This article appears in the April 25, 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

May 9, 1978

The Death of Aldo Moro:
The Time for Justice Has Come—Part 2

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

[Print version of this article]

Part 1 of this article was published in the May 12 edition of New Solidarity (Vol. 9, No. 21). In it, USLP [United States Labor Party] Chairman LaRouche branded the Red Brigades assassins of Italian leader Aldo Moro “crazed beast-worshippers of the Phrygian cult of Dionysus … that has been constituted repeatedly over the millennia … to bring chaos and ruin upon urban-centered civilization.” LaRouche called on Europe’s leadership to identify today’s terrorists and their sympathizers as instruments “of the supranational oligarchical faction centered in the British monarchy” and to undertake an antiterror campaign to ensure that justice is done in the Moro killing.

Computer Aids

Once the problem is properly defined in that way, the investigation lends itself to computer-assisted supervision. Start, for example, with British antiterrorist forces, including emphatically Special Air Services (SAS): this and Lord Wingate’s networks in Israel put one on the main lines for tracing networks of professional training of terrorists. The highly-trained terrorists are trained in techniques developed by SAS and other antiterrorist professionals, and trained in significant part by professional antiterrorist instructors from SAS and similar institutions. Start, for example, with Henry A. Kissinger, the Harvard University Mazzini Society, coordinated by the same British Special Intelligence Services (SIS) operative, William Yandell Elliott, who guided Kissinger into SIS training and service. This procedure produces a network grid of utmost relevance for Italy.

In Italy, trace out the interface among the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), Israeli intelligence, Agnelli-linked elements of the “Black Nobility,” the British “White Resistance” network, and the Action Party-Justice and Liberty network. The interfacing and overlaps of these, including Cuccia’s Mediobanca-Lazard elements, identify the hard core of the privileged terrorist infrastructure in Italy.

Within the Socialist International trace out first those networks of personalities which fall into the 1930s and wartime networks of the Amsterdam and London “Socialist-anarcho-syndicalist internationals” overlapping the Independent Labour Party in Britain between the wars. Grid these elements of the Socialist International with their networks in communist organizations—notably typified by the connection among Israeli intelligence, Bettino Craxi, Spain’s Santiago Carrillo, and Amendola and Napolitano of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). This aids in locating the interfaces involving Feltrinelli into Hamburg, the PCI, the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), the black nobility circuits through which the Red Brigades were developed under the patronage of Alberoni.[fn_1]

Interface this with the international networks of the Kennedy family’s creation, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). This includes the British-Dutch-IPS center for international terrorism spanning from the London Institute for Race Relations to the Transnational Institute.

Interface these with the members and spin-off organizations of the London Institute for the Study of Conflict, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Tavistock Institute, and the all-important Bertrand Russell networks.

Add the U.S.-Berlin Aspen Institute and the World Watch Institute. Add the Club of Rome. Add Oxford University’s Balliol College, the London School of Economics, and intelligence-linked other sections of Oxford, Cambridge and Sussex universities.

Add, now, the factional divisions within Freemasonry. Grid Rothschild, Lazard, Oppenheimer, Barings, Schroder, Hambros, Lloyds, and other British and Anglo-German banking networks.

Add British Sunni and Shi’ite networks in the Islamic sector, using such figures as Witteveen[fn_2] as useful points of reference. Include Sicco Mansholt as an important element, as well as Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins, Winston Churchill III, Robert Moss, Christopher Mayhew, Robert Swann, and so forth as key British SIS executives. Recognize that both the World Federalists and Amnesty International are British intelligence organization-covers, and grid them and their influential members and cells as key elements of the tracing. Trace out the element of British MI-5 in Interpol, and British networks within NATO.

This is by no means complete, but it is an adequate basic beginning.

Having prescribed the approach for building a computer database, we are now prepared and obliged to prescribe the crucial point of methodology which study of these networks requires. Apart from the fact that the appearance of an individual name in the network does signify a channel of influence, the point is not to round up each and every individual whose name appears. The issue of method is that of knowing how to trace out what is important from what is otherwise less important or downright misleading.

For first approximation, count the number of lines of intersection impinging upon each organization and individual. Those of prominence because of the great number of intersections now have heavier lines drawn from them to each of their associations. Now, study the whole a second time, weighting the evaluation from combined factions of heavy ordinary lines converging upon any point. This determines double-heavy lines.

That done, now reexamine the whole array not in terms of individuals, but of patterns. This gives a good first approximation of the main patterns defining networks and principal nodes.

The next step is to construct an overlay to be superimposed upon the first representation of patterns and nodes.

Let the color red stand for left-wing profiled person or group, yellow for liberal, blue for right. Now, redraw each line accordingly. The grid without these color distinctions is the grid of reality; the colored grid, developed in the same way as the colorless grid, is the gridding of profiles (political appearances).

Now, perform two further general evaluations on the entire network.

First, attempt to distinguish the ruling strata from the instruments. The highest rank is “the families.” This includes the aristocratic families, titled and quasi-titled. Now, as the second rank, include the secondary “families,” those allied with the top rank over two or more generations. In the third rank situate those politicians and others who are the trusted key executives for the families, but not of family rank—the useful parvenus, such as Kissinger. This third rank is the dividing level between the rulers and the instruments. The bottom rank of members of the IISS and so forth mark the lower level of this dividing line.

Those below the third strata are divided among key persons, secondary persons, regulars, and expendable rubbish. Ordinary members of the Lombardi current, Lotta Continua, and so forth are the rubbish.

The final major operation for setting up the grid is a correlation study of the grid based on selected significant operations. For example, tracing out the history of the Mazzini line of descent of British SIS operations in Italy to Lombardi, La Malfa, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Gardner, Napolitano, today; for example, the reorganization of Anglo-American British-linked political and intelligence networks during the period of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, key developments plus the history of splitting and regrouping of organizations within the overall grid.

The operational study tests the grid for patterns of actions for actual key developments affecting the grid. Adding in a finer-grained study of shifting patterns of grid activity for operations shows how the beast under study behaves.

This gives the kind of computer database required for intelligence evaluations. Such a computer system should be regarded as an hypothesis-elaborating aid. Given an operation, actual or suspected, what are the elements of information to be verified or disproven which tend to show crucially a certain pattern of deployment within the network as a whole? Similarly, where can pressure applied cause the most effective disruption of the network for the kind of deployment being faced?

Such a computer technique is not a substitute for thinking. It is a device for quickly abstracting from the information processed constantly from many persons the form required by a single group of individuals.

Let us now turn to the crucial matter: What kind of thinking is required.

Edgar Allan Poe

The American, early 19th-Century poet, short story writer, and journalist, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has almost no correspondence in reality to the popularized accounts of his character and work. The account which represents Poe as a drug addict, occultist, and alcoholic was fabricated shortly after Poe’s death by a hoaxster, Rufus Griswold, a New York City publisher. Since Poe was the victim of epilepsy, he could not drink even moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages; since he produced prodigiously—when the evidence of his unpublished work and the workmanship of his work is taken into account—there was not time in Poe’s too-short life for the sort of dissipation his slanderers attributed to him.

Beginning about World War II, a new myth concerning Poe was put forward, to replace the discredited old myth. Since Poe was a committed and qualified Neoplatonic thinker, British and American Anglophile circles applied to Poe the same general sort of lying which Cambridge University (e.g., the late Gilbert Murray, and F.M. Cornford) and the Warburg Institute apply to Plato and the Neoplatonists: a mystical, romantic occultist.

Poe was in fact a political-intelligence operative of a private association derived from the secret Masonic organization, the Cincinnati Society of American Revolutionary War officers. Poe was connected to that circle through his grandfather, and came into active connection with it during his enlisted service in the U.S. Army, and his period at Thayer’s West Point. He acted under the overall sponsorship of such figures as John Quincy Adams and Mathew Carey. His work, done primarily either as literary work or under literary cover, was that of counterintelligence work against the British Secret Intelligence Service. Poe’s targets were the SIS nest built up around the Edinburgh Review and Blackwood’s Magazine, and the British intelligence influence centered most prominently in the United States around the Concord “Transcendentalists” (Longfellow, Emerson, et al.) and the Manhattan machine of British agent Martin Van Buren.

Poe was murdered in the course of an election campaign in Baltimore. He had been successful as an electioneer in drawing crowds in the thousands, and was murdered as a matter of British interest. Poe’s assassins, unaware that Poe’s epilepsy precluded his taking alcohol, saturated the clothing around his murdered body with strong liquor. So, in the manner of attempting to cover up the nature of the crime, the perpetrators left conclusive proof of the nature of the criminal deed.

I most strongly urge every key European security officer to study the following writings of Poe, as one of the most efficient presentations of the methods properly governing sophisticated problems of criminal investigations. The distinction of Poe’s work is that he, an able Neoplatonist master, used poems, short stories and satires as a way of bringing the principles of the Neoplatonic method of reason within the grasp of the more sensitive minds among typical sorts of his educated American readers. His detective stories, notably those around the fictional character C. Auguste Dupin, are among the most useful primers for teaching this method available in any language.

I suggest the following sections as adequate for this purpose: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” “The Purloined Letter,” “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and Poe’s essays, “Eureka” and “The Philosophy of Composition.” Some of the impact of these writings is lost in translation from English, but the essential points survive in any good translation.

This significance of Poe’s work was known to British intelligence.

On the surface, it might appear that Poe was the model on which British writers and their imitators based the art of the modern detective-story and spy-novels. That impression is most deceptive. The view of Poe Arthur Conan Doyle puts into the mouth of his fictional Sherlock Holmes goes directly to the practical point we are considering here. Holmes attacks Poe’s August Dupin savagely, angrily defending the method of deduction against Dupin’s case for the use of reason. Holmes’ argument is standard Cambridge slander against Plato and the Neoplatonists: the argument that reason, as distinct from the lower methodologies of deduction and induction, does not exist, that the arguments for reason are all occultist idealism.

Poe puts into the mouth of his character Dupin the same methodological argument he makes elsewhere. Poe’s epistemologically sophisticated (and sound) attack on Laplacian notions of probability—in the vein of Leibniz and Bernoulli—is exemplary of this.

Poe distinguishes three levels of method, each corresponding to the appropriate of the three levels of knowledge in Plato. The lowest is Baconian inductive method. Poe in one location makes a pun on Bacon and hog, terming Baconian inductive method as hoggishness. He also describes this hoggish method as one of crawling, of sniffing and collecting objects on the surface of the Earth, one’s snout so close to the object that the reality of the object is not seen. The next highest, second level, the deductive method, Poe terms “creeping.” Then, there is the highest level, reason in the sense of Plato’s definition of Socratic reason.

In the Dupin stories, Dupin states that in criminal detection and other matters, there are cases in which even the inductive method produces a useful result, and a larger range of cases for which the deductive method is adequate. Each of the stories, as in each of the items recommended in the list given above, selects a situation in which the inductive and deductive methods must both fail, in which only reason can yield the desired solution. In each instance, Poe proves the principle. Moreover, the rigorously deliberate use of reason is competently illustrated for each case.

The late Poe essay, “Eureka,” is his most thorough treatment of the subject of reason.

That is precisely the case confronting Italy’s intelligence and security agencies. The inductive method—collecting individual facts in the vicinity of terrorists and terrorist activities as such—will lead to irreparable failure. The deductive method will yield better results than the inductive, but will also fail irreparably, in respect to the required result. Only the method of reason can lead to the desired solutions.

Two notable elements are required.

First, one must look at the crucial features of the terrorist problem which distinguish terrorist acts from the kinds of operations which might have been performed by indigenous criminal groups working independently. One must identify who in the entire society benefits from probable response of governments and security forces to such patterns of terrorist acts.

For example, Ugo La Malfa and Riccardo Lombardi are both members of approximately the same rank in the same section of the Italian division of British secret intelligence. Yet, La Malfa demands police-state measures in response to terrorism, whereas Lombardi’s subaltern, Craxi, demands a soft, concessional approach to the terrorists. The common master of La Malfa and Lombardi is speaking with two, apparently opposite voices. The master is for neither policy; the master is seeking the effect of the government attempting to choose between those alternatives under conditions of escalated terrorism.

The common master of British agents La Malfa and Lombardi is working on behalf of Kissinger’s modified Chile scenario for Italy: clear to anyone who has studied Kissinger’s operation in Chile.

Secondly, as Dupin emphasizes, and as most of Poe’s writing emphasizes, one must know how to use one’s own mind to look into the mind of the adversary. One must, in particular, understand the world outlook and way of thinking of the antitechnology oligarchist behind the terrorists and also the Dionysian way of thinking associated with the expendable rubbish gathered around Lombardi et al. As both terrorists and countercultural terrorist sympathizers, one must also include the mind of SAS operative and SAS-trained sub-operative. As with any beast to be hunted, one must trap it, outflank it, by mastering its nature.

Hunting the British Beast

Sherlock Holmes aids us in this work. Doyle’s Holmes, like most British detective fiction and spy fiction, is obsessed with demonstrating the adequacy of the deductive method. This outlook, subsuming the irrationalist-existentialist semi-rational case of Popper and Heidegger, represents in the main the upper limit of the British mind. This is the key to trapping the British beast one is hunting.

The British mind’s attempted ridicule of Platonic method, reason, does not reflect British defeat of Platonic method by use of deduction or induction. The ridicule reflects the Britishers’ deadly fear of the Platonic method.

They know if they permit their children to assimilate it, the oligarchical order is finished, and that if their adversaries, their intended victims master it, the oligarchical cause faces the most deadly of adversaries, an adversary which has many times proven its ability to defeat the oligarchical method. The lying which passes for liberal arts scholarship at Cambridge and Oxford, and the export of the products of this lying to foreign schools, British boosting of fools such as Popper, reflects a British determination to discredit reason (Platonic method) among Britain’s intended victims, thus to disarm the intended victims.

Use the Platonic method and the British will squirm, “That’s nonsense! science-fiction! mysticism!” It is the squirming bluff of a felon, the indignant protest of a felon, a moment before he accepts the fact that he has been caught, surely. It is a last, desperate effort to discredit in the hands of the arresting officers.

I know the British mind very well—it is a lower order of mentality, which I can study as I watch the fish in an aquarium. The British mind, the mind of a species inferior to myself, is a predictable creature for me.

That is the key to defeating the British. Their commitment to the oligarchical cause obliges them, as a kind of species-commitment, not to employ any higher order of method than the deductive method. If one employs the method of reason, one has the kind of advantage over them that a 180-pound man has over a 600-pound gorilla. If you play according to their rules of the game, they will defeat you …. Their international terrorism will defeat you.

If you will not take this advice from me alone, there are those within the Church who also understand this method.

Two Levels of Mystery

There are two levels of mystery to be considered in dealing with the problem of international terrorism.

The British advantage is that you live and think as if history did not exist. You are governed by what you imagine to be the lessons of your experience, by your prejudices. To the extent you imagine you have been informed on history, what you believe you know is foolishness, the lies which have been taught increasingly in Italy’s schools since Horatio Nelson gained control over the University of Naples. Although sections of Italy’s press are more honest than most U.S. press or West Germany’s major press, you do not know even the important points of contemporary reality, but only selected and twisted versions of reality.

Most of you believe, for example, that politics is determined along lines of right-center-left. Even leading politicians believe that childish fairy tale. Just because you act out that sort of fairy tale, most of you imagine that the fairy tale is real.

The British inner circles, who invented these lies and fairy tales for you to believe, snicker contentedly at your foolish beliefs. On that level, they know the reality of the arrangements, and to you that reality is a mystery.

Otherwise, Ugo La Malfa, little, small-minded La Malfa, could not have continued his standing as a public figure from the Mussolini period to the present date. He would be standing pathetically uninfluential on a street corner saying his silly things, and somewhat cruel little groups from among passers-by would pause for a moment to ridicule so miserably useless a creature. The British loot you because you permit yourself to be mystified, the British even induce you to treat so ridiculous a figure as La Malfa as a public personage!

However, there is a higher reality, which the British are incapable of comprehending—since it exists beyond the domain of deduction. From that vantage-point, you can render the British helpless in short order.

If I have sometimes seemed too tough to you, it is because I have the advantage of seeing the world from the standpoint of reason, and see possibilities which are efficiently beyond British comprehension. As long as you permit yourselves to be befuddled by the British, naturally, such possibilities will not be clear to you.

It would have been better if the correct advice of myself and my associates had been heeded. Numerous persons now dead would be alive today. If you will not act on my advice, the remedy is that you discover the solution for yourself, by the method I have recommended.

If the death of Aldo Moro provokes you, at last, to turn to the effective methods you have generally avoided heretofore, not only will you solve the mystery, but you will have qualitatively improved your own capabilities and those of leading forces within the nation. If you do that in response to the crime we have witnessed, then the better nation you will contribute to developing by this means will be the result which provides justice for Aldo Moro—the justification that his death has not been in vain.

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