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assassination furor (in the midst of the House Assassinations Committee
investigation), the editors of the weekly newspaper were interested.
CIA TO FRAME HUNT?
Marchetti's article suggested that upper echelon executives of the CIA
had decided to frame E. Howard Hunt for involvement in the Kennedy
assassination. Not that Hunt was involved in the crime—simply that the
CIA had decided to frame Hunt for the deed. This distinction is important.
Over the years, several assassination buffs had claimed that the famous
photographs taken in Dealey Plaza of three so-called "tramps" being led
away from the scene by police officers revealed Hunt as one of those tramps.
This story was picked up the tabloids and given wide play.
A CIA-MOSSAD CONCOCTION?
However, there are those who believe that the "Hunt as a tramp" story
was, in fact, deliberately trumped up as part of the CIA's scheme to frame
Hunt for involvement in the assassination. It was the CIA's plan to
implicate Hunt that Victor Marchetti exposed in The Spotlight.
The leading promoter of the theory that Hunt was one of the "tramps"
in Dallas is A. J. Weberman who maintains very close ties to the Jewish
Defense League.
Weberman has also been closely associated with Mordechai Levi, a
known agent provocateur of the Israeli Mossad's propaganda and intelligence
arm, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which we examine in
further detail in Chapter 17.
(Levi was also active in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), created by
militant Rabbi Meir Kahane. In Chapter 8 we saw that Kahane was a CIA
asset and protégé of Jay Lovestone who handled CIA liaison with the Meyer
Lansky-linked French Corsican and Sicilian Mafias. Lovestone's operation
was directed out of James J. Angleton's Israeli desk at the CIA.)
It may very well be that the "Hunt as a tramp" story being touted by
Weberman was indeed a CIA-Mossad concoction to further muddy the
waters.
What is interesting is that in 1975—precisely at the time when
Weberman was publishing and promoting a book that named Hunt as one of
the tramps—a strange letter appeared, anonymously, in the mailbox of
another (and more reliable) assassination researcher, Penn Jones, Jr.
The letter was written in Spanish and its envelope earned a Mexico
City postmark. The letter accompanied another letter which read as follows:
"Dear Mr. Hunt,
I would like information concerding [sic] my position.
I am asking only for information. I am suggesting that
we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me
or anyone else.
Thank you,