Final_Judgment

170 Thick as Thieves [109]
There is no question but that conservative elements did indeed stress the
"communist" angle in the JFK assassination following the president's
murder—for very obvious political motivations.
One prominent "right wing" journalist of the time, Revilo P. Oliver—
then a key figure in the John Birch Society—was actually called before the
Warren Commission to elaborate on his controversial and widely-publicized
theory that the Soviets had JFK executed because he [JFK] was not doing
enough to advance international communism. However, shortly before his
death in 1994 Oliver told associates that had he not been so ill, he would have
relished the opportunity to write a favorable review of Final Judgment which
had just been released earlier in the year. Oliver himself evidently realized that
he, too, had been taken in by the Angleton-inspired myth. Needless to say,
however, the myth the Soviets were somehow involved in the JFK
assassination was an ideal cover story and one that James J. Angleton was
very much the prime mover behind.
`A MANSION HAS MANY ROOMS'
All of this is interesting and illustrates the lengths to which Angleton
would go in order to fabricate a story targeting his enemies for the blame—
and clearing his friends. However, Angleton's most provocative and widely
known statement, often presumed to be in reference to the JFK
assassination—came when he was quoted in The New York Times —two
days after he was fired from the CIA by then-Director William Colby.
Angleton's cryptic remark was as follows: "A mansion has many rooms.
I'm not privy to who struck John." 301 Angleton, however, insisted that the
reference had nothing to do with the JFK assassination.
Angleton died a broken man on May 11, 1987—driven out of the CIA
to which he had devoted his lifetime. Angleton was correct: "A mansion has
many rooms." There was yet another secret room—so to speak—a shadowy
intelligence operation working closely with Organized Crime and the CIA in
a wide variety of ventures both in the United States and around the globe:
James Jesus Angleton's beloved allies in Israel's Mossad.
A FINAL NOTE: Since the first release of Final Judgment—which was the
first JFK assassination book to seriously focus on James Angleton (based upon
leads provided by Mark Lane's Plausible Denial)—JFK researcher Lisa Pease
(who received a copy of Final Judgment from the author) has written two
excellent articles examining Angleton's critical role in the JFK affair. They
appear in the book The Assassinations (Los Angeles, Feral House Press, 2003)
edited by Miss Pease and James DiEugenio. Unfortunately, although Miss Pease
referenced Final Judgment, in passing in earlier renditions of her essays (when
they were first published on the Internet), she has since deleted those references,
perhaps out of fear of being associated with yours truly. In any case, Miss Pease
also rushes to assure her readers that she has found no evidence to support the
theory that Angleton was "controlled" by the Mossad, despite her suggestion
that other un-named writers have asserted as much. In fact, as readers of Final
Judgment know well, no such assertion is made in this book. Quite the contrary,
Angleton was a Mossad loyalist. No "control" was necessary.