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withdrawal—but it was only well after the damage of the Vietnam War had
already been done. Israel was placing its own interests—not America's
interests—first.
LANSKY, THE CIA & VIETNAM
It should be noted, too, that Israel's friends in the Meyer Lansky
Organized Crime Syndicate also stood to benefit from the Vietnam conflict.
In Chapter 12 we shall examine in detail the little-known collaboration
between the Lansky syndicate, its Mossad-linked banking money launderers,
and the CIA in the drug pipeline out of Southeast Asia.
The Lansky crime empire began operating major global drug
trafficking, largely under CIA cover, throughout Southeast Asia during the
Vietnam War, during which time the drug problem began escalating to a
major degree in the United States and elsewhere.
Now, many years later, the CIA's role in the global drug market is only
now just coming to the surface. The Iran-contra scandal, for example, shed
some light on this little known aspect of the underbelly of world affairs.
Thus, the joint Israel-Lansky-CIA combine shared a major benefit from
American involvement in Vietnam. They had Lyndon Johnson to thank.
A PASSIONATE ATTACHMENT
Israel and its covert allies did indeed have a messiah in Lyndon Baines
Johnson. In his book, The Passionate Attachment, former Undersecretary
of State George Ball summarized the results of Johnson's Middle East policies:
"First, the administration put America in the position of being Israel's
principal arms supplier and sole unqualified backer.
"Second, by assuring the Israelis that the United States would always
provide them with a military edge over the Arabs, Johnson guaranteed the
escalation of an arms race . . . Third, by refusing to follow the advice of his
aides that America make its delivery of nuclear-capable F-4 Phantoms
conditional on Israel's signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Johnson gave the Israelis the impression that America had no fundamental
objection to Israel's nuclear program.
"Fourth, by permitting a cover-up of Israel's attack on the Liberty [see
Chapter 2], President Johnson told the Israelis in effect that nothing they did
would induce American politicians to refuse their bidding. From that time
forth, the Israelis began to act as if they had an inalienable right to
American aid and backing." 194
As Stephen Green concluded in his discussion of the incredible changes
in U.S. policy toward Israel that took place during the Johnson era:
"By June of 1967, for a variety of reasons that prominently included
`domestic political considerations,' Lyndon Johnson and his team of foreignpolicy
advisors had completely revised U.S.-Israeli relations. To all intents
and purposes, Israel had become the 51st state.” 195