy his defianceof Soviet charges that this represented "softness such as he has rarely experienced in his life ....My objec­ on Nazism," an insult to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, tive was reconciliation over the graves of the past. . . . I said ad nauseum; his description of the Kremlin's ventriloquist we wanted to commemorate the days as one of remembrance, dummies at the New York Times, Washington Post, News­ and far from denying the horrible acts of Nazism, to do week, and in the U.S. Congress, as exhibiting the moral everything to see that they may never occur again .... quality of "dogs" in their shrill repetition of the Soviet pro­ American freedom, not just Gennan freedom, is now being paganda, has caused the entire Bitburg "scandal" to backfire. defended in this country. . . . West Gennany is the key to the alliance, the President "With reference to the SOl, I strongly support the idea," told Chancellor Kohl upon arrival in Bonn the morning of Kohl continued. "In this, I would like to insist on two basic May 2, and the concrete substance of alliance relations now conditions: that it should not be a one-way street, and that is cooperation around America's beam-weapon development what we do together should be for our common benefit. The program, the Strategic Defense Initiative. The Bitburg visit, research carried out will not only be of military value; tbree­ far from honoring Nazis, is symbolic of a reconciliation be­ fourths of the research will have civilian applications. We tween sovereign nations, to both of whom Nazism was a [Gennany]can add a lot to this effort, in sophisticated optics, deadly threat. for example. I would like other Europeans to cooperate with Reagan was explicit in his rejection of the British and us in this effort, like the French, British, and Italians." Soviet-sponsored distortion of history that pins "collective Thus, rather than shake the detennination of the heads­ gUilt" on the Gennanpeople . May 1945 was a new beginning of-state to maintain the alliance of their nations, and to base for Gennandemocra cy, Reagan told Kohl. As the Chancel­ that alliance on the military and economic promise of SOl lor's spokesman, Peter Bohnisch, infonned the press, Rea­ technology, the best efforts of the Kremlin, the U.S. Con­ gan expressed his anger at the current controversy over Bit­ gress, and the Westernnews media to use Bitburg to "decou­ burg and May 8's VE-Day celebrations. Already, at the Nu­ ple" Gennanyfrom America has had the opposite effect, at remberg Tribunal of 1946-47, Americans had turned away least temporarily.

34 International EIR May 14, 1985 A Soviet operation And, as in the case of the press, wherever one found an The Soviets are rejoicing at the struggle between Ger­ American opponent of the Strategic Defense Initiative, one mans and Americans over Bitburg, wrote editor Fritz Ulrich also heard shrill shouts against the President's German visit. Fack in his April 29 lead editorial for the FranlifurterALlge­ That means, above all, in the U.S. Congress, where the most meine Zeitung. He warnedAmericans taking part in the cam­ effective lobbyists-not to say, legislative whips-are Ana­ paign that theyare contributing to an anti-Americanism which tolii Dobrynin's Soviet embassy staff. may tum into "hateful aversion [to Americans] tomorrow." As Mertes put it in understatement, the halls of Congress The beneficiaries "would be the Soviets, who can already were filled by a chorus of treason. Arlen Specter, Republican congratulate themselves today for having propagated with of Pennsylvania, was exemplary on the Senate side. Specter force the otherwise unusual idea of a 40th anniversary of a did not hesitate to indicate in his remarks on CBS-TV' s "Face victory. Maybe not even in their boldest dreams had the the Nation" program April 28 that the Bitburg issue was to Soviets imagined themselves succeeding in driving such a be used to downgrade U.S.-German relations. Specter, co­ massive psychological wedge between two of the main allies sponsor of a Senate resolution calling on Reagan to cancel on the Westernside ." his visit to Bitburg, said, "There's a growing feeling we are Alois Mertes, a prominent parliamentarian and foreign­ spending too much money on NATO already." Reagan policy spokesman for Kohl's Christian Democratic party, "doesn't understand how [politically] serious" the Bitburg went a step farther, charging that the Kremlin was directly affair has become, and could get out of the visit if "Kohl let behind the orchestration of the scandal-mongering over the him off the hook." Top White House officials claim, said Bitburg visit. In an interview carried on a national Deutsch­ Specter, that the West German government had told the landfunk wire April 29, Mertes called the American side of administration that no Waffen SS were buried at Bitburg. the Bitburg controversy "an aberration of the human mind." Reagan could withdraw on the grounds that he had been Both houses of the U.S. Congress passed resolutions oppos­ misinformed by the Kohl government. ing the Reagan visit, on grounds that it somehow insulted Senator Alan Cranston of California,one of the 80 Sen­ Jewish victims of the SS. This, said Mertes, "has nothing to ators who voted for the voice-resolution demanding Reagan do with the Jewish or Christian creed. It is, as I believe, cancel the visit, declared: "The message is to the head of rather an evil assault on the very basis of our civilization. We West Germany, Chancellor Kohl. The message should be are an ally of the United States. In some of its formulations, very, very clear now, that if we do not get that cooperation, the U. S. Congress treats us in a way which we have to firmly unfortunate damage will be done to the relations of our two reject. " countries. . . . Are Germany's ties to the U. S. and the West In fact, the Soviet Union had long-since made clear that so weak, so tenuous, so insecure and uncertain that German­ it would stop at nothing to halt work on the Strategic Defense y's pricefor reassurance is the humiliation of our President. Initiative, and in this connection, Chancellor Kohl had estab­ Chancellor Kohl! Free President Reagan! Let our President lished himself as the leading supporter of the President's go!" program in Europe. Kohl's strong endorsement of the sm, Cranston, it should be noted, earlier in his career, trans­ in the presence of high-level Soviet guests, in an end-of­ lated Hitler's Mein Kampf into English. That this was no April address at the Budestag, added urgency to the Krem­ academic exercise, but an expression of his political sympa­ lin's strategic objective of bringing West Germany into the thies, is evident in that, during the same 1930s period, he Soviet sphere-of-influence. Kohl was to be toppled-and had was a firmsupporter of Mussolini. His frequently expressed Reagan canceled his Bitburg visit or otherwise retreated in support for the racialist Global 2000 depopulation doctrine the face of the pressure, he would have been. The scandal­ of the Carter administration, is indication that little has mongering around Bitburg began almost as soon as Kohl had changed. exited the podium in the Budestag. Following Cranston, the Senator from Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy, another backer of Global 2000, solemnly in­ The Kremlin's 'dogs' in the West toned the names of all the Nazi-era concentration camps, one The April 29 edition of Newsweek magazine published by one. an admittedly fabricated picture of freshly planted German Appropriate reflection on the lies underlying the whole flags at an SS soldier's Bitburg grave--on the cover of its anti-Alliance campaign was provided to EfR by a World War American edition. (It did not dare publish the same picture­ II veteran of General George Patton's Third Army, 4th Ar­ the photographer had planted the flagshimse lf-in its edition mored Division, which crushed the SS Panzer division at for European readers, who wouldn't have swallowed it.) The Bitburg. He was in complete supportof the President's trip, incident is typical of the Western news-media's black pro­ reportingthat many of the SS soldiers whom he fought were paganda on behalf of Soviet objectives in the Bitburg affair: as young as 14-years-old, and wanted to surrender immedi­ portraying Germans as unregenerate Nazis to Americans, and ately. He and his buddies simply sent these kids back to their therefore, Americans as lying accusers and unreliable allies families upon capture. to Germans. Such are the "Nazis" buried at Bitburg.

EIR May 14, 1985 International 35 Moscow's chances of influencingyoung people psychologi­ Documentation cally. I regard it as our duty, in public discussion on the past, not to forget the needs of the present and the future vital interests of Europe and America. We have noticed too that the Soviets have adopted a· varied feature of the Soviet Union's policy towards the West­ em Alliance. Even now Moscow is trying to exert political Bitburg campaign pressure on European countries whom it accuses todaY of giving unqualifiedsupport to the American Strategic Defense onlybe nefits Moscow Initiative.

Dr. Alois Mertes is Minister of State in the Foreign Offi ce of Leaders of the German wartime Resistance group Reichs­ the Federal Republic of Germany. These are excerptsfrom banner Schwarz-Rot-Gold sent the letter excerpted here to his speech before the 79th annual meeting of the American President Reagan on April 28 . Jewish Committee in New York City on May2. Text abridged. Dear Mr. President: When you invited me, neither you nor I ever dreamt that We, the undersigned, since the beginning of the 1930s, a cemetery near the center of my electoral district would have been members of the democratic militant organization become the subject of strong emotions and intense discussion Reichsbanner, which defended the young Weimar Republic in the United States and in Europe. I cannot and will not against its enemies-fascist and communist alike. Many remain silent on the historical and moral background of these members of Reichsbanner were leading figures in the Ger­ emotions, discussions, and misunderstandings. man resistance and died at the hands of the Nazi regime. We Germans will never forget the most infamous mo­ We feel that the hysteria, that has been whipped up over ment of German history. Hitler misused our own people, in your planned visit to the military cemetery at Bitburg, is particular the loyalty of German soldiers towards their coun­ intolerable. The quality of historical "fact-finding" being try . Life in a totalitarian dictatorship which my generation conducted here is only equaled by the Soviet version which experienced caused us in 1945 to swear: Never again dicta­ blames the Germans for the mass murder at Katyn. The torship on German soil and never again war from German hypocritical campaign over the graves of a few soldiers ·of soil ! the Waffen-SS in the Bitburg Cemetery only serves the inter­ We do not want to forget the villainy of the National­ ests of those who want to seriously injure German-American Socialistdictator ship. This is especially true of the genocide friendship, and the WesternAll iance in general. of the Jews, which was obviously beyond the rationale of The former chairman of the postwar Social Democratic war, victory or defeat. It constituted in itself an exclusively Party and Reichsbanner-Ieader, Kurt Schumacher, himself criminalproc livity for annihilation. This genocide cannot be for nearly 12 years a concentration camp prisoner under the compared with any other event between 1942 and 1945. This Nazis, and one who tirelessly warned against totalitarian I state as someone who served his countryin good faith at the regimes of both fascist and communist coloration, had al­ time, and who rejects any collective accusations against Ger­ ready pointed out in 1951, that hundreds of thousands of many, since they would correspond neither to historical real­ soldiers of the Waffen-SS had been drafted or ordered off to ity nor to Biblical ethics. But we Germans must also recall deployment at the front. It was therefore in many cases not a all the great things our peoplehave given humanity. question of volunteers. Now let me turn to the situation of Europe 40 years after The present propaganda campaign has nothing to do with the war. The Soviet Union exploited its military victory over historical reality-these distortions are as thoroughly repre­ Germany in order to create by force a buffer zone in Eastern hensible, as the insolence of the Communists, Greens, and Europe and its occupation zone in Germany, from 1945 to terrorist-sympathizers, who dare to slander the American 1948, which led to the division of Europe. President as a "new Hitler" and arrogate to themselves the Trying to drive a wedge between Germans and Ameri­ "right to resistance" against our Federal Republic. cans is the logical consequence of Soviet foreign policy. Any We, as members of the organization of the German Re­ division between the American people and Germany or be­ sistance, welcome your visit most cordially. We are ready, tween the German people and America serves, as a result, at any time, to accompany you on your visit to the Bitburg only Moscow's interests. I cannot conceive of how such a Cemetery. A cancellation of this visit would be a triumph for division could possibly benefit the United States or Europe. the opponents of the WesternAll iance. On the contrary, such a division places us all in danger. I am Signed-Robert Becker, Helmut Esser, Franz Hron, also afraid that the Bitburg controversy has ipso fa cto only raised in the name of many comrades.

36 International EIR May 14, 1985 West European concept. West European security aspects could Netherlands then be fully incorporated in the overall SOl project. Coor­ dination with other NATO plans would of course be essential. But it would be important that the study was first conducted by West Europeans as this would give it a West European Ask European space identity that NATO plans sometimes lack. . ." In answer to the fear among Europeans that cooperation defense initiative on SOl would be a "one-way street" in favor of the U.S., the document declares: "The opportunities for West European firms would be more promising if West European govern­ by DeanAndromidas ments were to decide not only to cooperate with the Ameri­ cans but to set up a special research program of their own. Speaking before a select group of security experts in the This could be directly tailored to specific West European Dutch capital of The Hague on April 26, Brigadier-General security needs. Its aim would not be to duplicate American G. Berkhof, of the Royal Netherlands Army, called for the efforts but to arrive at a division of labor with mutually formation of a European Aerospace Defense Initiative (EADI) supportive programs." Pointing to the tremendous implica­ which would serve as a European counterpart to the Strategic tions of SOl research for industrial applications as well as Defense Initiative. The general also called for the formation contributing to basic science, the general writes: "A Euro­ of a NATO Aerospace Command to be under the command pean Aerospace Defense Initiative in close cooperation with of a West German officer. the American SOl would be a form of insurance against The general's proposals came amid heated debate Western Europe lagging behind in modem technology." throughout NATO on not just "if' Europe should participate Addressing current fears of"decoupling ," the paper says, in the Strategic Defense Initiative, but "how." Though rep­ "Weighing the pros and cons, a parallel European Aerospace resenting his own personal view and not that of the Royal Defense Initiative as referred to above would appear to be the Netherlands Army-or the Netherlands Institute for Inter­ best means of preventing a 'decoupling' of the United States national Affairs, fOT which the general is a research fe llow­ and Western Europe; a decoupling extending beyond the the proposals represent a viable option to be taken up by security level to the technological and economical levels as political and military circles throughout the NATO alliance well. Obviously funds will have to be made available and a on both sides of the Atlantic. joint organization set up, but the rewards will be far greater Writing in a policy paper entitled, "The American Stra­ than by adopting a 'wait and see' attitude. While retaining tegic Defense Initiative and West European Security: a Dutch strong ties with the United States Western Europe would view," presented before a Symposium at the Clingendael invest in its own future ...." Institute, the general motivates the need for such options, by Concomitant with an EAOI would be an operational detailing the erosion of the United States strategic deterrent NATO Aerospace Defense Command (NADC) which could and the Soviets' own advances in anti-ballistic missile de­ immediately serve as the operational organization required fense. He goes on to say that while a successful SDI would to deal with the Soviet aerospace threat posed by their shorter­ ' redress this imbalance, it would not redress the current ero­ range ballistic missiles and aircraft. While noting that such a sion of NATO's theater nuclear and conventional forces or program would conform with the limitations imposed by the the "balance of imbalances between NATO's former tech­ Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the general suggests: "In view nological superiority and Soviet superiority in 'classical' of the role the Federal Republic of Germany would have to weapon systems such as tanks and artillery." Furthermore, play in a West European aerospace defense, NADC should the general points to the alarming threat posed by Soviet preferably be headed by a West German officer. This would short-range SS-21, SS-22, and SS-23 missiles which have probably facilitate allied cooperation. Another measure to both a nuclear and non-nuclear capability. ensure cooperation would be a division of labor in which a The document points out that an EAOI, in that it address­ multi-layered space-based defense system would be focused es this problem of the European theater, poses an attractive not only on intercontinental ballistic missiles but on inter­ option since increasing theater nuclear forces or attempting mediate-range weapons such as the MIRVed SS-20s, older to achieve "total" conventional defense would entail obvious Sea-Launched Ballistic Missiles and variable-range ICBMs." political and economic problems. "An added advantage could In conclusion, General Berkhof points out the challenge be this: If a multilateral West European study group were set to Europe posed by the SDI. "For the industrialized West up to work out a conceptual frameworkfor a ballistic missile European nations, a project such as the EADI could be the defense against shorter-range ballistic missiles in Western answer to another challenge, that of getting WesternEurope Europe, it could fOOD the basis for a joint coordinated U.S.! back on its feet!"

EIR May 14, 1985 International 37 Is the State Department in collusion with the Soviet Union over Greece? by Phocion

One week after Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou France. Twelve years later, Karamanlis returned from exile carried out a cold coup d' etat against his nation's constitu­ to form a civilian democratic governmentwhich replaced the tion, deposed the conservative, pro-Western President Kar­ 1967-74 military government of "the Greek Colonels." He amanlis and replaced him with a pathetic non-entity, one wrote the present Constitution of the Greek Republic and ChristosSartzetakis, over two millions of Greek voters poured governedthe country as prime minister and then as President into the streets and squares of downtown Athens expressing until March 10, 1985 , when Papandreou toppled him. their outrage against the socialist prime minister and their Beloved of both the nationalist "right wing," the "center" opposition to their country's steady drift into Moscow's em­ and many of the moderate "left," Karamanlis, at the venera­ brace . In the days fo llowing that massive two-mill ion-plus ble age of 76, still of excellent health and athletic bearing, demonstration, many political observers were expressing the with no further personal ambitions ahead of him, could have hope that a nationalist backlash would soon emerge to remove easily led a successful national movement in defense of the Papandreou from power. EIR maintained a more cautious Constitution against Papandreou' s and Russian Ambassador attitude, waiting to see whether the deposed President, Con­ Igor Andropov's violations. stantine Karamanlis, would decide to assume leadership of But Karamanlis has remained silent and inactive. such national effort. Millions, in agony over the imminent Russian tak�over, Karamanlis, to this day, has remained silent, leading a pleaded with him to once again take up the mantle. sheltered private life and, in his 76th year, hoping that his But Karamanlis has remained silent and inactive. extraordinarily fruitful past public record of 50-odd years of So, the biggest news coming out of Athens during this political contributions will, somehow, cheat history's final past month is not what is happening but what is not happen­ verdict on his person. ing: The man whom personal destiny and national circum­ Constantine Karamanlis could have led a successful po­ stances forced into the responsibility of national leadership litical campaign to drive the Soviet70riented Andreas Papan­ has abdicated his responsibility. dreou frompower. More than any other living Greek political figure, Karamanlis merits the accolade of Pater Patriae: From The secret that broke Karamanlis his first election as parliamentary deputy in the 1930s, he was What did "break" Constantine Karamanlis' soul? marked by lofty republican principles which earned him the The State Department is in possession of his secret, as it enmity of many early in his life. At the end of the civil war has been since 1974. The State Department has shared this in 1950, he led the Ministry of Reconstruction in an epic era secret with Andreas Papandreou, and with that extraordinary of nation-building which in the short span of a decade brought Levantine meddler, the Trotskyist Fourth International's Greece out of the Ottoman misery of the 18th century and "General Secretary" Michel Pablo, a.k.a. Michael Raptis, into the ranks of modem nations. As prime minister until Andreas Papandreou's mentor since the 1930s. 1963, he led Greece, by means of a far-reaching infrastruc­ The secret which broke Karamanlis goes by the generic ture program, into the ranks of nations with the fastest growth name, "The Cyprus Dossier," a much discussed subject in rates, never falling below 12-15% per year. With a sound Greek politics, whose contents are known only to Papan­ educational program based on revival of classical studies for dreou, Karamanlis, former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent mass education, he was about to guide his nation on the path Ecevit, the Cypriot AttorneyGeneral Criton Tornarites, Hen­ of worthy contributions to the world community when the ry Kissinger, Michel Pablo, the Turkish General Staff, and a Greek royal family, in a sinister deal with the Communist small cabal in the State Department. left, succeeded in toppling him, through the notorious "Z" Aspects of this little "arcanum imperii" are seeing the affair, and forcing him into exile in Charles de Gaulle's light of day for the first time in the Executive Intelligence

38 International EIR May 14, 1985 Review, thanks to our tracking of Henry Kissinger's career, To this day, this sordid secret holds Karamanlis para­ Michel Pablo's career, and the corroborative evidence gra­ lyzed. He sold his soul to the devil back in 1974 in Paris, to ciously supplied by certain honorable circles in Greece's the devil in theform of the enigmatic Archbishop Makarios. Foreign Service: Finally, Makarios: a figure which dominated internation­ "Michel Pablo," an Alexandrian Greek now of thesame al headlines in the 1950s and 1960s, is not as enigmatic as advanced age as Karamanlis, has, for many years, acted as the political observers of those years imagined. Makarios, Papandreou's discreet "eminence grise." During Papan­ one of Michel Pablo's patrons, was in fact a thoroughly dreou's exile in the 1960s , Pablo was the man who provided controlled asset of British intelligence from his exile in 1956 physical security for Papandreou, as well as introductions in the Seychelles Islands, until his death. The impressive and "connections" with Qaddafi's Libya, Assad's Syria and clergyman who was believed to have led Cyprus's anti-co­ the Michel Aflaq wing of Iraqi Baathists. In fact, Pablo en­ lonial revolution which "successfully" overthrew its status as ' listed Papandreou into the ranks of the Fran�ois Genoud neo­ a British Crown Colony to become a sovereign republic, was Nazi International in the Levant and North Africa. Michel controlled, by means of blackmail, by Britain's secret ser­ Pablo, it turnsout , was also an intimate of the Cypriot Arch­ vices. His controller was a man who to this day remains bishop Makarios from 1960 onward. When Pablo went to Cyprus'Attorney General, Criton Tornarites, who was orig­ Algeria after the Ben Bella revolution to become that nation's inally apppointed to that post in the early 1950s when Cyprus first government's "Kitchen Minister," his official capacity was still a British Crown Colony. AfterCyprus 's attainment was "Consul General of the Republic of Cyprus," a post to of independence in 1960, when Makarios became its first which he was appointed by Archbishop Makarios personally. President, Tornarites retained his position as the chief law­ This newly discovered piece of information, which links enforcement officer, at the suggestion of Britain as "guaran­ theextraordinary characters of Michel Pablo and Archbishop tor power. " Makarios in this way, adds a new dimension to the way The State Departmentknows well all these players, their politics is conducted in the Mediterranean, and adds fresh histories, foibles, vices-it "has theirnumber ." Back in 1974, understanding of what our Kissingerian State Department is the inauguration of the Lebanese civil war and the Turkish up to: invasion of Cypruswere employed by Henry Kissinger as the In 1974, when Kissinger was Secretary of State, Arch­ levers for opening up a protracted strategy whose objective bishop Makarios, then President of the Republic of Cyprus, was to eliminate U. S. influencethroughout the EasternMed­ went to London with a proposal requesting a "limited" Turk­ iterranean region, including the Balkan and Near East na­ ish military invasion of his own state, Cyprus, as a means of tions. Adventurists and seasoned political whores, such as toppling the Greek military government in Athens! As the Papandreou and many others, were deliberately promoted to story goes, the Foreign Office from London communicated power by the State Department. We have speculated in the the matter to Henry Kissinger in Washington. Kissinger sub­ past about Andreas Papandreou's Soviet KGB connections. sequently held meetings in Paris with Makarios, the Turkish With Igor Andropov serving as Soviet Ambassador in PrimeMinister Bulent Ecevit, two mysterious, wealthyGreek Athens these days, these connections of Papandreou's are no international businessmen, and the exiled Constantine Kar­ doubt his strongest immediate motivations for what he is amanlis, in which the Makarios proposal for a Turkish inva­ doing. However, there is no escaping the fact that Papan­ sion of Cyprus was agreed. dreou was raised in the United States, he had been recruited That invasion took place. The Turkish Army went a bit to the top policy layers of the Democratic Party around Hu­ further than initially agreed but, with Athens gripped by a bert Humphrey, he was enlisted to various CIA programs, breakdown political crisis, there was nobody to enforce the married an American wife, raised American children, and original terms of agreement. One of the intended effects of built his politicalcareer in Greece with heavy coaching from the operation, the collapse of the Greek military regime, was certainpowerful U.S. intelligence netw.orks, including those achieved. The military chiefs , faced with national disaster, associated with Cyrus Sulzberger of the New York Times, invited the old national political leadership for advice. One HenryKiss inger's friends among American "blue blood fam­ among them, the now ailing Evangelos Averoff-Tossitza, ilies" such as those which have guided the career of the told the military chiefs that they had no choice but to invite current U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Monteagle Steams, a Karamanlis from his Parisian exile to assume the reins of long-time friend of Papandreou's from the 1950s. power. They complied. Papandreou, no doubt, is leading Greece into the Russian Karamanlis arrived in Athens and assumed government. orbit. In doing so, he is executing the policy of a certain His dark secret was that he owed his return to power to the powerfulinfuence in the United States, associated with Hen­ bayonets of the Turkish Army, as had been suggested by the ry Kissinger's legacy in the State Department. That is why it friend and protector of Michel Pablo, Archbishop Makarios is all the more difficult for persons such as ex-President of Cyprus! Karamanlis to rise in opposition to Papandreou.

EIR May 14, 1985 International 39 signed by the above agencies, by the Communist Party split­ Spain off Movimiento Comunista, a front for the ETA Basque ter­ rorists, and, more telling, by the anarcho-syndicalist Confed­ eracion Nacional del Trabajo, agents provocateurs who nor­ mally surface only in time of war, far from their habitual Barcelonese haunts. Storm clouds gather These posters portray the U.S. President in various mon­ strous poses, with one eye of a snake, or as a cowboy riding over Reagan visit nuclear missiles to the destruction of the world. The captions refer to him as "worse than the Nazis ...a warmonger," by Katherine Kanter captions which have been amplified in all speeches made by Communist and LeftSocialist leaders. In the words of former Communist Party chief Santiago Carrillo, "Reagan is a spot­ Will President Reagan's May 6-8 visit to Spain firm up that ted beast, an undesirable, whose very visit is a provocation." country's membership in the Western Alliance and draw it The extra-parliamentary left and the various ecologist and into cooperation with the U. S. Strategic Defense Initiative, "human rights" groupings are mobilized for "unified action or will Russian agents-of-influence succeed in turning NATO's against Reagan's presence. " newest member into a de facto member of the Warsaw Pact, One might say, "hark, hark, the dogs do bark," and imag­ like Andreas Papandreou's Greece? That is what friends of ine that the Spanish governmentneed pay no need. But every the United States in Spain are asking as the President arrives, day Russia comes closer to pulling off a cold coup against in the midst of an explosion of Communist-backed anti­ NATO. Foreign Minister Fernando Moran , offspringof the Americanism in the country . Libyan-backed Partido Socialista Popular, declared on April On April 17, Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez 27 that should the United States not desire to negotiate the was forced to announce that a popular referendum would withdrawal of its 12,000 troops from Spanish soil, "we shall "most likely" be held in March 1986 , on whether or not Spain renounce the Hispano-American Friendship and Defense Co­ should remain in NATO . His Socialist Party (PSOE) had operation Treaty." Moran also stated that the U.S. Strategic promised to hold such a referendum afterit came to power in Defense Initiative (SDl) is "a mere idea." October 1982 . But since the election of the Socialists was Lest anyone mistakenly believe this was just another of contingent upon certain arrangements with the United States that unfortunate minister's notorious sorties, the Spanish and with the Spanish military establishment, the referendum President spoke in virtually the same terms on April 29, never took place. Should it be held now , the Spanish popu­ before the North American press corps. Whereupon EIR con­ lation, inundated with propaganda from the Communist Par­ sulted the official spokesman for the Presidency, and was ty, the extraparliamentary Left, and the German Greens, told that indeed, "Should the North American presence be would beyond any doubt vote to withdraw from the Alliance. withdrawn, there would be far less risk of terrorist attacks In December 1984 , the PSOE voted in favor of remaining like that at Torrejon de Ardoz two weeks ago where 18 died." in NATO . But Soviet blackmail is intensifying, and Gonza­ On April 30, Vice-President Alfonso Guerra suddenly lez's announcement shows what pressure he is now under announced that he would be out of the country-in Hunga­ from the Communists and Left Socialists. ry----during the periodof Reagan's visit. "I do not care wheth­ Gonzalez has staked his political fate on keeping Spain er Reagan's trip to Spain is canceled, as I shall be away," he with the West, and will campaign hard for this in the coming proclaimed. On May 1, the PSOE-controlled Board of the months. In an interview with U.S. journalists at the end of Parliament refused outright to answer a parliamentary ques­ April , he said that he hoped that President Reagan 's visit tion on whether or not the government would participate in would help him to accomplish this task. The timing of Rea­ the SDl, and whether the government fe lt bound by the neg­ gan's visit is "very delicate," he said. It could "be interpreted ative attitude of the Union of Socialist Parties ofthe European by some as an element of pressure on the outcome of the Community toward these laser defense systems. referendum. But it could also have a backfire effect," mean­ The United States enjoys the use in Spain of the largest ing that an unsuccessful visit could reinforce anti-NATO airfield in Europe, at Torrejon, and of a submarine base at feeling. Rota near Cadiz. Their loss would not be tolerable to the military balance in North Africa and the Atlantic. The An anti-American rampage U.S.S.R. and Cuba have together something over 60,000 The Communist mobilization underway in Spain has no seamen, purportedly aboard merchant vessels in the Canary precedent since the imrriediate pre-Civil War period. The Islands, who participate regularly in vast naval maneuvers. cities of Granada and Santander declared Reagan persona Unless the United States realizes that this is not a time for non grata; 300 public figures took out full-page ads against "business as usual" in Spain, the NATO alliance is in for a Reagan. Posters have appeared in all the major Spanish cities very rough ride.

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EIR May 14, 1985 International 41 this has little to do with his country's ability to swallow up Lebanon Lebanon. He is being given Lebanon as part of an East-West deal, which includes wiping out what remains of the moder­ ate leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, thereby dashing all prospects for a genuine Mideast peace. From Saigon to Sidon: The deal was begun under Kissinger and ratified more re­ cently during the talks held in the first weeks of February in the death of a nation Vienna, between U. S. Undersecretary of State Richard Mur­ phy and Vladimir Polyakhov, the director of the Middle East by ThienyLalevee department of the Soviet foreign ministry , the former Soviet ambassador to Cairo who set the stage for President Anwar Sadat's assassination in October 1981, just before the Rus­ While the international news media felt it necessary to ana­ sians were expelled. lyze at length the feelings of Americans and Europeans 10 While King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was in Washington, years after the fall of Saigon, the fall of the Lebanese city of D.C. proposing to President Reagan a financial and political Sidon to Druze and Shi' ite militias fighting under Iranian package for peace in the Middle East, Murphy and Polyakov banners and posters of Ayatollah Khomeini, rated third or discussed the end of Lebanon, agreeing that neither super­ fourth-order news items. This was not merely because mas­ power would directly interfere into the Middle East process. sacres in Lebanon are not considen;d newsworthy by the Soon after, amid renewed fighting in Lebanon, Egyptian cynics of the press; a coverup is under way of the East-West President Hosni Mubarak was slapped in the face in Wash­ political deals which are conspiring to kill this 4,OOO-year­ ington and his peace proposals rejected. Moscow and Wash­ old nation. ington had agreed that Greater Syria and Greater Israel would There is more than a coincidence of dates between Viet­ rulethe region, a decision confirmedby the growing rumors nam and Lebanon. As Saigon fell in April 1975, the first today that a summit meeting between Presidents Reagan and shots of the Lebanese civil war were being fired, on April 13. Assad is in the making. This could be a tragic replay of the And just as the United States was suffering a strategic blow 1977 summit between Carter and Assad, which renewed the in Southeast Asia thanks to the diplomatic initiatives of then pledges made earlier by Kissinger. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, so the Lebanese conflict Israel's position is no less cynical. Assad's dreams could was ignited by Kissinger to rid the Middle East of American never have been fulfilled, but for his close cooperation with and Westerninfluence -a 1 O-year project which is now com­ Kissinger's associate Ariel Sharon, who masterminded-in ing to fruition. complicity with Syria-the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. The Syrian-backed Abu Nidal terrorist organiza­ The conspirators tion launched an assassination attempt against Israeli Am­ At the root of the conspiracy against Lebanon was the bassador to London Shlomo Argov, providing Sharon with deal made in late 1970 between Kissinger and Hafez al As­ the pretext he needed to march into Lebanon. sad, then Syria's defense minister. Assad's fake military Such cooperationhas been witnessed at each crucial point intervention against Jordan during "Black September" was over the years . Israel's war against the Palestinians rein­ essential for Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, to forced Assad's ability to chip away the power of PLO leader discredit the peace plans of Secretary of State William Rog­ Yasser Arafat. Israel's new Labor Party-led coalition govern­ ers. Kissinger was appointed Secretary of State, and Assad ment of Shimon Peres has shown itself either unwilling or became President of Syria a few months later. unable to renounce such policies, which will give Israel a The Black September crisis, organized from top to bot­ northernbuffer zone of Christian refugees. tom by Kissinger, contained within it the seeds of the Le­ Ultimately, it is Ayatollah Khomeini who is emerging as banese conflict, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians the winner in this deadly game: Southern Lebanon will be­ expelled from Jordan fled to Lebanon. The process was fa­ come, if not an Islamic republic on the Iranian model, at least vored by Assad, who allowed few refugees into his own an Islamic canton, bordered on the north by a Druze entity country, knowing that this would bring closer the realization and on the east by a belt of Syrian troops in the Bekaa valley. of Kissinger's promise: the creation of a Greater Syria en­ Although Iran's revolution was first plotted near Sidon, at compassing a large chunk of Lebanon. Syrian policy in Le­ the Jebel Amal College of Imam Musa Sadr, the creation of banon since its intervention in 1976, shiftingfrom one alli­ an Islamic republic in southern Lebanon is the first actual ance to the other, has had no other aim than dividing the expansion of the Iranian mullahs since 1979. It is a develop­ country and compromising its political leaders, to the point ment which is good news to no one in the region. The history that Lebanese national reconciliation became impossible. of the Middle East reminds us that the fall of Sidon and Tyre But whatever may be Hafez al Assad's dreams of empire, preceeded, by only a few years , the fall of Jerusalem!

42 International EIR May 14, 1985 •

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Olof Palme and the A-bomb The public version of the com­ The pacifistpremier, Olof "Nuclear-Free-Zone" Palme, is mander-in-chief's long-range plan for exposed as a godfather of Sweden's atomic-bomb project. Swedish defense, published in 1954, called for a strike force of 216 latest­ generation jet bombers armed with nuclearweapons . For comparison, that Our old friend, the pro-Moscow when it was officialpolicy to be quite represented a force six times the size premier of Sweden, Olof Palme, has open about how heavily militarized of France's force de frappe 20 years done it again. He's scored a new re­ Sweden really is. For instance, as soon later! cord for hypocrisy in this country as the first atomic bombs had been Sometime in the late 1950s, some­ where phony .self-righteousness and detonated over Japan, articles ap­ one in the Swedish elites apparently double-dealing are so ingrained in peared in Sweden calling for the coun­ deciged that all of this frank talk about government policy they may as well try to get its own bomb. The Swedish Sweden's having nuclear weapons just be written in the Constitution (and military leadership argued, sensibly was not in keeping with the campaign probably would be, if monarchist enough, that no nation that was seri­ of pacifistact ivism being pursued by Sweden had a constitution). The latest ous about its defense could afford not Sweden. on Palme? It seems that Olofheaded a to have this new arms technology in A "Ban the Swedish Bomb" secret project in the 1960s to build an its arsenal. The fact that at that point movement was hastily pulled together atomic bomb for Sweden. That's right, only one country-the United .States--­ fromthe socialist and liberal leftwing . Olof Palme, who spends half his time had the bomb, and that this country . Opinion polls were produced to show today flitting around the world from was a superpower, did not discourage that the popUlation had rather sudden­ one disarmament confab to another, the Swedes. If anything, they said, ly shifted from strong support of "Mr. Nuclear-Free Zone" himself, having the bomb would be more im­ Swedish nuclear weapons to clear op­ turns out to be a regular little Dr. portant for a little country. In an article position. And the government intro­ Stangelove. entitled, ''The Atom Bomb-Pros­ duced a bill into parliament banning This fascinating story of the pects for the Future," published in Oc­ the bomb. Sure enough, in November Swedish A-bomb and Palme' s leading tober 1945, one top air force general 1959, the parliament passed the bill, role in it was leaked in Sweden just put it this way: "Science and technol­ authored by one Olof Palme, pro­ recently by NY Teknik magazine, in a ogy can provide a small country with claiming that henceforth Sweden series of supplements entitled, "The the means of raising its military might would refrainfrom developing or pro­ History of a Swedish Atomic Bomb, far beyond its general war potential." curing these horrible and immoral 1945-1972." As the title shows, Swe­ Therefore, he concluded, little Swe­ weapons of destruction, and urging den worked on building an A-bomb, den should build its own bomb. everyone else to do the same. beginning in 1945 at the latest and The project was already under way In reality, nothing at all was done continuing through (at least) 1972. at that early point. Every Swedish sci­ to stop the Swedish bomb project. At The fact that the neutral, pacifist entist with a background even remote­ exactly this point, the timetable was Swedes really aren't all that peaceful ly linked to nuclear physics was drawn speeded up and funding was in­ is not news for anyone who cares to into the project, some of them by mil­ creased-by 100% within three years. ignore the public propaganda and ex­ itary draft, and a crash educational To make sure that all this was kept amine the facts. Today, the conven­ program was started to produce more. totally secret from the popUlation and tional military capabilities of Swe­ The aircraft industry started building the innocents in parliament, a tiny cir­ den-the size of the army , navy, an� what was soon to become the biggest cle of representatives of the govern­ air force-are roughly the same as airforce in Europe. Within seven years ment, the military, and scientists were those of West Germany, France or after the war, the Swedes had started to be the only ones informed about the Britain, despite a population only producing four successive generations project from now on. The man chosen about one-seventh as big. of jet aircraft. Clearly, one of the main as chief government coordinator in this Nowadays, the Swedes don't talk aims was to come up with a delivery intimate circle was Olof Palme, who much about that, since it's bad for vehicle for the soon-to-be-produced had just penned the law banning all Palme's image. But there was a time nuclear arms. R&D for an atomic bomb in Sweden!

EIR May 14, 1985 International 43 Mother Russia by Luba George & Carol Greene

ROC's war on the Vatican most part belonged to pre-war Poland, Fourth of a series on how the Soviet Empire plans to celebrate contiguous to the present Polish and Czech borders. the millennium of Russia's Christianization. It is believed that Gromyko in his meeting with Pope John Paul II re­ peated the "hands off' warning con­ cerningthe Uniates that was made ear­ T he preparations for the 1988 an­ Church have been stated and pub­ lier by Patriarch Pimen. In his letter of niversary of the Christianization of lished with regularity since mid- 1984. Dec . 20, 1980 to Pope John Paul 11- Kievan Rus have been marked by a For example, a major part of Metro­ six months before the Bulgarian-con­ constantly escalating hate campaign politan Filaret of Kiev's speech in nected attempt on the Pope's life-the against the "Western" Roman Catho­ Czechoslovakia, in June 1984, was Moscow Patriarch indicated that any lic Church and the Papacy. used to denounce the "fabrications" of moves by the Vatican to call into ques­ The last column in this series gave Catholic scholars concerning the tion the results of the Synod of Lvov the historical background to the "Third "Western" influence on the origin of outlawing Uniates could "negate" all Rome" cult ideology, in which the up­ Christianity in Kievan Rus. He blast­ the progress made in improving rela­ coming millennium plays the role of a ed the "Catholic scholars and their co­ tions between the Roman Catholic imd target date for achieving world domin­ horts, the Ukrainian Uniates," for Russian Orthodox Churches andwould ion by the Soviets as a "new Roman maintaining that the early Russian be "against the spirit of Empire." Now we examine the rea­ Church-before it betrayed the Popes ecumenicalism. " sons behind the virulence of Mos­ and went under the jurisdiction of the Just before Gromyko's visit to the cow's attacks on Pope John Paul II. Constantinople Patriarchate-was Vatican, the Russian Orthodox Church There are many evil elements Christianized by Latin missionaries in January 1985 commenced the first nesting in the Vatican, including the and thus canonically linked with reprint of the 1946 Stalin-era state Venetian patriarchate and the various Rome. Referring to the "Latin mis­ tracts (draftedwith full ROC blessing) Catholic monastic orders, the Bene­ sionaries" in Russia, Filaret of Kiev outlawing the Vatican-affiliated Un­ dictines, the Dominicans, the Jesuits, said: "One should not forget that this iate Church. This decision to reprint etc. These evil elements deal with was the time that the Roman Popes is a major escalation in the anti-Papa­ Moscow from the standpoint of dis­ were already carrying out the fight to cy conditioning of the Russian popu­ cussing redrawing the world map be­ expand its realm to the East, and in lation for the big, imperial anti-West­

tween the Western aud Eastern (So­ part to Russia. . . . " ern 1988 Russian Millennium. viet) Empires. This, however, is not The shock value of this speech can During Patriarch Pimen 's imperial what Moscow, smelling world domi­ be fathomed through noting that most foray in 1984 to Warsaw Pact and nation, is attacking. The goal of the Czechs are Catholic. neighboring Slavic countries-Po­ Russian campaign against the Vatican According to Vatican sources, one land, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (Ser­ is the elimination of the Vatican and of the main themes discussed at the bia)-he declared that the "duty of all the Papacy as policy-making meeting on Feb. 27 between Pope John Christian and other religious believers authorities. Paul II and Soviet Foreign Minister in the Socialist countries . . . is to sup­ In March 1985, in an interview Andrei Gromyko was the situation of portthe State." Afterthis tour, Soviet with the Italian Communist Party dai­ Catholics in the Soviet Union. In view and East bloc government media ly Unita, Metropolitan Filaret (Vakh­ of the Pope's avowed concern about unanimously intensified their attacks romeyev) of Minsk threw down the the plight of the Ukrainian Catholics against the Pope, especially during his gauntlet to the Vatican, declaring that of the EasternRite , also known as the South American trip,culminating with "Liberation Theology is the policy of Uniates, whose Church was banned an official Soviet Government state­ the Russian Orthodox Church." Filar­ by Stalin in 1946, it is believed that ments of one month ago which blamed et (Denisenko) attacked the fall 1984 during the private talks the "delicate" the Polish Roman Catholic leader­ "clarification" issued by the Vatican issue of legalization of the Ukrainian ship-and thus, not so indirectly the criticizing so-called Liberation Catholic Church was discussed. The Pope-for the situation which pro­ Theology. Uniates live in the Westernor "Little" duced the murder of the Polish priest Such war cries against the Roman Ukraine, in territories which for the Popieluszko.

44 International EIR May 14, 1985 Dateline Mexico by Josefina Menendez

Nazi-communist pact in Nuevo Leon signer of the "Manifesto of Democra­ The PAN candidate is considered as the "new Engels" by the cy," breakfastedwith the entire PSUM leadership (a most unusual event, giv­ PSUM, the communist party of Mexico. en the anti-communist profile which until recently characterized this busi­ nessman, who didn't like rubbing shoulders with "populist riff-raff'). In thebreakf ast, the PSUM leaders said Last April 14, citizens of the state the northernstates of Sonora and Nue­ that "they did not criticize the PAN of Nuevo Le6n in northern Mexico vo Le6n, both on the U.S. border. leader for being frommanagement , as woke up disconcerted to confirmin the The manifesto signed by these was thePAN founder, Manuel G6mez morningpapers what till then had only "right-wingers," however, also sports Morin, since FriedrichEngels was also been a rumor on the gossip circuit: the the signatures of the candidates of the a businessman." What was discussed love affair between the, highest rank­ three major leftist parties to the gov­ over breakfast, in fact, was the "Sol­ ing business leaders, financiers of the ernorship of Nuevo Le6n: Lucilda emn Vow" to "free ourselves from the "conservative" National Action Party Perez Salazar, of the Unified Socialist PRI dictatorship," What is not said is and erstwhile staunch anti-commu­ Party of Mexico (PSUM); Daniel Sal­ whether the PSUM communists were nists, with the creme de la creme of azar Mendoza, of the Revolutionary really aware of what Engels was-an the so-called anti-capitalist and "anti­ Workers' Party (PRT); and Maximo agent of the British oligarchy's secret right" leftwing . The local press print­ de Le6n Garcia, of the Socialist intelligence! ed a full-page insert with a "Manifesto Workers' Party. Also signing the doc­ The question on everyone's lips of Mexican Democracy," signed by ument were some leading sympathiz­ now-and not only in Nuevo Le6n, 126 individuals, among them Andres ers of the PAN within theruling PRI, but all over Mexico, since this alliance Marcelo Sada, head of the "Monterrey among them a representative to the is the talk of the country, and had pre­ Group" of Mexican industrialists and Federal Congress and an ex-state viously only been seen in Baja Cali­ organizer of the famous conspiratorial governor. forniaNorte and Sinaloa-is whether meeting of 1976 against then-Presi­ The manifesto's text, which even the Nazi-communist idyll weren't dent Luis Echeverria in Chipinque, the local press likened to a tract from being sponsored by the U.S. State Nuevo Le6n. some fanatical religiouscult, statesthat Department. - Sada, who contributed financially democracy "is the only way" that can In fact, since the week of April 25 , to the movement that put General Pin­ lead Mexico to higher levels of devel­ every Mexican political grouping has ochet in power in Chile in 1973, head­ opment, in liberty, justice, and peace. vehemently expressed its repudiation ed up a list of "fat cats" which includes That "our people have struggled and of a document made public last month a number of heavy financial backers paid with blood to install democratic by theState Department on the "Prac­ of the PAN. The PAN has consistently principles," and therefore , "it is up to tice of Human Rights During 1984," challenged the political foundations of the citizens, as a right and an obliga­ in which it is said that the only way the Mexican system of government, tion, to respect and defend democra­ Mexico could prove that it has a good while its leaders are involved in one cy." In the face of this, "the under­ recordin human rights is by accepting drug scandal after another. Sada's signed, motivated solely by love of PAN victories in some key guberna­ cronies have sponsored the careers of country, [raise] a solemn vow of dem­ torialraces in the northern states. such PAN notables as Jose Angel ocratic conscience." The rest is in de­ The reactions to this document Conchello, who has openly praised fense of the vote and the will of the have even gone beyond Mexico's bor­ Hitler's Finance Minister Hjalmar peoplein the upcoming elections. ders. Richard Arellano said in the Wall Schacht, and Pablo Emilio Madero, But this is not the only manifesta­ Street Journal on April 25 that the State the president ofthe PAN, who warned tion of this new alliance between the Department's gameplan of supporting recently of "a million dead, as in the PAN-ists, known for their fascist in­ a party such as the PAN , carries with Mexican Revolution," unless the rul­ clinations, and the communists. Just it a very serious threat to Mexico's ing Institutional Revolutionary Party one month earlier, on March14, PAN political stability, and that this de­ (PRI) hands them the governments of candidate Canales Clariond, another stabilization may lead to violence.

EIR May 14, 1985 International 45 From New Delhi by Susan Maitra

India looks West for defensive arms advanced facilities, it remains to be Defense modernization is a priority concern, as the ground­ seen what is for "show" and what is breaking deal with Italy shows. for "share ." India has simultaneously renewed efforts to open a defense relationship with the United States. U.S. Under­ secretary of Defense for Policy Fred May Day was celebratedhere with, superpowers, contending as they are Ikle arrived on May 1 for talks with among other things, the signing of a for the Rajiv Gandhi government's defense and foreign affairs ministry significant defense agreement be­ nod. officials on the subject, prior to the tween India and Italy. Dr. V. S. Arun­ But since at least 1980, when Mrs. visit of U. S. Airforce Secretary Verne achalam, scientific advisor to the In­ Indira Gandhi returned to power in Orr. dian Defense Ministry, and General Delhi, India has sought to move away Reports from Washington indicate G. Piovano, defense secretary of Ita­ from virtuallytotal dependence on the that from the U.S. side, these moves ly, signed a five-year accord provid­ Soviet Union for defense supplies and are backed by a powerful grouping of ing for cooperation in research and de­ systems. The purchaseof Mirage-4000 Republicans who have the President's velopment of sophisticated defense planes from France and submarines sympathetic ear. Thus the talks, which systems in highly specialized fields like from West Germany was the result of now center on purchase of C-130 avionics, electronics, lasers, and oth­ this shift, but efforts to get help from transport planes, aircraft engines, and er interrelated scientific spheres. the United States were frustrated. several other items, may not suffer the The agreement has no provision Defense contracts signed during fate of 1979 efforts to acquire Howit­ for purchase of arms, or for establish­ 1984 amount to $1 billion in arms im­ zers and TOW anti-tank missiles. ment of joint research facilities. Ac­ ports , with 75% of that from the Those talks were sabotaged at the cording to Dr. Arunachalam, Indian U.S.S.R. in the form of MiG-29s, eleventh hour by arbitrary U.S. defense scientists will be sent to Italy transport helicopters, and a variety of conditions. to identify specific areas in which the equipment for the army . If the Ikle-Orr mission succeeds, two countries can coordinate to mu­ In recent years, the policy of "div­ U. S. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein­ tual advantage via information ex­ ersification"has been given a boost by berger may pay a visit to India, and, change, R&D cooperation, or offer­ virtue of India's particular quest for according to Indian sources in Wash­ ing each other components and de­ high technology in the defense area, ington' an agreement on arms supplies signs of subsystems that could be in­ something the Soviets have been as might be a "highpoint" of Raj iv's June tegrated into the bigger weapon sys­ reluctant as any "imperialist" to part visit. tems each is developing. with. If either of the superpowers plan Although an intergovernmental During Indian Defense Minister to try to take India for granted, they Memorandum of Understanding was Narasimha Rao's early-April visit to ought to consult the British. A major signed several years ago with France, Moscow, to prepare for Rajiv's May British airshow and defense minister's and negotiations have been going on state visit, it was reported in a section visit was summarily canceled follow­ with both Britain and West Germany of the press here that India and the ing Mrs. Gandhi's assassination, as a for similar agreements on long-term Soviet Union had discussed an un­ direct result of Her Majesty's govern­ cooperation, the Italian agreement is precedented defense deal including ment's protection of the separatist cults the first such accord signed with any technology transfer for nuclear sub­ who produced the murderers . Public Western countryfor cooperation in the marines, a new and total "radar cover" apologies, vows to crackdown on Sikh R&D of the latest weapons systems. for the land and sea frontiers, new extremists inEngland, and a quick visit The agreement was outlined by the technologies to be adapted to laser de­ to Delhi by Maggie Thatcher have two governments during a visit by the velopments, and exchange and collab­ barelymanaged to keep a British heli­ Italiandefense minister several months oration in spy satellites. copter deal alive. At the end of April, ago. The report was promptly denied in it may have been irrevocably buried The quickened defense diplomacy New Delhi. Although the Indian de­ by India's reaction to a UK official's is certainly related to India's determi­ fense minister was apparently given a threat to slash aid if the copters wer­ nation to get the best from the two red-carpet tour of the Soviets' most en't purchased pronto.

46 International EIR May 14, 1985 SoutheastAsia by Sophie Thnapura

What's at stake for the Non-Aligned? "In the face of the global nature of 30 years aft er the Bandung Conference, the questions of the challenges confronting mankind, sovereigntyand development are even more acute . an equally global response is called for. The Asian and African countries . . . recognize that global economic recovery can be sustained and durable The 30-year commemoration of the Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmaja and only if it is accompanied by urgent April 1955 Bandung conference of expressed regret that he was unable to measures to reactivate the develop­ Asian and African nations, which took meet with Indonesian President Su­ ment of the developing countries inter place April 22 to 24 in Indonesia, left harto. There was also notice of the fact alia, through the enlargement of the no doubt that the major concerns of that the North and South Korean del­ transfer of technological resources to the developing countries have not egations sat next to each other (the the developing countries, dismantling changed. In resolutions and speeches, seating was mostly alphabetical), for of protectionist barriers in the devel­ the assembled representatives of 80 the firsttime without flyinginto bouts oped countries, and a long-term solu­ governments, including eight foreign of acrimony. And a lot of ink was tion of the debt problem." ministers, expressed their grave con­ spilled on whether or not Kampu­ The Bandung Conference in 1955, cern with the issues of national sov­ chean Prince Sihanouk's professed which was attended by then Chinese ereignty and peace; and the creation resignation as the head of the Khmer Premier Chou En-Iai, Indian Prime of a new, just international economic resistance coalition, would be perma­ Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian order that would permit the underde­ nent (it is not). President Gamal Abdul Nasser, and veloped countries to realize their po­ These diplomatic maneuverings Indonesian President Sukarno, was the tentials as growing, sovereign nations. are merely symptomatic of the dire prelude to the formation of the Non­ Numerous speakers called for the and fundamental problems the assem­ Aligned Movement. The "Five Prin­ convening of an international confer­ bled developing countries continue to ciples" emerging from the conference ence to reorganize the international face daily in their fight for survival. were an attempt to forge links between monetary system, an idea that has re­ The declaration of the Bandung con­ the developing nations based on the gained momentum with the January ference, unanimously signed by all principles of sovereignty and mutual call put out by the Schiller Institute for countries present, came right to the cooperation. As the subsequent wars an Indira Gandhi Memorial Summit to point. In paragraph number 1 2 , the which have wracked the Third World End the World Depression. In a press resolution states: attest, these countries have been conference before leaving for Ban­ "It is a matter of deep concernthat largely unable to resist becoming as­ dung, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi three decades afterthe [first] Bandung sets of the geopolitical chessboard Savestila said he would propose a conference, the just demand of devel­ games of the Soviet Union, China, and North-South conference on monetary oping countries for the eradication of the Anglo-American empire faction. reform, an idea, he said, Japanese economic backwardness, domina­ The Third World remains in the grip leaders are also interested in. tion, and exploitation, and for the of an imperial world order, which is Reporting on the Bandung confer­ achievement of equitable develop­ now bringing entirenations to the brink ence in the press, however, tended to ment and progress is yet to be ful­ of death . treat these vital issues as if they were filled. . . . The world has experi­ In his speech to the conference. points of rhetoric only, concentrating enced the most prolonged recession of Indonesian President Suharto sounded instead on the diplomatic maneuver­ the postwar period, accompanied by the warning to the advanced-sector ings for which the conference provid­ stagnation . . . and the accumulation countries, if they do not work to re­ ed an arena. The presence of Chinese of a staggering debt burden." store equity in a new international Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian "The participating countries ex­ world order: "Prolonged backward­ prompted much speculation on the press deep concern at thecritical eco­ ness of the developing countries, publicly stated desire of both China nomic situation in Africa, particularly which represent the majority of the and Indonesia to re-open diplomatic in countries affected by drought, de­ human race, sooner or later, will un­ relations. Wu did have a two-hour sertification, refugees, and- other ex­ doubtedly become the beginning of meeting with Indonesian Foreign ternal factors. disaster for the advanced countries."

EIR May 14, 1985 International 47 International Intelligence

versial visit because Gennan SS war-dead the board were rejected on the grounds that Growing concern over are buried there: under law, none of the persons filing a pro­ "I saw reporters with their anns full of test had the right to do so. drugs in India carnations, which they had taken from other The party is an outspoken advocate of graves before , placing them before the SS­ Swedish membership in NATO , contrary to "Nothing less than a concerted and vigorous tombstones to take pictures. Later on, the the country's traditional "neutrality," and to effort to smash the heroin traffic network U . S. press alleged that 40 years after the current Prime Minister Olof Palme's pro- . will do ," the Times of India, the country's war, graves of Waffen-SS soldiers are still Soviet policies. English-language newspaper ofrecord , stat­ being planted with flowers. This is a real In practice, the decision means that the ed recently in a lead editorial. "The Menace hate campaign against us. " EAP registration is continned. The whole of Heroin." On April 28, Theo Hallet, Lord Mayor matter is by no means settled, however. The The editorial called for "a high-powered of the Bitburg municipality, reported the State Attorney's office is still examining the central operation including the setting up of fo llowing incident: question of whether or not the EAP "forged" a narcotics control board with extensive "Falsifications were produced con­ signatures on its application. And the EAP powers , a thorough refonn of the laws on sciously. Reporters of Newsweek magazine , has demanded that Svenska Dagbladet jour­ drug abuse and trafficking, a system of for example, came to me and borrowed two nalist Willy Silberstein, who published awards for the police and other agencies for tiny Gennan nationalflags from the city hall. slanders against the party and contacted many reporting on heroin peddlers and addicts, These they posted in front of two tomb­ signatories demanding they withdraw their and a chain of centers for helping addicts stones for Waffen-SS soldiers, taking pic­ names, be brought to court for conspiracy to fightthe habit. " tures of them. Later on, I saw the same pic­ stop the EAP registration. The Times of India is not alone in its ture appearing on television-this time as concern. The press generally is reflecting the cover page of the U.S. edition of Ne ws­ increased attention to the serious implica­ week." Hallet complained that Newsweek tions of India's emergence as a major drug alleged Gennans are still honoring graves of DEA agent: 'Mexico transshipment center, and the evidence that fonner SS soldiers with flags-flagsNe ws­ more serious than we' international trafficking is spilling over to week had posted there . create a growing market of "users" in India The Washington Post Corporation has "Where Mexico has begun an eradication itself. wholly owned Newsweek for over 50 years, program on the cultivation of cannabis, we Studies indicated a "contagion" of drug and the corporation's board of directors is in the United States do not have such a pro­ abuse in the nation's educational institu­ the board of directors for Newsweek. Ka­ gram ," the new head of the Drug Enforce­ tions, and thespread of addiction is alarming. tharine Meyer Graham is Chairman of the ment Agency John C. Lawn told the House Indian law remains unusually lax as far Board. Other board members include for­ Subcommittee on Crime , after he returned as drugs are concerned. As geopolitical de­ mer defense secretary and World Bank head from a long trip to Mexico. velopments compelled a reorganization of Robert Strange McNamara; Nicholas deB . After months of noises from Washing­ drug-traffickingroutes from both the South­ Katzenbach, senior vice-president of IBM ton about "Mexico lagging," Lawn made the east Asian "Golden Triangle" and Iran's op­ and fonner U.S. Attorney-General;and Ar­ administration's first admission , that Mexi­ ium-growing areas, India was a natural jay Miller, dean of the Stanford University co is acting moreaggressively thanthe United alternative . School of Business, and 1968 recipient of States in fighting marijuana. The government of India is reportedly the B'nai B'rith National Industry Leader Lawn's predecessor, fonner FBI num­ carrying out a comprehensive review of the Award. Board attorneyGeorge J. Gillespie, ber-two man Francis Mullen, had been shrill drug laws and policies bearing on the prob­ III, is a senior partner at the New York Cra­ in his charges that the Mexican government lem, but so far , no concrete initiatives have vath, Swaine, and Moore law finn. was refusing to cooperate in war-on-drugs been announced. Virtually every member advocates U. S. efforts, in particular, the search for kid­ "decoupling" from Europe. naped DEA agent Enrique Camarena, sub­ 'journalists ' sequently murdered. u. s. But, said Lawn, the United States has desecrate Bitburg graves European Labor Party been asking other nations to do "things we are not doing internally. And that gives very Mrs. Elfriede Graupeter, member of the B it­ registered in Sweden mixed signals to countries like Mexico." burg municipal council. has accused Amer­ Rep Daniel E. Lungren (R-Calif.) com­ ican journalists of desecrating Gennan On April 24, the Swedish elections review mented, that the United States was being graves. As she said on April 28, she wit­ board confinned the registration of the Eu­ "hypocritical" in "stirring up a lot of anger, nessed the following scene in the Bitburg ropean Labor Party (EAP) for national elec­ concern, anxiety, frustration with the Mex­ Cemetry , site of President Reagan's contro- tions. All protests that had been filed with I ican government, because of lack of coop-

48 International EIR May 14, 1985 Briefly

• RICHARD BURT "has turned West German policy on its head," an angry West German government of­ ficial told Reuters news agency, fol­ eration . . . and lack of action we see on peasement toward the Soviet Union and an lowing a press briefing at which Burt eradicating drugs in that area ." arch-enemy of President Reagan's "Star mis-quoted West German Chancellor Wars" program, has taken the Soviet side Kohl. Burt, prospective U.S. ambas­ before . sador in Bonn, quoted Kohl telling On July 1, 1945 , to be exact. President Reagan, "We must never Nitze hits Soviets Genscher, according to a background forget and we can never forgive ." In feature in the daily Bildzeitung April 29, fo r arms-talks stall reality, Kohl said, "We have no right was a prisoner-of-war in the hands of Allied to demand that people forgive and forces when May 8, 1945 , VE-Day, arrived. u.s. arms negotiator Paul Nitze said that forget ." the "principal objective" of the U.S.S.R. "is He was placed in a British POW camp in Thuringia. On July 1, 1945 , according to to stop the U.S. Strategic Defense Initia­ • EIR REPORTS on the cholera four-power agreements, Thuringia was to tive," in his speech at the National Press epidemic in Africa and the danger of be handed over to the Soviet Red Army . Club on May I. similar pandemics in the Brazilian Accordingly, 100 POWs at the camp Nitze has just returned from the Geneva Northeast were extensively quoted in were given the option of remaining in the arms control talks . The SOl could negate the Brazilian paper, 0 Popular. many of their advantages , Nitze said, and hands of the Westernpowers, or being trans­ ferred to Soviet occupation troops. charged the Soviet Union with putting • EAST GERMANY'S museums, Only two of the 100chose the Red Army . "maximum pressure on it [the SOl] by hold­ each and all, have permanent civil­ One was Hans-Dietrich Genscher. ing progress in all other aspects of the ne­ defense staffs which regularly run Moreover, the Soviets released him,only gotiations hostage to U . S. acceptance of the training-exercises in the rescue of two days later . Soviet proposal on 'space-strike arms.' " precious cultural and art objects "in Genscher says he decided to fall in with Nitze said that the Soviets were insisting case of military aggression by impe­ the Reds because of his mother, who lived on banning even U . S. research into strategic rialism," Culture Minister Hans­ not far from the camp in Thuringia. Could defense technology, as a precondition for Joachim Hoffmann announced in the he mean ...Mother Russia? serious arms talks. Soviet strategy is, to January 1985 issue of the East Ger­ "combine tough bargaining at the negotiat­ man civil-defense magazine. Such ing table with a hard-nosed public propa­ exercises will be stepped up because ganda campaign designed to undercut sup­ Summit leaders discuss of the growing war danger in the port for U . S. and NATO positions and force world, he stated. unilateral concessions ." arms talks, drug war "The Soviet Union has made no propos­ • PERICLES: "The man who is als for reductions in strategic forces in the Westernleaders at the Bonn economic sum­ uninterested in politics is not a pru­ new negotiations . They have the only oper­ mit on May 2 discussed a coordinated war dent man, but a useless man." Co­ ational ABM system, and have until recent­ on drugs during their dinner discussion, ac­ lombian president BelisarioBetancur ly enjoyed a virtual monopoly in research cording to BBC, although the topic was not used that quote in his unveiling of a into advanced ballistic missile defense on their agenda. bust of Rodrigo LaraBonilla on April technologies . " A question from Prime Minister Mar­ 30, the justice minister murdered by Nitze charged that the Soviets had ac­ garet Thatcher to Mr. and Mrs. Reagan is the drug mafia one year ago on the tually backtracked from earlier concessions said to have prompted a one hour discussion same date. He added, "This is some­ on air-launched cruise missiles, such as ban­ of the issue. thing which applies in exemplary ning SS-20s from Asia . And, while the So­ The matter has now been submitted to fa shion to what Rodrigo Lara was for viets had offered a unilateral moratorium on advisors to the leaders, in order that they his own, for Colombia ...." SS-20 deployments, "we see construction of might draw up mutually acceptable propos­ SS-20 bases continuing again today. . . . als for a joint war on drugs, to be ratified at • GOOD JOKES have long lives. The Soviet Union is pleased with the current a future summit, possibly sooner . On April 21, Espresso magazine ran strategic situation. " In the first formal communique from the an interview with Italian minister summit on May 3, the leaders of the seven Renato Altissimo. Asked about the major industrial nations declared that the alleged "danger nuclear energy rep­ Genscher has chosen Soviet Union should "conduct itself in a po­ resents for people who live near a sitive and constructive way, so meaningful plant," he said: "I will answer with Soviets before, too agreements can be reached" at the Geneva an American slogan: More people arms talks . The leaders also supported the have died in Ted Kennedy 's carthan West German Foreign Minister Hans-Die­ idea of a summit between President Reagan, in a nuclear plant. " trich Genscher, the leader of European ap- and Soviet leader Gorbachov.

ElK May 14, 1985 International 49 TIillInvestigation

The shocking truth about Simon Wiesenthal by Joseph Brewda

A high-level security threat, by Soviet-controlled agencies, hangs over President Ronald Reagan's tripto WesternEurope . The threat to Reagan's life has been set up by a massive propaganda war against him, every feature of which has been directed by networks created and controlled by Soviet Russian intelligence. Soviet control over this apparatus is kept up through three main kinds of institutions: 1) those directly created by Russian intelligence as identifiedarms of the Soviet Comintern or its successor networks , such as the West German Verei­ nigung Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN-The Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime); 2) Jewish holocaust survivors' organizations, many of whose leaders were "kapos" for the Nazis during the war, and are now subject to Soviet blackmail; and 3) networks such as the Israeli "Terror Against Terror" under­ ground, known to be 'massively penetrated by KGB agents. This last Soviet capa­ bility is augmented by the fact that a faction of the Israeli government is solidly allied with the KGB to undermine V.S. interests worldwide. The West German-based VVN, which had been voicing Soviet charges of "German revanchism" long before Reagan ever planned his currenttrip, is a direct KGB front, molded by the late top Soviet ideologue Mikhail Suslov as a front for the reorganized West German Communist Party , which was banned after the war. The VVN operates a string of KGB front organizations internationally including the World Federation of War Veterans, the InternationalFederation of Resistance Fighters, the European Confederation of War Veterans, and the International Confederation of Prisoners of War. The VVN is covertly steered by Marcus Wolff, deputy director of the Stasi (East German intelligence), through Heinz Galinski, the unofficial chairman of West Berlin's Jewish community. The VVN's self-identified freason for existence is to protest both the alleged protection of former Nazi war criminals by V. S. intelligence, and the alleged rise of German neo-Nazism. The present ludicrous campaign against President Reagan was plotted at a VVN conference held in Moscow in March 1984, among other locations. This theme was then funneled into the West through "Nazi hunter"

50 Investigation EIR May 14, 1985 The terrorist Jewish Defense League demonstrates in a New York Marchfor Soviet Jewry (May 1982). Yet the JDL and Simon Wiesenthal's "holocaust survivors" organizations are steered directly from Moscow, as the current scandal around . President Reagan's trip to the Bitburg cemetery demonstrates. NSIPS/SlUartLewis

Simon Wiesenthal; the above-mentioned Heinz Galinski; and ly. To this end, the Klarsfelds spend much of their time such self-identified U.S. Nazi-hunters as Charles R. Allen, allegedly hunting Nazis in Central and South America. Their Jr. , former editor of The Nation and a leading figure in the key collaborator in this endeavor has been Regis Debray, the New York U.S.-East German Friendship Society. late Che Guevara's sidekick and longtime Cuban intelligence The VVN's main co-thinking group in Britain is the pub­ operative, who later became an adviser to French Prime Min­ lication Searchlight, founded by Communist Party leader ister Mitterrand. The Klarsfelds have repeatedlycharged that Maurice Ludmer in 1975. The leading "anti-fascist" monthly Auschwitz torturer Dr. Mengele, now allegedly in Paraguay, in Britain, Searchlight works closely with the Committee of is functioning under U.S. protection. They also say that the Soviet War Veterans, Timor Timofeyev's Moscow research former chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, Klaus Barbie, institute (he used to be known as Tim Dennis of the Com­ worked for the CIA, even though Barbie's ties to the KGB munist PflI1y U.S.A.), CIA renegade Philip Agee, and top have long since been documented. KGB officialErnst Henry. Beate Klarsfeld firstachieved notoriety for slapping then­ In the United States, the VVN-Searchlight network in­ German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger in 1968 in public for cludes The Hammer, a periodical tied to the National Anti­ being an alleged Nazi. Klarsfeld has condemned West Ger­ Klan Network of Lyn Wells. An ex-leader of the Maoist man Chancellor Helmut Kohl for his characterization of West terrorist October League, Wells is a "handler" of such agents Germany as a "sovereign country." This statement is intend­ of the Anti-Defamation League of B 'nai B 'rith (ADL) inside ed to protect West Germany from prosecuting its Nazis, she the Ku Klux Klan as Jerry Ray, James Earl Ray's brother. claims. This same apparatus is closely tied to Hitler admirer Muammar Qaddafi's protege, Rev. Jesse Jackson. Through KGB controls 'Nazi hunting' the VVN, among other KGB institutions, Jackson has knit One of the KGB's most reliable channels in the hysterical ties to the neo-Nazi Green Party of Germany, a party indi­ controversy kicked up around President Reagan's visit to the rectly funded by Moscow, which openly praises Hitler as a Bitburg military cemetery, is Simon Wiesenthal, the so-called "brother." The Greens are one of the principal Russian threats leading Nazi-hunter in the world. Funded by Prince Bernhard to Reagan on his trip. . of the Netherlands (who is also a major figure in the zero­ Working closely with this apparatus is the Anti-Defa­ growth-oriented World Wildlife Fund), the Vienna-based mation League-funded Nazi hunter team of Serge and Beate Wiesenthal keeps a list of some 25,000 alleged Nazis at his Klarsfeld of Paris, France. The Klarsfelds have specialized Documentation Center, and claims to have dedicated his life in portraying the United States and West Germany as the to bringing these Nazis to justice. sponsors and protectors of Nazi war criminals international- Among Wiesenthal's closest collaborators in the United

EIR May 14, 1985 Investigation 51 States are ex-congresswoman, now Brooklyn District Attor­ by the SS. Wiesenthal, miraculously, was not shot-he was ney, Elizabeth Holtzmann. In 1979 Wiesenthal, Holtzmann, recognized by a friend named Bodnar in the Ukrainian SS. and the above-mentioned Charles R. Allen, Jr. successfully Soon afterward, the Jews of the town were taken to the lobbied for the creation in the Officeof Special Investigations lanowska or Lwow concentration camp. Not Wiesenthal. He of the Department of Justice (OSI), which has been charged was stationed at the Ostbahn Railworks where, by his own with searching for Nazi war criminals in the United States. admission, he was allowed to freely travel into town, and to As the justification for formation of the OSI, HoItzmann carry a gun. and Allen argued that the US government's Immigration and While based in this camp, Wiesenthal joined the partisan Naturalization Service has systematically protected former underground on his SS-authorized trips into town. On April Nazi war criminals residing in the United States. Using the 2, 1942, he and 43 other of his nominal resistance comrades, arguments of Stasi propagandist Julius Mader, author of the were seized and taken to the firing line. Only 43 Jews were East German governmentpublished Who's Who in the CIA , shot: Wiesenthal was freed by order of the camp commandant. they asserted these alleged Nazis were protected because of Finally, in October 1943 Wiesenthal left the Ostbahn their usefulness to U. S. intelligence. forever to join the underground. He was seized in June 1944, In 1965, Holtzmann's collaborator Tony De Vito visited afternine months of acti vity, and taken to the Gestapo jail in the Soviet Union to gather evidence "documenting"this charge Lwow. Was he tortured by Gestapo Jewish Affairs section of U. S. intelligence protection of Nazis, and met with Mik­ chief Oskar Waltke? On the contrary, Waltke put him under hail Malyarov, the deputy procurator of the Soviet justice extraordinary care-by Wiesenthal's own admission. From ' ministry. The "evidence" presented by Malyarov supple­ there, Wiesenthal was sent to Lwow concentration camp. mented charges made by Allen in 1962 in the Communist Every Jew in his section was shot. Not Wiesenthal . He was Party's Morgen Freiheit and lewish Currents and were used put on double rations by SS commandant Friedrich Warzok. to ram through the creation of the OS!. Warzok, Wiesenthal says by way of self-justification, had a Reflecting its origins, the OSI is the only agency of the strange character. U.S. government authorized to accept Soviet justice depart­ After similar incredible escapades and miraculous near­ ment and KGB documents as evidence against American deaths, this would-be dedicated partisan leader and "anti­ citizens. The OSI has several other known ties to Soviet Nazi fighter," was transferred to the section of the Mauthau­ intelligence outfits. One such tie is that of OSI adviserCharles sen concentration camp reserved for special prisoners. One R. Allen to the Soviet news agency TASS's "Nazi expert" co-inmate was the Polish oligarch, Prince Radziwill. Oleg Polyakovskii, formerly of the New York TASS bureau, Immediately after the war Wiesenthal was integrated into and to the Potsdam center of the East German Stasi-noto­ the Israeli foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, and pre­ rious for its forgeries. Another reported tie is that of Wiesen­ pared documentation which condemned some, and protected thai Center attorney Martin Mendelsohn, the firstdirector of other, Nazis from prosecution. The Documentation Center the OSI, to Valery G. Kubanov of the Soviet Embassy in which Wiesen thaI set up for this activity, has since become a Washington. prime source of the alleged history of the war. Among the key evidence used by Wiesenthal in docu­ Wiesenthal's strange history menting alleged Nazi war criminals is a list of 15,000 SS The leaders of the recent Bitburg outcryare not ordinary officers-alist so secret that only 40 copies were prepared in "Nazi victims." It was not unusual that the most vicious the war. The source of this list? An SS officer, sympathetic oppressors in the concentration camps were Jews themselves, to Wiesenthal, who felt guilty afterthe war. called kapos. Others were formerly members of the Nazi Jewish police. ' Other collaborators The particular feature of these Jewish Nazis which the But Wiesenthal is hardly unique. Among his colleagues Soviets find so attractive is that there is no limit to the psy­ is John Ranz, chairman of the "Generation After," set up by chotic frenzy they can be driven to by guilt and blackmail. It Wiesenthal in 1979. Ranz, who covertly works with the is this psychological characteristic of fear and gUilt which Libyan embassy in New York, was, by his own admission in offers the real explanation for the Goebbels-modeled attack his In Nazi Claws: Bendzin 1939-45, a member of the Jewish on President Reagan over the last weeks by "survivor Police of Bendzin during the war. Like the ludenrats ("Jew­ organizations. " ish Councils" in the Nazi-occupied ghettos), the Jewish Po­ Wiesenthal himself was born to an Austro-Hungarian lice were appointed by the SS and had the fu nction, as Ranz intelligence officeractive in EasternEurope prior to the war. admits, of selecting Jews to be sent to the camps. Among According to his own admissions, published in his Murderers Ranz's closest associates during the war was Mr. Schenker, Among Us, Wiesenthal's town of Dolina, Poland, was invad­ director of the Auschwitz ludenrat and a man with "good ed by the Nazis on July 6, 1941. Within days of the occupa­ connections with the Gestapo," according to Ranz. Natural­ tion, Wiesenthal and other Jews were put on the firing line ly, Ranz was a "survivor."

52 Investigation EIR May 14, 1985 Another key KGB-controlled Nazi institution running the the Bergen Belsen Survivors Association, the camp Reagan psychological warfare campaign against President Reagan is is scheduled to visit. the "World Gathering of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust. " Immediately following the British liberation of Bergen The Gathering was fonned in 1981 in Jerusalem in explicit Belsen, and its re-creation as a refugee facility, Rosensaft response to the election of President Reagan, who, its leaders was appointed by the British as its camp representative. This stated, might undennine the gains of their network under choice was "controversial" for the camp inmates, even ac­ Carter. cording to Yehuda Bauer, a Mossad cover-up historian of the The leading figures in the Gathering include Eli Wiesel, period. Bauer is forced to admit the camp population con­ fonner chairman of the Carter administration-created U.S. demned Rosensaft as having "ruled the camp with an iron Holocaust Council; Benjamin and Vladka Meed of the Jewish hand ...ac cused of being a dictator ...he was ambitious." Labor Committee; and Josef and Dr. Haddasah Rosensaft of Among the peculiar features of British-administrated the Bergen Belsen Association. Bergen Belsen in the immediate postwar period is that it It was the Gathering, which conveniently held a 4,000 served as an underground railway route for those fleeing person conference in Philadelphia the weekend of April 20, Europe following the war. Some of those refugees were Jews driven to Israel. Others, however, were fugitives, Nazi war criminals headed for South America and Syria.

The Terror Against Terror apparatus The leaders of the recent Bitburg The third major grouping now deployed by the KGB outcryar e not ordinary "Nazi against Reagan, and assigned to possible violence, is the victims. " It was not unusual that Israeli "Terror Against Terror." This psychotic network has repeatedly attempted to blow up the Al Aqsa mosque on the the most vicious opp ressors in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in nominal preparation for concentration camps were Jews building the third Temple (Solomon's temple). It is otherwise themselves, called kapos. The self-described as dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and neo­ Nazism internationally. particularfe ature of these Jewish TNT is usually underestimated by U.S. intelligence be­ Nazis which the Sovietsfind so cause it appears to be nothing more than a combination of attractive is that there is no limit to Rabbi Meir Kahane's terrorist Jewish Defense League and Kach art , the psychoticfre nzy they can be P y with the Greater Israel expansionist Gush Emu­ nim of Rabbi Levinger. driven to by guilt and blackmail. In fact, the TNT is controlled by the Israeli "Prime Min­ ister's Office of the Warfare Against Terror," directed by fonner Mossad counterterror European station chief Rafi Eytan. On-the-ground control of the TNT crazies is provided which has led the public, "survivor" outcry to Reagan's trip­ by Mattiyahu Dan, an operative of Israel's Shin Beth intelli­ even calling for survivor demonstrations at Bitburg. gence service, whose yeshiva in Jerusalem is TNT's base of The Rosensafts typify the organization. operations. During World War II, Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft, by her This Mossad faction controlling the TNT is led by such own admission, was "pennitted" to work in the infinnary at fonner Aleppo Syrian families as the Dweks, Kattans, Saf­ Auschwitz. A surgeon, Rosensaft worked in a camp section ras, and Kassins, who have a strategic deal with Moscow where she had frequentcontact with the notorious Dr. Men­ against the United States (see EIR , April 16, 1985, pp. 46- gele, the torturer of Auschwitz. By her own admission under 49). oath, Rosensaft witnessed some of his crimes. To facilitate this deal, the Mossad has allowed the KGB During the Gathering conference, the Senate Select Com­ to heavily infiltrate the TNT network. Among such infiltra­ mittee on the Judiciary held hearings on Mengele, to whip tors is Avigdur Eskin, son of a high-ranking Soviet military up the psychotic 4,OOO-person crowd. Among the stars of officer. In the early 1970s, the then Moscow-based Eskin this perfonnance was Rosensaft, who condemned the Nazi became converted to Kahane's self-described war against doctor's cruelty. But neither Subcommittee chairman Arlen anti-Semites, translating his "Never Again!" into Russian. Specter-who has since called for a trade embargo of Ger­ Through the aid of such figures as the Mossad-linked Joe many because ofthe Bitburg visit-nor his ADL-linked as­ Churba, Eskin emigrated to Israel where he leads those TNT sociates Senators Metzenbaum and Lautenberg, saw fitto ask Jews supposedly committed to preventing another Holo­ how the good Dr. Rosensaft became a "survivor." caust, and "therefore," to stopping Ronald Reagan from vis­ Dr.Rosensaft' s husband is Josef Rosensaft,chairman of iting Bitburg.

EIR May 14, 1985 Investigation 53 �ilillNational

The SDl's fo es gather momentum in Wa shington

by Leo Scanlon

At the end of April, the enemies of the Strategic Defense were the rationale for the very serious attack on the defense Initiative in Washington began a legislative and publicity budget, including SDI funding , which dominated the legis­ offensive which aims to usurp Defense Department control lature throughout the week of April 29. of the SDI and gut the program's directed-energy research, Les Aspin (D-Wisc.), chairman of the House Armed now on the verge of major breakthroughs. The Reagan Services Committee , opened the defense budget debate by administration, reeling under the most intense Soviet propa­ boasting that the Democrats had forced the Reagan adminis­ ganda offensive in years , and having squandered political tration to accept a defense spending increase of only 3%, resources in its Nicaragua lobbying campaign, has yet to lower than the 4% proposed by candidate Walter Mondale respond to this frontal assault on the heart of the defense and rejected overwhelmingly by the electorate ! Had Aspin budget. waited until the end of the legislative session on May 3, he The attack on the SDI program was signaled by the intro­ would have had a much bigger laugh at the expense of the duction of legislation by a bipartisan group of senators (see administration , as Republican senators introduced and ap­ EIR , April 30, 1985 , page 60) which called for the suppres­ proved a resolution limiting defense spending to zero in­ sion of the elements of the SDI research program which crease in FY 1986 ! involve directed-energy research. In addition, the bill pro­ The "freeze" amendment was introduced in the course of poses congressional control over the program. debate on the budget resolution, and given support by Senate Speaking for the arms-control mafia, Adm. Stansfield Republicans, including Robert Dole. Caspar Weinberger Turner, former chief of the CIA, declared, "We should bar­ lobbied against the passage of the amendment, reminding gain away at Geneva right now the right to deploy an SDI to Senators that defense cutbacks would force closing of instal­ defend ICBMs ....We ought to be able to get something lations in their states. His warnings were highlighted by the for nothing, in effect." Assuredly, "something for nothing" layoff of 3,100 shipyard workers at General Dynamics is what the United States will get under these circumstances, facilities. the "something" being the imminent deployment of Soviet Weinberger's failure in this effort is due primarily to the SS-24 and SS-25 missiles. domestic austerity measures which the administration has Britain's International Institute of Strategic Studies (IlSS) otherwise made the centerpiece of its budget. As the General also produced a report carrying a similar theme, labeling the Dynamics layoffs illustrate , there is no room in the collapsed SDI "destabilizing to the arms-control process," and MAD­ economy for any parliamentary bargaining. Faced with de­ men Clark Clifford and Robert McNamara were brought mands for social security cuts, etc., the Congress is being before congressional committees to warnof the danger posed stampeded in a predictable fashion, and is holding the defense by the program. budget hostage. These various sophistries, which could have been pre­ The administration, for its part , has failed to rally any sented on behalf of the Soviet negotiating position at Geneva, effective response to the Congress. In the week leading into

54 National EIR May 14, 1985 the budget debate, President Reagan directed his energies at ogy Assessment (which recently authored a scientificallyin­ the biggest lobbying campaign ever undertakenby the admin­ competent attack on the program) should take over manage­ istration-on behalf of aid to the Contra forces in Nicaragua. ment review. In addition to the nonnal variety of staged political events, Lt. -General James Abrahamson, directorof the program, Reagan cajoled and threatened the Congress, and brought a was quick to point out that the proposal itself is illegal, as it veritable galaxy of international political figures, military is theresponsibility of the Defense Departmentto direct such leaders , World War II resistance figures, and others into programs, not the Congress. The Pentagon then scheduled a Washington. Congress handed him a humiliating defeat. background briefing to respond to the other charges made in In reaction, President Reagan announced from Bonn that the report. he would use emergency powers to embargo trade with Nic­ Thisbriefing became the stage for a petty power play by aragua-thus committing one of his most powerful weapons a group of Pentagonreporters who demanded that the briefing to a fight which the Soviets consider, and he ought to consid­ go "on the record," thereby forcing the Pentagon to engage er, a secondary battle. in a "pissing contest" with Warnke and legitimize congres­ Dobrynin's boys at the Soviet embassy, arguably the sional claims to oversight of the program. The bickering most effective lobbyists on Capitol Hill, had hardly stopped continued until a public affairs officer told the reporters, laughing before the administration further compounded the "There's the door if you don't like it," at which time reporters problem by seeming to say that the SOl was "on the back forUPI, the Washington Times, and others, leftthe room in burner" for thetime being, refusing to indicate what rolethe a pique. SOl would play in the President's discussions in Bonn. Rich­ SOl officials went on to refute the premises of the CEP ard Burt, for his part, went so far as to say that it would not report, indicating that the spending for the SOl is proceeding be a priority of the administration in the discussions. The at a pace greaterthan for any comparable defense program, depth of the retreat was indicated by a speech given by De­ having obligated 50% of FY85 funds, against the nonn of fense Department hardliner Richard Perle, who outlined the 30-40%, and expended 9% of that, against a nonn of 5-7% administration's strategic defense program, and omitted for other serviceprograms. mention of the SOl until questioned from the floor! The structure of the research program is such that the national labs, not the industry teams, are leading the actual Now the SDI ... research proposals, and it is in the interest of the industry The stage had been set for the next phase of attack on the teamsto producet he best and cheapestproposal for produc­ SOl, which took place in the House Armed Services Com­ tion. Therefore, oversight is built into the program, and there mittee . A subcommittee staff brought in a proposal, subse­ is no room for pork-barrelling as alleged by Warnke and quently approved, which cut $1.2 billion of the $3.7 billion Garwin. requested for the SOl by the administration, cuts aimed pri­ Finally, the breakthroughs imminent were enumerated: marily at the ASAT program, allegedly because these tests • Sensors: Large, light-weight mirrors, 10 times larger bring the ABM treaty into question. than previous mirrors, have been successfully constructed; Other actions by the Congress, and responses by the rapidfab rication techniques have also been developed. High­ Pentagon, indicate that the attack against ASAT testing will perfonnancesignal-processors , 5-10 times faster than current be repeated with increasing ferocity as each element of a technology, has been successfullytested , and been designed layered defense system is broughtinto the experimental phase. to reconfigure if hit in battle. Infonnationrevealed by SOl officials shows that Soviet anx­ • Laser/directedenergy: There has been successful load­ iety over the progress of the SOl, in spite of the congressional ing of large-aperture , multimirror segmented-focusing sys­ roadblocks, is well founded. Furthennore, one high-level tems on theground-crucial to future space basing of laser/ administration official has indicated that the program will, mirror systems. within three years, demonstrate a shoot-downby laserof an • Kinetic energy: Electromagnetic launchers have ac­ ICBM in flightfrom adistance of 6,000 kilometers. celerated plasmoids to velocities in excess of 10 kilometers Paul Warnke, fonner Carterarms-control negotiator, and per second, a significant breakthrough, and rapid-fire tech­ IBM scientist Richard Garwin signaled the strategyto be used niques with larger-mass projectiles have brought velocities to crush the program with a report issued by the Council on up to the maximum attainable with chemical propulsion. Economic Priorities. Warnke and Garwin used FOIA infor­ Electricalcomponents have been ground-tested to withstand mation garnered from the Pentagon and other sources to accelerations of over 100,000 Gs. fabricate the following lies: The SOlO is not spending the President Reagan, who used emergency powers on the money authorized by Congressfor the prograrn; the SOlO is diversionary Nicaragua issue, now faces a situation in which concentrating on conventional missile technologies and not congressional behavior poses a severe threat to national se­ directed-energy research( !); and, the industriesreceiving the curity;he should use those powers to declare the SOl a crash contracts have control over the direction of the program. program, and thecore of an emergency mobilization to revive They then propose that the congressional Office of Technol- America's entire economy.

EIR May 14, 1985 National 55 referred to forms of Gnostic heresy, anti-rational, mystical cult movements which, he expressed the hope, would trigger an "evangelical revival" against the Soviet state. Alarmingly, in his brief speechto the attendees, President Reagan echoed this deluded line that Russian Orthodox religious ferment is Can irrationalism a force for freedom in Russia-a notion which plays directly into the hands of the "Third Rome" imperial objective of promote democracy? current, close collaboration between Russian Orthodox and Politburo leaderships. The basic fallacy underlying the conference's cynical by Nicholas Benton outlook is the notion that the interests of democracy-against the Soviet state, for example-are advanced by the promo­ George Shultz has the U. S. State Department "playing God" tion of an irrationalist appeal to the spiritual needs of the again, and the results promise to be as disastrous as the individual. department's legendary Khomeini fiasco. Boston University'S Peter Berger articulated this view in "In the early years of the 20th century, fashionable opin­ his remarks on the opening panel, saying that "basic human ion probably would have dismissed the idea that the latter rights" have to accompany economic progress to make any­ decades of this century would be a time of religious revival . one "happy"-something, he says, the strictly materialist, The conventional wisdom of the time was that this modem atheist Soviets don't understand. ''Two calculi have to be age of reason and science could hold little room for something figuredinto everything someone does," he said. "The firstis as supposedly irrational as religious faith," Shultz quipped in to reduce pain and increase well-being. The second is mean­ opening remarks to a controversial "Conference on Religious ing, which is associated with respect for religious values." Liberty" officially co-sponsored by and held at the State Berger argued that modernization "alienates" man through Department on April 15 and 16. Over 200 religious leaders greater abstraction, anonymity, and remoteness, and that the attended. Co-sponsors included the Institute on Religion and effects of this are mitigated through "mediating structures" Democracy, the Foundation for Democratic Education, the of which religion becomes the most important. American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, By setting man's need for such a "mediating structure" the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame, and the National against the source of his "alienation," i.e. the Soviet state, Association of Evangelicals. the latter can be undermined. The conference was further proof that the rise of irration­ EIR chose to throw a monkey-wrench into this reasoning: alist ferment in fundamentalist religious garb is no accident Why should one not assume that the Soviets themselves have of history. The State Department itself has been a major figured this out, and are promulgating religious ferment player, and the Khomeini fiasco in Iran has clearly taught themselves for their own ends-in Russia, and in the United them nothing. In that case, it was Ramsey Clark, as an official States against the U.S. government(this is in fact going on)? plenipotentiary of the Carter administration, who led the way Panelists chose to overlook the annoying question. However, in producing Muslim fundamentalism's takeover. And now, spokesmen for various Soviet-watch organizations then be­ despite a confession of failure in Shultz's bitter opening­ gan to point at the interface between the Soviet Politburo and remarks denunciation of Khomeini (whom the Russians, aft­ the Russian Orthodoxpatriarchate . er all, now control), the conference was a landmark in U.S. The relationship between heteronomic irrationalism in governmentinvolvement in the promotion of religious move­ individual identity and the promotion of tyranny has been ments for political objectives. known since Plato. In a negative form, it was the basis for "Religion remains a powerful force," Shultz said. "We Hobbes' notion of the tyrannical implications of a society will have to leave to future historians the full explanation of based on "each against all." Or, as the Federalist Papers this resurgence of faith in the modem age . Perhaps the social stress, democracy is based in the promulgation of reason as dislocations of an era of progress have strained people's inner the instrument of justice and morality. Ignorance, irration­ resources ....Wha tever the cause, the new vitality of reli­ ality, and superstition are the tools of tyranny. If such are gion represents a clear rejection of the modem notion that promoted, not the sovereign democratic state, but tyranny reason and science hold all the solutions to the problems of triumphs. earthly existence . . . or that all the answers to these human Yet, that is what the State Department's conference pro­ problems and needs somehow lie with the state." moted. As Yale University'S Firuz Kasemazadeh quipped, But Shultz does not mean the Judeo-Christian tradition "If you want to really know, on the world scale, Protestant of St. Augustine and others, which shaped the development fundamentalism and Islam are the real games in town for the of Westerncivili zation and laid the foundation for the modem rest of the century. " Yes, Mr. Kasemazadeh, but games no form of sovereign, republiCan nation-state. Rather, Shultz republican nation-state can win.

56 National EIR May 14, 1985 Walker, speaking at a conference on organized crime, lev­ eled serious charges against the Bank of Boston, such as laundering narcotics money. . . . "The scandal grew, however, when the Bank of Boston surprisingly fixed up its problem with the payment of a Dope bankers' Weld $500,000 fine, which freed them of further responsibility: a 'gentlemen's agreement' swornbetween bank executives and U.S. Attorney William Weld, who, the press found convinc­ blasted in Mexico ing evidence, had received major contributions for his polit­ ical campaign in 1978, when he ran for Massachusetts state A columnist for Mexico City'S largest daily newspaper, Ex­ attorney-general, the post [sic] which served him as a step­ celsior. has written that the U . S. Attorneyfor Massachusetts, ping-stone to his present one .... William Weld, is "a friend-perhaps partner-of the inter­ "William C. Mercer, honorary director, and Peter M. national narcotics mafia." The April 30 column by Jose Luis Whitman, senior vice-president of First National Bank of Mejias, entitled, "The Untouchables," charged Weld with Boston, contributed generously to Weld's 1978 electoral covering up for dope-money laundering by the Bank of Bos­ campaign .... Debts of friendship and politics bind the ton, and appeared only days afterWeld , previouslycharged present U.S. Attorney with the directors of the bank accused by EIR with being a front-man for dope-money bankers, had of participating in narcotics traffic's financialmovements . asked aU. S. Court in Massachusetts to impose a total of "Thus, when the gentleman's agreement by which the $600,000 in new finesagainst the National Democratic Pol­ bank was freed of all guilt with a fine of half a million dollars icy Committee, the Fusion Energy Foundation, and two pub­ was made public, both the Senate and the House of Repre­ lishing and distribution companies operated by associates of sentatives announced they would investigate this shameful Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. , arguing that they failed to respond case, since there was already a sworn affidavit written in to grand jury subpoenas. 1983 by an FBI agent that the so-often mentioned Bank of Weld, of all people, accuses these organizations of "fi­ Boston had strong links with organized crime through Jerry nancial irregularities." He has already succeeded in having a Anguilo, one of the kings of the 'needle mob.' It seems that Boston judge impose $280,000 in fines on the organiza­ 'Yeld committed himself to withholding or keeping hidden tions-neglecting to mention that he never had the subpoenas that sworndec laration. served! Weld has otherwise been pursuing the "financial ir­ "Other sources have brought to light incriminatory facts regularities" charges against the campaign organizations of showing close relations between U.S. Attorney Weld and former Presidential candidate LaRouche. Edgar Bronfman, a mafioso lodged in the Seagrams firm, Observers, in the United States and now, Mexico, will who also generously contributed to the former's electoral note that this totals more than Weld saw fitto levy ($500,000) campaign, as part of a conspiracy to bring into the attorney against the Bank of Boston, which admitted guilt in launder­ general's post a friend-perhaps partner-of the internation­ ing $1 .2 billion in dirty money. al narcotics mafia." Weld began attacking LaRouche and his associates im­ Whose irregularities? mediately after the U.S. presidential elections, part of a "What you will read below is a summary, a digest of what broader campaign which saw banks seize campaign ac­ the U.S. press published this past February and March about counts, cancel credit-card privileges, and so on. Weld spear­ a scandal caused by one of the biggest and oldest Boston headed the "legal" side of this financialwarfare by launching banks, which was accused of laundering drug money, fined a well publicized "investigation of financialirregularities"­ for it and is currently under investigation by that country's for which he admittedly had no evidence or grounds Congress, since there are indications that the bank's criminal whatsoever. activities go far beyond money-laundering," Jose Luis Me­ LaRouche had devoted much television-time during his jias told his Excelsior readers of April30. "Wire services and campaign to attacks on the dope-linked bankers and allied the Mexican press have given little or no attention to it, in criminal elements in the Justice Department and FBI. contrast to what the U.S. press does with Mexican scandals: Attorneys for LaRouche have filed a formal complaint published and magnifiedall over the American Union, if not with AttorneyGeneral Ed Meese charging Weld, whose fam­ all over the world. ily fortune comes from the Swiss-centered international "The First National Bank of Boston has been convicted banking nexus most tainted by drug-money laundering, with of having laundered $1.22 billion during a four-year period "conflict ofinterest ." The same point has now been made in ( 1980- 1984). There are indications that the bank's criminal Excelsior: If the United States is serious in the war on drugs, activities go far beyond money-laundering .... it will clean such "untouchables" as Weld out of the justice "Last February, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, John apparatus.

EIR May 14, 1985 National 57 KGB moles target Lyndon LaRouche at Brookings Institute conference

In May 1983, at a meeting of top agents of the Soviet govern­ firehad beenheard" coming from that vicinity. ment with the U.S. "peace movement" in Minneapolis, Min­ Rees's outburst against LaRouche, which shocked many nesota, an obscure Washington journalist working for the of the 35 participantsat the Brookings Institution forum, was John Birch Society, named John Rees, was carrying out the no mere slip. Informed sources close to the Department of task of providing a special kind of security for the meeting. Justice report that Rees, together with socialist Irwin Suall, With 25 Soviet agents, including KGB General Mikhail Mil­ director of the Fact Finding section of the Anti-Defamation shtein, Literaturnaya Gazeta's Fyodor Burlatskii,: and oth­ League (�DL), and other collaborators in the press such as ers, meeting under the auspices of the Hut>ert H. Humphrey . NBC and the Washington Post, have been pressuring the Institute together with an equal number of leading members Department of Justice and the FBI to run a "cointelpro" of the U.S. based "nuclear freeze" and "peace" movement, operation and criminal investigation of LaRouche and asso­ one of the critical jobs was to ensure that the real story of ciated organizations. what transpired between the KGB and the U.S. Democratic The model for Rees's proposed gameplan against La­ Party, which was deeply involved in this meeting, was kept Rouche is the series of shootouts between members of the out of circulation. According to eyewitness accounts, that Nazi fringe groups, The Order, and the Aryan Nation, with job was handled by John Rees. agents of federal law�enforcement agencies. Behind the Rees's task at the Minneapolis meeting was doubly im­ scenes, Rees and Suall have been illegally attempting to portant for KGB operations in the United States. First, at this pressure the FBI and Justice Department into listing La­ meeting, the KGB firstlaunched its international campaign Rouche among "right-wing" terrorists. against President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SOl), Through the ADL, the Israeli Mossad is engaged in train­ which had just been announced on March 23, 1983. Second­ ing special-operations assault teams within the United States ly, the Minneapolis meeting proved that FBI Director Wil­ Marshals Service and the FBI. Over the last year, these spe­ liam Webster was deliberately covering up for the KGB. A cial units have been involved in several sensational shootouts month before, in April 1983, despite irrefutable proof that with members of neo-Nazi and other right-wing groups, usu­ the KGB was building the "peace movement" in Europe as a ally resulting in the death of the group member. terrorist capability against the United States, Webster had What the FBI knows and is covering up, is that Irwin told the U.S. Congress that there was "absolutely" no evi­ Suall himself finances agents-provocateur inside the right dence of Soviet control over the "nuclear freeze" or peace wing, the Ku Klux Klan, and Nazi fringe groups. In some movement in the United States cases, it has been paid ADL agents who helped to set up the On April 22, 1985, the coverup of KGB operations was violent confrontations leading to injuries or deaths of law­ escalated when a gang of Anglo-Soviet agents linked to the enforcement agents. There have also been cases where state Heritage Foundation, gathered at the Brookings Institution law enforcement agencies, such as Missouri, had to withdraw for a conference on ''Terrorism, Psychological Warfare and official reports when information provided by the ADL, for Propaganda," and openly targeted for assassination Lyndon example, on LaRouche, turned out to be false, culled from H. LaRouche, Jr. , the leading expert on Soviet terrorism, Suall's "enemies list." and the acknowledged architect of President Reagan's SDI. The spokesman for the targeting of LaRouche was the Terrorists control the conference same John Rees who deployed in Minneapolis for the State As the following dossiers show, some of the major targets Department, the FBI, and British intelligence services to of the U . S. governmentin investigating terrorism and Soviet protect the KGB . In his speech, Rees said that the "[U.S. disinformation should be the Brookings conference partici­ Bureau of] Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" should "raid" pants themselves. the estate of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. in Loudoun County, Most of the major participants at the April 22 conference Virginia "because the Washington Post reported that mortar (Michael Ledeen of the Center on Strategic and International

58 National EIR May 14, 1985 Studies; John Rees; Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor of the O'Connell), became low-level left-infiltration agents for the Washington Times; Irwin Suall; Herbert Rommerstein; Gen. D.C. Police Department, according to his accounts. Louise Robert Richardson of High Frontier; Joel Lisker, an aide to Rees infiltrated the Institute for Policy Studies, one of the Sen. Jeremiah Denton; Charles Lichtenstein of the Heritage Socialist Internationaland KGB's intelligence windows and Foundation; and the notorious Committee for Accuracy in operational centers in Washington. Middle East Reporting in America-CAMERA) serve the Today, Rees is a close collaborator against LaRouche interests of the KGB through primary associations with either with the ADL, the dope lobby associated with the terrorist­ British intelligence and its fronts such as the Heritage Foun­ linked High Times magazine, and the Washington Post. His dation, or with Israeli intelligence, the Mossad. Both of these business partners in the overpriced eight-page newsletter, foreign intelligence institutions enjoy a privileged relation­ Early Warning, include British intelligence operatives Rob­ ship with the U.S. State Department and other government ert Moss and Arnaudde Borchgrave. agencies and departments because of the administration's Michael Ledeen: Currently an adviser to the State and failure to grasp the strategic doublecross being carried out by Defense Departments on terrorism, Ledeen poses a signifi­ the British and the Israelis against the United States. cant security threat to the United States through his close CAMERA: The most egregious case of outright terrorist association with New Republic, the magazine founded by a involvement by the organizers of the conference is the so­ family of Soviet agents close to KGB Col. H. Kim Philby. called Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in Ledeen's wife, Barbara, who also is close to New Republic, America, headed by one Winifred Meiselman, and William is a controller of the Temple Mount project-the plan to Perl. Perl is connected to the terrorist Jewish Defense League rebuild the Temple of Solomon on the current site of the Al in the Washington area, both directly through JDL members, Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The Temple Mount project is the and through Rabbi Kranz of Maryland, a JDL protector. As brainwashing belief structure for Jewish fundamentalists in­ is well known to Washington, D.C. law enforcement, Perl's volved in Kahane's Kach Party, and with the terrorist training name figuredprominently in a series of mid-1970s JDL rifle center, Aretet Cohanim yeshiva. This yeshiva was founded attacks on Washington embassies. . by Mattityahu Dan, a suspected agent of Ariel Sharon and The JDL has been one of the ADL's covert terrorist ca­ RafiEytan 's Terror Against Terror assassins unit. pabilities, and its leader, Meir Kahane, now in Israel, has While posturing as an "expert" on Italian terrorism, Le­ been linked to the terrorist actions of the Isr.. eli JDL affiliate, deen was labeled persona non grata by Italian intelligence the Kach Party. agencies afterreports he was hired to produce were found to John Rees: Rees operates around Washington under a cover up key information about the . Italian left and right variety of covers: The Mid-Atlantic Research Institute, Early terrorists. Warning, the John Birch Society'S News of the Week, and In the context of the gravest security danger to President Information Digest. As indicated above, Rees is closely as­ Reagan since his election in 1980, the purging of these Soviet sociated with the FBI, for which he functions to provide assets fromanti-terrorist efforts is critical to ending the blind­ disinformation on KGB operations. ing of U.S. intelligence. For anyone who doubts that the The British-bornRees worked in the 1940s-early '50s for British and Israeli "special relationship" is a major Soviet the British Royal Air Force's Special Investigations unit, weapon against the United States, just consider two of the before coming to the United States in 1963. After some lack latest steps in the Soviet campaign to break West Germany of success as aU. S. intelligence stringer, during which time out of NATO: a liaison with Peyton Place author Grace Metalious resulted • On May 2, the London InternationalInstitute for Stra­ in a dispute over her estate, Rees got involved with black tegic Studies released its annual strategic report, this time on nationalist groups in Harlem. the subject of Reagan's SDI. Echoing the statements of Lord In 1968, Rees founded National Goals, a vehicle through Carrington, Secretary General of NATO, as well as of the which he and his associate Herbert Rommerstein attempted Soviet leadership, the IISS said the SOl program ." ..could to secure Justice Department funding for black vigilante (pol­ damage [world] stability rather than strengthen it." This doc­ itely termed "community police forces") groups in Newark, ument, released at the moment of President Reagan's Euro­ New Jersey. One of Rees' s choices for governmentfunding pean trip, is designed to give a Western boost to Soviet was Imamu Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones), a leader of the 1967 disinformation. race riots in Newark. The mediator for Rees's offer to Bar­ • Throughout April, Israeli intelligence utilized assets aka, who calls himself a "revolutionary follower of Marxist­ in the United States on behalf of the KGB to smear President Leninist-Mao Zedong thought," was Kamil Wadud, leader Reagan as "anti-Semitic" because of his plan to visit a Ger­ of the Sunni Muslim sect in Newark who later helped form man military cemetery at Bitburg. While Soviet frontgroups the HanafiMuslim sect which took part in terrorismin Wash­ run the propaganda, the Israeli intelligence-linked Terror ington. D.C. Against Terror murderers are one of the greatest dangers to In 1971, Rees and his wife, Louise Rees (a.k.a. Sheila President Reagan's safety.

EIR May 14, 1985 National 59 Congressional Closeup by Kathleen Klenetsky

during hearings of the House Foreign Hollings stuns liberals, Affairs Subcommittee on Arms Con­ Reagan budget endorses SDI spending trol, chaired by Rep. Dante Fascell compromise unravelling Senator Ernest (Fritz) Hollings (D­ (D-Fla.). The Reagan administration's budget­ S.e.) stunned a gathering of 200 lib­ Clifford set the tenor by announc­ cutting compromise began to unravel eral Democrats on Capitol Hill on May ing: "The Russians are no more inter­ almost as soon as it hit theSenate floor. 2 with a wholehearted endorsement of ested in stopping the SOl than I am­ Overturning a Senate-White House full funding for the Strategic Defense and I will do everything in my power compromise passed April 30 for a 3% Initiative. to stop it." (after-inflation)hike in defense spend­ The fonner Democratic presiden­ He then proceeded to demand a ing, the Republican-controlled body tial candidate said he had come to his freeze on the SOl budget at the paltry on May 2 voted up an amendment that decision after Lt.-Gen. James Abra­ $1.4 billion level allocated by Con­ will reduce the real defense spending hamson, head of the Strategic Defense gress in 1985. He dismissed the idea increase in the FY 1986 budget to Initiative Office. spoke before his Ap­ that the Soviets have embarked on an zero. propriations subcommittee on April aggressive SOl effort of their own, The amendment, sponsored by 24. saying their massive program is "lim­ Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Hollings told his Democratic col­ ited" and "provides no rationale for a passed by a voice vote after an attempt leagues that Abrahamson had dis­ trillion-dollar investment in folly on led by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) closed shocking infonnation on the our part." to table the measure was defeated 51- Soviet military buildup, that the So­ McNamara, whose military ex­ 48. Even Secretary of Defense Wein­ viets are out-investing the U.S. lO-to- pertise was displayed in Vietnam, used berger's personal lobbying off the 1 in SOl-related technology and have a slightly different tack, claiming that Senate floor failed to defeat the Gras­ already tested 18 killer satellites. "We the administration itself is split on the sley measure. are playing catch-up," said Hollings. SDl's goals, citing statements by Paul Budget resolutions are often vio­ Hollings cited these revelations as Nitze and Max Kampelman as lated by votes on individual weapons the reason that he has decided to evidence. systems, but the Senate's action means wholeheartedly support the adminis­ Two "alternative programs," "Star that the MX and SOl, in particular, tration's $3.4 billion request for the Wars I and Star Wars II," currently face near-certain gouging as the budg­ "1O-fold multi-faceted [SOl] ap­ exist, he said, claiming that only Pres­ et process unfolds over coming proach necessary for us." ident Reagan and Secretary of De­ months. His endorsement of full funding is fense Weinberger still believe in the Defense isn't the only part of the particularly significant because he has former, expressed in Reagan's origi­ Reagan budget compromise which the repeatedly proposed an across-the­ nal March 23, 1983 proposal for a uni­ Senate has tom up. On May 1, it voted board budget freeze. versal defense against nuclear attack, 65-34 to eliminate a'proposed cap on The senator made his remarks to while "virtuallyeveryone else associ­ Social Security cost-of-living adjust­ an all-day policy seminar organized ated with the SOl now recognizes that ments, which administration spokes­ by liberal Colorado Congressman Tim such leak-proof defense, should it ever men, and the President himself, had Wirth, who was left speechless by the prove feasible, is so far in the future contended was an integral element of pro-SOl remarks. that it offers no solution to our present the $52 billion-dollar package of cuts. dilemma." Nineteen Republicans, including Rep. Dante Fascell, chainnan of 11 of the 22 up for reelection in 1986, the full committee and a leading foe voted to drop the provision, as did all of the SOl, has been holding a series Democrats , with the exception of Sen. McNamara, Clifford blast of hearings on the beam-defense pro­ John C. Stennis (D-Miss.). Majority SDI at Fascell bearings gram and anti-satellite weapons in or­ Leader Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) is Former defense secretaries Clark Clif­ der to establish an anti-SOl climate now proposinga new compromise, fa­ ford and Robert McNamara issued prior to congressional votes on the vored by SOme Democrats, for a one­ venomous and lying attacks on the SOl controversial program. year Social Security freeze.

60 National ElK May 14, 1985 with the United States on the imme­ analyzing "criticaltrends and alterna­ Metzenbaum: pro-Israel diate application of laser technology tive futures" in such areas as demog­ and anti-SDI at once? to the defense against ground-to­ raphy, economics, technology, and the Senator Howard Metzenbaum's per­ ground SS-21 missiles, for example. environment. fervid opposition. to the Reagan An Israeli military commentator also Sen. AlbertGore (D-Tenn.) is the administration's Strategic Defense stressed that the SOl is the only avail­ bill's main sponsor, a Malthusian "fu­ Initiative may soon propel him into a able military option to the nation, not turology" kook, which came through head-on political collision with an un­ only because nuclear war in the Mid­ loud and clear in testimony Gore de­ expected adversary-Israel. dle East would mean Israel's destruc­ livered on April 30 during hearings The Ohio Democrat is known as tion-its enemies have greater terri­ held by Sen. CharlesMathias (R-Md.), one of the most outspoken members torial depth-but because a conven­ another Malthusian. of the Israeli Lobby on Capitol Hill. tional military buildup would destroy Gore noted, "We often lurch from Most recently, Metzenbaum led. the Israel economically. one crisisto another," specificallyci t­ charge in the U. S. Senate against Metzenbaum's office has refused ing the tremendous shiftin energy de­ President Reagan's visit to Bitburg to comment. But an aide to Sen. John mand duringthe 1970s which sent the Cemetery in West Germany, express­ Chafee (R-R.I.), a sponsor of the "Al­ U.S. "reeling by having to pay for nu­ ing great outrage over this alleged in­ ternative SOl" bill, became unhinged clear power plants we no longer sult to the Jewish people. when it was suggested to her that the needed." Metzenbaum has also emerged as measure would threaten the lives of 3 Gore thus used the energy crisis­ one of the more vocal and persistent million Israeli Jews, under the gun manufactured by the elite Malthusian critics of the beam-defense program, from Soviet-supplied SS-21 missiles circles in which he moves-as a way charging that it would serve only to in Syria. of dramatizing his contention that the destabilize the international strategic "You can't accuse Senator Cha­ world is running out of all critical re­ situation, drain resources from other fee, or Bumpers, or Proxmire-Ma­ sources, and government should be­ areas of the economy, etc. thias, admittedly, may be a different gin to take on the role of principal His office told EIR in early May story-4lf being soft on the question conserver and distributor of what that the Senator will seek deep cuts in of security for Israel," said the aide, remains. the SOl budget, and that he is now who helped draft the bill. "Israel Gore insisted in his testimony that deciding on whether to sign on to the doesn't need laser and optics technol­ his bill "would not constitute govern­ Proxmire-Chafee-Bumpers "Alterna­ ogy against the boost-phase of these ment by commission . . . would not tive SOl Budget," or to back the even missiles, it just needs conventional usurppowers from any federal agen­ more radical proposal sponsored by technology. " cy ," and "would not be a method to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), which invoke centralized planning into the calls for freezin� the SOl allocation at federal government"-the louder be­ the present paltry $1.4 billion. cause it would do all three. Metzenbaum has had no difficulty According to Capitol Hill sources, acting pro-Israel and anti-SOl-until Senator Gore proposes Gore sees the legislation as a method now. But Israel has responded enthu­ 'global foresight' office of enhancing the influence and author­ siastically to a U.S. invitation to par­ A bill to set up a "global foresight" ity of the "limits-to-growth" crowd ticipate in the program. capability within the U.S. govern­ within the government, and believes The authoritative Jerusalem Post ment was introduced in the Senate on thathis "criticaltrends offi ce," through recently reported that the Israeli gov­ April30. its regularreports and other activities, ernment is fully in favor of the SDI. Entitled the "Critical Trends As­ would be able to effectively steer na­ The Post emphasized the economic sessment Act, " the legislation propos­ tional economic policy in a zero­ and industrial as well as military ben­ es the creation of an "Officeof Critical growth direction by issuing a stream efits that would accrue to Israel were Trends Analysis" within the executive of data "proving" that resource short­ she to join with the U.S. in developing office of the President. It would pre­ ages make further economic develop­ SOl technology. Israel is holding talks pare regular reports identifying and ment impossible.

EIR May 14, 1985 National 61 National News

ment may also be related to the impact of also a victim of the Nazis," the Justice De­ the Schiller Institute, led by Helga Zepp­ partment will "pursue this person as a war LaRouche, among churches in the District criminal ." Meese grilled on of Columbia since January, when 10,000 Another Washington insider claims that people, mostly from churches, participated an amendment to the U.S. Immigration and his anti-drug fight in a Schiller Institute-led march on Martin Naturalization Act, sponsored by former Attorney General Ed Meese stiffened slight- Luther King's birthday. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, could 1y and rocked forward when EIR reporter Massive harassment, including church be used against former Jewish kapos . "The Nick Benton confronted him in front of 500 firebombings, has occurredsince then to curb act is aimed against those who committed delegates to the national convention of the the growing ferment . Jesse Jackson has even acts against others in the camps, for reasons U.S. Chamber of Commerce on April 29 been hauled into town . But the devastated of race , religion , and other selecti ve criteria. concerning the status of his War on Drugs D. C. population is in a state of simmering If Jews committed such acts, " he said, "they efforts against the banks and financial insti­ revolt against the drug scourge, and with the would be as liable as any other Nazi war tutions laundering billions in drug money . help of the Schiller Institute, they are begin­ criminal." It was the mention, specifically, of the ning to wake up to the "whos" and "hows" recent raid against the offices of Shearson­ of who is running the dope trade . At an anti­ Amex in Philadelphia, that caused him to crime community meeting early in May, a flinch. However, the reference to this, the Schiller spokesman signed up over 60 prom­ Bank of Boston case, the 40 banks under inent citizens for a march against the Inter­ TFP cult infiltrates official investigation, and other cases did national Monetary Fund and related finan­ not deter Meese from quickly regaining his cial networks that are fostering the drug Reagan administration composure and outlining the programs he plague. A former adviser to President Reagan is has undertaken to go after the drug trade . Could this explain Billy Graham 's sud­ working closely with Tradition, Family, and He cited the new powers granted under den decision to come to Washington, and Property (TFP), the terrorist cult that has the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of work with Dr . Ernest Gibson , an arch-ene­ been implicated in plots against Pope John 1984 to go after laundering, and how those my of the Schiller Institute, to draw the at­ Paul II. Morton Blackwell, who spent the can now be used to seize all the assets and tention and energies of the area churches first three years of the Reagan administra­ property of guilty institutions. He also said away from the war on drugs, and in support tion as project officer of the White House that there is now much more cooperation of Graham 's new "nuclear freeze" and re­ working group on Central America, and was coming from governments offshore and lated sympathies? co-author of the President's voluntary pray­ overseas to open up previously hidden ac­ er amendment , was the guest of honor at a counts to scrutiny from the United States . TFP dinner held at the Foundation for Chris­ Meese was very forceful in asserting that tian Civilization in Bedford, N.Y. earlier "there are no neutrals in the War on Drugs . " this year . The only troubling aspect of his remarks was Justice Department The TFP was expelled from Venezuela that he made no mention of the investiga­ in 1984 for its cult activities, which include tions into laundering until Benton reminded to investigate 'kapos' brainwashing youth and terrorism. The Vat­ him of it. The U.S. Justice Department's Office of ican has officially declared that TFP has no We 'll chalk it up to a memory lapse, Special Investigations (OSI) is "investigat­ proper affiliation with the Catholic Church. pending some major announcements soon ing concentration camp kapos, including According to an article in the TFP's about Justice Department probes into Henry Jews," a Washington , D.C. source has re­ newsletter (Vol . 4, No. II, 1985), Black­ Kissinger's American Express. vealed . The kapos were inmates who collab­ well has set up a new think tank, the Inter­ orated with the Nazis in running the concen­ national Policy Forum. TFP founder and cult tration camps . leader Plinio Correa de Olivera is on the IPF "To the extent a person is defined as a board of governors . Nazi war criminal, if that person committed Blackwell first attended an American Billy Graham will atrocities in the camps , despite ethnic back­ TFP event in the fall of 1981, the article ground, including Jews who were Nazi war reports, and "American TFP has come to 'crusade' in D.C. criminals, that person can be investigated ," appreciate his well-founded opinions and Why did evangelist Billy Graham announce the source noted . timely advice and was so pleased to invite that he is coming to Washington, D. C. for a "I do know of cases of Jewish kapos in Mr. Blackwell to once again address mem­ crusade? Some would contend that now that the United States .... The law makes no bers and supporters during his weekend visit he's been to Moscow to get his marching distinction between Nazis and Nazi collab­ last February . . . . orders, Billy is coming to this nation's cap­ orators . To the extent a Jewish kapo was a "Mr. Blackwell wrote that in his three ital to carry those orders out. collaborator of the Nazis, taking into ac­ years with the Reagan administration, he However, the timing of the aanounce- count that individual 's claim that he was had been able to observe the TFP firsthand,

62 National EIR May 14, 1985 Briefly

that the TFP members had always acted with Anderson of Selma, Alabama, who is a na­ • HITLER-LOVER Louis Far­ utmost responsibility, and that the frequent tional leader in the drive of the Schiller In­ rakhan has been offereda $5 million, supportgiven by the TFP in the United States stitute for emergency defense and economic interest-free loan by Libyan dictator had prompted President Reagan to write a measures to save the Western alliance and Muarnmar Qaddafi. The money letter of appreciation in early 1984 to Mr. restore world ecnomic growth. would go to Farrakhan's People Or­ John Spann, president ofthe American TFP." Forces allied with the Schiller Institute ganized and Working for Economic are circulating similar resolutions in 25 Rebirth (POWER). states. Resolutions have been officially in­ troduced in Maryland, Texas, Oklahoma, • SENATOR METZENBAUM and soon will be introduced in Illinois. (D-Ohio) is reported to have held a Warnke: SDI a The two-page Alabama resolution gives private meeting in his Washington, facts and figuresto demonstrate the current D.C. officethe week of April29 with big pork barrel world food shortage. and states, "The agri­ Richard Garwin, of IBM and Mas­ Paul Warnke , director of ACDA (Arms culture output potential of the developing sachusetts Instituteof Technology, a Control Disarmament Agency) during the sector nations is being destroyed through the chief antagonist of the Reagan Carteradministrat ion, at a Washington, D. C. International Monetary Fund system." administration's Strategic Defense press conference April 29, demanded "an It calls for vastly increasing food pro­ Initiative. objective, independent review board, to duction in the advanced-sector nations; a oversee the SOl [Strategic Defense stay on all farm foreclosures; a freeze on • A EUTHANASIA accounting Initiative] . " farm debt; the issuance of production credits system for Medicare, put in effect in "What we see happening today is the at 2-4% rates for maximum spring planting 1983-84, is pushing tens of thou­ rapid conversion of the President's 'Star and buildup of meat herds; and government­ sands ofelderly out of hospitals pre­ Wars' proposal from stardust and moon­ to-government foodcommodity trade com­ maturely. Called the Prospective beamsto that greatporkb arrel in the sky. . . . mitments to guarantee cost-of-production Payment System (PPS), it has led to Congressional members with home districts parity prices to farmers. more cancer patients, strokepatien ts, or states with a large financialstake in 'Star The resolution condemns the monopoly and patients who need intravenous Wars' will have an additional incentive to control over international food trade and feeding or breathingtubes in their tra­ vote in favor as funding for the program shipping exercised by "a small number of cheas, being forced home early from increases," Warnke complained. world food cartels privateand family trusts," hospitals, according to Harley Ta­ "This incentive will gain momentum as and states that this "poses a threat to national bak, administrator of the Annaburg pressure from in-built constituencies based and western security by making agreements Manor Nursing Home in northern on jobs and other benefitsbegins to mount. " to guarantee Soviet food stocks while cre­ Virginia. Warnke was addressing a luncheon-press ating food scarcities in the West." conference called to release a new report by • BALTIMORE MAYOR Schaf­ the Council on Economic Priorities, an anti­ er andthe city's financial board were SOl thinktank. urged at a taxpayers' meetingon April 30 to declare a "state of emergency" Philadelphians protest in response to a significant increase in Baltimore's rat population. A rep­ against MOVE cult resentative of the Schiller Institute Alabama legislature: Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson Goode has testified that a health threat is posed come under attack from constituents in the to the city by the rodent infestation, U.S. must dump IMF! West Philadelphia neighborhood where . warningof the possibility of thespread The Alabama state Senate and House of membersof a group involved in a 1978 shoot- ' of epidemics, easily transmitted by Representatives unanimously passed a res­ out that killed a policeman, are terrorizing rats. olution on April II calling on the President residents. At a press conference May I, res­ and the U.S. Congress to "initiate action to idents declared that they could no longer co­ • A ROTHSCHILD family scion, end the International Monetary Fund system exist with members of MOVE , and con­ prior to President Reagan's trip to because of the economic collapse, through demned the mayor for taking no action West Germany, had been telling his a new development-based international against the atavistic group. patrician intimatesthat Reagan should monetary program." The resolution was for­ The complaints center around a series of at all costs go to Bitburg Cemetery . warded to President Reagan and the Ala­ incidents involving MOVE, including three He termed opposition to the Bitburg bama congressional delegation for action. cases of assault, numerous burglaries, "re­ visit by major Jewish organizations Titled "Immediate Actions Related to ligious" harangues by MOVE members over "abominable." Emergency Food Relief to Africa," the res­ a loudspeaker, and health problems caused olution was spearheaded by Rev . Houston by unsanitary living conditions.

EIR May 14, 1985 National 63 Editorial

The Bonn summitfiasco

The only useful thing that came out of the Bonn summit position of support for the one program which could of the seven leading non-communist industrial nations defend the West and drive an actual economic recov­ is something that was not planned-a coordinated war ery , at a moment when the Soviet aim to command the on illegal drugs. It may have been the only issue on Western European economies by a combination of which policy has not already been dictated, and en­ threats and enticements, has never been clearer. forced by blackmail and terror, by the oligarchical fam­ This was a grave setback for President Reagan, and ilies and their supranational political and financial the West. institutions. It was made even worse by the fact that the summit The heads of government of the United States, Ja­ ratified the notion of increased IMF surveillance over pan, Canada, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany , national economies. The IMF and its "moles" in the France , and the United Kingdom met for their annual U.S. Congress and Executive Branch have made cut­ spring "economic summit," a ritual which has been ting the SOl budget to ribbons their foremost priority; going on for a decade, since the Rambouillet debacle the consequence of such "surveillance" will be to wreck of 1975-and punted on many of the key economic and strategic defense. strategic agenda items put before them . The only opening for sanity in economic policy EIR had been warning for well over a month before came about on May 2, after a question from Prime Reagan traveled to Bonn, that the summit was rigged Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain to Mr. and Mrs . by James Baker III , Don Regan , and Paul Volcker to Reagan prompted a one-hour discussion on the issue of sell U.S. and Westernin terests down the river on behalf drug-trafficking , and the heads of government mandat­ of the Wall Street bankers and their Swiss and London­ ed a team of advisers to draw up a plan for joint action. centered allies. Where this might lead was indicated by the executive So, about the best that could have been expected is director of the U. S. President's Commission on Orga­ that the Bonn summiteers would do nothing. On two nized Crime, James D. Harmon . He was quoted on counts , that turnedout to be so: May 3 in the International Herald Tribune saying, • The heads of government didn't agree on open­ "Some international financiers may soon tum into in­ ing new trade talks. That is just as well, given the ternational fugitives." Harmon stressed, "In war time , suicidal bout of U.S. trade war against Japan that was Swiss neutrality may be viewed as morally admirable, unleashed by a bipartisan herd of Congressional hyenas but in the war against the drug trade , neutrality amounts in mid-April , not long before Reagan leftfor Bonn. to complicity. " • They didn't agree on a "new Bretton Woods," Exactly! As we have been pointing out since EIR conference to overhaul the monetary system. That's coined the term "Dope , Inc." in 1978, the global illegal­ just as well, too, because the set-up was for what Trea­ drug "business" run at the top by the wealthiest titled sury Secretary Baker, in a treasonous speech on April families (including the British monarchy), is what grows 17, referred to as "a high-level meeting of the major cancerously when the real , productive economy of in­ industrial countries" to make "improvements in the in­ dustry and agriculture is destroyed . ternational monetary system." What kind of improve­ But as long as government heads keep listening to ments should these be? By Baker's formulation, to the oligarchical families and their servants , such as "strengthen IMF surveillance" over economies, includ­ Baker, no real economic policy will be decided at meet­ ing the U.S. economy ! ings such as Bonn, and the economy will continue its These omissions could have been helpful, if the descent into hell. Until this publication's policies be­ leaders of the Big Seven had not also waffled on the come hegemonic among leaders , the world were better Strategic Defense Initiative, failing to reach a unified off if such summits were banned.

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