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himself never even suspected how deeply the Permindex nexus went.
Garrison had only come across the tip of the iceberg.
THE SECRET ABOUT PERMINDEX
Israel's Mossad was the key force behind Permindex. In fact, one of the
chief shareholders in the Permindex holding company was the Banque De
Credit International of Geneva, 505 established by Tibor Rosenbaum, the
longtime Director for Finance and Supply of Israel's Mossad. It was BCI, as
we saw in Chapter 7 and Chapter 12, which served as Meyer Lansky 's
chief money laundering bank in Europe.
According to Meyer Lansky's sympathetic Israeli biographers: "After
Israel became a state, almost 90 percent of its purchases of arms abroad was
channeled through Rosenbaum's bank. The financing of many of Israel's
most daring secret operations was carried out through the funds in
[BCI]." 506 BCI also served as a depository for the Permindex account.
That Tibor Rosenbaum's BCI was a controlling force
behind the enigmatic Permindex entity places Israel and its
Mossad in the very center of the conspiracy behind the
assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Clay Shaw's positioning in New Orleans, site of one operational rung
of the conspiracy, resulted in Shaw's implication in the investigation
conducted by Jim Garrison. But the conspiracy went much deeper.
Ultimately, as we now know, Garrison came to recognize that Israel's
Mossad was intimately involved in the events in Dallas on November 22,
1963. However, in the beginning, Garrison surely never even suspected it
and certainly had no reason to do so. JFK's secret war with Israel was an
unknown factor in the geo-political events of the period. Attention instead
was focused on American involvement in Southeast Asia
'TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS'
In examining the JFK assassination conspiracy, according to researcher
Peter Dale Scott, "a first step is to suggest that one ingredient in the
complex, multi-centered intrigues that climaxed in the Kennedy
assassination was the participation of diverse unaccountable transnational
connections, each transcending the limits of American political society, and
each with distinctive motives for the murder of the president . . .
"To now recognize a transnational dimension to the case is . . . to
recognize that the American political system is of necessity an open one,
and thus increasingly susceptible to the growing influence of money and
intelligence penetration from abroad [our emphasis] . . .
"Transnational connections are common modes of interaction between
intelligence agencies, often in intrigues of which heads of government may
be, at best, only dimly aware. Sometimes they may give rise to more overt,
structured arrangements or forums such as the World Anti-Communist