Final_Judgment

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protection—not to mention the assistance—of Israel and its worldwide
network and its support in the American media if he and the CIA decided to
move against President Kennedy.
All in all you had a very tightly knit group of people—both outright
conspirators and powerful sympathizers—all dealing with one another on a
regular and intimate and highly secretive basis.
I've said time and again that while the JFK assassination conspiracy
appears on its face to be many different circles intersecting with one
another, a more appropriate way of looking at the conspiracy would be to
view it as a very wide circle that continues spiraling inward to a very tight
vortex. You don't have "one big happy family" but, instead, "one very
small happy family" collaborating in the JFK conspiracy. With just a few
contacts, these people were capable of setting in motion, financing and
orchestrating this conspiracy that obviously crossed several continents.
We will never know who first said, "Let's kill JFK." It would be
presumptuous for me to try to make any comment on that and obviously no
records on this conspiracy were kept. In Oliver Stone's JFK, the character
played by Donald Sutherland, known as "Man X" said that he felt the
conspiracy started "in the wind." Kennedy, he said, was like Caesar,
surrounded with enemies. Something was underway. Yet everybody in the
loop knew what was going to happen—that JFK was going to be
assassinated. It was a coup d'etat–and that's how they work. That's the best
way to look at how the conspiracy evolved.
According to Pierre Neuville, my French source, Yitzhak Shamir, the
Mossad's assassination chief, did contract out at least one assassin or an
assassination team through Colonel Georges deLannurien in French
intelligence. And because deLannurien was with Angleton at CIA
headquarters at Langley the day of the assassination, it seems likely that
deLannurien knew precisely who those contract assassins were gunning for.
He doesn't appear to be have been "out of the loop." So, in my judgment,
there was an affirmative move on the part of the Mossad toward the goal of
killing John F. Kennedy. Perhaps Shamir did it at Angleton's behest.
There's no doubt that it was JFK's strained relationship with Israel that
was one of the prime motivations behind the ultimate conspiracy in light of
the role of Israel's CIA collaborator, James Angleton, in the conspiracy.
Angleton had several motivations in launching CIA participation in the
conspiracy and one of the primary motivations certainly was his position as
Israel's chief and devoted advocate at the CIA in Washington.
I think my bottom line in Final Judgment is that you absolutely cannot
look at the JFK assassination conspiracy without factoring in the role of the
Mossad—all other factors, no matter how important, notwithstanding.
In Final Judgment you say very little about the role of the militaryindustrial
complex and its allies in the Pentagon in the JFK
assassination conspiracy.