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and expressed weariness with the “very eerie kind of life” he said he must lead.
He insisted that federal investigations of his finances and his organizations are “a politically motivated hatchet job.”
One reason, he said, is that “The Soviets are demanding my head. Therefore, since (Reagan administration officials) hate me anyway, they say why not deliver his head and make the Soviets happy, and maybe we can cut a deal more easily with Moscow.”
LaRouche said his indictment was partially the result of^ tfov'ert operations conducted by Lt. Col'. Oliver North and the National Security Council, with cooperation from the U.S. Justice Department. All this was. sanctioned under a 1981 executive order from Reagan, LaRouche said.
“Everything that you thought was bad about Nixon and much worse is going on under Reagan,” he said.
A Justice Department investigation of LaRouche culminated with a Boston grand jury indictment against him on charges of conspiring to derail a federal investigation into whether he and his aides conducted a $1 million credit card fraud scheme to finance his 1984 presidential campaign.
LaRouche, 64, a Rochester native, pleaded innocent Tuesday and was freed on $20,000 bail posted by a supporter from Pennsylvania who had never met him.
Thirteen of his associates and five of his organizations have been charged in the alleged scheme, while federal officials in April seized his Leesburg, Va., headquarters and other LaRouche offices in an attempt to recover $16 million in outstanding contempt-of-court fines.
An Alexandria, Va., grand jury also is investigating LaRouche’s finances and income taxes.
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