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Anti-Semitism of the U.S. Labor Party:
Nazi Ideology With Military Training
By ROCHELLE WOLK
(Last of 3-Part Series)
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The National Caucus of
Labor Committees and the
United States Labor Party
(NCLC-USLP), described as
"anti-Semitic" and "neo-
Nazi," ran their own guer-
rilla warfare training camp
near Argyle in upstate New
York in 1974. This fact has
been documented by the
FBI and former NCLC-
USLP members and has
been reported this year by
the New York Times, the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith and the news-
paper Our Town.
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"According to FBI docu-
ments, the NCLC operated
its own training camp on a
farm owned by a cult
member" there, and NCLC
members and their West
German counterparts re-
portedly "trained in explo-
sives and demolitions, small
arms, and small unit tac-
tics," it was reported in a
series of articles written by
Dennis King that began
Aug. 26 in Our Town, a
Manhattan giveaway.
Times reporters Howard
Blum and Paul L.
Montgomery, writing on
Oct. 7, used as their source
of information "former
party members who say
they participated in train-
ing." The Times article
mentions Mexican party
members, as well as West
Germans, training in Ar-
gyle.
Further information
was obtained by the
Jewish Telegraphic
Agency from Sgt. Russ
Guard, a New York State
policeman who is
stationed in South Glens
Falls and lives in Argyle.
According to his account,
a homicide investigation
that was unrelated to the
USLP ultimately ended
their upstate operation.
A young girl had been
missing from the area and,
in searching for a possible
homicide victim, State
Police discovered the train-
ing camp on an isolated
back road. The camp "died
out" after its discovery, he
said.
As a resident of the area,
Guard said he remembers
seeing USLP members
come to Argyle for their
weekend drills. They came
in "a caravan of two or three
civilian jeeps painted in
army colors," he recalls,
wearing war surplus uni-
forms, and "sitting militar-
ily straight," some with
whips. At first they drilled
with cutout plywood rifles
and later with air rifles, he
said.
After the murder investi-
gation, he believes the farm
was vacant for several years
and then sold.
USLP has now
"graduated" to more ad-
vanced military training.
"Recently, at least eight
members of the party
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have undergone inten-
sive training in 'anti-
terrorist' techniques at a
camp in Powder Springs,
Ga. that is operated by
Mitchell WerBell 3d, an
international arms
dealer who has served as
adviser to Latin Ameri-
can dictators, including
Fulencio Batista and
Anastasio Somoza," the
Times article said. The
Times added that Wer-
Bell was a guerrilla
fighter for the Office of
Strategic Services during
World War II and that he
says he still has close ties
to the CIA.
Interviewed by King for
Our Town on Sept. 14, Wer-
Bell admitted strong sup-
port for the ultra-right Lib-
erty Lobby, and said he be-
came a security consultant
for NCLC in 1977. "We
train them in martial arts,
pistol shooting, paramedi-
cal skills, the use of shot-
guns, rifle counter-sniper
activity, counter-
surveillance, and the con-
trol of three-car caravans,"
he told King.
WerBell also said that
seven or eight NCLC mem-
bers had so far taken his
10-day COBRAY program,
at a cost of $2,000 per
trainee, and that his school
mainly trains policemen
and private protection
agents. NCLC-USLP defec-
tors told King that the
number was much higher
than WerBell's figure.
Although WerBell told
King, "My company is
apolitical," his own political
affiliations imply that his
relationship with NCLC
may go beyond paramilit-
ary training. His hone, on
the grounds of his training
school, is reportedly a "fre-
quent center for social
gatherings of the Right."
In addition to his mem-
bership in Liberty Lobby
and close friendship with
its leader Willis Carto,
WerBell has allowed his
name to be used to pro-
mote an anti-Semitic
NCLC book entitled,
"DOPE, INC." Liberty
Lobby is selling DOPE
INC. on consignment and
working with NCLC to
build a "Committee to
Dismantle the Anti-
Defamation League of
Bnai Brith," King re-
ports.
"Violence by the cult has
been confined to unarmed
physical attacks on Jews by
NCLC literature salesmen
at airports and railroad sta-
tions, usually as a spon-
taneous result of ideological
debate," he added, but he
questions whether the
COBRAY training of NCLC
security guards is an indica-
tion that the LaRouche
group is planning a "new
wave of violence" in the fu-
ture.
Analyzing the reasons for
this phenomenon, Our
Town says that Lyndon
LaRouche, Jr., head of
NCLC-USLP and their can-
didate for President of the
U.S. in 1980, has been able
to "win over hundreds of
young Jewish intellectuals
and use them as a Judenrat
shock brigade . . . When
they campaign for his anti-
Semitic program, he is able
to point to their Jewish
names as 'proof that his
organization is not really
anti-Semitic but only
'anti-Zionist' ... LaRouche
promises them immunity
from the coming NCLC-
directed Holocaust if they
thoroughly and completely
repudiate their Jewish-
ness."
LaRouche is danger-
ous, Our Town says, be-
cause he is "an authentic
if warped genius" who
has taken American
anti-Semitism out of its
traditional know-nothing
illiteracy and rendered it
theoretical." Rather than
the stereotyped uni-
formed neo-Nazis, his
group is comprised of
young intellectuals, some
of them Jewish.
LaRouche's economic
plans are "brilliantly con-
ceived" and have "genuine
merit," while he is "skillful
at enclosing his real politi-
cal ideas within a protective
covering of conspiracy
theories," Our Town adds.
He has also allied himself
with groups that are not
now neo-Nazi, by working
jointly with them on specific
issues and thus gaining ac-
cess to their memberships.
LaRouche is aiming at
a coalition of "Midwest in-
dustrialists, managerial
technocrats, 'traditionalist'
labor leaders, blacks disil-
lusioned with liberalism,
law enforcement officials,
military officers and south-
ern segregationist/Liberty
Lobby types . . . united by
mutual hatred of a
scapegoat: international
Jewry . . . LaRouche has
cautioned his cadre not to
expect to 'dominate' such a
coalition," but to "cooperate
with other forces," Our
Town says.
This places NCLC "on a
higher level of sophistica-
tion than virtually every
other extremist sect in the
U.S. today," Our Town con-
cludes, and warns that "gi-
ven a major economic crisis
and polarization of Ameri-
can society," LaRouche's
"brilliant long-range
strategy" could actually
bring NCLC-USLP to
power.
Political Forests
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Jewish National Fund
will plant 4,500 acres of new
forests throughout Israel
this winter, about 2,000
acres of which - will repre-
sent "political afforesta-
tion" to assert the state's
claim to ownership of the
land.
This is necessary, the
JNF noted, in areas where
Arabs have begun building
homes on state land without
obtaining the required
permits.