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John Foster "Chip" Berlet is active on the internet and on the leftist talk-show and interview circuit, as a researcher who specializes in tracking and analyzing right-wing movements. He began his career as a writer for High Times, the magazine for aficionados of recreational drugs.

However, like his colleague Dennis King, Berlet has made much of his reputation by attacking Lyndon LaRouche, charging that LaRouche has an hidden right-wing agenda. The story is complicated by the fact that both Berlet and King have accepted money from known right wingers, for the purposes of carrying out their campaign against LaRouche, including from the John Birch Society's John Rees and from billionaire philanthropist Richard Mellon-Scaife. Dennis King's book, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, received funding from the Smith-Richardson Foundation. Oddly enough, the source for these charges is Berlet himself, quoted in what has become known as the Quinde Affidavit. Berlet, however, continued to attack these individuals on his websites, despite the behind-the-scenes collaboration.

External links

• The Public Eye, the website of Political Research Associates: 'Chip' Berlet's principle venue
• NameBase.org citation on the Quinde Affidavit
• The John Train Salon