Final_Judgment

Chapter Seven
Israel's Godfather:
The Man in the Middle
Meyer Lansky, the CIA, the FBI & the Israeli Mossad
If it had not been for international crime boss M eyer
Lansky there might not be a state of Israel today. This is
something that Israel would rather be forgotten.
Israel was established as a state, in major part, through
the political, financial and moral support of Meyer Lansky
a nd hi s a s sociates a n d he nchme n i n O rganized Crime.
Lansky's interests and Israel's interests were almost
incestuous. In fact, Lansky ' s chief Eur o pean mo ney
laundering bank was an operation run under the auspices of a
high-ranking, longtime officer of Israel's Mossad.
Lansky ' s inti ma te t ies w ith not o nly A merican
intelligence (including both the CIA and the FBI) made the
Jewish mobster the "untouchable" leader of the global
organized crime syndicate.
During John F. Kennedy's short-lived presidency, he was not only at
odds with Israel and its powerful lobby in America. Kennedy, as we saw in
Chapter 4, had also double-crossed his secret allies in the criminal
underworld who had helped him achieve the presidency. The president's
brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was waging a relentless war
against organized crime.
In the years prior to Kennedy's ascendency to the presidency, a littleknown,
but immensely powerful underworld figure by the name of Meyer
Lansky had schemed and shot his way to the top of the crime syndicate.
That syndicate was not just national—it was international—and the
uncrowned king of crime was Meyer Lansky—the so-called "chairman of the
board" of that incredible criminal empire which spanned the globe.
It was Meyer Lansky, early in his criminal career, who had emerged as
one of the leading sponsors of the state of Israel and whose most intimate
associates were among the chief financial patrons of the influential Israeli
lobby in America.
What's more, as we shall see, Lansky had also forged close ties with
Israel's allies in the American CIA—an agency that, in itself, had entered
into a bitter war with John F. Kennedy.
Thus, when JFK came to blows with not only Israel and its allies in
the Lansky Organized Crime empire, but also with the CIA, the American
president had unwittingly forged a deadly alliance among his fiercest foes.