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ended upon on the desk of James J. Angleton. Shaw, in effect, was
functioning (at least indirectly) as one of Angleton's operatives.
However, it is likely their initial relationship was forged during their
joint service with the OSS during World War II.
Yet, there is one definitive Angleton-Shaw connection that has been
documented and it is interesting indeed. When Shaw was later arrested by
Jim Garrison, it was discovered his address book contained the private
telephone number of the Principessa Marcelle Borghese. 533 The principessa
was a relative of Prince Valerio Borghese who was rescued during World
War II by Angleton whose exploits with the OSS in Italy as its station chief
in Rome won him a decoration from the Vatican. 534
It will be recalled, of course, that one facet of the OSS-orchestrated
campaign against the Nazis and the Italian fascists was known as Operation
Underworld. As we saw in Chapter 7, it was Meyer Lansky who was the
middle man between the OSS and organized crime, helping arrange for
Sicilian Mafia support for the invading Allied troops in Italy. Angleton, of
course, was point man in Europe for the project.
(That Permindex was based in Rome, may thus be no coincidence,
considering Angleton's long-standing connections with the city, where even
his father held the National Cash Register franchise for Italy.) 535
In any event there is no question whatsoever that Clay Shaw and James
Angleton—along with Major Bloomfield of Permindex—had long moved in
the same closely related circles on a wide variety of fronts.
MORE STRANGE CONNECTIONS
That Clay Shaw's contacts in the Mossad-linked Permindex entity had a
wide-ranging array of international interests in the world of intrigue is
further evidenced by some of the other personalities involved. Among those
who were either investors in Permindex or who shared seats on the board of
Permindex were several interesting characters with equally interesting
connections. Among them were:
Ferenc Nagy. The former premier of Hungary was a fierce anticommunist
who maintained close connections not only to Israel's allies in
the America CIA, but also to the anti-Castro Cuban colony in Miami, itself
practically a joint operating subsidiary of both the CIA and the Lansky
Organized Crime Syndicate. (Nagy himself later settled in Dallas, Texas and
was residing there at the time of the Kennedy assassination.) 536
Hans Seligman. A member of the family which controlled the
Seligman Bank of Basel and whose extended family were, in America, part
of the famous "Our Crowd" (German Jewish elite) in New York City during
the latter period of the 19th century. Seligman was intimately involved with
the Israel-oriented Zionist agency known as the Jewish Colonization
Association. 537