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(The same company, through its subsidiary, Time-Warner Books, also
handled distribution for the biography of Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana
that suggested that it was strictly a CIA-Mafia plot against JFK,
orchestrated almost solely by Giancana himself.)
THE BRONFMANS, AGAIN
Interestingly enough, in early 1993 the Lansky syndicate-linked
Bronfman family, through their Seagram Company, purchased a substantial
controlling interest in Time Warner, further cementing the media giant into
the tightly-knit circles of the CIA-Lansky Syndicate-Israeli Mossad
connection that have swirled around the company since its inception.
It was, as we saw in Chapter 15, Major Louis M. Bloomfield, chief
executive operative of the Permindex entity, who had been longtime
personal attorney for the Bronfman interests and a major figure in the Israeli
lobby in Canada.
That a company which has been intimately tied from its earliest years
not only with the inner circles of Meyer Lansky and his international crime
syndicate, but also with Israel and its Mossad, should be the sponsor of
Oliver Stone's grand conspiracy theory is enough to make one wonder, to
say the least. But there's more.
It is somewhat interesting to note that when Stone hired on a public
relations agency to handle the publicity and controversy which emerged
when the film was released, it was the powerful Washington, D.C. firm of
Hill & Knowlton. After all, it was Hill & Knowlton that orchestrated
major propaganda in favor of American involvement in the Persian Gulf
War against Iraq—and in favor of Israel.
STONE'S ADL CONNECTION
What's more, the Hill & Knowlton executive who handled his firm's
efforts on behalf of Stone, Frank Mankiewicz, got his start in the public
relations business working on behalf of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles. (In Chapter 18, we shall see,
Mankiewicz himself had a curious role in the circumstances surrounding yet
another Kennedy assassination.)
STONE REACTS TO FINAL JUDGMENT . . .
In Washington, D.C., on February 16, 1994, an associate of this author
attempted to present Oliver Stone with a copy of the first edition of this
book, Final Judgment. This came several months after the book was first
advertised in the program of the annual symposium on the JFK
assassination sponsored by the JFK Assassination Information Center in
Dallas, Texas.
Although Stone hadn't been in attendance at the symposium, he was
represented there by one of his associates and it is certain that Stone was