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8 Dr. Mario Maldonado 50 Thirty years of collusion 4 Defivatives 'end users' get A physician from Guatemala, Dr. between the ADL and Stasi stuck holding empty bag Maldonado attended the United The communist East German Charles County, Maryland lost its Nations' Preparatory Committee security service found its most entire operating budget for the next sessions for Cairo '94. The willing westernpartners at the Anti­ 45 �ays due to losses on derivatives Guatemalan delegation was sharply Defamation League and Edgar contracts. Similar cases are brewing critical of the malthusian agenda of Bronfman's World Jewish arOli!nd the country. the conference organizers. Congress. Jeffrey Steinberg presents four case studies of the 6 Lal{ouche: Every human 12 Waldemar Michna Stasi/ADL modus operandi. being has the right to Professor Michna is a member of health care the Polish Parliament from the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and a Departments 8 Development, not abortions deputy chairman of the Budget, key to lower maternal Finances, and Banking Committee. 46 Report from Rio deaths Bankers give Lula a new running An interview with Dr. Mario Cuauhtemoc Lopez 43 mate. Maldonado. Sanchez Representative Lopez Sanchez is a 47 Report from Bonn 10 Is abortion reproductive member of the Mexican National Battle is joined for nuclear power. health? Congress for the state of Chiapas , and a former president of the High 72 Editorial Court of Justice of Chiapas. 12 The international financial Man is becoming an endangered bubble could cause great species. damage to Poland 66 Dr. Richard D. Land The executive director of the An interview with Waldemar Christian Life Commission of the Michna. Southern Baptist Convention talks Correction: Our issue of Aug. 5 about his group's mobilization misstated the location of Lyndon 14 Bankers turn screws on against "the view that human babies LaRouche's seminar on the end of R�ssia, Ukraine are a threat to the well-being of any the U.S.-British special society." relationship. It took place at the 16 Trilateral Commission Capitol Hilton Hotel. targets China 66 Daniel R. Heimbach Michael Billington evaluates the An associate professor of Christian commission's report on "An Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Emerging China in a World of Theological Seminary discusses the Intdrdependence. " SouthernBapti sts' opposition to Cairo '94. 18 T�e magical 'purchasing power parity' of the IMF

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38 Time is running out for 60 An appeal to the President: Cairo-maniacs Exonerate LaRouche now! The pressure is building for western More than 400 political, religious, governments to renounce the military, and scientific figures from genocidal agenda of the around the world signed a full-page International Conference on advertisement in the Washington Population and Development. Post, an open letter to President Clinton. 40 Did Boris Pankin have his Rwandan refugees on Lake Kivu, near Goma, Zaire, hand in the till? 62 Was Whitewater switch a Aug. 4, 1994. Formerly the major source of water for the town, the lake has becomebadly polluted since GOP trap? the start of the Rwandan crisis. 41 A strange about-face in Venezuela: Was Colonel 63 'All North's pilots were 24 The British hand behind Chavez brainwashed? drug-runners' the horror in Rwanda New evidence is presented at a David Hammer and Linda de Hoyos 43 'Foreign interests may well press conferente by former senior reveal how British intelligence, be looking toward taking Drug Enforcement Administration officer Celerino Castillo and former operating through the Museveni apart Mexico' regime in Uganda, is manipulating Iran-Contra o rative Terry Reed. An interview with Cuauhtemoc w the entire affair. ! L6pez Sanchez. 64 Southern B"ptists slam 28 RPF is the Ugandan army, Cairo agen�a for 44 U.S. destabilizes Caribbean says expert 'reproductiP.n control' Including interviews with Daniel R. 48 International Intelligence 31 British role still dominant, Heimbach and Dr. Richard D. says banker Land.

32 Operation Support Hope: 68 Congressional Closeup focus on emergency infrastructure 70 National News An eyewitness report by Dean Andromidas amd Michael Liebig. participants in a press tour to the Rwandan refugee camps in Goma, Zaire. '-I �TIillEconomics

Derivatives' end-users' get stuckholding emptyhag

by Anthony K. Wikrent

Just two weeks after the Bank for International Settlements county's short-term budget was effectively wiped out. (BIS) issued new guidelines for derivatives dealers, nine According to county officials, the county now has no mon­ U.S. derivatives dealers were slapped with a lawsuit by ey to pay bills for the next 45 days, and is delaying payments Charles County, Maryland, which has lost its entire operating to local agencies such as the county school boardand the sher­ budget for the next 45 days because of losses on derivatives iff's office. The political ramificationsof the complete insol­ contracts in which the county had invested. vency of an entire county (es(>ecially so close to the nation's Derivatives are contracts whose value is based on the capital) are likely to be dramat,lc, as the U.S. Congress consid­ value of other, underlying contracts; and derivatives dealers ers legislation to regulate financial derivatives. are the commercial and investment banks that create, price, The central legal issue in the Charles County case is a sell, and trade financialderivat ives. The derivatives markets legal doctrine called ultra virts. This doctrine,established at have been unravelling at an accelerating pace since multibil­ the beginning of this century, and affirmedall the way up to lion-dollar losses shatteredItalian conglomerate Ferruzziand the U.S. Supreme Court, holds that parties which conduct German metals firm Metallgeselleschaft in the last quarter business with a governmentJ ntity are obligated to know the of 1993. That these derivatives disasters in Europe created legal authority of that government entity to engage in the shockwaves now being felt in the United States, merely illus­ business being conducted. 1ft the case of Charles County, tratesthe warningsof former BIS director Alexandre Lamfa­ Maryland, state law prescribes that local governments shall lussy and others, beginning in 1992, that derivatives had tied invest only in short-term U,S. government securities that different financial markets in different countries together in enjoy a very liquid market. this was why CharlesCounty 's a way that makes it impossible to foresee the results of an short-term budget was wiped out: Since the county had no apparently isolated default on a derivatives contract. legal authority to buy derivatives in the firstplace, it now has The case of Charles County, however, may represent a no legal authority to sell them. In the meantime, however, new phase-shift in the process of the inevitable, onrushing somebody else now has the county's money, while thecounty collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system, as forecast is left holding somebody else's derivatives. Legal counsel by economist Lyndon LaRouche (see "Early Disintegration of for the county has filedfor injunctive relief, essentially seek­ World Financial Markets," EIR , June 24, 1994). The Charles ing an expedited legal process, to have the county's money County Treasury had invested the county's entire portfolio of returnedto it. $27 million in various derivatives, about one-third of which The nine investment firms named in the county's lawsuit aremortgage-backed securities, the market for which virtual­ are: Lehman Government S¢curities; Prudential Securities; ly disappeared in the firstquarter, obliterating the $600mil­ Donaldson, Lufkin& Jenrette; Smith Barney; LibertyCapital lion hedge fund Askin Capital Management, and torpedoing Markets; Ernst & Co.; Meridian Capital Markets; Mabon General Electric's wholly owned subsidiary, Kidder Pea­ Securities Corp.; and Murchison Investment Bankers. Some body. When an independent audit uncovered $2.8 million in of these are very big names indeed on Wall Street: Don­ losses on the county's portfolio at the beginning of July, the aldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's William Donaldson, for exam-

4 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 • pIe, is chairman and chief executive officerof the New York deliberately ignoring the law. Recall" for example, the spec­ Stock Exchange. Charles County is being represented by the tacle of U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Of New York President Baltimore law firmof Smith Somerville & Case. E. Gerald Corrigan, before the House Banking Committee The derivatives dealers who had hooked the county trea­ last October, defending the practice of Fed officialsaccepting surer as a client (she was fired soon after the losses were tickets for expensive sports and entertainment events from uncovered in early July, along with her assistant), clearly the very commercial and investment �anks supposedly being either failed to look into the laws of Maryland, or deliberately regulated by the Federal ReserveSyst em. Or, recall Federal ignored the law. But given that it was not one, but nine Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's attempt during the dealers involved, it strains credulity to believe that they were same hearings to hide the fact that the Federal Open Market all so blissfully ignorant. Committee has transcripts of all its meetingson file. More recently, MarkBrickell , dit1ectorof derivatives op­ Other horror stories erations for J.P. Morgan bank, testifying in his capacity as There are more cases besides that of Charles County, vice chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Maryland.In Ohio, Sandusky, Putnam, and Portage counties Association before the House Banking Committee on July filed suit last year against the GovernmentSecurities Corp. 12, exorciated the proposed "Derivatives Safety and Sound­ of Texas , seeking to recoup losses those counties had incurred ness Act of 1994" requirement that derivatives dealers be on derivatives they had been sold by GSCT. In fact, the trea­ legally obligated to assess the suitability for their clients of surers of these three counties had actually bought additional the derivatives sold to them (see EIR , July 22, 1994). Such a derivatives from GSCT -so-called inverse floaters, which suitabilty requirement, Brickell whin¢d, "would introducean GSCT said would offset losses on other derivatives GSCT had unnecessary and undesirable element into the banker-client previously sold, which had declined in market value. When relationship"; "would subject banks and their affiliates to the inverse floaters also collapsed in value, the losses could heightened compliance costs and likely lead to frivolous liti­ no longer be hidden, and the matters fell into the lap of the gation"; and would force derivatives dealers to beara burden respective county prosecutors. Sandusky and Putnam reached none of the competitors had. Brickiell quoted Greenspan, settlements out of court, with the Putnam County treasurer who had told Congress on May 25, "For the transfer of risk now enjoying three square meals a day in the county jail. The to be effective and the efficiency to be realized, end-users PortageCounty case continues in the courts. must retain ultimate responsibility for transactions they Another case is the Lousiana State Employees Retirement choose to make. In a wholesale market, sophisticated and System (Lasers), which suffered $43 million in losses on unsophisticated end-users alike must ensure that they fully derivatives investments early this year, after the state treasur­ understand the risks attendant to any transaction they enter" er's office learned about Lasers' huge position in mortgage (emphasis added). derivatives in late 1991, and expressed concern to Lasers' But Howard Goldberg, of Smith Somerville& Case, said board. Lasers' board investigated the matter, and at the end Brickell's was "a ridiculous position." Derivatives, Gold­ of last year directed its chief investment officer, Vernon berg said, "are so sophisticated that many of the most astute Strickland, who had bought the derivatives, to unload them. securities people in the country can hardly figure them out. The resulting loss has sparked a host of lawsuits by retirees There are some derivatives that are· so complex, we can't and others against Lasers, and the state treasurer, in tum, is even get market prices from some v� sophisticated securi­ considering taking legal action against the derivatives dealers ties firms." who had done business with Strickland. Does Greenspan mean what he says? Is he-the chairman The approach of the Lousiana state treasurer to the Lasers of the penultimate banking regulat0t1Y agency of the United imbroglio contrasts sharply with that of Florida, which has States-so ignorant of the law as to Clssertcaveat emptor for lost a reported $98 million on derivatives holdings of $3.1 even "unsophisticated end-users" I of derivatives? The billion. BruceGillan der of the Florida State Treasurer's Of­ Charles County case, if the doctrineof ultravires is upheld, fice said that Floridawill avoid the loss by holding its deriva­ could help demolish not only the positions of Brickell and tives to maturity, at which time the dealers are supposed to Greenspan, but also the institutions, and the verysystem they pay offthe derivatives (in this case, collateralized mortgage represent. obligations--exactlythe instruments that sank Askin) at par And that is exactly the problem. Looked at from the value. In the meantime, Florida will continue to collect its standpoint of what is real economic �ctivity, derivativesare 7.5% interest for the next five years. What happens if the a ghastly abomination. Derivatives Clfe nothing but the pro­ dealers go under, is leftunsaid . cess of speCUlation and looting that t�e investment and com­ mercial banks developedafter the stqck market meltdown of Speculators deliberately ignored the law October 1987. Now the bills are cQming due, and it's the The arrogance of the commercial and investment banks "end-users" like the citizens of Charles County who arebeing and their lackeys in all these cases suggests that they are stuck with the bill.

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 5 LaRouche: Everyhuman being has the right to health care

The fo llowing was extracted from remarks by presidential result of that, the percentage of the labor force which is pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. during an Aug. 3 employed in producing physi�al goods, has dropped from interview on the radio program "EIR Talks." For more on about 60% at the close of Wbrld War II to about 20-25% the Hill-Burton program which LaRouche mentions, see today. The biggest drop in �r capita productivity, and in EIR, July 29, 1994, "Why U.S. Health Care Must Return to percent of the labor force empl0yed in producing real wealth, the Hill-Burton Standard." not paper stickers or something, has come since 1966-70. So today, the average American, per capita, in households, as I concur fully with the President that the time has come, for against a standard of 1967-69, has approximately halfthe various reasons, that we must state as a moral principle, not standard ofliving, per capita. At the same time, the physician subject to debate, that every human being in the United is still a highly trained service professional. States, in particular, has a right to access to what can be The problem is the free-traders. You have people in considered health care; and that no one would be deprived of Washington and elsewhere, such as Sen. Phil Gramm (R­ health carethat they requirefor their health and for their life, Tex.), a maddened ideologue: The very sound of the word for reason of not having the right credit card or the right "free trade" is a like a bell \)eing sounded for one of Dr. amount of money on some insurance scheme. Pavlov's salivating, decorticated dogs. These fellows will Anybody who takes an opposing view, that there should say, "In order to save free �de, Americans must die," of be some kind of a social Darwinism-if you've got money, negligence, of lack of health care, or something else. And you get treated; if you don't have money, you don't, or those of us who are moral, say, "No. If your economic policy something of that sort; if you're too old, you don't get treat­ says that we have to collapse the U.S. economy for the sake ed-those people belong together with Adolf Hitler. of your ideology, and then, as a result of that, somebody is The problem is, how to get it economically, and how to going to die, because we don't have the means to treat them­ eliminate what is happening with the HMOs [health mainte­ for the sake of your ideology," we say, "Buddy, instead nance organizations] and others. If a guy punches some of sacrificing American lives,; why don't we sacrifice your symptoms into a computer, the computer comes back and ideology? How about a little equality of sacrifice, here, on says, "Diagnosis, as determined by the computer, is the fol­ that one?" lowing." The computer then flashesa menu, which tells the People say, "No, the insurance companies have to pay physician what he's allowed to do for that patient. If the for it." No. The insurance companies don't have to pay for patient comes in with grievous symptoms, the computer says, it. The time has come to takd the economic policies of the "Catastrophic case. Send in two aspirins, carried by a hospice post-industrial society-the no science, and no technological worker." That is what we're getting very close to right now, progress-and junk them! And get back to a policy of in­ on the basis of people saying, "We've got to cut health care vesting in industry, in agriculture, in employment, so that costs, I don't care how many people we have to kill." In the we get back to, say, 50% of our people producing physical Commonwealth of Virginia, if you go into a hospital, the goods. And, even with a very modest increase in productivi­ hospital people are obliged to present you with a Living Will ty, we would have enough to meet our needs. This problem to sign. This is Adolf Hitler, pure and simple. would be solved.

Post-industrial disaster Insurance company rip ..otT People say, "We can't afford to pay for it." My answer is, The problem is that you have half the number producing "You'd better look at some of the things that have happened. " wealth and, therefore, when o$e of them goesto a physician, Why is it that, today, in 1994, we cannot do what we could who is still a highly skilled, labor-intensive, service profes­ have done in 1974? sional, you have to pay the physician with half the amount of For the past 25 years and longer, we've been living under wealth you were producing, in effect, 25 years ago; that's what is called a "post-industrial New Age" society. As a why the health costs are so hig}). Plus, you've got malpractice

6 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 insurance, which has driven health costs wild-it's an insur­ ance company rip-off. Then you have, also, interest rates, which have driven the costs of facilities for health care, and so forth, sky high. In the meantime, we have to say, "Okay. It's going to hurt. We have to pay for the health care. But we are not going to be AdolfH it/ers." We are not going to set up a category of "useless eaters," of who's last on the line for health care, and, if there just isn't enough money, they're going to die. Let's get the paperwork out of the system. This whole insurance, and caps, and all the things that have been put in-they don't work. All they do is increase the paperwork for physicians, and they interfere in the personal relationship between the physician and the patient.

Re-adopt Hill-Burton policy What we have to do is re-adopt, simply, a policy, of which I think there are about fiveor six pages of legislation, adopted at the beginning of the postwar period, of Lister Hill and company: the Hill-Burton health care policy, which covers hospitals and should cover physicians, too. Reinstate that policy. Go back to the kinds of approaches in Hill-Burton that we had prior to the middle of the 1960s, say, in New York City. There were problems there, but we had a good system, which realized, then, all of the objectives which are A patient undergoing renal dialysis . To solve the health care crisis, we need to look at why it is that today, in 1994, we cannot desired by President Clinton now. provide the level of care we did 20 years ago. What I shall be doing on this, with my friends, is produc­ ing a series of studies which address the logistical, i.e., the economic, aspect of this; also, we'll be working with physi­ have research and scientific aptitudes. As with the Ecole cians to bring to the fore, through our publications and Poly technique at the beginning of the last century, the medi­ through my campaign, the kind of information which I think cal training institutions and so forth will open doors to enable the Congress and others require, to get a fresh look at how we these bright, young people to have an opportunity to do some can realize the objectives which the President has specified. research in those areas for which the' nstitutions recognized In the old days, the best medical systems operated very are competent. much on the model of the Gaspard Monge Ecole Poly tech­ nique [of late 18th- and early 19th-century France]. The New discoveries needed French Jacobin Revolution had decapitated so many scien­ We have a problem today, with two aspects. We have a tists in France, that in order to get France back in the science lot of older people, and therefore we have more emphasis on business, the technology business, Monge created brigades, diseases of aging of tissue. We also are faced with resistant in which everybody was in a training program from adoles­ strains of disease. We're faced with whole new kinds of cence on, to become a skilled engineer. Those who had more problems. We had inoculation, which was developed during than enough skill and potential to become engineers, they the 19th and 20th centuries; then we had antibiotics, which made scientists; and they produced the world's greatest scien­ were developed in this century; and we're running out of tists at the beginning of the 19th century. options on how to fight some of the e clever new kinds of In medicine, it worked pretty much the same: You take diseases. So, for many reasons, including the ability to mas­ anybody who's qualified, and give them access to a program ter problems we couldn't master before, we need ongoing of medical training, until we have enough people going research. My view of the best way 0 do it is: You have a through the pipeline to meet the needs of the United States healthy medical training system, a healthy hospital system. for medical care. Now, you give them the opportunity, as Then, out of that-in collaboration kith good universities, they go along-and make sure they keep going; if they have with biologists and equipment designers like Los Alamos's the skills and they're performing, we want them; we'll finda people-you get the materials put together, so that, out of an way to finance their way through medical school. Some of organic process of research as a fact0r in the entire practice these kids will be better than others; they all will have good of the medical profession, you get hew discoveries which clinical capability, one presumes, but some of them will benefitmankind .

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 7 Interview: Dr. Mario Maldonado

Development, not abortions ' key to lower maternal deaths,

On June 28, Gerald Pechenuk interviewed Dr. Maldonado Maldonado: The data is accutate. What is inaccurate is the fo r EIR in Chicago, Illinois. He is a physicianfrom Guatema­ lack of scientific knowledge inlthe comparisons. If you want la who attended the United Nations Preparatory Committee to test how Gatorade will help an athlete, and you give a very sessions fo r the International Conference on Population and well developed athlete Gatorade [to drink] and you don't give Development (Cairo '94), in New York during April. Parts of Gatorade to a chubby, unathletic person, and then you see the interview arefo llowed here by excerptsfrom a statistical how fast they run, the athletic person who took Gatorade will analysis which he preparedfor the PrepComm. have a better performance than the fat person who did not take Gatorade. They are takihg developed nations where EIR: I understand that the Guatemalan delegation was very abortion is legal and show a Ilow maternal mortality, and active in trying to oppose the outlook of the United Nations comparing these to developing !nations where abortion is ille­ population conference. gal, and show a high maternal:mortality. So I did a study to Maldonado: Our President Jorge Serrano Elias opposes see if this is true. most of the U.N. population control notions. Specifically he opposes abortion, because number one, in our country, EIR: So you compared populations with the same character­ abortion is not legal. The only way abortion would be legal istics? is if it is to save the mother's life. He decided to send a Maldonado: I used the United Nations classificationsfound delegation of experts on population because he felt that the in pages 246-248 of Report on lfJuman Development 1993of U.N. 's draftand its intentions were not the best for the Guate­ the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which malan people. distinguish industralized and mindustrialized nations. Then I took countries where abortiOn was legal and the others EIR: Did you findthat other countries were similarly oppos­ where it was illegal, and comparedthese two groups. ing this outlook? For example, among courl.tries where abortion is legal Maldonado: Yes, there were several African nations, sev­ and which are considered industrialized, Denmark has a ma­ eral Middle East nations, several Latin American nations. ternalmortality of 2, Finland 11 , Sweden 5, the United States From Central America, all the nations except EI Salvador 8. That means 8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births per were represented by people who fought against this. year. Then I took nations where abortion is illegal: Poland, Ireland, Israel, Germany, Switizerland, New Zealand, which EIR: The U.N. issued a number of reports to delegates at are considered to be industrialized and where abortion is the PrepComm conference. Can you tell us what you found illegal. The maternal mortality for Ireland is 4, Spain is 5, in looking at them? Germany is 7. . . . Maldonado: One of their arguments in order to legalize abortion worldwide is the high maternal mortality in coun­ EIR: So these are lower than: the countries where abortion tries where abortion is illegal. They tried to show that coun­ is legal? tries where abortion is legal and permitted on all grounds, Maldonado: The average fot maternal mortality in coun­ have a low maternal mortality rate. These are basically the tries where abortion is legal is 13.6, and the average where industrialized nations with a high Human Development In­ abortion is illegal it is 7.29 deaths per 100,000 live births. dex. On the other side they showed us developing nations, But just showing averages is riot being scientific. There is a those who have a low Human Development Index, and statistical test that compares populations that don't have the showed how the maternal mortality is high in those nations. same number of individuals per group, which is the z-test. Besides, they say that in most of those nations, abortion on And you see an expected erroriof O.Ol. There was no statisti­ demand is illegal. Their argument is that in order to lower cally significant difference. ftibortion being legal or illegal maternal mortality, we have to legalize abortion. does not have any influence orl maternal mortality. If you want to lower maternal mortality, it won't be EIR: You say that these statistics are not accurate? through legalizing abortion. The factor is that you have to

8 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 develop a country. You have to have a very good health care system with very good prenatal, natal, and postnatal control and a good delivery of health care, and there, you will lower maternalmortal ity. Another thing they tried to prove was that the more chil­ dren a woman has, the higher the chance of death. They gave us a total fertility rate, which is a calculation of how many children a woman might have during her lifetime. I compared the total fertility rate of all the countries which have the data, and the maternalmortality rate of those coun­ tries. And I applied the correlation formula. The result was that the correlation was 0.60, which is not statistically sig­ nificant. Oman is a country which is not considered to have a high Human Development Index. Oman's total fertility rate is 6.7 children per woman. But their maternalmortality rate is 7 deaths per 100,000 live births. In other words, their maternal mortality rate is lower than the United States, with a fertility rate of 6.7. The total fertility rate in the United States is 2.1 children per woman in her reproductive lifetime, and the maternalmortality is 8.

EIR: Can you explain the discussion about when abortion Physician Mario Maldonado: Guatemala's indigenous don't want should be legal? population "blackmail"; they want to learn to make better use of Maldonado: I asked the vice-chairman, who is a doctor, their land, to fe ed their children better. why the limit of 28 weeks? Why after that can't a woman have an abortion if she wants it? The reason he gave me is that after28 weeks of gestation procedure if it is done legally. But it has also been done a premature infant can probably survive. Before that it is illegally. There have been in this year, some cases of violence very difficult for them to survive. This is a very ambiguous in which American citizens have been brutalized by angry position. Because the viability of a fetus depends mostly on mobs in our country because they are suspected of being part how advanced the intensive neonatal care unit is. In a country of this. where they have excellent intensive care units for newborns, But I want to give my own analysis. If in this country [the a child can survive around the 24th to 26th week ofgestation. United States] there were not so many abortions and there But in places where there is no neonatal intensive unit, a 32- were more support to adoptions, many infertile couples who week fetus will probably die. Soon, with all the advances, want to be generous to a child, would not have to go outside neonatalogists will probably have premature children able to the boundaries of the United States to ook for children. survive with only 20 weeks of gestation. They place the infant in an incubator, give the baby food and medicine , and EIR: When we speak of infrastructure,we are talking about sometimes place it on a respirator. This tries to simulate the great projects to transform the globe-like a second Panama conditions in the womb of the mother. So, if you just leave a Canal, high-speed railroads, energy capabilities, and making premature infant alone, it is not viable. Even a term baby sure that every sovereign nation is afforded the full opportuni­ with 40 weeks of gestation, if left alone will die. So the ty to develop its capabilities. Do you think Guatemala would difference between an 18-week-old fetus and a 20-week-old support this? fetus is that the second one is a human being, but anything Maldonado: Guatemala is a poor, developing nation, and before that is just tissue that can be removed. we need a better-educated, healthierl population, with jobs that can come only from better agriculture and industry. Our EIR: There have been reports in various press quoting a country has many problems, but stopping the population reporter from Guatemala who has been writing that there has from growing is not going to succeed. n the one hand, many been a series of children disappearing from Guatemala. indigenous are opposed to population control. Maldonado: I can verify according to what I have read and 0, seen that many children have been kidnapped for adoption. EIR: Can you describe your experience in living in a small On the other hand there are many children who are given up community? legally for adoption to couples who are infertile, in developed Maldonado: In 1991, during medical training, I was sent to countries where there are not enough children for adoption, Montufar, which is a small communit� of San Juan Sacatepe­ and they go to other countries. This is very a humanistic quez. I was to be the town doctor f6r four months. At the

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 9 beginning 1 was not having success as a doctor because 1 did not understand the culture into which 1 was sent. During the Documentation firsttwo weeks when 1 saw 1 was not succeeding, 1 decided to "be an anthropologist" and involving myself in under­ standing their way oflife. Afterward, out of a group of people who got together for Bible studies in the Catholic church, we developed a program in which firstthe people in that group would be instructed in how to prevent diseases, especially Is abortion infectious diseases, and they would augment vaccination coverage in their own family, and then when that was suc­ reproductive h�alth? cessful, they would show it to their neighbors. We were able to reduce the incidence of enteric infections by 50% among Excerpts of Dr. Mario Maldonado's statistical study fo llow the population. Our vaccination coverage went up 100%. (tables and graphics are omitted). It was circulated at the Cairo PrepComm, but ruled out of official deliberations. EIR: Often various U.N.-related groups push the idea that indigenous groups are against modem medicine. The maternal mortality rate is a good measure of the quality Maldonado: The population was open to anything that of health care services that a c04ntry may have. Are elective would help them, but they were not willing to give up their abortions correlated with low maternalmortality? What are beliefs, their culture. For example, the population control the costs of elective abortions? officeof Guatemala had a program which used what 1 would Many of the "pro-choice" abortion advocates tryto justi­ call blackmail. fy abortion with the high incidence of maternal mortality (deaths due to complications of pregnancy per 100,000 live EIR: This was a Planned Parenthood affiliate? births in one year) in countries' where elective abortions­ Maldonado: Yes, a woman wanted food for her children. that is, abortion on social and economic grounds and on She had to be doing some kind of population control with request-are illegal and not permitted. They believe that them. If she did not use it, she would not get the food. People unwanted pregnancies will result in unsafe abortions that went to a newspaper and said they thought it was unfair lead to a septic abortion. They alaim that maternalmortality that only the indigenous were being targeted for population claims the lives of 500,000 women a yearin the world, and control, and not the Latinos or the European members of that a large portion of those live$ can be sparedby legalizing Guatemalan society. They felt it was a violation of their abortion. rights. 1 asked the people in the program that we did in To prove their pointthey presentthe low maternalmor­ Sacatepequez if they wanted to control their families. They tality rates in developed countties where abortion is legal told me that for them children were blessings. If they were on all grounds .... taught how to make better use of their lands, if people who To analyze these data with an objective perspective, one taught agronomy would be brought in to show them how to has to analyze the maternal mortality rates not only in the make a better, wider, and ecologically safe use of their land, developed countries where eledtive abortions are legal and they would still have as many children as they wanted and in the developing nations where elective abortions are ille­ they could feed them better. We were able to get some of the gal. To be objective, the available statistics of abortionrates people from the agronomy faculty in Guatemala to teach and maternal mortality rates ftom all nations have to be them. Their production went up 102%. And they are not included, including developed nations where elective abor­ "planning" their families, which is a very private matter. tions are illegal, and developing nations where elective abor­ tion is permitted. Finally, to be both objective and scientific, EIR: You lived with a family that had 13 children. simple presentation of rates is not enough; statistical analysis Maldonado: 1 asked the father, don't you believe that 13 must be employed. children are way too much? His answer was, 1 think, irrefut­ The correlation formula compares the standard devia­ able: He told me that he was an honest worker, a good hus­ tions of two sets of data (abortion rate and maternalmortality band, he did not drink or smoke, he worked hard to provide rate) and grades the correlatidn from -1 to + 1. To be for his family, and he taught them the ways of the Lord. He statistically significant, a direqtly proportional correlation took his children to Mass every Sunday and to Bible study. must be from +0.61 to + 1; thierefore, any correlation be­ And even now that his children are older and most of them tween -0.60 and +0.60 is not:statistically significant, and help him, he told me, "When 1 die 1 will face God, and 1 will due to chance. tell him, 'I took good care of the children you gave me. Can Ifby legalizing elective aboI1tions, the maternalmortality I come into Heaven?' And I am quite positive He will say rates will diminish, there should be an inversely proportional yes." relation between abortion rates and maternal mortality

10 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 rates-in other words, the higher the abortion rate, the lower be that it's cheaper to pay for an abortion? Where are the the maternal mortality rate. Based on the pamphlet "World ethics? Abortion Policies 1994," published by the United Nations An elective abortion is the termination of pregnancy Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy before 28 weeks (viability) on groundsof social and econom­ Analysis, Population Division, the maternal mortality rates ic reasons, and on request. Viability is considered as when were compared with the abortion rates of most of the nations the baby can survive outside the mother's womb. When is of the world, regardless of the local policies on abortion, that? It depends on the level of advancement of neonatology. with the correlation formula. For example, in some developedcountrie s, viability is con­ The correlationvalue that should be obtained if maternal sidered at 24 weeks of gestation, while in some developing mortality depends on whether elective abortions are permit­ countries it is as high as 34 weeks of gestation, due to a ted is -1, but this was not the case, since the obtained lack of technology. Biologically, there are no significant correlation was -0.07, or almost zero. Therefore, there is differences between a pregnant wOman with 25 weeks of no statistically significantcorrelation between abortion rates gestation in the developed and developing nations. and maternal mortality rates .... So what is the differencebetween a fetus that has a gesta­ Another argument presented by those who are in favor tional age of 28 weeks, and the fetuswith a gestational age of legalizing elective abortions is that a high rate of fertility of 27 weeks and 6 days? Is one les!l human than the other? is correlated with a high maternal mortality rate .... By Well, according to the people who believe in legalizing abor­ using the data presented by "World Abortion Policies 1994," tion, there is a difference, since the Z8-week fetus is spared, thetotal fertility rate (the average number of children that and the one-day-younger fetus can be terminated .... would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she With the advance of technology the gestational age for were to live through all her child-bearing years, conforming viability is diminishing. So,meday, in the near future, neona­ to the age-specificfer tility rates of a given year) and maternal tologists will be able to help a premllturebaby with a gesta­ mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 live births), the abortion tional age of 10 weeks. advocates' hoped-for correlation would be + 1, but the ob­ When does a fetus startto be considered a human? When tained correlation was 0.595, which is not statistically sig­ is he entitled to enjoy his basic human rights? When should nificant. ... the state defend that human? According to the pro-choice advocates, at 20 weeks. BiologicalJy, an individual is de­ The cornerstone is development fined by having a specific genetic composition, which is Maternal mortality is not only due to septic abortions; unique to that individual and is sharePonly by genetic twins. in fact the most common causes of maternal mortality are So when is it that this individual's genetic composition is uncontrolled bleeding, pulmonary embolism, puerperal in­ defined?At the moment of fertilization, since it is at concep­ fections, and ectopic pregnancies. Septic shock secondary tion that the chromosomes of both parents are mixed to to unsafe abortions is the fifth cause of maternal mortality. initiate a new human being. If preg,ancy is not terminated, The cornerstone to lowering maternal mortality is develop­ the most likely outcome is a newbprn baby. Every single ment, not legalizing elective abortions. In other words, only human being who populates the Earth began at this stage. by improving reproductive health care can maternal mortali­ Every human being has the right to life, and even the unborn ty be reduced. It is true that after legalizing abortion in the fetus is a human being, because he or she has a genetic United States, the number of unsafe abortions diminished. composition that is unique and makes him or her a human The deaths secondary to unsafe abortions reduced from 18 being. per 100,000 livebirths to 3 per 100,000 livebirt hs. Impres­ According to the World Health iOrganization's concept sive, and effective, but at what cost? The actual abortion of reproductive health, "every indjvidual has the right of rate in the United States is 26.4 legal abortions per 1,000 access to appropriate health care services that will enable women ages 15-44. There are 58.881 million women ages women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and 15-44, so each year 1.544 million fetuses are murdered, provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy that is, assuming all the abortions were performed in single infant." We must remember that throughout pregnancy, be­ pregnancies, so the number might get a little bigger. The ginning with fertilization and ending in the birth ofa child, estimated births per year in the United States is 3.904 mil­ there are two individuals involved, the woman and the fetus. lion, so the number of abortions per 100,000 live births is Is an aborted fetus a healthy infant? . . . 39,805. So, to justify saving the lives of 15 women, 39,805 The key to providing reproducti'lehealth to everyhuman lives per 100,000 live births are lost ....Why , instead of being is development: only through the improvement of offering an abortion, doesn't the governmentoffer adoption economy, education, health care, �d protection of each services so that the woman who does not feel responsible individual's human rights, from the /Domentthat an individ­ enough to care for a child is given an alternativeto putting ual begins to exist--conception-to'his death, which should her life and the life of the unborn child in danger? Could it never be in the hands of another hQman being.

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 11 Interview: Waldemar Michna

The international financialbubble could cause great damage to Poland

Professor Michna is a member of the Polish Parliamentfrom the government which has alsd suggested that after three­ the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and a deputychairman of the quarters of the year it will again consider the possibility of Budget, Finances and Banking Committee. He was inter­ allocating more funds to social needs or investment in human viewed in Warsaw on July 13, 1994, by Frank Hahn. The capital. interview has been translatedfrom Polish. However, in the second half of the year we will have to face one more burden, namely, we will have to repay a large EIR: Can you tell us what the budget situation is in Poland installment on part of the foreigrtdebt service. In September, right now, and how do you think the budget can be balanced? we will have to pay 25 trillion zlotys (over $1 billion) to cover Michna: A few days ago there was a parliamentary debate servicing our debts. This will thireatenbudget expenses . We on the process of meeting the budgetary plan during the did not have this obligation irt the first part of the year. remaining five monthsof 1994. All the deputies who partici­ Generally, we could say that the analysis of the budget in the pated in the debate, both from the governmentcoalition and first half of the year shows that our weakness comes from the opposition, came to the conclusion that the budgetary private enterprises, since private enterprises are suspected of plan is being fulfilled very well, especially insofar as income being as imprecise as possible about their income in order to is concerned, which means that tax revenues are slightly minimize their tax obligations. This makes it more difficult higher than planned. During the firstsix months ofthis year, to create a good climate for pri'iatizationbecause over 50% income reached 47% of what was planned for this year, of the people work in private enterprises, including in agricul­ expenses from the budget constituted also about 47% of what ture. Nonetheless, the private :sector of the economy still was planned. brings less than 20% of revenues. It is known that during the first half of the year both We will have to increase demands concerning revenues revenues and expenses are usually lower than in the second to the budget while privatizing state companies. half; therefore, 47% is considered as a good result. When I say "good" or "very good," I am referring to general revenue EIR: Don't the majority of privatized firmsbecome part of and expenses. However, in several branches of the economy some foreign company? As far as I know, on the one hand, there are certain dangers: For example, a poor cash flowfor foreign companies are not expe¢ted to pay full taxes, and on enterprises presents such a danger. Enterprises which are the other, this kind of privatization process does not seem to now being privatized or restructured, instead of increasing be part of a strategy for development but part of a strategy of their tax payments, are paying less. They are not good enough looting. to provide the kind of income we count on. This is the main Michna: It is true that in a large portion of enterprises that challenge we see on the income side of the budget. have been privatized, a significant chunk of capital belongs As for difficultieswith expenses, the budget is not good to foreign companies. It is also true that in the last few enough to makecorrections in its plans that would allow it to years, they negotiated very significant exemptions, very meet certain needs not initially covered in the plans for budget often exemptions which they did not deserve, above all, expenses. For example, on March 5, the Sejm [lower house] because they were able to get a large number of shares for passed a bill for the governmentto take under consideration a very low price. And then, in addition, they got very long in the second half of the year whether it can increase social tax grace periods. expenses, say, increase social support for women with small As for the privatization process, in my mind, we have children. It turned out that despite the fact that the plan for made a strategic mistake. In March 1990, French experts the budget has been fulfilled, there is not enough surplus to from the Central Planning Office arrived in Poland. They make a correction. advised Poland to firststrengthen [state-owned] enterprises I want to add that the Sejm accepted the statement of and then privatize them. However, for unknown reasons,

12 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 previous governments did the opposite. This led to the de­ We are seeing a situation in which banks are willing to get struction, to the collapse of enterprises, which were then sold involved in the stock exchange and to buy securities issued as bankrupt. Hundreds of companies, especially because of by the state treasury, but they are leastwilling to give credits the shock approach to the economy (which was Balcero­ to enterprises. I think that during the next session of the Sejm, wicz's strategy), were run into bankruptcy and then privat­ we will manage to findmeans to reverse this tendency a little ized. As a result, enterprises were sold for nominal sums to bit. domestic or, more often, to foreign companies. As an exam­ Recently I had an opportunity to karnpoints of view of ple here we can use a company in Kostrzyn that produces Polish economists about this global financialbubb le. To tell cellulose: Exactly a year ago, before the September parlia­ the truth, Polish economic circles are not well informedabout mentary elections, it was sold for $40--an enterprise em­ the techniques which led to the growth of the bubble. I think ploying 1,700 people! it would be very helpful for us to have itreport on the fictitious Here is a good example. First, enterprises were subjected money and its role, as well as dangers resulting from it. I am to a shock therapy, which had two characteristic elements: afraid that this fictitiouscapital , although it is fictitious, can first, on Dec. 19, 1990, tariffs on 8,000 goods were elimi­ change the ownership very easily. With the help of this ficti­ nated entirely. Second, interest rates on credits for enter­ tious capital a large part of the Polish nation can be expropri­ prises were increased in 1991 in monthly terms in January to ated-as can happen in Bulgaria or the Czech Republic, or in 60%, in February 45%, and in the following months 30-40%. other nations. In this sense it is not fictitious, being fictitiousit Those two elements: on the one hand, opening the borders to can still cause something real. industrial products from all over the world-not only the This is my fear, how to properly recognize fictitious European Community and the United States, but also Asia­ capital from non-fictitious. We, as Poland, want to integrate our industry, which was not the most modem, was doomed with western and eastern Europe first of all-we do not to lose its own market. Second, costly credit. Those two want any free capital; however, we do want fair play. Still, elements led to huge unemployment and a dramatic collapse we are aware that this huge bubble hanging over Europe of enterprises. and the world can move Polish property very easily to other I do not want to go into the details of this history now; I countries, which also means dividends. There is nothing, want to go back to our present budget policies. On March 5, in our university programs that would alert students to this this year, the Sejm passed the bill on monetary policies, fictitiouscapital . We want to develop a stock exchange, and namely, it was decided that if inflationis no higher than 23% we also want foreign capital to have access to this stock for this year, which means in six months it should be no exchange, but we-and I personally-,-have a lot of fear that higher than 11%, then the flow of money into the economy this fictitious capital could cause a great deal of damage to will equal the GNP. There is still discussion going on as to our country. whether the priority should be put on stopping inflationor on I read the statement of [French Nobel Economics laure­ stimulating development. This question was not solved by ate] Maurice Allais who claims that banks spend annually the Parliament, and we will discuss it again during one of the or daily 40 times more on speculative capital than on normal firstsessions afterthe summer holidays. operations, and, I must say, that for a country like Poland, this represents a lot to fear. In Poland we had cases of EIR: This question is obviously connected to the question speculation; the most classic example was the Slaski Bank. of credit, and in this respect we see the collapse of financial The shares were sold for 500,000 zlotys, and in a few days structures globally on the monetary and financial markets, they were worth 6 million zlotys-$omebody was able to and the fact the speculation is growing astronomically while get 13 times more money in a few : days. Of course, one the expense of production is obviously shrinking available could say that that was a coincidence, or even that this is credit for real investment. Can you comment on the question the rule on a stock exchange, but there were certain non­ of the financial bubble and the imminent international col­ coincidental problems there, because the bank employees lapse of this bubble? Afteral l, the shock therapy was a part benefitted from this: They were aware that something like of this financialbubb le. this could happen. The prosecutor who is investigating this Michna: Before I move onto the world situation, I will say case is finding reasons to get involved in it. I do not want something on our 1994 budget. This year, credit for enter­ to say anything before the court does, but this case is being prises has also been in decline. Therefore, I myself think that investigated, so it means there are suspicions that there was we should increase the flowof money into the economy such speculation going on. that credits to enterprises are not lower than last year. This phenomenon you just described, namely, that flowof money EIR: One way to get away from the system of the fictitious for production and development is decreasing because it is capital is obviously to allocate credit$ to projects that create directed into a stock exchange, which is speculation to a real physical wealth, and that means having the government certain degree, is confirmed as well in our microeconomy. channel credit through a national bank; the kind of projects

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 13 into which such public credits would be channeled are obvi­ ously public infrastructure projects. In this respect, it should Conference Repo�t be of major interest for Poland that the governments of France and Germany especially are reflecting aproposal that Mr. LaRouche made in 1990 for the development of eastern Europe; and what they are discussing is to extend a high­ speed railway project connecting Paris and Berlin to Warsaw Bankers turn screws and Moscow. What do you think about those kind of devel­ opment projects? on Russia, 'Ukraine Michna: I read a joint statement by Kohl and Mitterrand i regarding a high-speed railroad for Paris-Berlin-Warsaw­ Moscow. I understand that this is the first element of this by Richard Freeman great infrastructure project. I used this statement of Mitter­ rand and Kohl's in the PSL Club statement in Parliament Boris Fyodorov, the former fipanceminister of Russia, com­ during the budget discussion. I said that the Sejm is for plained to a meeting of intemational "financial experts" in government support for this kind of infrastructure. I under­ Washington, D.C. on July 2�, that his only objection to the stand that all participants will have their interests in this austerity conditionalities of tqe InternationalMonetary Fund project; for example, France is the author of the technology (IMF), is that they are not haIlSh enough. He and others who of high-speed trains, it has the license for this technology­ spoke at the July 20-22 conferenceof the Commission on the the engines, carriages. The Germans can expand the market Future of Bretton Woods Inst�tutions targeted Ukraine as the for their exports, but Poland, too, would benefit during the next victim of the shock the�apy policies that Fyodorov so construction phase, and, also afterwards, thanks to vast relishes. exports to the East, and to imports. Those projects will find The commission is a ghoulish gang of one-worlders who much support in Poland, I think, because Poles support the wish to rework the IMF and World Bank, joined to a newly idea of solving problems in Europe through a process of created World Trade Organiz�tion, into a new Roman impe­ integration of western, central, and eastern Europe. I think rial triumvirate, exercising � global economic dictatorship that Europe, as well as the whole European-Pacificciviliza­ over previously sovereign nat�ons. tion, together with the United States, would benefitjust as Fyodorov, who weighs � least 240 pounds, forgets to it benefittedfrom the Marshall Plan; now it can benefitfrom tuck in his shirt, and looks l�ke a plump schoolchild in an building huge infrastructure networks, or rather the huge adult's body, presided over draconian shock therapy while integration of Europe from Spain to the Urals. Russia's finance minister froQl 1992 through early 1994. He told the Washington audienc�: "I have friends in Russia who EIR: This kind of development of integrated Europe needs say the IMF is too strict. Bu� I say it is not strictenough. I new ideas in the fieldof economic theory. How do you view told [lMF Managing Directo� Michel] Camdessus that 'you the theory which is called physical economy? should be tougher demanding of Russia a sound economic Michna: I read with a great interest LaRouche's book on policy. ' Our inflation rate inRussia is reportedly down to 6% physical economy, So, You Wish To Learn All About Eco­ per month from 100%. I told �e IMF you must demand it go nomics? I think it is very creative. From the standpoint of lower. People say Russia is poor. Russia is rich. It has $20 educating students or as a new thinking in economics, it is billion in American bank notes. There are mansions. There very important and instructive. It is possible to derive from are Rolls Royce dealerships. � have nothing against the IMF. it various thoughts concerningintegra tion, since it gives the In Russia there are too many1privileges and toomany unor­ basis for economy without speculative capital. It requires a thodox strategies"-in contrast, presumably, to the IMF's reader who would be prepared to translate physical economy strait-laced genocidal strategi�s. into the program for today and tomorrow, because the con­ As a result of Fyodorov's policies, Russian industrial cept of physical economy gives a certain foundation and on output is down 49.7% from its January 1992 level; 80% of this foundation one has to build a program for today and Russia's critical machine tooli sector is in bankruptcy;one in tomorrow. There is no program for today and tomorrow in fiveRussia n infants is bornil_ , as opposedto one in seven in this book yet, and when an inexperienced economist reads 1991; and, in 1993, Russia's population shrunkby 300,000 it, he may feel that something is missing. But I think the persons. second volume should be developed as a program for today and tomorrow: Building infrastructure may be such a pro­ Fyodorov: Shut down Ileavy industry gram for today. There was no thesis in that book which I In an interview with EIR , Fyodorov exulted that the mili­ would disagree with, it is the basic, general principle of tary-industrial complex is d�sappearing. This complex is economics. Russia's manufacturing core,! embodying uniquecapital-in-

14 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 tensive machinery, manned by a skilled workforce found He singled out Ukraine as the plac� where the U.S. State nowhere else in Russia. He stated that the number of workers Department, Treasury, and IMF �uld work as a team, in the military-industrial complex (not counting the Armed bringing the same program and "bent'jfits"as those applied in Forces) has been halved from 6 to 3 million during the last Russia. three years. "It has a core of 1,000 firms, but many of those Global speculator George SOroS,1 who attended the con­ firms now only produce 5% military," and many produce ference and defended Aslund' s critiq�e of "insufficientdisci­ nothing at all. As for Ural-Mash, one of the biggest machine­ pline" in the newly independent fonnerSoviet states, assert­ tool companies in the world, which the governmenthas subsi­ ed afterthe panel in a private discussi�n that, whereas Talbott dized to keep open, Fyodorov said, waving his hand, "Shut had criticized the IMF in Decembe� 1993, "those remarks it down. Let the Russian government pay the 100 million are in the past. Strobe Talbott is doiq.ga very good job with rubles that it is spending to keep Ural-Mash open to Caterpil­ regard to the Ukraine. I know." Referring to Leonid Kuchma, lar to build a new plant. We don't need a Russian plant." who won the presidency of Ukraine with 52% of the vote in Though booted out as financeminister on Jan. 26, 1994, the July elections, Sorosstated, "Kuchma is a personal friend Fyodorov is chairman of the Committee on Monetary Policy of mine. I will be visiting him and working with him." and Central Bank Policy in the Russian parliament, the According to an Interfax newswire on July 19, industrial Duma. From that position, he wrote and passed a new law in production in Ukraine for the first six months of 1994 had July that will convert the central bank into an institution along fallen by 40% from levels of the first six months of 1993. the lines of the Bank of England. Fyodorov confirmedthat Steel pipe production was down 64%, machine tool produc­ the 1992-93 "shock therapy reforms" that he and former tion down 72%, and tractor prodoction down 74%. But Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar applied with such de­ Kuchma declared that a further 25% of industry could be structive force, were drafted at IMF-World Bank headquar­ closed in the near term during his term, through additional ters in Washington in 1991, when Fyodorov was serving as market reforms. Russia's executive director to the World Bank. "Wouldn't Kuchma's policy has the stamp of approval of BorisFyo­ peoplebe amused to know that?" he asked. dorov, George Soros, Anders Aslund, the IMF, and appar­ ently, for the moment at least, the financial policy planners Applying the lash to Ukraine of the U.S. government. The financial wizards at the conference made clear that now is the time to apply the Fyodorov version of shock therapy to Ukraine. Anders Aslund of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics, an adviser to the shock therapy reformers inside Russia, sharply criticized the IMF for: 1) poor application of the shock therapy program to Russia, and 2) almost no application to the other 14 countries of the former Soviet Union, with the exception of the Baltic na­ tions. He said that fiveof the countries in 1993 had inflation rates of between 7,000 and 11,000%: Armenia, Turkmenis­ tan, Ukraine, Tajikistan, and Georgia. Aslund complained that the IMF had sent teams into these countries, but then failed to implement the necessary "conditionality" and "ad­ justment" measures. He neglected to mention that City of London and Wall Street bankers unleashed the hyperinflation by imposing sharp deregulation of prices startingin 1992. Aslund told EIR in an interview that Ukraine is now a big test case, "if the reform process in the former Soviet Union is going to get back on track. In the next few months, what happensin Ukraine is a very important event. " Aslund's view on Ukraine was seconded by Strobe Tal­ bott, the number two man at the State Department. Talbott caused a stir in December 1993, when he spoke out about the economic disaster that the IMF was causing in Russia. Tal­ bott said that there should be "less shock, more therapy." But, unfortunately, Talbott did not mention a peep about that in his July 21 address. Instead, he praised "the IMF's disciplined, enlightened, patient engagement with Russia."

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics IS Trilateral Commission China targetsI The inJa mous Trilateral Commission haspUbl ished a repo rt putting China in the crosshairsJor lootingand destruction. Michael O. Billingtonrep orts.

The Trilateral Commission in May 1994 released a report the old Silk Routes as the basis furthe continent-wide devel­ called " An Emerging China in a World of Interdependence," opment of the Eurasian land ma$S, which representsthe only prepared by Trilateral Commission members Michel Ok­ policy which could be successfully put in place when the senberg, president of the East-West Center in Hawaii and ex­ current bubble in the world flnancial markets collapses, China desk officerfor the U.S. National Security Council; taking the "China bubble" with it. Yoichi Funabachi of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shim­ It is precisely such a Eurasi� development perspective, bun; and Heinrich Weiss, the German industrialist who potentially supportedby theUnited States, which theTrilat­ chairs the China Committee of the East Committee of Ger­ eral Commission views as the greatest danger for its inter­ man Industry. ests. Twice before in historysuch a policy was implemented, The Trilateral Commission has served, since its founding and both times the Venetian and British mentorsof today's in the early 1970s by David Rockefeller and others, as one Trilateral Commission moved to crush it. In the late 17th of the leading institutions of the Anglo-American financial century, G. W. Leibniz coordinated the effortsof Jesuit mis­ elite, shaping policy in Europe, Japan, and the United States sionaries in China who werewCll rking closely with thegreat in the direction of freetrade and the "post-industrial society. " Ch'ing Emperor Kang Hsi, tCilgether with European and The commission's China report is an overt declaration of Russian leaders, to implement his "Grand Design," uniting intent to impose upon China-as with the entirety of the East and West in development rand cultural collaboration. developing sector-a new colonialism, through the auspices Only many decades of subversive Venetian operations of the U.N., the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the against the Vatican and againstl Leibniz and his circles suc­ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and simi­ ceeded in breaking the alliance between the "Renaissance lar global institutions generally under their control. The faction" in Europe and its co�thinkers in China, leaving report demands that China be forced to accept policies which China isolated and (ultimately) vulnerable to the British will assure that it remains largely an impoverished nation, opium dealers and gunboats of the 19th century. lacking real industrialization, and sustained as a source of In the beginning of the 20thcentury , plans for Eurasian cheap labor for export-oriented process industries. development reemerged in Eutope, centered on the East­ The report also contains vicious insults against Chinese West rail development polici($ of Russia's Count Sergei history and culture, such that anyone even slightly familiar Witte and his French and GeIlllan allies, with supportfrom with China should recognize the duplicitous and evil intent the Vatican. This current was picked up by Dr. Sun Yat­ of the Trilateral authors. sen in China, who led the Republican revolution in 1911 The circulation of this report coincides with the dramatic on a program for the internat.,nal development of China developments in Europe over the past months, which threat­ centered on multiple rail connections with Europe and the en the ambitions of the utopian "world government" advo­ Near East. The British orchestnlted World WarI to destroy cates at the Trilateral Commission. President Clinton, in this potential, and deployed Bet1trandRussell and otherintel­ announcing a special relationship between the United States ligence operatives to disrupt Sun Yat-sen's work and foster and Germany (and overturningthe old "special relationship" a Jacobin opposition in the form of a Communist Party of with England), during his visit to Europe in July, opened China. up the potential for vast rail and other infrastructuredevelop­ The 1994 Trilateral report:o n China should serve as a ment projects covering all of Europe and extending to the warning that equally deadly meansare being preparedtoday east, as the basis for a future of peace. Chinese Prime to prevent any real development of the Eurasian landmass. Minister Li Peng and a team of 160 Chinese industrialists and specialists visited Germany in the same period, signing The U.N. utopians agreements for collaboration in transportation, energy devel­ The report adoptsthe now $tandardbattle criesof those opment, space travel, and other areas of heavy industryand committed to imposingU.N .I IMF world government: "sus­ infrastructure. What is emerging is a potential for rebuilding tainable" development (a euphemism for various forms of

16 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 anti-industrial policies); population control; limits on that the "New Great Leap" of the pas� 15 years has not been "greenhouse gases" and other anti-industrial policies prem­ based on developing the real economy, but on looting the ised on fraudulentenvironmental arguments; and restrictions resources and the population in a downward process leading on military technology and arms sales. The Trilateral intent to disaster. If the Chinese economy is measured in real is captured in their statements ridiculing China as having terms, there has been a falling rate of .gricultural production an "obsession with economic development above all else," per capita since 1984, and as well as a falling rate of rail and references to "irresponsible industrialization." The re­ construction. The production of certain consumer goods has port heaps praise on the southern coastal trade zone policy boomed as a spinoff of the cheap-labor export industries, of "export-led growth strategies," which has in fact created but this does not affect the critical qrisis in infrastructure. a speculative bubble economy based on low-skill, low-tech­ Even in those areas where gross output has increased sig­ nology coolie labor, real estate speculation, drugs, crime, nificantly (if not adequately), such as steel and energy pr0- and corruption. The problem with the rest of the country, duction, the output has been utilized primarily in the trade they contend, is that there is a real industrial base which zones rather than in the development of necessary national Beijing has stubbornly refused to shut down. infrastructure. The Trilateral strategy is to force Beijing to impose a The result is that the potential :population density in variant of the shock therapy policy which destroyed the China is literally decreasing. The cuttent "redundant labor" eastern European economies over the past five years. The in the countryside is somewhere between 150 and 200 mil­ primary means for this task is to bring China into GATT lion. The government acknowledges that if current policy and the new World Trade Organization (WTO), but not on projections are maintained, another 10 million will be added China's terms. ''The most pressing issue," the report says, to this total every year at least throu�h the year 2000. The is "getting China into the fold of the WTO . . . as rapidly Trilateral solution, of course, is not to launch great infra­ as possible, by agreeing to GATT rules." The problem for structure projects or nuclear-powered city building, but to the Trilateral Commission is that, under GATT rules, devel­ do away with the people. oping countries arepermitted to join GATT without meeting The commission is particularly incensed at the bad pub­ all the free-trade requirements. The report states: "China's licity and adverse actions taken agai�st China for its bestial insistence that it be characterized as a 'developing country' forced population-reduction policies. The report insists that is another potential problem. This would allow China to the West must end the "unconstructive ideological barriers, maintain tariff protection for 'infant industries,' such as [such as] U.S. withholding of funds •..to protest China's automobiles, machinery, and electronics." These domestic population control methods." Afterall , they argue, "Its coer­ industries, and others, are slated by the Trilateral bankers cive tactics to control population growth, while widely con­ to be eliminated, to be replaced by either foreign-owned demned in the international commupity, have been effec­ production or imports. tive." Although they are glad to see the continuing, virtually The Trilateral Commission has a solution to this impedi­ unlimited supply of cheap labor flowing into the coastal ment: Purchasing Power Parities (PPP), an accounting meth­ trade zones, the report's authors re$ect the recurring fear od adopted by the World Bank last year (see box). According of the oligarchy that "a mass exodus Qf Chinese would surely to this magician's sleight-of-hand, the Chinese economy overwhelm the world . . . in a w0rld already awash in virtually tripled in size overnight. Suddenly, the financial migrants." press in the West began reporting China as the third-largest A related concernof the Trilateral! Commission is that the economy in the world, and many began proclaiming that massive unemployment, together wi� the economic crises in China is no longer a developing country. The Trilateral agriculture and in the state sector indqstries, may feed politi­ report introduces PPP accounting on page one, and claims cal unrest. The report warns against any moral response that the remarkable growth of China's economy is "further from the West in such a situation, bu� insists the well-known blurring the distinction between developed and developing methods of violent suppression used by Beijing must be nations." (To appreciate how repUlsive this statement is, understood as acceptable in the "Chlnese context": "When one need only consider the 150-200 million unemployed confronted with disorder, the challenge for both China's Chinese peasants who are recycled in and out of the trade rulers and the outside world will be not to panic, not to zone sweatshops, or the genocidal collapse of much of Afri­ conclude the regime's survival is at I stake , but to place the ca, in relation to the fact that PPP methods also accredit the unrest in its Chinese context and to i respond accordingly." African economies with an "overnighttripling" in size!) The This is not surprising, since author Michel Oksenberg, to­ reportconcludes that China must be held to advanced sector gether with his friend Henry Kissin$er, were the two most rather than developing sector standards: "We favor insisting visible figures on worldwide televisipn in the hours follow­ that China make firm commitments to meet GATT/WTO ing the military operations at Tian�men Square in 1989, standards. " arguing for full support for Deng Xilloping's bloody tactics The use of Purchasing Power Parities covers for the fact against the student demonstrations. ,

ElK August 19, 1994 Economics 17 The Trilateralists do not overtly endorse communism, system into southern China, moving outward and fuzzing but they are hopeful that the Communist Party of China can the boundary between Hongkong and the rest of China." "transform itself into a corporatist party, incorporating the natural elites of the various sectors of society and thereby Cultural assault playing an invaluable integrative role." "Corporatism," of The most disgusting aspect of the Trilateral report is its course, is generally associated with fascism, of the Mussoli­ fraudulent and insulting profile!of Chinese culture and histo­ ni variety, a model in high favor among the utopians of the riography. The fact that the authors felt compelled to degrade Trilateral Commission. the Chinese people in a publio report about their country is The Trilateral report lends its authority to the potential symptomatic of the colonial mentality guiding the Trilateral splitting of China into several parts, a favorite project among Commission ideologues. British intelligence China hands, especially Gerald Segal of Despite the general chaos which has characterized China the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who is listed in the ISO years since the firstBritish Opium War, the nearly as a "consultant" by the report's authors. They follow Segal 5,OOO-year recorded history of China is one of recurring in definingGuangdong and Fujian provinces as constituting periods of dramatic developments in science and culture. a separate entity from the rest of China: "A trans-state eco­ Nowhere in the world was this history as carefully and exten­ nomic zone exists in South China, with the Hongkong dollar sively recorded for posterity than in China, beginning with circulating in Guangdong and the Taiwan dollar in Fujian." the histories of antiquity prepared by Confucius and his col­ Hongkong, the authors muse, has "extended its economic laborators in the 5th century BJC. This scholarly tradition of

each service. Their method ign�res the level of technology and the quality of the workf�rce which is invested in The magical 'purchasing the production of such goods land services, considering instead only the final product!. This method, therefore, power parity' of the IMF ignores the actual cost to the national economy in produc­ ing such goods. For example, the price of a ton of rice in In the spring of 1993 the International Monetary Fund an advanced economy reflects a stored-up value in the (IMP) released its annual "World Economic Outlook," infrastructure of the economy, the technologically ad­ announcing a change in procedure for measuring and com­ vanced machinery, and the educational level of the farm­ paring a nation's aggregate output of goods and services. er, which makes it possible toi produce a greater relative Overnight,most Third World nations' economies doubled quantity of rice with a smaller relative expenditure of the or tripled in size, according to these IMF wizards. As national energy resources (althQugh there is a greatergross demonstrated in the accompanying article on the Trilateral energy utilization), and a sm�ler number of man-hours Commission's China policy, this accountant's trick has employed. Thus, the higher monetary value of this rice been used both to justify the disastrous policies of the IMF over a ton of rice produced in Otina reflects a cheaper cost over the past 25 years and to force the developing nations to the national economy of the advanced sector nation than to betreated as developed nations in relations with interna­ the lower-priced Chinese rice actually costs the Chinese tional trade and financial institutions. economy. Although the Chinese rice is produced and dis­ The IMF's "Purchasing Power Parity" (PPP) approach tributed with a smaller total energy expenditure for such is presented as a more accurate measure of the relative things as farm machinery, irrigation, storage, and trans­ size of each nation's economy, due to distortions which portation, this nonetheless represents a relatively high exist in the currency exchange ratios. The IMF's "World proportion of the nation's avail.ble energy resources.This Economic Outlook" explains these distortions as follows: deficit in technology and skill level is made up through a "In the case of developing countries, market exchange gross waste of manpower, deployed as unskilled labor to rates may deviate fromtheir PPP values because of differ­ do work better done mechanically. ences in the relative price of traded versus non-trade out­ In regard to services, the IMF's PPP method is even put. For example, the price of services in developing moreludicrous. For example, fue severe crisis in Chinese countries is typically very low in foreign currency terms, education and health services, IIlggravatedby the massive and this implies a negative bias in exchange-rate-based deficit of professionals due tOI the 15 years without any estimates of living standards." college graduates during the Gultural Revolution and its Using the PPP method, the IMF claims to have estab­ aftermath, can in no way beplaced on a parity price level lished a "universal value" for each item of production and with the advanced sector.

18 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 I historiography becomes the subject of ridicule to Mr. Ok­ the policies of the Trilateral Commisslionfrom any positions senberg and his co-authors. of influence. Referencing the view of Harvard's recently deceased Si­ The report's authors then proceCfd to create their own nologist John Fairbanks, the report states that "the Chinese distortions of Chinese history. They begin with a fraud-by­ awareness of their own past is as much myth as reality." It omission: They refer to "the continUity of the civilization proceedsto list four "distortions" which "recent scholarship" and glory of [China's] accomplishments in the Han, Tang, has exposed�ach of the four being vacuous and pedantic Ming, and Qing dynasties.'" Missing ,is the Sung (960-1279 points that are, in any case, debatable at best. The report A.D.), which was the era of the Confucian Renaissance. concludes: "These four distortions that the Chinese have per­ the golden age of the Confucian school of Chu Hsi and his petuated about their history . . . were crucial in promoting predecessors, of dramatic economic!: expansion, overseas imperial bureaucratic rule and facilitating the unity of the exploration, rapid population growth,' and a scientificrevo- country. . . . Since time immemorial, Chinese leaders have lution. instructed intellectuals to write history not for accuracy but Perhaps the Sung was left out ; by an oversight. But to make moral judgments and draw lessons for the present." further such omissions tend to demonstrate an intentionally It is understandable that the Trilateraloids would object to selective presentation. In discussing Confucian philosophy, making moral judgments and drawing lessons from history, the report states: "In the Confucial lexicon, filial piety, since, if the citizens of the western nationswould utilize such loyalty, ritual or propriety were among the most esteemed criteria, they would immediately remove anyone advocating virtues." This is true-but far more jimportant are benevo-

Shadow play that result. In fact, the choice of the Purchasing Power Parities The IMF ignores the fact that th� recurring devalua­ values is totally arbitrary. There were several different tions of the Third W orId nations' cunencies in every case methods of PPP calculations made by different institu­ are forced upon these nations by the .IMFitself, as partof tions, with wildly different results. The method chosen by the "conditionalities" and "structUlial adjustment" de­ the IMF for China was that of J.S. Taylor, published in manded of them, under the threat (often carried out) of 1991 by the Center for InternationalResearch in Washing­ an organized cutoff of all credit and; external aid. These ton under the title "Dollar GNP Estimates for China." nations are thus forced to export their raw materials and Despite many charts and tables, comparingthe values of the products of their low-skilled wor�orce at a fractionof goods in China and on the "worId market," the entire their previous value, while paying blackpreviously con­ exercise ultimately comes down to choosing a different tracted debt service severalfold without borrowing a cent. exchange rate. Taylor, showing considerable chutzpah, And, of course, imports become more expensive, holding says in his own report: "Fortunately, recent research by back the import of desperately needed technology and Taylor on shadow prices in China provides us with an contributing to inflation. alternative." This "shadow exchange rate," says Taylor, Although it is, in fact, necessary ito find amore accu­ is 2.23 yuan/dollar, as opposed to the current real ex­ rate measure for comparing economfes than that defined change rate of 8.64yuan/dollar. Thus a unit of rice which by the artificially manipulated currepcy exchange rates, costs 100 yuan, or $11 .50 under the real exchange rate, the IMP's monetarist sleight-of-hand.is demonstrated by is instantaneously revalued at $44.84, and the average its "WorId Economic Outlook," whiCh insists that, while peasant's consumption just went up fourfold! non-traded items and servicesshould be evaluated by their Any claim that this "shadow exchange rate" is deter­ version of the PPP standard, export �oods and debt pay­ mined by scientific criteria must be rejected out of hand. ments-i.e., the source of loot for t� internationalbank ­ The IMF admitted when they adopted the PPP system that ing interests-must remain at the devalued real exchange they had a hard time choosing the Taylor system over rate: "It would not be appropriate . , . to use PPP-based other alternatives. One of the other methods would have weights to aggregate measures of internationaltrade and made the Chinese economy seven times bigger than it capital movements, which are tran�acted at market ex­ really is, which they judged to be simply too much to be change rates, or data for externaldelit and debt service." believed. Another would have only doubled the economy, Ironically, if the IMF were to utilize their fraudulent which would not have been adequate to declare China to "shadow exchange rate" to evaluate debt service payments be no longer a developing country. Therefore, having over the past 20 years, many Third WIorIdcountries would decided upon the result they needed for their political be shown to have paid off their foreign debt many times purposes, they chose the "method" which provided over. ,

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 19 lence, or agapic love (jen), ri$hteousness (i) and wisdom (chi). Why are these left out? The authors are attempting Currency Rates to justify their distorted and wrverted characterization of the "Chinese character": "Ce�ain powerful tendencies in The dollar in deutschemarks thought and practice traceable t� Confucius and his disciples New York lateafternoon fixing are widespread: the dominant qhinese tradition asserts that human identity is derived fro� the network of social rela­ 1.80 tions in which one is inevitably enmeshed. . . . Human beings, according to this view, clio not have innate character- 1.70 istics; they are malleable." ,

UO This degraded concept of rpan has nothing to do with - - Confucianism, which views m� as being born fundamen­ I.SO � � ,. " tally good by reason of the in�rn virtues of agapic love (jen), granted by Heaven, whiph subsumes wisdom, righ­ 1.40 teousness and propriety, and which distinguishes man from 716 7113 7120 7127 813 8/10 the beast. The notion of man asj a malleable tool of the state is associated not with Confuci�ism, but with its opposite, The dollar in yen New York late afternoon ftxlng Legalism, the ideology of the ipfamous Qin dynasty of the third century B.C., which enslaved much of the population,

130 burned the Confucian Classics, and buried alive the Confu­ cian scholars who resisted. Not $urprisingly, the Qin Emper­ no or was the idol of Mao Zedonf;, who advised his subjects to conceive of themselves as $crews in a machine. Since 110 the Trilateral Commission so cl�arly expresses its preference for a docile Chinese workforce,I along the lines of the Legal­ 100 ..... ists and Mao Zedong, it is to �e expected that they would falsify Confucianism to make ,t appear to be Legalist, its QI\ opposite. , 716 7113 7120 7127 813 8110 The authors are undoubtedlr also aware that the Anglo­ The British pound in dollars American establishment whicq they represent contributed New York late afternoon ftxlng significantly to the destructionj of the Confucian tradition and the creation of the Comm�ist Party. Beginning in the 1.80 1920s , radical positivists sucbj as Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and, later, Joseph Nieedham, both directly and 1.70 through institutions such as the United Nations which they created, filled China with a dis�orted view of "western sci­ UO ence," while denigrating the C�nfucian tradition in favor of -- -- I.SO """" the Taoist and Legalist ideolo�ies. The oligarchical families ;who created the Trilateral 1.40 Commission are just as intent t¢ay to prevent any renewal 6122 6n!) 716 7113 7120 7127 813 8110 of the Confucian tradition whiqb, they fear, could facilitate collaboration with the pro-gro\fth enemies of the Trilateral The dollar in Swiss francs Commission in the West, bas d on a shared commitment New York late afternoon ftxlng � to the massive development pr�jects needed throughout the Eurasian landmass. The final cqapter of the Trilateral report UO on China states in blunt coloni,"ist terms: I.SO "Both China and the Ttilate.al nations must work togeth­ er to build sustainable, rather �han astronomical growth in 1.40 China.. ..Bu t the Trilateral cpuntries must also recognize that a cooperative approach "lay not elicit a constructive � - 1.30 � .-./'"" Chinese response .... Such c,assic considerations as bal­ - ance of power, realism, and a:keen sense of the Trilateral JJO interests must also govern we,tern and Japanese thinking 6122 6/l'J 716 7113 7120 7127 813 8110 about China."

20 Economics ElK August 19, 1994 u. s. Unemployment Coverup

"Want a job now" Last month Part-time for economic reasons 4;425,000 Last month 4, 785, 000

Total 18·456,000 Last month 1�, 100,000

Civilian labor force 130,457,000 Last month 130,248, 000 Employed 122,452,000 Last month 122,430, 000 Non-farm payroll employees 113,566,000 Last month 113,330,000

What the graph shows Total unemployed and partially employed The U.S. Labor Department's monthly un- (1965-94) employment rate (U-5b) is based on a sta- (in thousands) tistical sampling of approximately 57,000 Part-time Total households. But in order for someone to be for unemployed counted as unemployed, the respondent Official "Want a economic and member of the household (often not the per- Civilian son who is out of work) must be able to labor unemployed job now" reas�ns underemployed state what specific effort that person made force % % % % in the last four weeks to find a job. If no spe- Year (a) (b) (b/a) (c) (cia) (d) .(d1a) (b+c+d) (b+c+d)/a cific effort can be cited, the jobless person is classified as not in the labor force and is 1965 74,455 3,366 4.5% na 1,928 �.6% na1 ignored in the official unemployment count. 1970 82,771 4,093 4.9% 3,881 4.7% 2,198 2.7% 10,172 12.3% But over 6 million of these discarded people 1975 93,775 7,929 8.5% 5,271 5.6% 3,541 ;:3.8% 16,741 17.9% are also reportedon the quarterly survey in- 1980 106,940 7,637 7.1% 5,675 5.3% 4,064 3.8% 17,376 16.2% dicating that they "want a regular job now." These appear in the graph in dark 1985 115,461 8,312 7.2% 5,933 5.1% 5,334 �.6% 19,579 17.0% gray shading. In addition, over 6 million 1990 124,787 6,874 5.5% 5,473 4.4% 4,860 3.9% 17,207 13.8% more people are forced into part-time work 1991 125,303 8,426 6.7% 5,736 4.6% 6,046 4.8% 20,208 1 6.1% for economic reasons, such as slack work 1992 126,982 9,384 7.4% 6, 181 4.9% 6,385 .o% 21 ,950 17.3% or inability to find a full-time job. These p people show up as employed in the official 1993 128,040 8,734 6.8% 6,319 4.9% 6,348 '5.0% 21 ,401 16.7% statistics, even if they worked only one hour 19941 130,606 8,271 6.3% 6,580 5.0% 4,807 3.7% 19,658 15.1% during the survey week. These appear in the graph in lighter-gray shading. 1. Cumulative average.

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 21 'r BusinessBrief s

Technology seven countries in Asia in 1993 (Bangla­ 'of the collapse. A series of lawsuits has been desh, China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Paki­ brought against the bank's board of directors Food irradiation backed stan, and Sri Lanka) . Imported cases were and against the Chilean-based ArianaTrading by Public Health Service reported by Estonia, Germany, Singapore, and Finance Co. , which mediatedthe purchase the United States, and Hongkong. of the debt paper. They arecharged withillicit Since WHO does not require separate enrichment and fraud. Costa Rican banking The u.s. Public Health Service has endorsed reporting of cholera caused by V. cholerae law prohibitS the typeof risky operationscar­ food irradiation to curb foodbome illnesses. 0139, it remains unclear what proportion ried out by the BAC. Assistant U.S. Secretary for Health Philip R. of all cases reported from Asia are caused Lee, M.D. wrote in the July 27 JOUTMI of the by this serogroup. The clinical disease and American Medical Association: "Foodbome the mode of transmission appearto be simi­ illness is one of the largestpreventable public lar to those of V. cholerae 01 , and for that Aerospace health problems in the United States." reason case management and prevention Lee emphasized that food irradiation is caused by the two organisms can be the British cabinet in row "critical to achieving cost containment in same, according to the WHO. health system reform" because it will reduce Of particular concern, however, is the over proposed cuts the incidence of foodbome ilIness--nowesti­ fact that individuals who have been exposed matedat 9,000deaths and6.5-8.1 million cas­ to V. cholerae 01 in the past, and who A policywar has erupted in the Britishcabinet es of diarrheal illnesses that cost theeconomy . therefore have substantial immunity to in­ afterEmployment SecretaryMichael Portillo, $5-6 billion per year. fection by this serogroup, have no immunity a Thatcherite who until recentlyhad been chief "It is the U. S. Public Health Service's re­ to the 0139 serogroup. Additionally, the secretary to ItheTreasury, insisted, in a letter sponsibility to use what we know to protectand available injectable vaccines and oral vac­ leaked to th� London Guardian, on massive improve the health of the public. Each modem cines under development that are directed cutbacks in sUpportsubsidies for Britishindus­ food-processing advance-pasteurization, against V. cholerae 01 provide no protec­ try provided by the Ministry of Trade andin­ canning, freezing-producedcriticism. Food tion against V. cholerae 0139. dustry. The latteris headed by Michael Hesel­ irradiation is no different. It is up to leaders in tine, who has disagreements with the more the health professions to dispel the myths," radical aspepts of Thatcherite "free market" Lee said. nostrums. ' Banking In an un�sual move, Portillo confirmedthe authenticity 'of the letter. Costa Rica's largest At stake is some £400million for indus­ Health try, which i� conduited through Heseltine' s bank goes under ministry. Officials in the British Space New cholera serogroup Agency an� other agencies are protesting The Anglo-Costa Rican Bank (BAC), the na­ that the cuts proposed by Portillo will badly emerged during 1993 tion's largest, has failed for reasons relatedto undermine :what remains of British high­ the Venezuelan banking crisis. The failure oc­ technology .potentials. A new strain of cholera, V. cholerae 0139, curred on June 13, but the news is just now emerged during 1993, the World Health leaking out, the Venezuela daily EI NacioMI Organization said in its "Cholera in 1993" reported on Aug. 3. report. Immunity to the familiar strain, V. The bank's problems stem from its having Russia cholerae 01 , is no help in resisting the new purchased close to $58 million in Venezuela's I strain . While there was an 18% reduction secondary debt instruments between October Crackdown against MMM 1993 and May 1994; when their value col­ in the number of reported cases and a 16% licy turn reduction in the number of reported deaths lapsed over a period of time, the bank folded. signals PO compared with 1992, the number of coun­ It made its firstpurchase of Venezuelan paper tries reporting cholera was the highest ever at 78% of its value; the second purchase was Sergei Mavrodi, the head of the MMM "in­ recorded in any one year. at 75% of its value, and the thirdat 52% of its vestment fu�d,"the biggest in Russia, was ar­ The firstreports of epidemics caused by value. When the value continued to drop, the restedonA�.4inapoliceraidonhis Moscow V. cholerae 0139 were from Madras, India banktried to sell off someof the debt to recover apartment. The arrest is seen by the Russian in October 1992, and the epidemics subse­ some of its investment, but ultimately lost "business" qommunity as the latest signal in a quently spread to other parts of the country close to $54 million-an amount greater than shift away tom insane "Wild West" radical in early 1993 . The new strain was later its own capital . free market ;structures. Andrei Volgin, presi­ reported to be the predominant serogroup Total losses amount to 1% of Costa Rica's dent of Adamant, one of Russia's leading fi­ in five Indian states, and was reported by GNP, and the economy is feeling the impact nancial firm!>, told the Aug. 5 London FiMn-

22 Economics EIR August 19, 1994 • TURKISH Prime Minister Tansu Ciller's "new economic policy" of accelerated privatization and budget cuts has eliminated 500,000 jobs in cial Times that broader crackdowns are investment which could providejobs and sta­ three months. Strikes are officially coming: "I am afraid that in the wake of the bilize the situation. banned but pontaneous warning Haaretz s MMM crisis there will be a movement toward Arafat told the Israeli daily that he strikes have belenreported. strictstate regulation of the stock markets. . . . is finding it harderand harder to go on in this situation, and "the explosion is liable to The MMM scandal will not be the last one in ROMANI.j\N mine workers are that • Russia." come." Arafat said violence of the sort on strike, deJlnanding employment erupted at a Gaza Stripborder crossing in July Mavrodi was charged with withholding guarantees against privatization would recur. taxes on profits from the state, estimated at plans, increastd pay to compensate Arafat charged that officers of the Israeli about$25 million. He had refusedall coopera­ for inflation, improved social bene­ Shin Bet secretpolice were engaged in an "or­ tion with the authorities investigating MMM, fits and heaIth tcare, and investments ran ganized plot" to hamper self-rule,delaying or which on the basis of a classic pyramiding in equipment ' and improved safety steaIing equipment and shipmentsintendedfor scheme, i.e., money that pours in frommany measures. U$ion leader Cosmas Palestinian institutions. investor-suckers, is at first shelled out to give threatened on . Aug. 2 that workers exorbitant "returns" to the first batch of "in­ may seek to replace the government. vestors," thus creating the aura of fantastic easy money returnsfor all who invest. APPROVAL for two standard­ the Environmentalism • Prof. Marshall Goldman, under title ized advanced'light water reactor de­ "Russia's MMM Grew in a Culture of Rot," signs was sent to the U.S. Depart­ wrotein theAug . 5 International HeraldTrib­ Two German infrastructure ment of Energy from the Nuclear une that the MMM fiasco is a lawful result of projects are threatened Regulatory Commission on July 28. the past years'refo rms. He said Russia is inun­ The designs will be used to build new dated with Russian versions of Michael MiI­ Two important infrastructure projects in Ger­ nuclear plants without having each ken and other swindlers. "Moscow has be­ many arebeing threatened by environmental­ individual plant go through a design come the shell-game capital of the world. But ists in the Social DemocraticParty (SPD), the licensing process. the rootsof the problem go beyondavarice and GreenParty , and theParty of Democratic So­ naivete. Russia's poorly conceived andrapid­ cialism (pDS , the former communists). COLOM8IA'S central bank pol­ ly applied economic reforms play a role. . . . • A new SPD-Greencoalition in the state of icies are leading to the "concentration These new 'owners, ' along with a new class of Saxony-Anhalt has declared its intent to stop of rural property . . . in the hands financial manipulators , have come into great the constructionof the planned superhighway of drug traffickers," Farmers Society wealth while all around them industrial pro­ to connectHalle and Gottingen, and Halle and President Cesar De Hart said in a let­ duction is collapsing. Unemployment, for­ Magdeburg. These routes have been serious ter to Central !Jank President Miguel merly disguised, has come into plain view. To­ bottlenecksin the nationwide transportsystem Urrutia, Reuters reported on Aug. 1. day, Moscow streets are jammed with the since unification.Before any big infrastructure He said that they had bought 7.5-10 Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs, and Cadillacs of or constructionproject can start, the coalition million acres dfthe 67.5 million acres thenew rublebillionaires ." Goldman said that is firstdemanding an environmental compati­ used for graziag. the Yeltsin regime is deeply implicated in the bilitystudy. Thehead of the Greensin thestate process, as "governmentcorruption is equally parliament, Hans-Jochen Tschiche, empha­ BRAZIL'S space agency and blatant, especially in Moscow. • " sized to the economic daily Handelsblatt on NASA will conduct experiments be­ Aug. 2 that this is a rej ection of the "mystery tween Aug. I? and Oct. 20 to study of economic growth by superhighways." the space environment over the Additional transportinfrastructure is of vi­ 'Earth's magnetic equator, NASA an­ Middle East tal importance for the region, including the nounced on Aug. 1. Thirty-three new "Leuna 2()()()" chemical industry com­ rockets launc�ed from Brazil will Arafat warns that aid plex, and has already been approved by both measure electric fields, electric cur­ houses of parliament. rents, electr<)n densities, neutral pledges must be met Anotherprojectat risk is theplanned Baltic winds, and ioaospheric instabilities. Sea superhighway in northeastern Germany. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman The SPD, GreenParty , and PDS in the state of • OIL AND GAS drilling activity Yasser Arafat wamed that anexplosion is com­ MeckJenburg-Vorpommeraniahave declared in the first half of 1994 in the United ing if steps are not taken by Israel and donor their opposition to it, and these parties could States was more than 20% below countries to deliver promised aid to the Pales­ win controlof the govemrnent in the upcoming 1993, the American Petroleum Insti­ tinian-administered areasofGaza and Jericho, elections. Handelsblatt reportedthat pollsare tute reported qn July 26. The demand Reuters reported on Aug. 3. The"moment of showing that 90% of the population and the for oil and oil, products rose 4.2% in truth has arrived, and alarmbells areringing ," majority of the cities in the state support the the same periQd. Arafat said, referring to the lack of economic project.

EIR August 19, 1994 Economics 23 TIillFeature

The British hand behind thehprr or in Rwanda

by David Hammer and Linda de Hoyo$ i

The annihilation of the country of Rwanda-the ma$s slaughter of hundreds of thousands of its people, the dislocation of 5 milliom of its 7 million people in disease-ravaged refugeecamps both inside and out thelcountry-is the direct result of operations put into place by British intelligence!, an EIR investigation has determined. The key regional linchpin in the operation is Ugandan President Y oweri Mu­ seveni, who for his own delusionary motivations, ha� been recruited to carry out British geopolitical ambitions in the region. The poliqy is being case-officered by Lynda Chalker, Minister of Overseas Development, fPrmerlythe British Colonial

Office. i The British operation was launched with the Octotier 1990 invasion of Rwanda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from Uganda, r.viththe full knowledge and approval of British intelligence. That invasion, in turP, set into motion the series of events, reviewed below, which have led inexorably to the incomprehensible levels of human mental and physical suffering seen in Rwandans today. Military interventions fromFrance since 1990, in an attempt to defend Rwanda and the governmentof Juvenal Habyarimana against the RPF, only worsened the crisis. Based on the same geopolitical "sphere of in ence" assumptions as the British gameplan, French policy, reportedly in the ands of President Fran�ois Mitterrand's son, Jean Christophe Mitterrand,never 0E nly challenged or exposed the British gameplan, but did succeed in encouraging wandan weapons procure­ ment. France stood by and watched as the Rwandan presidential guard organized the Hutu militias, the Frankenstein monster that theb carried out the systematic murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi men, women, and children, in the path of the RPF blitzkrieg into the country this spring. Without effective intervention to bring a halt to �ritish geopolitical desjgns for the destruction of the African nation-states and depopulation of the African continent, the horrific events that have taken place in Rwanda since early April 1994, will be repeated, on a far greater scale, in country after country.

24 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 Rwandan refugees seek water andfood on the road near Goma, Zaire, where refugee camps are located. The crisis was manufactured by British intelligence, using Uganda as its tool.

In East Africa, the immediate goal for British intelligence is [President] Mobutu [Sese Seko] . . . . 'If Zaire goes,' says one to use Uganda, which was first leveled by the British-spon­ analyst, 'it will make Somalia look like a Sunday picnic.' " sored barbarian Idi Amin (1972-79) and has now become the Globally, the Rwanda crisis, since it erupted in full force major British financial and political outpost in the region, as with the April 6 double assassinations of Rwanda's President the springboard for the destabilization of the region. This Habyarimana and Burundi's Presidept Cyprien Ntaryamira , involves: the destruction of both Rwanda and Burundi, turn­ has served as "j ustification" for British intelligence to press ing the remains into functional satellites of U gandan (British) for depopulation and one-world U.N. -administ ered govern­ domination; the destabilization of Kenya, including the elim­ ment. Despite her intimate knowled�e of the precise causes ination of Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi and instigation for Rwanda's disintegration, Britain's Lady Chalker has used of tribal warfare; and possible seizure of mineral-rich eastern the Rwandan "example" to motivate the protocols of the Zaire . In addition , British intelligence, with aid of Project September U . N. InternationalConference on Population and Democracy outlets in the United States, is creating the condi­ Development in Cairo , telling the London Royal Society on tions for tribal warfare in the keystone nation of West Africa, July 11, "The density of population in Rwanda is one reason Nigeria, where 3 million people died during the Biafran war why the scale of that tragedy is so e ormous ." Her remarks of 1967; and in South Africa, whose fragile stability rests on were published in the Daily Telegraph the next day under the President Nelson Mandela. headline "Chalker's Rwanda Warning to Church," on the As of this writing, the potential for British aims to be ful­ necessity to legislate procreation limits, especially in the filled is very high. Already, U. S. Agency for International developing countries. Development (AID) director Brian Atwood told the U.S. The annihilation of Rwanda is alsoI being used to suggest Congress on July 26, that the Rwanda debacle has the "poten­ that African governmentsmust be replaced with rule by colo­ tial to destabilize the entire region. The massive movement nial powers , either through the U.N.Ior directly. As the New of refugees and the continuing threat of re newed civil strife York Times noted on April 14, "The United States and its could trigger similar situations in Burundi, Zaire , Uganda, allies have decided it would be diffichltto maintain it [Rwan­ Tanzania, and Kenya, and could spill quickly across borders da] without transforming the country into a United Nations . throughout the Hom [of Africa] and Central Africa." And as trusteeship or a colonial-style admi stration." U.S. News and World Report prepares its readers : "Zaire has An intelligence source in South Africa bitterly summa­ been tottering on the brink of collapse since rioting and Army­ rized British aims in the Rwanda operation: "There is a Mach­ led looting swept the country in 1991. . . . A frustrated oppo­ iavellian plan to show that the wohd population is out of sition may be spurred into using more radical measures against control, that this manifests itself in Africa in inter-tribal war-

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 25 fare , that there is no way these people can feed themselves, • The RPF's Peter Baingaina was the head of the NRA that all this aid is not enough, and that these areas will require Medical Services; massive aid for years to come, which means big tax rises in • The RPF's Chris Bunyenyezi was the former com­ the advanced sector to pay for it. So there will be tremendous manding officerof the NRA' s 306th Brigade, which was noto­ psychological warfare, behind which is the thinking that Af­ rious for the atrocities committed against Uganda's Teso. rica should be depopulated and just used as a raw materials In 1989, many of these officers of the Ugandan Army, base, then recolonized. . . . These are the thoughts of the big including Kagame, were sent to the United States for training megacorporations, indistinguishable from the intelligence at the U. S. Army Command and Staff College, under Ugan­ services, who want the resourcesas cheaply as possible, and dan auspices. do not like being hampered by military governments, or any On Oct. 1, 1990, ten thou$and troops under this RPF governments for that matter. What is really on the go is a leadership invaded Rwanda, and were turned back at the secretrecolonization plan. " edge of Kigali only because of the dispatch of 1,000French Events in Rwanda show this plan is now in the implemen­ paratroopers to defend the c�pital. According to some tation phase. sources, the Ugandan troops i�vaded right along with the RPF, including Museveni's co�sin, Ugandan Army com­ The dismemberment of Rwanda mander Salim Saleh. According to one source in Kampala, Before April, Rwanda had an approximate population of 95% of the RPF was in the Ug,nda Army. And the NRA, 7.2 million. As of July 26, at least 500,000 people had been itself trained by the British, Amlericans, and NorthKoreans killed inside Rwanda. According to estimates supplied by the since Museveni took power in 1�86, has been the consistent U.S. AID, 2,576,000 people are displaced inside Rwanda, source of supplies and financingIfor the RPF force. including 1.3 million in the French Safe Zone in the southwest According to some Ugandap sources, behind the RPF comer of the country. Another 2,223,000people are refugees drive is Museveni's dream to establish a Greater Tutsi em­ outside of Rwanda, including 1 ,542,000 inZaire , 210,000 in pire. The Ugandan security intelligence remains dispropor­ Burundi, 460,500 in Tanzania, and 10,500in Uganda. That tionately in the hands of Museveni 's ethnic brothers of Bany­ is, 5,299,000people , or 73.5% of the population, have been arwanda, Rukungiri, and Ankole of southern Uganda. The killed or are uprooted. It is feared that if French troops leave name given the RPF strikecorps is Inkontanyi, in referenceto the Safe Zone on Aug. 22, at the end of their U.N. mandate, the leading warriors around the old Tutsi court. Reportedly, the 1.3 million people there will floodacross the borders into Kagame is cousin of the wife of the last Rwandan king, neighboring Zaire and Burundi. The RPF is ruling from the Mutara III, who died in 1959. 'The Tutsi also completely capital city of Kigali over a depopulated country . dominate the military of Burundi. How did this happen? Although there is a longstanding history of caste warfare Behind every man . . . in both Burundi and Rwanda, which was exacerbated when Behind Museveni is Lady Lynda Chalker. According to Belgium took over both colonies in 1921 and made the Tutsi British sources, Chalker was the first foreigner to meet with its comprador ruling class, Rwanda's devastation could never Museveni once he took power in Kampala, descending on have occurred without outside intervention. The immediate him only 10 days after he had secured the country. Since source of that intervention was Uganda. then, Museveni and Chalker have been "very luvvie-duvvie," In 1986, Yoweri Museveni took power in Uganda, after as one source put it. A British! East Africa expert further fighting afive-year guerrilla wa r, firstagainst President Mil­ complained that Lady Chalker "sPendsa lot of time, a dispro­ ton Obote and then against President Tito Okello. Musev­ portionate amount of time, in the Hom of Africa and Ugan­ eni's firstrecruits to his National Resistance Army (NRA) da." Soon afterthe RPF victory in Rwanda, Chalker visited were sons of the Tutsi refugees from Rwanda who had come Uganda for a four-day tour hostedby Museveni, beforetrip­ in the wake of the Hutu revolution in Rwanda in 1959. Some ping over to Goma, Zaire, to view the refugees. On the latter sources claim Museveni, himself a member of the Hima tribe experience, Chalker told the press, that "Of course, when or Ugandan Tutsis, made a pact with the Rwandan Tutsis that one comes face to face with death . . . in their hundreds, or he would put them back in power in Kigali. What is definite as in Goma, in their thousands, I feel it. But I don't allow it is that the leaders of what emerged as the RPF in October to cloud my judgment." 1990 wereidentical to the top echelons of the Ugandan Army: Museveni has been guided by Chalker and personnel • Ugandan minister of state for defense was the RPF's from the Overseas Development Administration in Kampala David Tinyefuza; to tum Uganda into the "showcase" for the International • Paul Kagame, currentvice president and defense min­ Monetary Fund in Africa. Uganda was touted in the Septem­ ister of Rwanda under the RPF, was head of intelligence and ber issue of Atlantic Monthly as an "African success story." counterintelligence in the Ugandan Army; Even though international prices for Uganda's primary ex­ • RPF commander Fred Rwigyema, killed in 1990, was port commodity, coffee , have plummeted since 1986, Mu­ a major general of the Ugandan Army; seveni-who has eamed a reputation as a "true IMF disci-

26 Feature ElK August 19, 1994 ple"-managed to pay requisite debt service on the country's August 1993: Arusha Accords. negotiated between Ha­ $2.5 billion debt. Over 35% of governmentexpenditure has byarimana government and RPF, 'under U.S. and British been diverted to maintaining Museveni's 120,000-man mili­ auspices. Accords grant RPF 50% of commander and officer tary. The balance has been gouged out of the impoverished posts in Rwandan Army and 40% bf the troops, and seven living standards of the Ugandan people-a job Museveni, cabinet posts. Also to be included in governmentare opposi­ with no actual political base other than his Armed Forces, tion democratic Hutu leaders, organized under Project De­ has not hesitated to do. mocracy operation Human Rights fatchiAfrica. Simultaneously, British personnel have returned to run September 1993: U.N. sends peacekeeping force to Uganda (see interview with Barclays Bank official), and Brit­ Rwanda to oversee implementatiolljof Arusha Accords. ish capital is buying those viable enterprises put up for sale Oct. 23, 1993: Attempted military coup in Burundiorga­ at rock-bottom prices through IMF-imposed privatization nized with approval of Belgian intelligence and oversight of schemes. Coming back into Uganda in full force have been Mathias Hitimana, a Burundi Tut$i turned Belgian citizen British tea firms James Finlay and Sons, Commonwealth and arms dealer. President Ndaday� is murdered, along with Development Corp., and Mitchell Cotts; along with British up to 100,000 Hutus, by Tutsi-d(j)minated military. More American Tobabcco, International Distillers and Vintners, than 700,000 Hutus flee Burundi. International press gives and Guinness. In addition, under London's auspices, the big no notice. Asian investment firm Madhvani, which had been thrown December 1993: RPF moves (j()(). troops into Kigali un- out by Idi Amin, has returned as the biggest single investor der Arusha Accords. in the country. Museveni is also getting a hefty$825 million January 1994: British DefeJllse Department African a year from his donors. strategists are reportedly moved off their concentration on For the reasons of Museveni's service to the British­ Angola and put on Rwanda. economically and geopolitically-he stands alone among Af­ March 1994: Another slaughterof Hutus in Burundi, up rican strongmen in not coming under pressure to democra­ to 40,000killed . tize. Money has been handed over, as multiple sources con­ April 6, 1994: Plane carrying Rwandan PresidentHaby­ firm, with no strings attached. As Museveni told the press, arimana and Burundi President Ntaryamira is brought down "My version of democracy has the full backing of the British by three rockets, killing all on board. Mass killings by R wan­ and U.S. governments." Relates one well-informed source dan government troops erupt in Kigali; RPF begins its blitz­ in Kampala: "The British are very much behind this govern­ krieg invasion. ment. You know there is no condition at all on democratiza­ April 19, 1994: U.N. peacektieping troops (2,500 Bel­ tion, no multi-party democracy. The President doesn't even gian forces) withdraw in disgust at lack of mandateto protect pretend [to be] for this, and he is still a darling of the West." civilians. Belgian forces had watcbed as presidential guard Museveni's Uganda is the reality behind the RPF govern­ killed Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyarnina. ment now in Kigali, Rwanda. May 1994: U.N. imposes arms embargo on Rwandan government, as mass slaughter continues throughout the The march to death country, mostly of Tutsis, including 25% of Roman Catholic The RPF invasion of Rwanda, as the following chronolo­ priests. gy shows, put both Rwanda and Burundi on a hairtrigger for June 21, 1994: France gains U.N. approval to send mass violence, especially given the RPF's total domination troops to Rwanda. French troops $et up Safe Zones, nearly by one grouping, the Tutsi. clashing with RPF forces. Oct. 1, 1990: Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda. July 12: Mass exodus of morel than 1 million Rwandans Oct. 27, 1990: Cease-fire, as RPF is repelled by French into Zaire. paratrooperforc e. July 15: RPF is in effective �ontrol of Rwanda, with 1992: As RPF incursions continue along the Ugandan exception of French Safe Zones. i border, Habyarimana governmentbegins organizing militias July 29, 1994: President Clinton pledges massive U.S. in the countryside; begins to raise military from 5,000troops humanitarian aid operation to Rwandan refugees, to becar- I to 40,000. ried out by U.S. military. A survey taken by the group Doc- Dec. 11, 1992: Museveni, reports Africa Analysis. holds tors Without Borders in the firstweek of August shows that meeting with leaders ofRPF. Sudan Liberation Army of John 80,000 people, at least, had died: in the Zaire camps since Garang, and the Kenyan Democratic Party, assuring them of mid-July-more than triple the aid agencies' original esti­ Ugandan backing for operations in their respective countries. mate and a total of 8% of those believed to have arrived at February 1993: RPF invades Rwanda, takingcontrol of the camps. a chunk of territoryin the north, killing 40,000Hut us. Mass How many more will die or suffer unspeakablehorror in exodus of refugees from the area. Rwanda and other targeted Africap countries, before policy June 1, 1993: Melchior Ndadaye is elected first Hutu toward Africa coming from the United: States and its allies is President in Burundi, in firstnational elections. drastically changed?

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 27 di and the loss of the presidential plane, trace back to the Interviews State House in Entebbe. If that is true, there will be no peace in Rwanda or Burundi, whatever happens in the countries, until it is made clear to State HOllsein Entebbe, with credible warnings as to what will happert--e.g., a cutoff of oil-that RPF it must keep its fingersout of Rwanda and Burundi. is theUgandan This is not justifying what h�ppened in Rwanda ....But what one now has in Rwanda, is a very effective army of anny, says expert 10,000 Ugandan troops of Rw;tndese ancestry, with half a dozen long-, long-, long-exiled Hutu, who areviewed , I am This interview with a British East Afr ican expert from the afraid, as nothing more than puppets. And when you have a Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, was made avail­ Hutu President, where I can't fiildanybody who knows who able to EIR by a journalist. he is, a prime minster who is known to have been out of the country for 25 years and been a public relations man for a Q: What seems to be fairly clear is that the RPF [Rwandan Tutsi army organization-and then, a major general is both Popular Front] was actually trained and armed and financed vice president and minister of defense--one' s eyebrows in Uganda. might tend to rise, even if o� is less suspicious than a A: No, no, no! That's throwing roses at it. The RPF is the Rwandese Hutu might tend to be. core of the Ugandan Army! The RPF consists of 10,000 You have the parties which were the majority in the gov­ Ugandan soldiers of Rwandese ancestry. The officers are ernmentat Habyarimana' s dealq, which were then led by the exiles from 1960; the rank and file arebasically the children lady prime minister, who was utken away and killed, out of of exiles bornin Uganda. This was the backbone of the army the midst of the 200 U.N. troops who were supposed to be which took Museveni to power. Remember, Museveni, in protecting her, without a fingerbeing raised! In other words, the 1980 elections, got no votes anYwhere to speak of. So he the majority of the cabinet wete from the minority party, recruited the R wandese exiles to be the core of his army. some of which were largely moderate Hutus, some of which When Museveni starteddemobilizing troops, and oddly were tHe indigenous or resident!Tutsi, some of which were enough, getting internationalfunding for demobilizing, they mixed. The cabinet majority, so far as we know, were slaugh­ demobilized by crossing the border in completely equipped tered to the last man (or woman) by the Hutu. units, taking their insignia off their shoulders as they crossed. Therefore, the minority parties are beheaded, literally. This is why they aresuch an effective army. They're an army . ..Th is, by the way, indicates! that I take the view that the that won a war in Uganda and their commander is the man minute the prime minister and ithe majority of the cabinet who, until three months before the firstinvasion [of Rwanda] were killed, the then-rump governmentwas not a legitimate in 1990, was the number three, the head of intelligence and government of Rwanda. You thpn have Habyarimana's old counterintelligence in Museveni's army [currentVice Presi­ party, which, I am very much atlraid, would win a freeelec­ dent and Defense Minister of Rwanda Paul Kagame]. And tion if one were held in Rwanda tomorrow. clearly they have had access throughout to fuel and ammuni­ However, you have what £ believe is unprecedented. tion. There is only one possible source of this. About one-quarter of the adult pqpulation of Rwanda person­ You can add on two other factors. The firsttime one had ally have blood on their hands. the attempted coup in Burundi [in October 1993], one simply In other words, this is not comparable to Germany. No assumed, from the past record, that this was the hard-line one ever claimed that one-quarter of adult Germans personal­ Tutsi leadership in Burundi, although this looked odd, be­ ly had blood on their hands. I am afraidthere is a difference cause the person who had run in the election on the Tutsi between having participated in I genocide and having been ticket, if you like, and lost, was a general, of course, and part of actual mobs that killed lpeople, rather than simply [he] insisted on theturnover to the firstmurdered President tolerating a governmentthat does it. of Burundi. And the coup didn't succeed because the senior As you can see, I view these three components as an Tutsi leadership wouldn't back it. I mean, it caused hell on exceedingly unpromising mix fot producing a governmentof earth, but it didn't succeed. national unity, or a governmentW ith any base at all. Frankly, Now, the logical result of shooting down the plane with my view is that Rwanda needs a trusteeship government. the two Presidents in it, whoever did it-and you can figure Equally urgent, is to find out what help the government out who I think did it-would have been to cause the exact of Burundi needs, so we don't have a second Rwanda. In results in Burundi that one got in Rwanda. Almost exact, other words, any more initiatives from the State House in at least the same as happened after the first President's Entebbe could well topple Buruhdi into the same situation. . death. . . . And the fact that it has and would love to get rid of 300,000 But my feeling is that both of the coup attempts in Burun- Rwandese refugees, including, basically, die-hard members

28 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 of the party and a fraction of its army, means that Burundi is and had better positions. The Habyanmana governmentand terrified. It has minor outbreaks of killings and cross-killings its predecessor thought that the 15% Tutsi minority, as long in the area where the refugees are , but it is doing its best to as it wasn't supported externally, �as safe enough and that damp this down. But you can see why I say that the whole affirmative action-type methods would keep some kind of thing in Burundi is on a knife's edge. The Hutu and Tutsi balance. leadership in Burundi want peace. They almost, but not I quite, trusteach other. But there arereal animosities between Q: The British generally have most to do with government these two communities. aid. Did the British pay for the dempbilization? In Burundi, you never had planned genocide. Half of the A: It might have been them. Remember, Museveni is the killing in Burundi was what I would call a "forward defense" only African President who can say 'j "There will not be multi­ policy. If you were a village, you were afraid that the army party elections until I am dead," anq get his foreign aid quota would attack you, so you killed the soldiers. The army then over-fulfilled. You had these non-party rigged elections, and came and killed you. So an army post that was largely Tutsi now you have this rigged non-party; constituent assembly. in a totally Hutu area was afraid it was going to be attacked, so it attacked first. In other words, you didn't have the planned Q: Who do you think shot down t� plane? genocide. A: Uganda. I can't prove it, but i� would have been easier If that syndrome starts again, there is no way that the for Uganda to do it than for the RPR itself. The RPF did have Burundi government, its army, can stop it. Therefore, the a contingent in Uganda, I mean in �igali, on the hilltop; on Burundi government needs to be approached, and asked, the basis that that would be safe for them, but that meant that "What can we do?" including getting these refugees out of they were perfectly easy to be wa�hed. So I don't believe Burundi, almost anywhere, as long as it is not Burundi. for a moment that they could have g�t people with a shoulder­ The problem is that it is not clear to me what the RPF held missile close enough to the aifJl>ortto shoot it down. The means when it talks about trying those directly involved in U.N., of course, supposedly had t):te airport secured. But I genocide, which I suggest is a quarter of the adult population. think it is nonsense to say that anyqody who could easily get This, however morally desirable it may or may not be, is a shoulder-held missile and is good litcr oss-country walking, hardly practical. I am sure the RPF would like most of the couldn't have got within a mile or fO of the airport-I don't refugees to come home and would be perfectly willing to know what distance is required to Shoot the plane down. In have them live quiet lives with them. Certainly, the interna­ other words, it doesn't have to be �ganda, but on the basis tional community will look at them askance when they have of who benefits.. .. only half of the population of the country in the country, if only because of the cost of tryingto keep them alive outside I the country. You can't run Rwanda with half of its population missing. But I must say that a lot of the people have good reason, BritishForeign lOffice: in terms of their conscience, to wonder whether it is safe to 'Where's Rwanda?' come back. And given the high-profile murder of the arch­ I bishop and bishop, even people who are personally quite innocent might very well be worried. [The RPF on July 1 EIR interviewed the relevant offi cial at the British F or­ murdered Bishop Thaddee Nsengiymva; Vincent Nsengiy­ eign Offi ce East Africa Desk on �ug. 8. umva, Archbishop of Kigali; and Bishop Joseph Ruzindana in Kabgaye, where they had sheltered 30,000 Tutsi ref­ EIR: On the situation in Ugan4a, there has been some ugees.] discussion that the RPF was actijallytrained and armed The claim that there was really no difference between in Uganda. Hutu and Tutsi because there was some intermarriage, which A: I can't comment on that, I have no idea. Ask the there was; that there were no real communal hostilities to­ Ugandans. We wouldn't know �bout that. I don't know ward each other, is simply not true.The Belgians ruled entire­ if there is anyone here who could give you a definitive ly through the Tutsi, locking in what was originally a minori­ answer on that. Speculation is speculation, about Zaire ty invader kingdom with tall pastoralist warriors ruling short, and the RPF; speculation abou� Uganda and the RPF. crop-tilling helots. The claim that the thing is entirely artifi­ There is no doubt that, because pftraditional historical cial is not true. That certain people have chosen to inflameit background, Museveni has b�en closely connected is true, but they weren't operatingon nothing. with the RPF. But, as I am surelYou well know, he has And, of course, in 1960, the Hutu overthrew the Tutsi denied any kind of involvemen� to the extent you have government in a bloodbath. But a lot of Tutsi stayed in the mentioned. Sorry I can't be more helpful. country and, on average, they were richer, better educated,

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 29 PerhapsI should tell you two more things about Museveni the two Presidents, to create such atrocities by the Hutu which relate to my conviction on that. During the war­ majorities in Rwanda and Burmdithat no one would touch originally the Tanzania war through the Ugandan invasion them again, would then be part of this policy. Then, of out of Kigara to smash the bases-and because Tanzanian course, spending your friends': lives like money in a bank public opinion almost got out of hand, and because Amin account. threatened to kill everybody who welcomed the Tanzanians I do not call Museveni' s the thinking man's army for if they [Amin's forces] withdrew (and that promise was only nothing. I too believable), that then turned into a war of liberation of Uganda. Museveni turned up and said he had 4,000 troops Q: What is his overall plan? Greater Uganda? and said he wanted to join in. The only thing was that the A: I don't think he is quite that mad. I presume he wants to average age of his troops was 10. see Tutsi rule in Rwanda and Burundi again. If he gets it by this method, they will be ptetty much satellite states of Q: Was what? Uganda. Remember there is no evidence, at least before A: Ten. In other words, they ranged from 8 to 14 years old. this latest set of horrors, that the resident Tutsi minority in The Tanzanian generals, being somewhat Sandhurst types, Rwanda particularly supportedtlhe RPF . The RPF controlled also believing the place for children is at home, created a 20-25% of the country, but it was empty. The resident Tutsi westernfront out of thin cloth, up along the lake, which was minority hadn't moved into the:area controlled by the RPF, of no military significance. In other words, the direct line therefore I would view it as an indication that their enthusi­ through to Entebbe and Kampala was on the easternside of asm for their liberators was so"*whatmuted . the country. The western front was created simply to keep Museveni's children out of harm's way. They were given Q: Are there other theories on who shot the plane down? 250 Tanzanians to be a shield, in case they actually ran into A: There have been argument$ that the presidential guard any Ugandan troops, which wasn't expected. Unfortunately did. The only snag with that argument is that this was a for everyone except Museveni, they ran into an entrenched praetorian guard which appeared to everybody, before this position of 500Libyans who had not withdrawn. The Tanza­ rumor, to be totally loyal to the President. Furthermore, it is nian colonel with the shield force looked at this for five not simply saying the presidentiialguard [did it], it is saying minutes and told Museveni, "We'll hold for fivedays . I will an uncle and two brothers of thel President did it. get the high command to send over artillery and we'll shell The other claim, which I tHink is simply a cui bono, is them out, and we'll go forward with no losses." that the RPF did it. But the snag with this is that I don't see Museveni refused to accept that and launched a human how they could have. And, of course, the claim of the rump wave attack with his children. He won the battle and became government is that the Belgians did it, but I don't believe a war hero. But, of course, 500children died for no military that. . . . Besides which the resUlts of shooting down Haby­ gain whatsoever. arimana were only too predictable-a mass bloodbath-and Then you have two events on the road to Kampala. The no government in Brussels would have dreamed of putting firstwas that about 20 or 25 of his people sneaked into Kam­ its hand to that. pala, ran through the gates of the central arsenal, grabbed handfuls of weapons, and then ran into the Catholic cathedral Q: Some French think this was an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy? and knelt down with the people at mass. Given the ill-disci­ A: I wouldn't say so in the active sense. Given the natureof plined nature of the Ugandan Army, what happened next was the two initial invasions, and the fact that the RPF has never predictable. The congregation was machine-gunned by the been short of ammunition and, fuel, the main question is people chasing them. Who gained? whether the U. S. and British diplomatic missions in Uganda Then, in other areas, while I do not justify what the army were leaning heavily enough on President Museveni. I mean, did, but the army was being sniped at by boys of 10 not in it is not easy to get large quantities of fuel and ammunition uniform who ran out of villages and either shot at them or across Uganda and into another I country without the knowl­ threw hand grenades at them. The ill-disciplined Ugandan edge of the Ugandan government or, in fact, in any way other Army became so terrifiedthat anything that moved in the vil­ than under Ugandan governmelit control. Museveni runs a lage, they shot it. So you got these pyramids of skulls .... tighter ship than that, or he'd be dead. Therefore, I think you The question is whether Museveni was working on the could fault the U. S. and British idiplomatic missions for not basis of encouraging his enemies to engage in such atrocities leaning on Uganda. that they would be totally unrespectable to anyone. He is a As for this particular French argument, I don't believe great student of left-wing guerrilla literature, you know. This there is any evidence that the Frenchembassy in Uganda was is a tactic that was argued by the New Left-you get the leaning very hard on Museveni either. Therewas no evidence governmentto engage in such mad repression that everybody of an outcry in European capitals about Ugandan supportfor abandons them. And for shooting down the plane, killing the RPF, which was an open secrbt, nor much comment about

30 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 it by the internationalpr ess. the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Sweden. Tiny Rowland gave him some money, but when he got Q: Who put Uganda on its feet again, who reorganized it? into power he didn't want to deal withhim . I think he realized A: Call the World Bank, they will give you the breakdown he was the wrong chap. He did �ive him some business of the aid flows. It was a lot of British, U.S., EC [European in the beginning, but Museveni p�vatized everything, and Community] and, I expect, Japanese [funds], and then, of Rowland would have got some of that. course, the World Bank. Another $820 million was pledged two or three days ago, and there were no political conditional­ Q: What is the extent of British cdrporateor banking pres­ ities on it at all, like, "Keep your fingersout of Rwanda and ence in Uganda now? Burundi, please." If it was raised, it was to sympathize with A: Barclays is there. Grindlays was there also, and then it I Museveni that he had such a problem neighbor. Which is like was bought by Standard Bank of South Africa. They are the saying, "We're sorry you are an orphan," when you have just main foreign banks; then you have lOcalbanks . killed your father and mother. Q: With Uganda's privatization plan in full swing, has there been a lot of British capital ftowing in? A: Yes, you had that, but much oOt came from Americans, British role still also. Q: How about the British multinat�onals? dominant, says banker A: You have BAT [British American Tobacco], which is the largest; they still have I think fl monopoly on tobacco. This interview with an offi cial of Barclays Bank of London But I know that one has also been privatized, so they may be with wide experience in Uganda was made available to EIR getting competition. Shell, Lonrhoj is there, but very small, by a journalist. mainly agencies for British moto� cars and some cotton. Coffee, obviously, is the biggest t1Xport of the country and Q: The Rwandan Patriotic Front was trained in Uganda. you have very many companies in there, mostly small com­ Could you give me some background? panies, but they sell to the large �ommodities companies. A: In the late 1950s there were similar troubles in Rwanda, There used to be a governmentmO$opoly on marketing cof­ and at the time the Tutsis were thrown out, most of them fee, but that also has been privatized. into Uganda. So now the second generation have organized themselves and invaded Rwanda. Q: Is there much of a presence of ljIritishadvisers? Now, they were all along considered as Ugandans, until A: Oh, yeah! I mean the economy �s virtually run on expatri­ suddenly they realized that they needed to go back [laughs]. ates, as they are called. They vi�ally run the ministries. It is as if you had generations of Italians, and then they That is how you get things done. O�herwise the local people, suddenly decided to pick up arms and go back. firstof all local skilled people, are away. But, more impor­ So they were Ugandans as far as they were concerned, tantly, the education system was qisrupted during the trou­ until they realized that they wanted to go back home, and bles, and you have not turned out; many intellectuals. And [many were] obviously recruited. And many of them, sur­ certainly there is a lot of corruption. prisingly, had joined the army. Therefore, they were compe­ So the only way to make it wor� is to bringin expatriates. tent fighters, all they needed were the weapons. I mean, the tax collection is run I by a company which is expatriate, the Uganda Revenue A�thority. They runthe tax Q: So they got support from President Museveni, I presume? management. The governmentju st gives them a budget and A: Officially, I do not think they did. Officially, they gives them targets and they go out !illdcollect the taxes. wouldn't. I But I think because some of them were senior commanders Q: That is mainly British national�? in the army, they would have kept in touch with them. Wheth­ A: Yes, British. Some Scandinav¥ms, but mostly British. er he gives them proper support, logistics, it is likely, yes, I know the Overseas DeveloAIDent Agency [under the but I can't comment on that. They wouldn't make it public. Foreign Office], they are secondiJ!lg people out there. You But it has been said and I believe there is truth to it. . . . have the Ugandan Investment Au�ority, which is also run by expatriates. That's in charge of.ll investment policy. The Q: Who gave Museveni his initial help, in his guerrilla days? deputy executive director is Britisll,Martin V. Hogg. A: Initially, he had leftist tendencies. It was thought maybe Yes, here I see the Overseas Deyelopment Institute [fund­ he had some backing from the Soviet Union. But it would ed by the British government] has qeen seconding people out appear that he got some money from the Libyans, some from there.

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 31 OperationSupport Hope : focus on emergency infrastructure by Dean Andromidas amd Michael Liebig

The mass death in eastern Africa may look like yet another From 'managed collapse' Ito genocide of the giant tragedies which have become "typical" for Africa This all ended after 1989, When the Soviet Union col­ over the past two decades. However, a closer look reveals lapsed and Russia withdrew from Africa. The George Bush that the mass death is not an indigenous, "typically African" administration declared its strategic disinterest in Africa, rel­ occurrence. Little happens in Africa which is not shaped egating it permanently to a "zon9 of turmoil." The continent decisively by the former colonial powers. So it happens that became the strategic playground for Britain, France, and the French governmentbacked , armed, and trained the "Hutu certain Israeli intelligence and I'business" interests. They government"in Kigali, while British intelligence and British worked together, as well as agaidst each other, in expanding financial interests backed, armed, and trained the "Tutsi their "spheres of interest," whil� Africa collapsed into full­ RPF' via neighboring Uganda. When the "Hutu govern­ blown breakdown conditions. ment" was about to collapse, France staged a military inter­ The bloody events of the past years in Uganda, Zaire, vention to keep it in power, and, when that failed, established Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, Libena, and other black African a "security zone" in southern Rwanda. This French action states illustrate these neo-coloniallmaneuvers by Britainand ("Operation Turquoise") was a strictly military intervention, France. However, this year, thinis got truly out of control in "to protect France's interests in Francophone Africa," as easternAfr ica. The killings and epidemics escalated to such Prime Minister Edouard Balladur said in late June. French monstrous dimensions, that international attention could no military bases were built up in easternZaire , to prevent the longer ignore them. It seems t"at the French government destabilization of Zaire's fragile Mobutu regime as a conse­ realized during the past July thatlit had lost control over the quence of the events in Rwanda. situation in easternAfr ica. France, with a significant military To understand the unspeakable horror in easternAfr ica, presence in central and easternAfric a, was about to be over­ one must go back to the early 1970s when, under the direction whelmed by the consequences of the genocide and epidemics of then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the transatlantic in and around Rwanda. That gots both for the situation on policy establishment determined that there should be no eco­ the ground there, as well as what concerns "world public nomic-infrastructural development in Africa. Some excep­ opinion." tions were made in respect to strategic raw materials produc­ tion. Then, some 25 years ago, Africa was written off. The Clinton acts policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the In the second week of July, President Clinton spoke of the World Bank, and declining raw materials prices, ensured situation of the Rwandan refugees as the "worst humanitarian the social-economic and political devolution in black Africa crisis in the world." And he acted. Faced with the prospect since. By 1985, Africa had become a net capital exporter. of hundreds of thousands ofR wan

32 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 The C-5B Galaxy transport plane is loaded with construction and drilling equipment on Aug. 3, at the Rhine Main Air Base in Frankfurt, Germany, preparing fo r the trip to Goma, Zaire .

purification equipment of the U. S. Army and the San Francis­ cholera. In addition, large amounts of food and medical sup­ co Fire Department was loaded onto long-range, heavy trans­ plies, as well as heavy engineering equipment, have been port aircraft in the United States and flown to Goma. In the airlifted to the region. The second phase is to create condi­ evening of July 25 , the water purification facilites began to tions to allow the refugees to return home to Rwanda. The produce approximately 200,000 liters of fresh water a day. administration has made clear that this will not involve any Since then, together with German water purification equip­ form of coercion, but must be based on the individual deci­ ment flown to Goma by the U.S. Air Force , the fre sh water sions of the refugees themselves tp return when they feel output has been increased to approximately 1.5 million liters safe. Unlike Somalia, where military operations were con­ per day. It is an indisputable fact, that this operation has ducted as a means to provide security for a relief operation, saved the lives of at least 500,000 Rwandans, who would it is hoped that through this humanit�rian effort, a psycholog­ have died of cholera in the last week of July and the first days ical and political basis would be formed for stability. The of August. Clinton administration is presently �ngaged with the Rwanda EIR had an opportunity for a first-hand view of the Ameri­ Popular Front government in Kigalj, strongly advising them can relief operation in and around Goma on Aug. 2-6. We to refrain from a policy of retributi9n. were able to participate in a press tour organized by the U. S. Operation Support Hope is being implemented by some Air Force Joint Information Center, based at the Rhine Main of the most senior U.S. comman�ers in western Europe. Airbase in Frankfurt , Germany. Overall command lies with Gen. Gborge Joulwan , Supreme Operation Support Hope is a combined Army , Air Force, Commander of U.S. Forces in Eur9pe . His deputy, Lt. Gen. and Navy operation, which is being executed with exception­ Dan Schroder, operating out of Entebbe, Uganda and Mom­ al, quasi-wartime urgency and esprit de corps. It is being basa, Kenya, is the regional operati nal commander. General run directly out of the White House, while drawing on the Nicks, commander of U.S. forces i Italy, is in command in worldwide resources of the American military . The mili­ Goma itself. The operational headquarters for Support Hope tary 's mission, as definedby President Clinton , is to conduct is based at the United States European Command at Patch a humanitarian relief effort , and not to get involved in a Barracks, Stuttgart , Germany. This is the unifiedcom and of l United Nations-style "peacekeeping" or "peacemaking" mis­ all forces of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force in Europe. sion, as was done in Somalia. It is here that the operational plan ing and coordination are The mission has two major tasks or phases. Phase one is being conducted . to stop the dying and misery of the refugees in and around Phase one of the operation can �e broken down into two Goma. As mentioned, the most crucial task has been to pro­ parts: first, transportation from the continental United States 1 vide clean fresh water, the only way to stop the mega-killer, and western Europe to eastern Af ica. This is primarly the

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 33 responsibility of the Air Force and Navy. The second con­ elevation; the ground is mostly* �olcanic ash from theregion 's cernsthe buildup of a relief infrastructurewhich is primarily five active volcanoes. It has mild highland climate (with the responsibility of the Army, whose engineering, medical, rather cold nights), and suftic ent rainfall. Goma is located motor transport, and escort units are playing crucial roles. directly on Lake Kivu, the maj r source of water, now badly polluted. Provided there were� ome infrastructure, theGoma Transcontinental logistics area could potentially be a ric"agricultural region , growing Our tour started at the beginning of the transport pipeline, coffee, grain, potatoes, and ve etables. A centuryof Belgian Rhine Main Air Base, which is adjacent to Frankfurt Interna­ colonialism and three decades f Zaire's independenceunder tional Airport. Here the U.S. Air Mobility Command oper­ International Monetary Fund tonditionalities and neo-colo­ ates huge C-SB Galaxy and C-141 Starlifterje t transports nial manipulations, have left� region shockingly impover­ and smaller C-130 propjet transports. The base has been ished. Agricultural productio, methods are primitive and beefed up by additional aircraft from the United States. On unproductive, and the small agncultural surplusis tradedin the morning of Aug. 3, our Air Force press escort, who tiny quantities by largenumbe ts of mini-traders. Production acompanied us throughout the tour, took us to our aircraft, a and employment in small to �(tium-sized industryis zero. giant C-SB Galaxy. This enormous aircraft, similar to the Infrastructure investment, exc�pt some paved roads, is non­ Boeing 747 in size, can carry 120 tons of cargo at a speed of existent. Some electricity an4 running water systems did SOO miles per hour, for over S ,000 km. Through two huge exist in Goma, but they are prci>entlycolla psing. Thereis no doors in the front and rear of the aircraft, we saw one full­ telephone service. I size bulldozer, a road grader, and a "Unimog" truck for well­ Goma Airport was capab e of dealing with no morethan drilling. In addition, large pallets filled with various supplies 10 aircraft a day, with no ssibility for maintenance or including fuel, food, and bottled water were loaded into the refueling. Loading and unloa3 ing of freight were done by aircraft's cavernous hold. Besides ourselves, two other civil­ hand. Here we began to encou�ter the formidableinfrastruc­ ian journalists, Klaus from Austria and Mathias from Germa­ ture problems facing the curr-dnt East African relief opera­ ny, a military TV crew, and other military personnel-alto­ tion. Railways from the Indiap Ocean ports to Rwanda or gether around 30 passengers-boarded the aircraft. We were eastern Zaire do not exist. Thct roads are in no condition to lodged in the C-5B's upper passenger compartment, which sustain continuous, heavy traffic, not to speak of the time has seating for some 70 people. factor involved in road transwrtation in Africa. Thus, air­ From Frankfurt our flight route was Switzerland, Sicily, craft are the only possible modctof transportationinto Goma, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, and into Goma, some 3,500miles as well as Rwanda. away, just south of the equator. The ten-hour flight, although In seeking solutions to thes¢ problems, the U.S Air Force noisy, was far from boring. Midway over the Mediterranean first put Goma Airport on a 24-hour operational footing. we were brought up to the pilot's compartment to see the The French military, which uses Goma Airport as a major iilflight refueling. The mid-air refueling was necessary be­ logistical base for "Operation Turquoise," had put up radar cause ground refueling in Egypt was not possible. Although equipment, allowing a denser! schedule of French military this huge aircraft is merely a speck in the sky at 20,000 feet supply flights. The U.S. Air Forceflew in heavy engineering over the Mediterranean, we had no problems making our equipment, fork lifts, and heavy trucks. The daily throughput rendezvous with the tanker aircraft, a KC-135, which is of Goma Airport was increas�to 30 aircraft a day, which based on the airframe of a Boeing 707. This aircraft flewfrom includes French military suppl)1flights , chartered(often Rus­ its base in England, over 1,000 miles away. The refueling sian) aircraft of relief organiZations, the U.S. Air Force, operation was spectacular to witness. From underneath, the and a number of military transport planes of other nations, C-5B approached the tanker to a distance of just 15 meters or notably Germany and Israel. Tbe parking space at the airport less, when the fuel link, descending from the tanker's tail, is very limited; not more than five or six aircraft can park locked into our plane just above the cockpit. The refueling at a time. The proximity of ground movements of aircraft, lasted some 20 minutes as the two huge aircraft flewalong in together with the traffic of truqks, forklif ts, and people on tandem, at that minuscule distance from each other. Al­ the airfield, make one wonder Utatno collision has occurred though it was routine for the crew, it was not without its tense yet. Large numbers of refug�s are steadily walking along moments. From there, it was another fiveor six hours before and across the runway, even While aircraft are landing or we reached Goma. taking off. Because of the congestion at Goma Airport, the com­ Logistics in the Goma disaster area mand for Operation Support H4>pe wants to openthe airport Goma is a town bordering Rwanda on the extreme eastern of the Rwandan capital Kigali, some 60 miles away. An edge of Zaire. It is a desolate place of depressing poverty, important factor in the U.S. airlift to Goma is the airport at even without the refugee disaster. The area around Goma is Entebbe, where some 400 U.S.'military personneland about a volcanically active region between 1,000 and1, 400 meters a dozen U.S. military aircraft are stationed. The American

34 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 Water storage tanks in Goma are being filledat a U.S.-run water purification station . The most pressing task of the relief operation is to provide clean water to the refugees.

personnel running the operation in Entebbe are staying in American encampments on the airfield, one of the Air Force tents and hangars; the pilots are sleeping in their planes. and one of the Army. The camps and part of the airfield are Initial plans to tum Entebbe into an air hub had to be set secured by barbed wire and guarddd by soldiers. Although aside. C-130s operating under the Air Combat Command are everything seems peaceful and the �irport is still controlled conducting shuttle flights out of Entebbe into Goma, Kigali, by the Zairean authorities, French paratroopers armed with and Mombasa. Long-range American aircraft coming from assault rifles and truck-mounted heavy machine guns patrol I Europe or the United States to Goma must carry enough fuel the airport and downtown Goma. During our night-time in- to continue the flightto Mombasa at the Indian Ocean, where spection, we encountered two Germans at a huge Russian IL- I they can park and refuel. But there is an acute jet fuel shortage 76 transport. We learned that the were from the German in Mombasa as well. Technical Aid Organization (THW� . They flew in with metal Our aircraft was scheduled to land at midnight Aug. 3 in pipes and pumps in order to conn ct the water purification Goma, unload, and take offfor Mombasa, where it would equipment to water distribution points. refuel for the returnflight to Germany. At 1 :00 a.m. on Aug. Following two hours of sleep atop loaded pallets, we 4, the C-5B made a remarkably smooth landing in Goma, a decided to enter Goma at dawn an tour the refugee camps. runway which, on a rating of 1 to to, was rated a 2 by our Such a tour would have been difficult without the help of pilot. Within minutes of landing, the huge cargo doors , both Mathias, the young German freelr,nce journalist who had front and rear, swung open for waiting Air Force personnel spent two years near Goma at a technical school runby the with fork lifts and trucks. The huge bulldozer and the two Protestant Church. For the five kilobeters from the airportto trucks rolled out on their own power. In less than half an downtown Goma, a taxi fare of $290was demanded. Mathi­ hour, the entire plane was off-loaded. Although the aircraft as, speaking Swahili, was able to negotiate a $20 fare . Leav­ was supposed to leave immediately, there was a four-hour ing the airport, we got our first s�ock. Alongside the road delay before it could take off again for Mombasa. there was a scene of devastation: ,111trees had been cut for firewood; mass graves were cordoned off with red and white Apocalyptic conditions plastic bands. Not too many refugbes were still camping in In a nocturnal tour of Goma Airport, we quickly realized the fields near the airfield, but, in th� dawn, tens ofthousands that the airport fu nctions as a rather major French military of people were walking down the road carrying old petrol base, with two tent camps, lots of military vehicles, a field canisters. They walk to the water istribution points to get a hospital, and four "Super Puma" helicopters. There are two daily ration of water. Everybody till able to walk does so;

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 35 only the weak and sick stay behind in the fields. and they are aggressive. One such uniformed person pulls In downtown Goma we met Mathias's friends from the his AK-47 gun at us when we try to photograph a group of Protestant Church, who were quite astonished to see him. A refugees. W e dri�e for seven or bight kilometers on that road; car and driver were arranged and we were soon on our way. the sight along the road barely hanges; only the nauseating We were taken to the local hospital run by the Baptist Church. stench varies. The hospital, which has barely any resemblance to what one normally associates with a hospital, was full of cholera vic­ Building fresh water inf�astructure tims. There are only a few mattresses; most patients lie on the Water is the key to life antiI death. Lake Kivu, a huge ground, many in the courtyard. The hospital did get a delivery source of fresh water, was pollu�ed early in the Rwandan cri­ of infusions, so that patients have a chance to survive. But sis. To drink water from it is to ¥nk poison. Even now, there words cannot describe the scene. At six o'clock in the morn­ were refugees drawing water from the lake. The American ing, downtown Goma is packed with people, refugees and command identified the solutioh to the water disaster as the locals, searching for water and "trading" small amounts of most fundamental task of Operation Support Hope. It became food and wood. In the middle of one of the town's squares lies clear that only once sufficientalnounts of fresh, clean water I a dead body; people hurry past. There is a nauseating stench in could be distributed throughout the region, could related relief Goma and much of the surrounding area. operations, such as clinics and �eeding stations, function. We took the road out of downtown Goma, which runs We had the opportunity to visit the central water purifica­ one to two kilometers parallel to Lake Kivu. Again, tens of tion and pumping station. It is located in downtown Goma, thousands of refugees march up and down the road holding on the banks of Lake Kivu. T e station was set up and is plastic containers, going to or coming from the water distri­ operated by the U.S. Army, in cooperation with American bution points. The refugees camp on both sides of the road. volunteers from the San Francisco Fire Department and the Occasionally we saw some tents, but most refugees have just German THW. French milit� tanker trucks participate in some tarps or plastic sheets or have built traditional, spherical the water distribution. The equirment was airlifted from the huts made of tree branches. Again and again, "bundles," United States, from Germany, and from Diego Garcia, the corpses wrapped in straw mats, lie on the roadside. The U.S. island base in the Indian pcean. The station includes infected people out in the fields do not have infusions, and two water purifiers, several chlorinators, and a maze of hoses the cholera kills them fast. The refugees do not seem aggres­ and rubber tanks. We were sUI1?rised to findthe main pump sive, but rather fatalistic. But among them there are many was in fact a fire truck, airliftedl from northern California. It men in uniform and armed soldiers of the defeated army of is operated by a group of Californian rescue workers who the former government in Kigali. They seem rather healthy, use the same truck fighting forest fires in the mountains of

A French Army tanker truck draws water fr om the American Army-run water purification station in Goma. Aug. 4. 1994 .

36 Feature EIR August 19, 1994 northeastCalif ornia. One of the volunteers, a doctor, briefed us on the opera­ tion. The purification equipment on Aug. 4 produced more than 100,000 gallons of water a day. From the pumps it is transferred to plastic/rubber storage tanks and then loaded onto tanker trucks. The tankers supply the refugee camps farthest away from Goma; some large camps are up to 30 km away. But, there is still a dramatic deficit of tanker trucks. The German THW, with its special piping equipment, had already installed a 5-km pipeline into Goma City, and another one was in the process of construction directly into a refugee camp. Once the pipelines are installed, the water throughput will increase dramatically. They will also serve as the bases for the necessary infrastructure for the establishment of a network of emergency clinics and feeding stations along the length of pipeline. "Once we got this pure water flowing," the California doctors explained, "the death rate dropped way down .... Once we beat the cholera, the next fight will be dysentery, measles, yellow fever, and diseases due to malnourishment." Indeed, a fight it is. In fact, the water station is flanked by rows of U.S. Army tents, military vehicles and equipment, and armed guards. This attests to the warlike conditions un­ der which Operation Support Hope is being conducted.

The precondition for humanitarian aid We saw numerous relief agencies operating throughout the Goma region, including the Red Cross/Red Crescent, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Oxfam, and the World Food Program. The Israeli Army is operating a quite extensive field hospital near Lake Kivu. But, the A childfrom Goma (not a refugee) carries water fo r his fa mily. Every day. tens of thousands of people have to walk to water ability to save lives without a basic emergency infrastructure distribution points fo r a daily ration . is extremely limited. The disaster in Goma proves that any efficient relief effort anywhere has to have a fu nctioning basic infrastructure as its precondition. Survival in disaster In spite of all its limitations, Operation Support Hope, areas is not possible by handing out, even in very large quan­ with its emphasis on emergency Infrastructure measures, tities, bottled water, food, or medicine. Only the buildup of may indicate the potential for a brbader policy shift of the I an emergency infrastructure assures short-term survival, and United States toward Africa. Alre dy last year, there were it provides the basis for a mid-term social-economic stabiliza­ some indications that the Clinton administration would not , tion. Although it is clear that much more can be done, Opera­ continue the Bush administration J policy of simply aban­ tion Support Hope, with its emphasis on emergency infra­ doning Africa. The firm America backing for the Nelson structure, is making a decisive difference in comparison to MandelaiF. W. de Klerk "historical compromise" in South previous disaster relief operations. Africa is indicative of such a polic shift. It seems that Clin­ It is the devastating absence of a basic infrastructure in ton wants to reestablish some cOlllstructive, strategic role Africa which blocks economic development. Economic de­ and presence within Africa for thel United States. The new velopment depends on roads , railways, fresh water, electrical attitude toward Africa in Washington is still cautious, still energy, and communication systems. The lack of infrastruc­ fragile. But Operation Support Hot>e is a crucial step in the ture and economic development is the principal source for the right direction . An emergency inftastructure buildup under worsening poverty and social-political instability in Africa, disaster conditions must be fOllowe� by a general infrastruc­ which expresses itself in ethnic strife and civil and other ture reconstruction strategy for Black Africa. Without such a I wars. Africa's lack of infrastructure and poverty create the policy shift, without dumping the fest's British-instigated breeding ground for conditions there today which increasing­ policy axioms of the past quarter-century vis-a.-vis Africa, ly resemble those in Europe during the Hundred Years' War one thing is certain: There will be rJanymore Gomas all over or the Thirty Years' War. Africa in the near future.

EIR August 19, 1994 Feature 37 �ITillInternational

Time is running out for Cairo-maniacs

by Nora Hamerman

Only three weeks before the scheduled opening of the Inter­ "My feeling is that many people, even non-Catholics, national Conference on Population and Development under have beenlistening clearl y to th� Holy Father," Navarrosaid . United Nations auspices in Cairo, Egypt on Sept. 5, the "The positions ofsome of the delegations going to Cairo, pressure is building up on western governmentsand the Unit­ coming from differentcountries, different backgrounds, and ed States in particular, to renounce the genocidal agenda certainlynot from a Catholic and even Christian background, mapped out in pre-conference meetings. are now closer to the position df the Holy See." According On Aug. 9, Italy became the firstindustrialized nation to to Corriere della Sera, the major Italian daily, most Latin break ranks, when the minister who will head its delegation American countries and some lslamic nations support the to Cairo announced support for the position of Pope John Vatican. Germany, Ireland, and Israel were reported "close" Paul II. Since late last year, the pope has been escalating his to the Vatican position. attacks on the plans for Cairo. One day earlier, the sharpest Navarrorepeated that "there is no agreemerit on10% of criticisms to date of the Draft Program for Cairo and the the draft document" for the Cairo conference and that "in governments that support it, were made by Vatican spokes­ the last months, disagreement� increased." The conflicts, man Joaquin Navarro-Valls. Navarro said, concern Chapters 7 and 8, which "present Then on Aug. 11, the Islamic Studies Center of Cairo's aspects that clash against personaldignity . " Navarropointed influential AI-Azhar University, with the blessing of the to the absence of a statement eXdluding the use of abortion as Grand Imam Ali Ga'ad al-Haq, released a report demanding a family planning measure, a step back from the previous key policy changes in the Cairo document. Several European population conference in MexiClO, where that statement was newspapers headlined that a "holy alliance" is emerging be­ included. When a journalistconfronted him with denials of tween the Vatican and the Islamic world against the Cairo such an intention from conference chairman Nafis Sadik, conference. The London Independent called the new report Navarroreplied: "Our readingof that document is different." from AI-Azhar "a severe embarrassment" to the Cairo confer­ Any time the expressions "reproductivehealth" and "accessi­ ence host, President Hosni Mubarak, "who seeks to derive ble" abortive measures arein the text, Navarrosaid , it means internationalprestige from such a conference." that the governments will have to financeit. In his weekly Angelus message on Sunday, Aug. 7, Pope Vatican: Future of humanity at stake John Paul II voiced his fear that the Mexico City language "The Holy See is conscious that what is under discussion would be reversed at Cairo (th� Clinton administration, for is the future of humanity," Navarro told a news conference example, has yet to retract its pledgeto abolish the Mexico on Aug. 8. He said the pope's personal intervention was City formula). This would "give furtherlegitimacy to the legal beginning to bear fruit, and that the number of countries practice of abortion," the popesaj.d , and as a result, "humanity opposed to controversial sections of the draft had grown since would suffer anothergreat failure of rights and justice. " April. Asked whether John Paul II held the key to success or Vatican spokesman N avarrolsaid that the U . N. draftpro­ failure of the conference, he replied, "I prefer to say that gram of action for Cairo defines"reproductive health" in a way good sense should prevail in Cairo." that includes "fertilityregulation ." "In this manner, abortion

38 International EIR August 19, 1994 comes to be considered as an essential component of reproduc­ choose development, they can become dangerous economic tive health," said the Vatican statement. The terms "reproduc­ competitors, right? Why then favor the 'reproduction' of tive health" and "sexual health" are "tremendously am­ Brazilians or Chileans? And then all those Blacks who create biguous." so many problems ....Wouldn 't it bebetter if they are not ' "In the absence ofany clarification,the concept of 'sexual born?" he asked ironically. health' could, for example, be applied to a whole series of sexual activities which, by their nature, are not reproductive, Muslim critique 'unexpected' particularly homosexual relations." Navarro declared, "This On Aug. 12 the liberal western media were filled with ambiguity is unacceptable, even if looked on only in terms front-page reports that the pope wa� receiving support from of scientific seriousness, let alone on ethical grounds." an unexpected source: the Islamic SfudiesCenter of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the world's �st prestigious center of Italy rejects 'third colonization' Islamic learning. Corriere della Sera called the critique all Interviewed in the Aug. 9 issue of Corriere, the Italian the more devastating, as this repreSents the Sunnite Muslim ambassador to the Holy See, Bruno Bottai, said that Italy establishment, who were thought to be less doctrinaire would support the pope's position. "Italy is very sensitive to against Cairo than the Shiite Muslirphierar chy. some demands from the Holy See," Bottai explained. "We This critique represents a stunn,ng failure of the subver­ believe that two points in the draft document have to be sive effort to "reform" Al-Azhar, the premier center ofIslamic reviewed. First, you cannot force the hand of developing orthodoxy going back to around 1�. The effort pivoted on countries, subordinating [economic] aid to adopting mea­ the International Islamic Center fot Population Studies and sures of birth control. Secondly, it is necessary to clarify that Development, aU.S. AID-funded optfitplanted at the univer­ abortion cannot be considered as a method of birth control. " sity with the purpose of shifting Al-j<\.zhar overall to conform The next day, Family Minister Antonio Guidi, who will with birth-control objectives (see ErRof Aug. 12, p. 49). lead the Italian delegation to Cairo, blasted birthcontrol as a The Al-Azhar statement accuse� the draft program of con­ neocolonial project against poor and developing countries. doning extramarital sex and easy aljlortion, undermining pa­ "Today, on the side of strong countries, there is the tempta­ rental authority, and encouraging prostitution. The statement tion ...of implementing a third colonization, by imposing calls on Muslims to press for signi�cant changes in the draft their idea of quality of life. And this would be tragic. We program at the Cairo conference. must give those suffering populations the means, first of all Like the Vatican, the AI-Azharstatement found the draft economically, to self-determine. After having taken away program rife with perilous "ambigpities." "The ambiguous from them so much wealth, we cannot take away the funda­ expressions, abstract terms, and �nnovative jargon which mental one, of creating life, of having children," he said, in abound in it suggest that it aims to adopt the opposite of the an interview with Corriere. basic precepts which Islam has la�d down," it charges. "It Guidi, whose country suffers from the lowest birthrate in aims to defend sexual relations whiGh arise between members westernEuro pe, added: "We must, instead, create conditions of the same sex or between diffdrent sexes outside legal for large families, which for those populations represent marriage, which destroys the vallfs to which all revealed wealth, to live in a climate of democracy and peace, of re­ religions aspire." I spect of their culture. We must respect and recover a strong The AI-Azhar report particularly denounces the section idea that in the West is no longer valid: The child is wealth of the document entitled "Reprod'ftive Rights, Sexual and in itself, but he must live in human conditions, above all from Reproductive Health and Family iPlanning." This section a material standpoint." contains "expressions and terms which must be changed to Another member ofthe Italian delegation to Cairo, Envi­ correct and strengthen the wordingf' the AI-Azhar statement ronment Minister Altiero Matteoli, gave an Aug. 10 inter­ says. "The Center ... calls on �e participating states to view with Vatican Radio where he stated that he will be rewordthe draft so that it does not ccpntain anything in opposi­ "totally opposed to abortion" and to the "egotistical birth tion to Islamic law. . . . The Center recommends expressing control" which some nations "would like to impose on the reservations about [such violations � so that the Islamic nation whole world." is not bound by any of them. " i Rocco Buttiglione, the secretary general of the Italian The liberal Washington Post opserved that Cairo's sup­ Popular Party-the successor to the once-ruling Christian porters "fear that such opposition py leaders of the world's Democracy, which is out of the governmentfor the firsttime two largest groups [Islam and CaplOlicism] could prevent in the postwar period--exposed the geopolitical motives of consensus at the conference." U.S. Assistant Secretary of the population controllers in an interview published Aug. 10. State Tim Wirth is quoted lament;ng, "There's no mystery "Is it not diabolical that economic aid to the poor is given in that [Vatican officials] were going) to reach out to religious exchange for birth control policies through abortion? Think leaders. They've made it very cletu" that they've embarked about a large and rich country such as Brazil or Chile. If they on a very aggressive global strategy."

EIR August 19, 1994 International 39 close Pankin-Maxwell relationship is stressed by informed Russians, and is confirmed by 'British author Tom Bower, in his book Maxwell the Outsiaer, a book which Maxwell Did Boris Pankinha ve furiously attempted to prevent from being published and cir­ culated when it was released ih 1988. Some of the senior his hand in the till? Russian intelligence sources whogave interviews to German TV had used V AAP as a cover fdr their intelligence activities. The activities ofthe two men also overlapped in Czecho­ by Mark Burdman slovakia. Maxwell, of Czech origin, was always loyal to his "Czech connections," and is reliably reported to have had The London Times on Aug. 8 published a bizarre defense of very high-level Czech intelligence contacts up to the day of Russian Ambassador to London Boris Pankin, authored by his death. Following his positron as Soviet ambassador to Lord Nicholas Bethell. Bethell expressed alarm that there Sweden in the mid-1980s, Pankin became Soviet (then Rus­ was a plot by "KGB and Foreign Ministry hardliners" to have sian) ambassador in Prague from late 1989 throughthe period Pankin removed as ambassador in the coming weeks, and immediately following the failed August 1991 Russian coup, replaced by Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Adamishin. i. e., into the period of Maxwell's death. Pankin is believed to Informed Russian and British sources discounted have played an influential role among certain circles around Bethell's version of the story as "foolish." A Moscow source Czech President Vaclav Havel, lifterthat country's late-1989 told EIR that the move to dump Pankin was coming from "Velvet Revolution." Russian President Boris Yeltsin himself, who in late 1993 Maxwell and Pankin had another point of convergence, began a public campaign against Pankin. A British Foreign in their dirty operations against ILyndon LaRouche. As Soviet Office expert suggested that Pankin himself had planted the ambassador to Sweden in 1986, Pankin was instrumental article, using "his friend Bethell" as the channel for the story. in channelling the lie, concocted by East bloc intelligence Pankin was simply distraught about his imminent demotion. services, that LaRouche was responsible for the murder of Another British source told EIR that Pankin was probably Swedish Prime Minister Olof Ptlme. During 1986-87, Max­ launching a "preemptive strike:" well collaborated closely with HenryKiss inger, including in This latter source noted that Bethell, the great defender what are believed to be strategy sessions against LaRouche; of "democracy" against "KGB hardliners," himself has had he was also frantically trying tb. counter LaRouche's influ- good KGB connections. EIR's book Derivative Assassina­ ence on the AIDS issue. tion (1985) documented Bethell's prominent role in the cir­ Was Boris Pankin involved in capital flight operations, of cumstances of the Oct. 31, 1984 assassination of Indian the type that the German TV broadcast and various Russians Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and pointed to his links to the indicate that Maxwell was involved in? Is the battle over British Secret Intelligence Service and the KGB . tracking down this capital flight one of the reasons for Pan­ kin's current woes? The answers to these questions are not The Robert Maxwell connection yet in, but informed sources say that this is a solid hypothesis. The Pankin controversy could have significance far be­ One Russian source said it were plausible that Pankinwould yond the issue of who is Russian ambassador to Great Britain, have been using Stockholm as a base for underhanded finan­ as important as that may be at a time when British-Russian cial operations. relations are being upgraded, in anticipation of Queen Eliza­ All this is intricately tied tIo the current economic and beth II's visit to Russia in October. Intelligence specialists financial crisis inside Russia. Yeltsin, who is unwilling to note the fact that the Pankin controversy broke less than two alter his shock therapy policy, is seeking ways to divertatten­ weeks after a July 28 German television expose on the life tion from the real causes of Rhssia's problems, and to re­ and death of media magnate Robert Maxwell. That show focus the population's anger against "corruption." Pankin strongly implied that Maxwell had been murdered in Novem­ would be an obvious individual to place in the target sights ber 1991, as part of a coverup of communist capital flight of this campaign. operations out of the former Soviet Union (see last week's One expert on Russia told EIR : "What Yeltsin is trying EIR). Russian television has also broadcast a show charging to do, is to distance himself from the corrupt agencies, by Maxwell's involvement in such illicit activity. blaming others ....Yeltsin c� survive with this game for While all the facts are not yet in, what is certain is that some time, but within a year, someone will findthe smoking Boris Pankin was one of Maxwell's chief contact points in gun tying him into the mess, and then he's finished." The the Soviet system. From 1973 to 1982, Pankin was a senior storm over Maxwell is only the1 beginning: "All this will get official at the Soviet copyright organization V AAP, the very much worse in the next months. All of them over there agency with which Maxwell worked to publish English-lan­ are up to their necks in dirty mdneyopera tions, they all have guage biographies of top Soviet communist officials. The had their hands in the till. "

40 International EIR August 19, 1994 A strange about-face in Venezu�la: Was Colonel Chavez brainwashed? by Alejandro Pefla Esclusa

The author is secretary general of the Venezuelan Labor tions in order to be able to occupy the holdings of corrupt Party (PLV). financial groups, Chavez declares that Caldera may be com­ mitting "treason against the country1' (El Nacional, June 6, On Aug. 4, the Caracas daily 2001 reported that Lt. Col. 1994), that "Caldera resembles CAR more every day" (Ulti­ Hugo Chavez Frias (ret.), leader of the failed military coup mas Noticias, May 29, 1994), that aaldera "lifts the protec­ of Feb. 4, 1992, had just negotiated with Colombia's leading tions to assault popular sectors" (Na(:ional, June 29, 1994). narco-terrorist force, the FARC, the loan of 5,000 guerrilla The fact is that in 1992, after the famous speech which troops for an armed uprising in Venezuela. This report, Dr. Rafael Caldera gave before Congress concerning the which has yet to be denied, is one of a series of reports which events of Feb . 4, where he blamed the corrupt Perez regime indicate that Chavez is preparing an insurrectionon the model for the coup attempt, Chavez publicly offeredthe leadership of the Mexican Zapatista guerrillas, to overthrow President of the MBR to Caldera. Instead, today Chavez is promoting Rafael Caldera. In other words, Chavez is trying to do exactly a Constituent Assembly which would be aimed at removing what the international financial oligarchy and Carlos Andres Caldera from power and turning Venezuela over to the mem­ Perez, the former President whom Chavez tried to topple, bers of the Assembly, among them, of course, Chavez him­ want him to do. self. The model he proposes is the 1991 Constituent Assem­ Why this about-face? How is it that the leader of a coup bly in Colombia which, under narco-lterroristdomination, set attempt against the top agent of Anglo-American banking in motion a process which served ortlyto erode that nation's interests on the continent, Carlos Andres Perez (known as fundamental values and to destroy its institutions. CAP), has now turnedinto the key player in a British plan to • In 1992, Chavez stated that tbe MBR was neither left foment "indigenist" revolts all across Ibero-America? Could nor right, but a nationalist movement. But two years later, in it be that Hugo Chavez was the victim of a psychological an interview published by Ultimas Noticias on Jan. 3 and operation? Was he brainwashed during his long months be­ Feb. 1, 1994, Chavez said: "I deeply respect especially the hind bars? social achievements of the Cuban Revolution; we may have differences in focus from its leader Fidel Castro . . . but Chavez versus Chavez independent of any differences . . l we recognize that this It is truly bloodcurdling to comparethe public statements man has already entered into history and represents a refer­ of Hugo Chavez in early 1992 with his proposals today: ence point in America ....I beliel"e that Marxism as sci­ • In an AFP wire on May 11, 1992, Chavez and other ence-because it is a science beyond any political system, as leaders of his Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement (MBR) a method of analysis of reality, aSI a way of dealing with swore that then-President Perez was "guilty of treason for his reality and the perspective toward the future--<:ontinues to policy of surrendering the country, for implementation of be valid, like all the political currents which exist and have economic programs imposed by the International Monetary existed down through the centuries .1' Fund [IMF] and the World Bank." According to the daily El In the February 1994 issue of Zeta magazine (No. 978), Nuevo Pais on March 6, 1992, Chavez and the MBR called Chavez talked about the Marxist insurgency launched in Chi­ for "recovering public morality. Punish the corrupt. Expro­ apas, Mexico on Jan. 1, 1994: "Without claiming to analyze priate money stolen from the nation." Chavez demanded that in depth this event of such importan�e for the future of Latin exchange controls be imposed and that a nationalist economic America, I find, however, some si�ilarities with the Feb. 4, program against corrupt financial interests be implemented. 1992 uprising in Venezuela." And yet, two years later, as President Caldera faces down • In a document signed by Chavez and other MBR lead­ the banking mafia, decrees exchange controls, refuses to ers and published by El Globo on March 28, 1992, Carlos implement the IMF program, and lifts constitutional protec- Andres Perez is accused of "treason against the country," for

EIR August 19, 1994 International 41 having encouraged "by all means that the U. S. ambassadors Andres Perez why all those irregUlarities occurred. accredited to Venezuela and the OAS [Organization of Amer­ We can imagine various figutes visiting Chavez in prison ican States] , Michael Skol and Luigi Einaudi, threaten us and telling him: "Don't worry, you are the reincarnation of with a fate similar to that sought by President Perez for Haiti, Bolivar," "You are the new Che Guevara." He is offered the in case there were a national reaction against him; through support of Latin America's gueVilla forces, he is promised his U.S. press lobby he got the New York Times to support fame , women. We see military /men and civilians, close to the creation of an invasion force against Venezuela." Perez, experts in psychological warfare (perhaps advised by Now that Caldera is leading the national reaction against the U.S. embassy?), profiling dhavez's weaknesses, strok­ CAP and his perverse policies; now that Caldera is opposing ing his ego, channeling his rage againstPerez against a differ­ the invasion of Haiti; now that Caldera is being attacked by ent target. We can imagine the Use of certain techniques to the media lobby of Perez in the United States; now that the degrade him with low passions; Women brought to his prison; team of Luigi Einaudi is destabilizing Venezuela with the he becomes docile toward his coptrollers. ultimate aim of overthrowing Caldera; Chavez is not de­ Fear, rage, lust-ideal ingre41ientsto manipulate the vic­ fending the Venezuelan government, but attacking Caldera tim. Abracadabra, months later,lout comes the new Chavez: through interviews given to the New York Times! self-worshipping, lusting for power; his main rival is no long­ Not content with this, Chavez is turning into a tool of er Perez, but anyone or anything! which gets in the way of his Einaudi and British intelligence to promote "indigenous" up­ "historic destiny"; now only try�g to please whoeveroffers risings designed to provoke chaos, civil war, and the balkan­ him power, even if they are ene�ies of the nation. He is only ization of the continent into tiny, weak political satrapies. interested in arriving. Only he c� rule. This past February, Chavez said: "What is happening in Mex­ A few months later, on No't. 27, 1992, Chavez was al­ ico is a reencounter with our roots. To go back to Zapata is ready so full of himself that he qould not conceive of "com­ to go back to Zamora, to America's roots, to Tupac Amaru , petitors." In his book Military Insurrection of 27-N-1992 , to Guaicaipuro, Tamanaco, to the present indigenous peoples Admiral Gruber, top leader of th� second failed coup attempt, who struggle to recover the lands which have belonged to states that Chavez sabotaged e�erything-to the benefit of them more than ten thousand years." Perez. According to 2001 on July 28, forces loyal to Chavez are Now, Chavez repeats Castep's and the British slanders preparing the secession of Bolivar state from Venezuela, about Ibero-American history: "At the end of the 16th century exactly as "Commander Marcos" is trying to do with Chiapas the Conquistadores inspired by :[Sir Thomas] More wanted in Mexico. When Chavez's public statements are compared . . . to impose the so-called 'New Order,' without regardfor to those of Marcos, they speak an identical language. It must the fact that America with its .utochthonous development also be recalled that Bolivar is ruled by Causa R (Radical was for centuries already a utop�, with a political and socio­ Cause), a party linked to the terrorist umbrella group known economic movement already pJjesent in the Aztec, Mayan, as the Sao Paulo Forum, to which Marcos's Zapatistas also and Inca cultures, and not only did they not respect it but in belong. the name of the sword and the ¢ross they erased it from the continent. . . . The political i�stitutions produced by this Demogogic tool of Perez degeneration arose out of relatiOns between conqueror and As can be seen, that young officer who dared to rise up native, relations of exploitatio�, domination, elimination, against the most corrupt government that Venezuela ever and imposition" (El Nuevo Paif, July 26). Chavez doesn't had; that individual who appeared on Feb. 4 on the television say that the Aztec culture was bllsedon human sacrifice and screens boldly admitting his defeat; the person whom all cannibalism, and that it was the evangelization by Spain of Venezuela--ourselves included-supported, because he which rescued the other Mexic� tribes from Aztecimperial­ represented a hope, has now turned into a dangerous dema­ ism. Thus, with his distorted vision of what the evangeliza­ gogue, a tool of Perez against Caldera, a tool of British tion of America was all about, Chavez is ready to back the intelligence against all of Thero-America. "indigenist" separatist movem¢nts against national sover­ What happened? What happened during his impris­ eignty and the armed forces; t:\xactly what the British are onment? promoting. We can imagine Chavez on Feb. 5, 1992: having failed, No one expressed more conQern over the new personality alone, betrayed, not only threatened with 30 years injai1, but of Hugo Chavez than his own cIomrade-in-arms, Cdr. Fran­ publicly threatened with death by then-Sen. David Morales cisco Arias Cardenas, in a letter in El Nacional on Sept. 1, Bello ("death to the coup-makers," the senator said to Con­ 1993, in which he attacks me�sianic populism and states gress on Feb. 4). There is Chavez-incommunicado at times, that "I am somewhat calmed br the decline of the Chavez denied legal counsel, moved to Yare Prison under strange 'myth.' " and perilous circumstances; in short, he is terrorized. It ought Truly, it would be worth investigating if Hugo Chavez to be asked of a certain former defense minister tied to Carlos has been brainwashed.

42 International ElK August 19, 1994 Interview: Cuauhtemoc Lopez Sanchez

'Foreign interests may well be I looking toward taking apart Mexico'

Cuauhtemoc Lopez Sanchez is a member of the Mexican trical and hydraulic installations. I National Congressfor the state of Chiapas, fromSan Cristo­ In early July, the head of the Defense Commission of bal de las Casas (second electoral district) . He is aformer the Mexican Congress, Gen. Ramo*"Mota Sanchez, told the president of the High Court of Justice of the state of Chiapas. plenary session of the commission that fo reign groups were On Aug. 21, a presidential election is scheduled in Mexi­ financing the secessionist movement in Chiapas. The Mexi- . co. The climate is one of violence, in whichforeign interests can press identifiedthe German brakch of the Comite Cathol­ have made themselves fe lt. One should recall that on March ique Contre la Faim, the German group Misereor, and the 23, 1994,the presidential candidate of the ruling Revolution­ Summer Linguistic Institute, anAmerican "cultural" associ­ ary Institutional Party (PRI) , Luis Donaldo Colosio, was ation, among others, as involved. General Mota Sanchez's murdered during an electoral rally. (On July 11, his widow, remarks were seconded by the heaH of the Justice Commis­ Diana Laura Riojas de Colosio, was received in private audi­ sion of the Congress, Castillo Mota, and by Congressman ence by the pope in Castelgandolfo, Italy.) On July 27, the Lopez Sanchez, whose remarks fo llow. bishop of Guadalajara, Msgr. Juan Sandoval Iniguez, an­ nounced that he had delivered to Papal Nuncio Msgr. Geron­ EIR: How would you explain, in simple terms, to an Ameri­ imo Prigione, documents suggesting that his predecessor in can or European reader what is no� happening in Chiapas, the Bishopric of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas and whether there is a risk that the ip.surrection might spread Ocampo, murdered in the airport of that city on May 24, to other parts of the country? 1993, was killed deliberately and not as a case of mistaken Lopez Sanchez: Those who decidt:ldthat the conflictshould identity as the press had originally reported. take place precisely in the state of C�iapas, did so taking into On July 25, the Party of the Democratic Revolution account the geography, the social �roblems, the backward­ (PRD) candidatefor governor of the state of Chiapas, Amado ness, the injustice, and the historylof the state of Chiapas. Avendano, was seriously hurt in a suspicious trafficaccide nt. The state of Chiapas is located in the south of the republic, Along with Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de and has a very long border with Guatemala. The zone of the las Casas, Avendano, a close collaborator of PRD presiden­ conflict lies along the so-called Pe�n zone of Guatemala; it tial candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, was the main public is a humid, tropical area with little nb.eans of communication, supportfo r the so-called National Zapatista Liberation Army formerly very sparsely populated,1 to which Indians from (EZLN) , a separatist " indigenist movement" which launched other regions emigrated, and to wh.ch refugees from Guate­ an armed uprising in Chiapas on Jan . 1, 1994. Due to the mala and other Central American ¢ountries have fled. It is circumstances of the accident, Avendano's victoryas gover­ also most likely that other fugitivesl fromju stice have found nor of Chiapas on Aug. 21 seems virtually assured. a haven in the area. I In Chiapas, the terror generated by the EZLN has From 1960 to 1990, the poulation of Chiapas almost reached proportions such that, on July 20, a general strike tripled, from about 1.2 million to 3.2 million. This was main­ was called by the fa rmers and businessmen of the state, ly due, not to immigration from oth�r areas, but to the rise in which lies on the border with Guatemala, to demand that the birthrate , and in life expectancy� due to the public health the governmentintervene militarily in their defense . Heavily programs. I should note here that tbe population of the state armed bands of the EZLN roam the countryside, illegally is most sparsely distributed: There are5, 000villages of fewer expropriating landowners, mutilating, torturing, and kid­ than 100inhabitants each. I napping those who resist. Over 200 have fa llen victim to the This growth had a considerable impact on land owner­ EZLN, which is now thought to number 4-6,000 guerrillas, ship, land having been redistributed !n the state up until 1988; since the January offensive. In January, the hitherto-un­ some 53% ofthe total area is commdn land, i.e., under a form known group, which is believed to enjoy powerful support of common exploitation. About 25% is private property, and from Anglo-Saxon and allied financial circles, targeted, as the rest is either cities, or roads, �s, etc., which means does the Shining Path in Peru, hospitals, schools, and elec- that unless we wish to eliminate ptlivate property, the most

EIR August 19, 1994 International 43 productive, there can be little chance of distributing more This does not mean that we doubt the good faith of the land. From the 1960s on, when Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia bodies which have donated fundI;for pastoral work, but rath­ arrived, ideology entered upon the scene, with the applica­ er, we do believe that the sums �hould be put to the aims for tion of the theories of Theology of Liberation. which they were originally given, and none other. One may explain why the EZLN has arisen in the state of Another hypothesis concern�ngthe origin of the conflict, Chiapas, but this in no way justifiesthe arguments ofthe guerril­ has to do with narco-terrorism, but this is a theme about la. The figures for population growth, the great advances with which too little is presently known for me to go into it here. respect to roads, schools, health centers, public services, have led to considerable betterment in the lot of the Indian popula­ ElK: Why have you thrown into doubt the role of Samuel tion. One may quibble with this and that, but there is no basis Ruiz Garcia as mediator in the aZLN conflict? for the EZLN's so-called "socialjustification ." Lopez Sanchez: To my mind, the aim of the mediator As for the risk that the EZLN may spread to other parts should be to bring together the parties to a conflictin order to of the republic, I do not think that will happen, since, even achieve, in this particular case,! peace, and that is not what in the state of Chiapas, where there is a marked backward­ has happened with Bishop Sam�el Ruiz Garcia. He has used ness, the greater part of the Indian population will have noth­ the past months to legitimize a tpovement which has broken ing to do with the armed uprising. Out of 1.1 million Indians, the rule of law in this country, �own violence, death, may­ there are 10,000, at most, in the EZLN. Both inside and hem, and plunged a great num�r of inhabitants of our state outside the state, there is sympathy with the notion that the into anxiety, insecurity, and feat. lot of the Indians, all the Mexican Indians, must be bettered, The bishop has devoted the ljistmonths to building up the but not by violence. image of the EZLN both in �exico and abroad, with the purpose of obtaining for himsel� the Nobel Peace Prize, with ElK: Why have international private bodies become in­ which he believes he shall some�ow justify what he has done volved in financing the EZLN through the bishop of San in Chiapas-the 34 years in a s�ate where he has left behind Crist6bal, and what arethe real causes of the conflict? nothing save death and hatred. i Lopez Sanchez: There are a number of reasons. There are I reasons which have to do with the state of the world economy; ElK: People such as Bernardq Sepulveda, the former for- following the NAFfA [North American Free Trade Agree­ eign minister and former amba�sador to London; Miguel de ment] ...fore ign economic interests may well look toward la Madrid, the former PresideQt; and Jorge Castaiieda, the taking apart the territory of the Republic of Mexico, either U. S. State Department's prefetred "political scientist," re- by setting up autonomous regions, or overthrowing the con­ stitutional order of the country, in a thrust to put the country under their own dominion. Another reason is the strategy pressed by the group of liberation theologists in Mexico, in Central America, and in South America, especially, to set up territories run by a so­ u.s. destabil�es Caribbean called Indigenous Church. We have heard over and again the arguments of Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Crist6bal, If Americans are now worried about the impact of thou­ and of the EZLN's "Sub-Commander" Marcos, who tend sands of Haitian refugees Iflooding their shores, they oddly to coincide on many points. Those who actually live should weigh the implicatioqs of a violent "pro-democrat­ in the state know that Bishop Ruiz Garcia, over years, has ic" insurgency in Mexico, alcountry of 100 million right been receiving economic help from various religious and on the U.S. border. other groups both in Europe and the United States, and the That potential loomed laI1ger,when the Clinton admin­ question has been posed, to what end these funds received istration, following the "Project Democracy" scenario by Bishop Ruiz Garcia and by other bishops, have been put. scripted by British intellig�nce and the Bush-Thatcher In other dioceses, including right here in Chiapas, people axis embedded in the U.S. policy establishment, forced are very much aware of what has been built and done with the Dominican Republic tOI tear up its constitution and whatever sums have been donated. overturn the results of last ¥ay's presidential elections. But, in the case of San Crist6bal de las Casas, apart Incumbent President Joaqui� Balaguer defeated the U.S.­ from the system of radio-communication used by the various backed candidate Jose Fran¢isco Pefia G6mez. Balaguer parishes, and which, according to some, has been used to announced on Aug. 10, that his term will be cut from 4 communicate with the Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Nicara­ years to 18 months, and neW!presidential elections held in

guan guerrillas, and apart from the hospitals of Larrainzar November 1995. I and Altamirano which arenow controlled by the EZLN, there The United States claim�d that the last elections were is nothing else known to have been built or carried out by fraudulent because thousapds of supporters of Pefia Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia.

44 International ElK August 19, 1994 cently set up a salon, known as the San Angel Group, which people in the jungle of Lacandon�. Among others, Regis meets regularly over lunch in private mansions. How can it Debray [of France] and Rosanna Ro�enda of the Italian Radi­ be that the vicar general of San Crist6bal de las Casas, Don cal Party are expected as guests from the European Union. Gonzalo Ituarte, was invited to address this group last week, Lopez Sanchez: The EZLN has expressly invited those who during the course of which he proposed they meet with guer­ oppose the concept of national unity. Their aim is to destabi­ rilla leader Marcos? lize the country and bring the conflict to the whole territory Lopez Sanchez: The San Angel Group carries us back to of the republic. That is why they have invited people from the days when only the financial or intellectual elites had the other nations to take part in the qND, in order that they right to express an opinion about democracy-the Roman endorse a strategy not based upon tbe reality of the progress patricians, the Athens of Aristotle, or those early years of which has been made here. I independent Mexico, when you had to have landed property For those who know nothing o� Chiapas or of Mexico, or a degree in order to vote. Nonetheless, I feel that the San the first impression they retain upon seeing certain Indian Angel Group (though of course no one knows who precisely villages is very strong, of course; and they want to express or how many people may be part of it), may somehow be a solidarity with their demands, without having, however, a debating ground for various currents, which might possibly deeper notion of how the backwardness, which is real, shall contribute to confidence in theelectoral system. Its role may be done away with. The PRD has manifestly been trying to be taken into account as a body of opinion, but not as a body discredit abroad the progress tha� has been made here, having anything to decide about the democratic process. whereas there are sufficient channel$ in this country for peo­ I have no idea in what capacity Don Gonzalo Ituarte was ple to express constructive criticisml invited to address the group, but his presence there was proba­ People have been invited to the: CND from all over the bly very useful, in order for the San Angel Group to see for republic, and foreign associations a� well. There are opposi­ themselves to what extent the aims and ambitions of Bishop tion groups in Mexico, most of themlradical, whose criticism Ruiz Garcia and those of"Sub-Comrnander"Marcos , do coin­ has been shown by the course of history to be destructive, cide, and how suspiciously they coincide with the very views but who seek support from abroad! for their views today, of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the PRD' s presidential candidate. through the CND. I hope thatthose who are about td arrive here from abroad EIR: What importance does the National Democratic Con­ will be serious and responsible. If n�t, it would be better, in vention (CND) have? The EZLN has called for the CND to the interest of peace and in the inter�st' of the future of Mexi- meet in early August, in a newly built auditorium for 4,000 co, that they stay away.

G6mez-a member of the pro-drug Inter-American Dia­ the constitutional reforms, Balaguev was armtwisted into logue--could not cast their votes. But while Balaguer is signing an agreement allowing U.S� troops to patrol the being forced out, the Dominican senators and representa­ Dominican border with Haiti. tives elected along with him in the same elections will The Inter-American Dialogue is making headway in serve their full four years. Peiia G6mez's PRD won a infecting the Clinton administration with Bush's British­ plurality in both chambers ! inspired "democracy and free trade"! rhetoric. At an Aug. Backed by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, 3 news conference, Clinton said thatiU .S. national securi­ U. S. Ambassador Donna Jean Hrinak demanded the new ty "is caught up in whether the peo�e in this hemisphere elections, and encouraged sedition by the PRD and its are moving toward democracy and qpenmarkets ." allies, which include the Dominican Communist Party of The next test for this "Project Democracy" will be Narciso Issa Conde. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mexico's Aug. 21 presidential elections. Cuauhtemoc for Inter-American Affairs Michael Skol threatened: "Our Cardenas, candidate of the left-wing PRD, has declared concern that the Dominican people be represented by a that the ruling PRI party has "fixed" the results. Cardenas government which has been chosen in free and fair elec­ has allied with the narco-terrorists ofthe Zapatista Nation­ tions . . . is every bit as strong as it is for the people of al Liberation Army (EZLN), which �aged a bloody insur­ Haiti ." gency in Chiapas on Jan. 1. The EZLN , along with myriad Indeed, U.S. policy toward the Dominican Republic other radical groupings, recently �eld a convention in is largely driven by the crisis in Haiti, on the other side the jungles of Chiapas. The conseIJsus was to overturn of the island. While Balaguer has fought the genocidal Mexico's system of government. 'rCivil disobedience" embargo against Haiti since it was firstimposed by George experts have reportedly been brough� in to provide advice Bush, Peiia G6mez supports it and backs an invasion to and training in post-election prote�s against the ruling restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in Haiti. Besides PRI, when it wins .-Carlos Wesley i

EIR August 19, 1994 International 45 Reportfr om Rio by Silvia Palacios

Bankers give Lula a new running mate of the nation's foreign exchange re­ Aloisio Mercadente, vice presidential candidate of the Workers serves to purchase U.S. government Party, is "proletarian monetarism" in action. bonds, to � offered to Brazil's for­ eign creditdr banks as guarantees for those banks� agreeing to lengthen the term of Br�il' s debt. Mercadante has also been charged with "modClrating" the party's posi­ tion concedting treatment of the for­ T he Brazilian Workers Party (PT), the Dialogue. eign debt, eliminating the possibility so far favored to win the October pres­ Mercadante represents an influ­ of a debt mOratorium, or any similar idential elections, has completed a ential group within the party , and as measure tMt might protect Brazilian maneuver intended to strengthen the such had been considered a likely fi­ sovereignty! in the context of global support already tendered the party by nance minister in a Lula administra­ financialcollapse . the international financial establish­ tion. Among the most significant BeyondJ strengthening the PT's ment, particularly by that faction rep­ proofs of his pro-banker bona fidesis ties to the bankers, Mercadante's resented by the Washington-based In­ the fact that in his trips abroad to ex­ nomination!8isofurthers another goal, ter-American Dialogue (lAD). plain his party's program to the An­ which is to �resent a sufficientlymod­ In the wake of a corruption scan­ glo-American elite, he has been fi­ erate image that the powerful Brazil­ dal that has badly tarnishedthe party's nanced by Banco Garantia, one of the ian militaryfdoes not veto a Lula presi­ facade of being "honest to a fault," Brazilian banks most heavily involved dency. The; idea is to try to show that and caused nervousness within the in making a speculative killing in the the "Mensheviks" of the party have party's upper ranks , the party leader­ financial derivativesmarke t. prevailed. I ship has dumped Sen. Jose Paulo Bi­ For example, Mercadante was fi­ The PT. seeks to play on the fact solas, its vice presidential candidate, nanced by Banco Garantia on his trip that Mercadante is the son of the dis­ from the ticket headed by party leader to the United States earlier this year, tinguished Gen. Oswaldo Muniz Oli­ Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva. when he visited the Rockefellers' va (ret.), eJ\.-commanderof the Supe­ Bisol is a degenerate, who is seek­ Americas Society, among other rior War Cqllege, and thereby hope to ing to consecrate the "right" to homo­ forums. open a challDel to the military. This sexuality in the nation's Constitution; It turns out that Banco Garantia is was recent ' exploited effectively by his removal is due to an attempt to owned by Jorge P. Lemann, an Inter­ the PT lea ership in a confrontation retread Lula as a "moderate" candi­ American Dialogue member who hap­ between thf cabinet's military minis­ date , rather than an extremist. Bisol's pened to join at the same time as Lula, ters and the judiciary, over the issue of replacement, economist and con­ and who is a financier of the George military w�ges, in which Mercadante gressman Aloisio Mercadante, is one Soros stripe, who prides himself on acted as negotiator between the Con­ of the bankers' highest-ranking flun­ his relationships with neo-communist gress and the Army minister. ' keys inside Brazil. organizations and individuals, such as The PT is doing everythingpossi­ Mercadante's nomination under­ the pro-terrorist Sao Paulo Forum, ble to woo ithe military to ensure that scores the Workers Party's refur­ which was founded at the instigation they won't block the PT from taking bished deal with the Inter-American of the Cuban Communist Party , and office. To this end, they have prom­ Dialogue, an understanding which to which Lula also belongs. ised that unper a Lula government,the dates back to 1990, right after Lula Mercadante is a prime representa­ high-tech programs pushed by the joined the lAD. Mercadante's selec­ tive of what might be called "proletari­ military would be further developed, tion is also intended to respond to the an monetarism," that is to say, a rather or at least fprmallyrespected. sudden rise in the polls of Lula's main poorly disguised version of British Such promisesare hot air. The ties opponent, FernandoHenrique Cardo­ liberalism; as an example of this, in of Lula abrbad to the lAD and the Sao so, who on his own account has a December 1992, Mercadante, as a Paulo Forum, and at home to the radi­ longstanding, intimate relationship representative of the Workers Party, calized PT !apparatus, reveal what his with the international banking com­ presented Brazilian President Itamar actual poli()yis toward the military:to munity and is a founding member of Franco the proposal to utilize a portion eliminate it.

46 International EIR August 19, 1994 Reportfro m Bonn by RainerApel

Battle is joined for nuclear power anti-nuclear climlUe. To counter recent victoriesfor the pro-nuclear fo rces, radical On the other Side, however, there has been a revival of rabid ecologism ecologists are threatening a new upsurge of violence. that would empl9Y violence to stop nuclear projects . This can be observed in the protests at the planned nuclear waste dump at GQrleben, where activ­ ists have bloc�ed roads, sawed Should the l6-year administrative to the pro-technology impulse that se­ through railroad tracks, and damaged blockade of nuclear power projects cured the country a place among the electrical transmission towers. not be lifted in the near future, the most developed of the industrial na­ The left-wing opposition Social Germans might one day, not so far tions. Democrats (SPD) are joining this pro­ into the next century, findthemselves On July 21, the state government paganda campaigp, in an effort to sell having to knock on Asian doors to get of Bavaria published its new medium­ their lackluster cIltancellor candidate, their nuclear facilities repaired, for term investment program, which will Rudolf Scharping, as the "alternative they will no longer have the specialists provide 3 billion deutschemarks ($1.9 to Helmut Kohl" �n the October elec­ to do the job. billion) for projects in the nuclear and tions. The SPD' s left wants a coalition This warning, coming from a se­ other engineering sectors of that state . with the Greens afterthe elections, but nior member of a Frankfurt-based en­ Most important is the Bavarian deci­ ecologism and r�ical "anti-fascism" gineering firmat a nuclear policy sem­ sion to fund the planned new nuclear in the party's caJlnpaign alone won't inar of the Evangelical Academy at research reactor at Garching, a "neu­ yield a majority irlthe parliament. The Loccum at the end of June, seems to tron source device," with DM 450 "red-green" alli�ce needs a third have been heard by the judges of the million-the largest single item in the partner, and the only one that comes Supreme Administrative Court in Ber­ state budget for science and technolo­ to mind is the P!dy of Democratic So­ lin, who ruled on Aug. 9 that three gy. This Bavarian funding goes un­ cialism (PDS) , formerly the ruling challenges by ecologists against the matched in the rest of Germany. East German SQcialist Unity Party new nuclear fuels plant at Hanau, in Another DM 300 million will be (SED). The PD$ is continuing the the state of Hesse , areto be dismissed, spent to funda number of regionalen­ SED's policy of fpmenting ecologism and that the project is legal. Pending gineering colleges which Bavarian in western Germany to weaken the six other minor legal challenges, the Gov. Edmund Stoiber said arean "ab­ system there; it is strong in the five plant, which is operated by the Sie­ solute must for a high-tech state like eastern states of !Germany, where it mens Corp. , can now be completed so Bavaria that has an interest in playing controls 20% of the vote-not an in­ that it can go into production of fuel a role in the next century." significant factor for the October elec­ elements from plutonium for Germa­ Stoiber called the planned nuclear tions. ny's 22 nuclear power plants. The Ha­ research reactor "an indispensable A "red-greeJil-red" alliance al­ nau site is the only one of its kind in precondition of any future top-level ready exists in �e eastern state of Germany and one of only six in the productivity in science and technolo­ Saxe-Anhalt, where the SPD and world. gy," and announced that the Bavarian Greens didn't re�eive a majority of The court ruling, a key victory in state will also create special "technol­ votes in the June 12 elections for state a years-long battle between ecologists ogy transfer centers" to speed up the parliament, and had to rely on the and the nuclear industry, can become application of new technologies to the votes of the PDS Ito be able to form a a vital step towardlifting the technolo­ industrial production process. minority government. The PDS ele­ gy blockade which the country's poli­ Another important development ment "outside" die coalition is strong ticians imposed in 1978, at the peak was an advertisement recently pub­ enough, however, to reinforce the of violent protests against the nuclear lished in the country's big news dai­ radical ecologists in the SPD of that power sector. No new atomic power lies by all the mayors of municipalities state; that policy is already having its plant has been authorized since. that are sites of nuclear power facili­ firstresults in sta�ments by the Saxe­ There are certain indicators that ties. An ad like that, endorsing nucle­ Anhalt government, that it wants to the political environment in Germany ar technology, would not have been block all big infrastructurepro jects for is changing, making possible a return possible in recent years, given the ecological reasons.

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military issues. ing, analyzijtg, and reporting to Pope John German Catholic bishops The SADC includes as member states Paul II on What is happening in Mexico in ' denounce Cairo the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, this regard. Lozano Barragan underscored '94 Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Angola, that the namingof the special inspector is in Mozambique, Botswana, Swaziland, Leso­ To think that the German Catholics may op­ no way reil¢ed to the Aug. 21 presidential tho, and Malawi. pose the Vatican over the Cairo conference elections, bpt is only intended to confirm is an illusion, said Cardinal Lehmann, the whether ac�sations of clergy involvement archbishop of Mainz and chairman of the in Zapatista lviolence are true. There German Catholic Bishops Conference, on Irish Republican Army is reportedly a great deal of unrest Aug. 4. He said that the German Catholics among clergy who back Ruiz over the Vati­ may accept cease-fire can's plans., Some cannot support the U.N.'s Sept. 5-13 Inter­ fear that Lozano Barra­ gan himself who is a hard-line national Conference on Population and De­ ! opponent of Signs "strongly indicate" that the Irish Re­ Samuel Rui , might even velopment, because it is based on "the f be named, which publican Army may accept a cease-fire, ac­ would be a aj or blow to Theology ofLiber­ wrong policy and wrong concept of man." � cording to the Irish Times of Aug . 1. Citing ation opera40ns in the country. Resistance against the U.N.'s malthu­ "Republican sources in Belfast," the .Times Ruiz m� briefly with Pope John Paul II sian approach seems to be strong even in said that the IRA was getting ready to an­ during the fitstweek in July, while on a visit the liberal Catholic Church of Germany, as nounce a unilateral cease-fire to last at least to the Vaticr. there is evidence that Christian Democratic one month, possibly two or three, beginning members of the Bundestag (parliament) in September. I have proven influential enough so far to The prospect for the cease-fire came a block a resolution that would have endorsed week after the IRA's political arm, Sinn Cardinkl Sin demands the Cairo conference . Fein, had rejected major provisions of the In addition, a pamphlet is being circu­ peace plan put forward in December by the an acc�unting on Cairo lated by the Catholic Church's "Missio" or­ British and Irish governments in the 10 I ganization, which opposes the Cairo agenda Downing Street Declaration. But, Sinn The Catho'c Bishops Conference of the because of its technocratic arrogance. The Fein's president, Gerry Adams, insisted that Philippines , has called on President Fidel Cairo agenda says that the grave problems the refusal did not kill peace efforts, stating Ramos to mltkepublic the names of all mem­ of the developing nations can be solved by that the IRA remained "flexible." This was bers of the dational delegation to the U.N. 's birth control, while in reality, the develop­ especially trUe if an end to the peace talks Internation� Conference on Population and ment of the economic and social potentials meant the "demilitarization" of Northern Developmeht, to be held in Cairo Sept. 5- of those nations is the only thing that will Ireland, where 30,000 British troops and the 13. I help to overcome the chronic crisis in the Protestant paramilitary guerrillas are based. The arc;hbishop of Manila, Cardinal South. Jaime Sin ld the Rotary Club of Manila ' on July 28 tOat the letter to President Ramos Vatican to look into asks "with sense of great urgency that the States of southern Africa names of thf!Filipino representatives to the acts by Mexican clergy Cairo confqrence be made public and that to fo rm policy community they be made accountable for the protection The Vatican is appointing a special "Visi­ and promotion of those values regarding Eleven states of southern Africahave stated tor," or inspector, to determine whether life, family� and sexuality which are held their intent to form a joint development and members of the Mexican clergy are fo­ dear by thel overwhelming majority of our policy community, at a meeting at the end menting violence or are involved in promot­ people and enshrined in our culture and our of July in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. ing the Zapatista National Liberation Army Constitutio,. " The former consultative group of the (EZLN), according to the magazine Summa Cardin4 Sin continued: "I hereby hurl a "frontline states" was formally disbanded on Aug. 2. challenge t� you, esteemed Rotarians, ac­ to make room for future close cooperation Many have charged that Bishop Samuel complishedl and influential citizens of our between them and the new Republic of Ruiz of San Crist6bal de las Casas and other republic, tQ do your utmost in the defense South Africa, Zimbabwe Foreign Minister members of the clergy directly organized and in the C eriShing of those cultural, mor­ Nathan Shamuyarira explained. the EZLN and orchestrated the Jan. 1, 1994 al, and relii ious values without which our The new form of consultation and coop­ uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas . lives woul . lose their meaning ....The eration which will be launched through the Bishop Javier Lozano BarraganofZaca­ future ofyopr children, even our very souls, South African Development Community tecas, president of the church's Doctrinal are put in je!opardy. What, my dearfriends, (SADC) is designed to include economic as Commission on Faith, clarified that the in­ does the Rotarians' ideal of serviceurge you well as general foreign policy and strategic- spector's task will be limited to investigat- to do?"

48 International EIR August 19, 1994 • ISRAELI�IRAQI secret talks about a cornptehensive peace agree­ ment are proc�eding on a high level, clear power stations (and seven more on the the Israeli daib' Yedioth Ahronot re­ Nagasaki mayor rejects way) ... according to physics Professor ported on Augf 5. Somewherein Eu­ Richard Wilson at Harvard University, unfair nuclear treaty rope on July :19, an official of the mean that 'Japan can make a bomb at any Iraqi Defense IMinistry and a senior time.' " The mayor of Nagasaki , Japan, said on the Israeli envoy Ijlet to probe options of Princeton's Harold Feiveson is quoted Aug. 9 anniversary of the atomic bombing common inte t. Iraq is said to have as saying that since Israel, Pakistan, and of that city, that non-nuclear weapons states offered oil s s to Israel, once the India are already "de facto nuclear weapons should block an extension of the Nuclear stateof enmi� between the two coun­ states," having long refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), unless the tries and the .N. embargo against NPT, we should give up on them. The 1995 nuclear states agree to scrap their weapons Iraq are lifted.' NPT negotiations "have a betterchance" of also. smashing the East Asians. Otherwise, "We are opposed to the unlimited, un­ THE GEttMAN Civil Rights "Asian enthusiasm for civil nuclear power • conditional extension of the NPT without Movement SqIidarity was officially may pose as much of a difficulty" as North the nuclear-possessing powers clearly stat­ certifiedon A�g. 5 to campaign in the Korea and Iraq. ing that they will eventually ban the weap­ October parli�ntary elections in The article demands that North Korea ons," Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima said at a the states of �avaria, Baden-Wiirt­ not be given light water reactors by the Unit­ memorial ceremony for survivors and fami­ temberg, Hes�, North Rhine-West­ ed States, since "if North Korea wins eco­ lies of victims on the 49th anniversary of the phalia, Lowet Saxony, Thuringia, nomic concessions from the U.S., other Nagasaki bombing. "Nuclear weapons are and Berlin. party's national slate countries may seek to use the same brinks­ � an absolute evil with the capacity to destroy is headed by : chancellor candidate manship in hope of similar rewards." mankind," Motoshima said. "The Japanese Helga Zepp-UR,ouche. government should clearly state that using such weapons violates international law . " NA TO air strikes didn 't • KUWAITi will receive weapons Motoshima also said that Japan must re­ from Russia, I under an agreement pentfor its past aggressions. stop genocide in Bosnia signed betweep the two governments on Aug. 8. Th� Russian delivery will Bosnia's Ambassador to the United States include light ;roored personnel car­ London wields NPT to Sven Alkalaj on Aug. 5 applauded NATO's riers of the type BMP-3, and an up­ limited air strikes on Serb targets, calling dated version of the Katyusha rocket stop Asia'snu clear power them a "display of long-overdue resolve." launcher. I But he wamed that, "with or without air The Financial Times, mouthpiece of the strikes, Sarajevo continues to be strangled • GUATEMALAN Defense Minis­ City of London financial community, on and isolated with seven days of food left, ter Gen. Mario Rene Enriquez an­ Aug . 5 called for using the renegotiation of while genocide continues in Serb-occupied nounced the d�scovery of a weapons the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty lands and while Bosnia continues to be de­ cache containing seven tons of AK- (NPT), which expires in 1995, to halt the nied its inherent right to self-defense." 47 rifles, gren.des, rocketlaunchers , "developing large civil nuclear programs The Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing and explosivFs, near Guatemala ... [in] the technologically sophisticated continues unabated . On Aug. 6, a group of City, in the h�me of a Mexican citi­ Asian countries including Japan, Taiwan, 64 Muslim women, children, and elderly zen. The genl1fal said that the possi­ and South Korea." Also targeted are Alge­ men arrived in Tuzla after being brutally bility that the .....eapons were destined ria, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and expelled from the Serbian-held town of Bi­ for the MexiCIjn Zapatista insurgents Israel. jelijina in northeast Bosnia. They had been "cannot be �iscarded as a hy­ The real challenge for the 1995 NPT among 300 Bosnian Muslims who were pothesis." negotiations, according to the paper, is to seized in the town and held in a basement "devise a further U.N. inspection regime" for four days . All able-bodied men were • THE FRENCH NAVY came to to stop potential new proliferators . turned into slaves for the Bosnian Serb the defense of French fishing boats The article, titled "Tick, Tick, Tick Army . under attack bfGreenpeace on Aug. Them Off," by Jimmy Bums and Bronwen On Aug. 8, Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker 5, AP reporte4. The Greenpeace ship Maddox, asserts that the existence of stan­ of the self-styled Bosnian Serb Assembly, Rainbow Wa'1':ior sent four assault dard light water reactors in Japan, Taiwan, issued a statement demanding 64%of Bos­ boats agains e fishing vessels, to and South Korea "gives these governments nia for the Serbs . Earlier, Krajisnik had harass them �d cut their nets. A na­ access to large quantities of nuclear material complained that the 49% offered by the in­ val patrol boa fired a stun grenade at which could potentially be used for weap­ ternational plan translated into only 20% of one of the Gnrnpeace boats. ons." The article states that "Japan's 46 nu- Bosnia's economic assets.

EIR August 19, 1994 International 49 II �TIillInvestigation

Thirtyye ars ofcollus ion between theADL and Stasi by Jeffrey Steinberg

I On June 28, a short article in a leading German newspaper, sohn had presented evidence, g�ered from the archives of the FranlifurterAllgemeine Zeitung, shed new light on one the East German Foreign Ministjry and the Stasi, confirming of the nastiest mysteries of the Cold War epoch: the collusion that the ADL-East German coll�boration continued follow­ between Soviet Bloc secret police services and the nominally ing the reunificationof Germanx and the formal dismantling Jewish American "civil rights" group, the Anti-Defamation of the hated East German sectet police agency. Ex-Stasi League of B 'nai B'rith (ADL). The article, by German Jew­ officers, operating through infoQ:nal"clu bs," and bankrolled ish historian Michael Wolffsohn, revealed that in 1985, the by millions of dollars in pilfered East German funds, contin­ East German regime, through its State Security Service, the ue to steer the activities of neo-Nazi gangs all across Germa­ Staatsicherheitsdienst ("Stasi"), launched a "friendship of­ ny, Wolffsohn charged; and gf(�UpS like the ADL and WJC fensive" toward American Jewish organizations. The dread­ continue to provide crucial SC$ propaganda equating the ed Stasi, which had a special role in carrying put highly reunifiedGermany with a mena¢ing "Fourth Reich." sophisticated and dangerous overseas secret police opera­ Furthermore, ADL-linked financier networks involving tions within the Soviet intelligence machine, found its most people such as Marc Rich, Edmond Safra, and George Soros, willing westernpartners at the ADL and at the World Jewish had abetted the Stasi, the KGBi, and other East bloc secret Congress (WJC), an internationalZionist organization taken services in large-scale smuggl�g of hard currency, gold, over by ADL Honorary Vice Chairman Edgar Bronfman in diamonds, and other assets acrqss the Iron Curtain into safe the early 1980s. havens in Switzerland, Israel, Hbngkong, and the Caribbean The revelation is especially shocking because it is notori­ for later use. ous that the "German Democratic Republic," as the Soviet­ Today, nearly five years s�nce Stasi headquarters was occupied east zone of Germany was called, harbored the ransacked by angry East Germaps in the revolution of 1989, unrepentant Nazis-in case they should come in useful ongoing dirty tricks deployed against strategically sensitive again. targets make it evident that thfl old capabilities, or at least The collaboration continued even after the collapse of the some of them, are in place. Ampng the telltale signs are:the Berlin Wall. According to Wolffsohn's account, one of the attempt at violent "antifa" (anli-fascist) demonstrations in final acts of ADL-Stasi collusion involved an effort to free Germany against U.S. Presidept Bill Clinton and German an important KGB agent from jail in Israel. Curiously, the Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Juo/, when Clinton announced Soviet agent, Shabtai Kalmanowitch, had not only penetrated the end of the U . S . -British special relationship and the begin­ the inner circles of Israeli politics; during the 1980s, before ning of a new special partnershpwith unified Germany; and his arrest, Kalmanowitch had been working closely with Lt. the spate of terrorist attacks against Jewish communities Col. Oliver North and the "Project Democracy" apparatus worldwide, aimed at derailing �e Middle East peace process. inside the Reagan-Bush administration. Both the German-U.S. partner�hip and the Middle East ac­ In an earlier interview with the Washington Post, Wolff- cords threaten the British geopolitical interests that the ADL-

50 Investigation EIR August 19, 1994 Stasi apparatus has always defended, because both have the North, and the Soviet bloc intelligen�e services, in the illegal potential to radically shift the axioms which have controlled arms and dope trade . international policy for the postwar era and especially the last It was within this domain of cov�rt criminal activity that 30 years. the Anti-Defamation League played iits most significantrole during the 1980s, criss-crossing the East-West barriers A complicated web through an underground of narcotiCs peddlers, arms mer­ The players and events at the center of this story will be chants, and money launderers . One head of government, unfamiliar to most readers; and the idea that Soviet bloc Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Pallme, inadvertently un­ secret police agencies successfully won the support of the earthed the secret of the East-West collusion in shipping best-known Jewish "civil rights" groups in America clearly billions of dollars in arms into the Persian Gulf to fuel the contradicts almost everything reported in the major western Iran-Iraq War. He was assassinated on Feb. 28, 1986. An press. elaborate disinformation effort, run jointly by the Stasi and Almost. the ADL, threw a smokescreen over the investigative trail: In January 1993, a curious item in the San Francisco To this day, Palme's killers remain unidentified. Chronicle revealed that local police and the FBI had discov­ The report which follows docunients the events, places, ered that a long-time ADL official was spying on behalf of and people who make up the ADUStasi apparatus. While the South African and Israeli secret services. A year-long necessarily incomplete, we believe! that the evidence pre­ probe ensued, which revealed that the ADL had illegally sented here is sufficientto warrant a full congressional inves­ obtained confidential police files on tens of thousands of tigation of the U.S. side of this capability, with a view to American citizens and had been carrying out a campaign shutting it down. Certainly at a time when the loss of life that of espionage and disruption against nearly 1,000 domestic was incurredby such espionage deba�les as the Aldrich Ames political, religious, and civil rights organizations. Among spy case is being tallied up and dam�ge assessment is ongo­ the targets of the ADL dirty tricks were such civil rights ing, it is more than appropriate to begin counting the tentacles leaders as the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ADL of the potentially far larger and mor¢ venomous intelligence domestic spying, it was revealed, traced back as far as World octopus revealed in this dossier. Itl is doubtful that world War II. peaceand national security can be acihieved if it is allowed to But even these revelations about domestic spying and continue to thrive. collaboration with "friendly" foreign intelligence services did little to prepare most people for the truth that the ADL The ADL-Stasi dossier had been "sleeping with the enemy" throughout much of the Since the fall of the East Gern1lan communist state in Cold War, inflicting grievous damages, including undoubt­ 1989, some of the archives of the S�si and the East German edly the loss of lives, on U.S. national security. Foreign Ministry have been declassifiedand made available to westernresearchers and reporters.1 Among the details now East-West underground economy available are records of a series of m�tings between top ADL For the past 16 years , EIR's counterintelligence staff has and World Jewish Congress officials and leading figures in kept the ADL's courtship of East Berlin and Moscow on a the East German government and communist party (SED) wide range of strategic issues under scrutiny. Our investiga­ between 1986 and 1989, aimed at ;devising a strategy for tion began in 1978 when Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. , the saving the doomed communist state. Additionally, EIR has founding editor of EIR and a presidential candidate, request­ obtained over 5,000pages of FederaI Bureau ofInvestigation ed a study which led to the publication of the book Dope, documents on the ADL under the Freedom of Information Inc., the bestseller which uncovered the highest political and Act. financial levels behind international narcotics trafficking. Through a review of this material , compared with other Beyond the politics, there has always been a strong "busi­ documentation we have assembled over the course of a 16- ness" side to the ADL-Stasi-KGB friendship, LaRouche's year investigation, we have put together the following ac­ associates found. The ADL, as the traditional public relations count of 33 years of ADL-Stasi-KGB criminal collusion. shield of the National Crime Syndicate founded by Meyer There are sizable gaps in the dossier� but the story contained Lansky during the 1920s, has always had a major stake in the below is nevertheless a devastating titleof corruption, fraud, illegal arms and narcotics underground economy stretching treachery, and violence. As further flIesfrom the secret Stasi across the East-West divide. This now has a turnover of an archives findtheir way into the light df day, and as continuing estimated $1 trillion a year. police investigations into the spying efforts of the ADL tum In the course of our investigation, we discovered one of up new evidence, the story will condnue to be filledout . the least-publicized aspects of the Iran-Contra scandal: the Because of the complexity of $e dossier, it is broken collusion between the "secret, parallel government" led by down for presentation here into a series of chronologically then-Vice President George Bush and Marine Lt. Col. Ollie ordered case studies.

ElK August 19, 1994 Investigation 51 Case study the Eichmann trial wedge between West Germany and the other NATO coun­ 1: tries, just as West Germany w�s emerging as an industrial power. Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher interviewed In 1961, a team of Israeli Mossad "commandos" kid­ German military historian Michael Wolffsohn, who studied napped Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his South Stasi archives following the reunification of Germany, and American hideout and brought him back to Israel to stand reported on Wolffsohn's findings on Feb. 28, 1993 under the trial . Although the kidnapping was a clear violation of inter­ headline "E. Germany Ran Anti-Semitic Campaign in West national law , there were few public objections. Many forces in '60s." The articlereported: were set into motion to ensure that the impact of Eichmann "Spies for Communist East permanystaged anti-Semitic in the docket would not be missed by present or future genera­ attacks in West Germany in the 1960s to foment internal tions. For Israeli leaders, it was an opportunity to impress unrest in West Germany and di�credit Bonn among its west­ upon a generation too young to have gone through the horrors ern allies, according to docum�nts from the archives of the of World War II and the concentration camps, just what East German Stasi secret police. . . . inhumanity was all about. "In 1961, as the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eich­ But, not every player on the stage was operating with the mann was getting under way in Israel, the East GermanPolit­ best of motives. The Anti-Defamation League ofB 'nai B'rith buro ordered a secret campaign to convince the world that dispatched a top U.S. headquarters official, Arnold Forster, 'revanchism and racial hate have once again found a place in to attend the trials and work with Israeli intelligence officials West Germany.' The Stasi arranged for East German Jews as a "press liaison" to ensure that the American news cover­ and intellectuals to send telegrams and hold press con­ age would be "spun" properly. Just five years earlier, the ferences in an effort to draw �esident John F. Kennedy's Eisenhower administration had reacted sharply when Israel attention to a wave of anti-Jewish incidents in West Germa­ joined forces with Great Britain and France to invade Egypt ny .... and seize the Suez Canal. During the early years of the State "The Stasi documents, found in the archives of theformer ofIsrael, many U.S. officials hadconsidered the Zionist state East German State Security Ministry by Munich historian to be a virtual satellite of the Soviet Union. For the ADL, Michael Wolffsohn, show that many of those anti-Semitic which was already opening its office doors to Israeli espio­ attacks were organized and sup�ortedby communist agents. " nage units, the Eichmann trial offered an opportunity to score The Post account continued: "At the start of the Eich­ big propaganda points with the American people on behalf mann trial, the Stasi mounted ' Action J,' in which communist of Israei. funds were funneled to the W �st' s small German Imperial Forster had already established his reputation as an adept Party for a public campaign to defend Eichmann and justify propagandist. In the 1950s, he was caught by local police in the need for exterminatingthe Uews through a wave of anti­ New York State defacing a synagogue with Nazi insignias Semitic activities. The Stasi found former Nazi SS officers and slogans. The purpose of the vandalism? To generate fear in the West who were only tpo glad to take on the pro­ among Jews and sympathy among non-Jews over the danger Eichmann public relations drive. of an anti-Semitic upsurge in America. It was a shakedown "The Stasi was determined to make it look as if West racket borrowed from the pages of the Meyer Lansky crime Germany's former Nazis were 'outraged by the sight of one syndicate. Forster boasted decades later in his autobiogra­ of their former leaders facing the death penalty in Jerusalem. phy, Square One, that he had worked on behalf of Israel's Stasi documents show that the oommunists organized anony­ Mossad from the time ofthe Eichmann trial. Those indiscreet mous chain letters in which 'Ve�erans of the Waffen-SS' who admissions came back to haunt him in 1985 when his Mossad were really East German operatives called on West Germa­ liaison, "Dirty" Rafi Eytan, was nailed as the controller of ny's World War II veterans to join in a public 'struggle Jonathan Jay Pollard, the Israeli-Soviet spy who cost the against Jewish Bolshevism.' "; United States billions of dollars and an undisclosed number of lost lives. Pollard's stream of top-secret Pentagon docu­ ments had found their way to both Tel Aviv and Moscow Case study 2: intensifyingthe during the early 1980s, when the outcome of the Cold War 'Nazi hunt' was anything but certain. In intelligence parlance, Pollard was a classic "false flag"agent, nominally working for Israeli intelligence but actually funneling some of America's most It is not certainwhether theiADL actions surroundingthe important defense secrets to Moscow. televised Eichmann trial were in any way coordinated with "Action 1" or whether the ADL had simply adopted identical Stasi and Eichmann agit-prop methods. However, ip 1962, shortly afterthe trial, The ADL was not alone in its zeal to exploit the interna­ an American Communist and head of the U.S. -East German tional spotlight cast on the Eichmann trial in Israel. The East Friendship Society, Charles R� Allen Jr. , penned an article German Stasi saw the trial as a great opportunity to drive a titled "Nazi War Criminalsin the U.S.A.," which had all the

52 Investigation EIR August 19, 1994 markings of East German-Soviet propaganda. The article onstrating initially a healthy skepticism about the authenticity was published in a Communist Party USA magazine, Jewish of the documents and the motives behind the Soviet bloc Currents, and targeted NASA scientist Dr. Hubert Stughold "cooperation. " as an unrepentant Nazi. Allen named a total of 30 naturalized In June 1975, Holtzman and Joshq.aEilberg (D-Pa.) visit­ American citizens whom he claimed were all Nazi bigshots. ed Moscow, conferring with Procu�ator General Rudenko He later acknowledged that the list had been provided to about accessing Soviet files on the ac�used "Hitlerites." (Ru­ him by two "sources"; Julius Mader, a well-known Stasi denko himself had been one of the notpriousju dges presiding propagandist who published an annual Who's Who in the over the Stalin "show trials" in the 1�30s and had overseen CIA , and KGB agent, writer ErnstHenry . the liquidation of thousands of Ukraip.ian anti-communists.) The same year, Allen wrote a pamphlet, "Heusinger and By October 1975, Holtzman and Eil�rg were joined by the the Fourth Reich," which lambasted NATO as a rebirth of ADL's two top members on Capitql Hill, Senators Jacob the Nazi Reich. His term "Fourth Reich" was adopted not Javits (R-N. Y.) and Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.). Both sen­ only by the ADL and the World Jewish Congress, but also ators were honorary vice chairmen pf the ADL. They re­ later by the British government of Prime Minister Margaret ceived their own Soviet-manufactu� list of 70 naturalized Thatcher in an effort to halt German reunification. "Hitlerites" from yet another known $oviet agent, Ukrainian newspaper editor Michael Hanusiakt The New York City­ 1970s: In search of Nazis in America based Hanusiak was recruited as a Soviet agent in 1969 while In November 1972, newly elected U.S. Rep. Elizabeth visiting Ukraine on a junket spons�red by the Ukrainian Holtzman (D-N.Y.), who had extensive backing from the American League, a Soviet frontgro,p . ADL, immediately launched a campaign against the U.S. The efforts of the ADL congres�ional caucus received Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), charging a boost in March 1977, when the Jlfew York Times Book them with allowing Nazi warcriminals to illegally enter the Company published Wanted: In Sear,:h of Nazis in America United States. No longer was Charles Allen, a known Com­ by Times staff writer Howard Blum. !The book was a rehash munist operative, the leading spokesman for the "Nazi hunt." of the Charles Allen and Michael Hapusiak-i.e., Soviet­ Holtzman's mother, Dr. Filia Holtzman, the chairman of the files. Five months after Blum's book appeared, the Justice Russian Studies Department at Hunter College, was a leading Department created a Special Litiga�on Unit to consolidate scholar of Bolshevik writer Maxim Gorky and a Soviet sym­ prosecutions against all the alleged Nazis in America. By pathizer. Shortly after entering Congress, Holtzman bran­ then the department was packed witb ADL-sponsored attor­ dished a list of 59 alleged Nazi war criminals living in the neys tripping over each other to get tq Moscow, East Berlin, United States. She received the list from Dr. Otto Karbach, and Warsaw to tap into the KGB-Stalli"fi les." president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Dr. Kar­ On March 28, 1979, Attorney General Griffin Bell an­ bach, in tum, admitted that he had received the list from nounced the formation of the Officeof Special Investigations Charles R. Allen, Jr. (OSI) inside the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Feeling the heat, the INS set up a one-man office in The unit, initially given 1 % of the e�tire department budget New York City to investigate the allegations. In April 1974, ($2.3 million for starters), promptl� hired 50 attorneys al­ emboldened by the INS concessions and by the fact that most exclusively drawn from ADL-lipked law firms, and set Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had dispatched a delega­ out to strike a formal pact with Mcpscow and East Berlin tion to Moscow to meet with Soviet Procurator General Ru­ to lay the foundation for winning a�ission of Soviet bloc denko to discuss the "Nazis in America," Holtzman called a evidence in American courts of la\\j. By the time the OSI press conference to formally charge the U.S. government opened its doors, the original WJC Ihunt-list of 59 alleged with harboring Nazi war criminals. Nazis had swelled to a roster of over ?OO. Shortly afterPresident Nixon's Aug. 9, 1974 resignation, Kissinger obtained authorization from GeraldFord , to open 1980: Moving in for the kill I formal negotiations with Moscow to establish ground rules In January 1980, OSI Director Vfalter RockIer, the for­ for U.S.-Soviet collaboration in tracking down Nazis in mer personal attorneyfor Henry Kissipger who held the origi­ America. Kissinger, a frequentrecipient of ADL awards and nal 1971 Moscow meetings on the 'l'lazi" files, traveled to financial largesse, traveled to Moscow to meet with Foreign Moscow to meet again with Rudeo1Fo and his staff. Allan Minister Andrei Gromyko, carrying the World Jewish Con­ Ryan, RockIer's deputy and later his �uccessor as OSI chief, gress list of Nazi targets . He asked the Soviets to tum over attended the Moscow sessions and IIater described the ses­ their files and to facilitate access to East German and other sions in his autobiography; "It was a r-ildly improbable mar­ Warsaw Pact state files on the people named by Moscow­ riage we were arranging, but as each detail was raised and Berlin asset Charles Allen. Moscow and East Berlin happily resolved, we found ourselves comi�g closer and closer to complied; however, at first, the vast majority of American final agreement." As the collusion d�pened into an official judges hearing the immigration cases against the alleged war diplomatic protocol, the ADL stepp�d out from behind the criminals refused to admit the Soviet bloc "evidence"--dem- shadows to add a crucial new ingre4ient to the treacherous

EIR August 19, 1994 Investigation 53 liaison. At a "World Gathering of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust" On July 10, 1981, ADL official Bruce Einhorn, then a sponsored by Bronfman the same month, Sher, still a U.S. serving attorney with the OSI, penned a memo to newly official, wildly lied that NASAi had 600 Nazi scientists on installed OSI chief Neal Sher urging him to extradite an the payroll and that the entire U. S. military scientificprogram appropriate "war criminal" to Israel to stand trial. With or was based on the work of "Nazi scientists." Four months without the blessings of Israeli officials, the ADL was com­ earlier, at the WJC's annual board of governors' meeting in mitted to staging a new "Eichmann trial." This time, the Vienna, Austria, Bronfman si$naled his personal detente ADL's effort would not merely run in parallel with the actions with Moscow by calling upon !world Jewry to mobilize to of the East German Stasi. They would converge. stop President Reagan's SDI. Five months afterthe Einhornmemo spelled out the polit­ Rankled over the bad turnin the Rudolph case, Sher and ical and legal basis for a precedent-setting extradition to Isra­ Bronfman turned to East Germ� mouthpiece Charles Allen. el, Sher met with top officials of the Israeli National Police In April 1986, Allen released It book-length version of his to "select a candidate": Colonel Russek of the Israeli National Soviet- and East German-fed ptlopaganda, Nazi War Crimi­ Police, after reviewing OSI files, requested that John Dem­ nals In America: Facts ...A 4tion: The Basic Handbook. janjuk, a Ukrainian-American auto worker from Cleveland, In that book, he denounced Lyndon LaRouche for defending Ohio whom the OSI had falsely targeted as Treblinka's "Ivan a "Nazi war criminal," Krafft Ehricke, another leading the Terrible," be extraditedto stand trial in Israel. Peenemiinde scientist, who werlt on to play a pivotal role in By this time, ADL had installed Elliot Wells as its fulk America's space program. Appearing on a New York City time Jerusalem representative. Wells's main assignment was radio interview with a Jewish befense League member on to line up "eyewitnesses" for the OSI prosecutors, whose April 18, 1986, Allen lied that Uyndon LaRouche had issued main qualification was their willingness to corroborate the death threats against him, Neal Sher, and Elizabeth counterfeit evidence and doctored filespassed on to the OSI Holtzman. by Moscow and East Berlin.

Mission to East Berlin Case study 3: the '�et LaRouche' In August 1981, the East German authorities invited Sher to East Berlin to discuss "evidence" in the Stasi archivesthat task fo rce might assist the OSI in prosecuting alleged war criminals. At the meeting, the East Germans dropped the name of Arthur Allen's smear job against Lyndon LaRouche was neither Rudolph, a key rocket engineer then working for NASA, the first nor the last occasion �hen the ADL and the Stasi who had been part ofthe German rocket team at Peenemiinde. would join forces to target the American political economist On July 14, 1983-less than four months after President and statesman. In 1973, at the same time that Rep. Elizabeth Ronald Reagan's historic speech announcing the launching Holtzman and Henry Kissinger were opening the Justice De­ of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)-opponents ofthe partmentto Moscow and East Bierlin' s propagandists, anoth­ initiative, including governmentofficia ls, joined in the ADL­ er case of ADL-Stasi collusiori surfaced. This time, it was Stasi bloodletting against German-Americans in an effort to the FBI that played the role of behind-the-scenes partner. bury the strategic defenseprogram . FBI documents partially decl�ified and released under the Richard Burt, a senior official of the U.S. State Depart­ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the FBI's ment and former New York Times correspondent, sent orders Counterintelligence Prograrn ("Cointelpro") targeted to the U.S. Embassy in East Berlin to cooperate fully with LaRouche for assassination in 11973. The FBI papers show officials in assembling a case against Rudolph. By March that the FBI had encouraged BUreau"moles" inside the lead­ 1984, the 77-year-old engineer, driven to despair by threats ership of the Communist Party lUSA to undertake to "elimi­ that his family would be left impoverished, should he be nate" LaRouche, in the belief that his death would destroy denaturalized and lose his pension, agreed to "voluntarily" the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), the phil­ renounce his U.S. citizenship and leave the country. In re­ osophical association he had folmded in the mid-1960s. turn, he retained his pension from the U.S. government. One At the same time, the East! German Stasi ran a parallel year later, the West German authorities totally cleared him operation inside West Germany, targeting an American of any involvement in Nazi war crimes. OSI officials had LaRouche colleague whose employment required him to peri­ never once consulted with the West German agencies. odically travel into East Berlinl The American was drugged Caught off-guard when the West Germans cleared Ru· by the Stasi, apparently grilled fordetails aboutthe LaRouche dolph, in April 1985, Neal Sher leaked confidential Justice movement, and then dumped \lack in the western zone. Department files to the WJC head Edgar Bronfman, who The FBI and Stasi efforts Wew up in their faces on New launched an all-out propaganda offensive against the West Year's Day 1974, as LaRoucheiand his colleagues uncovered German authorities for "covering up" for Nazi war criminals. critical details of the East-Wese covert operations.

54 Investigation EIR August 19, 1994 When leaflets and newspapers published by the to have the PDI/Blick formally takeI1! over by the SPD, with LaRouche movement began appearing on the streets of New Hirsch and the core staff remaining in charge of the publica­ York City and a score of other American cities accusing the tion. Bernt Engelmann, also of PDI, who translated Stasi FBI and Stasi of collaborating in an assassination scheme, propaganda files into widely circula�ed "exposes" of right­ the ADL and the New York Times stepped in to launch a wing politicians, specialized in pol�zing German politics slander-disinformation campaign against the relatively un­ on the eve of major national and regional elections. Hirsch known Lyndon LaRouche to discredit his charges. In early boasted to a reporterabout the missiqn of POI: "We polarize January, the Times devoted nearly 3,000 words, starting on election campaigns, something the SPD could and did not the front page of a Sunday edition, to lying that LaRouche want to do. We kept young voters from voting for people and his group was a "right-wing cult." The article was widely with certain backgrounds." distributed by the ADL, which, according to internal ADL Recall Michael W olffsohn' s review of Stasi filesand his correspondence, began immediately targeting individual as­ conclusion that virtually every neo-Nazi operation launched sociates of the LaRouche movement for harassment, and, in in West Germany, from the time oflthe Eichmann trial on­ several instances, for kidnapping. ward, was dominated by the Stasi, and was part of a protract­ The January 1974 slander began a 20-year black propa­ ed destabilization of West German Wlitics. Wolffsohn told ganda collusion between the ADL and the Stasi against the Washington Post's Marc Fisher, �'There is no doubt that LaRouche and associates. Every slander published in the in the 1960s as now, there were Nai:is who were unrecon­ American or European media targeting LaRouche and poli­ structed, unchangeable and evil. B�t without the help of cies associated with him from 1973 onward would come from East Germany, these Nazis were iqcapable of a national, the poison pens of either the ADL, the Stasi, the KGB-or coordinated campaign. That was trueiof right-wing extremist all three. criminals in the 1980s as well ....The East German Com­ munists used anything they could against West Germany, Stasi slanderer caught including the legitimate fears by W e�erncountries and Jews Evidence of this collusion briefly grabbed headlines in that a new Nazism could be growing i� West Germany. There Germany in February 1994, with the announcement by the is . . . evidence that the East Germaqs continued to use anti­ German Federal Prosecutor's Officein Karlsruhe that a West Semitism as a tool against West GeIjrnany in the 1970s and German journalist, Kurt Hirsch, had been arrestedas a sus­ perhaps right up until 1989." pected Stasi spy. The 81-year-old Hirsch was identifiedas an Did the Stasi "neo-Nazi" covert waragainst West Germa­ agent of the Stasi's Department X, the unit responsible for ny end with the fall of the Berlin WalJ and the collapse of the liaison with "friendly" foreign associations and intelligence East German communist state? Not according to Wolffsohn, organs. Among the missions assigned to DepartmentX was who continued: "There can be no deni�l of the very depressing the dissemination of disinformation and propaganda into the fact that the general German public Ihas been willing since West. By the time of his arrest, Hirsch was such a valued 1991 to accept these acts against fore�gners. But it is still rea­ asset of Department X that he was ordered to reportdirectly sonable to suspect that former Stasi officials are continuing to its deputy director. their efforts to undermine the German image abroad." In 1968, Hirsch founded the left-wing Democratic Initia­ tive Press Service (POI) and quickly was named the editor­ Target: Schiller Institute in-chief of the service, which provided an extensive network The Stasi "neo-Nazi" operation& in West Germany al­ of trade union leaders and Social Democratic Party (SPD) lowedHirsch and company to tar legitimate German patriotic politicianswith "documentation" on a wide range of subjects. organizations, including LaRouche'� Schiller Institute, with By the mid-1970s, Hirsch had established particularly close the brush of "right-wing extremism.'� From the 1980 launch­ collaboration with SPD apparatchik Klaus-Henning Rosen, ing of Blick nach Rechts, Hirsch, losen, and Engelmann a personal secretary to Chancellor Willy Brandt and the man repeatedlyturned their Stasi propaganda sheet over to attacks placed in charge of the SPD's bureau for monitoring right­ against LaRouche. Between 1985 and the early-1994 arrest wing activists. Rosen also happens to be the SPD's contact of Hirsch, over 30 slanders against LaRouche and his Ger­ point to the ADL and the World Jewish Congress, often man associates were published. In oneof the very firstis sues conferring with the ADL's Fact Finding Director, Irwin Su­ of Blick, Rev. Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack, a Protestant minis­ all . The fact that Suall was a leading figurein the American ter who came to Bavaria from Easl Germany in the mid- branch of the Socialist International greatly facilitated his 1950s, penned an article labeling LaRouche and his associ­ collaboration with Rosen and, by extension, with Hirsch. ates a "politicalcul t." Haack was the West German represen­ In 1980, the Rosen-Hirsch-ADL relationship deepened tative of a U.S.-based ADL front I group called the Cult with the inauguration of Blick nach Rechts (Glance to the Awareness Network, which has sinqe been identified as an Right), a newsletter published by POI which focused on international kidnap-for-hire gang, tlmploying hooligans to "right-wing" activists in Germany. In 1983, Rosen arranged kidnap and "deprogram" children of wealthy families who

EIR August 19, 1994 Investigation 55 became involved with either religious or political groups on secret services. the ADL's "hate list." In September 1985, one of the most importantStasi oper­ ations ran into serious trouble as the result of a criminal raid Strategic Defense Initiative against the offices of a Swedish arms dealer in Malmo. On The "Get LaRouche" effort took on greater urgency for Sept. 29, 1985, Swedish auth0rities raided the offices of the ADL and the Stasi beginning in the early 1980s, when Scandinavian Commodities AB, an import-export firm run LaRouche's ideas, especially his proposal for a strategic bal­ by Swedish businessman Karl-Erik "Bobbo" Schmitz. They listic missile defense system, gained wide acceptance among seized thousands of pages of documents revealing a vast senior officials of the Reagan national security apparatus. On network of westernand easternEuropean companies engaged March 23, 1983, President Reagan delivered a nationwide in funneling billions of dollars aI year in explosives and arms television address announcing the Strategic Defense Initia­ to Iran, then at war with Iraq.! The scandal was a serious tive (SOl). Reagan's SOl was unmistakably based on blow to Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was then LaRouche's longstanding plan for a joint U.S.-Soviet effort heading a United Nations peace'commission on the warand to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to simultaneously attempting to enforce a global arms embargo against the launch a science-driven global economic recovery. More­ belligerents. For Palme, the revtlation that Sweden's largest over, as some senior Reagan officials were well aware, for industries, Bofors and Nobel, wtre among the leading suppli­ 14 months preceding March 23, 1983, LaRouche had been ers of explosives to Iran, was ddvastating. functioning as an informal "back-channel" between Presi­ Among the documents seiztd at Schmitz's offices were dent Reagan and leading Soviet officials, discussing the pros­ detailed transaction reports on arms shipments to Iran via an pect ofSoviet-American collaboration on the sm. obscure East German shipping 'firm, IMES GmbH, headed When the regime of Yuri Andropov decided to reject the by Alexander Schalck-Golodk0wski, a high-ranking Stasi Reagan-LaRouche offer, the ADL-Stasi propaganda machin­ official. Incredibly, some of the Swedish arms shipments ery was kicked into high gear on Moscow's orders . Within a handled by IMES were delivered to Iran via a circuitous month, ADL officials were in the middle of an ambitious route aboard Santa Lucia Airlines cargo planes. Santa Lucia effort to break the Reagan-LaRouche links, and to lay the Airlines was a CIA front company, used by Lt. Col. Oliver basis once again for LaRouche's physical elimination-ei­ North, Maj. Gen. Richard SecQrd, Albert Hakim, and other ther through assassination or imprisonment. players in covert U.S. programs to arm the Nicaraguan Con­ It had been almost 10 years to the day since the FBI tras and secretly arm Iran in txchange for the release of solicited the aid of the Communist Party USA and the Stasi American hostages in Lebanon. to attempt to assassinate LaRouche. On April 23 , 1983, ADL The Malmo documents offe�ed Palme a trumpin his deal­ officials, joined by a group of 20 U. S. journalists and repre­ ings with both Moscow and Washington. But before Palme sentatives of the George Bush-Ollie North "secret, parallel could decide what to do with the evidence of massive East­ government" who were opposed to the Sol, gathered at the West collusion in a multibillion-dollar illegal arms bazaar, New York City offices of Wall Street banker John Train to he was gunned down on the streets of Stockholm on Feb. 28, plan out a media campaign against LaRouche that was to 1986. be coordinated with efforts of federal prosecutors aimed at The Palme assassination bQried more than the Swedish shutting down the LaRouche movement. head of state. The entire Schtnitz-Schalck-North collusion One participant in the Train "salon" session, ADL-FBI was immediately covered up. W1henSchmitz eventually went joint asset John Rees, was dispatched in May 1983 to Minne­ to trial in early 1989, the case was reduced to a violation of apolis, to attend a gathering of American and Soviet oppo­ Swedish Customs procedures; ihe walked away by merely nents of the SDI. The session was attended by a prominent paying a $1,000 fine. KGB "journalist" Fyodor Burlatsky, a personal spokesman Schalck-Golodkowski remained in business until the fall for Andropov. Within weeks, Burlatsky wrote his firstattack of the Berlin Wall, at which point he packed up his business against LaRouche in Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta. Dozens files, "offered his services" to western intelligence, and of similar smears soon followed, and the shrillness of the signed a secrecy deal with the Central Intelligence Agency. Soviet attacks increasingly moved in the direction of de­ Efforts by a West German parliamentary commission to mands for LaRouche's elimination. The ADL operated the pierce the veil of Schalck's "cotnmercial"empire failed mis­ identical propaganda push in the United States. erably, and to this day, this most critical Stasi operation is still one of the best kept secrets lof the Cold War. 1986: the Palme asssassination All of these combined "Get LaRouche" efforts reached a The coverup of the decade crescendo in the beginning of 1986, when a major scandal In the winter of 1985-86, things were touch and go for erupted compromising one of the most closely held secrets the East-West intelligence demi-monde as the result of the about the evil collaboration between East bloc and western Malmo raids and the nearly simultaneous arrest of U.S. Na-

56 Investigation EIR August 19, 1994 val Intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard as an Israeli spy. Pollard's activities were part of an elaborate series of deals then being worked out between Moscow and Tel Aviv, with the ADL and WJC as intermediaries. The deals involved joint espionage against American national security targets, the easing of emigration restrictions on Soviet Jews wishing to leave the U.S.S.R. (provided they were willing to move only to Israel), subsidized shipments of grain to the Soviets, and a host of other multilateral arrangements. The arrest of Pollard set offalarm bells at ADL headquarters, in Moscow, East Berlin, and Tel Aviv, which scrambled to establish a worldwide "damage control" operation. The assassination of Olof Palme and the coverup of his killingwas perhaps the highest-level East-West covert opera­ tion of the decade. Within hours, press organs of the Soviet and East German state were cranking out pre-arranged black propaganda pinning the assassination on European associates of Lyndon LaRouche. Across the Atlantic, in New York City, ADL's espionage chief, Irwin Suall, was lining up American news organs to pick up the East bloc disinforma­ tion, beginning with NBC-TV. Suall personally traveled to Stockholm to meet with Swedish police investigators to rein­ force the East German-conduited line that "LaRouche killed Palme"; and he was joined by NBC-TV producer Patricia Lynch to peddle the disinformation to U.S. Justice Depart­ ment prosecutors in Boston, who were readying a railroad indictment against LaRouche and a score of his associates on a string of manufactured financialcrim es. Eventually, Swedish police had to drop the "LaRouche killed Pal me" track of investigation when one purported Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and wife Lisbeth in "lead" after another sent them down false trails. But long Stockholm . The minute he was gunned do/",m on Feb. 28. 1986. the afterSwedish authorities definitivelydropped the LaRouche ADLiStasi networks geared up to pin the killing on Lyndon LaRouche. Thanks to their dis information efforts. his murder probe, ADL and Stasi propagandists kept up the drumbeat. remains unsolved. The fall of East Germany eventually opened a window into the ADL-Stasi "LaRouche killed Pal me" lie. The Aug. 20-26, 1990 issue of the Swedish magazine "The EAP [LaRouche's Swedish affiliatedI European La­ lournalisten published a lengthy article, blaring, "Stasi Be­ bor Party] was an easy target for Depahment X. In its publica­ hind the Wall. He Plants Red Herrings about the Palme As­ tions, the EAP had called Palme 'a raging animal, an axe­ sassination," by Christoph Andersson. The story was based murderer, a devil's devil. ...' Brehmer had found a motive on an interview with Herbert Brehmer, a former disinforma­ and a group which was conceivably dpable of assassination. tion officeremployed by the Stasi's Department X, the same 'At my writing table I drew up guid1lines for how the EAP department behind Kurt Hirsch's PDI operations in West theories would be injected into the S edish police investiga­ Germany. Andersson wrote: "Three days after the assassina­ tion. The plan was to have a SwedisH newspaper of national tion of Olof Palme, Department X was ordered to become circulation receive an anonymous tel�phone tip. This was to involved in the Swedish police investigation. The Depart­ be delivered soon-in the week following the assasination.' ment was supposed to decide what person or persons might ". . . There were a number of ad ,antages connected with be Palme's assassins ....Brehmer was selected as the team the selection of the EAP. First of all, the lack of proof could leader. 'It was necessary to find a way of interpreting impor­ be balanced out if the newspaper reporters found something tant events to fitour world view at that time. This approach such as some actual, if remote, connection between the EAP categorically excluded considering anyone from the leftist and the assassination. Secondly, the tip iteself was expected fringe as a possible perpetrator. The crime could only have to contribute to diverting the attenti n from the 'guaranteed been committed by a right-wing extremist. This was some­ innocent' left-wing groups ....Thi tdly, the media and po­ thing we wanted to persuade the police leaders in Stockholm lice could be expected to influencee Ich other to examine the of rather quickly,' says Herbert Brehmer. EAP and other extreme right-wing organizations in more

EIR August 19, 1994 Investigation 57 detail. And fourthly, it was expected to be possible to connect sive contacts between Bronfm�'s World Jewish Congress the West German security police and counterspy organiza­ and top officials of the East German regime going back to tions, the so-called West German Officefor the Protection of 1986. By 1989, East Germany!was going through its death theConstitution, to the assassination. In fact, the chief of the throes, and word had already been conveyed from Moscow West German security police happened to be a close relative to East Berlin that a Soviet pullout from most of eastern of one of the leaders of the West German EAP. 'Accordingly, Europe was a foregone concldsion. Contingency planning the G.D.R. [East Germany] should be able to utilize foreign for a controlled transition to "post-communist" independence media personnel in focusing on the EAP. The citizens of the or eventual reunification was the order of the day. The East G.D.R. trusted western media personnel more than eastern. German regime and its vast StaSi spy apparatus had to focus Accordingly, the western media personnel would be able to its efforts on winning friends and influencing people in the assist the G .D.R. in maintaining the picture of a fascist threat West. After decades of satisfyidg collusion, it was only natu­ from the West. This also played a certain part' in the consid­ ral that the East Germans turned to a select group such as erations, according to Brehmer." Bronfman and grain magnate Dwayne Andreas to take Ber­ Journalisten went on to spell out the details of the massive lin's case before the U.S. President, the American Congress, I Stasi operation, including a tantalizing description of some and the American people. of the agents used in the disinformation program. One agent, Edgar Bronfman, scion of · a Prohibition-era organized identified as Unofficial Agent No. 112191178, fitthe known crime family that had made the successfultransition to "legit­ profile of Irwin Suall: "The personnel and records depart­ imate" business, was already an Jactive propagandist for Sovi­ ment, Department XII, selected 89 potential undercover et "reform" President Mikhail Oorbachov. From the firstday agents in the secret unofficial category. All were considered of Gorbachov's accession to ppwer, Bronfman and fellow suitable for operating in Sweden. Some had family (blood ADL bankroller Dwayne An�as had lobbied hardfor spe­ relations) inSweden , others had married Swedes, and others cial status for the new, improvekISoviet Union. In countless had studied the Swedish language in thf; G.D.R. Four of newspaper commentaries, spetlches, and testimony before these candidates weredeemed especially well suited. Two of Congress, Bronfman and And�as had argued for the repeal these were unofficial agents who were permanent residents of of the Jackson-Yanick Amendment that pegged U.S. eco­ Sweden, probably a married couple. Another was Unofficial nomic aid to improved human rj.ghts forSoviet Jewry, Most Agent (1M) No. 112191178, who had 'excellent connections in Favored Nation trading status, �d lucrative American grain government and political circles in Sweden and with leading give-aways, all in the name of saving Moscow's crumbling members of the SAP [the Socialist Labor Party] ....All "Evil Empire." this information is from Stasi documents which the German As co-chairmen of the U. S.�So viet Trade and Economic authorities recently made available to journalists. The actual Council (USSTEC), both Bronfman and Andreas had made names of the agents are still kept secret. lucrative business deals with Moscow. From his power-base "Says Brehmer, 'Despite the fact that my operation was as president of the World Jew(sh Congress, Bronfman ar­ changed or deflected in mid-course, Stasi eventually ranged a series of meetings for European WJC officials with achieved its goal. I still remember how happy we were when senior East German officials, beiginning in 1986. In 1988, he the 33-year-old was arrested for the assassination. His con­ personally led a delegation of WJC and Seagram's whiskey tacts with the EAP contributed to the virtually universal ab­ officials to East Berlin to strike a series of deals with East horrenceof the EAP. This was the objective which was envi- German dictator Erich Honecket. Tens of millions of dollars • sioned in 1986.' " in contracts for Seagram's liquor sales in East Germanywere Stasi Department X, the employer of both Herbert Brehmer consummated during Bronfmart's brief visit, and in return, and Kurt Hirsch, surfaced once again in Michael Wolffsohn's he promised to win MFN status Ifor East Germany, and even investigation, and again it was in the contextof the joint ventures to secure an official state visit till Washington for its dictator with the ADL and the World Jewish Congress. Erich Honecker. All of these tPachinations were carefully recorded by officials of the AmdricasDepartment of the East German Foreign Ministry. Those files were found following reunification and made available to Wolffsohn. Case Study 4: Shabtai World Jewish Congress offiCials �ere still journeyingto Kalmanowitch East Berlin weeks after the fall C>fthe Berlin Wall, still vow­ ing to preserve the independen�e and economic stability of The June 28, 1994 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung news­ the East German communist state. Wolffsohn carefullydocu­ paper carried the short but provocative expose by Wolffsohn, mented all of this in his Decembbr 1990 FrankfurterAllgem ­ expanding upon an earlier story in the same paper on the eine Zeitung story. collusion between the Stasi and Edgar Bronfman. In his February 1994 story; W olffsohn returned to the In December 1990, Wolffsohn had written about exten- subject of Department X. Not oQiyhad the unit been assigned

58 Investigation EIR August 19, 1994 the task of launching a "friendship offensive" toward Ameri­ sions, including flubbed March 1986, coup attempts in Suri­ can Jewish organizations in the mid- 1980s, but Department name and Ghana, and an equally unsu¢cessful tryat obtaining X was also responsible for negotiating an important spy swap a Soviet T -72 tank from Poland in exchange for a delivery of with Israel. It was a case in which certain "American Jewish" U. S. -made light weaponry and police equipment. organizations already had a vested interest. Vogel's spy-swapping efforts were coordinated out of The central character in the spy swap effort was a Lithua­ Stasi Department X. But the financing of his activities came nian-bornJew named Shabtai Kalmanowitch, who emigrated from two Stasi bank accounts personally managed by Alex­ to Israel in 1971 and found himself rapidly brought into the ander Schalck-Golodkowski, the head of IMES and the Sta­ inner circles of Labor Party Prime Minister Golda Meir. si's principal arms dealer, including delivery to Iran and to Because of his family ties to prominent "refusenik" networks the Nicaraguan Contras via a varie�y of channels, among in the U.S.S.R., Kalmanowitch was placed in a special east­ them Swedish arms broker Karl-Erik iSchmitz. ern European unit within the Prime Minister's Office and, Kalmanowitch, the covert KGB agent ensconced in the later, the Labor Party, responsible for drawing easternEuro­ center of Israeli intelligence, parlayed his new-found friend­ pean and Soviet Jews to Israel. Some of the "refusenik" ship with Rabbi Greenwald into aQ entre into the North­ networks also served as important intelligence sources for Secord "secret team." During 1984-86, Kalmanowitch the Mossad on the Warsaw Pact. Israel's ability to gamer helped arrange a series of super-secret meetings between sensitive East bloc intelligence gave the Mossad tremendous officials of the CIA, the Soviet GRU (military intelligence) leverage with the CIA and other U.S. agencies, which were and other intelligence services. Some of the meetings took largely unsuccessful in developing "human intelligence" place at the Stamford, Connecticut officesof Marc Rich. sources behind the Iron Curtain. Rich was himself a fugitive from American justice, hav­ Kalmanowitch turned his Soviet connections into a for­ ing violated the "Trading With the �nemy" Act by selling l tune by the mid-1970s. Somewhere along the way, he came Iranian oil on the world market long after the United States into close contact with an American precious metals specula­ had imposed a boycott. When the coyert pipeline of military tor, Marc Rich, who counted Secretary of State Henry Kis­ aid to Iran was opened up by the p.S. administration as singer among his most intimate friends. Rich and Kalmano­ part of the effort to free the Americap hostages in Lebanon, witch made millions of dollars together stealing a number of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey deployed small black African states blind. Washington lobbyist Robert Keith Gray to meet with Rich An adept reader of political tea leaves, Kalmanowitch and obtain his help in setting up chaqnels to Khomeini. Rich made a smooth transitionfrom Labor to the right-wing Likud complied, and in return, U.S. Attorney for the Southern party in time for Menachem Begin's 1977 election as prime District of New York Rudolph Giulillni cut a deal which led minister. During the elections, Kalmanowitch managed the to a settlement of some of the legal cllses against Rich. Knesset campaign of Samuel Flatto-Sharon, a French-born By the mid- 1980s, Kalmanowit¢h was working for the gangster who fled to Israel and ran for parliament largely in Mossad and for Ollie North-all the while concealing his order to gain immunity from extradition back to Paris. Flatto­ double-dealings on behalf of the KGB. His luck ran out on Sharon won his Knesset seat, and promptly made Kalmano­ Dec. 23, 1987, when he was arrested by the Israeli police as witch his chief of staff. Flatto-Sharon gained brief notoriety a suspected KGB spy. Immediately I the Stasi turned to the by standing up before the Knesset and calling for Israel to ADL and WJC to press for his early release from an Israeli create "killer squads" to go out and assassinate such "anti­ prison. Semites" as Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, Pope John The ADL had already established its credentials as world­ Paul II, and Lyndon LaRouche. class "damage controllers." When another KGB-Mossad In 1978, Kalmanowitch managed to insinuate himself shared spy ran afoul of the U.S. atHhorities, in November into the very center of East -West intrigue, becoming Israel's 1985, ADL officialswere quick to launch a successful dam­ negotiator in a series of spy swaps involving the United age control effort that saved a numberof key Israeli officials, States, Israel, the Soviet Union, and East Germany. His including "Dirty" Rafi Eytan, from the wrath of American "trading partners" in these ventures, which began with the prosecutors. The 1985 case, involving U.S. Naval Intelli­ freeing of a KGB spy, U.S. Air Force officerRobert Thomp­ gence counter-terror analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, had, un­ son, a Mossad operator in Mozambique, and a CIA operator fortunately for Kalmanowitch, cauSed such bad blood be­ in East Berlin, were East German "lawyer" Wolfgang Vogel, tween some Americans and their hraeli counterparts, that and American Rabbi Ronald Greenwald. Greenwald, aside there was no real prospect of a happy ending to the Kalma­ from his rabbinical duties and his work for the CIA as a spy nowitch spy swap effort. negotiator, dabbled in commodity speculation. His boss in Nevertheless, it was the thought that counted; and, when the latter ventures was Marc Rich. Greenwald's "talents" the Stasi found itself confronted wi� a serious problem, its came to the attention of Oliver North, who used the rabbi's thoughts often turned to the ADL; And rarely were they front company, B International, for a series of secret mis- disappointed.

EIR August 19, 1994 Investigation 59 �TIillNational

An appealto thePres ident: Exonerate LaRouche now!

by EIR Staff

The Schiller Institute on Aug. 11 took out a full-page ad in to lobby for LaRouche's freedotn." the Washington Post, an "Open Letter to the President of the The fact remains, the text states, that a "terrible crime United States," under the bold headline "Exonerate Lyndon goes unanswered. Not only w$s an innocent man framed, H. LaRouche Now !" bearing the names of more than 400 convicted, and wrongfully imprisoned for five years, but, leading men and women from around the world, who cali on it is now clearly the case, docUmented by six volumes of President Bill Clinton, AttorneyGeneral Janet Reno, and the unchallengeable evidence, consisting chiefly of government appropriate committees of the U.S. Congress to act now to documents and admissions of �overnment-Ied 'task force' exonerate the American statesman and physical economist officials, that the U.S. governm�nt knew at all relevanttim es, Lyndon H. LaRouche. from 1979 to the present day,! that Lyndon H. LaRouche Former U. S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy heads the list, which and his co-defendants were inn0Centof the false charges for includes two former heads of state, more than 50 serving and which they were convicted. Thils proof, that the government former national legislators and cabinet members, five Roman fraudulently charged, convicted, and imprisoned LaRouche Catholic archbishops, more than a dozen bishops of the Ro­ and his associates, knowing th� were completely innocent, man Catholic and Ukrainian Catholic churches, dozens of is part of the public record on me with the federal appeals Islamic and Protestant leaders , more than 50 state legislators, court in Richmond, Virginia. including serving representatives of 24 American states, and "Yet to this day, not only bve the U.S. federal courts prominent legal, human rights, civil rights, military, and and the Justice Department failed to rectify this fraudulent scientific leaders from around the world, including a former conviction, but, while this critical evidence sits gathering head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and dust without ever being heard, fiveof Mr. LaRouche's asso­ the president of the African Academy of Sciences. ciates still sit in prison, servi�g decades-long sentences." The text of the statement recounts the facts of the false Those political prisoners, incarceratedin the Commonwealth imprisonment of Mr. LaRouche, who has been free on parole of Virginia, are Michael Billingtlon(with a 77-yearsentence), since Jan. 26, and of the unprecedented internationalmobili­ Anita Gallagher (39 years), Paul Gallagher (34 years), Lau­ zation which won him that partial freedom. "Close to 1,000 rence Hecht (33 years), and Donald Phau (25 years). of America's foremost legal experts had petitioned the court The signers listed in the advertisement are a selection as amici curiae, calling the case 'a threat to every politically from thousands worldwide whd have called for LaRouche's active citizen. ' The case was brought before the United Na­ exoneration, so that he might be restoredto the kind ofleader­ tions Commission on Human Rights, the Organization of ship position which the crisis-'ridden world requires. The American States, and the Commission on Security and Coop­ failure to do so, as the ad text concludes, "does not stain the eration in Europe (CSCE). Literally thousands of parliamen­ honor of Lyndon LaRouche, who has paid a terrible pricefor tarians and other elected officialsjoined with religious lead­ his innocence, but the honor of the U. S. justice system and ers , artists, scientists, and human rights figures from across Constitution, which, for more ithan 200 years prior to this the globe to demand an end to LaRouche's unjust incarcera­ dark episode, stood as the symbols of liberty and justice for tion. Hundreds travelled in delegations to Washington, D.C. all."

60 National EIR August 19, 1994 What's at stake in the LaRouche case basis of false charges," and that seventl of his followers are The intervention to exonerate LaRouche and the other still imprisoned, while "the U.S. Dep!ntment of Justice has political prisoners comes at a critical moment. The Clinton refused to investigate the transgressio� of its own officials." presidency is under assault, the target of a British intelligence The magazine urges its readers to send letters and petitions operation run through the Hollinger Corp.'s international to President Clinton asking for human'i rights to be respected media empire. The aim is not just to neutralize Clinton and in the United States. prevent him from going against the policies of the Anglo­ American establishment, but also to destroy the presidency The ADL chews the rug as an institution of republican government. The campaign to exonerate LaRouche, not unexpectedly, While Clinton has taken some laudable steps in foreign has drawn an angry counterattack [rpm those responsible and domestic policy-most crucially by ending the U. S. for the judicial railroad in the first plice, notably the Anti­ "special relationship" with England, during his visit to Ger­ Defamation League ofB 'nai B 'rith. TheADL' s Washington, many in July-his administration is still saddled with hold­ D.C. Fact Finding Director, Mira Lahsky Boland, has just overs from the Bush administration. When it comes to policy released a 35-page pamphlet titled, "PlU"oled: The LaRouche toward Haiti, Ibero-America, the war on drugs, population Political Cult Regroups." Retailing a string of lies and slan­ control, and the "new world order" in general, it's "Bush on ders about LaRouche and his associate�, she insists how very autopilot." The only way that Clinton can save his presiden­ unimportant these people are-while �omplaining that "the cy, and begin to deal effectively with the myriad problems hallmark of the LaRouche organizatiop is resilience." that the nation faces, is by going on the offensive against the Mentioning LaRouche's recent diplomacy in Russia and remnants of the Bush apparatus. initiatives toward the Middle East, Lusky Boland continues The best way to do that, would be to exonerate LaRouche, with a broadside which can only be i�terpreted as an attack who was jailed by the Bush administration in 1989 as the on the exoneration campaign: "Despite their best efforts , result of a judicial railroad run by a combined federal-state­ however, the group has never achieved influence. The notion private "Get LaRouche" task force. of a groundswell of popular support fcprthe cultmeister [sic] As shown by the impressive list of foreign signers to the is preposterous. For most Americans, LaRouche will remain Schiller Institute's advertisement, many friends and allies of the bombastic eccentric who believes !the Queen of England the United States abroad are keenly aware of the importance is a drug pusher and Henry Kissinger is a KGB agent, and of LaRouche's input in shaping the policies of the United who went to prison for defraudingI little old ladies. For States. This concern was also reflected in press coverage of LaRouche, this perception is a life serltence." the exoneration campaign during the second week of August. Poor Mira. She is one of the leadlng figures in the "Get The Peruvian daily Correo de Piura on Aug. 8 published LaRouche" task force, and worked hand in hand with federal an articleby Alberto Salomon Ariza, titled "Police Persecu­ and state officials to intimidate and! "tum" supporters of tion Termed Constitutional: LaRouche, the Dreyfuss Case LaRouche, and to coach witnesses to tjestify against him. But of the 20th Century." According to the article, the "U.S. now some of her task force cohorts ar¢ in deep trouble: Department of Justice has refused to investigate the trans­ • "Get LaRouche" operative G�en Kelly, a "depro­ gressions committed by its own officials. Why is this? Why, grammer" attached to the so-called Cult Awareness Network, despite the mountains of evidence presented, has the decision is serving a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for kid- not been taken to review these proofs?" LaRouche spent five napping. I years in a federal prison, "on charges of which the govern­ • Former Loudoun County, Virtinia Sheriff's Deputy ment has always known he was innocent. While in prison Donald Moore, whose lying testimony and affidavits against LaRouche wrote extensive treatises that have been published LaRouche and associates formed the basis for the entire rail­ by Fidelio magazine, founded in 1992, and edited by William road prosecution, went to jail on July 29 for his role in the Wertz, who was sentenced along with Lyndon in 1988. kidnapping that landed Kelly in priSOl�. Having struck a plea Among those writings, one finds such titles as 'Mozart's bargain with the prosecutors, Moone got off easier than Revolution in Music,' 'History as Science,' and many Kelly, with an eight-month sentence.! Mira Lansky Boland, others." in court for his sentencing, gave Moore a tearful embrace as The August issue of Narcomafias, a magazine published he was led away in chains. in Panama, but which circulates in other countries as well, • John Markham-the former pr�secutor of LaRouche, has an article on human rights violations in the United States, member of the satanic Process ChUrch, and defender of prominently featuring the case of LaRouche, "the economist Moore and Kelly-is now serving as !the attorney forLeslie and former U . S. presidential candidate who is well known in Van Houten, a follower of satanic kjiller Charles Manson, Hispanic America for his firmdefense of national sovereignty according to the Aug. 7 Washington Post. Van Houten, in­ and his attacks against the IMF [International Monetary carcerated since 1969 for her role �n the LaBianca ritual Fund] ." The article notes that LaRouche "was jailed on the murders in Hollywood, is seeking paIjole.

EIR August 19, 1994 National 61 Needless to say, partisan Republicans were elated at the judicial coup. "It demoralizes and destabilizes the adminis­ Was Whitewater tration, and one can assume the whole thrustof the investiga­ tion is going to change," GOP consultant Eddie Mahe told switch a GOP trap ? the Washington Times. "It's � news." Mahe went on to say that, although Fiske is a Republican, he is "one of those Northeast establishment types that has nothing to do with by Edward Spannaus being a Republican. Starr's a real Republican. His credentials are golden." About a month before the 1992 presidential elections, as the It was regarded as no coincidence that the Fiske dismissal independent counsel oflaw was heading for expiration, a con­ came at the end of two weeks, of congressional Whitewater gressional staff member told the Washington Times: "There hearings which failed to do any serious damage to President is some thinking that if Clinton gets in, it would be good to or Mrs . Clinton. Many Republicans blamed Fiske for re­ have this law to use against his administration in the same way stricting the scope of their hearings. the Democrats have used it against Reagan and Bush." Republicans and the Bush administration were in an up­ A Reagan-Bush Starr roar over the independent counsel (special prosecutor) law Although Starr has never been a prosecutor, he has other at the time, particularly because of the long, expensive, and qualificationswhich seem to have endearedhim to the special seemingly endless investigation being conducted by the lran­ court panel which appointed bim. After clerking for Chief Contra independent counsel, Lawrence Walsh. President Justice Warren E. Burger at the Supreme Court, Starrjointed Bush's Attorney General William Barrsaid in July 1992 that the Washington office of the 1.os Angeles law firm Gibson, the statute should not be renewed, because it was being used Dunn & Crutcher in 1977. This was the law firmof William as a political weapon . ''There areelements in this town who are French Smith, who became Reagan's first attorney general attempting to use the criminal processfor political purposes," in 1981; Smith brought Starr into the Justice Department as Barr said on Cable News Network on July 4, 1992. "It's a his counselor. mechanism that's being manipulated for political purposes. Starr was then appointed by Reagan to the Court of Ap­ The independent counsel statute, first enacted in 1978, peals for the District of Columbia in 1983. In 1989, he left and renewed in 1982 and 1987, was allowed to expire at the the appeals court to become solicitor general for the Bush end of 1992. Therefore, when pressure built for an indepen­ administration. The solicitor general argues for the United dent counsel in the Whitewater matter, Attorney General States in cases before the Supreme Court, and reviews all Janet Reno used a different legal authority-namely, Justice appeals in which the U. S. is a party . Department regulations-to name RobertFiske as indepen­ The special three-judge panel which appointed Starr, dent counsel in January. Technically, Fiske was a Justice called the "division for the purpose of appointing indepen­ Department employee, although he operated independently dent counsels," is hand-picked by Chief Justice William Re­ of any Justice Department control of supervision. hnquist. For the past few years, it has been headed by David A new independent counsel statute-providing for a Sentelle, a judge on the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of court-appointed counsel-was passed by the Senate in May, Appeals from North CarolinaJ Sentelle is a protege of Sen. with the support of Republican Senators who had previously Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), and is also a good friendof the other blocked it. (Just what did they know?) On June 21, the House North Carolina senator, Lauch Faircloth, one of the Senate's passed it, with Republicans objecting to its provision for leading Whitewatergaters. possible reappointment of Fiske. The bill was signed into Sentelle was a 1987 Reagan appointee to the Court of law on July 1. The next day, as she had promised, Attorney Appeals. Joseph Sneed was appointed to the 9th Circuit in General Janet Reno applied to the three-judge panel which San Francisco by Richard NiXon in 1973. The third judge, appoints independent counsels, to have Fiske designated as John Butzner of the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, was an independent counsel under the new law. appointed by Lyndon Johnsonlin the 1960s-when Virginia hardly had any Democrats-but he is now regarded as a Judicial coup Republican. On Aug. 5, that special panel shocked Washington and It was this same special panel which took the unprece­ the nation by refusing to reappoint Fiske, and replacing him dented step last December, of allowing all those names in the with a former high official from the Bush administration­ Iran-Contra special prosecutot's final report to submit their the man who had been George Bush and William Barr's rebuttals, which were ordered:to be published with the final solicitor general from 1989 through early 1993. Fiske's re­ report. Sentelle also cast the deciding vote in the decision placement is Kenneth W. Starr-who has no experience as a which overturned the "Iran-Contra" convictions of Oliver prosecutor, but has plenty of Republican activist credentials. North and John Poindexter.

62 National EIR August 19, 1994 of Ilopango, and by mid-March he had set up a full operation there to provide supplies and aid to the Contras. North, mean­ while, had enlisted Gen. Richard Secofd to set up a "private" 'All North's pilots resupply operation to circumvent contressional restrictions on the CIA, and when North wanted to use Ilopango, he first were drug-runners' met with Gregg, discussed the use of Ilbpango with him, and then, 10 days later, wrote a letter to R<¥riguez asking for his permission for Secord to use the Ilopar)gobase . by Edward Spannaus So much for any idea that Ollie North ran the Contra operation on his own! Evidence continues to pile up, implicating current Virginia Rodriguez and Bush also figure J*'Ominently in the ac­ senatorial candidate Oliver North and former Vice President count given by Terry Reed, co-author,of the book Compro­ George Bush in narcotics traffickingout of Central America mised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA (New York: S.P.1. Books, during the mid-1980s. The evidence promises to further com­ 1994), who also spoke at the Aug. 2 press conference. Reed plicate North's election campaign, in which he is attempting said that Bush was definitely "in thel loop" on the Contra to recast himself as tough on crime and a fighter against drug operation, and that theIsraeli agents he worked with in I drugs. Mexico referred to Bush as "the man ,in charge" on several At a press conference held at Washington's National occasions. "That didn't shock me," Reed said. "Knowing Press Club on Aug. 2, a former senior U.S. Drug Enforce­ Bush's background, he should be; he was probably the most ment Administration (DEA) officer, Celerino Castillo, qualifiedto run the Iran-Contra affair. t charged that massive amounts of drugs were being run out of In Compromised, Reed identifies� odriguez as running a the air base in Ilopango, El Salvador, the center of North's guns-for-drugs operation through Quadalajara, Mexico. Contra supply program. "All of his pilots were drug-traf­ Reed discovered a large shipment of pUre cocaine at a ware­ fickers," Castillo said. A majority had already been arrested house at Guadalajara Airport bound fqr the United States in for drug trafficking. "He [North] knew what they were up to August 1987. After he confronted R¥riguez, and tried to and refusedto do anything about it." expose the operation, he was framed "p by federal prosecu­ Castillo, who was the DEA's senior agent in El Salvador tors in an unsuccessful effort to shut him up. from 1985 to 1991, said he had two informants at Ilopango As to Bush, Castillo recounted th�story about when he who had access to all the flight plans and the pilots. The saw the vice president in January 198()at a cocktail party at informants saw the drugs and the money, and the pilots talked the U.S. ambassador's home in Gu�temala City. Castillo freelyabout the cocaine they were taking to the United States. identified himself and his job to Bush, and told Bush that ' When the DEA ran the names of the pilots through a comput­ "funny things" were going on at Iloparj.go. Bush "j ust smiled er, "every single one of them was documented as a narcotics and walked away," Castillo said. trafficker in DEA files." Asked how it was that North was never prosecuted, Cas­ Castillo's book, Powder Burns: Cocaine, Contras and tillo said there was a massive coverup, both from the DEA the Drug War, co-authored with David Harmon, has just and from the Iran-Contra special pr�ecutor. No one ever been released. In it, Castillo reports that from the moment he contacted the DEA agents in Central America to find out arrived in Central America in October 1985 to take charge what they knew, even though they ha� submitted numerous of DEA operations in EI Salvador and Honduras, he was reports documenting the narcotics-tqUficking activities of inundated with evidence that the Contra resupply base at participants in the Contra operation. Ilopango Military Air Field was a hub of cocaine trafficking. Ollie's noteboo�s ! Where was George? Castillo also pointed to the 543 pages of North'snote­ The trail from Ilopango leads directly back to George books which make referenceto drug triUficking, as identified Bush. By the time Castillo arrived in EI Salvador, the Ilopango by the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on narcotics I operation was already being run by "former" CIA officialFe­ and terrorism. One entry, for July 12, 1985, reads, "$14 lix Rodriguez, who bragged of his close association with the million to finance came from drugs." Others show, .Castillo vice president. Rodriguez was operating out of the vice presi­ said, that Robert Owen, an assistant to North, "was warning dent's office, and regularly reported back to Bush and Bush's him and advising him that the ContrasNvere heavilyinvolved national security adviser, Donald Gregg. Rodriguez, a 30- in narcotics trafficking. " I yearveteran of the CIA, was supervised by Gregg in Southeast Castillo revealed that North is still under investigation by Asia in the 1960s, and they had been close ever since. the DEA, in a case involving weapons smuggling into the In January 1985, Rodriguez met with Bush, in a meeting Philippines, an operation which also iinvolved known drug arranged by Gregg. Rodriguez immediately set to work out traffickers.

EIR August 19, 1994 National 63 Southern Baptists slam Cairo agenda for 'reproduction control' I

The Southern Baptists are America's largest Protestant de­ 3) Homosexuality, whatever its origin, is abnormal and nomination with more than i5.4 million members in over homosexual conduct is always an abomination in the sight of 38,400 congregations nationwide. (President Clinton is a God. Under no circumstances! is homosexual conduct ever Southern Baptist.) Below are excerpts fr om "Population, morally acceptable behavior (or anyone, and government Morality and the ideology of Control, A Statement of the should never accommodate suqh behavior. Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission fo r the United 4) The family is ordained iby God as the basic unit of Nations Multi-Religious Consultation on issues of Popula­ human society and is the bes� human environment for the tion and Development," fo llowed by interviews with two of nurture and development of children. the authors. 5) Although cultural pract*es have varied, the two-par­ The statement was elicited fr om them as a comment on ent, heterosexual family-coq.sisting of one man and one the Draft Program prepared fo r the Sept. 5 -i3 international woman committed to each othl1ffor life-is a divinely estab­ Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, at a lished ideal for all people for allitime. The two-parent, hetero­ meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. This was also attended by sexual family deserves prioritYI favor and protection in every a representative of the largest Buddhist community in Thai­ culture and sociey. Under no �ircumstances can persons of land, three Roman Catholics (representing the German Bish­ the same gender constitute a mbrally acceptable family. ops, the American Catholics, and the Vatican), the Shiite 6) Although men and wo�en have equal dignity and cleric Ayatollah Roohaney fr om Paris, spokesmen fo r the worth as bearers of God's image, husbands and wives do not World Council of Churches, the Baha'i, the United Native have the same role in marriag� and the home. Husbands are Nations, and Dr. Anand Mohan, a Hindu leader based in the the head of the home and bear a higher responsibility than United States. wives for ensuring the success iand welfare of their families. Wives are not owned by their hlJsbandsnor arethey servants, ...Southern Bapt ists, as Christians, hold that, despite cul­ but wives are under moral obljigation to accept and support tural diversity and religious pluralism, moral standards on the leadership of their husban4s as long as it remains within essential matters are not inventions of human imagination, responsible moral boundaries. ! will or culture. Rather, they are enduring standards of right 7) Marriage involving the �nion of persons of the oppo­ conduct and human responsibility that apply to all members site gender is the only morally *ceptable condition for sexual of the human family, not only because they are reasonable, intercourse. Sexual intimacy ljInder any other circumstance but because they come from God the Creator and Moral is morally unacceptable. I Ruler of the Universe, Whose authority transcends all human 8) Government is a morally worthy and necessary human authority. Baptist Christians areconcerned about world pop­ institution whose purpose is t� secure the common welfare ulation and development issues because God is concerned by rewarding those who do g�od and punishing those who about them and will hold us accountable for the contribution do wrong. But the authority of human government is never we make to the world debate .. .. absolute. Whatever its form, human government is always The thinking of SouthernBaptists on issues of population accountable to God for maintnining universal standards of is shapedby essential doctrines of the Christian faith includ­ moral conduct. ing the following: 9) While a growing world ROpulation makes it essential to 1) All human life is sacred. This means that all human life use wisdom in planning devel�pment and use of the world's is divinely created, making it a divine giftfrom the moment of resources, God has already dttermined that human history fertilization until death. will end with the return of Je�us Christ in power and judg­ 2) All human life is made in the image of God. This ment, and not as the result of oyercrowding and the depletion means that every human life has transcendent worth, and has of necessary resources. I equal value and dignity in relation to every other human life As Southern Baptist Chris�ians, we have read the Cairo regardless of gender, age, stage of development, physical Conference's Draft Program 'fith interest, and urge that the condition, social status, or education, regardless of ability or participants do all they can to linclude the recommendations disability, and regardless of whether it is born or unborn. and remove the concerns give� below:

64 National EIR August 19, 1994 Abortion. We believe that induced abortion is a violent by promoting abstinence from sexual intercourse outside of means for dealing with the admittedly difficultproblems that heterosexual marriage and by showi�g unambivalent disap­ can surround unplanned or problem pregnancies, and must proval for acts of sexual intercourse th,t are premarital, extra­ be considered morally unacceptable behavior. However, we marital, or homosexual. We believe �at governmentpolicies believe abortion may be considered in rare instances when the respecting such standards are appropriate because the prac­ developing child represents a clear and present danger to the tice of sexual morality is not merelyi a private matter. . . . physical life of the mother. We are outraged that the Draft Accordingly, we are deeply concerne4 that the Draft Program Programincludes abortion under broad terms such as "family treats all sexual behavior as acceptable regardless of mar­ planning," "reproductive services," "safe motherhood," "re­ riage, and regardless of whether in may involve heterosexual I productive rights," "reproductive choice," and "fertility regu­ or homosexual partners. . . . I lation." We ...urge the United Nations at Cairo to clearly Adolescents. We are concerned, l ..that the Draft Pro­ repudiate the use of abortion as a method of family planning gram promotes the distribution of contloms and other contra­ and to reaffirm the policy it set forth in 1984 to the effect ceptive means to unmarried minors Without parental notifi­ that "Governments are urged to help women avoid abortion, cation or permission. We believe it i� highly dangerous for which in no case should be promoted as a method of family any society to substitute technology thr the moral discipline planning." and accountability that parents provi� their adolescent chil­ Viewing Chlldren as a Threat. We believe that chil­ dren as they mature into adulthood. Indeed, we believe that dren, both born and unborn, are precious, should be cher­ the United States has experienced the: harmful effects of this ished and protected, and welcomed as a sign of hope and false strategy, and we strongly desitje to warn the world's blessing. We believe, moreover, that it is a high moral duty developing nations not to take a course that has proven so of governmentto protect vulnerable children from harm and detrimental to family life in America.; ... to foster a deep appreciation for children among the adult The Family. . . . We are alarmed that the Draft Program members of society. While these beliefs underscore our op­ treats "various concepts of family" as � matter of indifference position to abortion, we also object to the assumption, re­ and includes homosexual unions in the definition of family flected throughout the Draft Program, that having children under the term "other unions.". .. i is a burden or inconvenience that threatens well-being and Male Responsibility. . . . The h�sband' s leadership re­ economic development. We are aware that caring for chil­ sponsibility is not a license for selflsh demagoguery, but dren involves time and expense, and that conceiving a child neither is it morally arbitrary or trivial. ...We believe that that is not expected or planned often necessitates a re­ husbands are obligated to love and cEtre for their wives with arrangementof priorities. Nevertheless, we do not agree that the selfless love that God has for the Church, and that wives changing personal priorities to accommodate children­ have a duty to recognize, accept and encourage the leadership planned or unplanned-is a bad thing. Nor do we agree that of their husbands. Accordingly, we are concerned about the such accommodation is necessarily contrary to developing meaning, morality, and cultural implications of calls in the the economic strength of families or of nations. For example, Draft Program for "gender equality.'r ... We are also very we note that the United States and other developed countries suspicious of the Program's call to have "men share more of the world achieved their economic status without repro­ equally in ...domestic and child-reluing responsibilities." duction control efforts. This call is either highly confusing /but meaningless (how Procreation and Choice within Marriage. We believe does one measure "equality" in dom!estic and child rearing that the ability to procreate is a giftand that, when a man and responsibilities?), or it is dangerous and immoral because it woman bound in holy matrimonychoose to engage in acts of threatens to undermine or erase the historical and God-given procreation, it is a moral responsibility, not a right to be role of male leadership in the home ..•. . regulated by any human authority ....We also urge that Poverty and Population. We u�derstand that the rela­ nothing be included in the Draft Program that might lead tion between poverty and populationiis highly complex and a government to assume it could have a legitimate role in is more closely related to chastity, mantal fidelity, self-disci­ directing, managing, or controlling decisions by parents re­ pline, strong families, education, the availability of natural garding whether or not to procreate . Furthermore, we urge and technological resources, politi�al stability, chastity, that the Draft Program address the fact that wives ought to marital fidelity, and good land management, than it is to be recognized as having an equal role and an equal moral contraception and strategies for family planning. According­ responsibility with their husbands in arriving at decisions ly, we . . . dispute the fundamentail assumption, running regarding whether or not to engage in the act of procreation. through the Draft Program, that ecqnomic development is Sexual Morality and Marriage. We believe that the necessarily tied to the availability of family-planning servic­ only morally acceptable context for physical sexual intimacy es, and that economic prosperity can Qeassured by promoting is limited to heterosexual marriage. We believe also that strategies to separate sexual intercohrse from conception. governmentis responsible to support the marriage institution Indeed, we believe in some settings4uch as agrarianecono-

EIR August 19, 1994 National 65 mies or cultures that build on the mutual support and coopera­ Land: I certainly hope and pray, every day, that our meth­ tion [of]extended families-that the reverse can be true. . . . ods will be used to create a paradigm shift in favor of life. We urge, therefore, that the Draft Program look for ways to We must watch what the administration does, not just what affirm and support the economic vitality of families in cul­ it sa ys. For instance, the caple that was sent to the State tures where increasing the number of children may add to Department officeswas terrible. family wealth and strength, and to avoid rigid assumptions about connections between population and poverty and be­ EIR: In your paper, you have a section called "Poverty and tween fertility control and economic prosperity. Population. " The Role of Religion. We note with real disappointment Land: We dispute the assumption that economic develop­ that the Draft Program nowhere recognizes the vital impact ment is tied to the availability of family planning services that religious faith and moral instruction does and should have and that economic prosperity can be assured by promoting on family life. . . . [H]uman population is much more a matter strategies to separate sexual ; intercourse from conception. of spirituality, morality, and human relationships than it is a Obviously-look at Japan-h is one of the most densely matter of reproductive technology. Accordingly, we urge that populated countries, and one Of the most developed. Lookat the Draft Programseek ways to affirmthe vital role of religion the population density of Europe. It is clear that there is no in family and economic life, and to support the work of reli­ direct correlation. These examples would be a counterbal­ gious communities to resist morally destructive influences ance. Another argument is, that if you look at the countries and to promote moral , social, and economic health. that have most dramatically ltaised their living standards­ like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia-these examples would say that ecpnomic development is more predicated upon the economic theories embraced by the gov­ Interview: Dr. Richard D. Land ernments of these countries than by anything connected to the idea of overpopUlation.

Dr. Land, executive director of the Christian Life Commis­ sion of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a co-author of the statement, was interviewed on Aug. 9 by Nina Ogden. Interview: Daniel R. Heimbach

EIR: Can we discuss the plans of the Christian LifeCommis­ sion in the period after the Cairo conference, especially since On Aug. 5, Nina Ogden interviewed Daniel R. Heimbach, the U.N. is already planning follow-up conferences including Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Bap­ the one on "women's reproductive freedom" in China? tist Theological Seminary,the principal author of the docu­ Land: China?! That's Kafkaesque ! ...Actually all the ar­ ment excerptedabove . His co-authors were RichardD. Land guments raised in the Cairo document are Kafk�squl:!'. (see interview) and C. Ben Mitchell, Director of Biomedical The Christian Life Commission is the organization for and Life Issues, SouthernBaptist Christian Life Commission. the moral and social concerns of Southern Baptists. We are opposed to abortion and opposed most of all to the view that EIR: You attended the World Conference on Religion and human babies are a threat to the well-being of any society. Peace meeting in Geneva on July 26-29. Can you tell us what We see babies, born and unborn, as the greatest resource a happened there? society can have, not as a burden and hindrance to the future . Heimbach: The conference was billed as a multi-religious We will do everything to change the reprehensible policy consultation on issues of population and development. Peo­ of the administration, which sees abortion as birth control, ple were sent from the major religious communities to share whose anti-population-growth policy seems to be the ethos moral concerns with the draft program as put together by the of the Cairo conference. Cairo conference and then compare these concerns, and to see how much commonality there would be. On the basis of EIR: In President Clinton's discussions with the pope, in that,they would prepare a statementthat would be part of the Rome and in the pope's phone call to him- official program presented at the Cairo conference within Land: Clinton stressed "safe, legal, and rare ." the NGO [non-governmentalorganization] forum. Also, the material would be given to ev�ry national delegate there and EIR: He seemed to stress that he was backing away from is voting on the Cairo prograqt. coerced "family planning policies." I came back from Switzerl�nd very encouraged, actually. Land: Really? It was pulled together by a U.N. affiliate called the World Conference on Religion and Beace, which has NGO status in EIRi We are hoping that the opposition to the Cairo confer­ the U.N. complex in New York. Various major world reli­ ence will create a paradigm shift. gious bodies were asked to send someone who was able to

66 National EIR August 19, 1994 speak authoritatively for the tradition. EIR: In the section on populationan d povertyyou say, "We dispute the fundamental assumption running through the EIR: Did you feel that the draft of the common statement DraftProgram that economic development is necessarily tied reflected the views of your paper? to the availability of family planning services." Heimbacb: Each religious representative was asked to have Heimbach: That portionis what we found to be shared by all prepared a five-page summary statement from their religious the religious communities that were represented. It's really tradition listing any moral concerns they had with the Cairo questioning one of the fundamental notions in the Cairo docu­ document. We spent the first day presenting those and dis­ ment, or at least the notion held by many whose views seem cussing them, and then, the second day, we spent on issues to be reflected in the Cairo document. that there is a one-to­ of common concern andwe drafted a tentative document, a one relationship between poverty andJor economic develop­ general statement that mentioned certain principles. These ment and population, and that if you control fertility and will be added to by a list of specific recommendations for restrict population growth, thatwill reSult in economic devel­ amendments and additions to the Cairoconference document. opment, and if you don't, that it' s goi�g to lead to poverty. We felt that it would not be enough to give a theoretical I wouldn't want to dispute that therecan be some connec­ statement but to also include specific recommendations for tions. But it's a very complex relationship and there are amendment that would be harder to ignore. I've been work­ many, many other factors that impact poverty or economic ing on a draft of some of that. Many of the issues that were development and most of those are much more influentialon raised in our paper were included, and I felt encouraged economic prosperity than populationis. by that. Since the participants were designated and were speaking from the center of their tradition, it tended to be EIR: In the section "Viewing Children as a Threat," you more conservative than other gatherings might be , particular­ object to the assumption in the draft program that having ly on issues such as the sanctity of life, the traditional family, children is a burden on well-being and threatens economic and sexual ethics. development. You end that by saying, "For example, we know that the United States and other developed countries of EIR: Tell us about some specificsof the paper. the world achieved their economic stl/.tus without reproduc­ Heimbach: It challenged the fundamental assumptions of tion control efforts ." the Cairo conference, first on the controversial area of male Heimbach: Absolutely! That assumption is very "paternal­ responsibility. This is the core of the Christian tradition. For istic," even if it were right, but you might challenge if it were those such as ourselves who try to live by the Bible as God's right at all. One of the very obvious and undeniable facts is Word as divine revelation, that is spelled out very clearly, that the developed countries-the ones that have already not only by example, but also in theological statements. achieved the prosperity that the developing countries are seeking to obtain and that the draft document purports to be EIR: You say in the paper that y.ouare very suspicious of the encouraging-achieved that without any strategy of repro­ Cairo DraftProgram 's call to have men share more equally in duction control. domestic and child-rearing responsibilities and then you say, very ironically, "How does one measure equality of domestic EIR: The beginning of your document expresses a certain and child-rearing activities?" creed saying "Southern Baptists as Otristians hold that de­ Heimbach: This point was not a point that was shared by spite cultural diversity and religious pluralism, moral stan­ those who were at the multi-religious conference. So, that dardson essential matters are not inveJ!ltionsof human imagi­ particular point will not be in the common statement. There nation, will or culture." will be an addendum so that our statement, along with the Heimbach: That was an important slatement to make, be­ common statement, will be in the hands of all the national cause what it is challenging, is the notion that is sort of representatives. It seems that the Cairo document itself was an ethical extension of multiculturalism, a philosophy or pushing a certain ideology with respect to male-female rela­ ideology that there is no standard beyond the individual expe­ tionships in the family which we wanted to specifically call rience or individual culture and that there is no way ofjudging attention to . right or wrong. Yes, there are diffetent cultures, and yes, We're suspicious that when you get into terms like "gen­ there have been different experienc�s, and yes, there are der equity," that other things are involved, especially when different religions; but that doesn't mean that there is no theystart talking about men sharing more equally in domestic universal standard of right or wrong. It doesn't mean that and child-rearing responsibilities-the suggestion that some­ it's inappropriate to discuss moral iSSjUes at an international how the roles in the family are interchangeable or the idea forum. We do not want to be boxed in by the idea that "This that some kind of monitoring is going to go on and someone is your religion, this is your culture, therefore, it's good for is going to be adding up the number of minutes spent in you but doesn't apply to anybody else." We speak from domestic as opposed to out-of-the-family time; obviously our tradition, but it's not just because it's our tradition. We that's ludicrous. believe these are universal truths.

EIR August 19, 1994 National 67 Congressional Closeup by William Jones .

Space station gets been renamed Alpha. Russia recently restrict;.ng Clinton's power to invade Senate funding okay signed an agreement to join the Euro­ Haiti if that becomes necessary, but The Senate approved $2. 1 billion on pean, Japanese, and Canadian space said th�t they supported Dole's amend­ Aug. 3 to continue work to put a U.S. agencies as partners with the United ment bjecause it only states the obvi­ space station in orbit around the Earth States in the station, which has an esti­ ous: U:N. approval of a Haiti invasion by the year 2002. The action came on mated cost of $30 billion. NASA said is not Congress's approval. a 64-36 vote rejecting an amendment the agreement with Russia would save Thtee House members have sepa­ by Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.) to a Na­ the United States $2 billion, although rately introduced a resolution requir­ tional Aeronautics and Space Admin­ these claims are disputed in a study ing Clinton to get approval from Con­ istration appropriations bill; the ad­ by the General Accounting Office, the gress before sending U.S. forces to mendment would have killed the investigating agency of Congress, Haiti. "If the President can make the space station. which said that the agreement might case f

Freshman Robert Bennett (R­ The non-binding "sense of the Senate" I Utah) stated that the station was a fit­ resolution passed by a vote of 100-0. ting commemoration of the 25th anni­ Dole accused President Clinton of Health care reform versary of the firstmanned landing on seeking U.N. approval for an invas­ faces GOP filibuster the Moon. He said that he had learned tion of Haiti but rejecting calls for prior Senate I Republicans have threatened while serving as the CEO of a compa­ approval by Congress. "There should to filibhster in order to throw a mon­ ny that "if you don't invest in the fu­ be no mistake: The U.N. action on key wrench into health care reform ture , you are unlikely to have one." Sunday does not give the President le­ this year. ConservativeRicha rd Shel­ President Clinton supports the sta­ gal authority to invade Haiti," Dole by (D-Ala.), who makes a living out tion, which he ordered redesigned last said. of lambasting the Democratic admin­ year in order to save money. It has Several senators said they opposed istratiOjll, underscored the difficulty

68 National EIR August 19, 1994 facing Democratic leaders when he Although the Republican leader­ year's budget: Thb same funds which declared he would back a filibuster. ship has not formally called for a fili­ would have gone to continuing the Clinton made health care for all buster, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), program are now 'earmarked to termi- Americans the centerpiece of his do­ who doesn't hide his presidential am­ nate it. mestic agenda, but his proposal ran bitions, made clear he favors a fili­ into roadblocks, prompting Demo­ buster if other tactics, including his cratic congressional leaders to revamp bid to strip four proposed taxes on in­ it. surance, fail to stop the Democratic Department of Energy The Senate opened what promises plan. "I will do anything I can do with­ says ITER is priority to be a heated debate on Aug. 8. The in the rulesof the Senate to prevent the The Department Qf Energy's number­ proposal at center stage is a compro­ government from taking over health one priority is the International Ther­ mise offered by Majority Leader care," Gramm blustered. monuclear Experimental Reactor George Mitchell (D-Me.) which aims (ITER), Anne D�vies, associate di­ to provide insurance coverage to 95% rector for fusion ¢nergy at DOE, told of Americans by the year 2000 the House SubcQrnmittee on Energy through voluntary measures, subsid­ on Aug. 2. ITER is being planned as ies, and incentives. A requirement Integral Fast Reactor a cooperative program among the that employers contribute to insurance killed in conference United States, Japan, the European costs could be added in the year 2002. The Integral Fast Reactor was killed Union, and Russia. The Mitchell plan aims to meet its goal in conference on Aug. 4 when Senate Davies reported that the design through insurance market reforms, and House conferees approved $83.8 outline has been completed. She noted and would create new government million for the IFR in the Department that the future demonstration fusion subsidies to provide children and of Energy appropriations bill for the plant would not bb a scaled-up ITER. pregnant women with insurance and termination of the project. Such an approadh would not max­ help low-income families and unem­ The IFR, an advanced liquid metal imize the potent_al of the tokamak ployed workers buy insurance. reactor, is designed to use a variety concept, Davies �plained. This is the If those steps fall short of covering of nuclear fuels, including weapons role of the plannl1d Tokamak Physics 95% of the population, then a standby materials such as plutonium or the Experiment (TPX). Ron Davidson, requirement that employers pay 50% spent fuel from other nuclear reactors, director of the Princeton Plasma Phys­ of workers' insurance would be put in a closed cycle which reprocesses ics Laboratory where TPX is to be into effect in those states that fell short and reuses its own spent fuel. built, testifiedthat TPX will develop of the target. The House had approved funds to the scientific basis for the economic The House is considering a sepa­ terminate IFR, while the Senate had operation of tokamaks. TPX is being rate bill that would require employers approved funds to continue the IFR designed to addreSs physics issues and to pay 80% of workers' insurance research at Argonne National Labora­ test various modes of tokamak opera­ costs and would expand the federal tory. The Clinton administration op­ tion which will hopefully lead to more Medicare program as an option for the posed the reactor, arguing that it was compact future fdsion reactors. uninsured. counter to their nonproliferation Rep. DickSw�tt(D-N.H.), whose Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) on goals. Some opponents argued that amendment to the,DOE appropriations Aug. 8 threw the first obstacle in the the IFR is a "breeder" reactor, while bill to kill TPX was defeated on June way of the Democratic leadership, of­ others claimed that it is a waste of 14, asked Davies,what would happen fering a non-binding amendment to a money, and claimed that killing the ifITERdidn'tcometofruition. Davies separate bill that would force the Sen­ project would save $2.9 billion. responded that the DOE is committed ate to go on record in favor of a year's IFR supporters say that this tech­ to making ITER work and so are our delay on health reform. An angry Sen. nology, which is very close to com­ partners. But shQuld it fail, the time Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Helms's pleting its research goals, will address scale for fusion development would initiative would be a "death sentence" the issues of proliferation and nuclear slide way out. If the program doesn't for families unable to obtain in­ waste by providing another disposal move ahead in 1995, there will be sig­ surance. option. There is no savings for next nificant layoffs, slhe added.

EIR August 19, 1994 National 69 National News

the city is negotiating to have an organiza­ tionwide t() solicit public input to develop tion representing William O. DeWitt, Jr. President �linton's National Energy Policy and Robert Castellini buy the team. Ac­ Plan. O'�ary said the DOE is basing its Village Voice escalates cording to counsel to Mayor Tom Murphy, plan on th4 Vision Statement. the bargain for building a new stadium for attacks on Nation of Islam the prospective owners is being discussed in The Aug. 2 issue of the Village Voice con­ the context of a drive for legalizing riverboat tains an inflammatory cover story by Peter gambling in Pennsylvani a. DeWitt and Noel peddling the line that Nation of Islam Castellini were, like Rainwater, co-owners Another Whitewatergater Minister Louis Farrakhan may have been of the Texas Rangers team, together with behind the Memorial Day shooting of con­ Managing Partner George W. Bush. becomes a laughingstock troversial NOI figure Khallid Muhammad William DeWitt was also closely in­ Larry Nicttols, the former Arkansas state aftera speech in Riverside, California. Noel volved with Bush in the notorious Harken trooperwho in 1990 filed a lawsuit accusing gives a very detailed account of a speech case, when Bush secretly sold his shares in Bill ClintO/lof extramarital affairs, has been delivered by Khallid Muhammad 16 months Harken Energy Corp. in 1990, two days arrested fQr writing a bad check in 1988. before the Riverside shooting, in which he after President Bush set the stage for Mid­ Nichols, t�e firstperson to charge that Presi­ charged that officials of NOI Mosque 7 in east war by cancelling the longstanding dent Clintbn had an affair with Gennifer Harlem were out to kill him. The Voice story U.S. dialogue with Yasser Arafat and the Flowers, was to be arraigned on Aug. 15 on went out of its way to paint a picture of a PLO . The junior Bush did not report the charges or writing a bad check for $885.49. growing fissure between Khallid Muham­ "insider" sale to the Securities and Ex­ Nichols has starred in the "sex, lies, and mad and Minister Farrakhan. The front­ change Commission, whose general coun­ videotape" attack on Clinton being circu­ page picture ofthe Voice shows Muhammad sel at the time was James Doty, the attorney lated by Jerry Falwell's Liberty Alliance. surroundedby bodyguards all holding rifles. who had represented Bush in the purchase He boasted on the tape: "You may also won­ At the time of the shooting, Lyndon of the Texas Rangers. And William DeWitt, der what i�'s been like fighting Bill Clinton. LaRouche issued a series of statements the co-owner of the Rangers, was reported People areidead in Arkansas. Yeah. When I warning that the actual target of Anti-Defa­ to have bought the Harken stock fromBush . started this, I knew I might be one of the mation League (ADL) and related enemy unsolved mysteries." networks was Minister Farrakhan, and pre­ Free 0$ $5,000 bond, Nichols could find dicting that there would be an effort to ex­ himself fating further penaltieson an addi­ ploit differences inside the NOI between tional misdemeanor warrant, also served in Muhammad and Farrakhanto create the cli­ 'Sustainable development' early August for failure to pay for his auto mate in which anassassination of Farrakhan registratioh in 1991. could be carried out and blamed on internal council calls for ZPG ! conflicts. The Voice article seems to signal "Population must be stabilized at a level that that effort is now being escalated. consistent with the capacity of the earth to support its inhabitants," says the Vision Statement of the President's Council on Sus­ Educ�tion Dept. report tainable Development, as reported in the Aug. 8 issue of Coal News, published by the blisters privatizer EAI Gambling, baseball, and National Coal Association. "Our vision is a EducationlAlternatives, Inc. which is seek­ life-sustaining Earth. We are committed to ing to run public schools around the country a Texas son of a Bush the achievement of a dignified,peaceful and on a for-profit basis, is under attack from The Houston · Post recently reported that equitable existence," the statement reads . Education Department official Thomas Texas gubernatorial candidate George W. To achieve that vision, the council's de­ Hehir, acd,rdingto the Aug. 6 Minneapolis Bush, son of the former President, received fining principles include: "prudent action Star. Hehir, a director of special education a $100,000 contribution from gambling ca­ even in the face of scientificuncertainty" to programs ,Ihas releaseda report accusing the sino owner Richard Rainwater. Rainwater protect public health or the environment; Minneapolis-based EAI of "violating the is also Bush's partner in the ownership of "all segments of society should equitably fundamental right of learning disabled chil­ the Texas Rangers baseball team. Now it share environmental benefits and burdens"; dren in B�tirnore to receive an appropriate appears that other close associates and part­ "market strategies to harness private energ­ educationt ners of the junior Bush are wound up in ies and capital to protect and improve the The cQmpany moved special education the drive to subordinate baseball entirely to environment. " students t� regular classes without follow­ gambling operations back east in Pitts­ Coal News also reported that Depart­ ing federal procedures to protect them and burgh. ment of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary their parents, Hehir's report alleges. EAI With the Pittsburgh Pirates up for sale, kicked off a series of public meetings na- was able to save $1 million during the first

70 National EIR August 19, 1994 I Brilifly

• OLIVER NORTH was denied renewal of his concealed weapon per­ mit on Aug. 1 br Clarke County, Vir­ ginia Circuit J .ge James L. Berry. year of its contract with the Baltimore, spending by some 17%; Congress is pushing '¥1 In the order, Judge Berry, who had Maryland school system in this way. hard for those cuts and greater efficiency granted North permit in 1992, said In Hartford, Connecticut, the American since the Aldrich Ames espionage affair. a that the court "is unable to ignore his Federation of Teachers went to courtin early Among the improvements proposed, convictions fOir crimes involving August to stop that city from awarding a however, some seem to go in the direction moral turpitude since . . . the fact of contract to EAI. The school board had re­ of the Webster Doctrine promulgated under those admissions remains." cently voted to begin negotiations with EAI George Bush, which placed greater empha­ and was hoping to award EAI a contract to sis on economic espionage against friend WOODST CK II BOMBS. Ef­ runthe entire Hartford school system. and foe alike, and less on national security­ • 9 forts to profit frQm a 25th anniversary related intelligence gathering. replay of the infamous 1969 rock­ One area that Woolsey said he is pursu­ drug-sex fe stiial in upstate New ing "with some relish" is gathering intelli­ York are failin� miserably, and the gence about the commercial practices of for­ backers of one f two competing con­ eign governments . The CIA keeps "a rather � Augustine: 'Next U.S. certs has withd�awn, complaining of careful eye on some foreign companies and poor ticket sale$. space goal is Mars' countries' efforts to bribe their way to con­ tracts ," said Woolsey. "Where such practic­ "What is needed for America's space pro­ TEXAS FILED SUIT on Aug. 3 es are found, the agency informs the State • gram is a clearly stated and broadly em­ against the fede al government,seek­ Department which then seeks to have con­ r braced vision analogous to the one that land­ ing to recover Fosts it allegedly in­ tracts rebid." He noted that the CIA pres­ ed us on the Moon," said Martin Marietta curred from illegal immigration. Cal­ ence in such matters is "virtually neverpub­ chairman Norman Augustine, a space pro­ ifornia and Florida have also sued lic" and he wants to keep it that way. gram veteran, in an article for Sp ace News over the issue. Texas Attorney Gen­ on the 25th anniversary of the first manned eral Dan Morales says that the co­ landingon the Moon. Augustine's piece as­ plaintiffs of Ttfxas cities, counties, serted, "The next goal in space is Mars." and hospital dii;tricts want possibly He warned, however, that "we have be­ more than $5 billion that would cover come something akin to a high-tech couch Candidate calls abortion costs for the pa$t six years. potato. U.S. momentum in space is in jeop­ ! 'crime prevention tool' ardy and will be lost if bold steps are not • A CHAIN' OF FOUR OHIO taken." He added, "for years our space pro­ Tony Bouza, the leading candidate for the hospitals that has been purchased by gram has suffered from an overemphasis on Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party gubernatori­ Blue Cross of dhio may have most of instant gratification," and that there is little al nomination in Minnesota, defended state­ their community health care services thought given to long-term goals. ments he had made referring to abortion as . cut. Some 300�bed hospitals would a "crime prevention tool ," after he came be turned into 20-bed outpatient under attack from one of his DFL oppo­ facilities; only lone hospital would nents, who cited statements from books continue obstetric deliveries. A for­ Bouza had written on crime. Bouza is a for­ mer president pf the national Blue CIA chief outlines mer policecommissioner in both New York Cross association told reporters: and Minneapolis. "The insurance' carriers, and not just agency restructuring According to the Minneapolis Star Trib­ Blue Cross, feel ...they should take CIA director James Woolsey briefed Jane's une, Bouza said his remarks were an obser­ a shot at delivery of care." Defense Weekly about his plans for restruc­ vation, not an endorsement of abortion as a turing the CIA in the post-Cold War world racist and genocidal approach to controlling • SEN. 'FULL MOON' Gramm? early this month. Woolsey is just complet­ crime. Bouza said, referring to the Roe v. According to the July 23-24 issue of ing a strategic plan on the future of all U. S. Wade decision legalizing abortion on de­ the Capitol Hiil magazine Roll Call, foreign intelligence agencies, against a mand, that it "resulted in 250,000 abortions Texas's Sen. Phil Gramm (R) was background of budget cutting and spending among young teenage women who typically spied romping �n the altogether at the rationalizations. A full report is due within give birth to children who frequently are exclusive Bohe�ian Grove this sum­ two months and will define "post-Cold War among those who cause serious problems mer, with the other movers and shak­ missions." At stake are the "size, shape, and for society. If half of them were male, that ers of the naticln's truly elite. Other funding for the entire intelligence communi­ means that as many as 125 ,000 young men inhabitants of I the Grove have in­ ty" concerning missions such as: counter­ who might have been at very high risk of cluded Henryl Kissinger, Robert proliferation, economic intelligence gather­ becoming street criminals did not in fact Strange McN�ara, and William ing, anti-terrorism, and monitoring interna­ become criminals. I never advocated geno­ Webster. tional drug cartels. The aim is to cut down cide or a racist approach. "

EIR August 19, 1994 National 71 Editorial

Man is becoming an endangeret;lsp ecies

Most Americans, including, up to a few days ago, most draining swamps. I members of the U.S. Senate, have been completely Unbelievably, the treat)( declares that no human unaware of the implications of a Convention on Bio­ activity may affect the earth; in any fundamental way . logical Diversity , which will be brought before the This could be used to outlaw all economic activities, Senate for ratification . The treaty was in fact drafted from using fertilizers and i practicing irrigation, to as long ago as 1992, at the so-called Earth Summit in allowing livestock to graze upon the land, to cutting Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. Its provisions have been kept down trees, or to building cities. secret, except within environmentalist circles, in the Worse yet, the convention which the U. S. Senate hopes that would-be opponents would not be alerted. is being asked to ratify is onl� a statement of principle . The idea was to slip it through by putting it before The actual protocols will qnly be decided after the unwary senators in the last moments before the upcom­ treaty is signed; and , the de¢ision will not lie with the ing recess. Fortunately, this attempt has been exposed, Senate, but with a delegat� body which the United and a vote will not occur before September. Nations will convene, sche4uled to meet this Novem­ The treaty itself is another bizarre piece of environ­ ber. Any nation that ratifieS! the treaty will be legally mental legislation; but worse , it affords enforcement bound to implement any p�tocols adopted by these rights to the Blue Helmets of the United Nations. non-elected agencies. While these protocols will not It is obviously desirable not to allow animal species have the force of law, suc� a precedent is extremely

to become extinct, but certainly this should not be a dangerous. I priority . The claim which is made by radical environ­ The same environmentalist groupings which are mentalists that thousands of speciesare being lost every behind the Biodiversity Treaty have an even more year is sheer nonsense. It is based upon reclassifying radical proposal in the offinf: that there be a constitu­ species according to a ridiculous criterion which would tional convention called tq pass an Animal Bill of pretend that a black alley cat is a different species Rights , giving animals the same standing as humans from the familiar gray cat. Possibly one species per under law . The "logic" behind this, is that man is year is actually endangered. merely a more arrogant and I aggressive species of ani­ The notion that endangered species must be pr0- mal, who wrongfully domi$ates the ecosystem. tected at all cost is truly absurd in its implications. If What is this but the revival of the most evil, satanic we are to return nature to its pristine glory, does this form of paganism? And this is precisely what our not mean that the natural evolution of species was an children are already being tapght in school. Biodiversi­ aggressive act? But who is to blame for that? Why not ty is not a scientific theory , but a pseudo-religious demand that the earth be turned back to anaerobic dogma which denies such f,ndamental truths as those bacteria which once were the dominant life-fonn? summarized by the Ten Corbmandments of the Bible. The biodiversity theory, if it actually were to be­ More and more , the idd that mankind was created come the basis for intemational law, would have very in theimage of God is being pegraded, as young people serious consequences indeed. It would dictate the re­ are seduced into the counteJiculture and encouraged to moval of large fertile areas from agricultural produc­ live hedonistic , animalistic lives. This is the paradigm tion. While this might give more range to certain ani­ shift in cultural values which began in the 1960s. Now mals, it would very definitely e h on man 's food the enemy has gone further: They would outlaw the ncroac ' supply. With food scarcity comes malnutrition and the human soul. spread of disease . Already we are seeing an increase Now is the time to let your senator know what you in malaria because of enforcement of laws against think about this fraud . Let'S defeat this treaty .

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