Final_Judgment

180 A Little Unpleasantness [119]
321 It was in Chapter 7 that we first came across the IOS, in examining the
relationship of Meyer Lansky's Organized Crime Syndicate to the Israeli
Mossad-linked Banque De Credit International (BCI).
TIBOR ROSENBAUM'S PROTEGE
During the criminal trial in 1970 of one of Lansky's Florida
lieutenants, Alvin Malnik, it was publicly revealed that one of the key
money laundering channels for the illegal proceeds of Lansky's narcotics,
vice and gambling rackets was BCI, the brainchild of the Israeli Mossad's
former Director-General for Finance and Supply, Tibor Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum's BCI received its Lansky Crime Syndicate cash flow
mainly through the Lansky-controlled Bank of World Commerce in Nassau,
Bahamas. The middleman was a young Swiss, Sylvain Ferdmann, a courier
for Lansky.
Ferdmann was not only an official of Rosenbaum's bank, and an
associate of the Bank of World Commerce (controlled by Lansky's longtime
crony, John Pullman) but—like Michael Townley himself—also a legman
for Investors Overseas Services (IOS).
Townley's employer, Cornfeld, in fact, was initially sponsored by
Rosenbaum who had emerged as a major money launderer for Lansky's
global drug trafficking. Millions in small bills were transferred from
Lansky's casinos, often masked as Israeli Bond sales and contributions to
Jewish philanthropies through BCI and the IOS.
It is thus interesting, to say the least, that Michael Townley, with his
Israeli Mossad connections during not only the period of the JFK
assassination but also during his participation in the Letelier murder, should
be associated with the Novo brothers who have been implicated in both
crimes themselves.
That former New York Senator James Buckley's office should have,
perhaps by coincidence, served as the meeting place where the Letelier
assassination was planned is also interesting. As we've noted already, E.
Howard Hunt (himself implicated in the JFK assassination) and Buckley's
brother, publisher (and Hunt's ex-CIA support staffer) William F. Buckley,
Jr. were longtime friends stemming from their CIA days.
Hunt's own longtime intrigue with the Cuban American community in
anti-Castro activities as the CIA's chief liaison with the Cubans, of course,
has long been widely noted.
THE BUCKLEY-ISRAEL CONNECTION
However, what is not so widely known is that the Buckley family—
including brothers James and William—had substantive links to Israel
through their various family oil enterprises. In 1971 the Washington Observer
newsletter shed some interesting light on the Buckley family oil concessions in
Israel, established by Buckley's father.