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manipulating the CIA's involvement in the assassination. Throughout his
career, Angleton's activities had intersected with those of the Lansky
Organized Crime Syndicate, particularly in the CIA's dealings with the
Corsican Mafia. It was Angleton's Israeli desk at the CIA that coordinated
the agency's strange alliance with the Corsican crime figures.
As we have seen, anti-Castro elements in the CIA were involved in
setting up the patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald. In New Orleans, the CIA's assets
including Permindex board member Clay Shaw, Anti-Defamation Leaguelinked
Guy Banister and David Ferrie were coordinating anti-Castro activities
among the Cuban exiles. They were critical to the plot: they were
manipulating Lee Harvey Oswald, making him appear as a "pro-Castro
agitator." Banister and Ferrie were also involved in the machinations outside
New Orleans at Lake Ponchartrain of CIA operative (and Mossad asset)
Frank Sturgis. Oswald is said to have trained at this camp.
The WDSU media empire of the Stern family—major backers of
Israel's Anti-Defamation League and close friends of Permindex board
member Shaw—contributed to the conspiracy by publicizing Oswald's
activities and making them available to the FBI, further laying the
groundwork for Oswald's identification as a Castro agent.
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
And as we saw in Chapter 15, there are further indications that CIAlinked
French OAS operatives were also utilizing Guy Banister's
headquarters in New Orleans. Many of these same OAS operatives also had
ties to the Lansky drug racket. They were also hostile to John F. Kennedy
who had supported Algerian independence from France.
What's more, it was the CIA's chief liaison to the anti-Castro Cubans,
E. Howard Hunt, who was also liaison to one of the leading longtime OAS
operatives, Jean Souetre, whose own alleged presence in Dallas—like that of
Hunt—is the subject of some controversy.
As we noted in Chapter 16, a former French intelligence officer
contends that a French assassin was involved in the events in Dealey Plaza
on contract for the Mossad, his presence in Dallas arranged through a faction
in the French secret service, the SDECE, under the direction of Col.
Georges deLannurien.
THE 'DUMMY ASSASSINATION'
Evidence suggests that the CIA's E. Howard Hunt may have had his
own anti-Castro operation (in the guise of a faked assassination attempt on
the president) underway. Oswald was likely being used in some way in this
operation. However, it appears that this "faked assassination attempt" was
manipulated and/or infiltrated by elements who intended, in fact, to kill the
president. Perhaps Hunt himself was as surprised as anybody when those
fatal shots were fired in Dallas. Maybe Hunt was, in fact, set up.