Final_Judgment

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that JFK and Israel were seriously and dangerously at odds over Israel's
drive to build a nuclear bomb, which Israel perceived as critical to its very
survival. Hersh also delved into James J. Angleton's status as Israel's
preeminent advocate at the CIA.
At the same time another critical volume was published: Andrew and
Leslie Cockburn's Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli
Covert Relationship. This book explored the conflict between JFK and
Israel in similar detail and, like Hersh's book, began to shed an interesting
new light (to me, and to others) on a little known facet of JFK's foreign
policy and I began to see how it all did tie directly to some of the very
forces that had an interest in his assassination.
Then I began considering the aspects of Organized Crime's
involvement in the JFK assassination and how there might indeed be a
connection between Israel and Organized Crime.
I started looking at the connections between organized crime and the CIA
and thence to the Israeli Mossad. I knew that Meyer Lansky, the
organized crime figure, had actually settled in Israel but I never realized,
until I began my research, how intimately connected he was to the Jewish
state. Nor did I realize how inaccurate the term "the Mafia" really is when
describing the Organized Crime syndicate.
Ultimately, if one seriously wishes to examine the history of organized
crime you absolutely cannot take a realistic look at that history without
considering the role of Meyer Lansky. It is critical because when one turns
over Lansky's tombstone you find the worms of the CIA and the Israeli
Mossad crawling around there, perhaps even feeding upon one another.
So I began to find that there were very close ties between the CIA and the
Mossad and organized crime and that not only were all three working together
in a number of spheres of influence over a long period of time, but that all of
them had a distinct motive in wanting to remove JFK from the American
presidency.
As it is, of course, over the years, many of those who suggested that the CIA
had some sort of role in the assassination are fearful of suggesting that it
was an institutional role, and instead say that they were "rogue" CIA elements.
That, in my view, is quite a limp-wristed stance.
To the best of my knowledge the one and only author (other than
myself, of course) to say that the CIA had an institutional role in the affair
was Mark Lane, writing in Plausible Denial. So, for whatever reason or
reasons, there have been many "researchers" who have been unwilling or
unable to acknowledge the depths of detail that have been unearthed in
Plausible Denial that pinpoint institutional CIA involvement in the
president's murder.
Now I would be remiss in not giving credit to former Los Angeles
police detective Gary Wean whose book, There's a Fish in the Courthouse,
provided me many valuable nuggets of information suggesting Israeli
involvement in the JFK assassination.
Gary's little-known book contains some particularly interesting
information about strange CIA-related activities in Dallas, related to Gary