The government conceded that our man here '' in the memo was Bush Terrorism Task Force member Oliver BucFred Lewis--together with Bush operatives Gary Howard and Ron Tk '' Revell, the assistant director of the FBI. Lewis ''-- soldier of fortucker, had met later in Mayune ''
1986, with C. Boyden Gray, counsel to Vice President Bush.@s9@s5 Howard and Tucker, deputy
sheriffs from Bush- family-controlled Midland, Texas, were couriers and bagmen for money
transfers between the National Security Council and private `` counterterror '' companies. They
were also professional sting artists.
Howard and Tucker had sold 100 battle tanks to a British arms dealer for shipment to Iran, and had
taken his $1.6 million. Then they turned him in to British authorities and claimed a huge reward. A
British jury, outraged at Howard and Tucker, threw out the criminal case in late 1983. The
LaRouche defense contended, with the North memo and other declassified documents, that theBush apparatus had sent spies and provocateurs into the LaRouche political movement in an attempt (^)
to wreck it. Judge Keeton demanded that the Justice Department tell him why information they
withheld from the defense was now appearing in court in declassified documents.
The government was not forthcoming, and in May 1988, tthe newspapers they would have voted for acquittal. But Bush could not afford to quit. LaRouchehe judge declared a mistrial. The jury told
and his associates were simply indicted again, on new charges. This time they were brought to trial
before a judge who could be counted on. Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr. was the organizer, lawyer and
banker of the world's largest private weapons dealer, Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia. As the new
LaRouche trial began, the CIA-front firm that the judge had foundeworld's official private weapons traffic. Judge Bryan had personally arranged the financing of md controlled 90 percent of theore (^)
than a million weapons traded by Interarms between the CIA, Britain and Latin America. Agency
for International Development trucks carried small arms, rifles, machine guns and ammunition from
Interarms in Alexandria for flights to Cuba--first for Castro's revolutionary forces. Then, Judge
Bryan's company, Interarms, provided guns for the anti-Castro initiatives of the CIA Miami Station,for Rodriguez, Shackley, Posada Carriles, Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, et al. When George Bush
was CIA Director, Albert V. Bryan's company was the leading private supplier of weapons to the
CIA.@s9@s6
In the LaRouche trial, Judge Bryan prohibited virtually all defense initiatives. The jury foreBuster Horton, had top secret clearance for government work with Oliver North and Oliver Bucman, (^) k '' Revell. LaRouche and his associates were declared guilty. On January 27, 1989--one week after George Bush became President--Judge Albert V. Bryan sentenced the 66-year dissident leader LaRouche to 15 years in prison. Michael Billington, who hadtried to wreck the illicit funding for the Contras, was jailed for three years with LaRouche; he was later railroaded into a Virginia court and sentenced to another 77 years in prison for fundraising
fraud. ''
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- William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1960), p. 271. - Memo, May 14, 1982, two pp. bearing the nos. 29464 and 29465. See also
NSDD-2 Structure for Central America, '' bearing the no. 29446, a chart showing the SSG and its CPPG as a guidance agency for the National Security Council. Photostats of these documents are reproduced in the EIR Special Report:Irangate, the Secret Government and the LaRouche Case, '' (Wiesbaden,
Germany: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur, June 1989), p. 19.