GUNS, HATE AND VIOLENT FANTASIES IN THE LAROUCHE MOVEMENT:
AN INFILTRATOR SPEAKS OUT

Mr. Levy, a Jewish activist, infiltrated LaRouche’s security operation from 1980 to 1984
posing as a security consultant. Mr. Levy undertook this effort completely on his own
initiative, but from the beginning he provided information to journalists and to Jewish
communal organizations. He later cooperated with the U.S. Justice Department in its
successful prosecution of LaRouche. He is today the chairman of the Jewish Defense
Organization in New York City. Reporters can contact him at judeam@jdo.org

The bracketed information in the declaration below is for background purposes only.]

B’SD

Declaration of Mordechai Levy

I, Mordechai Levy, do hereby declare:

I began talking with the LaRouche security staff ("Security") in 1979, and by early 1980
they were asking me to gather intelligence. At first they gave the impression that they
were only interested in information, but as they gradually came to trust me more and
more they made proposals to me and revealed intentions and plans that went far beyond
intelligence gathering or any legitimate security concerns.

During much of this time I was living in Los Angeles, where I dealt with the LaRouche
organization’s local security chief, TP. But the organization flew me to New York on
numerous occasions for meetings with the national security chiefs, JS and PG, and to
engage in various New York "operations." I spoke on the phone to "Lyn" (Lyndon
LaRouche) once, and saw him at [the] Roosevelt Hotel give a speech, but spent no other
time in his presence. Once I had gained Security’s trust, I began to speak on the telephone
with JS or PG almost on a daily basis.

I made up stories about imaginary plots and solicited friends to pose as important people
to confirm my claims. But Security’s coming to trust me to the point that they would
reveal sensitive information was in part the result of a fortuitous accident. I once told
them that LaRouche’s German wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, might become the target of
harassment (a not unreasonable prediction, since Mrs. LaRouche, the leader of her
husband’s EAP in Germany, was making outrageous accusations against many wealthy
and influential people in Europe). It so happened that Mrs. LaRouche was later involved
in a minor traffic accident on an autobahn. This convinced Security that I had access to
inside information.

Once I was trusted, I began to hear much talk on the theme of violence and guns. I was
also asked to carry out illegal activity on behalf of the organization. Many of my
conversations with them took place face to face at restaurants, but I talked to them on the
phone almost daily. If a sensitive subject was to be discussed, I was supposed to call JS at
his home or office from a pay phone. He would then ask me to wait for a few minutes
while he went out to what he called a "safe line" (another pay phone) to call me back.

TP, PG and other Security members boasted to me of the weapons training they had
received at the "Cobra" paramilitary school run by LaRouche’s chief security consultant
Mitch WerBell. [WerBell, now deceased, was an associate of the late Cleveland, Ohio,
mafia boss John Nardi and claimed to be a former CIA contract employee.] TP boasted
that WerBell had taught them advanced "liquidation techniques." PG called these
techniques "wetworks," a euphemism for assassination methods. Another Security
member, RG, explained to me how they had learned to ambush someone by setting up a
three-man fire team and positioning members of the team in such a way as to minimize
the danger of their shooting each other by mistake. TP told me that if you have to take out
an enemy security team in a car, you should always shoot the agent handling the radio
first, rather than the driver, to minimize the chances of a call for backup. TP on at least
two occasions showed me his shotgun and 45 automatic handgun. When TP asked me to
go to the firing range with him, I claimed I had a prior engagement. When still photos of
members of the LaRouche security team dressed in camouflage uniforms and supposedly
engaged in paramilitary training were shown on national TV in the United States (this I
believe was in early 1984), members of Security told me they had leaked the photos in
order to send a message to their "enemies" that the organization was capable of serious violence.

PG constantly boasted how Security and he himself had used violence against Lyn’s
enemies during "Operation Mop Up" and at other times. He also discussed Security’s
special classes in hand-to-hand combat. I sparred with him once, and he indeed was
skilled in martial arts.

In 1981, I was brought to New York to help with the security arrangements for a
LaRouche conference at the Roosevelt Hotel. I noted a man with a glass eye working
security in the room. I asked who it was and they said he was a "warrior" for Lyn and that
he was packing a MAC-10 [a machine pistol used by cocaine dealers and manufactured
by WerBell]. I later learned that the man with the glass eye was Roy Frankhauser, grand
dragon of the Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan. [In 1988, Frankhauser would be convicted in
U.S. federal court of obstruction of justice as a result of his efforts to hamper the FBI’s
investigation of the criminal activities of the LaRouche organization. This was the first of
over 15 criminal convictions for members of the organization, including that of
LaRouche himself.]

Both TP and JS would talk about the massive physical retaliation that would be meted out
to Lyn’s enemies should the NCLC leadership give the order. Indeed TP once told me
that if Lyn ever got assassinated or even injured a whole lot of people would be killed.
He said they had "lists" of people who would be targeted.

On several occasions they tried to solicit me to organize assaults on their enemies in
a way that could not be traced back to them. On at least four occasions they asked me to
organize a beating of journalist Dennis King, who had written many articles critical of
Lyn, saying that King needed to be taught a lesson. They also raised the idea of my
attacking other persons, but most of the names were unfamiliar to me. On some occasions
they talked about physical assaults that would "go all the way."

On one occasion they asked me to help with a break-in at the office of leftwing politician
Tom Hayden, who was married at the time to actress Jane Fonda. I declined. They also
asked me to get a postal box under a phony name and organize a demonstration in
downtown Los Angeles backing the Argentine military in the Falkland Islands war.
Fortunately the British retook the islands so quickly that this scheme did not have to be
carried out.

When they requested my help on a particular operation, they would sometimes say that
Lyn "would like this to happen" (or words to that effect). However, LaRouche never
directly solicited my help on anything illegal.

They expressed to me on several occasions their loathing for Germany’s Green Party and
asked me to run an intel operation to find out about the alleged connections of Petra
Kelly, the Green Party’s leader, to counter-culture activists in New York City.

The potential danger of the LaRouche group was made clearest to me when in a "safe
line" conversation JS asked me to travel to Europe. He said they were concerned about
the growing strength of the Greens and other leftists, especially in Germany. He wanted
me to organize certain unspecified acts of mayhem that could be blamed on the left and
thus would produce government crackdowns on leftwing groups. I evaded the request by
telling JS that I thought it was too risky.

Throughout my association with Security, its members (even those who were of Jewish
descent) repeatedly expressed an intense hatred and anger towards Zionist Jews and the
State of Israel. They especially hated what they called "rich Jews" and told me that such
people would have to go into camps when Lyn came to power. They talked this way to
me because they believed they were winning me to their cult’s way of thinking.

SIGNATURE: /S/ Mordechai Levy

DATE: Feb 27 2005