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development program. However, according to historian Stephen Green, "It is
perhaps significant that the memorandum was not drafted as a formal
national intelligence estimate, which would have involved distribution to
several other agencies of the government. No formal NIE was issued by CIA
on the Israeli nuclear weapons program until 1968." 283
There is no question, of course, considering Angleton's close ties with
Israel and its Mossad, that Angleton (and perhaps the aforementioned
Shackley) were instrumental in burying this memorandum.
The CIA-Mossad joint operations relating to Israel's nuclear
development continued for a generation. Many years later, the CIA and Israel
jointly arranged the kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician
who blew the whistle on Israel's nuclear weapons development. A woman
used to lure Vanunu in the kidnapping conspiracy was a CIA covert action
operative who also did occasional work for the Mossad.
ANGLETON'S POWER INCREASES
With the advent of the Lyndon Johnson administration and the amazing
reversal of U.S. policy toward Israel, outlined in detail in Chapter 6, and
with the close relationship between Angleton's Mossad liaison, Evron, and
Lyndon Johnson, Angleton's influence in Middle East policy-making
became even greater.
According to Andrew and Leslie Cockburn: "One long-serving official at
the CIA's ancient rival, the code-breaking National Security Agency,
states flatly that `Jim Angleton and the Israelis spent a year cooking up the
`67 war. It was a CIA operation, designed to get Nasser [of Egypt].' Such a
verdict, from a source inside an agency that had the inclination and the
facilities to monitor both the CIA and the Israelis, must carry some
weight." 284
Now all of the aforementioned is particularly relevant when one
considers Angleton's preeminent role in the CIA-Mossad alliance.
However, much new additional information has come to light which ties
Angleton even further into the international web of conspiracy that resulted
in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
ANGLETON, LANSKY & THE OSS
Angleton, in fact, had intimate ties to Meyer Lansky-linked organized
crime operations in Europe stemming back from his service in the OSS in
England (working with British intelligence) and in Italy. And it was during
this same period that Meyer Lansky himself was engaged in joint covert
operations with the OSS, as noted in Chapter 7. It is also very likely that
during this time Angleton came in contact with a young American officer
detailed to the OSS—one Clay Shaw. As we shall see in Chapter 15, Shaw
is the focal point of contact in the JFK assassination conspiracy between
not only the CIA and low-level elements in the intelligence
community—Lee Harvey Oswald among them—but also between Meyer