> Besides Gloria Steinem and Norman Thomas, the old SP/YPSL branch at Boulder,
> Colorado spawned the chief mentors of the Nicaraguan contras. Dave Arnold
> wrote a song about them in 1959, with such lyrics as
>
> They call it socialism, but it's leftwing militarism
> In Boulder, Colorado
>
> These guys (folks like Carl Gershman and Penn Kemble) later emerged, via
> Social Democrats USA, as Ronald Reagan's international hatchet men.
All excellent information. I've heard the League for Industrial Democracy is a conduit for CIA funds. The Dennis King book on L.Larouche acknowledges the League for I.D. and the Smith-Richardson foundation for support. It seems there was a CIA/right wing effort to bring down LaRouche.
Sam