Quinde, Herbert. Affidavit. Loudoun County VA, January 20, 1992. 28 pages.

Herb Quinde, a reporter for EIR, filed this affidavit in support of LaRouche's motion for release from federal prison. Quinde describes his interviews with participants in meetings held from 1983-84 at the residence of New York financier John Train. About 25 spooks, fat cats, and so-called "independent" journalists and researchers, attended to discuss anti-LaRouche strategy and then agreed to keep the meetings secret. In past years I've been critical of the LaRouche organization, but after looking at how he was taken down, I'm beginning to wonder if the cure isn't worse than the disease.

These meetings included an astounding range of participants. According to the affidavit, leftist Chip Berlet was at a 1983 meeting with Dennis King and Russ Bellant, and the presence of these three was financed by John Rees, who introduced Berlet to Richard Mellon Scaife. Dennis King's funding for his anti-LaRouche book was arranged at this meeting by this network of anti- Communists (King acknowledges his funding in his book). Patricia Lynch, then with NBC, was there preparing for her assault on LaRouche. On the spook side we had Roy Godson attending, and a retired James Angleton helping out on the sidelines. The ADL's Mira Boland was at a 1984 meeting. Why all the fuss? In the early 1980s, LaRouche was cordial with certain members of the National Security Council, and it seems that his anti-contra politics soon threatened an emerging Reagan strategy in Central America. -- D.Brandt

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