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Kissinger: A British Agent of Influence "At the PFIAB meeting today, [name redacted] raised the sub- Although Kissinger has been historically a close ally of the most —_ject of the activities of the US Labor Party and Lyndon LaRouche. rabid factions inside Israel and within the Zionist establishment in He noted that he and a number of other Americans in public life the United States, his primary allegiance throughout his political had been the subject of repeated harassment by LaRouche and career has been to the British Crown and its intelligence and finan- | wondered whether the FBI had a basis for investigating these cial tentacles. activities under the guidelines or otherwise. A number of mem- On 10 May 1982, addressing a celebration at the Royal Institute _ bers present, including Edward Bennett Williams, raised the ques- for International Affairs at Chatham House in London, Kissinger _ tion of the sources for these US Labor Party activities. In view of boasted that throughout his career in the Nixon and Ford adminis- _ the large amounts obviously being expended worldwide, the ques- trations, he had always been closer to the British Foreign Office tion was raised whether the US Labor Party might be funded by than to his American colleagues, and had taken all his major poli- _ hostile intelligence agencies." (Emphasis added.) cy leads from London. Kissinger set up the international ‘consult- The PFIAB inquiry led in early 1983 to the opening of a formal ing firm’ Kissinger Associates, in partnership with Britain's Peter FBI investigation into Lyndon LaRouche and his associates. That Lord Carrington, shortly after he delivered that Chatham House inquiry provided the legal cover for an all-out offensive to drive lecture. LaRouche and his associates out of business and into prison. The Chatham House is a successor to the old British East India “guidelines” under which the unconstitutional 'Get LaRouche’ Company, and serves as the think-tank and foreign intelligence | campaign was conducted, were contained in a little-known White arm of the British Crown. The roots of Chatham House are to be House document, Executive Order 12333, signed by President found in Britain's nineteenth-century Opium War policy. Reagan in December 1981. EO 12333 gave the FBI and US intel- Kissinger is no stranger to the world of international dope traf- _ligence agencies a broad mandate to spy on and conduct covert ficking. The 1978 edition of Dope, Inc. told how Kissinger played —_ actions against American citizens deemed to be opponents of the a pivotal role in covering up the involvement of the People's incumbent administration. EO 12333 also allowed these agencies Republic of China in the South East Asian Golden Triangle heroin _to use private citizens as their agents in carrying out these opera- trade in the early 1970s when he was shuttling between __ tions. At this point, the ADL became an integral component of the Washington and Beijing playing the ‘China card’. Tens of thou- government's ‘Get LaRouche' task force. sands of American Gls who became addicted to drugs in South The ADL and Kissinger found their most willing collaborators East Asia during the Vietnam War should inside the Reagan-Bush administration hold Kissinger at least partially responsible among the spooks and White House staffers for their habits. Later, during the 1980s, involved in the illegal, secret Iran-Contra through Kissinger Associates, Henry became program. Once again, the pawprints of a business partner of some of the same Dope, Inc. were everywhere. Chinese opium lords he protected from American drug enforcement for over a decade. Kissinger was furious that LaRouche and his associates widely circulated the official text of his Chatham House speech to docu- ment that Kissinger was a loyal asset of the British Crown. He went head-to-head with LaRouche over Reagan administration poli- cy. By 1982, a major battle had broken out within the administration over the emerging Ibero-American debt crisis, a crisis of which LaRouche had been warning senior White House officials for months. A confrontation evolved between LaRouche and Kissinger over whether Washington would negotiate an equitable solution to the debt crisis, on a LaRouche Objects to Contra Policy In the first years of the Reagan administra- tion, LaRouche had collaborated with sever- al senior administration officials in the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative and other national security policies. During the 1982-83 period, LaRouche and his colleagues had been quietly approached and asked to also cooperate with the admin- istration's effort to support the Contra guer- rillas fighting to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. LaRouche warned the Reagan administration that the Contras were a wholly owned asset of international gun- and drug-trafficking organisations and that the entire anti-Sandinista program—and the government-to-government basis, or back . Reagan administration's widely publicised International Monetary Fund policies aimed anti-drug efforts along with it—were at further looting our hemispheric neighbours. doomed to disaster if the administration went ahead with its Kissinger's own efforts, aided by the ADL's so-called Civil Contra support program. As an alternative plan of action, Rights Division, were augmented in January 1983 by a Kissinger- | LaRouche proposed that the administration focus its Central solicited intervention on the part of several members of President | American efforts on an all-out war on drugs which would, among Ronald Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, led by __ other things, expose Soviet, Cuban and Sandinista involvement in Edward Bennett Williams, David Abshire and Leo Cheme. The the dope trade. PFIAB members demanded that the FBI launch an international By this time, with pressure from Wall Street and the Zionist investigation of Lyndon LaRouche, in effect claiming that lobby, Henry Kissinger had been named to head up the Reagan LaRouche's exposé of Kissinger's record of selling out the United administration's Blue Ribbon Commission on Central American States to British, Soviet and Dope, Inc. interests was somehow Policy. A one-time paid employee of the ADL, Carl Gershman, “subversive”. had been named as the chief of the administration's National Government documents catalogue the role of Kissinger's PFIAB Endowment for Democracy (NED), a covert operations funding cronies. A memorandum from Webster to his chief deputy, Oliver agency housed in the State Department's US Information Agency. Revell, dated 12 January 1983, stated in part: The NED was at the centre of the secret support for the Contras. 32 ¢ NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995