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105-457: The FEF included notable scientists and others on its boards, along with LaRouche movement insiders in management positions. It published a popular magazine, Fusion , and a more technical journal as well as books and pamphlets. It conducted seminars and its members testified at legislative hearings. It was known for soliciting subscriptions to their magazines in U.S. airports, where its confrontational methods resulted in conflicts with celebrities and

210-610: A NASA rocket scientist who was forced to leave the U.S. in 1982 following an investigation into his role in the Mittelwerk rocket factory in Nazi Germany . Psychiatrist Ned Rosinsky spoke as a representative of the FEF at a Wisconsin state legislative hearing on criminal penalties for drug possession in 1977. He testified that "marijuana is a medically dangerous drug until proved otherwise", citing studies showing brain damage and

315-430: A keeper of records to testify. They failed to surrender the documents and the keepers of records they sent were appointed the day before. When ordered to give the home address of FEF Executive Director Gallagher, the address turned out to be a vacant lot. Five months after the subpoenas were served, and after several hearings on the matter, U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone found the FEF in contempt of court and levied

420-486: A 1982 congressional campaign. The FEF replied that the fundraising was done under contract to the Caucus Distributors, Inc. (CDI), another LaRouche enterprise. When FEF director Steven Bardwell resigned in 1984, he complained that funds raised by the FEF through subscriptions were being diverted to other LaRouche entities. According to Bardwell, LaRouche said that Bardwell's sense of obligation to subscribers

525-478: A book explaining how to build a hydrogen bomb written by University of Nevada, Reno , professor Friedwardt Winterberg . The publication came two years after a magazine, The Progressive , had tried to print similar information but was prevented by an injunction that became the United States v. The Progressive . The government dropped the case after the information was published by the FEF. The author of

630-427: A campaign called Action for Access , which also claimed it was an independent organization and the voice of multiple sclerosis sufferers. People who visited the website and signed up for the campaign did not realise that these were not genuinely independent patient groups. Over the past 15 years, increasing concerns about obesity have caused Coca-Cola to experience pressure from social movement activists to reduce

735-451: A coordinated raid on the offices of LaRouche enterprises, including those of the FEF, and seized the documents that had been subpoenaed in 1985. The FEF and other entities argued in court that the search warrants had been improperly executed, and that documents were taken in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. The Court of Appeals denied their appeal. Six months later, in April 1987,

840-476: A corporation. Research has revealed that the CCF, with a mission to "promote responsibility and protect consumer choices ", uses both verbal and visual strategies to articulate obesity as "personal responsibility" to protect the industry from corporate responsibility. Tobacco companies frequently use front organizations and doctors to advocate their arguments about tobacco use although less openly and obviously than in

945-596: A few blocks from the Wisconsin State Capitol , The Progressive covered the protests that began in February 2011 in response to Governor Scott Walker 's Wisconsin budget repair bill . Madison Magazine named The Progressive's political editor Ruth Conniff as one of its Editors' Choice in 2011 for her "frontline dispatches from inside and outside the State Capitol and the courtroom across

1050-476: A fine of $ 10,000 per day to enforce the subpoena starting in March 1986. Similar fines were placed on other LaRouche organizations, totalling $ 45,000 per day. The FEF and the other LaRouche entities appealed the fines repeatedly, and were denied each time. They appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to review the lower court decision. In October 1986, hundreds of federal and state law enforcement conducted

1155-545: A front company to launder funds that were generated from the sale of cocaine . The boxing management company MTK Global is owned by the reputed Irish gang boss Daniel Kinahan . Heredia Boxing Management alleges that MTK Global was established as a front company to launder funds made from drug trafficking. During the year of 2019, ACT Police shut down the Lakeside Tattoo Parlour in Belconnen on

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1260-676: A high-ranking FSB official who is a close associate of Vladimir Putin . As part of a sub-project of the CIA’s Project MKSHATTER, the company WWASPS was set up to study the effectiveness of different behavior modification techniques on adolescents to gather data the Department of Education could implement; after the “youth revolution” of the 1960s the power movers of the day realized that the American youth, who largely had been perceived as too naive to pose any significant danger to

1365-659: A large mass in a reasonable amount of time, a concept derived from Project Daedalus . In 1979 the Fusion Energy Foundation created the Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The commission's members included Morris Levitt, Jon Gilbertson, Charles Bonilia. The commission determined that the accident must have been caused by sabotage because no other explanation

1470-501: A lawsuit. He said he was not a supporter of LaRouche political campaigns, and that he gave the money, "Because I got so many telephone calls requesting donations". He said "I'm mad at myself now" for having turned over the money, most of which went to the FEF. When he told the fundraisers that he only wanted to give money to his family in the future, he was reportedly told that gifts to the LaRouche movement "would be of greater benefit" to

1575-926: A more open role in the organization.) Similarly, Unite Against Fascism , the Anti-Nazi League , the Stop the War Coalition and Respect – The Unity Coalition are all criticised as being fronts for the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (UK) . In 2014, Andrew Cuomo established a front political party, the Women's Equality Party . The party was established to take advantage of electoral fusion laws in New York State that allow candidates to run on multiple ballot lines and to count all of their votes together. Critics of

1680-738: A plausible background story, occupation, and means of income. Brewster Jennings & Associates was a front company set up in 1994 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a cover for its officers. The airline Air America , an outgrowth of Civil Air Transport of the 1940s, and Southern Air Transport , ostensibly a civilian air charter company, were operated and wholly owned by the CIA , supposedly to provide humanitarian aid , but flew many combat support missions and supplied covert operations in Southeast Asia during

1785-467: A reduction in white blood cells caused by the habitual use of cannabis . Under the auspices of Pakdee Tanapura, a wealthy Thai landowner, the FEF and EIR held a seminar in 1983 on the proposed construction of the Kra Canal across Thailand. Their plan favored the use of nuclear explosions to speed excavation. A second seminar was held in 1984, and in 1986 the FEF published a report by U.H. Von Papart on

1890-510: A sign in Denver's Stapleton Airport that said, "Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales." He cut up the sign with his pocketknife. The FEF members pressed charges for destruction of property leading Fonda to miss his flight, though he was allowed to leave without posting bond. The case was dropped when the FEF members failed to appear on the court date. In 1982, Ellen Kaplan, an FEF member raising money in

1995-450: A special dinner. In 1977, Executive Director Morris Levitt asserted that nuclear fusion power plants could be built by 1990 if the U.S. spent $ 50 to $ 100 billion on research. The same year he predicted that there would be no United States in the 21st century if President Jimmy Carter 's ban on building breeder reactors was maintained. The director of the fusion power program at Argonne National Laboratory , Charles Baker, said in 1983 that

2100-571: A supposedly more moderate group. Some special interest groups engage in astroturfing , an attempt to mask lobbying as a grassroots movement . South Africa 's apartheid -era government used numerous front organizations to influence world opinion and to undertake extra-judicial activities and the killing of anti-apartheid activists; these included the following: Communist parties (especially Marxist-Leninist ones) have sometimes used front organizations to attract support from those (sometimes called " fellow travellers ") who do not fully agree with

2205-598: A temporary injunction to prevent the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from harassing it or interfering with its activities. The suit claimed that the FBI Director, Clarence M. Kelley , had personally ordered FBI agents to disrupt FEF conferences and dissuade scientists from participating. The injunction also included U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell and Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger . In 1986,

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2310-486: Is David Boddiger . Previous editors included La Follette Sr., Belle Case La Follette, their son Robert Jr. , William Evjue , Morris Rubin, Erwin Knoll , Matthew Rothschild, Bill Lueders and Ruth Conniff . On the first page of its first issue, La Follette wrote this introduction to the magazine: In the course of every attempt to establish or develop free government, a struggle between Special Privilege and Equal Rights

2415-603: Is a glorious privilege to live in this time, and have a free hand in this fight for government by the people. Some of the campaigns La Follette's Weekly engaged in were non-intervention in World War I, opposition to the Palmer Raids in the early 1920s, and calling for action against unemployment during the Depression . La Follette's wife, Belle , edited the publication's women's section, and also wrote articles for

2520-783: Is a left-leaning American magazine and website covering politics and culture. Founded in 1909 by U.S. senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. and co-edited with his wife Belle Case La Follette , it was originally called La Follette's Weekly and then La Follette's . In 1929, it was recapitalized and had its name changed to The Progressive. For a period, The Progressive was co-owned by La Follette family and William Evjue 's newspaper The Capital Times . Its headquarters are in Madison, Wisconsin . The publication covers civil rights and civil liberties -related topics, immigrant issues, environmentalism , criminal justice reform , and democratic reform. Its current acting and managing editor

2625-633: Is considered by many to now be a front group for the Church of Scientology, which took the group over financially after bankrupting it in a series of lawsuits. Time identified several other fronts for Scientology, including: the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), The Way to Happiness Foundation , Applied Scholastics , the Concerned Businessmen's Association of America , and HealthMed Clinic . Seven years later

2730-411: Is inevitable. Our great industrial organizations [are] in control of politics, government, and natural resources. They manage conventions, make platforms, [and] dictate legislation. They rule through the very men elected to represent them. The battle is just on. It is young yet. It will be the longest and hardest [battle] ever fought for Democracy. In other lands, the people have lost. Here we shall win. It

2835-966: Is not limited to the United Front Work Department (UFWD). An anti-Islamist feminist group in the Muslim world has also been accused of being a front organization. The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq has been accused of being a front for the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq . Banned paramilitary organizations sometimes use front groups to achieve a public face with which to raise funds, negotiate with opposition parties, recruit, and spread propaganda. For example, banned paramilitary organizations often have an affiliated political party that operates more openly, but those parties themselves often end up being banned. The parties may or may not be front organizations in

2940-697: Is thought as a synonym of brothel in these countries. A Colombian drug cartel, the Cali Cartel , in the past used Drogas La Rebaja, now a large national pharmacy store chain, as a front company in order to launder their drug trafficking earnings. The General Manager of the Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club in Cheektowaga, New York , is the international leader of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club : John Ermin. Many Outlaws MC members also work at

3045-522: The Boston Herald showed how Narconon and World Literacy Crusade were also fronts for Scientology. Other Scientology groups include Downtown Medical , Criminon and the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE). In politics, a group may be called a front organization if it is perceived to be disingenuous in its control or goals or if it attempts to mask extremist views within

3150-643: The 1991 presidential elections . He also supported the August 1991 coup attempt . The united front is a political strategy and network of groups and key individuals that are influenced or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and used to advance its interests. It has traditionally been a popular front that has included eight legally-permitted political parties : the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),

3255-590: The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce , the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade , the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese , and other people's organizations . Under Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping , the united front and its targets of influence have expanded in size and scope. The united front is managed primarily by but

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3360-460: The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness has been criticised as a front organization for various industry bodies which seek to undermine regulation of their environmentally damaging activities under the guise of 'regulatory effectiveness'. Astroturfing , a wordplay based on " grassroots " efforts, is an American term used pejoratively to describe formal public relations projects which try to create

3465-652: The Communist Party USA was highly stigmatized, it often operated largely through front groups. In addition, the Provisional IRA also operated a vigilante front group, Direct Action Against Drugs . Both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries in Ireland during the Troubles used cover names when they carried out sectarian attacks against civilians. Republican groups like the Provisional IRA and

3570-559: The Defense Intelligence Agency , and the NSC. As with other LaRouche entities, representatives of the Fusion Energy Foundation gave testimony to a number of congressional hearings. In addition to addressing committees on energy matters, FEF representatives, including Eric Lerner , also testified on matters such as the nomination of Cyrus Vance for Secretary of State . The FEF campaigned on behalf of Arthur Rudolph ,

3675-659: The Dirksen Senate Office Building . According to the American Physical Society , FEF members disrupted a 1986 conference on SDI to which they were not invited, and only stopped after being threatened with police action. After Ronald Reagan announced SDI the LaRouche movement made claims for having been the originators of the proposal, which reportedly "concerned" some people in the administration and in Congress, but no correction

3780-973: The Irish National Liberation Army used front names like the South Armagh Republican Action Force , Catholic Reaction Force and the People's Republican Army to claim responsibility for attacks on civilians, Loyalists like the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defense Association used various front names such as the Protestant Action Force , Ulster Freedom Fighters and Red Hand Defenders when they carried out attacks against civilians, most of which were aimed at Catholic civilians. During

3885-567: The Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU), which became the second officially-registered party in the country. According to KGB General Philipp Bobkov , it was a " Zubatov 's pseudo-party under KGB control that directs interests and sentiments of certain social groups". The former Soviet Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev described in his book how KGB Director Vladimir Kryuchkov presented

3990-627: The Newark Airport , spotted former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his wife Nancy . Kissinger was flying to Boston for a heart operation. Kaplan went up to Kissinger and asked him why he had "prolonged the war in Vietnam", and then, "Mr. Kissinger, do you sleep with young boys at the Carlyle Hotel?" At that point Nancy Kissinger grabbed Kaplan by the throat and asked, "Do you want to get slugged?" Kaplan later explained that she

4095-528: The Russian program of biological weapons . This delivery channel encoded VOLNA ("wave") meant "delivering the material via an international flight of the Aeroflot airline in the pilots' cabin, where one of the pilots was a KGB officer". At least two SVR agents died, presumably from the transported pathogens. When businessman Nikolai Glushkov was appointed as a top manager of Aeroflot in 1996, he found that

4200-739: The U.S. Senate , and it became the magazine's best-selling issue. The Progressive also criticized U.S. nuclear policy and clandestine CIA activity in this period. In the 1960s, the magazine published five articles by Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin 's open letter , "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation", the first section of The Fire Next Time . The Progressive also denounced U.S. involvement in Indochina . In 1984, The Progressive published "Behind

4305-775: The Vietnam War . Other CIA-funded front groups have been used to spread American propaganda and influence during the Cold War , particularly in the Third World . When intelligence agencies work through legitimate organizations, it can cause problems and increased risk for the workers of those organizations. To prevent this, the CIA has had a 20-year policy (since 1976, per US Government sources) of not using Peace Corps members or US journalists for intelligence purposes. Another airline allegedly involved in intelligence operations

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4410-702: The Weimar Republic in Germany, the anti-Semitic and nationalist Organisation Consul reportedly had a front company named the Bavarian Wood Products Company. Corporations from a wide variety of different industries, such as food, pharmaceutical and energy, set up front groups to advocate on their behalf. Some pharmaceutical companies set up "patients' groups" as front organizations that pressure healthcare providers and legislators to adopt their products. For example, Biogen set up

4515-799: The World Federation of Trade Unions , the World Federation of Democratic Youth , and the International Union of Students . Richard Felix Staar has also suggested that these organizations were somewhat less important front organizations: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation , Christian Peace Conference , International Association of Democratic Lawyers , International Federation of Resistance Movements , International Institute for Peace , International Organization of Journalists , Women's International Democratic Federation , and World Federation of Scientific Workers . There were also numerous smaller organizations, affiliated with

4620-449: The parent company from legal liability. In international relations , a puppet state is a state which acts as a front (or surrogate) for another state. Intelligence agencies use front organizations to provide "cover", plausible occupations and means of income, for their covert agents. These may include legitimate organizations, such as charity, religious or journalism organizations; or " brass plate firms " which exist solely to provide

4725-409: The second Iraq War . In 1979 , The Progressive gained national attention for its article by Howard Morland , "The H-bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it", which the U.S. government suppressed for six months because it contained classified information. The magazine prevailed in a landmark First Amendment case of prior restraint , United States v. Progressive, Inc. . Located

4830-660: The "Moon model" of Robert James Moon . Notable writers include: J. Gordon Edwards , Zbigniew Jaworowski and Paul Marmet . According to Science and other sources, it is published by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche. Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. Page 6. Page 7. Page 8. Page 9. Page 10. Page 11. Front organization A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies , organized crime groups, terrorist organizations , secret societies , banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups , or corporations . Front organizations can act for

4935-470: The "most obnoxious of the groups...infesting the airports." An article in The Boston Globe called them "the kooks at the airport" who solicited money using posters often denouncing Jane Fonda , a target of the LaRouche movement because of her support for environmental causes. The FEF had slogans and bumper stickers with texts like: In 1981, Fonda's brother, actor Peter Fonda was enraged by

5040-557: The 1980s. Michael Gelber was the Central New York regional representative. Dennis Speed was the regional coordinator for Boston and Harley Schlanger was the southern regional coordinator. Uwe Parpart Henke was the director of research. Jon Gilbertson was the director of nuclear engineering. Marsha Freeman was a representative of the FEF's International Press Service. Charles B. Stevens, a chemical engineer, authored scores of articles on fusion energy research and development for both

5145-515: The 1980s. The World Health Organization has charged that the tobacco industry funded seemingly-unbiased scientific organizations to undermine tobacco control measures and cited the International Life Sciences Institute in particular. Another way to combat public health measures against tobacco is to use lobbying and campaign contributions. For example, RJ Reynolds , the current second-largest tobacco company in

5250-848: The American agenda, were potentially far more dangerous than imagined, so various projects were created to study various means of “correcting” the next generations of American teens outside of the judicial system. The FBI has acknowledged using at least thirteen front companies to conceal their use of aircraft to observe criminal activity in the United States, including: Many organized crime operations have substantial legitimate businesses, such as licensed gambling houses, building construction companies, hair salons and karaoke bars, engineering firms, restaurants and bars, billiard clubs, trash hauling services, or dock loading enterprises. These front companies enable these criminal organizations to launder their income from illegal activities. As well,

5355-486: The Church's offices (following discovery of the Church's Operation Snow White ) turned up, among other documents, an undated memo entitled "PR General Categories of Data Needing Coding". This memo listed what it called "Secret PR Front Groups," which included the group APRL, "Alliance for the Preservation of Religious Liberty" (later renamed "Americans Preserving Religious Liberty"). The Cult Awareness Network (CAN)

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5460-769: The Death Squads" by Allan Nairn , a critique of U.S. policy in El Salvador . The Progressive opposed the Persian Gulf War , accusing the George H. W. Bush administration of rejecting any options for peaceful negotiation of the crisis. While condemning Saddam Hussein 's government for its abuse of human rights , it accused the Bush administration of hypocrisy for not taking action against other governments that also abused human rights. The magazine also opposed

5565-424: The FEF and other LaRouche related groups had made improper charges to the credit cards of about 1,000 people. Fundraisers also solicited larger sums. A 71-year-old California woman loaned the FEF $ 100,000 after making smaller loans to other LaRouche-related entities. FEF fundraisers refused to take a check and drove her to the bank so she could wire the money directly. The FEF made no interest or principal payments on

5670-400: The FEF denied any financial connection to LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party , the two organizations reportedly shared offices in New York City. According to an interview with a former member presented as evidence in LaRouche vs. NBC in 1984: Money from the . . . profit-making organizations went into political campaigns and was not correctly reported. Money from the tax-exempt [FEF] was given to

5775-452: The FEF was "overstating" the prospect of practical fusion power in the near future. "The judgment of the vast majority of the people actually working in fusion believe it will take substantially longer" than the few years predicted by the FEF, according to Baker. By 1980, the Fusion Energy Foundation had close contacts with fusion researchers. They became a conduit for information between researchers who were sequestered in secret research. Even

5880-407: The FEF was ordered by a state court to stop raising funds in California due to complaints. In a separate action the same year, the FEF, along with other LaRouche entities, was named in a lawsuit charging violations of the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) that was filed in San Francisco. In an unusual move, the assets of the FEF and related entities were seized before

5985-409: The FEF's bankruptcy petition was reviewed by Judge Bostetter who dismissed it, effectively reversing his April 1987 ruling. He noted that two of the entities, including FEF, were nonprofit fund-raisers and therefore ineligible for involuntary bankruptcy actions. He found that the government's actions and representations in obtaining the bankruptcy had the effect of misleading the court as to the status of

6090-402: The IRS restored the FEF's tax exempt status, saying it had made an error though privacy rules prevented further elaboration. Subscribers to Fusion complained that their credit cards were being billed for unauthorized charges. In one example a man who had subscribed to Fusion found that he had been billed for $ 1000, for which he received promissory notes in the mail. Prosecutors charged that

6195-406: The LaRouche movement had encouraged supporters to turn over their savings. During a 1986 Virginia state investigation, an undercover policeman purchased subscriptions to Fusion and another LaRouche movement publication, Executive Intelligence Review , at Washington National Airport . He then received 22 "abusive and demanding" telephone calls asking for loans or donations. He was told the money

6300-434: The LaRouche movement met repeatedly with the director of defense programs for the National Security Council , Ray Pollock, while he was developing the basis for Ronald Reagan 's "Star Wars" program, officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Pollock eventually said in the National Security Council (NSC) that LaRouche is "a frightening kind of fellow". The FEF held a seminar on beam weapons in October 1983, at

6405-477: The US is maintained by the Multinational Monitor . Some think tanks are corporate front groups. These organizations present themselves as research organizations, using phrases such as "...Institute for Research" in their names. Because their names suggest neutrality, they can present the commercial strategies of the corporations which sponsor them in a way which appears to be objective sociological or economical research rather than political lobbying. Similarly

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6510-429: The USLP uses to win the confidence of unsuspecting businessmen". In 1981, the FEF reported $ 3.5 million of revenue. According to a representative in Toronto, Richard Sanders, FEF contributions gathered in Canada were sent to the United States to support the presidential campaigns of Lyndon LaRouche. In 1983, an FEF spokesperson said that there was no financial link between the foundation and LaRouche's campaigns. Although

6615-454: The United States, created a front group named Get Government Off Our Back ("GGOOB") in 1994 to fight federal regulation of tobacco. By hiding its involvement with tobacco industry, GGOOB avoided the tobacco industry reputation for misrepresenting evidence and drew big supports from both public and legislative aspects, successfully resolving the threats from wide-reaching tobacco regulations. A list of some alleged corporate front groups active in

6720-448: The above fronts such as Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs . Numerous peace conferences, congresses and festivals have been staged with support of those organizations. More recently, the Workers' World Party (WWP) set up an anti-war front group, International ANSWER . (ANSWER is no longer closely associated with WWP; it is closely associated with a WWP splinter, the Party for Socialism and Liberation , but PSL plays

6825-402: The airline company worked as a " cash cow to support international spying operations" according to Alex Goldfarb : 3,000 people out of the total workforce of 14,000 in Aeroflot were FSB , SVR, or GRU officers. All proceeds from ticket sales were distributed to 352 foreign bank accounts that could not be controlled by the Aeroflot administration. Glushkov closed all these accounts and channeled

6930-443: The club. Authorities have referred to Pharaoh's as a hot spot for drug dealing and sex trafficking. The club's owner is Peter G. Gerace Jr., the nephew of reputed Buffalo crime family boss Joseph A. Todaro Jr. The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, themselves, have been designated by federal law enforcement as a criminal enterprise. In the early 2000s, the Black Mafia Family established the Atlanta-based record label BMF Entertainment as

7035-517: The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima , in contrast to both The Nation and The New Republic ' s support for the bombing. The Progressive reprinted an essay from The Christian Science Monitor by Richard Lee Strout , arguing that by using the bombs, "The United States has incurred a terrible responsibility to history which now, unfortunately, can never be withdrawn". In 1947, The Progressive 's editors announced they were suspending publication. However, after readers raised $ 40,000 to save

7140-409: The earlier publication, The Fusion Energy Foundation Newsletter, and its successor, Fusion. Eric Lerner was director of physics in 1977. Other notable scientists who wrote for FEF publications and lectured under its auspices include Friedwardt Winterberg , Krafft Arnold Ehricke , and Winston H. Bostick . Melvin B. Gottlieb received an award from the FEF. Adolf Busemann also received an award at

7245-425: The family because LaRouche's supporters "were changing the world situation". The FEF gave the donor a plaque which said, "Benjamin Franklin Award Honoring Special Contributions to the Future of Science". In a Nightline interview, LaRouche called him "a person who's been associated with us as a supporter for a long time." LaRouche's treasurer, Edward Spannaus, said the "drug lobby" was responsible for accusations that

7350-417: The feasibility and financing for the project. The FEF has been described by many writers as a " front " for the U.S. Labor Party and the LaRouche movement , In a National Review article published in 1979, former member Gregory Rose said that the primary purpose of the Fusion Energy Foundation was raising money. Milton Copulous, director of energy studies for The Heritage Foundation , called FEF "a front

7455-491: The federal prosecutors obtained an unusual involuntary bankruptcy procedure against the FEF and other groups in order to settle the contempt of court fines which had grown to $ 21.4 million. The government claimed that the LaRouche groups were selling properties in order to hide the cash. The petition was granted by Judge Martin V.B. Bostetter and the federal government seized the property of the FEF and other groups. Reportedly, they only recovered $ 86,000 in assets. In October 1989,

7560-403: The foundation briefly gained the confidence of respected scientists who lent their reputations to it but it warned that they risked their reputations by doing so. Lyndon LaRouche was a co-founder and one of the three members of the foundation's board of directors. Steven Bardwell, a nuclear physicist, was another director. The Executive Director was Morris Levitt in the 1970s and Paul Gallagher in

7665-417: The front companies provide plausible cover for illegal activities such as illegal gambling , extortion , drug trafficking , smuggling , and prostitution . Tattoo parlors are often used as fronts for outlaw motorcycle clubs . Where brothels are illegal, criminal organizations set up front companies providing services such as a " massage parlor " or "sauna" to the point that "massage parlor" or "sauna"

7770-470: The general public. The FEF has been described by many writers as a " front " for the U.S. Labor Party and the LaRouche movement . By the mid-1980s, the FEF was being accused of fraudulent fundraising on behalf of other LaRouche entities. Federal prosecutors forced it into bankruptcy in 1986 to collect contempt of court fines, a decision that was later overturned when a federal bankruptcy court found that

7875-528: The government had acted "in bad faith". Key personnel were convicted in 1988. According to an article in The Nation , the Fusion Energy Foundation had physicists, corporate executives, and government planners on its board of advisors, many unaware of the foundations connection to the U.S. Labor Party, while the board of directors was filled with LaRouche movement regulars and some party outsiders. A 1983 report published by The Heritage Foundation said that

7980-421: The grounds of it being allegedly used to launder cash for the notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, Comanchero Motorcycle Club . The money laundered through the tattoo parlor allegedly came from the club's drug trafficking operations. The Church of Scientology uses front groups either to promote its interests in politics, to make its group seem more legitimate, and to recruit. The FBI 's July 8, 1977 raids on

8085-485: The head of fusion research for the Federal Government cooperated with the foundation. It was praised by scientists like John Clarke , who said that the fusion community owed it a "debt of gratitude". However the politicization of the foundation's journals and the LaRouche views printed in them repelled the scientists involved, according to The Nation . The FEF received publicity in 1981 when it published

8190-404: The impression of a groundswell of spontaneous popular response to a politician, product, service, or event. Corporations have been known to "astroturf", but are not the only entities alleged to have done so. In recent years, organizations of plaintiffs' attorneys have established front groups such as Victims and Families United to oppose tort reform . The Progressive The Progressive

8295-513: The loans. After she sued the FEF for repayment they settled, acknowledged the loans, and agreed to a schedule of payments. They stopped making payments after sending a few checks, one of which bounced. She filed suit in Virginia in an attempt to attach FEF assets there. In a widely reported case, a 79-year-old retired steel executive gave or loaned a total of $ 2.6 million over a 14 months period in amounts ranging from $ 250 to $ 350,000, according to

8400-483: The magazine, The Progressive returned as a monthly magazine issued as a non-profit venture. In the 1950s, The Progressive criticized McCarthyism , although the magazine agreed that the U.S. government had the right to blacklist members of the Communist Party . The Progressive issued a special issue criticizing McCarthy, McCarthy: A Documented Record in 1954; sections from the issue were read aloud in

8505-463: The money to an accounting center called Andava in Switzerland . He also sent a bill and wrote a letter to SVR director Yevgeni Primakov and FSB director Mikhail Barsukov asking them to pay salaries of their intelligence officers in Aeroflot in 1996. Glushkov was imprisoned in 2000 on charges of illegally channeling money through Andava. Since 2004 the company is controlled by Viktor Ivanov ,

8610-516: The mortgage. Supporters of the Fusion Energy Foundation became well known for their aggressive fundraising in U.S. airports in the late 1970s and early 1980s, along with Hare Krishnas and Moonies . They set up tables to sell publications from the FEF and other LaRouche organizations and displayed provocatively captioned, hand-lettered posters. The FEF members would shout slogans to passers-by to get attention, and sometimes accused those who disagreed with them of being homosexuals. One writer called them

8715-651: The narrow sense (they have varying degrees of autonomy, and the relationships are usually something of an open secret ) but are widely considered to be so, especially by their political opponents. Examples are the relationship between the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in 1980s Ireland or between the Basque groups ETA (paramilitary) and Batasuna (party) in Spain . Similarly, in the United States , when

8820-701: The organization. Members of the scientific and fusion community noted the closing of the FEF publications. A full page advertisement protesting the closures, published in IEEE Spectrum , was signed by people associated with the fusion and SDI fields, including 22 employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . The International Journal of Fusion Energy was published intermittently from March 1977 to October 1985, putting out at least 11 issues. For some time Robert James Moon acted as editor-in-chief. Morris Levitt

8925-400: The original article later learned that a diagram by Uwe Papert published in 1976 in a LaRouche publication contained two important details of the weapon's design that he had been wrong about. The colonization of Mars is a major proposal of the LaRouche movement. Friedwardt Winterberg described how rocket engines incorporating fusion micro-explosions could provide enough acceleration to convey

9030-405: The parent group without the actions being attributed to the parent group, thereby allowing them to hide certain activities from the authorities or the public. Front organizations that appear to be independent voluntary associations or charitable organizations are called front groups . In the business world, front organizations such as front companies or shell corporations are used to shield

9135-518: The party and of Cuomo have noted that there is an inherent level of deception involved in the party, as Cuomo is not a woman, the party has not favored women in its endorsement policies, and Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign fund is the primary source of revenue for the party's operations. In April 1991, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership and the KGB created a puppet political party in Russia,

9240-415: The party's ideology but agree with certain aspects of it. The front organization often obscures its provenance and may often be a tool for recruitment. Other Marxists often describe front organizations as opportunist . The concept of a front organization should be distinguished from the united front (a coalition of working class or socialist parties) and the popular front . Both the united front and

9345-525: The political campaign, unbeknownst to the people who made the contributions. . . . Someone would contribute to the [FEF] because they believed in nuclear power and their contribution would turn up as a contribution for . . . [LaRouche's] presidential campaign. Barbara Mikulski filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission asserting that the FEF was improperly raising funds for a LaRouche-affiliated candidate, Debra Freeman, in

9450-737: The popular front usually disclose the groups that make up their coalitions. According to a list prepared in 1955 by the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee , the Comintern set up no less than 82 front organizations in the United States in the 1930s and the 1940s. Soviet intelligence infiltrated many peace movements in the West . In addition to the World Peace Council , important communist front organizations included

9555-535: The project of the puppet party at a joint meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and informed him about a selection of party leaders and the mechanism of funding from Communist Party money. The book includes an official copy of a document providing the initial Liberal Democratic Party funding (3 million rubles) from the Communist Party's money. The Liberal Democratic leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky , proved to be an effective media performer and gained 8% of votes during

9660-520: The publication condemning racial segregation . An early associate editor was the writer Herbert Quick . During the 1940s, The Progressive adopted an anti-Stalinist view of the Soviet Union . During the early 1940s, the magazine argued that the United States should stay out of World War II . Following the attack on Pearl Harbor , The Progressive declared its support for the American war effort. However, The Progressive also condemned

9765-455: The same editor and material as Fusion . The last hard copy issue of the magazine published was the Winter 2005-2006 issue. Subsequent issues are available in electronic PDF format only. The magazine deals with a variety of issues, including criticism of claims of anthropogenic global warming , promotion of the use of DDT and support for an alternative to the standard atomic theory , based on

9870-792: The street". For its 100th year in print, the magazine published a book featuring "some of the best writing in The Progressive from 1909 to 2009" titled Democracy in Print , published by the University of Wisconsin Press . With a fall to 27,000 subscribers in 1999, in April 2004, following the Iraq War , The Progressive 's circulation reached a record 65,000. By 2010, circulation had settled near 47,000. The Progressive solicits gifts, grants, and sponsorships, publicizing donors who give

9975-577: The sugar content in its drinks. Although Coca-Cola has publicly promoted consumer engagement in healthy lifestyles with its campaigns such as ' Coming Together ', activists have also exposed that Coca-Cola has secretly funded front groups or organizations that criticize social movement activists and legitimize controversial corporate activities . The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) are two main groups that engage activists on behalf of Coca-Cola even though they were not intended to be publicly associated with Coca-Cola as

10080-586: The suit was unsealed, because the plaintiff's lawyer convinced the judge that the entities would hide their assets. In 1987, the FEF and five other LaRouche entities were prohibited from operating in Virginia. In 1988, the FEF was sued by the California Attorney General's office. The suit alleged that FEF fundraisers had flown down from Washington to take the 79-year old Laguna Hills resident to her bankbox where they got from her stock certificates worth $ 104,452, described by her accountant as

10185-481: The woman's life savings. In their place was a receipt signed by Paul Gallagher, Executive Director of the FEF. LaRouche said the charges were "totally frivolous" and the result of corruption in the Attorney General's office. During a federal grand jury investigation into fundraising practices in 1985, the FEF and other LaRouche entities were given subpoenas requiring that they turn over documents and provide

10290-525: Was "misplaced", and that "whether or not they knew it, they had contributed money to support Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas". LaRouche reportedly also said that the most important expenditures were for his personal security, and other expenses had a lower priority. In September 1985, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) withdrew the FEF's status as a tax-deductible non-profit, Section 501(c)(3) , which it had had since 1978. The stated reason

10395-565: Was Russian Aeroflot that worked in a close coordination with KGB , SVR and GRU . The company conducted forcible "evacuations" of Soviet citizens from foreign countries back to the USSR. People whose loyalty was questioned were drugged and delivered unconscious by Aeroflot planes, assisted by the company KGB personnel, according to former GRU officer Victor Suvorov . In the 1980s and 1990s, specimens of deadly bacteria and viruses stolen from Western laboratories were delivered by Aeroflot to support

10500-428: Was a "longtime opponent" of Kissinger, and that she "wanted to confront the man with how low he is." She pressed charges and Dennis Speed, an FEF coordinator, said they would make Kissinger into "a laughingstock". The Newark municipal judge acquitted Mrs. Kissinger, saying that she had exhibited "a reasonable spontaneous, somewhat human reaction" and that there was no injury. In 1977, the Fusion Energy Foundation received

10605-465: Was made by them. The FEF lobbied state legislatures and testified before congressional hearings on behalf of beam weapons. Steven Bardwell resigned from the board of advisors in early 1984, reportedly because of money questions and a belief that the organization was losing its independence by becoming too solicitous of the Reagan administration in general, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency ,

10710-509: Was needed to fight AIDS and to keep LaRouche out of jail. When he agreed to make a loan he received a letter of acknowledgement and an invitation to tour the LaRouche headquarters in Leesburg, Virginia . Not all supporters contributed due to pressure. An Oklahoman oilman subscribed to Fusion and liked LaRouche's views on nuclear power. He donated thousands of dollars as well as buying a $ 900,000 estate for LaRouche's use, charging rent to cover

10815-513: Was possible. According to Gallagher, "New evidence is accumulating that sabotage very likely occurred". According to the Herald newspaper of Titusville, Pennsylvania , when asked by reporters for evidence Gilbertson said he had none. According to Fusion , two members of the FEF went to the Soviet Union to attend conference on "laser interaction" in December 1978. In 1982 and 1983, members of

10920-434: Was that it had failed to file a tax return in the prior two years. In October 1986, New York Attorney General Robert Abrams sued to dissolve the FEF, charging that it fraudulently solicited donations as tax-deductible after their exemption had been withdrawn, and for failure to file required forms. Paul Gallagher, described the suit as "part of an escalating witch hunt against FEF board member Lyndon LaRouche." Two weeks later,

11025-409: Was the editor-in-chief as of 1979, but by the mid-1980s the job was taken over by Steven Bardwell, and by 1986 it was Carol White. Marjorie Mazel Hecht was the managing editor. By 1980, it claimed 80,000 subscribers. 21st Century Science and Technology is a quarterly magazine established in 1988 following the federal government's closing down of its predecessor Fusion Magazine (1977 to 1987). It has

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