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A glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes in the global illegal drug trade ... ... and what happened when Lyndon LaRouche tried to expose the truth. FEBRUARY -MARCH 1995 Seventeen years ago, the first edition of Dope, Inc. was released. commissione.d. by I anti-drug American state.sman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr, it was the first book to reveal that the illegal drug cartel was becoming the world's biggest busines's; to name the causes of the war 'Dope, Inc.' has waged against every nation in the world; and to reveal the names of the 'untouchable' figures who protect it, including the European monarchs, whom our HoHywood media have sold to the public as veritable deities. Even before the first copies of tbe first edition of Dope, lnc.-Britain's Opium War Against the United States, rolled off the press in December 1978, leaders of the narcotics enterprise were busy trying to stop LaRouche. Beginning in summer 1978, the Aoti Defamation League (ADL) launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to label LaRoudle and his political associates as "anti-Semites" for daring to expose the involvement of gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Zionist lobby leaders like Edgar Bronfman and Max Fisher in the dope business. LaRouche also identified the powerful !British Crown bankers as partners in the dope trade, along with the Jewish crime syndicate. The ADL's 'anti-Semitic' smear against LaRouche was pure 'big lie' terrorism in the tra dition of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Everyone who bothered to look into the matter knew that LaRouche's political caree.r had been built around his discoveries in physical economy, and that by 1978 he had written hundreds of articles and se.veral books exposing the fascist economic austerity policies behind the Nazi holocaust which killcd millions of Jews and other victims. The ADL's bizarre slanders promptcd EIR's investiga tors to scrutinise the history of the supposed 'Jewish civil rights' organisation. The probe turned up a 70-year l~acy of intimate ADL tics with Jewish gangsters, from Meyer Lansky and his 'Our Crowd' sponsor Arnold Rothstein, to more contcmporary Dope, Inc. fig.ures such as Max Fisher, Edgar BronEman, Edmond Safra, Meshulam Riklis, the ADL's own national chairman, Kenneth Bialkin, and the lawyer for the Medellin Cartel's 'American connecti.on', Robert Vesco. We also discovered that much of the ADL's financial backing carnes from le.ading families of the Anglo-American estab lishment, whose fortunes tracc back to the British banks and trading companies that ran the opium clipper ships in and out of China in the last century. To this day, the ADL holds the key to the corruption of the American political andi judi cial system, a cQrruption that was bought and paid for by the proceeds of the intcrnational dope trade. Lyndon laRouche was railroaded to prison on a train built by drug money and stoked by government officials and private agencies on the pad of Dope, Inc. By the summer of 1982, the ADL was joined in its 'Get LaRouche' efforts by Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State and recipient of the ADL's Man of the Year award. Kissinger launched a vendetta to get the federal government to shut dowp the LaRouche movement. The case of LaRouche associate, Lewis du Pont Smith, illustrates the desperation of the efforts by Kissinger and the 'Get LaRouche' task force to stop thle LaRouche movement's organising of a national war on dr-ugs. An heir to the du Pont family industrial fortune, Smith contributed US$2l2,OOO to the LaRouche movement in 1985, the bulk of it for the publication of the second edition of this book. Within months, Smith's parents-advised by none other than Kissinger-had secured a judgment in the Chester County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, depriving their son of control of his ,inheritance and suspending his Ibasic human rights-such as the right to sign c0ntracts and be mar ried-<1n the grounds that Smith was "mentally incomp.etent". Smith's is the first case in American history in which an individuaJ has been declared incompetent by the courts on the basis of political affiliation. NEXUS • 31