Final_Judgment

456 Retribution? [359]
Veteran JFK assassination investigator Dick Russell has looked into
the Paisley affair. And while Russell has been careful to steer clear of ever
mentioning the possibility of an Israeli connection to the JFK
assassination, Russell has concluded this much about Paisley's death:
"Whatever Paisley was doing in his last years, right up to the moment of
his disappearance, it apparently traced back to the Kennedy era. And I do not
believe that the timing of his disappearance—coming as it had amid a
congressional focus on [what the CIA and the Soviets knew about Lee
Harvey Oswald]—was coincidental." 917 (emphasis added)
PAISLEY vs ISRAEL
What was it that Paisley was involved in just before his death? The
answer to this question points directly toward solving the question of who
killed Paisley and why. And it relates again—precisely—to the conclusions
that we have reached in Final Judgment regarding the question of who killed
John F. Kennedy and why.
Although the death of John Paisley has been of much fascination to
those who have charted the covert wars between the CIA and the KGB (of
which James Angleton was very much a part), it is quite notable that those
who have delved into Paisley's demise have—like Dick Russell—been
reticent to discuss what is very clearly the Mossad connection to the affair.
In the years prior to Paisley's demise, hawkish factions in the Israeli
government were lobbying hard in Washington for more arms aid and cash
infusions through the U.S. foreign aid program. Loyal supporters of Israel
such as Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) argued that Israel needed more
military might to protect the Middle East against "Soviet aggression"—an
argument that delighted hard-line anti-communists in both political
parties. 918 This, of course, was the same argument that had long been
advanced by the Mossad's chief ally at the CIA, James J. Angleton.
However, U.S. intelligence analysts were scoffing at Israel's alarmist
cries. Led by senior analysts in the Office of National Estimates, they
reassured the White House that, at least for the moment, the Soviets had
neither the intent nor the capability to attack a major target of vital U.S.
interest, such as the oil-rich Gulf states. 919
A-TEAM vs B-TEAM
Nonetheless, Israel's Washington allies maneuvered in an effort to
counter-balance the findings of the Office of National Estimates. Thus,
under political pressure, President Gerald Ford agreed in mid-1976 (while
George Bush was serving as CIA director) to institute a so-called "audit" of
intelligence data provided by the CIA's own National Intelligence Officers
(soon to be called the "A-Team"] by a committee of "independent" experts—
known as the "B-Team." 920
The prime mover behind the concept of such an audit was Leo Cherne,
a veteran figure in the Israeli lobby who also had long-standing connections