The following are notices written by EIR News Service. We post them here to show the source of recent slanders of US Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche that have been circulating in Argentina and over the Internet.

July 15 (EIRNS)--SUNDAY'S EDITION OF ARGENTINA'S LEFTIST DAILY, PAGINA 12, carried a frantic slander of Lyndon LaRouche, written by its editor, the former Montonero terrorist turned Human Rights Watch advisor, Horacio Verbitsky (see below for details on Mr. Verbitsky's career). Verbitsky is absolutely apopletic over LaRouche's influence, citing the least of it, the fact that "the chains of e-mails that neighborhood assemblies, protest groups and leftist parties use to communicate among themselves, included most recently a strange piece with the title, `Execution of the Final Plan has begun for the Disappearance of the first nation-state of South America: Argentina,'" which purports to be taken from a speech by "French Senator Lyndon LaRouche."

The strange article certainly is making the rounds, as EIR has received numerous queries about it. It contains elements of LaRouche's analysis, with various of its own concoctions mixed in. Not overtly slanderous, but not LaRouche, either. As it is forwarded from Internet list to Internet list, people who clearly know LaRouche have added that the "French Senator" is a "pro-industrial U.S. Democrat," others that he is a Democratic candidate.

Verbitsky uses this article as his jumping-off point, writing that LaRouche is no French Senator, but "a U.S. adventurer who spent several years in prison for swindling retirees and for tax evasion. His cell organizations, which operate like cults, are also financed by credit card fraud." Verbitsky throws in every slander he's ever collected--most of it lifted from the Smith Richardson Foundation's favorite anti-LaRouche hack, Dennis King.

That LaRouche cultivates relations with the intelligence community, is linked to the Moon sect, and was a Marxist 40 years ago now "retooled ... as a neo-fascist," who advocates "a Lopez Rega-style national socialism, and raves about a fabulous Synarchist world government, which is, of course, Jewish." That LaRouche "went so far as to compare Afro-Americans who demanded equality of rights to monkeys and baboons."

That "LaRouche has created an international network of lunatics, who are attracted by the theory of a conspiracy that prevents the happiness of all peoples," involving "Queen Elizabeth II, the International Monetary Fund, the FBI and the British Secret Service ... planning a universal holocaust by means of drug addiction, starvation, and the bubonic plague."

Verbitsky truthfully reports that LaRouche's people accuse Mexico's Bishop Samuel Ruiz and many "center-left parties" of being "part of a narco-terrorist conspiracy. The LaRouchites "accuse the Zapatistas of financing themselves through the drug trade"--"patently false," he insists. And, their ally in Colombia is Gen. Harold Bedoya, and if you guess who LaRouche's representative is in Argentina, you can "win as a prize a visit to the Campo de Mayo military garrison, which includes an eight-hour lecture on the history of humanity given by Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin."

- Caution: Beware a Frantic, Argentine Soros Hack -

As a courtesy to our readers, we warn that Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky, editor of the leftist Argentine daily Pagina 12, appears to have "lost it" over Lyndon LaRouche's growing influence in his country and its neighbors. In a column headlined "International Nutcase," printed in the July 14 edition of Pagina12, Verbitsky strung together one slander after another against LaRouche--jumping off from a document doing the rounds on the internet, which purports to be written by “the French Senator Lyndon LaRouche,” which is not LaRouche's.

Not that Verbitsky's article is actually a piece of original journalism. He lifted most of his lies straight from Dennis King, the professional "Get LaRouche" operative on the payroll of that most right-wing of U.S. intelligence-connected outfits, the Smith Richardson Foundation.

Verbitsky is a known lunatic, and his crazy article is not to be taken too seriously. But, in these days of coups and assassinations, it is important to check into such things carefully. And so it will perhaps be useful to provide for our readers, and the curious, some highlights of the record of this Mr. Verbitsky, and accompanying insights into his funny mind. As he himself reports proudly, Horacio got his start as a leading member of the Argentine terrorist group, the Montoneros, in the 1970s. In fact, he was one of the top people in charge of intelligence for the Montoneros. "I believe it is one of the best things a person my age could have done at that time," he told a reporter in September 1992. "I do not regret having participated in the most massive revolutionary movement Argentina saw during this century." At least two attempts to assassinate Gen. Juan Peron, the 1975 massacre of Army conscripts caught bathing or napping in their beds at a Formosa Army base, and the 1976 car bombing of the Army headquarters (where no military were killed, but only a civilian), are said to have been among the "revolutionary" actions of the young Verbitsky.

But, life moves on, and Verbitsky became a journalist. In 1987, he helped found Pagina 12, with which he has been associated ever since. In 1995, he and a group of other Argentine journalists formed a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Periodistas.

It was around that time that Verbitsky found a new benefactor: that most infamous of speculators, and fervent defender of the very capitalism that Verbitsky protests he abhors--George Soros. In 1998, Human Rights Watch/Americas poured money into Verbitsky's operation, awarding him one of its Hellman/Hammett Grants. Soros has been one of the most generous financial contributors to HRW from its founding in the late 1970s, and he has served for years as a member of the Advisory Board of its Americas Division.

By 1999, Verbitsky was promoted by Soros. He was named to the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch/Americas, where he serves, to this day, alongside Soros, the Inter-American Dialogue's President Peter Hakim, the Council on Foreign Relations's Kenneth Maxwell, among other U.S. establishment lesser luminaries.

Soros, of course, is also well-known as the world's leading financier of drug legalization. (Check out the website of the Lindesmith Center at Soros's Open Society Institute, and see for yourself.)

Verbitsky did seem particularly sensitive about the issue of drugs, in his "International Nutcase" ravings, complaining that "the LaRouchites accuse the [Mexican] Zapatistas of financing themselves through the drug trade, which is patently false," he quickly asserted. Why the sensitivity? Could Verbitsky, like his boss, Soros, be involved with the stuff?

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