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VESCO'S PERMINDEX CONNECTION
Vesco is actually a very good source on this little-understood aspect of
the "Dallas-Watergate Connection." In fact, Vesco's rise to power in the
financial world came when he assumed control of flamboyant financier
Bernard Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Service (IOS), 948 which, as we saw
in Chapter 7 and in Chapter 15 was an integral part of the Kennedy
assassination-linked Permindex network set in place by longtime high-level
Mossad operative Tibor Rosenbaum.
And as we noted in Chapter 9, it was Michael Townley—actually an
IOS operative at the time of the JFK assassination—who was later
convicted of the murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier. Townley's
co-conspirators in that crime were Cuban exiles (and CIA assets) Guillermo
and Ignacio Novo whom, as we have seen, arrived in Dallas on November
21, 1963 and met with CIA man E. Howard Hunt and evidently played
some role along with Hunt in the circumstances surrounding events in
Dallas that were linked to the assassination conspiracy.
Vesco himself became entangled with Arab interests in the wake of the
subsequent IOS financial scandal, so much so that investigative reporter Jim
Hougan commented wryly (and wisely) that Vesco "might easily have
convinced the Arabs that IOS was a political instrument of Israel, pointing
to multimillion-dollar investments in Israeli bonds and properties, and its
links to such noted Zionists as Cornfeld, Rosenbaum, Rothschild . . .
"With some Madison Avenue pros in his corner," said Hougan, "Vesco
could have manipulated the nationalist sentiments of the Middle East,
emerging in the Arab view as a political refugee, the victim of a sinister
Zionist conspiracy. After all, as [Vesco] was fond of pointing out, all his
troubles could be traced to 'those fuckin' Jew bastids [sic] at the SEC.' And
there would have been some poetic justice in the event had Vesco
succeeded with this ploy," 949 he added.
Thus, in light of Vesco's intimate connections to the Permindex web
behind the JFK assassination conspiracy, it is likely that Vesco indeed knew
the facts about Mossad complicity with the CIA in the JFK affair and was
thus using his leverage to strike out at those who were attempting to bring
him back to the United States for trial.
Vesco ultimately took refuge in anti-Zionist Cuba with Fidel Castro's
assent and there he undoubtedly gave Castro an earful about what he—
Vesco—knew about the JFK affair.
This, of course, would have been of special interest to Castro inasmuch
as the plotters behind the JFK assassination went to great lengths to "sheepdip"
the president's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, as a Castro
sympathizer. In the end, of course, Castro ultimately had a falling out with
Vesco and the famed "fugitive financier" was imprisoned by his long-time
host on charges of involvement in the drug trade.