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The Errand Boy [181]<br />

The subsequent New York debate between Lane and Belli was jampacked<br />

with the press. However, according to Lane, "Not one daily<br />

newspaper in New York, and possibly in the nation, even mentioned that<br />

the event had occurred." 498 This despite the fact that there were half a dozen<br />

papers in New York at the time.<br />

Lane commented: "The New York Times refers to itself as a newspaper<br />

of record. That which is not found within its many pages ostensibly did not<br />

happen. For this reason the Belli encounter in New York is known to some<br />

as the debate that never occurred." 499<br />

That a prominent attorney who represented Mickey Cohen, a key figure<br />

in Meyer Lansky's international crime operations (and also an important cog<br />

in Israel's global machinations), later came to represent Jack Ruby is clearly<br />

significant.<br />

A WELL-PLACED ERRAND BOY<br />

Although Jack Ruby's actual role in the planning stages of the JFK<br />

assassination conspiracy will probably never be fully known, there is no<br />

question that, in the end, Ruby became a critical factor in the cover-up. His<br />

murder of Lee Harvey Oswald silenced the one man who could no doubt fill<br />

in at least some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. Jack Ruby was a wellplaced<br />

errand boy, not only for Meyer Lansky and his global crime<br />

syndicate, but also, it appears, for the covert arm of the CIA as well. Ruby<br />

did his job and he did it well.<br />

Although Ruby sought to speak freely, the Warren Commission refused<br />

his entreaties to be allowed to come to Washington to tell his story. The<br />

story of how Chief Justice Earl Warren refused to give Ruby the<br />

opportunity to leave Dallas and tell his story is a famous part of JFK<br />

assassination folklore. As a consequence, Ruby never did have the chance to<br />

give his version of what really happened.<br />

Jack Ruby was indeed "the smoking gun, the Rosetta stone, the trout in<br />

the milk." He also may have even been—as even Lee Harvey Oswald<br />

proclaimed himself—a "patsy." Just one player—albeit, in the end, an<br />

important one—Ruby played a starring role in a drama orchestrated far<br />

beyond his seamy Carousel Club in Dallas. Ruby was an errand boy in a<br />

high-stakes operation—the assassination of an American president—that<br />

was being undertaken by the joint alliance of the Meyer Lansky Crime<br />

Syndicate, the CIA and Israel's Mossad.<br />

A STRANGE STORY<br />

As this book was being completed, a very strange story about Jack<br />

Ruby came to this author's attention that bears repeating, if only for the<br />

reason that it should be part of the permanent record, particularly considering<br />

our contention that Israel did indeed have a hand in the assassination of John<br />

F. Kennedy.

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