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[Chip Berlet]

Hi,

Actually, you are looking at the wrong block of text. 

Here is the text inserted by the LaRouche supporters (as modified
slightly by other editors to make it clear these are unverified claims:

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He claims to have pioneered such ideas as the International Development
Bank, the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] or "Star Wars," and the
so-called Eurasian Land-Bridge. It also claimed that he was used by the
[[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration as a "back-channel" for
negotiations with the [[Soviet Union]].

According to a speech made by LaRouche science advisor Paul
Gallagher[http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3110sdi_timeline.html],
LaRouche and his representatives met with Reagan administration Energy
Secretary [[Donald Hodel]], Interior Secretary [[James Watt]], Science
Adviser Dr. [[George Keyworth]], and State Department official [[Richard
Morris]] in early [[1981]]. Gallagher also claims that later that year
Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche met with [[CIA]] Deputy Director [[Bobby
Ray Inman]], and cites the following remarks, made in early [[1993]] at
the National Press Club by former head of German Military Intelligence,
Gen. Paul-Albert Scherer:

:"In the Spring of 1982 here in the Soviet Embassy there were very
important secret talks that were held.... The question was: Did the
United States and the Soviet Union wish jointly to develop an
anti-ballistic missile defense that would have made nuclear war
impossible? Then, in August, you had this very sharp Soviet rejection of
the entire idea.... I have discussed this thoroughly with the developer,
the originator of this idea, who is the scientific-technological
strategic expert, Lyndon LaRouche. The [Soviet] rejection came in
August, and at that point the American President Reagan decided to push
this entire thing out into the public eye, so he made his speech of
March 1983."

:::<small>Press Conference at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.,
May 6, 1992; video of Scherer's remarks was broadcast on the "LaRouche
Connection" cable TV program throughout the
U.S.[http://www.larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_programs_1991-1995.html]</small>

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Here is the text I inserted to provide balance:


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In his book, Dennis King identifies Scherer as a long-time LaRouche
supporter.<!--See index to King's book--> 

According to an article by Chip Berlet: "New Right military specialist,
retired General Daniel O. Graham, says LaRouche followers have
significantly hampered his work. Graham, Director of Project High
Frontier which supports and helped develop President Reagan's Strategic
Defense Initiative plan for anti-missile defense, says the LaRouche
groups have 'caused a lot of problems by adopting our issue in an effort
to sieze credit for the idea.' 'They also mounted a furious attack on me
personally,' says Graham. 'Even today I get mail asking if I'm in league
with LaRouche,' he adds
wearily."[http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc3.html]  

[Later pro-Larouche addition here]

There is no independent verification outside of LaRouche group media,
however, of the claim that LaRouche originated or played a major role in
the development of "Star Wars" missile defense. 

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Then the LaRouchites added this [Later pro-Larouche addition]:

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LaRouche countered, "President Reagan's initial version of SDI was
consistent with what I had introduced into U.S.-Soviet back-channel
discussions over the period beginning February 1982. However,
immediately thereafter, the mice went to work. Daniel Graham, the
leading opponent of SDI up to that time, now proclaimed himself the
virtual author of the policy, and was used, thereafter, to remove all of
the crucial elements from the original
policy."[http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2000/2750_teller.html]

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And on and on and on.

What is happening is that the pro-LaRouche editors insert an
ever-increasing amount of pro-LaRouche text from LaRouchite
publications, forcing additional text to be added for balance, then more
from the pro-LaRouche editors. On the discussion page (especially on
Talk: Political Views of Lyndon LaRouche) you can see that HK especially
protests every single insertion of material critical of LaRouche. Claims
(falsely) that quotes are invented, then says they are cooked or
misrepresented, then demands context, then demand actual image files.
Then, if the critical sentence remains, HK and other pro-LaRouche
editors adds another unverified quote from a LaRouche publication.

When the article gets too big, a subsection is spawned, and another
LaRouche-linked page starts to grow like a virus.

In a serious encyclopedia like Wikipedia, LaRouche would get one small
page that represented the majority view of reality, offered a disclaimer
that LaRouche disagrees and claims vast conspiracies against him, and
then linked to several fo the LaRouceh web pages.

Wikipedia has become a propaganda arm of the LaRouche network because
the pro-LaRouche editors are manipulating the system.

Cberlet