This founder of the US Labor Party was accused of being a cult leader after claiming to be a target of the Red Army Faction. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this far-right politician and antisemitic conspiracy theorist. After pivoting from the far left, he ran for president every election between 1976 and 2004, including in 1992 while in prison for credit card fraud.
ANSWER: Lyndon LaRouche
[10m] A member of this family withdrew as the Democratic nominee for Illinois governor in 1986 rather than run with a LaRouche follower. That man’s father from this family was derided as an “egghead” during the first of his two losses in the presidential election.
ANSWER: Stevenson family [accept Adlai Ewing Stevenson III or Adlai Ewing Stevenson II]
[10e] A memo revealed that this organization would support an assassination attempt on LaRouche by Communist Party USA. This organization’s longtime director J. Edgar Hoover initiated COINTELPRO.
ANSWER: FBI [or Federal Bureau of Investigation]
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