Final_Judgment

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knowledge did talk and that's how the information about these two
conspirators fell into my lap as I was writing Final Judgment.
The question is well taken, however. But what I've said many, many
times in answer to inquiries is that what I believe is unique—among many
things, I suppose—about Final Judgment is that it does present a conspiracy
that actually only involves a small number of people. That is, only a handful
of people involved would have actually known that the president was going
to be killed. All of the other people who somehow were brought into the
conspiracy would not have even known the parts that they were playing in
furthering such a conspiracy.
That, I think, is one important aspect of the theory that I present in
Final Judgment. The number of those involved in the conspiracy who
actually knew that JFK was going to be assassinated was probably very
limited indeed—yet those who were "in the know" had vast resources at
their command to influence substantially larger numbers of people who
would never necessarily know that they were indeed participating in an
assassination conspiracy aimed at President Kennedy.
As I see it there were some six stages involved in the actual
assassination: 1) the initiation of the conspiracy: who set it in motion? 2) the
planning and coordination: the hiring of the assassins, for example; 3) the
financing—who put up the money to carry it out? 4) the
facilitation—setting up the patsy, making sure everything was in place on
November 22; 5) the execution of the assassination; and 6) the cover-up.
As far as the the actual initiation of the conspiracy, as I've said, it
appears evident that this took place through interaction between the Israeli
Mossad and the top levels of the CIA as a consequence of their own
reaction to JFK's policies. Not to mention, of course, CIA and Mossad
interaction with other power groups that were under the gun during the
Kennedy administration—most notably, organized crime.
I've already squarely placed the blame for initiating the conspiracy on
James Angleton of the CIA and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
but there were others who may have been on "the inside" as well.
Once it was decided that JFK would be "hit" it was necessary for the
second stage of the conspiracy: the planning and coordination. Someone
had to be responsible for recruiting the assassins, for laying the overall
groundwork, determining where the assassination would take place and how
it would be financed.
This, I tend to believe, was probably carried out by Yitzhak Shamir
who was head of the Mossad's assassinations team. He, of course, would
have worked closely with Angleton and we do know that he contracted out
at least one assassin or team of assassins through his ally in French
intelligence, Colonel Georges deLannurien.
The financing for all of this could have come from a wide variety of
sources. Although, of course, both the CIA and the Mossad have immense
budgets at their disposal (including the CIA's famed "black budget") not to
mention a wide variety of front companies, known as proprietaries, it does
seem likely that the money used to finance the operation was carefully