Final_Judgment

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provided me details that filled in the blanks and which pointed toward what
we will call in shorthand "The French Connection."
On the one hand the Frenchman suggested that I was aiming in the right
direction, but he was emphatic in pointing out that I was, I suppose, using
the wrong ammunition. I was trying to bring down an elephant with a cap
gun or using a shotgun when a rifle would be better.
In any event, the Frenchman supplied me what I needed to bring my theory
on target. He specifically stated to me that information to which he was
privy did confirm my contention in the first draft of the book that James J.
Angleton, Israel's man at the Mossad desk at the CIA, had been directly
involved in the assassination plot.
He also specifically named Colonel Georges deLannurien, a highranking
figure of the French intelligence service, the SDECE, as having
been involved in the conspiracy in a critical way. He also singled out
Yitzhak Shamir as a conspirator and in my own first draft of Final
Judgment I had pointed out that Shamir had been the Mossad's European
station chief, based in Paris, and, more importantly, had been head of the
Mossad's special assassinations team that had been publicized by an Israeli
newspaper at the time I was writing Final Judgment.
The Frenchman told me that Shamir had arranged, through the
assistance of deLannurien, a French assassination team that had been
involved in the JFK murder. This material pointed toward a new angle, so to
speak, in the JFK assassination conspiracy. It added an additional element
of the conspiracy that, frankly, I didn't at the time fully understand myself.
However, this so-called "French connection" was something that other
researchers had touched upon but either refused to pursue to its utmost—
that is, the Israeli connection—or didn't understand. That is, to reiterate,
the 'French Connection," which one might also call the "Algerian
Connection," is most definitely the Israeli connection.
So having been alerted, I began to review all of the material I could
find relating to the relationship between France, its long-time colony, Arab
Algeria, Israel and the United States and all of the key players involved.
For those who are not immediately familiar with this aspect, I would
refer them to the famous novel by Frederick Forsyth and the film based on
the novel, The Day of the Jackal. This is a novel, based on fact, explaining
the story of a conspiracy by former high-ranking French military officials
and diplomats to kill French President Charles DeGaulle. They were upset
with him, to put it lightly, because of his decision to grant independence to
the long-time French colony of Algeria, a major Arab state in North Africa.
These French nationalists considered Algeria as a distinct part of
France itself and viewed DeGaulle's surrender of Algeria to the native
Algerian nationalist rebels as a betrayal of France. As a consequence, the
French critics of DeGaulle formed the so-called Secret Army Organization
known as the OAS. The OAS was operating in opposition to DeGaulle both
in France and in Algeria, indeed worldwide. As it was the OAS and the
French elements working both for and against the OAS involved an