Final_Judgment

134 Israel’s Godfather [73]
It is the Meyer Lansky connection which explains how Israel's Mossad
was able to utilize and manipulate, among other elements, the anti-Castro
Cuban community—itself working with not only the CIA but also the
Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate—in the conspiracy to assassinate John
F. Kennedy.
To begin our investigation of the shadowy crevices of the underworld
where Israel's Mossad, Organized Crime and the CIA came together in the
Kennedy murder, it is most appropriate to begin with Lansky.
It is Lansky (individually) and his crime syndicate which tie all of these
diverse strands together, pointing the finger toward the until-now
undisclosed role of Israel in the JFK assassination.
A spokesman for the Bahamas Commission of Inquiry which was
investigating organized crime in the islands, once said, "At one stage, we
began to wonder whether the name of Meyer Lansky was not some vast
journalistic piece of fiction, so ghostly and mythical a figure did he appear." 196
But exist he did.
Meyer Lansky, in fact, is a pivotal player in the international
conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of John F. Kennedy—all of the
literature propagating the theory that "The Mafia Killed JFK"
notwithstanding.
WHO WAS MEYER LANSKY?
The most concise summary of the origins and rise to power of Meyer
Lansky appeared in a lengthy profile of Lansky that appeared on the front page
of The Wall Street Journal in 1969. It reads, in pertinent part:
"Born Maier Suchowjansky in Grodno, Russia, Lansky arrived in the
U.S. at age nine. His family settled in New York's immigrant slums. By
the time he was 27, young Maier had five arrests on his record, on charges
ranging from disorderly conduct to suspicion of murder, but he was never
convicted. He had begun his painstaking climb up the underworld ladder.
"It was during the 1920’s that Lansky became a pal and partner of
Bugsy Siegel. The two became a formidable pair, first as hired gunmen for
Legs Diamond, soon as leaders of their own gang, called the 'Bugs and
Meyer Mob.'
A MEMBER OF THE BOARD
"Their specialty was protecting liquor in transit from hijackers to East
Coast gangs. They were good at it, and when an alliance called the Eastern
Syndicate was formed to coordinate rum-running Lansky and Siegel were
named to the board. Lansky was put in charge of handling the syndicate's
finances.
"By the early 1930’s, the Eastern syndicate began to form a loose
alliance with other regional mobs. Thus was the national syndicate born. Each
gang retained its own identity and pursued its own activities, with the federation
coming together occasionally to discuss matters of common