380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NCLC-LAROUCHE GROUP The NCLC exhibits an extreme form as the method to bring about a Na­ REORGANIZES of the personality cult customarily de­ tional Socialist <Nazi) regime. veloped by contemporary totalitarian The National Caucus of Labor Com­ HON. LARRY McDONALD leaders whether Stalin, Mao, Hitler, or mittees has undergone a number of bi­ OF GEORGIA Enver Hoxha at the state level. Main­ zarre shifts in its political line-the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES taining unswerving loyalty from his result of a combination of LaRouche's followers obviously has been a prob­ opportunism and his constant need to Friday, January 16, 1981 lem for LaRouche, who found he seek new issues to absorb his follow­ e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, could not pretend to be a revolution­ ers' interests and energies. However, it members of the political cult led by ary demi-god unless he could distract has been supportive of the Soviet Lyndon LaRouche again have under­ his lackeys' eyes from his defects. Union for at least the past 7 years-a gone an organizational shakeup. Vet­ LaRouche's solution has been to record of consistency for this group. eran LaRouche followers have been maintain a near-hysterical fevered at­ For example, in November 1973, purged and the U.S. Labor Party mosphere inside the NCLC organiza­ NCLC backed a Middle East peace­ <USLP> has been declared defunct. tion. To as great an extent as possible, keeping force of Soviet troops that The original LaRouche organization, the NCLC is a closed band, but one would be better able to control the the National Caucus of Labor Commit­ with its own unique twist that makes U.S.S.R.'s Middle East "clients.'' In tees <NCLC), remains as the core it as bizarre among political groupings 1974 and 1975, NCLC denounced ar­ group of "friends of Lyndon La­ as a "Moebius strip" is among geomet­ rests of Soviet-line Communists in Ar­ Rouche." But the NCLC's former prin­ rical figures. gentina and the shooting of members cipal political front, the USLP, has LaRouche maintains an atmosphere of a terrorist group run by the been abandoned in favor of a new of panic, paranoia, · and confusion Moscow-line Colombian Communist grouping, the National Democratic among his followers designed to pre­ Party, and alleged that the CIA was Policy Committee <NDPC), which ap­ vent the sort of independent thinking involved. peared following the Democratic Na­ and reflection that might lead them to From 1976 through 1978, the NCLC/ tional Convention. challenge his orders or leave to find USLP line claimed that the CIA and New Solidarity, which proclaimed some more normal political grouping. Western intelligence agencies ran the itself "The newspaper of the National Primarily, LaRouche relies on the Italian Red Brigades and West Caucus of Labor Committees" until tactic of repeatedly discovering bizarre German Baader-Meinhof terrorists in September 1979, now claims to be the assassination plots directed against order to bring about chaos and an "National Non-Partisan Newspaper of him along with alleged treacheries excuse for institution of fascism. The the American Whig Tradition." The among his followers and wild ·claims of same themes were played in the Soviet revised ·terminology notwithstanding, grandiose international conspiracies, bloc press and in the media of a the NCLC has not disbanded; and the plots, and schemes-all averted only number of Western Marxist groups. by the frenetic activity of his loyal The false claim that the CIA was re­ list of offices, post office boxes, and "Caucusoids." phone numbers formerly published in The replacement of the U.S. Labor sponsible for the Red Brigades kidnap­ New Solidarity as those of both the Party by another "Caucusoid" front, ing and murder of former Italian NCLC and the USLP have been rela­ the National Democratic ·Policy Com­ prime minister Aldo Moro was a favor­ beled "New Solidarity International mittee, has occurred at the same time ite KGB disinformation theme. Press Service <NSIPS)." the USLP has lost a lawsuit it filed Recently LaRouche has been smear­ In part, the NCLC reoganization has against the Anti-Defamation League ing conservatives, anti-Communists, developed from LaRouche's 1979-1980 <ADL) of B'nai B'rith. LaRouche's fol­ journalists, and others as "KGB effort to run as the Democratic lowers filed the lawsuit, demanding moles." LaRouche and his followers Party's candidate for President of the $26 million in damages, after the ADL rationalize this by asserting that United States. LaRouche and his fol­ published a report documenting the Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid lowers have frequently floated grandi­ virulently antisemitic content of the Brezhnev is the world's leading sup­ ose schemes and plans. Rebuffed by USLP publications. porter of peace who must be support­ Democratic voters in the primaries, The trial judge in the New York ed; but that there is a small faction in and also with the loss of a recent court State Supreme Court issued a 22-page the KGB which wants nuclear war suit possibly providing impetus for opinion in which he said ADL's criti­ and uses its special agents-leading abandoning the USLP, LaRouche is di­ cisms constituted fair comment on the Western conservatives-to start one. recting his followers to work within positions and statements of USLP As have many anti-Semitic groups, the Democratic Party via their new spokesmen. The judge concluded: the NCLC/USLP combined its smear NDPC front. This is a tactic known as attacks on American and Western Eu­ It is only through public expression, pro­ entryism-a favorite among Trotskyite tected so zealously by the First Amendment, ropean Jews with attacks on Israel. In Communists. Undoubtedly LaRouche that the clandestine work of bigotry and in­ 1973, the focus was the Middle East became familiar with it during his tolerances, which flourishes when comment war and the sale of Israel bonds in the dozen years as a member of the Social­ is suppressed, can be exposed to the full United States. By the next year, the ist Workers Party <SWP>. light of public scrutiny and dealt with ap· NCLC was denouncing Israeli counter­ As I have documented in previous re­ propriately. terrorist efforts as terror units and ex­ ports to my colleagues on threats to In part, the NCLC/USLP adoption coriated strikes against PLO centers in the internal security of the United of antisemitism appears to be an out­ southern Lebanon. States (see the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, growth of its mid-1970's backing of During 1975, when the first reports Extensions of Remarks, for January Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, of a massive Soviet military buildup 26, 1977; and June 28, 1977), the Na­ and its long-term united front oper­ began reaching the mass media and tional Caucus of Labor Committees ation with Liberty Lobby, an organiza­ while evidence of direct Soviet backing <NCLC) is a violence-prone, totalitar­ tion founded by Willis Carto who for the MPLA in Angola mounted, the ian political group. seeks to use American populist causes NCLC commenced charges that a e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken b~ the Member on the floor. January 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 381 United States-British "axis" was "re­ Bizarre and slanderous smears of all the activities of Lyndon LaRouche and viving the cold war." The "Caucusoid" individuals perceived by LaRouche his minions. backing of Stalinist chief of the Portu­ and the NCLC/USLP have become the Among those being smeared by La­ guese Communist Party, Alvaro hallmark of the group. Rouche as "moles linked to Soviet Cunhal was hardly surprising. In 1977, The NCLC has since ignored the KGB Gen. H. Philby" are John Rees, the uncovering of a Soviet espionage CPUSA and SWP. LaRouche has publisher of the respected newsletter ring in New Jersey was termed by found more interesting targets. on U.S. political groups, the Informa­ NCLC/USLP "an undisguised attempt NCLC/USLP continuously finds con­ tion Digest; political columnist ("The to provoke the Warsaw Pact," but, spiracies which are trying to kill La­ Intelligence War") Robert Moss; Mi- continued NCLC, "the socialist sector Rouche, or provoke Russia into a nu­ . chael Hementhaler, a member of the with Czechoslovakia in the lead, is fast clear war. At various times, these con­ staff of the House Science and Tech­ unraveling the • • • networks Wall spiracies have been run by amorphous nology Subcommittee, and Charles Street has used against it." By this, entity termed "British intelligence" Fager, formerly a reporter for the the NCLC was backing the persecution but which has been expanded to in­ Boston Phoenix, and who is now on of the charter 77 dissidents. clude hundreds of British and Ameri­ the staff of my distinguished colleague And so the use in NCLC 1980 publi­ can organizations, corporations, re­ from California, the Honorable PAUL cations of materials from official search institutes, foundations, banks, N. McCLoSKEY. Soviet propaganda media has not been legislators, government officials, orga­ The institutions smeared include the a completely unprecedented develop­ nized crime chiefs, and individuals conservative think tank, the Heritage ment in the development of the La­ from reporters and novelists to song­ Foundation, which has published criti­ Rouche group. NCLC/USLP literature writers. cisms of the NCLC. also has been supporting quite a few When the Anti-Defamation League Some 6 years ago, John Rees pub­ Cuban interests in Central and South criticized NCLC/USLP antisemitism, lished a richly documented report on America. These include attacking the New Solidarity, the newspaper of the the origins, development, and activi­ Venezuelan Government because its National Caucus of Labor Committees ties of the LaRouche group.