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based on his own "inside" information from his involvement with figures
involved in the conspiracy.
More recently, Don DeLillo's novel, Libra, presents Oswald at the
center of a "dummy assassination" attempt which was manipulated by others
and went awry. (One CIA character in the novel bears a striking
resemblance, in several ways, to E. Howard Hunt.)
However, there is yet one quite extraordinary piece of the puzzle which
actually implicates a known longtime Mossad asset with direct
involvement in the events in Dealey Plaza. It involves the apparent role by
longtime CIA contract operative Frank Sturgis in the actual assassination
itself.
MOSSAD OPERATIVE IN DEALEY PLAZA
In the course of her testimony in the case of E. Howard Hunt's libel
suit against The Spotlight, CIA asset Marita Lorenz testified that Sturgis
told her afterward that, "We killed the president that day . . . Everything was
covered in advance. No arrests, no real newspaper investigation. It was all
covered, very professional." 628
Although some JFK researchers express doubts about Miss Lorenz'
story, Cuba's chief of counterintelligence, General Fabian Escalante,
vouches for her, based on his own extensive study of the JFK assassination.
Escalante told journalist Claudia Furiati that Cuban intelligence had
determined that, in fact, "Sturgis was in charge of
communications—receiving and transmitting information on the movement
at Dealey Plaza and the motorcade to the shooters and others." 629
If we are to believe that Sturgis was, in fact, involved in the actual
mechanics of the assassination, the historical evidence suggests that Sturgis
could have been functioning as a knowing Mossad tool in the conspiracy,
or, at the very least, have been indirectly working on behalf of the Mossad.
While this assertion will at first astound even the most seasoned reader of
JFK assassination literature the following factor must be considered:
What few people know is that Sturgis had ties to Israel's Mossad,
going back fifteen years prior to the JFK assassination. Writing in the July
1975 issue of Argosy magazine, F. Peter Model reported that Sturgis was a
"Hagannah mercenary during the first (1948) Israeli-Arab war," 630 and that
Sturgis also had a girlfriend in Europe in the 1950s who worked for Israeli
intelligence and with whom he worked.
Sturgis himself is quoted by JFK assassination researcher A. J.
Weberman as having said that he assisted his girlfriend as a courier in
Europe in a number of her endeavors on behalf of the Mossad. 631
In addition, former Time-Life correspondent Andrew St. George—who
knew Sturgis quite well and spent time with Sturgis alongside Castro in the
hills of Cuba during the Cuban revolution—has also reported that it was
well known among anti-Castro Cuban exiles that Sturgis had also worked for
the Mossad and had done so for a long period of time. 632