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be we net ates paleo a wa crs Bets eb 8 Caemst ae ae OD fa e @ Appendix B An Insider’s View Dennis Serrette, former NAP presidential candidate, provided an inside view of the party when he was a witness on May 29, 1987 in the lawsuit of plaintiff Emily Carter of the New Alliance Party against the Jackson (MS) Advocate. The Mississippi newspaper had run articles critical of the NAP. Questioned by New Alliance Party lawyer Harry Kresky, Serrette said that the only person wielding absolute power in the party was its leader, Fred Newman. Serrette stated: “The inner circle to me was only Fred and those who Fred may have had to share his thinking, who carried out his bidding. . .his wives. . think Hazel Daren, Gail Elberg. ..and Debra Greene. Those were the people who live with him. .” Serrette stated that another organization, the International Workers Party, was in effect the “underground” apparatus of the party. He testified: “Well, che New Alliance Party was basically an organization put together by. . .Fred and some of those who may have served him, to possibly hide the existence of IWP. . . .it was considered secret. .-” The group's focus on “therapy” was particularly disturbing to him, Serrette asserted. “They seemed more preoccupied to me around therapy than they did [with regard to] the political” Serrette found many similarities between the behavior of Lyndon LaRouche's groups and the Barty, ie lading iteuee of character assassination: © . their attempts to uncover and to defame eb cst cl peep ie te tale abst ms srauathic — Lfct: that that was sort of like a tactical eee get rete babene Ce coe gh ke un, there was noorther oraniation bcould ever wg tt crea be gen the wa. the Sore Alan Party with. thezass, had controlled tea get weit Seate tee es Be et tate CO oneuttees fa band Lakow. he grouphin my aqiten ce. eer tes have etmdste comin ot thes peagiein basally the same way So thone es ween od the eamiloeitere tha: had me thinking that, well, I really have my doubts about what wars part at” “Tactical” Effort Toward Black Community Instead of being a “black-led group” as it pretended to be, Serrette said, “the party ex loited this imagery, but it was a he, 1 was clearly a tactical means of using blacks and a racist wcheme or using black and Latino and Asian people to do the bidding of one man, namely Fred ewman...” Serrette went on to state the treat ithi i was “unequal” and “very abusive.” He found this similar secebeliininie ar Noe rey National Caucus of Labor Committees. sey uche’s Serrette stated that he began to be suspicious about who was running things when h iced that “there was a lot of people who weren't advertised as operatives or officers in the N . Atlians Party, which tended to have very high. . .amount of respect within the New Allian eP and seemed to be giving orders, you know running things..it just seemed far too o nized heeen like the people in charge are not always the people who are making the ohehdonen ne d i" a It was at this point, he said, that he learned of the existence of a “sec nation, and the they were asking me to be a member of that organizati piper and chat ) KU ; ganization, and the nature of it was that it w: Marxist-Leninist. .- -I said absolutely, you know, this is great, you know, but what is it?” Secrets stated that this “secret” organization was the International ‘Workers Part d T i. ‘ clear to me that this was a secret organization.” y, and “They made it 12 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Abe