Final_Judgment

196 Little Man’s Little Man [135]
Of course, as we have said, even if the JFK murder was strictly a
"Mafia" operation—with no tentacles leading elsewhere—it would have been
Lansky who ordered it from the start.
Meyer Lansky was Carlos Marcello's immediate superior in the world
of organized crime and not vice versa. There is simply no way of getting
around Lansky's critical positioning in the center of the vast conspiracy.
What we are demonstrating here is that the conspiracy reached above and
beyond "the Mafia." And that is central to our thesis.
LANSKY'S 'KOSHER NOSTRA'
Interestingly, Ruby biographer Seth Kantor differentiated between what
he called "Lansky's 'Kosher Nostra" and what the separately referred to as
"the hot-blooded Sicilian Cosa Nostra." 363 Certainly, Carlos Marcello
breathed a sigh of satisfaction when John F. Kennedy died in Dallas.
However, Meyer Lansky was, of course, the ultimate beneficiary.
Any major operation such as the assassination of a president—even if
proposed by Marcello single-handedly—would have first had to have been
cleared by Marcello through his boss, Meyer Lansky. Thus, it would have
been Lansky himself who most certainly had to have given the go-ahead,
even if the Kennedy assassination plot originated with Marcello alone.
The evidence, of course, suggests, however, that Marcello and his
associates in New Orleans were simply pawns in a more far-reaching
conspiracy that originated elsewhere. Their proximity to Oswald and the
New Orleans end of the conspiracy, however, makes them an easy target for
those who seek to find a "Mafia" conspiracy behind the murder.
WEASEL WORDS
As noted previously, those very sources who point to Marcello as the
mastermind of the JFK murder choose to ignore Marcello's secondary
positioning to Meyer Lansky in the syndicate chain of command. Lanskylinked
Robert Blakey's House Assassinations Committee gingerly skirted
around the issue, however. In its final report the committee concluded:
"Given the far-reaching possible consequences of an assassination plot
by the commission [i.e. the national `commission’ of Organized Crime],
the committee found that such a conspiracy would have been the subject of
serious discussion by members of the commission, and that no matter how
guarded such discussions might have been, some trace of them would have
emerged from the surveillance coverage [by federal authorities].
"It was possible to conclude, therefore, that it is unlikely that the
national crime syndicate as a group, acting under the leadership of the
commission, participated in the assassination of President Kennedy.
"While the committee found it unlikely that the national crime
syndicate was involved in the assassination, it recognized that a particular
organized crime leader or a small combination of leaders, acting unilaterally,