| to learn that our Central Intelligence Agency had subsidized on the left-wing National Student Association to the extent of $3,000,000, and that some of this money had been used to send American college students to international student gatherings. An interesting footnote to this is provided by another of Alfred Kohlberg's ventures into international relations this time by means of an informal organization informally established. ----In 1959 he was approached by Herbert Romerstein, who had done some work for him previously. A huge international Communists rally called the Seventh World Youth Festival was scheduled to be held in Vienna in the summer of that year and Romerstein got the idea of attending with a small group. The gathering was the first of its kind ever to be held outside the Iron Curtain and this gave non-Communists a chance to participate. ----Kohlberg liked the idea and took the initiative in raising a fund of approximately $10,000 to send Romerstein an seven others to Vienna. When the festival opened, approximately 17,000 people were present. Of these roughly 400 were Americans, and of the Americana group approximately a hundred were "sponsored" by the U.S> Government, presumably by the CIA. However, it is doubtful that the entire delegation of government-sponsored U.S. students provided as much anti-Communist propaganda as the handful subsidized by Kohlberg. ----One of Romerstein's projects was to have 2,000 pamphlets printed en route in Germany, addressed to the youths attending the festival. These pamphlets, printed in German, English, Chinese, and Russian, contained a heavy charge of the usual Communist cliches, as camouflage. But in addition they stressed something that was anathema to the Reds -- freedom. The pamphlets exhorted the youths attending the festival to fight for freedom for all peoples, including Hungarians and Tibetans. When the commissars running the festival learned of the hoax they were furious. Indignantly the hand-picked "United States delegations" (not those sponsored by the U.S. Government) condemned the pamphlets in a statement to the press. One revealing sentence of this declared: "From whom and with what authority do the authors and disseminators [sic] of this particular piece of ill-meaning literature speak?" ----A small riot took place when the big parade of August 2nd was about to begin. Kohlberg's delegates at that point unfurled banners reading "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet," and " What About Soviet Imperialism?" This was too much for the comrades. The New York Times of August 3rd told how the small group was beaten up. Charles W. Wiley, one of them, was knocked to the ground by Communist "enforcers" and his wife Katina, seven months pregnant, was cut and bruised. Thanks to the prompt action of Austrian policemen there were no serious injuries, and the little band was rescued from the furious Reds. ----As for the larger group from America, present under government auspices, their activities were considerably more genteel and refined, as befitted ladies and gentlemen of liberal persuasion. The caused the Communists no trouble at all. One of the Kohlberg group told me with amusement of their attitude. ----"They made it plain that they deplored our actions, which they insisted were undignified and not the proper way to build friendship and understanding." ----The Communists leaders made a morerealistic | appraisal of the propaganda deficit that had been incurred. In a New York Times story dated October 26, 1959, under the headline "Reds Displeased With Red Fete," several reasons were given for their failure. A special eleven-member evaluating committee, comprised of top Communist Party officials, leveled strong criticism a the festival committee for their "underestimation of the effectiveness of opposition groups and individuals, both in their influence on delegates and in their criticism of the Communist aims of the festival. ----At the time of those two Communist World Youth Festivals, Herbert Romerstein was not working with the CIA, which had organized a leftist American youth representation at the festivals. On the contrary, Herbert Romerstein was a very active member of the conservative American students group that fought effectively against the Communists. ----And so, again, I can understand why the Communist totalitarian followers of Lyndon LaRouche hate Herbert Romerstein, one of the most articulate and effective enemies of communism in this country. But why does Liberty Lobby, which says it is patriotic and anti-Communist, tell such lies about him? ----These examples are typical of the sorts of charges and smears leveled against John Rees and Herbert Romerstein and other anti-Communists. It would take a book to examine, analyze, and refute all of them. But all are equally inaccurate, distorted, and untrue. ----These articles appearing in the publications of the leftists LaRouche clique and in Liberty Lobby's Spotlight attacking this Congressman and other active anti-Communist make clear a strange relations ship between the supposedly anti-Communists Liberty Lobby and the Communist National Caucus of Labor Committees/U.S. Labor Party/National Democratic Policy Committee. ----In one of the publications of the LaRouche clique called the New Democratic Policy Committee Bulletin, and subtitled "LaRouche Challenges 'Spike Hoax,'" LaRouche describes the relationship between his organization and the Soviet KGB. LaRouche said: ----Once Soviet circles judged that my associates and I were tied to top circles of the U.S. intelligence community, both KGB and other Soviet agencies began dropping messages for U.S. intelligence community information into our laps. We became, in that sense, like the spooks' letter-box drop, the proverbial hole in the third oak tree from the corner. Since all of our electronic and mail communications have been under total surveillance of the National Security Agency, any message we received was automatically delivered immediately to both relevant and irrelevant elements of the U.S> intelligence community within minutes or hours, without any further effort on our part. This activity supplemented our own intelligence evaluations work which was routinely made available to the intelligence community through the relevant publications of my associates and myself. | ----Despite its many glaring inaccuracies, LaRouche's statement raises some interesting questions. ----First though, the inaccuracies include the allegation that the National Security Agency was monitoring LaRouche's communications. This is clearly untrue. No U.S. Government agency has monitored any of the LaRouche organization's communications or any other of the activities of the LaRouchians since the FBI closed their case on the group in 1976. I believe that the FBI erred in closing its investigation of this violence-prone radical crackpot group. ----The other inaccuracy is that somehow the U.S. intelligence agencies take seriously the "intelligence information" provided by this crackpot extremist group. They most assuredly do not. ----But what appears to be true is that the KGB has fed information to the LaRouche clique, and that that KGB disinformation found its way into the propaganda publications of the National Caucus of Labor Committees/U.S. Labor Party. ----Analysis of the LaRouche/U.S. Labor Party publications indicates that on almost every major international issue, the LaRouche clique comes out on the Soviet side of the discussion. ----Furthermore, LaRouche's admission that there is a close relationship between the LaRouchians and the KGB has been confirmed by other sources, including other leaders of the LaRouche cult who have boasted of their close relationships with persons in the Soviet U.N. mission. A substantial percentage of the Soviet U.N. mission personnel are KGB officers. ----If Liberty Lobby and its publication, Spotlight, intend to continue to claim to be anti-Communist, it is incumbent for them to explain why they ally themselves with Lyndon LaRouche's Communists, and why they spend their time attacking those on the front line of the fight against America's Communists enemies. ----Over the years, Liberty Lobby has attacked many of the most active anti-Communists and conservatives in America, including Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, and many distinguished men and women now serving in President Reagan's Cabinet. ----In fact, it is clear that Liberty Lobby is not really anti-Communist. It is an anti-Semitic organization pretending to be patriotic. In fact the leaders of Liberty Lobby target as their enemies all anti-Communists who stand up against terrorism carried out by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the lunatic regime in Libya. ----In sum Liberty Lobby is a fraud, and organization so captive of its pathological hatreds that it prefers to ally itself with the Communists against those who defend America against its enemies. Page 1 Page 2 Page 4 | ||
