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been nearly unanimous in denouncing Stone as a lying charlatan." 749
(Although, of course, Stone did not, in fact, tell the whole truth.)
Irvine went on to dismiss Lane as a "leftist" and announced
emphatically that anyone who believes that there was any kind of domestic
conspiracy behind the JFK murder was being taken in by Soviet propaganda.
The AIM response was interesting, particularly in the context of the
background of some of AIM's leading lights.
WHO'S BEHIND AIM?
Irvine himself was a former economist for the big bank-controlled
Federal Reserve System. Irvine's AIM co-founder, Bernard Yoh, was a
Vietnam-era underling of CIA asset, General Edward Lansdale. 750 It was
Lansdale, as we saw in Chapter 11, who was in charge of the anti-Castro
operations being conducted under the name Operation Mongoose in league
with the Meyer Lansky Crime Syndicate.
It was during his service in Vietnam, as we noted in Chapter 12, that
Lansdale worked closely with the Corsican Mafia—an integral part of the
Lansky drug smuggling operations conducted in league with the CIA. That
Lansdale's former Vietnam era associate would come out swinging against
JFK conspiracy theories, then, is no big surprise.
AIM'S ISRAELI CONNECTION
The aforementioned Yoh is also affiliated with the International
Security Council (ISC), a think tank notable for its central devotion to the
advancement of Israel's interests in U.S. foreign policy-making.
The founder of the ISC was the ubiquitous Dr. Joseph Churba, an
ordained rabbi whom we first encountered in Chapter 8 as a protégé of Jay
Lovestone who coordinated CIA contacts with the Corsican and Sicilian
Mafias on behalf of the CIA's James J. Angleton.
Interestingly enough, Churba (now deceased) was also a key figure in
the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and in an entity known as
Americans for a Safe Israel (ASI) established in the United States as an
outgrowth of the Israeli underground terrorist group, the Irgun.
Among those intimately collaborating with the forerunners of ASI was
the Romanian Jewish émigré, Ernst Mantello, whose brother Giorgio, along
with Major Louis M. Bloomfield, was one of the founders of the shadowy
Permindex entity examined in detail in Chapter 15. 751
ANOTHER CIA-LANSKY CONNECTION
Another AIM figure is equally interesting in light of the organization's
critique of JFK assassination conspiracy theories. AIM's president is Murray
Baron, not only a former official with the Lansky Organized Crime
Syndicate-dominated International Brotherhood of Teamsters, but also a