U. S. sources told the Washington Post in 1985 that the LaRouche organization had assembled a worldwide network of government and military contacts, and that his researchers sometimes supplied information to government officials.

" LaRouche describes it in another location as " a new Whig association ," adding that an important objective of the party was to fight against " the attempted revival of the ' preventive nuclear war ' organization, the revived Committee on the Present Danger.

A two-part article in The New York Times in 1979 by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery alleged that LaRouche had turned it — at that point with 1, 000 members in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America — into an extreme-right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members.

The National Caucus of Labor Committees ( NCLC ) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who has sometimes described it as a " philosophical association ".

It was originally a New Left organization influenced by Trotskyist ideas as well as those of other Marxists such as Rosa Luxemburg, but opposed other New Left organizations which LaRouche said were dominated by the Ford Foundation, Institute for Policy Studies and Herbert Marcuse.

In fact, however, the Communist Party, Workers World Party, the Socialist Workers Party and the independent " Movement " left had all condemned the LaRouche organization as fascistic during Operation Mop Up.

This was after Mop Up was over, but while the LaRouche organization was still engaging in physical intimidation against black activists and West Coast leftists.

Rees also criticized Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement saying the organization has " taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party ," and a cult-like " blind obedience.

" LaRouche describes it in another location as " a new Whig association ," adding that an important objective of the party was to fight against " the attempted revival of the ' preventive nuclear war ' organization, the revived Committee on the Present Danger.

Blum wrote that LaRouche had turned the U. S. Labor Party — with 1, 000 members listed in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America — into an extreme-right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members.

The LaRouche organization asserts that this formulation was specifically tailored to enable FBI " active measures " against LaRouche under Executive Order 12333, which permits such measures if a political movement receives foreign funding.

Beginning October 6, 1986, the Leesburg, Virginia, headquarters of the LaRouche organization was searched in a coordinated, two-day raid by hundreds of officers of the FBI, IRS, other federal agencies, and Virginia state authorities, supported by armored cars and a helicopter.

The LaRouche organization asserts that it has proof, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, which shows that the purpose of the bankruptcy was simply to shut down the affected entities rather than to collect fines.

" At the time of the mistrial, a spokesperson said that the Constitutional Defense Fund, a LaRouche organization, had spent over $ 2 million on legal and administrative expenses.

LaRouche and his lawyers asserted that the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) sought to destroy his organization, and that the prosecution was the result of a conspiracy between the ADL, the government and the media.

They warn that the LaRouche movement is " strongly pro-republican " and that they have received reports that LaRouche's organization is being used by the Zionists.

In 2004, Aglaja Beyes-Corleis, who left the LaRouche movement in the early 1990s after being involved with it for 16 years, told the BBC that people were drawn into the organization without really wanting to be, and that conferences involved what the BBC said was immense psychological duress.

According to The Independent, Cramer told Mrs. Duggan that the LaRouche organization was a news agency, and said, " We cannot take responsibility for the actions of individuals.

The coroner ruled that the LaRouche organization be recognized as an interested party, and that the family's evidence would have to be disclosed to them.

The political consultant who was hired by the LaRouche organization to collect signatures for the PANIC initiative was convicted of fraud in October 1988.

The lawyer, Brian Gettings, doubted Billington's competence and told the court that he believed LaRouche was making the decisions in the case rather than his client.

She writes that The New York Times obtained a tape recording in 1973 of the so-called de-programming of a 26-year-old British activist, Christopher White, who LaRouche believed had been programmed to kill him.

LaRouche and his associates considered Frankhouser to be a valuable intelligence contact, and took his links to racist and anti-Semitic groups to be a cover for his intelligence work.

Frankhouser played into these expectations, misrepresenting himself as a conduit for communications to LaRouche from " Mr. Ed ", an alleged CIA contact, who did not exist.

Frankhouser warned LaRouche in 1977 that, according to his claimed CIA contact " Mr. Ed ", he was being considered for assassination, and introduced him to Mitchell WerBell III, a noted Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) operative, mercenary, operator of a counterterrorism school, accused drug trafficker, firearms engineer, and arms dealer who said he had an ongoing connection to the CIA.

Frankhouser cultivated a contact with a media source in New York, enabling him to tip off LaRouche about upcoming stories before they became public.

In 1979, Frankhouser was also placed on the payroll as a security consultant, having convinced LaRouche that he was actively connected to U. S. intelligence agencies.

A government official later said that Frankhouser was one of the few people who could call LaRouche directly.

Frankhouser became a security consultant for LaRouche after convincing him that he was actively connected to U. S. intelligence agencies.

In U. S. v. Frankhauser, Frankhouser testified that he and LaRouche security employee Forrest Lee Fick had invented a connection to the CIA in order to justify his $ 700 a week salary.

When LaRouche found out about the grand jury investigation, he reportedly told Frankhouser to get the CIA to quash it.

Frankhouser told LaRouche that the CIA wanted him to destroy evidence and hide witnesses.

Frankhouser claimed that on another occasion LaRouche sent him to Boston to check on the grand jury investigation.

The trial of LaRouche and his six co-defendants, U. S. v. LaRouche Campaign, began on December 17, 1987, with the jury that had been picked in September, before the Frankhouser trial.

In 1984 it gave Lyndon LaRouche 3. 84 %, which might be the highest percentage he received in the nation in that election.

LaRouche wrote that many GIs feared they would be asked to support British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, and that prospect was " revolting to most of us.

LaRouche acknowledged in 1980 that his followers impersonated reporters and others, saying it had to be done for his security.

LaRouche stated that " the Cox Committee's report is a scientifically illiterate hoax " and " The Cox Committee's report itself contains sufficient crucial evidence to reveal its claims of alleged scientific espionage by China to be intrinsically fraudulent.

If only LaRouche were in power, all the world's troublesperhaps even the rats problem in New York Citywould be resolved swiftly.

LaRouche said banks should not be bailed out, but be placed in receivership by the state.

They may not necessarily be in contact with one another: " From their standpoint, conspirators are proceeding by instinct ," LaRouche has said.

According to one candidate, supporters viewed LaRouche as " the greatest political leader and economist of the 20th century, and they're proud to be associated with him.

It requested information on the funding of LaRouche and the U. S. Labor Party, including whether the U. S. Labor Party might be funded by hostile intelligence agencies.

While surrounded, LaRouche sent a telegram to President Ronald Reagan saying that an attempt to arrest him " would be an attempt to kill me.

LaRouche had asserted the outtakes could be used to impeach Fick's testimony.

In Bakker's view, " to say LaRouche was a little paranoid would be like saying that the Titanic had a little leak.

Prior to the primaries the Chair of the Democratic National Party, Don Fowler, ruled that LaRouche " is not to be considered a qualified candidate for nomination of the Democratic Party for President " on account of LaRouche's " expressed political beliefs, including beliefs which are explicidy racist and anti-Semitic, and otherwise utterly contrary to the fundamental beliefs ... of the Democratic Party and ... on his past activities including exploitation of and defrauding contributors and voters.

In 1999, however, a court ruled that the Democratic National Committee had the right to keep LaRouche from electing delegates to the Democratic National Convention, based on a party requirement that a Democratic nominee must be a registered voter.

LaRouche, as a convicted felon, is not eligible to be a registered voter in the state of Virginia, where he lives.

" According to Witt, LaRouche has been concerned since the 1970s that his members might be brainwashed by intelligence agencies to harm him.

White complains about a terrible pain in his arm, and LaRouche can be heard saying, " That's not real.

The Duggans ' barrister, Neil Sheldon, said there were one or two documents the Duggans would argue could not be shared with the LaRouche movement to protect the identity of their source.