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assassins—were among the actual shooters in Dealey Plaza, committing the
crime at the behest of the Israeli Mossad. (In the Postscript to this volume
we review the remarkable story of this Frenchman and his own astounding
experiences with the Mossad.)
In Neuville's judgment: "Never the Prime Minister of Israel would have
involved Mossad people, American Jews or CIA personnel in the execution
part of the conspiracy. Even the CIA contract the services of other members
of the intelligence community (they like the French style) to wash dirty
linens. The right hand does not know what the left did. The cover-up team
doesn't know who execute. And the executioners are not interested in the
aftermath of their mission. They don't care less." 652
According to Neuville's sources, then-Mossad assassination chief
Yitzhak Shamir (later prime minister of Israel) arranged the hiring of at least
one of the assassins through the deputy chief of the French intelligence
service (the SDECE), Colonel Georges deLannurien.
"It was no coincidence," Neuville wrote, "that on the very day of the
execution of the president by the French team that [deLannurien] was at
Langley meeting with James Jesus Angleton, the Mossad mole."
According to Neuville, "There are no coincidences in the suspicion
business—just cover-ups. The case of communist infiltration of the French
secret service was an appropriate cover-up to justify the presence of Colonel
deLannurien at Langley, Virginia." 653
It seems obvious that Angleton and deLannurien were together for a
very specific purpose: damage control—making sure that the assassination
cover-up fell into place after the crime itself had been committed.
Angleton himself told the House Assassinations Committee that de
Lannurien had come to his office for just that purpose: seeking assistance in
routing out communist moles in the SDECE. 654
This controversy—alleged KGB infiltration into French intelligence—
was a direct result of Angleton's machinations. It was Angleton (often
prodded by his Mossad allies) who had a history of fingering alleged
Soviet infiltrators in other nations' intelligence services, creating mass
disarray, confusion, bitterness and resentment in their ranks.
Following World War II Angleton served as American intelligence
liaison with the SDECE and maintained close friendships with a number of
French intelligence officials throughout his career. And undoubtedly these
were Frenchmen who shared Angleton's devotion to Israel.
One particularly embittered high-ranking SDECE officer, Leonard
Houneau, who had been caught in Angleton's web and was ultimately
cleared of the slander that he was a Soviet mole, later said, "The whole story
was invented. Angleton was a madman and an alcoholic. He was trying to
set us against one another." 655
THE OAS MERCENARY
Interestingly enough, it was OAS mercenary, Jean Souetre, who
approached the CIA in June of 1963 with information on alleged