Anton Chaitkin
American politician
Anton "Tony" Chaitkin (born 1943) is an author, historian, and a former political activist with the LaRouche movement. He served as History Editor for Executive Intelligence Review.
Chaitkin's father was Jacob Chaitkin, who was the legal counsel and strategist for the boycott against Nazi Germany carried on by the American Jewish Congress in the 1930s.
Activism
Chaitkin became a founding member of the LaRouche movement in the mid-1960s.
In 1973, Chaitkin was a candidate for Mayor of New York City, on the U.S. Labor Party ticket. He also ran for Governor of New York in 1974, and for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district in 1978.
Chaitkin was among ten NCLC members arrested for participating in a melee at a Newark city council meeting. The group was asserting, among other things, that two local political figures, activist and poet/playwright Imamu Imir Baraka (earlier known as LeRoi Jones) and Anthony Imperiale were tools of the CIA. On October 18, 1973, Chaitkin was forcibly removed from a press conference for asking a question of former Attny. General Ramsey Clark. In 1990, Ramsey Clark became LaRouche's lawyer on appeal, and said the following, in a letter to then Attny.
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