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involving Israel's Mossad and global power politics that the critics of Final
Judgment would certainly prefer that we ignore.
Let us explore the Permindex connection further. As we do, the reality
of what Permindex was—and how it was intimately tied to the JFK
assassination—will become more apparent.
LOUIS BLOOMFIELD—THE BRONFMAN CONNECTION
Above all, the Permindex connection to Israel and its global
intelligence network is best personified by the individual who served as
chairman of the board of Permindex: Major Louis M. Bloomfield of
Montreal, Canada, a devoted and influential supporter of the Israeli cause. It
was Bloomfield who held half the shares of Permindex and its parent
company "for party or parties unknown." 519 In fact, Permindex had its
headquarters in Bloomfield's base of operations in Montreal until 1961 at
which time it was relocated to Rome. 520
Beyond question, Bloomfield, as we shall see, was a major player in
Israel's international network. Our first introduction to Bloomfield was in
Chapter 7. There we learned how Bloomfield played a critical role in helping
establish the state of Israel and its Mossad.
In the years that followed, Bloomfield rose high in the ranks of the
Canadian business world, reputed to control Le Credit Suisse [bank] of
Canada, Heineken's Breweries, Canscot Realty, the Grimaldi Siosa
[shipping] Lines, Ltd—and, interestingly enough—the Israel Continental
Company. 521 But the real key to understanding Bloomfield is his role as a
founding partner in the Phillips, Vineberg, Bloomfield and Goodman firm
which represents the Canadian-based Bronfman family interests. 522 This
rather intriguing detail suggests that Bloomfield's wide-ranging financial
interests were, in fact, those of the Bronfman family. Thus Bloomfield was
essentially, a front man for the Bronfman empire.
The Bronfman family, which built its fortune working with the Lansky
Organized Crime Syndicate in the illegal liquor trade, have been key backers of
Israel and leaders in the Zionist cause. Edgar Bronfman most recently served
as president of the World Jewish Congress.
But there is yet another intriguing Bronfman family link to the JFK
assassination conspiracy. When a Russian translator was needed for Lee
Harvey Oswald's Russian wife, Marina, it was Texas oilman Jack Crichton,
a former military intelligence officer who made the arrangements.
According to JFK assassination researcher Peter Dale Scott, Crichton, until
1962, "was also a Vice-President of the Empire Trust Company, a firm
whose leading shareholders, the inter-related families of Loeb, Lehman and
Bronfman, are said by Stephen Birmingham to have maintained 'something
like a private CIA ... around the world' to protect their other investments
such as in Cuba, in Guatemala, and in General Dynamics." 523
So another Bronfman family intimate was in a key position in the days
following the JFK assassination. And in Appendix Four we'll see the
Bronfman-Empire Trust connection arise again, this time in relation to a