Final_Judgment

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(It is worth noting, if only in passing, that the Israeli Mossad itself
maintains one of its largest North American bases in Miami—the longtime
headquarters of its organized crime collaborator—Meyer Lansky.) 797
It was from the CIA's base in Miami, we learned from former CIA
operative Marita Lorenz (in Chapter 9 and in Chapter 16) that a two-car
caravan carrying anti-Castro Cubans and several CIA figures was dispatched
to Dallas, arriving just prior to the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.
Kimery quotes a former CIA operative who was involved in the anti-
Castro operations: "You've got ole George baby helping the Company's
operation against Castro and here's Shackley in charge of the Miami station
that's running that show. Now how do you think they know each other my
friend? Their's was a damn close relationship—still is." 798
And, as we noted in Chapter 12, it was Shackley, again, who was the CIA's
chief of station for the CIA in Laos during the Vietnam War—this during a
period when the CIA and the Lansky syndicate were jointly engaged in
lucrative drug-running operations.
Kimery points out that, "In 1976, shortly after he became DCI, without
seeking advice, Bush promoted Shackley to Associate Deputy Director of
Operations. In this position, he was second in command to the [Deputy
Director of Operations]—the third most powerful position in the CIA and
one of the most pivotal in the entire government." 799
THE MOSSAD CONNECTION
After leaving the CIA, as we noted in Chapter 12, Bush's friend
Shackley later went into the international arms business and worked closely
with the Aviation Trade and Service Company, a creation of Israeli Mossad
figure Shaul Eisenberg.
Bush himself, however, was also developing intimate ties with Israel, ties
which, of course, had been cemented during his service as CIA director. In
1979, then Republican presidential candidate Bush attended the Jerusalem
Conference on International Terrorism, an event hosted by the Israeli
government and attended by most of Israel's top intelligence officials. The
delegates to the conference from the United States were all tried-and-true
friends of Israel, Democrat and Republican alike. 800
Accompanying Bush were Major General George Keegan, former chief of
intelligence for the U.S. Air Force, and Harvard Professor Richard Pipes. Keegan
and Pipes were part of an elite group formed by Bush while serving as CIA
director that operated under the name "Team B." 801
Bush's Team B was a new, secret supervisory body for the CIA
empowered to re-evaluate, criticize or dismiss the CIA's intelligence reports.
Significantly, however, Team B was composed of a clique of high-level
officials who were bound together primarily by their devotion to advancing
Israel's interests.
Among the more notable members included Richard Perle, who
ultimately became assistant secretary of defense in charge of international