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key figure on the Warren Commission "investigating" the JFK
assassination. The Bronfman fingerprints around the JFK assassination are
everywhere.
Bloomfield also maintained close links with Israel in his own Canadian
business and social affairs. The director of the Israeli-Canadian Maritime
League, Bloomfield also served as Chairman of the Histadrut Campaign in
Canada. 524 The Histadrut, Israel's national labor federation, at one point
owned over one-third of the gross national product of Israel and controlled
the second largest bank in Israel, the Bank Hapoalim. This bank, as we shall
see, was implicated in Permindex intrigue in Europe that comes full circle
back to New Orleans and the Clay Shaw connection.
In addition, it turns out, in the critical year of 1963, Bloomfield
actually transferred $7.5 million into BCI's coffers. According to April 9,
1975 report in the New York Times, Bloomfield arranged for the deposit
into BCI from a charitable foundation that Bloomfield had set up on behalf
of a client. This was ostensibly for the purpose of rescuing the Mossadcontrolled
bank after the government of Liberia defaulted on a substantial
loan from BCI, supposedly putting the bank in peril. 525 So the Permindex
chief and Rabbi Rosenbaum's BCI had a serious relationship indeed—
whatever the actual purpose of the $7.5 million deposit in the BCI account.
In light of the critical role that the Permindex chief played in the affairs of
BCI, it is worth noting that the same New York Times article explained precisely
how critical BCI was to the interests of Israel. According to the Times:
"[BCI] did a lot of business with Israel. It helped channel money from
rich investors around the world into Israel and performed any number of
services for the country. Once when Defense Minister Shimon Peres,
when director general in the defense ministry, called Rosenbaum and told
him that Israel needed $7 million within 24 hours for her national security,
Rosenbaum found the money overnight. He did not ask for, but received, a
commission of $500,000 for his services . . .
"The defense ministry maintained an account at the bank to buy arms in
western Europe. Other accounts were held by the Histadrut, the Israeli labor
federation, by Solel Bonhen (the Histadrut-owned supply and construction
company), the Zim Navigation Co. and Israel Corporation, an investment
company. "526 What is particularly interesting is that the Times also added:
"But [BCI] was not an Israeli bank. It was a Jewish bank, showing healthy
balance sheet assets . . . ." 527 Clearly, Permindex and BCI were part and
parcel of the same interests—particularly in 1963.
BLOOMFIELD AND U.S. INTELLIGENCE
And, as we have already seen, the intelligence connections of Permindex
chief Bloomfield were impeccable. Although a Canadian by birth,
Bloomfield was hired by J. Edgar Hoover to serve as a recruiting agent for
the FBI's counterespionage division, Division Five. Through this position
Bloomfield became a working partner of Division Five chief William