Final_Judgment

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At one conference of JFK assassination researchers one attendee created a
bit of a stir when he asked if anyone had ever determined precisely which Israeli
newspapers Jack Ruby was translating for and whether anyone ever interviewed
those reporters to find out what Ruby may have said to them in those critical
hours while Ruby was stalking Oswald.
The answer that the master of ceremonies, researcher Walt Brown, gave
was revealing in its own fashion. Brown said—in words to this effect—
"That may be the most important question asked at this conference." 467
What may, in the end, be most telling about Ruby's Mossad
connections came out as late as 2003 when William F. Pepper, longtime
attorney for Martin Luther King's alleged assassin, James Earl Ray,
published his book An Act of State.
In that book Pepper asserted that in 1963 Ruby was involved in an
international arms smuggling operation—based in part in Texas—which
involved "a senior Mossad agent working in South America who acted as a
senior liaison to the U.S. military and CIA."' 468
Perhaps not surprisingly, Pepper did not elaborate on the Mossad
connection. However, Pepper's circumspect reference to the Mossad was a
lightning bolt of recall to anyone who had already read Final Judgment.
Pepper's assertion involving the Mossad link to the arms smuggling
operation involving Ruby is based on statements made to one of Pepper's
investigators by former Colonel John Downie of the 902nd Military
Intelligence Group, a unit based inside the Department of Defense.
According to Downie, the mysterious figure "Raul"—whom King's
accused assassin, James Earl Ray, claimed had helped frame him (Ray) for
King's murder—was part of a U.S.-based international arms smuggling
operation that Pepper had already determined—through other sources—
involved Jack Ruby.
The link between "Raul" and Ruby was by no means tenuous: "Raul"
and Ruby were placed together by Pepper's sources on numerous occasions
prior to the JFK assassination—five years before King's murder. 469
The smuggling operation utilized weapons stolen from U.S. Army
bases and armories which were delivered to the New Orleans-based Carlos
Marcello organized crime organization which, in turn, delivered those arms
for sale in Latin and South America and elsewhere. The proceeds from the
arms deals were reportedly split equally with the U.S. 902nd Military
Intelligence Group using its cut for financing covert, off-budget, operations.
It appears the previously published Final Judgment had almost certainly
already pinpointed the identity of the individual described by Pepper's
source. In the photo section of Final Judgment, it is pointed out that the
famous "umbrella man" who was photographed in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on
Nov. 22, 1963 bore a remarkable resemblance to no less than the nowinfamous
(but then shadowy) longtime Mossad figure, Michael Harari.
In 1963, Harari was in the field as a top Mossad's assassinations
specialist and would have assuredly been in Dallas if the Mossad was a
prime player in the JFK conspiracy. In addition, the published record