Final_Judgment

250 The Twain Shall Meet [189]
Permindex was a subsidiary of CMC. The name Permindex is an
acronym which stood for PERmanent INDustrial EXpositions. 511 Clay
Shaw, of course, was the founder and director of the International Trade Mart
in the key port city of New Orleans. Thus, Shaw's connection with an
international trade entity seems logical.
However, there was more to the story, as the foreign press revealed:
"Actually it was soon to become evident that the seemingly vast, mighty
structure was not a rock of solidarity, but a shell of superficiality; not
constructed with mass, supporting promise, but composed of channels
through which money flowed back and forth, with no one knowing the
source or the destination of these liquid assets." reports Paris
Flammonde. 512
CLAY SHAW'S LITTLE-KNOWN SPONSORS
What about Clay Shaw? How did this New Orleans socialite come to
become involved in the strange world of the international entity known as
Permindex? Who were Clay Shaw's sponsors?
What no JFK assassination researchers—even those who cite Clay
Shaw's now widely-known CIA connections—ever seem to have noted is
yet another Shaw connection that places him further into the net of the CIA-
Mossad-Lansky Crime Syndicate nexus.
We refer to Shaw's tie to Seymour Weiss who ran New Orleans,
alongside Carlos Marcello, for the Lansky syndicate and was Lansky's
contact man with Louisiana's famed "Kingfish," Huey P. Long. 513
In Chapter 10, as we have seen, it was Lansky who installed Carlos
Marcello as the Mafia boss of New Orleans. It was Weiss, however, who
emerged as the Lansky syndicate bagman and political operative working in
conjunction with Marcello.
In fact, Lansky's man Weiss was purportedly the prime target of the
IRS investigation of Long—referenced in Chapter 10—that was initiated the
day before Long's assassination, and, according to Peter Dale Scott, "Long's
murder in 1935, some say, was arranged to prevent men like Weiss from
going to jail." 514
Scott has noted additionally that House Assassinations Committee
director G. Robert Blakey has omitted "all reference to the role of Seymour
Weiss" 515 in his account of Carlos Marcello's rise to power in New
Orleans. To do so, of course, as we noted in Chapter 10, would point in the
direction of Meyer Lansky.
SEYMOUR WEISS AND THE CIA
Now although Weiss ultimately did serve time in prison on other
racketeering charges, this did not prevent Weiss from eventually serving on
the board of Standard Fruit and Steamship 516 which maintained strong ties
with the CIA in its activities in Latin America. 517 In this context it is