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SW: →King and LaRouche: correction
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.[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 DrugsAway," which was actually the sub-title of an article written for ''High Times'' by King's colleague [[Chip Berlet]]." 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.
