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Lansky's European money laundering operation based at Mossad officer
Tibor Rosenbaum's Banque de Credit International (first examined in
Chapter 7).
THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND
At the tender age of 27, Angleton—then stationed in Rome—was the
youngest counterintelligence branch chief in the entire OSS and the only
non-Briton in Italy cleared to share intelligence secrets of the top-secret Ultra
program which was cracking Nazi codes. Italy, indeed, became a central
point of contact for Angleton and his international intelligence connections,
and particularly for his work on behalf of the state of Israel.
By 1951 Angleton was engaged in "the underground Jewish network
that ran down from Eastern Europe through Italy to the ports where
shiploads of immigrants were loaded for Palestine." 285 It was this refugee
network, according to Richard Deacon, writing in The Israeli Secret Service,
a history of the Mossad, that was "paving the way for an ultimate
intelligence network for the future state of Israel. " 286
One of Angleton's Israeli contacts in the Jewish underground in Europe was
Teddy Kollek (later to become mayor of Jerusalem). Kollek, in fact, emerged
to become "a close personal friend." 287 Kollek, as we saw in Chapter 7,
was the Haganah station chief in New York during the 1947-1948 period,
engaged in arms smuggling to Palestine in conjunction with Meyer Lansky
and Major Louis M. Bloomfield—whom we shall see in Chapter 15, was
associated with not only the aforementioned Clay Shaw, but also with
Tibor Rosenbaum's Banque De Credit International.
TIBOR ROSENBAUM, AGAIN
But there is an even more pivotal contact between Angleton, Major
Bloomfield, Shaw and Lansky: the same Tibor Rosenbaum. In Chapter 7
we met Rabbi Tibor Rosenbaum of the Banque De Credit International. It
was Rosenbaum, who went on to serve as Director General for Finance and
Supply for the Mossad, who was one of the prime movers in the refugeeturned-intelligence
network with which Angleton worked so closely.
It was also during this same period that the terrorist Menachem Begin
(who later became prime minister of Israel) was coordinating Israel's Irgun
operations in Europe. In Chapter 13, we shall find, Begin was also
operating in the United States in conjunction with a key figure in the
Lansky Crime Syndicate in joint efforts on behalf of Israel—and against
John F. Kennedy.
THE CORSICAN MAFIA CONNECTION
Angleton's connections with the Lansky operations, however, go even
deeper. It was through a secret CIA asset, one Jay Lovestone, that Angleton
manipulated what his biographer called "an odd little operation that