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How the Mossad Skillfully Hid in Plain Sight:
The "Indispensible Mark" in the JFK Conspiracy
The late G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) provided a means of
understanding the Mossad role in the JFK conspiracy in the story of his
fictional detective, Father Brown, thwarting a crime during a dinner party at
an elegant hotel. In The Queer Feet, the villain infiltrated the party and
made off with the silverware in the presence of a small handful of waiters
and distinguished guests. Because both the waiters and the diners were
attired in evening clothes, the thief dressed likewise. His ability to act and
posture accordingly, despite his singular costume, made his crime possible.
In the dining room, the criminal assumed the pose of a skilled waiter,
moving swiftly, with precision—an "obsequious attendant"—keeping his
distance, his eyes averted. Moving about elsewhere, the thief adopted the
easy gestures, casual manners—the "absent-minded insolence"—of a
society plutocrat, ignoring the hired help as he moved among them.
Fortunately, Father Brown happened to be in the hotel and, as the crime
was underway, overheard "the queer feet," —that is, the abrupt change of
footfall as the villain slipped in and out of the dining room, changing his
persona with lightning speed, from fast-walking "waiter" to leisurely
"aristocrat." And so Father Brown captured the criminal and saved the day.
Father Brown explained: "A crime is like any other work of art. Every
work of art, divine or diabolic, has one indispensable mark—the center of it is
simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. Every clever
crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact—some fact that
is not itself mysterious. The mystification comes in covering it up, in
leading men's thoughts away from it." * So it is with the JFK assassination.
Because of its ability to infiltrate and/or manipulate or otherwise
collaborate with such diverse groups as the CIA, organized crime, certain
American "right wing" persons and organizations, the anti-Castro Cuban
exiles, posturing accordingly, echoing concerns about JFK that these
elements harbored, the Mossad assumed a protective coloration, operating
behind the other conspirators and yet effectively acted in the open,
hiding—as they say—in plain sight.
As such, the role of the Mossad and its motive in moving against JFK—
his effort to block Israel from building nuclear weapons—became lost in
the multiple, seemingly disconnected and seemingly competing conspiracy
theories that emerged in the wake of the assassination.
Call it the "missing link" or "the hidden picture on the other side of the
jigsaw puzzle" or the one "indispensable mark" pointing to the perpetrator
of the crime, the bottom line, however uncomfortable it may be to some, is
that, in the JFK assassination, the Mossad connection is inescapable.
*With all due credit to George O'Toole who first cited Father Brown's remarks
in the context of the JFK conspiracy, although, of course, O'Toole was not referring
to the Mossad.