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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]
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].