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(In Chapter 6, as we have seen, Humphrey was a product of a
Minnesota political machine funded, in part, by the notorious Isadore
Blumenfeld, a major cog in the Lansky Crime Syndicate.)
The connections between Pearson and the Israeli lobby in Washington
were even more intimate. Pearson's stepson (and the editor of his "diaries"),
Tyler Abell, an attorney, had been employed by the law firm of David
Ginsburg, a registered foreign agent for Israel.
Ginsburg, like several other top figures known for their interest in
promoting Israel's interests in Washington, were among those close to
Hubert Humphrey. (Ginsburg himself took a leave of absence from his own
firm to work on behalf of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's
unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign.) 733 In Chapter 6, of course, we
examined the vice president's early political successes in Lansky Syndicatedominated
Minneapolis.
THE MICKEY COHEN DEAL
In 1968 Pearson worked hand-in-glove with Meyer Lansky's West
Coast henchman, Mickey Cohen, in an effort to wreck Richard Nixon's
presidential campaign in favor of his Democratic opponent, Humphrey. (It
was in Chapter 13 where we explored Cohen's connection to the JFK
assassination conspiracy in some detail.)
According to Cohen, writing in his memoirs, President Johnson
arranged for Pearson to call Cohen who was, by then, in jail. Pearson
wanted to uncover dirt about Nixon from the former Vice President's days in
California when, according to Cohen, he had provided underworld financial
backing for Nixon.
"We're going for Humphrey for president," Pearson told Cohen, "And I
assure you that if he becomes our president, you're going to be given a
medical parole," in return for providing muck against Nixon.
According to Cohen, "I consented to everything that Pearson wanted to
do against Nixon." 734 However, Nixon won the election and Cohen never
received his medical parole.
Pearson's relationship with the publishers of the National Enquirer
newspaper (which has made a specialty out of trashing the Kennedy family and
likewise publishing often loony JFK assassination conspiracy stories) is also
interesting, particularly in light of the Enquirer's CIA and Israeli lobby
connections.
PEARSON AND THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
As reported by Pearson's legman, John Henshaw, in the July 1, 1969
issue of the Washington Observer newsletter, the company which published
the Enquirer, World Wide Features, Inc. had interesting origins.
It was owned by the three brothers, Anthony, Fortune and Generoso
Pope. They were the sons of Generoso Pope, Sr., an Italian leader of New