TRANSCRIPT OF THIRD NATIONAL TV NATIONAL BROADCAST CBS-TV, WOR-TV, WGN-TV The following was authorized and paid for by Democrats for Economic Recovery -- LaRouche in '92 "Why Lyndon LaRouche is in Jail" May 30, 1992 LAROUCHE: There is no need for this depression! By a few simple actions which I would take within the hour that I were inaugurated President -- and with your support to whip the majority of the Congress into line -- I would set into motion the same, general economic recovery, which Roosevelt accomplished during the period between 1939 and 1943. ANNOUNCER: Lyndon LaRouche is the only Presidential candidate who has had the guts to call our current economic mess a depression; and who has the program to get us out of it. That is why Lyndon LaRouche was put into a federal prison, on the initiative of Henry A. Kissinger and his friends. Lyndon LaRouche is a political prisoner. He committed no crime. He is in jail because his ideas represent a political danger. Evidence already placed before the courts -- including government documents, and the testimony of government agents -- prove conclusively that LaRouche is innocent. The government has admitted that it holds tens of thousands of additional, unreleased documents from its secret war against LaRouche. George Bush has been repeatedly asked to release those files which would show LaRouche's innocence but has refused. What has Lyndon LaRouche done, that George Bush must keep him silenced in a prison cell? Let's go back in time ten years, to 1982. Although the American news media refused to report on any of his far-ranging initatives, LaRouche was very well known, and influential, among leadership circles particularly in the Third World, and also throughout the international scientific community. LaRouche was especially respected for his work in formulating science policy. He had, for instance, identified the importance of laser and particle beams in strategic missile defense as far back as 1977. In 1982, LaRouche worked in close cooperation with the Reagan Administration, conducting back-channel discussions with the Soviet Union, to explore joint U.S.-Soviet development of ballistic missile defense, as an alternative to nuclear warfare. These ideas were adopted by the Reagan Administration, under the name, Strategic Defense Initiative. At the same time, Lyndon LaRouche continued to organize for the reform of the international monetary system. Since his days in India, during World War II, LaRouche had been dedicated to creating new international monetary institutions which would provide the equitable benefits of technological and scientific progress to the nations of the developing sector. LaRouche repeatedly warned that the U.S. economy could not survive, by merely looting the developing sector through an ever-increasing debt burden. LaRouche identified that this policy was not only immoral; it would destroy the potential markets of the industrialized nations; and it would hasten a global financial collapse. Let LaRouche continue the story in his own words: LAROUCHE: During the spring of 1982, I was the first to use the term "debt bomb," to describe the debt crises which was about to explode. During June and July of that year, I conveyed to various governments of Ibero-America and to our own government my recommendations for immediate action to prevent this debt crises from triggering a collapse in the solvency of the U.S. banking system and thus triggering the conditions for a new worldwide financial collapse. During August 1982, the "debt bomb," exploded in Mexico. For a period of approximately an hour during that month, the entire world financial system was on the edge of a total collapse. However, the Reagan administration refused to accept my proposals, which could have stopped the world financial crises right at that time. Instead, the Reagan administration brought in Henry A. Kissinger and adopted Kissinger's policies. My proposal for solving the financial crisis of the Western Hemisphere is called Operation Juarez. This is the name of a report which I prepared at the request of leading circles in South America and Mexico, a report which I submitted to those governments and to our own government at the beginning of August, just weeks before the Mexico crisis exploded. Since August 1982, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger's associate Lane Kirkland, and officials of the State and Treasury Departments have concentrated the major part of their political efforts in Washingtion and in Mexico and South America in an effort to prevent the policies I present in Operation Juarez from being adopted. ["Stopping the Present Spiral of Worldwide Financial Collapse": nationwide network TV broadcast, June 1, 1984] ANNOUNCER: When he spoke these words in 1984, LaRouche did not know that, in addition to personally touring Ibero-America to subvert Operation Juarez, Henry Kissinger had also sent a letter. VOICE ONE: "To William Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. August 19, 1982. Dear Bill: I appreciated your letter forwarding the flyer which has been circulated by Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. Because these people have been getting increasingly obnoxious. I have taken the liberty of asking my lawyer, Bill Rogers, to get in touch with you to ask your advice, especially with respect to security. It was good to see you at the Grove, and I look forward to the chance to visit again when I am next in Washington. Warm regards. Henry A. Kissinger." ANNOUNCER: Three months later Kissinger formalized this demand. VOICE ONE: "November 25, 1982. Dear Judge Webster: We may be witnessing here not normal radical political action, but a systematic disinformation campaign supported by some foreign intelligence service.... Who finances this network of organizations, newsletters and newspapers? Henry A. Kissinger." ANNOUNCER: Kissinger's precise formulation -- "supported by some foreign intelligence service" -- was designed to legitimate anti-LaRouche operations under Executive Order 12333. 12333 was signed by President Reagan in 1981, allowing the U.S. intelligence community to violate its own published guidelines, while operating against any group suspected of foreign intelligence ties. Executive Order 12333 was the document which William Casey and Oliver North used, to justify the Iran-Contra arms scandal. Kissinger's message got quick results. VOICE TWO: "January 12, 1983. To Oliver Revell, FBI Investigative Division. At the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board meeting today, David Abshire raised the subject of the activities of the U.S. Labor Party and Lyndon LaRouche. He noted that he and a number of other Americans in public life had been the subject of repeated harassment by LaRouche and wondered whether the FBI had a basis for investigating these activities under the guidelines or otherwise. A number of the members present, including Edward Bennett Williams, raised the question of the sources of funding of these U.S. Labor Party activities. In view of the large amounts obviously being expended worldwide, the question was raised whether the U.S. Labor Party might be funded by hostile intelligence agencies." [William Webster, Director, FBI] ANNOUNCER: This document triggered a massive dirty tricks campaign, aimed especially at the LaRouche organization's finances. The late Edward Bennett Williams, one of the participants of this secret meeting, explained the goal in a taped telephone conversation three and a half years later. EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS: This fellow LaRouche and his gang are about to be indicted up there in Massachusetts.... I'm going to have dinner with Henry [Kissinger] next week, and I am going to talk to him about the whole thing because I think the opportunity is now surfacing.... [Aug. 7, 1986] ANNOUNCER: The official excuse for the FBI's war on LaRouche -- suspicion of foreign intelligence ties -- was absurd, because one of Kissinger's top allies in the campaign was the Soviet KGB. Again, LaRouche tells the story in his own words. LAROUCHE: Nearly two years ago, during a two-day seminar in Washington, D.C., I proposed a new strategic doctrine for the United States to an audience which included Soviet officials as well as representatives of our government agencies. I proposed that we dump Kissinger's and McNamara's Flexible Response doctrine, and end the age of thermonuclear terror, through deploying the kinds of anti-missile defenses which science had made possible. My proposals caught fire immediately among influential circles. With the knowledge of our government, I conducted exploratory discussions privately with Soviet representatives for a period of over twelve months. When Dr. [Edward] Teller announced similar proposals in the fall of 1982, our news media was no longer able to suppress information about the fact of this discussion and the new doctrine from the American public. On March 23, our President not only announced such a new strategic doctrine for the United States itself; but in that same nationwide television broadcast, he offered to negotiate with Moscow to bring the age of thermonuclear revenge-weapons to an end. If the Soviet leaders had accepted the President's offer at that time, tonight you and your family could sleep in knowledge that the age of thermonuclear terror was being brought to an end. But the Soviet Union did not wish peace. ["Call for a National Defense Emergency Mobilization": CBS-TV nationwide broadcast, January 21, 1984] ANNOUNCER: Even though LaRouche's beam defense proposal was posed as a science-driver -- a joint program, whose shared technologies would help the economies of both countries -- the Soviets saw it as a new technological race which they could not win. The decision was made to stop the SDI at all costs, and to help destroy the man who the Soviets saw as the intellectual author of the proposal, Lyndon LaRouche. Right after President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, in a speech on March 23, 1983, the Soviets broke off all back-channel contact with LaRouche. Slandering articles began appearing in the Soviet press in June. Both the anti-SDI and anti-LaRouche campaigns became the direct responsibility of Fyodor Burlatskii, a long-time advisor to Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB who had become Soviet party chief. It was Burlatskii who gave the Soviet Union's official line on SDI. VOICE THREE: "This would create a practically irresistable temptation for the American military men and politicians: to inflict a first strike.... In other words, space weapons are provocative weapons; they are, absolutely, a casus belli for nuclear war." [Literaturnaya Gazeta, Aug. 10, 1983] ANNOUNCER: Casus belli: the legal justification for war. When Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, German political leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche, attacked Burlatskii for making this threat, the Soviet official responded: VOICE THREE: "I did not know if I should be indignant or laugh about the amusing and ridiculous maxims of the authors, the conjugal symbiosis of the American LaRouche and his wife, the German Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who come out...of a nonexistent party. We will not pay attention to their trivial pretentions." [Literaturnaya Gazeta, Oct. 26, 1983] ANNOUNCER: However, Burlatskii and the Communist media actually paid quite a bit of attention to Lyndon LaRouche. VOICE FOUR: "They came to Rome from various countries on the invitation from a certain Lyndon LaRouche.... As the hobby horse of his electoral campaign, LaRouche has chosen...space weaponry. He was delighted with the proposals Reagan made on March 23 of this year.... The get-together showed that both Reagan and LaRouche have followers in the Old World." [Izvestia, Nov. 15, 1983] THIRD VOICE: "Even the 'free' press directly calls these...neo-facsist organizations protected by the CIA, and calls its leader, the American Lyndon LaRouche...'Fuehrer.'" [Literaturnaya Gazeta, March 28, 1984] ANNOUNCER: Meanwhile, certain sections of the American intelligence community were arranging their own press attacks on LaRouche. According to the testimony of Mira Lansky-Boland, a former employee of the CIA, now an official of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith, planning meetings were conducted at the New York City apartment of investment banker John Train, starting in 1983. Boland, who was present, testified that the meetings included representatives from the National Security Council, the Anti-Defamation League, the Wall Street Journal, NBC television network, and others. The Train meetings planned a campaign to characterize LaRouche in the news media as a "political extremist." Prejudicing public opinion of LaRouche in this way, was necessary to justify the secret government's already-planned railroad of LaRouche. This news media dirty tricks campaign went into high gear with a half-hour special on NBC network. ["First Camera", March 4, 1984] The broadcast used the tried-and-true, black propaganda technique of assembling so many different kinds of wild accusations against LaRouche, that, even if the whole thing didn't make sense, at least one charge would stick in the mind of the audience. Then, back to Moscow. VOICE FOUR: "Lyndon LaRouche is striving to undermine the influence of communists and other left forces among workers and student youth.... The scandalous ties of the Reagan Administration with LaRouche were exposed in a special report on NBC television.... The acknowledgement by the White House not only exposes the true face of LaRouche, but it also shows that the current Washington administration does not shy away from the services of neo-fascist provocateurs." [Izvestiya, March 12, 1984] ANNOUNCER: This Soviet demand that the Reagan Administration immediately break off all relations with LaRouche, was identical to one made four days before by Charles Manatt, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a violent foe of the SDI. Manatt told the Chicago Tribune [March 8, 1984] that "the shocking White House involvement with the bizarre, extremist...Lyndon LaRouche" must end. So by March 1984, we have the amazing spectacle of the chairman of the Democratic Party, Henry Kissinger, the Soviet KGB, the American FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, and NBC network television, all publicly saying the same thing at the same time: get Lyndon LaRouche! Against this opposition, LaRouche waged his 1984 Presidential campaign, highlighting the growing danger to the world economy. LAROUCHE: Now some fellows will tell you that the kinds of things I'm talking about, won't work. They will say to you that everything is just fine; that Kissinger and his friends have solved the problem of the Latin American debt. Those fellows either don't know what they're talking about -- don't know much of anything about this matter -- or else, as in the case of Kissinger's friends, they are simply lying outright.... Our own internal banking system is in desperate condition. Don't let the whistling in the dark fool you; we're in trouble. ["Great Projects vs. Kissinger's Genocide": CBS-TV nationwide broadcast, March 17, 1984] ANNOUNCER: Meanwhile, in the Fall of 1984, a Grand Jury was convened. It would sit month after month, trying unsuccessfully to manufacture indictments against LaRouche. At the same time, the secret government's press campaign in America escalated, with thousands of articles and reports, calling LaRouche everything in the book. At the beginning of 1986, the Soviets tried a particularly nasty trick. On March 28, Swedish Premier Olof Palme, a longtime opponent of Lyndon LaRouche, was assassinated in Stockholm. The very next day, Georgii Arbatov, the Soviet Union's top expert on America, told a press conference, "I don't know who killed Olof Palme, but I know who hated him." ANNOUNCER: And then Arbatov proceeded to unmistakeably describe the activities of the European Labor Party, Lyndon LaRouche's co-thinker party in Sweden. Within a week, the Stockholm Police Chief, Hans Holmer, announced that the European Labor Party was a suspect in the assassination. This became front page news in Europe and the Soviet Union. The Soviets went so far as to produce a prime-time "docudrama" accusing LaRouche. SOVIET ACTOR: The European Labor Party is already a force in more than ten countries; its headquarters are in the USA. Its precise goal is the struggle against communism. Fighting with the Reds, they don't neglect the Pinks either. Listen to the words of their leader, LaRouche. ["Who Killed Olof Palme?" In Russian, with English subtitles.] ANNOUNCER: The story was broken in the U.S. by NBC, which interviewed Anti-Defamation League official Irwin Suall. Suall immediately flew to Stockholm to help Holmer with his investigation. All this was still front-page news. What wasn't front-page news, was the fact that, weeks later, the European Labor Party was dropped from suspicion, amid protests that Police Chief Holmer had tampered with evidence in order to link the Labor Party with the assassination, and amid criticism of the U.S. media. Finally, just a few months ago, in 1992, it was discovered that the Scandinavian journalist who led the attacks on LaRouche in the Palme Affair, one Joergen Dragsdahl, had been a top KGB secret agent from 1986 on. In April of 1986, despite the slander campaign, candidates publicly affiliated with LaRouche, received impressive votes in several primary elections, and won a statewide contest in Illinois. The news media went a little crazy. MARK NYKANEN: The [National] Press Club was packed, reflecting a growing interest in LaRouche, who says that he comes from a long political tradition. LAROUCHE: If Abe Lincoln were alive, he'd probably be standing up here with me today. NYKANEN: LaRouche said voter support for his organization comes from farmers, blacks, and blue-collar workers. LAROUCHE: They want me to stick it to Washington. That's what the voters want. NYKANEN: And, that's exactly what he did today... ROBERT NOVAK: I think they're scared to death of Lyndon LaRouche. FIRST ANCHOR: Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche... SECOND ANCHOR: Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche... THIRD ANCHOR: Political-political-politi-liti-litical extremist Lyndon LaRouche. VOICE FOUR: "LaRouche is now clearly going through a definite period of growth.... For many in the U.S., the really concrete question arises: How is it possible that the LaRouchites can act so openly and fearlessly? In this respect, the Washington Post wrote...'Why isn't the Internal Revenue Service interested in the affairs of [this] man...?'" [Sovetskaya Kultura, Sept.30, 1986.] ANNOUNCER: The next week, on Oct. 6, 1986, the IRS, along with 400 members of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Virginia State and local police, armed with automatic weapons, helicopters, and armored cars raided the offices of three organizations identified with LaRouche. The purpose was to seize hundreds of pounds of documents, and to deliver indictments which had finally been manufactured in Boston. In April, 1987, the Federal government culminated years of financial warfare, by convincing a judge, in secret, to force three publishing companies operated by associates of LaRouche, into involuntary bankruptcy. Lyndon LaRouche campaigned for President throughout 1988, despite the attempted destruction of his campaign machine, and the fact that he was simultaneously on trial in Boston. That 1988 campaign remains memorable for its accurate forecast of the current economic depression, and for the startling predictions of the break-up of the East Bloc and the reunification of Germany. During 1988, LaRouche's trial in Boston came to a standstill around the issues of government misconduct and its hiding of evidence. Links to the Iran-Contra scandal were found. The judge even ordered a search of Vice President Bush's files. In May, the case was declared a misrtrial. To the prosecutors' horror, it was found out that the jury had already made up its mind: VOICE ONE: "We would have acquited everybody at this point, and that's based on prosecution evidence. There was too much question of government misconduct in what was happening in the LaRouche campaign." [Roman Dashawetz, jurer] ANNOUNCER: The U.S. government did not attempt to retry the Boston case, but moved it to Alexandria, Virginia, where a more cooperative judge excluded all of the arguments which won for LaRouche in Boston. LaRouche himself was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison; six co-defendants received lesser terms. Lyndon LaRouche entered prison in January 1989. Before that year was out, LaRouche's 1988 predictions were coming true: the Berlin Wall was down; the Soviet Union was starting the final phase of disintegration; and the current economic depression was starting in earnest. In October 1989 -- 30 months after the involuntary bankruptcies of the LaRouche organizations -- the bankruptcy judge found that the federal prosecutors -- not LaRouche and his associates -- had perpetrated "constructive fraud" on the Court; the government's arguments to shut down LaRouche had been made in "bad faith." The bankruptcies which were the primary reason for the LaRouche organizations' financial difficulties, were themselves illegal! On January 22, 1992, attorneys for LaRouche, including former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, filed a motion in Federal court seeking to free LaRouche on the grounds that his conviction and detention were unlawful. The motion is supported by six volumes of evidence, discovered after LaRouche was convicted, but supresed or concealed by the government. At the same time, from his prison, LaRouche launched a new bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He will have been on the ballot in 31 primaries by the time of the Democratic National Convention. His emergency program to end the depression in the United States through the creation of six million new industrial jobs, is being picked up by some Democratic candidates. His programs for the redevelopment of the nations of the former Communist bloc, are now widely discussed throughout Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Ironically, the international campaign of negative propaganda, which turned LaRouche into a devil in the United States, has turned him into a hero in the former Communist countries, where people understood that the media was controlled. In late 1990, a leader of the Ukrainian freedom movement, Taras Chornovil, while on tour in Canada, explained: VOICE: "To the degree that the Soviet press primarily covered major developments of the West, such as the SDI program, then the name of Lyndon LaRouche was portrayed in a severely-negative light. We, however, have learned to read between the lines of the official press and understood that if the name of a political dissident is caricatured in such a negative way, then the individual must have serious political views." LAROUCHE: This is Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche speaking, with anger and disgust at the behavior of not only President Bush, but of other leading commentators reported by the press, in response to recent developments in Los Angeles. Dig out some photographs and memories of Watts in 1965. Now, overlay those pictures and those memories with South-Central Los Angeles in 1992. Let's put a caption on these comparisons: "The Warren Christopher Commission's Policy From 1965 to 1992." Warren Christopher is the partner of Mickey Kantor, the campaign manager of Bill Clinton. What have the Christopher policies done in South-Central Los Angeles from 1965 to 1992? THAT IS THE QUESTION, not the riot. From 1965 to 1992, not only in South-Central Los Angeles, but in the ghettoes in Chicago, in New YOrk City, and in every other major city in this country with Hispanic and black ghettoes, the conditions of life are worse; the architecture is worse; the housing is worse; the homelessness is worse; the sickness is worse. EVERYTHING IS WORSE. What does this mean? Twenty-seven years of negligence. The issue of Los Angeles last weekend is not the issue of the Rodney King beating or the verdict, or the riots which were stated by the Maoist gangs and some other drug-running gangs. That's important, but that's not the primary issue. The primary issue is, that we have continued to take increasing percentages of our total population -- not only black, not only Hispanic, not only Koreans, but others -- and we are throwing them into Hell. The policies that have ruined this nation, are essentialy the same policies represented by Bush today, by Clinton today, and by many others. Now, some people say you have to choose between front-runners Clinton and Bush, or perhaps Ross Perot. To do so would be a mistake, but you say that's realistic. Well, would you rather vote for what you DON'T want and GET it, and get more of it, when you've got it up to the neck already; or would you rather take a chance on a long shot by voting for what you WANT? ANNOUNCER: For more information, write: LaRouche in '92 P.O. Box 690 Leesburg, VA 22075. The preceding was authorized and paid for by Democrats for Economic REcovery -- LaRouche in '92 END TRANSMISSION