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Swiss-Israel Trade Bank owned one-third interest in the Paz group, which
had been a Rothschild family entity, maintaining control over Israel's oil
and petrochemical industry. 542
EISENBERG AND FEINBERG—AGAIN
As we noted in Chapter 7, associates of Rosenbaum in the Swiss-Israel
Trade Bank included Shaul Eisenberg, a key figure in Israel's nuclear bomb
development—the central point of conflict between JFK and Israel—and
New York businessman Abe Feinberg. In Chapter 8 we learned that
Eisenberg later became a business associate of CIA figure Theodore
Shackley. Shackley, as we discovered in Chapter 11, was the CIA's chief of
station in Miami during the CIA-Lansky Crime Syndicate plots against
Fidel Castro. And, in Chapter 12, we learned, it was Shackley who was CIA
chief of station in Laos during the period of the close working relationship
between the CIA and the Lansky syndicate in the global drug racket.
It was Feinberg, as we saw in Chapter 4, who was the American Jewish
fund-raising contact of the 1960 Kennedy for President campaign.
Feinberg's heavy-handed tactics so infuriated Kennedy that he privately
told a close friend that, as president, he intended to enforce changes in
campaign fund-raising regulations that would prevent powerful groups such
as the American pro-Israel lobby from wielding so much influence.
Feinberg, additionally, of course, was close to Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion and, in fact, helped arrange the bitter meeting between
Kennedy and Ben-Gurion recounted in Chapter 5.
The manager of Rosenbaum and Feinberg's Swiss-Israel Trade Bank
was Gen. Julius Klein, a U.S. Army officer, who had engaged in illegally
re-routing shiploads of supplies and equipment scheduled to go to post-war
Germany to the Haganah, the military forces of the Jews in Palestine. Klein
conducted this enterprise while chief of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence
Corps in Europe at the end of World War II.
(Later, in Appendix Four, we'll meet Klein's protégé who had an
unusually close relationship with a key member of the Warren Commission
cover-up of the JFK assassination. However, Klein's services on behalf of
the state of Israel were even more significant. It was Klein who had been
involved in setting up Israel's Mossad and in training its officers. Klein
worked alongside Sir William Stephenson in this particular venture. 543
In Chapter 7, we learned of Sir William's clandestine alliance with
Meyer Lansky and his crime syndicate in the so-called Operation
Underworld apparatus aimed against Axis intelligence during World War II.
Stephenson, of course, had been the director of Britain's intelligence
operations in the United States—in the critical years preceding and during
World War II—and was the aforementioned Major Louis M. Bloomfield's