Won’t Submit to Arrest--LaRouche : In ‘Personal Message’ to Reagan, He Says He’s Done No Wrong

Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, his inner circle penetrated by indictments and a sweeping federal fraud investigation, declared today in a “personal message” to President Reagan that “I have committed no crime” and “will not submit passively to an arrest.”

LaRouche, who was not indicted, responded to the charges against 10 of his followers and five of his organizations by saying the Reagan Administration will be “condemned by history” if federal prosecutors seek to charge him after a massive raid seeking records at his headquarters in Leesburg, Va.

“I will not submit passively to an arrest, but in such a scenario I will defend myself,” LaRouche said in a statement read by Warren Hamerman, head of LaRouche’s National Democratic Policy Committee.

‘Price’ for the Summit

Hamerman described LaRouche’s statement as “a personal message” to Reagan. LaRouche also charged that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev “demanded my head, as a price” for the Iceland summit with Reagan this weekend.

LaRouche, a frequent fringe candidate for President who says he is running again in 1988, espouses bizarre theories of global conspiracy involving the Queen of England, international drug traffickers, the Soviet KGB and prominent Americans.

He also blamed the raids, which involved nearly 400 police and federal investigators, on White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan and Assistant Atty. Gen.-designate William Weld, formerly the U.S. attorney in Boston, where the federal investigation of LaRouche’s organization began.

White House Mum

White House spokesman Larry Speakes, asked about LaRouche’s statements, said: “I don’t know anything about any of that.”

Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, refused to comment on whether LaRouche himself was at the focus of their ongoing investigation.

The 117-count indictment charged wire fraud in alleged unauthorized credit card charges. (Story on Page 8.)

U.S. Atty. Henry Hudson, of the Eastern District of Virginia, said today that evidence seized under warrants at the two LaRouche headquarters included items which had been sought by a Boston grand jury and which the LaRouche organizations had refused to turn over.

He said this evidence backed up charges of obstruction of justice in the indictment.

He specified the recovery of index cards that had been unsuccessfully sought by the grand jury in Boston and “information which would corroborate the allegation that members of the organization have secreted witnesses and at times sent them to other locations so they cannot be reached by the judicial process.”