Chapter 7 Railroad! What follows is Chapter 7 from {The Ugly Truth About the ADL,} a soon-to-be published book which exposes the organized crime and drug-running activities of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. {The Ugly Truth About the ADL} will be released nationally before the end of 1992. This chapter of the book concentrates on the ADL's vendetta against anti-drug fighter Lyndon LaRouche, and is titled ``Railroad!'' I n early March 1986, within days of the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme, ADL Fact-Finding department chief Irwin Suall was en route to Stockholm. An Oxford University-trained Fabian Socialist, Suall was the ADL's long-time top dirty trickster. Since 1978, with the publication of the book {Dope, Inc.}, Suall's efforts had been almost obsessively focused against Lyndon LaRouche, the American political economist who had commissioned the anti-drug study published by New Benjamin Franklin House. Suall's transatlantic voyage to Stockholm was in pursuit of that obsession. Working in tandem with the East German secret police (Stasi), the Soviet KGB, Swedish socialists, and NBC-TV, Suall helped launch the disinformation campaign blaming LaRouche and his Swedish collaborators in the European Labor Party for the Palme assassination. Just as Suall's efforts were beginning to bear fruit with a series of ``LaRouche killed Palme'' smear stories in the U.S.A., Swedish, and Soviet press, the ADL trickster was suddenly confronted with a major crisis: On March 16, 1986, two LaRouche-backed candidates--Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart--won the Illinois Democratic Party primary elections for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, respectively. The victory of the LaRouche candidates was no fluke. LaRouche-backed candidates had been winning between 20-40 percent of the vote in Democratic primary elections in different parts of the country since the early 1980s. A leading Democratic Party pollster had written frantic messages to the Illinois state party chairman warning about a LaRouche upset months before the election. Not surprisingly, the upset victory by the LaRouche slate was electrifying. The Wall Street and Freemasonic circles who own the ADL were shocked into action. Suall hurried back to New York City, where he oversaw the preparation and mass distribution of a violent ADL smear sheet against LaRouche. Over the next few months, according to records of the Federal Election Commission, over 6,000 copies of the ADL libel--at a cost of at least $10,000--were circulated to every member of Congress, 1,580 news outlets, and other government offices and opinion makers. Tens of thousands of media attacks against LaRouche--branding him as everything from an anti-Semite, to a KGB agent, to a neo-Nazi, to an international terrorist--were published in the United States alone. Among some anti-Zionist lobby and Third World circles, the ADL even accused LaRouche of being a closet ``mole'' for the Israeli Mossad! The invariant in all the contradictory slanders conjured up by the ADL was to scare people away from the LaRouche political movement. The ADL smear campaign was a panicked and flagrant violation of its tax-exempt status. It was also a violation of FEC rules, which prohibit a tax-exempt organization from engaging in politicking. On June 16, 1987, the FEC officially acknowledged that the ADL action against LaRouche was illegal; but a few months later, the commissioners decided they would take no action against the League. The smear campaign was meeting with only modest political success, although it had a severe effect as financial warfare. LaRouche-Democrat candidates continued to do well. In 1988, Claude Jones, a long-time and well-known LaRouche activist, was elected chairman of the Harris County, Texas Democratic Party, shortly after the Illinois victories. Harris County, which includes Houston, is one of the largest electoral districts in the United States, and a Democratic Party stronghold. Jones beat a powerful incumbent to take over the party post. The {Washington Post} in May 1986--summing up the consensus among the liberal establishment--editorialized that Lyndon LaRouche must be in jail, not on television, by the time of the 1988 presidential elections. An Ongoing Frameup Effort On October 6, 1986--less than seven months after the Illinois primary--400 federal, state, and county police invaded the offices of the LaRouche-associated Campaigner Publications in Leesburg, Virginia. FBI and Virginia State Police special sniper units were backed up by a Loudoun County SWAT Team. Helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and even an armored personnel carrier were held in reserve at a 4-H fairgrounds a short distance from the farm where Lyndon LaRouche and his wife were staying. In fact, recently disclosed government documents demonstrate Pentagon involvement in the Leesburg raid--specifically the Special Operations unit of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mobilization of an invasion force larger than that used in Grenada in September 1983, to serve two search warrants and four arrest warrants, was not the result of over-zealous planning. Since no later than 1982, Irwin Suall, Mira Lansky Boland (the Jonathan Jay Pollard-linked CIA agent-turned ADL dirty trickster), and an army of other ADL agents and assets had been engaged in a systematic campaign to sic the government on LaRouche. By the time the raid took place, the govermnent raiding party had been so jacked up by ADL disinformation that they were expecting to run into a terrorist armed camp that would make the Irish Republican Army green with envy. The March 1986 Illinois upset victory provided the ADL and its collaborators in what became known as the Get LaRouche Strike Force with the opportunity and motive to go all-out. How did it work? Since the spring of 1982, according to the ADL's own published accounts, Suall and company were closely collaborating with Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, and long-time LaRouche hater. In August 1982, Kissinger wrote to then-FBI Director William Webster the first of a series of personal letters demanding that the FBI move to shut down the LaRouche political movement. In a more detailed note in November, Kissinger's attorney lied that LaRouche had foreign intelligence ties--a lie calculated to activate government ``active measures'' under the guidelines of Executive Order 12333. E.O. 12333, signed by President Ronald Reagan in December 1981, gave the CIA, the FBI, and the Pentagon intelligence services broad latitude to investigate and disrupt groups suspected of working for hostile foreign governments. In January 1983, Kissinger's allies on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) made a formal request for such an active measures campaign against LaRouche. The FBI, operating through Judge Webster and Oliver ``Buck'' Revell, quickly launched such an effort. Ironically, as the Kissinger-ADL wing of the national security and law enforcement apparatus of the federal government was activating its illegal war against LaRouche, President Reagan--with the backing of his national security adviser Judge William Clark, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and other senior military and security advisers--was moving ahead with the Strategic Defense Initiative, a plan based on a concept advanced by LaRouche even before the Reagan administration came into office. According to court testimony in Roanoke, Virginia by Richard Morris, Judge Clark's NSC security chief, LaRouche had worked with the Reagan White House on at least eight national security projects--including SDI--most of which are still classified to this day. Was this a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing? Hardly! The ADL and Kissinger were painfully aware of LaRouche's growing influence within the Reagan administration, and they were out to break the rules to shut down all the LaRouche-Reagan ties. According to court testimony by the ADL's Mira Lansky Boland on May 24, 1990 in Roanoke, Virginia, she was an active participant from day one in the illegal government covert operation against LaRouche that led to the October 1986 raid, and a series of federal and state criminal prosecutions in Boston; New York City; Alexandria, Leesburg and Roanoke, Virginia; and Los Angeles. The black propaganda aspect of that covert operation which we picked up in Stockholm at the beginning of this chapter was launched at an April 1983 meeting at the New York City office of Wall Street broker and self-styled intelligence agent John Train. Mira Lansky Boland was present at that secret meeting, representing the ADL. National Security Council consultant Roy Godson, a long-time ally of the ADL, was also present, along with a dozen journalists and editors from such organizations as NBC News, {Reader's Digest, The New Republic} and {Business Week.} A CIA funding conduit deeply involved in the secret Iran-Contra operations, the Smith Richardson Foundation, provided the cash for the orchestrated smear campaign against LaRouche. While much of the anti-LaRouche propaganda spewed out of NBC, {The New Republic,} the {Wall Street Journal} and {Reader's Digest} consisted of name-calling aimed at scaring off active and prospective LaRouche supporters, enough charges of ``terrorism'' and ``international espionage'' were thrown in to assure that federal and state prosecutors would be forced to maintain open investigative files and, eventually, to launch grand jury probes. The ``kill phase'' of the ADL-led dirty war against LaRouche was already well under-way when the spring 1986 events in Illinois took place. Financial Warfare The ADL-John Train black propaganda campaign was not merely aimed at discouraging voters from pulling the levers for LaRouche candidates on election day. To successfully throw LaRouche in jail--or worse--the ADL set out to bankrupt the LaRouche publishing operations and turn some of LaRouche's own supporters and financial backers against him. Spending millions of dollars, and working with groups like the CIA-spawned Cult Awareness Network (CAN), ADL dirty tricksters targeted thousands of LaRouche campaign contributors, whose names, addresses and phone numbers were maintained in public files at the FEC. The ADL-CAN operators would contact relatives, financial advisers, and friends of the LaRouche supporters, and literally subject them to scare-tactic behavior modification. The techniques used were often those developed in the secret laboratories of the CIA and the FBI for use against enemy prisoners of war and captured spies. Through these highly illegal actions, the ADL built up a profile list of weak and vulnerable people, many senior citizens, whose only ``crime'' was that they financially supported the legitimate political campaign activities of Lyndon LaRouche. The names of these targets were passed on to the Department of Justice's Get LaRouche Strike Force in a fashion reminiscent of the worst of the Nazi Gestapo operations. In May 1988, after 92 days of trial, the first federal prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche and a half-dozen of his associates came to a screeching halt when Boston District Court Judge Robert Keeton declared a mistrial. Evidence of wild government misconduct--implicating Oliver North and Vice President George Bush--had disrupted the trial, so that the government wanted to be done with it. As press reports later showed, it had also convinced the jury that any criminal activity associated with the case had been committed by the government, not by Lyndon LaRouche. Prosecution claims of credit card fraud by LaRouche campaign fundraisers and publications salesmen had been thoroughly discredited. The collapse of the first government effort at framing up Lyndon LaRouche was a direct blow to the ADL. Mira Lansky Boland and Boston ADL official Sally Greenberg had been virtually integrated into the prosecution staff of Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Markham and Mark Rasch. Although suffering a bad setback in Boston, the ADL-driven prosecution strike force had already opened up a second front in its illegal drive to wipe out the LaRouche movement. In April 1987, Loudoun County, Virginia Deputy Sheriff Don Moore, a Vietnam War Marine bunkmate of Ollie North and a secret paid agent of the ADL-CAN, wrote a patently false affidavit for federal prosecutors, claiming that LaRouche and company were getting ready to pick up stakes and go underground to avoid the pending federal prosecution and the prospect of paying large fines. The Moore affidavit was then used by then-U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson to induce a federal bankruptcy judge to order an involuntary bankruptcy against three LaRouche-identified companies, including two publications with a combined circulation of 250,000 readers. In a highly illegal ``hearing'' at which no stenographic records were made and where no attorneys representing the three entities were present, the judge was convinced to sign the seizure order. The next day, U.S. marshals padlocked and seized the same offices that had been raided six months earlier. Three years later, the same federal bankruptcy court judge, after a full trial of the bankrupty action, reversed his initial ruling and threw out the involuntary bankruptcy, ruling that the government had filed the petitions in ``bad faith'' and had committed ``fraud upon the court.'' A higher court upheld that ruling, and the government chose not to appeal. Why appeal it? The damage had already been done! With the bankrupting of the four LaRouche companies, federal prosecutors and FBI agents stepped in to advise thousands of LaRouche supporters that millions of dollars in loans they had made to those companies would not be paid--unless they cooperated with the government railroad of LaRouche. The claim that money would be paid back if the ``victims'' played ball with the government prosecutors was another Big Lie. Once the printing presses were shut down, and the publications discontinued under the government trustees, the companies were penniless. No money could be paid back--because the government had taken the viable, successful publishing operations and driven them into the ground: first, through intensive ADL propaganda branding LaRouche a monster, and next through the fraudulent bankruptcy proceeding itself. In the majority of cases, the LaRouche supporters knew it was the government, not LaRouche, that was behind the bankruptcy and their personal losses. The former supporters who did succumb to the government pressure tactics were invariably those whose families, bankers, friends, etc. were already sucked in by the ADL-CAN dirty war. ADL Clearinghouse Government prosecutors admitted under oath that Mira Lansky Boland of the ADL had served as the ``clearinghouse'' for trial witnesses in all of the federal and state prosecutions of LaRouche and his associates. Lansky worked from the outset with Don Moore, the Loudoun deputy sheriff who authored and signed the fraudulent bankruptcy affidavit. In September 1992, Don Moore was arrested by the FBI for his role in a plot to kidnap two LaRouche supporters. Moore was working for the ADL-allied Cult Awareness Network in the kidnapping scheme. That case is scheduled to go to trial at the end of 1992. When in December 1988, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia convicted LaRouche and six associates on conspiracy fraud charges stemming from the government and ADL-instigated bankruptcies, Mira Lansky Boland was the only nongovernment official to attend the ``victory party'' at the prosecutors' office. The conviction had been won on the basis of a pretrial order by Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr. forbidding defense attorneys from informing the jury that the government had been responsible for the bankruptcy. Back in 1987, Bryan had been the judge who had initially upheld that bankruptcy action. At the sentencing of LaRouche and the others in January 1989, Judge Bryan boasted that Boston trial Judge Robert Keeton ``owed him a cigar'' for ensuring that LaRouche and the others were so quickly convicted and shipped off to prison. The jailing of LaRouche in what amounted to a thoroughly unjust life sentence did not end the ADL drive to destroy LaRouche and his political movement. The Commonwealth of Virginia, as part of the ADL's Get LaRouche dirty war, had joined in the feeding frenzy by indicting over 20 LaRouche associates on state charges stemming from the identical bankruptcy scheme. In a series of trials in Roanoke, Virginia, the ADL was caught red-handed in a judge-buying effort. State Judge Clifford Weckstein, a political protege of Virginia ADL chief Murray Janus and other top state ADL figures, was provided with a full collection of ADL smear sheets on LaRouche by the league. In a series of back and forth letters released by Weckstein in the trial of one of the LaRouche defendants, it was revealed that Janus and other local ADL officials had mooted they would back Weckstein for a seat on the Virginia State Supreme Court. The implication that his handling of the LaRouche prosecutions would be crucial to his future career on the bench was apparently not lost on the judge. Michael Billington, a LaRouche associate who had already served over two years in federal prison as the result of the Alexandria federal case, was sentenced by Weckstein to 77 years in state prison on patently phony loan fraud charges.