Final_Judgment

[236] Final Judgment 297
In fact, as St. George has also revealed, during the heyday of the CIA's
anti-Castro operations in Miami with which Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt
were so closely associated, some 12 to 16 Mossad agents worked out of
Miami under the command of Mossad Deputy Director Yehuda S. Sipper,
their influence reaching throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Citing a 1976 CIA memo, Professor John Newman who has
investigated CIA knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald's activities says that
Sturgis founded the International Anti-Communist Brigade and that "the
backers of Sturgis' group have never been fully established." 633
JFK writers Warren Hinckle and William Turner have said that "most of
[Sturgis'] funding came from dispossessed casino owners and was funneled
through Norman Roughouse' Rothman," 634 who was, according to author
Gus Russo, not only "the partner of Meyer Lansky" 635 but also the original
"mobster middleman" 636 between the CIA and the Lansky syndicate in the
Castro assassination plots. Russo, however, says that Rothman's support
for Sturgis came "from unknown sources" yet cites Hinckle and Turner as
his source. So the question remains: just who really was funding Sturgis?
Could the Sturgis brigade have been part of the Mossad's Miami-based
operations, intertwined with Sturgis' own CIA-sponsored intrigue in the
same sphere of influence during the same period?
STURGIS, BANISTER, FERRIE AND OSWALD
As we shall see, this speculation may not be far off the mark. Newman
adds that a reported "sub-unit" 637 of Sturgis' Brigade was CIA contract agent
Gerry Patrick Hemming's Intercontinental Penetration Force (known as
"Interpen"). Citing a February 1, 1977 CIA Security Office memo, Newman
says the anti-Castro Cuban training grounds around Lake Ponchartrain
outside New Orleans were run by Hemming as part of Interpen and that
Sturgis was connected with those Interpen operations. 638
Those activities around Lake Ponchartrain are known to have involved
two of the key players surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the JFK
assassination: CIA contract agents Guy Banister and David Ferrie.
In fact, there is an Israeli connection to Interpen. According to
Hemming himself, Interpen's "most important contact in the United
States" 639 was New York financier, Theodore Racoosin, whom Hemming
described as "one of the key founders of the state of Israel." 640
After having read Final Judgment, Hemming frankly told the author
that although he personally has seen no evidence that convinces him the
Mossad participated directly in the JFK assassination, he did say that "I have
known since the late 1960s that the Mossad was aware of the JFK murder
even before it happened, and they later did a full investigation on the matter
and have since retained all such files." 641 [Emphasis added.]
MOSSAD TENTACLES SURROUND OSWALD