Final_Judgment

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The Mossad Link to New Orleans Police Intelligence;
The Long-Suppressed Story of Fred (Efraim) O'Sullivan
Critics who say Final Judgment is "anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda"
will have a hard time explaining the revelations which appeared in the December 3,
2004 edition of the international edition of The Jerusalem Post, in an article written
by Arieh O'Sullivan, the military correspondent for the Post, one of Israel's most
distinguished newspapers. In his article, "The secrets of Dallas: 41 years after JFK,
what my dad still won't tell me," we learn that the author is the son of Fred
O'Sullivan, who, as a 26-year old New Orleans Police vice squad detective, testified
on April 7, 1964 before the Warren Commission.
The senior O'Sullivan had grown up half a block from Lee Harvey Oswald and
sat in front of Oswald in home rooms in school, their last names both beginning with
"0" and later recruited Oswald to join a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) unit in metropolitan
New Orleans at the time David Ferrie was active in the CAP.
In retrospect, O'Sullivan's testimony and statements to the FBI and the Warren
Commission and subsequent investigators for the House Assassinations Committee
seem to somewhat (and perhaps deliberately) vague in some respects, as far as the
precise links between Ferrie and Oswald are concerned. And momentarily we may
understand why that is the case.
Writing in The Jerusalem Post, the younger O'Sullivan asserts that his
father—who is now in a nursing home in Mississippi, his brain dimmed by strokes—
did express his opinion that "Lee" had killed JFK "by himself" but added that,
"Well, I have my suspicions who helped him." O'Sullivan says "my father always
intimated that he thought there was more to the story and that the plots to kill JFK and
black rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. . . . crossed paths in New Orleans." Now
here's where it all gets interesting—at least as far as the likelihood of a Mossad
connection to the JFK assassination and its cover-up is concerned.
It turns out that Detective Fred O'Sullivan ended up as commander of police
intelligence in New Orleans and then later, as the younger O'Sullivan writes, "threw
away our Christmas tree, lit the big brass menora and took off for Zion land." In
other words, O'Sullivan converted to Judaism and left with his family for Israel
where he became "Efraim"—no longer "Fred."
The younger O'Sullivan describes how his father would "keep secrets better
than anyone I have ever known." He writes: "Once I stumbled upon a Lebanese
driver's license in his name, with his photo in it, in his desk drawer. He shrugged it
off, telling me it was for my own good I not know. I was brought up not to prod."
Obviously, ex-New Orleans intelligence squad chief Fred O'Sullivan went to
work for Israel's Mossad. O'Sullivan is telling us that without directly telling us
that. And today the son of this trusted American Irish Catholic cop who converted to
Judaism and moved to Israel and worked for its intelligence agency is now the
military correspondent—no obscure position, by any means—for the nation's most
prestigious newspaper.
Does all of this "prove" anything? No, but it is another strange piece of the JFK
puzzle that has an unusual "Israeli connection." The question is how far back
O'Sullivan was sympathetic to and/or recruited by the Mossad and what, if anything,
he did as a high-ranking police intelligence officer to hinder, for example, Jim
Garrison's inquiries into David Ferrie and the Mossad-linked Clay Shaw.
The fact that the very individual who recruited Lee Harvey Oswald into the
Civil Air Patrol (where Oswald met David Ferric, his first major contact in the
intelligence community) went to work for Israeli intelligence is provocative indeed.