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for those with not only the means and the opportunity—but also the motive—
to kill John F. Kennedy would have, of course, pointed in the direction of
Angleton's own CIA and its allies in the Israeli Mossad. In Chapter 16 we
shall see how Angleton did indeed play a key role in the JFK assassination
cover-up.
Revelation of either a CIA role or an Israeli role in the murder of JFK
would have inevitably destroyed not only America's relationship with Israel,
but it would have brought the international house of joint CIA-Mossad-
Lansky Crime Syndicate conspiracies tumbling down. And James Jesus
Angleton, as the CIA's intimate liaison with Israel, would have been
destroyed in the process. Likewise with his CIA patrons, Allen Dulles and
Richard Helms.
(In Chapter 16 we shall review the activities of Angleton and Richard
Helms further, particularly as they relate to the cover-up of the truth about
the JFK assassination conspiracy. In Chapter 18 we shall see how Helms'
close relationship with the Iranian secret police, SAVAK—created jointly
by the CIA and the Mossad—tie Helms himself even further into the realm
of conspiracy in the continuing cover-up of the JFK assassination.)
Angleton's "chief patron" Richard Helms left the CIA in 1973. This
was the beginning of the end of his days at the CIA. Angleton was fired by
the new CIA director, William Colby, on December 20, 1974. And, as we
shall see in Appendix Six, Angleton's firing not only had precisely to do
with his unusually close affiliation with Israel, but ultimately may have
played a part in the strange demise—years later—of William Colby.
FANTASY IN BOOK FORM
In his remaining years, Angleton habitually met with Washington
reporters, feeding them tidbits, stroking them with information, convincing
them all that they were getting "the inside story"—particularly in regard to
the matter of the JFK assassination.
The ultimate parlay of Angleton's Kennedy assassination disinformation
appeared in Edward Jay Epstein's book, Legend: The Secret
World of Lee Harvey Oswald (published in 1978). Epstein, a Warren
Commission "critic," first came to prominence as the author of Inquest, a
book-length study of the commission, originally written as his master's
thesis at Yale University, long a recruiting ground for the CIA. It was some
years later, however, that Epstein came forth with Legend. As pointed out,
however, by assassination researcher, Carl Oglesby, it was Angleton who
was "Epstein's chief source for the narrative unfolded" 298 in Legend.
Epstein's book presented the thesis that Oswald had been recruited by
the Soviet KGB during his Marine service. Later KGB asset Oswald killed
JFK, but not necessarily on the Kremlin's orders. Evidently, we are led to
assume, Oswald got out of control.
Oswald's KGB connection, according to Epstein, was subsequently
covered up by a Soviet mole in the CIA and then the FBI's legendary
communist hunter, J. Edgar Hoover, helped in the cover-up, for reasons of