Subject: Stasi Agents Admit Disinformation That LaRouche Associates Killed Palme

From: [email-masked] (John Covici)
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:10:38 GMT

Executive Intelligence Review Press Release

         STASI AGENTS ADMIT ISSUING DISINFORMATION THAT 
                                                     
    SWEDISH LAROUCHE ASSOCIATES KILLED PRIME MINISTER PALME 

WIESBADEN, Sept. 2 (EIRNS)--In several media appearances in Sweden, an
officer of the State Security Service (Stasi) of the former German
Democratic Republic, Herbert Brehmer, has admitted that the Stasi
launched a major disinformation effort to blame the European Labor
Party (ELP) and Lyndon LaRouche for the 1986 murder of then Swedish
Prime Minister Olof Palme. The detailed confessions were made in a
front-page article published in the weekly magazine of the Swedish
Journalists' Association, "Journalisten," dated Aug. 20-26, 1992, and
in two subsequent half-hour national radio broadcasts on Aug. 29 and
Sept. 1.

The confessions of Stasi agent Brehmer provide detailed confirmation
of repeated assertions by LaRouche and the ELP that the Palme murder
was used to launch a massive black propaganda operation against
LaRouche and his associates. In the weeks after the murder, the major
news outlets in Western Europe and the Americas, as well as many in
the then Soviet bloc, indulged in an outburst of lies targetting
LaRouche. 

This slander was broadcast throughout the world by the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL, a centerpiece of
the U.S. government intelligence community's concerted action
that framed LaRouche, continued the assassination slanders this
year. In the spring of 1986, both the ADL and NBC-TV News
featured allegations that associates of LaRouche were involved in
the assassination. During the summer of 1986, Irwin Suall,
Fact-Finding Director of the ADL, traveled to Sweden exploit the
story, and wrote reports to the U.S. government. Even despite the
discrediting of the LaRouche-Palme allegations by Swedish
authorities, both the ADL and NBC ran the story in December 1986.
The U.S. government, through prosecutors in Boston, participated
in this new round of disinformation as well. 

This defamation played an integral part in the secret
intelligence warfare leading to several political trials as well as
LaRouche's imprisonment by the Bush administration on Jan. 27, 1989.

The following are excerpts from the article in "Journalisten":

"Three days after the murder of Olof Palme, Stasi officer Herbert
Brehmer and Department X were assigned the mission of planting false
tracks in the hunt for the murderer. They were to assure that the
crime could only have been perpetrated by right-wing extremists....

"The degreed historiographer Herbert Brehmer was a specialist in the
art of deceiving credulous Western journalists. He was spreading false
information about West German politicians. He planned a defamation
campaign against the Royal House. And he tried to plant false tracks
in the Palme investigation. His profession: disinformation officer at
the Stasi Department X in East Berlin....

"Three days after the murder of Olof Palme, Department X was assigned
the task of getting involved in the Swedish police investigation....

"`At my desk, I drew up the outlines of how the ELP theory would be
conduited into the Swedish police investigation. The plan was to have
a national Swedish newspaper receive an anonymous telephone call. It
was to happen already during the week after the murder.'

"As an alternative, the information would go directly to one of the
special phone numbers made available by the police for information
from the public. The content would be along the lines that the caller
'knew that the ELP had committed the crime.' In addition, he or she
had 'witnessed hectic activity in the ELP headquarters in the night.'

"`Nothing was really true, but it sounded well-informed and credible,'
Brehmer recalls.

"There were several advantages to targetting specifically the ELP. On
the one hand, the lack of evidence could be compensated for if the
newspaper reporters found something that really tied the ELP to the
murder itself. On the other hand, the planted information would
contribute to diverting attention from 'surely innocent' groups of the
left-wing, such as the Red Army Faction and the PLO....

"For the Palme case alone, Registry Department XII had selected 89
possible IMs, secret informal collaborators. All of them were
considered suitable for operations in Sweden.... Four persons were
considered especially well-suited. Two of them were IMs residing
permanently in Sweden, probably a married couple. Another was IM
I/2191/78 with 'very good connections to state and political circles
in Sweden and to leading officials of the Social Democratic Party
(SAP).' And IM I/1326/79 who had 'close relations to the Swedish
embassy in the GDR.... '

"`This information has been unknown even to me,' Brehmer says. 'But
irrespective of whether my operation underwent changes along the way
or even completely went over board, the Stasi in any case reached its
goal. I still remember how pleased we were when the 33-year-old was
arrested as the murder suspect. His contacts with the ELP contributed
to causing general disgust for the ELP. That was the only thing that
counted in March of 1986.'"

On Jan. 22, 1992, LaRouche, two of his co-defendants and his
attorneys, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and
Odin P. Anderson, filed a legal motion (2255) identifying the
disinformation campaign in the wake of the Palme murder as the
centerpiece of an intelligence warfare covert operation designed to
frame up LaRouche. This assertion was then dismissed by the judge as
"arrant nonsense."

The revelations now published in Sweden also corroborate the 100-page
special report published by Executive Intelligence Review in October
1986, entitled "A Classical KGB Disinformation Campaign - Who Killed
Olof Palme?"

A spokesman for LaRouche has demanded that the various print and
electronic media that have repeated this Stasi disinformation falsely
accusing LaRouche of being involved in the murder now publish a full
retraction.

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         John Covici
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