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ADL Releases Report On LaRouche 'Cult'
New York (JTA) — The Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith said last week that a com-
plaint of election law violation
filed against it by the Presiden-
tial campaign committee of Lyn-
don LaRouche will not bring a
halt to the ADL's efforts to
alert the public to the activities
of the LaRouche organization.
In fact, the ADL supported this
assertion at a news conference
at its hearquarters across from
the United Nations by releasing
a new, comprehensive 54-page
report on the political urbaniza-
tion headed by LaRouche.
In the report, the third by the
ADL on the LaRouche move-
ment since 1979, the ADL
charges LaRouche and his
organization with "a secretive
strategy of deception...in vir-
tually all of its operations."
Titled, "The LaRouche
Political Cult: Packaging Ex-
tremism," the report traces the
organization's activities
through three decades from it
left-wing origins to its current
form of extremism which the
ADL said "defies categorizing."
The ADL, according to its na-
tional chairman, Kenneth
Bialkin, labelled the LaRouche
organization a "cult" because,
he said. "we don't now how
otherwise to describe a person or
organization that has no iden-
tifiable, philosophical thread ty-
ing itself together that one can
characterize."
"It is not a movement, it is
not a philosophy. It can't be
said to be left, it can't be said to
be right, except at particular
moments, or on a particular
issue," Bialkin told reporters.
The ties that bind its members
together, he added, are difficult
to explain.
Bialkin said the suit filed
against the ADL by the
LaRouche Presidential Commit-
tee is one of several such suits
against the ADL by the
LaRouche organization in recent
years. He described it as "con-
sistent with past patterns" of
actions by the LaRouche
organization which "seek to im-
pose burdens" against "those
who disagree with it."
The complaint against • the
ADL by the LaRouche Demo-
cratic Campaign in Washington
was filed April 2 with the
Federal Election Commission. It
is against the ADL, and the
American Jewish Committee
and claims that the Jewish
organizations failed "to register
and report to Federal Election
Commission (FEC) as political
committees" as provided under
federal election regulations.
The two-page letter to the
FEC was provided by the ADL
to reporters here. It also alleges
that the ADL, the AJC and
various officials of the organiza-
tions "have publicly stated that
they are actively engaged in op-
posing the candidacy of Lyndon
H. LaRouche, running for the
Democratic Party nomination
for President."
In response to the complaint
by the LaRouche organization,
the ADL, in a letter fo FEC
General Counsel Charles Steele,
asserted, "While the ADL has
and will continue to expose
patently anti-Semitic and ex-
tremist activities of organiza-
tions and individuals, including
those of Lyndon LaRouche and
his various affiliated organiza-
tions, ADL does not participate
in the electoral process and
espouses no position regarding
voting choices."
Lawyer Visits
Soviet Wife
Southfield attorney Keith
Braun left for the Soviet Union
late last week to spend two
weeks with his wife, Svetlana.
The couple married in 1984
while Braun was a student in
Moscow.
The Soviets have refused to
allow Svetlana to join her hus-
band in the West. Braun be-
lieves Svetlana's latest visa ap-
plication, which has been pend-
ing four months, may be tied up
because of his participation in
April in a divided spouses con-
ference in Bern, Switzerland.
Reps. William Broomfield
(R-Birmingham) and Dante Fas-
cell (D-Fla.) gave a list of 35 re-
fuseniks, including Svetlana
Braun, to Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev during meetings in
Moscow in early April.
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