Report the Justice Department is Probing Death Threat by Larouche Group Against a Federal Official

The United States Justice Department has launched an investigation into a death threat by the Lyndon LaRouche organization against a federal official, according to a journalist who was a guest on a radio talk show here this week.

The investigation was prompted by a July 7, 1985 editorial in the LaRouchite publication, New Solidarity, which called for “the death sentence” against Neal Sher, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which deals with Nazi war criminal cases.

The same threat was leveled against former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who spearheaded Congressional efforts against Nazi war criminals, and Charles Allen, Jr., the journalist who revealed the development on the talk show.

Allen, who provided documentation linking LaRouche with a leading Nazi rocket scientist, Krafft Ehricke, in his new book, “Nazi War Criminals in America: Facts … Action: The Basic Handbook,” is described by the media as the “preeminent authority” on Nazi war criminals in America.

Allen also said on the WNWK-FM talk show, Jewish Views and News, hosted by Shifra Hoffman, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly looking into the death threats, and has brought the matter and the circumstances surrounding it to the attention of a Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D.C. currently investigating the LaRouche organization. Allen did not name his Justice Department source.

The Grand Jury is primarily concerned with alleged financial irregularities in the LaRouchite National Democratic Policy Committee (which has no connection to the Democratic Party), which received nearly $1 million in matching funds for the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Presidential campaigns. The character of the Grand Jury is sufficiently broad to warrant its looking into the LaRouchite death threat against a federal official — in itself a federal offense — Allen said his Justice Department source told him.

Allen also said on the radio program that he categorically condemned all physical attacks by private individuals and organizations against accused Nazi war criminals in America. He castigated the bombings of the late Tscherim Soobzokov of Paterson, N.J., accused of war crimes in the Caucasus, and Boleslavs Maikovskis of Long Island, accused of war crimes in Latvia. (Soobzokov died of his wounds; Maikovskis recovered.) Allen described such attacks on Nazi war criminals as “illegal, immoral and stupid.”