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Scheim, in fact, goes to great lengths to suggest that Lansky was of
little consequence in the whole scheme of things. He writes: "The late
syndicate financier Meyer Lansky could take no action without the approval
of Mafia superiors." 338 This is simply not true in any sense whatsoever.
That Scheim even suggests this indicates that he is determined to ignore the
entire picture.
Scheim notes, incorrectly, that Lansky's alleged "Mafia superiors" kept
him under constant surveillance through one Jimmy "Blue Eyes" Alo whom
Scheim describes as a "caporegime" in the Genovese Mafia family out of
New York. 339 Alo was indeed closely associated with Lansky, but, in fact,
was not only a close personal friend, but also a working partner. He was
not, contrary to Scheim's bizarre concoction, a Mafia handler of Meyer
Lansky.
CLAY SHAW AND THE CIA
Scheim's own determination to ignore the role of the intelligence
community in the JFK assassination conspiracy—particularly that of the
CIA—is also interesting. In his book Scheim goes to great lengths to
portray New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as a tool of the Mafia
and an associate of Carlos Marcello. He also comes down hard on Garrison's
investigation of international businessman Clay Shaw.
According to Scheim, "Equally bizarre was Garrison's prosecution of
Clay Shaw, who became his prime culprit. A retired director of the New
Orleans International Trade Mart, Shaw was a soft-spoken liberal who
devoted most of his time to restoring homes in the Old French Quarter." 340
What Scheim fails to note—and what he could not miss inasmuch as he
is self-portrayed as a longtime JFK assassination researcher—is that Shaw
was, indeed, involved with the CIA.
IGNORING THE FACTS
This was a fact well known among JFK assassination researchers at the
time Scheim's book went to press. There is simply no rational excuse for
Scheim's deliberate deletion of this critical fact.
Be that as it may, in Chapter 15 we shall examine Shaw's central
positioning in the conspiracy that involved not only the CIA and the Mafia
and the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate, but also Israel's Mossad.
Obviously, in order to perpetuate the myth that "The Mafia Killed
JFK," Scheim is forced to avoid the facts that damage his thesis. And this is
precisely what he has done.
Scheim's own book (and the aforementioned work by John W. Davis)
both rely heavily on a previously-released work, The Plot to Kill the
President: Organized Crime Assassinated JFK by G. Robert Blakey and
Richard N. Billings.
(Scheim's book, in fact, is hardly more than a re-write of much of the
same material and, actually, constitutes little more than a history of the