Final_Judgment

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Those interested in JFK's Middle East policy I would refer to those
volumes cited in Final Judgment, in particular, Stephen Green's Taking
Sides, Andrew and Leslie Cockburns' Dangerous Liaisons, and Seymour
Hersh's The Samson Option. I hasten to add that none of these volumes
suggests any tie-in between JFK's conflicts with Israel and his
assassination. Once one has studied these volumes, there can be no question
in mind that the popular perception of JFK being a "friend" of Israel—at
least in the mind of the Israeli leadership at the time—is far from being on
the mark. And that's an understatement.
There's no question but that by the time of his death JFK was
considered by the Israeli leadership to be a threat to Israel's continued
survival. Anyone who has any ambitions of being an authority on the
assassination of JFK can not—I repeat, can not—examine the assassination
without reading these books that touch on this aspect of JFK's foreign
policy. Those who avoid the subject are obviously afraid of getting dirtied
up in the Israeli Connection.
'THE MAFIA KILLED JFK'
Although the books that suggest that "The Mafia Killed JFK"
constitute a subject category all of their own, I won't devote any further
discussion to those volumes in this bibliographical historical overview of
the books on the assassination. I've already discussed these volumes and
their highly flawed thesis at various junctures throughout the pages of Final
Judgment. These volumes have, nonetheless, received widespread coverage
in the Establishment media because, I'm certain, it takes the focus off the
real conspirators. But rest assured: the Mafia did NOT kill JFK.
ROBERT MORROW
At this point I want to discuss the works of Robert Morrow. Earlier I
mentioned his novel, Betrayal. His "non-fiction" revised edition of this
book, substantially enhanced and enriched, is First-Hand Knowledge,
subtitled "How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President
Kennedy." It's an interesting book but I am cautious about the volume if
only for the reason that, as I pointed out in Final Judgment, it was printed
by an American affiliate of an Israeli publishing concern. Aside from that I
will say that in my opinion there is no question that Morrow himself was
involved with people who were involved in the intrigue surrounding the
assassination, in particular with those CIA elements that were collaborating
with the anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
However, as I've suggested, my own view is that the Cuban aspect of
the assassination conspiracy has been over-played by most researchers. That
is, in the sense that I don't actually see the Cuban exiles as being real
conspirators, but, instead, "facilitators"—even patsies—who were being
manipulated as much as Lee Harvey Oswald.