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Interestingly enough, it was yet another dedicated pro-Israel polemicist,
Max Lerner, writing in The Washington Times, who also came to the
defense of the Hoffa-Mafia cover story. According to Lerner, "The Mafia
has always figured among the major possible scenarios for the killing, along
with the KGB and Cuba's Fidel Castro. But not until the Ragano account
had the pieces of the puzzle begun to fall together. Marcello headed the
Mafia operation in New Orleans, Trafficante in Tampa and Cuba. They had
time to work out their plan. They had an army of skilled killers to draw
on. "748
Lerner, of course, was playing fast and loose with the facts. He ignored
the central part Meyer Lansky played in manipulating the activities of both
Marcello and Trafficante.
SUN MYUNG MOON, ISRAEL & THE CIA
That The Washington Times would have an interest in promoting the
Hoffa-Mafia story is no surprise. After all, the Times itself has close links
to the intelligence community and is a strident editorial supporter of Israel.
The Washington Times is funded by the bizarre global conglomerate of
Korean cult figure Sun Myung Moon.
Moon himself has been repeatedly linked to the Korean CIA which is,
of course, intimately tied with its American counterpart. Additionally,
Moon has forged a close working alliance with Israel and its American
lobby and has pushed a pro-Israel agenda on the so-called "conservative
movement" in the United States.
Moon's editor at The Washington Times at that time was Arnaud
deBorchgrave, a former top correspondent for the CIA-linked Newsweek
(owned by the Washington Post Company) and a reputed "former"
intelligence operative. What's more, deBorchgrave himself is closely
connected by marriage to the Rothschild family. The Rothschilds, as we
have seen, have been longtime financial backers of the state of Israel.
THE CONSERVATIVE COVER-UP
The response to JFK conspiracy allegations from another "conservative"
source is equally interesting. The organization, quaintly named Accuracy in
Media, a self-styled conservative "media watchdog," took great umbrage
with suggestions that there might have been a conspiracy behind the
president's assassination.
At the time Mark Lane's Plausible Denial and Oliver Stone's JFK were
released, AIM chairman Reed Irvine, seemingly inexplicably, signed on with
the rest of the media in denouncing the conspiracy theories presented in the
book and the motion picture.
Writing in the pages of the conservative weekly, Human Events, media
critic Irvine paid tribute to the Establishment media for its attack on the
theories. According to Irvine, "The mainstream media, to their credit, have