Final_Judgment

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the alleged hit man, Saul, had been hired by the Soviet Union to kill
President Kennedy.
The theory that the Soviets were behind the assassination conspiracy, of
course, falls right in line with the CIA's initial scheme, through its Mexico
City Scenario, concocted by James J. Angleton, to pin the crime on the
KGB. Whatever the case, McDonald's second book received little, if any,
recognition, although it did muddy the waters further.
A PRO-ISRAEL 'CRITIC'
The tell-tale hand of Israeli sympathizers within even the ranks of the
"critics" of the Warren Commission's conclusions has also now become
apparent. When a group of self-styled Warren Commission "critics" formed
an organization known as the Assassination Information Bureau, one of
them included liberal journalist Jack Newfield, a devout and outspoken
supporter of Israel.
THE `HOFFA KILLED JFK' COVER STORY
In 1992, when public interest in the JFK assassination conspiracy was
at a fever pitch as a result of the concurrent release of Mark Lane's bestseller,
Plausible Denial, and Oliver Stone's film, JFK, it was Newfield who floated
yet another ridiculous JFK assassination conspiracy story—a new angle on
the theory that "The Mafia Killed JFK."
"Hoffa had JKF killed" screamed the headline on the front page of the
January 14 edition of the sensationalist New York Post.
It was the New York tabloid that "broke" the story that Teamster boss
Jimmy Hoffa had arranged the JFK murder through his Mafia contacts. Not
surprisingly, the author of the Post article was Jack Newfield.
The Post, of course, has been one of the media's primary pro-Israel
voices—almost to the point of obsession. Any conspiracy that might
somehow link Israel—or its allies in the CIA—could not be tolerated.
Almost immediately, the rest of the Establishment media picked up the
scandal sheet's "exclusive" and began hyping it. The purpose was to
discredit the conspiracy that was finally being exposed to millions of
Americans.
In response to Newfield's concoction, even Dan Rather, on CBS, felt
compelled to tell the world that the evidence was in: longtime Teamsters'
Union leader Jimmy Hoffa had ordered "the Mafia" to kill John F. Kennedy.
The Washington Post, long a CIA disinformation source, also
published the story. As did the staunchly pro-Israel conservative weekly,
Human Events which consistently maintained, otherwise, that any
conspiracy in the JFK assassination—particularly involving the CIA—was a
madman's fantasy.
Newfield's article quoted a longtime alleged associate of organized
crime, attorney Frank Ragano, as having claimed that Teamster boss Jimmy