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In Chapter 17 we shall examine the immense influence that the ADL
itself has on the American news media. We shall also see one instance of
how a longtime ADL collaborator floated a "new" theory about the JFK
assassination—a widely-publicized cover story that seems to have been
orchestrated by Israel's friends at the CIA.
For his own part, Dalitz's defender, Robert Blakey, clearly prefers to
look at the Italian elements of the underworld, but no further. As we saw in
Chapter 7 (and which we will discuss further in this chapter and elsewhere)
the differences between "the Mafia" and organized crime as a whole are far
more profound that Blakey would allow us to imagine.
BLAKEY AND THE CIA
Blakey, likewise, has refused to acknowledge the role of American
intelligence, specifically the CIA, in the JFK assassination. No wonder then that
prominent JFK assassination researchers such as Mark Lane, writing in Plausible
Denial, and Jim Marrs, writing in Crossfire—among many others—have
commented critically on Blakey's close relationship with the CIA during the
period of the House Assassinations Committee investigation. In his own
book, Conspiracy, Anthony Summers documents—in frightening
detail—the CIA's subversion of the House investigation which, it appears, was
aided and abetted by Blakey himself
Blakey himself did nothing to allay the suspicions of his critics by
first clearing his own book with the CIA. The concluding paragraph of
Blakey's book—which another JFK assassination researcher, Carl Oglesby,
caustically remarked should have appeared on the opening pages rather than
buried at the end of the book—read as follows:
"Pursuant to agreement with the Select Committee on Assassinations,
the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
reviewed this book in manuscript form to determine that the classified
information it contained had been properly released for publication and that
no informant was identified. Neither the CIA nor the FBI warrants the
factual material or endorses the views expressed." 347
Thus, while Blakey was busy pointing the finger at Carlos Marcello
and away from the CIA and its allies in the Israeli Mossad, the facts about
the Lansky-Marcello relationship belie Blakey's claim that "the Mafia" was
the driving force in the JFK assassination conspiracy.
LOUISIANA FRONT MAN
The fact remains that whatever role Carlos Marcello or any of his
underlings played in either the JFK assassination or the cover-up, Marcello
was nothing more than a front-man for the "boss of all bosses"—Israel's
longtime patron, Meyer Lansky himself. Marcello was indeed, Little Man's
Little Man. Lansky was, in fact, much, much bigger—in terms of power
and influence—than Carlos Marcello would ever be, Marcello's fame and
reputation notwithstanding.