$3,360,990,@s9@s0 was also contributing substantial sums to LaRouche-related
publishing efforts ... which were exposing the Contras and their dope-pushing. Fundraiser
Michael Billington argued with Mrs. Newington, warning her not to give money to the
Bush- North-Spitz Channell gang.
Back on August 19, 1982, and on November 25, 1982, George Bush's old boss, Henry A.
Kissinger, had written to FBI Director William Webster, asking for FBI action against the LaRouche group. '' In promoting covert action against LaRouche, Kissinger also got help from James Jesus Angleton, who had retired as chief of counterintelligence for the CIA. After Yalie Angleton got going in this anti-dissident work, he mused Fancy that,
now I've become Kissinger's Rebbe. ''@s9@s1
One week before the raid, an FBI secret memorandum described the LaRouche political
movement as subversive, '' and claimed that its policy positions ... dovetail nicely
with Soviet propaganda and disinformation objectives. ''@s9@s2
Three months after Spitz Channell's fraud confession, Vice President Bush denounced
LaRouche at an Iowa campaign rally: `` I don't like the things LaRouche does.... He's
bilked people out of lots of money, and misrepresented what causes money was going to.
LaRouche is in a lot of trouble, and deserves to be in a lot of trouble. ''@s9@s3
LaRouche and several associates eventually went on trial in Boston, on a variety of fraud '' charges--neither subversion '' nor defunding the Contras was in the indictments.
Bush was now running hard for the presidency. Suddenly, in the midst of the primary
elections, the LaRouche trial took a threatening turn. On March 10, 1988, Federal Judge
Robert E. Keeton ordered a search of the indexes to Vice President George Bush's
confidential files to determine whether his spies had infiltrated LaRouche-affiliated
organizations. Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had acquired, and turned
over to the LaRouche defense, in response to an FOIA request, a secret memorandum
found in Oliver North's safe. It was a message from Gen. Richard Secord to North,
written May 5, 1986--four days after North had met with George Bush and Felix
Rodriguez to confirm that Rodriguez would continue running guns to the Contras using
Spitz Channell's payments to Richard Secord. The memo, released in the Boston
courtroom, said, `` Lewis has met with FBI and other agency reps and is apparently
meeting again today. Our Man here claims Lewis has collected info against LaRouche.
''@s9@s4
The government conceded that our man here '' in the memo was Bush Terrorism Task Force member Oliver Buck '' Revell, the assistant director of the FBI. Lewis ''--
soldier of fortune '' Fred Lewis--together with Bush operatives Gary Howard and Ron
Tucker, had met later in May 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.