Final_Judgment

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However, I must point out, I did not rely on Pierre as a source until
after the first draft of Final Judgment had been completed. And when Pierre
came along I was ultimately satisfied that the thesis put forth in Final
Judgment was complete and on the mark and that I had exhausted all
resources available. I was in for a very intriguing surprise, however, when
Pierre Neuville finally came along.
How did you come in contact with your French source, Pierre?
The circumstances as to how I came across this source are interesting in
themselves. Upon the completion of the first draft of Final Judgment I made a
telephone call to highly regarded former longtime Congressman Paul
Findley (Rill.) very well known as a "liberal," who had been somewhat
critical of Israel and of its lobby in the United States.
I thought that Findley might find the book of some interest and called
him up and said, "I'd like to send you a copy." He didn't know me, but he
was familiar with The Spotlight newspaper (which, in fact, had been critical
of him in the past) and I did send him a copy of the first draft of the book
(which, at that juncture, I thought would essentially be the final draft,
pending a number of minor editing recommendations, etc.)
I was surprised when he acknowledged receipt of the book by saying
that, as he put it in his letter, "I will mention that over the past four years I
have had lengthy correspondence with a retired diplomat from a western
European nation whose family (including himself) has had disastrous
experiences with Israel and the Mossad. He has been prodding me all that
time to do what you have done."
As you can imagine I'd spent all this time writing the book and trying
to get it published and here was a former congressman of great repute (and
certainly no "extremist" by any means) telling me that a retired diplomat
had been urging him to write a book that contained the very thesis put forth
in Final Judgment.
Well, obviously, I realized, I was not alone in my thinking. He told me
he was going to send the diplomat the manuscript with my permission and I,
of course, said, "please do."
I was subsequently surprised when I got a letter from Findley saying
that while he thought it was a good book that it was inconclusive and that I
had not proved my thesis. This was after he had read the first draft.
(Frankly, I don't think, in any case, he would endorse it. He simply doesn't
want to be accused of being a "conspiracy theorist" on top of the frequent
accusation that he is somehow an "anti-Semite" for being critical of Israel.
In any case, I must say, in retrospect, knowing what was in that first
draft (and which I thought was good) that the final draft—what was
ultimately published—was far superior and far more complete.
Nonetheless, I did also receive a letter from the intelligence officer who
was now living in Canada. This gentlemen, who told me that he was a
former French intelligence officer, did not at first reveal his name but he