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 the Bush 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, the judge declared a mistrial.
The jury told the newspapers they would have voted for acquittal. But Bush could not
afford to quit. LaRouche 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 founded controlled 90 percent of the world's official
private weapons traffic. Judge Bryan had personally arranged the financing of more 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
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In the LaRouche trial, Judge Bryan prohibited virtually all defense initiatives. The jury
foreman, Buster Horton, had top secret clearance for government work with Oliver North
and Oliver `` Buck '' 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 had tried 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. ''
NOTES:
- 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.