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==King and LaRouche==

King has made much of his reputation by investigating [[Lyndon LaRouche]], charging that LaRouche's organization has worked with Klansmen, mobsters, rightwing Latin American military officers and assorted intelligence agencies around the world. According to King's book and articles, LaRouche expresses anti-Semitism in both open and euphemistic forms, ~~and~~ although the ''[[New York Times]]'' review of King's book concluded that "...in trying to see Mr. LaRouche as a would-be Führer, Mr. King may be trying to tie together the whole unruly package with too neat a ribbon. A number of loose ends hang out, not least of which is the fact that many members of Mr. LaRouche's inner circle are Jewish."[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DF123CF93BA25755C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3] King also charges that LaRouche's organization has defended alleged Nazi war criminals such as rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, who ran the Nordhausen slave-labor weapons factory during World War Two. Rudolph was acquitted of all charges upon return to Germany.

King wrote a series of 12 articles on LaRouche for the Manhattan newspaper Our Town in 1979-80 and wrote or co-wrote follow-up pieces over the next few years for [[The New Republic]], The [[Wall Street Journal]], [[High Times]] and other publications. These articles are available on his website (see below). His methods for decoding political discourse, although controversial in the late 1970s, are today widely used by political journalists and commentators in the United States to deconstruct the utterances of mainstream political leaders as well as extremist ideologues.

For many years the LaRouche organization has attempted to discredit King and halt his investigations. LaRouche sued King for libel on three occasions, but each time dropped the suit (or dropped King as a defendant) before King's lawyers could take LaRouche's deposition and ask him about the allegedly anti-Semitic statements in his writings. One of the three suits, LaRouche v. NBC (E.D. Va. 1984), went to trial after King was dropped as a defendant; LaRouche lost, and the jury awarded compensation to the remaining defendants. According to affidavits filed by King's attorneys in LaRouche v. NBC, King had been harassed by the LaRouchians via death threats (they allegedly promised to string him from a lamppost and beat out his brains with a baseball bat), over 500 harassing phone calls, visits from LaRouche operatives posing as legitimate journalists, and fliers circulated under the doors of neighbors in his apartment house alleging that he was a homosexual. The LaRouche organization also paid Roy Frankhauser, the former grand dragon of the Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan and a longtime LaRouche security aide and crony, to follow King around the streets of New York.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm]

In According to King, in recent years the LaRouche organization has targeted King on the Internet with false or misleading allegations. For instance, they have called him a "drug lobbyist," citing an article he wrote for the December 1981 High Times magazine. The LaRouche organization has repeatedly claimed that this article was entitled "They Want to Take Away Your Drugs." King has never written an article with such a title. The real title of his High Times article was "Hypocrites! Anti-Drug Cult Linked to Mob Cronies." You can read it at [http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/teamsters.htm].

In great detail, this article outlined what King described as a sinister relationship between the LaRouche group and the Meli crime family (heroin traffickers in the Detroit area), Carlos Marcello (crime lord of New Orleans), Tony Provenzano (a prominent New Jersey labor racketeer), Frank Sheeran (the Teamster thug who would confess 23 years later to having killed Jimmy Hoffa--thus giving the lie to LaRouche's 1978 claim that the "Zionists" had done it), and assorted other hoodlums. The article also alleged that LaRouche's then security adviser, the late Mitch WerBell III, had underworld connections (WerBell had been a co-defendent with Cleveland crime boss John Nardi in a giant Florida pot-smuggling case--the defendants got off after the government's key witness died in a mysterious small-plane crash). In addition, the article alleged that LaRouche's 1980 Presidential campaign had paid $96,000 to a political consulting firm controlled by the business partner and closest friend of Rolland McMaster, a Meli crime family linked Teamster leader, convicted felon, and ardent LaRouche supporter who once had been Jimmy Hoffa's chief enforcer, specializing in the use of dynamite. None of the allegations in King's article (repeated in Chaps 34-38 of King's book along with fresh allegations regarding LaRouche's dealings with cocaine dictator Manuel Noriega) were ever disputed by LaRouche, WerBell, Marcello, McMaster, Sheeran, or any other hoodlum or mob-connected lawyer or businessman named in the article.

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