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the Establishment's reaction—particularly the media—to the furor caused by
the publication of Rush to Judgment.
Without question—and this is significant—the media almost
unanimously sided with the Warren Report, despite all of the evidence
which proved the report a fraud. The media would not tolerate dissent. As
far as the media was concerned, the JFK controversy was closed. Period.
GARRISON AND THE CIA-MOSSAD LINK
The media certainly went into a frenzy with its hysterical coverage of
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's 1967-1969 inquiry into the
JFK murder and his prosecution of Crescent City businessman Clay Shaw.
At the time Garrison began pursuing Shaw, the facts that we now know
today about Shaw and his connections with the Lansky-Mossad-CIA-linked
Permindex operation based in Rome, were not so obvious.
It wasn't, in fact, until 1975 that former CIA official Victor Marchetti
acknowledged publicly that Shaw had ties to the CIA and that the CIA was
very much interested in assisting Shaw during the period of his prosecution
in New Orleans. 690
Former CIA Director Richard Helms himself subsequently admitted
under oath that Shaw had CIA connections. If Jim Garrison had had that
proof at the time of Shaw's trial, the verdict indeed may have been
different. 691
ANGELTON'S INTERVENTION
There is yet additional evidence of attempts by the CIA to undermine
Garrison's investigation. This evidence directly implicates the CIA's director
of counterintelligence, James J. Angleton, whose own unique ties to the
Mossad and whose central role in the JFK conspiracy cover-up we examined
in Chapter 8, Chapter 15 and Chapter 16.
Author Anthony Summers, in his recently-released biography of former
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, described how the alleged compromising
photos of Hoover engaged in homosexual activities (described in Chapter 7)
managed to surface in relation to the Garrison investigation.
According to Summers, he was told by former CIA contract operative
Gordon Novel that he (Novel) was shown such photos by James J.
Angleton.
Novel, who operated out of New Orleans, had popped up in Jim
Garrison's investigation as a possible suspect and, as a direct consequence,
he (Novel) had filed a lawsuit against Garrison.
Novel said that he was being urged to pursue his lawsuit against the
New Orleans district attorney by his associates in the CIA, but that Hoover
was opposed to the lawsuit. It was then that Angleton contacted Novel,
displayed the compromising photos, and suggested that Novel discreetly
advise Hoover that he had seen the photos which Novel says he did, much to
the FBI director's dismay. 692