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assassins in the events in Dealey Plaza include Robert Blemant, a narcotics
trafficker and intermediary between the Corsican Mafia and the CIA; and Joe
Attia, a heroin financier and assassin for the SDECE. 663
According to JFK researcher Steve Revele, "Recently released top-secret
CIA documents indicate that CIA assassin QJ/WIN was a Luxembourgbased
smuggler named Jose Mankel, and the other, WI/ROGUE, was a
Soviet-born Paris bank robber David Dzitzichvili (also spelled Tzitzichvili;
alias David Dato)." 664
The bottom line, though, is that all of those mentioned have precisely
the kind of connections that link them to not only the CIA, but also French
intrigue and thence to Israel and its Mossad.
ISRAEL'S FRENCH CONNECTIONS
Although the SDECE was DeGaulle's own service, the agency was as
much apparently out of DeGaulle's actual hands-on control as the CIA was
out of JFK's control. As DeGaulle's biographer said of the fight between
DeGaulle and the OAS, the conflict was "within the State itself." 665 In fact,
at least one assassination attempt against DeGaulle by the Permindex-and
Israeli-backed OAS came as a direct result of "inside" information. 666 What's
more, there was one high-ranking SDECE official, Louis Betholini, later
discovered to be "an OAS sleeper [secret agent]." 667
And according to historian Paul Henissart, there was—within the
SDECE—a high percentage of anti-DeGaulle officers who were, in fact,
sympathetic to the OAS. Like its self-centered American counterpart, the
CIA, "the SDECE's main worry, according to well-informed sources, was to
protect its own personnel and interests during [the] difficult period [of
conflict between DeGaulle and the OAS]. 668
Intelligence historian Richard Deacon has noted, for his own part, that in
France, during this difficult period, there was "a good deal of unofficial
support for Israel, notably in the [SDECE]" 669 pointing further toward the
role of SDECE officers in arranging the assassination of John F. Kennedy
on behalf of its allies in the Israeli Mossad.
According to Stewart Steven, an authority on the history of the
Mossad, "Brilliant in many respects, the SDECE had the reputation
internationally of being the rogue elephant of the world's intelligence circus.
The CIA regarded it as being 'leaky as a sieve,' and probably with some
justification, for few services had so many departmental heads constantly at
loggerheads with one another, all serving different masters, either within
France itself or in some cases abroad.
"The Israelis, however, had always got along with the French service
very well. As an ally in the tricky world in which the Mossad was obliged
to operate, the SDECE had proved itself extremely useful, principally
because its officers did not feel obliged to necessarily receive political
authority for its operations. This gave the service a freebooting quality very
much like the Israelis themselves but without Israeli discipline and order.