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his own—a fanciful story indeed. Whatever the case, it was Angleton who
was Epstein's most important source of "inside" information in the weaving
of this particular "legend." And interestingly enough, it was the controlled
media which had otherwise scoffed at JFK conspiracy allegations that
responded so favorably to this "new" conspiracy story.
As Carl Oglesby noted at the time Legend was published: "Time called
Epstein 'a careful, academic researcher' and said his evidence that Oswald
was a Soviet spy was 'strong.' The New York Times Review of Books
called it "fascinating, alarming and perhaps enormously significant' and
praised its 'explosive qualities.' The normally chaste Wilfred Sheed
swallowed the whole Angleton kaboodle and chimed in on his own that
`Cuba itself seems the most likely conspirator' with Oswald. 'This one," he
concluded, 'is a beauty.'" 299
(And as we shall see in Chapter 17, the controlled media's own
extensive links with Israel and its lobby in America, particularly the Lansky
Syndicate-funded Anti-Defamation League [ADL] of B'nai B'rith, accounts
for the media's desire to place the blame for the JFK assassination
elsewhere, other than on Angleton's CIA and his allies in Israel.)
FOOLED BY A FALSE FLAG
Interestingly, many American conservatives (who were certainly no
admirers of the Kennedy administration) fell for the Angleton-sponsored
fantasy that the KGB was behind the JFK assassination.
They wanted, more than anything perhaps, to believe that a communist
had killed JFK. It was wholly in line with their anti-communist worldview
and tailor-made for those who wanted to wave the proverbial "red flag."
(This red flag, as we shall see in these pages, however, was, in fact, yet
another Israeli false flag.)
Noting the conservative outcry that "a communist killed JFK," Peter
Dale Scott has written of "the loud and irresponsible campaign of the
American Security Council, the largest p.r. lobby for the military-industrial
complex, to support the intelligence-fed claim that a KGB assassin 'had
been trained at an assassin's school in the USSR for assignment later on the
North American continent.’” 300
Since the publication of the second edition of Final Judgment, a former
publicist for the American Security Council. William J. Gill,
acknowledged to this author his own sincere belief (at the time) that there
had been a communist role in the JFK assassination. He acknowledged that,
for political reasons, he had indeed been a part of the effort to pin the
assassination on the Soviets.
However, having read Final Judgment Gill concluded that, as he put it,
"I think you have pinned the tail on the donkey." In other words, that he
now believed that the Israeli Mossad was indeed the prime mover behind the
JFK assassination. "It was an angle that I never even conceived possible—
until now," he said. Gill described Final Judgment as "the most important
book of the 20th century."