Final_Judgment

Foreword: The Other Side of the Jigsaw Puzzle . . .
book on the JFK assassination, promising Posner that the CIA would open
its own JFK assassination files to Posner so that he could write the book.
As a consequence, Marrs has condemned Posner as a CIA front man. Why
did Loomis ask Posner—out of all of the authors in the world—to write
the book? According to Mans: "Probably because [Posner] had been used as
a CIA tool in his earlier book, Hitler's Children. In this book he interviewed
the children of top Nazi leaders. How do you go about doing that? How do
you find who they are? They've all changed their names. How do you locate
them? Posner had to have been set up by the CIA for that book, too," says
Marrs.
Marrs is (rightly) upset by the way the mainstream media promoted
Posner's book on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination. It was then
obvious (as it is today) that the media does want the public to believe that
the JFK affair is a "case closed." What is notable is that by far the biggest
media push for Posner's book came in the August 30th 1993 issue of U.S.
News & World Report, which gave the book a widely-advertised cover
story. I'll probably upset some people by pointing out that U.S. News is
owned by Mort Zuckerman, one of the most outspoken and powerful
figures in the Israeli lobby in America.
In an appendix in this edition of Final Judgment, I have analyzed
Posner's book and showed precisely what a pathetic fraud it is. However,
for those interested in a comprehensive critique of Posner, I would heartily
recommend Case Open by veteran JFK researcher Harold Weisberg.
So much for Gerald Posner. Although he's not a reliable source
(obviously), the Los Angeles Times took great delight in citing his critique
of Final Judgment which Posner, the Times said, considers one of the more
"outlandish" theories presented to date.
The Los Angeles Times also quoted one Chip Berlet, whom it described
as one "who has studied the assassination extensively," and as a "senior
analyst" at a "think tank . . . that examines authoritarian thinking." Berlet
said that my views represented "the outer limits."
First of all, I am not aware of anything Berlet has ever written on the
JFK assassination (other than random attacks on other JFK conspiracy
theorists) so I know of no published evidence of his "extensive study." This
in stark contrast to what was, at that time, the 385-page third edition of
Final Judgment which was documented with 746 footnotes.
Furthermore, the so-called "think tank" that employs Berlet has its own
axes to grind. The Times failed to point this out when presenting Berlet as
some sort of objective "analyst." What the Times also failed to mention is
that Berlet's "think tank" has been funded by at least two known CIA front
companies. So we can see, even now, where Berlet is coming from.
At this juncture I should also note that prominent "New Left" activists
of the 1960's such as (the since-deceased) Ace Hayes, publisher of the
Portland Free Press, and Daniel Brandt of the NameBase NewsLine
newsletter, had long kept a close watch on Berlet and concluded that: