- Hi Jeff...
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- Some of your listeners have asked us about alleged links
between Lyndon LaRouche and the Rand Corp. analyst who went to the Pentagon
to declare war on Saudi Arabia. On Sunday, ABC-TV and National Public Radio
were still portraying it as the week's most important media event.
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- Over the past three decades, the "Get LaRouche Task
Force" has repeatedly wielded toilet brushes such as Laurent Murawiec
to smear Mr. LaRouche. We have often made those attacks backfire by diligent
counter-intelligence into their authorship. That brought us the famous
1978 best-seller Dope, Inc., and today, the dossier which follows.
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- I thank you for posting, on 8-6 "The Electable
LaRouche." Many of your readers have read it and distributed it. We
and they have now circulated almost three million of these leaflets. Senators
Lieberman and McCain have already lost much of their power to bludgeon
President Bush into an Iraq War. If we can distribute five million by Labor
Day, the Imperial War Party will be defeated. Those who would like to get
in on the action, or get more of our intelligence, should call 1-888-347-3258.
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- Thanks,
- Mark Sonnenblick
- Executive Intelligence Review
- www.larouchepub.com/eiw
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- EIR Releases Dossier On
- Richard Perle's `French Expert'
- Even RAND Repudiates Anti-Saudi Murawiec
- By EIR's Special Correspondent
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- On Aug. 5, a front-page article in the {Washington Post}
reported a recent secret meeting of the Defense Policy Board, the advisory
body to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, which is run by suspected
Israeli agent Richard Perle. According to {Post} reporter Thomas Ricks,
the meeting not only featured violent attacks against America's top military
commanders (see EIR, Aug. 9), who almost unanimously oppose a U.S. military
invasion of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It also featured a background
briefing by a RAND Corp. so-called "senior analyst" named Laurent
Murawiec, which called on the Bush Administration to launch an all-out
war on the House of Saud.
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- Within 24 hours, the Murawiec briefing, which described
Saudi Arabia under the current regime as "the kernel of evil, the
prime mover, the most dangerous opponent" of the United States in
the Middle East, had been denounced by Secretary of State Colin Powell,
by State Department spokesmen, by the White House, and ultimately by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (who initially was more incensed about the "leak"
of the Defense Policy Board meeting, than about the insanity of the subject
matter) as having {nothing} to do with U.S. policy.
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- The dossier provided below explains who this anti-Saudi
briefer really is.
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- Murawiec, the man that most wire services are referring
to as the "RAND Corp. senior analyst," is a notorious "Mr.
Ex"--sporting a curriculum vitae that has so many references to his
"former" positions that one must recall Edgar Allan Poe's hilarious
story of the Civil War's "Man Who Was All Used Up." In brief,
except for his academic credentials, Murawiec's resumé is a list
of "used to be's." He "used to be" with GeoPol Services,
S.A., a money-laundering-linked firm in Switzerland; and is an "ex"
adviser to the French Defense Ministry; and "formerly" wrote
for {Middle East Quarterly}; and "used to be" with the International
Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
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- A couple of "ex" affiliations Murawiec omits
are his family history as "ex" Trotskyists, and that he is an
"ex" affiliate of {Executive Intelligence Review,} until he developed
hysterics in 1986 about {EIR'}s exposé of the crimes of Israeli
general, war criminal, and now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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- What Murawiec {is not}, is an established "senior
analyst," with any credentials worth mentioning. For example, the
RAND Corp. website reveals 17 references to his name--16 of which refer
to a single book on a conference in France, which he edited with another
RAND analyst. The tiny book--more a pamphlet--sells for $9.00 on Amazon.com.
What he {is,} is a propagandist for war criminal Ariel Sharon.
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- And the RAND Corporation could soon be part of the "formerly"
list.
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- `Not Our Dreck' -
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- On Aug. 7, {EIR} obtained a copy of a RAND Corp. e-mail
that completely distances itself from Murawiec and his 24-slide Power Point
presentation attacking Saudi Arabia. Within hours of the White House denunciation
of Murawiec's assault on the Saudis, one David Egner, director of Rand
External Communications, had sent out a an e-mail that was quoted in the
{Washington Post, Newsday,} and many other publications.
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- The e-mail says: "Subject: RAND statement
From David Egner, director, RAND External Communications.
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- "The briefing prepared by Laurent Murawiec was not
a RAND research product. It represents one personal contribution to an
ongoing policy debate on which there is a wide range of views within RAND
and elsewhere. The opinions and conclusions expressed are those of the
author and should not be interpreted as representing those of RAND or any
of the agencies or others sponsoring its research. Neither Laurent Murawiec
nor RAND received payment for the briefing."
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- Others--especially U.S. government agencies (which also
fund the RAND Corp.) were even quicker to put wide distance between the
administration and Murawiec.
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- According to the {Washington Post}'s military correspondent,
Thomas Ricks, who broke the story of the Defense Policy Board's July 10
meeting, "State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker said that Powell,
in his conversation with Prince Saud Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister,
reassured the Saudi government that the Rand analyst's briefing does not
`reflect the views of the President of the United States or of the U.S.
government.'
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- "U.S.-Saudi relations are `excellent,'" Reeker
continued. "We share a broad array of interests, including a common
vision of peace, stability and prosperity in the region," he said.
That assertion contrasts somewhat with comments made privately by administration
officials, that the Saudi response to terrorism since Sept. 11 has been
mixed at best and notably less vigorous than that of some other countries.
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- Ricks added, "In his own statement, Saud said, `It
is unfortunate that there are people in some quarters who are trying to
cast doubt and undermine the solid and historic ties between our two countries.
I am confident they will not succeed.'"
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- A Serious Blunder
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- Murawiec's briefing on Saudi Arabia was no isolated event.
After all, ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Richard Perle and other members of
the "Wolfowitz cabal," who have been plotting against the White
House, and President Bush, have been demanding an aggressive attack on
Saudi Arabia. Perle's network of think-tanks, especially the Hudson Institute,
founded by neo-Malthusian Max Singer, even demands--as did Murawiec--that
the U.S. military occupy the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
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- While not an isolated attack on Islam, the Murawiec briefing
has a unique feature. It is being used--by the same circles targetting
Saudi Arabia and the other Middle Eastern countries that reject the U.S.
drive for an Iraq war, to attempt to smear Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a
candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 2004, is
leading an international mobilization to stop that Clash of Civilizations
war drive.
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- The first sign of this smear campaign--attempting to
link LaRouche to the Richard Perle and Murawiec obscenities against the
Arab world--emerged on the afternoon of Aug. 7, when the Microsoft-owned
{Slate} magazine posted an article called, "The PowerPoint That Rocked
the Pentagon--The LaRouchie Defector Who's Advising the Defense Establishment
on Saudi Arabia."
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- Following the posting of the {Slate} article, LaRouche
commented:
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- "In the aftermath the {Washington Post}'s strange
report of Richard Perle-sponsored Pentagon event, featuring one Laurent
Murawiec, from about a month earlier, the ripened nuts of the season have
begun to fall from the trees. The first observed instance of what will
probably be a hail of fallen fruit of obscure ancestry, was a certain Jack
Shafer, who posted a childish piece datelined slate.msn.com August 7, 2002,
at 4:49 P.M.
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- "The notable feature of Shafer's concoction is that
he has the same profile as Murawiec, minus what are Murawiec's actual French
academic credentials. Shafer appears to be owned by the same folk who own
Murawiec, but is, doubtless, much more poorly paid for his maliciously
reckless disregard for truth. Perhaps that is Shafer's gripe."
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- As the following dossier shows, the Perle gang is scraping
the bottom of the cesspool for "analysts" if they depend on "Mr.
Ex" Murawiec to motivate their war plans.
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- But there is clearly more to the story.
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- `Saudi Briefing' Fraud
- The Sordid Sponsors Of Perle's `French Expert'
- by Our Special Correspondent
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- From the mid-1970s to 1990, the now-notorious Laurent
Murawiec worked out of the Wiesbaden, Germany office of the publication
founded by Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, {Executive Intelligence
Review (EIR}). At the latest, beginning in 1986, Murawiec covertly began
working with a Swiss-based network of intelligence-connected weapons traffickers,
whose London and Washington controllers were coordinating, that year, a
high-intensity, international campaign of judicial attacks and dirty tricks
against LaRouche and his associates. Murawiec was one of their catches.
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- Murawiec first showed his emerging corruption when he
opposed the March 1986 publication of {EIR}'s thoroughly documented special
report, {Moscow's Secret Weapon: Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Mafia}. This
126-page report highlighted Sharon's U.S. organized-crime-connected backers
who ran the infamous Israeli spy in the U.S. Defense Department, Jonathan
Pollard. Highly classified material stolen by Pollard was used in Israeli
"U.S. secrets-for-Jewish-emigres" trades with the kind of Soviet
KGB elements who later grouped around the financial oligarchs plundering
post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s.
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- By the late 1980s, on command, Murawiec was running an
internal disruption operation within the Wiesbaden {EIR} office--supervised
by the same people who promoted his subsequent career when his presence
in that {EIR} office became overtly untenable, in 1990.
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- Monsieur Murawiec went from money from then-fugitive
Marc Rich's Paris-based Marc Rich Foundation; to a dubious strategic affairs
consultancy, {{GeoPol}}, hosted by a narcotics money-laundering Geneva,
Switzerland bank; to a think-tank career in France promoting Pentagon Office
of Net Assessments (ONA) digital cyberwar scenarios; to his posting to
the Rand Corporation in Washington, and his Richard Perle-organized debutante's
public appearance at Perle's American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in December
1999.
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- The Anti-Saudi Gambit-
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- Murawiec's current notoriety now permits us to divulge
not merely who wants to plunge the world into an era of Clash of Civilizations
war, but, how much that cabal has seen Lyndon LaRouche as its main opponent
to their "vision" of an America turned into a caricature of the
world's discarded imperial systems.
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- A pathetic, babbling turncoat, Murawiec has now been
moved center stage by Defense Policy Board chief Perle, in a high-stakes
effort to eliminate Saudi Arabia. The July 10 caper by Murawiec, and the
coverage of this caper by the Aug. 6 {Washington Post}, can only be seen
as testimony that it is exactly LaRouche who is now feared by Perle's allies,
as threatening to play a key role in extricating the U.S. government from
an escalating Middle East war.
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- In the early 1990s, Swiss intelligence sources reported
to {EIR} investigators working on the Murawiec case, that one of his Swiss-based
controllers, weapons trafficker Helmut Raiser, had attended a mysterious
1985 Vienna meeting suspected to be related to weapons trafficking.
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- Meeting with Raiser was Michael Glazebrook, Henry Kissinger's
personal security aide at his Kissinger Associates consultancy in New York
City; and one John Wood, now the CEO of a Defense Department weapons systems
integrator in northern Virginia, {Telos}. As we will show, Telos' Board
of Directors is a Who's Who of Richard Perle associates and of promoters
of Murawiec's Washington career. It was Raiser's Swiss nexus which set
Murawiec up in the GeoPol consultancy in late 1993.
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- Who's Who in GeoPol
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- The management of {GeoPol Services SA} in Geneva brought
together an eerie combination of shady "private banking," the
brokering of "unusual" international business contracts, international
arms trafficking, and suspected laundering of drug money. The GeoPol executives
are intertwined with the highest levels of the {{Iran-Contra}} and {{Iraq-gate}}
weapons trafficking of the 1980s. GeoPol must be viewed as a front for
dirty intelligence activities.
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- At GeoPol events and in its publications, Laurent Murawiec
is touted as its chief intellectual, lecturer, writer, editor, and office
secretary. But the sterile thinker Murawiec, far from shaping the firm's
policy, is simply carrying out the assignments given him by other GeoPol
executives. Murawiec, a French national, is viewed by some French intelligence
circles, for example, as being under the control of foreign intelligence
services. Aside from other references, they point to his (and his family's)
longtime association with French Communist Party operations, including
lengthy stays in Communist East Germany and Communist Czechoslovakia, and
his own past connections--like many Perle associates turned right-wing
military utopians of today--to international Trotskyist circles.
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- The president of GeoPol was {{Pierre Hafner}}, whose
primary business was as director of {{CBI Holding Geneva}}, the mother
company of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP). This was a merger of two
Geneva financial institutions, one of which, Trade Development Bank (TDB),
was "inherited" from Edmond Safra, whose banks come up in many
Iran-Contra investigations. The chairman of CBI-TDB Union Bancaire Privée
was {{Edgar De Piccioto}}, who was also on the board of {{George Soros'}}
Quantum Fund. Piccioto is a long-time business partner of Italian businessman-financier
{{Carlo De Benedetti}}, whose son, Rudolpho de Benedetti, is director of
CBI Holding Milano, Italy. The older de Benedetti is a silent partner of
the American fugitive from justice, Marc Rich.
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- Pardoned last year, Rich ran one of the largest commodity
trading companies in the world in Zug, Switzerland, implicated in numerous
Cold War-era, but East/West, oil-for-weapons deals, particularly around
the Iran-Iraq War. He was indicted in New York City in 1984 for massive
tax fraud, but fled to Zug.
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- Rich's Paris-based Marc Rich Foundation financed, in
the early 1990s, a book on the history of anti-Semitism in the United States
by French author Leon Poliakov. Poliakov credited Murawiec with being the
guiding inspiration for the Rich-financed book project. Murawiec wrote
a fraudulent chapter which attacked LaRouche as an anti-Semite, but where
the coward never mentioned his 16 years at {EIR}, nor any "personal"
observations. Instead, he chose as his source--and presumably, Poliakov's
"inspiration"--a 1989 book against LaRouche financed by the neo-conservative
Smith Richardson Foundation, and written by Dennis King.
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- This Marc Rich project was one of the early indications
of Murawiec's emerging career.
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- Murawiec's praise in the book for Irving Kristol, the
founder of the neo-conservative movement, speaks volumes for Murawiec's
own state of mind. Irving Kristol, like Richard Perle's professor Albert
Wohlstetter, was a former Trotskyist, who became something of an ideologue
for Wall Street's post-war shaping of American politics. Murawiec said
Kristol's career, still ongoing with the assistance of his Arab-bashing
son William Kristol, is proof of what a Jew can accomplish in the United
States.
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- Back in Geneva, the "flavor" of the GeoPol
milieu was made apparent on Nov. 28, 1994, when Geneva police raided the
Geneva offices of UBP, acting on the arrest, in Florida, the day before,
of UBP executive Jean Jacques Handali, on narcotics money-laundering charges.
Handali was subsequently convicted for laundering narcotics money into
accounts in the Geneva bank. Hafner's GeoPol Services SA was housed in
the same building raided by the police. Hafner himself has done jail time
for business frauds, something that Murawiec seems to have so far avoided.
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- {{Helmut Raiser}} of GeoPol's board is a German national
living in Zug, Switzerland. Raiser had been a senior manager at Germany's
{{Bohlen}} Industrie GmbH, mostly concerned with armament manufacturing.
He left the board of Bohlen Industries and its {{Wasag}} subsidiary in
1982 and went to Zug, Switzerland, two years before Marc Rich, until 1989
running the consulting firm {{Consen}}. While still maintaining strong
links with Bohlen Industries, which was a component of the European Explosives
Cartel which supplied billions of dollars of explosives to both sides of
the Iran-Iraq War, Raiser, >from Consen, directed a network of companies
in Switzerland, Austria, Monte Carlo, the United States, and Argentina.
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- The central project conducted through Consen was the
Condor II missile development program involving Argentina, Egypt, and Iraq,
and drawing on the technical expertise of West European high-technology
aerospace firms. Up to 1989, when it was aborted, an estimated $5 billion
flowed into the Condor II program, with Consen being the technical-administrative
and financial clearinghouse. With the knowledge of the George H.W. Bush
apparatus, money flowed from the Banco Nazionale del Lavoro {BNL} branch
in Atlanta to Raiser-controlled firms in Switzerland. This pumping of billions
of dollars worth of sophisticated armaments into the Middle East was perfectly
in line with British geopolitical goals during the 1980s first Gulf War
between Iran and Iraq. That policy merged into the second Gulf War in 1991,
to destroy Iraq as an emerging industrial state.
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- Finally, on GeoPol's board sits {{Elizabeth Kopp}} (nee
Ikle, a cousin to Pentagon "eminence grise" Fred Ikle), former
Justice Minister of Switzerland. She was forced to resign in 1988 after
she was caught tipping off her husband, {{Hans W. Kopp}}, to an ongoing
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) narcotics money-laundering investigation
targetting the company Shakarchi Trading, on whose board Hans Kopp sat.
Kopp, with {{Alfred Hartmann}} of the Swiss branch of the London {{Rothschild}}
banking house, was also implicated in the scandals of the Bank of Credit
and Commerce International (BCCI) and (BNL). Both BCCI and BNL were involved
in massive illicit arms trade, drug money-laundering, financing of terrorism,
and intelligence operations.
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- Murawiec, IISS, and Gerald Segal
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- One frequent propagandist for military confrontation
with North Korea and China was the London International Institute of Strategic
Studies' deputy director for Asian Affairs, the now deceased {{Gerald Segal}}.
Segal also promoted Murawiec's membership in IISS, an important part of
grooming the malleable Murawiec for future assignments.
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- Segal's confrontationism on North Korea must be seen
against the backdrop of his China policy, where he is a promoter of the
breakup of China. He is the author of the March 1994 IISS/Adelfi report,
"China Changes Shape: Regionalism and Foreign Policy." He wrote:
"If China is left to grow economically strong and more ruthlessly
nationalistic at the same time, it is likely to be far more difficult
for the outside world to deal with.... It may be that the only way to ensure
that China does not become more dangerous as it grows richer and stronger,
is to ensure that in practice, if not in law, there is {more than one China}
to deal with." Beijing's immediate response to the IISS report was
to declare Segal {persona non grata} in China. Murawiec has penned numerous
similar style attacks on China.
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- American John Wood, Raiser's 1985 confidant just before
the latter picked up Murawiec, went from a Swiss banking post to become,
in the early 1990s, CEO of Telos, a Department of Defense (DOD) subcontractor
for computer integration of weapons systems. Elisabeth Kopp's relative,
Fred Ikle, is Chairman of the Board of Telos. Ikle, along with the DOD
Office of Net Assessment's (ONA) aging Andy
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- Marshall, spans almost six decades of >architecting
U.S. strategic doctrine. Both he and Marshall first worked together at
the Rand Corporation in the 1950s. Marshall is known as the inventor of
the utopian "Revolution in Military Affairs" approach of subordinating
all military considerations to U.S. digital "supremacy" in the
otherwise now fast disappearing, "third wave" NASDAQ new economy.
Ikle has been the senior proponent of "Homeland Defense."
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- Once the marketing of Murawiec was established with the
GeoPol venture, he was laundered into various French military affairs think-tanks,
including an alleged advisory role to the French defense department, as
the emerging French expert and proponent of Marshall's startling new "revolution."
His message: American power and supremacy is guaranteed by the new digital
era; get on board quick.
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- We will spare the reader the chronological account of
the bombastic "theories" Murawiec scribbled into numerous French
print media and mouthed at conferences in the later 1990s.
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- Not irrelevant to Murawiec's insertion into French defense
circles were the activities of a young assistant to Andy Marshall at ONA
in the early 1980s, Mira Lansky Boland. Mira Boland studied with future
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard at Boston's Tufts University, whence she went
on to the CIA and then the ONA. Upon leaving the ONA, Mira Boland became
the head of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Washington, D.C. office,
with one job, "Get LaRouche!" She coordinated with the Paris-based,
American head of the French anti-sect group Association for the Defense
of the Family and Individual (ADFI), Alexandra Schmidt. Schmidt did university
studies in Paris under the French neo-conservative Alain Besancon of {Commentaire}
magazine.
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- ADFI worked closely in operations against LaRouche with
the Wall Street-funded American Family Foundation (AFF), which got its
main money from the arch-conservative Richard Mellon Scaife foundations,
the Olin Foundation, and the Achelis & Bodman Foundations. Supervising
AFF's work were John Irwin III--son of the American Ambassador to Paris
in 1973-74, Kissinger clone John Irwin II--and President Bush, Sr.'s Ambassador
to Paris (1989-93), Walter Curley. Curley and Irwin III still manage the
elite Achelis & Bodman Foundations. Irving Kristol's neo-conservative
movement has largely been financed by these four foundations and groups
of foundations, with the addition of the Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee.
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- One of Perle's Swine
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- Joining Ikle's Telos board in 1994 was Stephen Bryen,
who worked under Richard Perle in the 1980s U.S. Defense Department. During
the mid-1980s when Murawiec's Swiss-based handlers were grooming him, Bryen's
wife, Shoshana Bryen, ran the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
(JINSA), the Israeli interface with like-minded Pentagon factions. While
her husband worked with Perle in the Pentagon, Shoshana assisted a leading
dirty tricks operative of Mira Boland's ADL, Galen Kelly, in actions against
LaRouche and {EIR}'s Leesburg, Virginia U.S. headquarters.
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- By all indications, aging defense don Fred Ikle was the
key figure in vetting Murawiec's placement at Rand. Rand's national security
and strategic affairs projects are financed by pooled money from the government
intelligence community. Telos' largest private shareholder is British national
John Porter, the son of Dame Shirley Porter, an intimate of Lady Thatcher.
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- In May 1996, Perle and his cronies, along with Henry
Kissinger and Lady Thatcher, created the New Atlantic Initiative (NAI)
to project their policies into Europe. Murawiec attended the first meeting
held that month in Prague. Perle's close associate Jeffrey Gedmin, now
head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, heads this American Enterprise Institute
project.
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- For Laurent Murawiec's public debut in Washington in
December 1999, Richard Perle organized an American Enterprise Institute
seminar on technology controls whose main speaker was Richard Perle. Murawiec
was introduced with his newly acquired Rand Corporation credentials. His
ongoing GeoPol work was described as similar to Henry Kissinger's Kissinger
Associates, "but without the accent." Thomas Donelly of William
Kristol's imperial New American Century project, was to have joined Murawiec
speaking at the event.
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- True to the Friedrich von Hayek character of Perle's
AEI, Murawiec addressed a paean to Hayek's thought at a March 1999 centenary
celebration of von Hayek's birth.
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- By 2000, Daniel Pipes, a leading advocate of expanding
war throughout the Middle East, was adding copy from Murawiec to his {Middle
East Quarterly} journal. In the Spring 2000 issue, Murawiec wrote what
amounted to a long defense of Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Arc of Crisis"
policy, an article entitled, "The Wacky World of French Intellectuals."
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