Final_Judgment

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Greenspun was a protégé of Lansky crony Joseph "Doc" Stacher, a New
Jersey mobster who was one of the prime American backers of the Jewish
underground in Palestine in the late 1940's. 739 Stacher was later permitted
to go into exile in Israel following his conviction in the United States on
income tax evasion charges. According to Lansky's friendly biographer,
Robert Lacey, Stacher's death affected Lansky greatly. They were very close
friends and longtime associates.) 740
Greenspun also functioned as a public relations man for Lansky's
boyhood friend—later killed at Lansky's direction—Benjamin Siegel.
According to The Washington Observer, "Early in the Palestine War,
Hank Greenspun was dispatched by the Jewish underground to Hawaii to
buy surplus U.S. Army arms and equipment. By bribing security guards at
the U.S. Naval Air Station on Oahu, he raided a stockpile of armaments and
stole 15 tons of .30- and .50- caliber aircraft machine guns. The contraband
machine guns were packed in 58 crates marked 'engine parts' and shipped to
Los Angeles, then transshipped to Mexico and on to Israel. Greenspun ran
the British blockade in a ship delivering arms to Israel. Later he pleaded
guilty to violating the U.S. Neutrality Act, and was given a 3-year suspended
sentence. He was never prosecuted for theft of Federal government property." 741
Greenspun, who became a major figure in Las Vegas, went on to
establish a chain of newspapers in Nevada and Colorado, publishing The Las
Vegas Sun.
As we saw in Chapter 7, the Israeli arms-smuggling underworld of
which Greenspun was a part, was a very tightly knit little clique. It was, of
course, Louis Bloomfield (later chief executive officer of the Permindex
entity) who was once a key coordinator for Israeli arms smuggling working
with the Lansky Syndicate and, Anderson's associate, Greenspun.
Anderson and Greenspun were themselves involved in yet another
venture linked to the Lansky Syndicate. The two, along with CIA-linked
attorney Edward Morgan (the alleged conduit for the Castro conspiracy story
floated by Pearson and Anderson) were middlemen in the sale of Lansky
associate and ADL "Torch of Liberty" winner, Morris Dalitz's Las Vegas
gambling palace, the Desert Inn, to Howard Hughes. 742
AND ONE LAST INTERESTING POINT: Jack Anderson was also a
very public and longtime "close friend" 743 of Mossad and CIA asset Frank
Sturgis, beginning as early as 1960—three years before Sturgis, by his own
reported later admission, played a part in the events in Dealey Plaza.
A CASE STUDY IN DISINFORMATION
That Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson maintained such intimate ties
with all of the prime movers behind the JFK assassination—Israel, the CIA
and the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate—not only casts real
doubt about the Castro assassination plot story that the two columnists
sensationalized, but it points toward the real motivation behind the release
of the tale: to cover for the real conspirators.