Final_Judgment

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He could have been one of the assassins recruited by the real conspirators. I
understand that some JFK assassination researchers dispute the story told by
White's son, but there are many people who do believe him and believe that
he is sincere. If White was working for the CIA, though, it would indeed
suggest CIA complicity. However, of course, because somebody happened
to be working for the CIA doesn't necessarily mean that he was recruited
for the crime by the CIA. After all, a CIA operative could have been
recruited by Icelandic intelligence to carry out the crime, if I can be so
facetious as to suggest that. In the long run, however, the Roscoe White
puzzle is only a very small piece of the bigger puzzle.
In your analysis of the JFK assassination, you contend that there was
a French assassin (or assassins) involved in the crime. Were these
assassins members of the French Secret Army Organization (OAS) or
were they members of the French Corsican Mafia? You are not clear
on this in Final Judgment.
First of all, I must say that the French Connection to the JFK
assassination conspiracy is very complex indeed. As I pointed out earlier, I did
not fully understand the French Connection until after I had actually finished
the first draft of the book in which I had made passing reference to the
allegations of such a connection. To analyze the facts that are important, in
order to clear away any confusion, it's important to analyze what the French
Connection really is.
In the early 1960's French President Charles DeGaulle decided to grant
independence to the French colony across the Mediterranean in Arab
Algeria. Many French colonials in Algeria (not to mention Frenchmen at
home) objected to DeGaulle's decision and considered it a betrayal. They
were fearful that the indigenous Moslem Arab population would oppress the
French Algerians and considered DeGaulle's measure a blow to French
national dignity. Regardless of the merits, there were factions that
developed. Although DeGaulle was head of the French government, his
own intelligence agency, the SDECE, was heavily divided over the issue of
Algeria. Likewise with the French military.
The more radical critics of DeGaulle's policy on Algeria formed the
OAS. There were many public supporters of the OAS, but there was also
quiet support for the OAS within the SDECE. At the same time, Israel
opposed Algerian independence—fearing another Arab foe—and there were
many French Jews and Israelis who supported the OAS. There were even
Jewish paramilitary units formed in Algeria in support of the OAS. And
many Israelis actually enlisted in the ranks of the OAS.
In the ranks of the SDECE there were many who had close ties to
Israel's Mossad, in light of the long-standing close relationship between the
SDECE and the Mossad, stemming from DeGaulle's own early close
relationship with Israel. As I point out in Final Judgment, it was, in fact,
high-level SDECE official, Georges DeLannurien, who, at the behest of