Charles,
I haven't looked at a LaRouche paper in a long time and have, frankly,
tried to stay away from those folks as much as possible. Back near the end
of the leftist stage they "targeted" me as somebody important that they
wanted especially to recruit. The upshot was a lot of unpleasantness and
some lessons. I agree with those who say that not all that they say is
either wrong or wacko, even now, although much of it is either or both.
LaRouche used to have a lot of contacts in the intelligence community
of various sorts. He has (or had) an international network with a lot of
pretty smart people in it and gathered a lot of info that he could use for
trading. I think that his ability to do this got hit badly with his jail
term, although I don't know. As I noted, he had initial contacts dating
back to his own professional experience in WW II.
I have no idea what his current funding sources are, although it was
funding and credit card fraud that got him thrown in jail in the first
place. Back when he made his switch to the right some people claimed that
funding was another aspect of it. There's a lot more money on the right
than on the left, surprise surprise. Allegedly some of it was anti-Semitic
midwestern industrialists, one of LaRouche's raps being an alleged
contradiction between finance (read Jews, etc.) and industrial capital.
Supposedly he also got money from the Iraqis, which may have started when he
was left and then went right. Needless to say, a conspiratorial character
like LaRouche attracts a lot of rumors and few definite facts.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 6:03 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:4138] LaRouche
>Barkley,
>
>Where does LaRouche get so much money ? Any indications of ties to the
"intelligence community" , besides the obvious ?
>
>The LaRouche newspaper seems to have a lot of professional philosophers on
staff. Is this an indication of intelligence agents ?
>
>Charles Brown
>
>>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/04/99 01:25PM >>>
> One minor correction is that I think it was later than 1975 that
>LaRouche made his left-to-right jump. He ran for president in 1976 on the
>"Labor Party" ticket, a front for his NCLC. I think he was still left at
>that point and went right the next year, or thereabouts. I understand that
>one factor in that was his second marriage, to a German woman. After that
>he became obsessed with the GDR Stasi and also opened a lot of offices in
>the FRG. Apparently once in the late 70s he announced that beards were a
>sign of being a Stasi agent and a bunch of his followers ran out and
>literally tore out their beards.
> In the last years of his left identification his group identified
>themselves as the "purest" Marxists around and attacked anybody supporting
>black nationalism or feminism for distracting the working class from
>revolution. They were (and are) also big pro-nuclear fusion. No identity
>pomoizing there!
> In more recent years he and his followers have tended to run in
>Democratic Party primaries. In 1988 one of his followers, Nancy Spannaus,
>was the official Democratic Party opponent of John Warner in his 1988 race
>for reelection to the US Senate from Virginia, where LaRouche had relocated
>his HQ to from NYC. The Dems had decided not to offer a candidate against
>the pathetically popular Warner (ex hubby of Paul Mellon's daughter and Liz
>Taylor and current boyfriend of Monica Lewinsky's interviewer from ABC).
So
>Spannaus was able to seize the nomination. I think she got about 20% of
the
>vote in the general election. Her husband was one of those jailed for
fraud
>along with LaRouche. Their son, Andrew, was a student of mine a few years
>ago here at glorious JMU. He was a bright philosophy major and rather
>discreetly quiet, but very committed to his parents' world view, his dad
>still being in jail at the time.
>Barkley Rosser
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry C.K. Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 7:29 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4118] Re: Re: Re: LaRouche on Soros
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