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Sullivan, a close friend of James J. Angleton, the Mossad's CIA ally.
Sullivan was Angleton's "man inside" the FBI.
Bloomfield was also given an officer's rank in the U.S. Army during
World War II and assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—just as
had been the American who ultimately became his fellow Permindex
director, Clay Shaw.
(A witness uncovered by Jim Garrison claimed to have seen a meeting
in Winnipeg airport between Clay Shaw and CIA contract agent David
Ferrie with another individual who may have been Bloomfield. 528 It is
known that Shaw and Ferrie journeyed in a plane flown by Ferrie to
Bloomfield's home base in Montreal at some time in 1961 or 1962.) 529
Obviously, Louis Bloomfield was a key figure in the Permindex
network—a vital link between Clay Shaw's operation in New Orleans and
other forces operating through Permindex, most especially Israel.
SHAW AND ANGLETON
It is conceivable that not only did Bloomfield first come across Shaw
during his service with the OSS during this same period, but also even
another OSS man, James Jesus Angleton, who later went on to become
Israel's ally in the CIA. Angleton himself may have had contact with Shaw
at that time, although there is no firm evidence to prove it. However, there
is one intriguing item which points to a possible connection between Shaw
and Angelton during that period.
When Jim Garrison first began investigating Clay Shaw, he only knew
Shaw under the alias "Clay Bertrand." We can suggest one possible
inspiration for Shaw's pseudonym. While serving with U.S. intelligence
during World War II, Shaw was stationed for a time in France where he
certainly had contact with the French intelligence.
At that time, one of the highest-ranking French intelligence officers
was one Gustave Bertrand who was, in fact, a close friend (and role model) for
another OSS officer, James J. Angleton. In later years Angleton "singled out
[Bertrand] as one of the people he learned the most from in a substantive
way” 530 and who "remained Angleton's friend until death " 531 and who was
Angleton's "great Buddha head." 532
When Shaw later adopted his alias of "Bertrand" it is entirely
conceivable that he was using this name as a salute to a senior intelligence
operative with whom he first made contact in Europe and with whom he
probably maintained contact in the years that followed.
This is speculation, of course, but there is no question, as the evidence
now shows, that Angleton and Shaw were certainly moving in the same
circles during World War II—and much later. And as we shall see in this
chapter and in Chapter 16, the French intelligence connections to Permindex
and to the JFK assassination conspiracy are very strong indeed.
And inasmuch as Shaw later served, without question, as a valued
international contact for the CIA, reporting back to the agency on his
foreign ventures, it is certain that Shaw's reports would have ultimately