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minded reader will agree that the sources complement one another quite
well. As always, I'll let the reader make the final judgment.
How did you know which sources were reliable?
As I mentioned earlier, I relied on many, many sources and an
overwhelming majority of those sources are "mainstream" sources, even
among those in the lore of the JFK assassination conspiracy. Not on any
major point in any area of the book did I find anything that didn't seem to
be backed up by other sources. The fact is that the book does rely on
standard sources. I do suppose the biggest problem in research in any area
such as this is that you find many sources that are actually putting out socalled
"black propaganda": disinformation that is designed to confuse.
However, I did make a serious effort to try to continually have (especially
where I had any doubts) a number of sources that confirmed the basic facts
of the particular area that I happened to be writing about.
What have authors of other JFK books said about Final Judgment?
This is a very interesting question, to say the very least. Let's take Jim
Marrs, for example. Marrs is the author of the mammoth volume, Crossfire,
examining virtually all of the JFK assassination conspiracies. This book
came out before Final Judgment and Marrs' book does, to its credit, get into
the Permindex connection and quotes the LaRouche organization's
Executive Intelligence Review in regard to Permindex.
However, Marrs only goes so far as to mention the
possibility—although he never necessarily acknowledges it as fact—that
Permindex had ties to the international drug trade. (Marrs never mentions
Lansky. It's only "the Mafia" as far as he's concerned.) And, of course,
Marrs never ever gets into the Israeli Connection, even though, as I've
pointed out earlier, Marrs' own source, Executive Intelligence Review,
focuses on Mossad figure Tibor Rosenbaum's role in Permindex.
Be all of this as it may, I sent Marrs a copy of Final Judgment after it
was first released. However, I do have to admit that in my letter to Marrs I
did point out some things about Oliver Stone that led me to be suspicious of
Stone's motives in bringing JFK to the screen in the fashion that he did. I
pointed out to Marrs that I had been told (although I've never actually
confirmed it, to be completely honest) that Stone was a major contributor to
AIPAC, the registered lobby for Israel. I also pointed out that Stone had
ignored the "French Connection," (as I noted earlier).
Now at this juncture I will mention (as I did in Final Judgment) that
Oliver Stone paid some $200,000 or more to Jim Marrs at the time Stone
was putting JFK together. So I understand why Marrs would be hesitant to
criticize or to acknowledge criticism of a man who had obviously made him
rich overnight.
And don't forget that the "moneybags" behind Oliver Stone and the
film JFK was Arnon Milchan, the film's executive producer, who has been