Final_Judgment

[324] Final Judgment 421
The fact is that for several years prior to the assassination of President
Kennedy (and up until this day) many veterans of the American "right"
generally believed that Kent and Phoebe Courtney were active "infiltrators"
of the right wing—paid agents—of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of
B'nai B'rith, the American intelligence arm of Israel's Mossad.
Although the Courtneys were—like Banister—outspoken anticommunists,
they had engendered much distrust and dissension among their
fellow "conservatives" by actively opposing and attacking figures on the
"right" who had been accused of "anti-Semitism" by the ADL.
Perhaps the most notable and most readily documentable instance of
this came in 1960 when a wide-ranging group of American conservatives
were gearing up to form a third party to compete in the 1960 presidential
election. Prior to that meeting, Mrs. Courtney sent out letters to some 30
different persons and organizations advising them that they were not
welcome at the so-called "New Party" meeting.
All of those in question targeted by Mrs. Courtney were persons and
organizations that had been scored for "anti-Semitism" by the ADL. Mrs.
Courtney's action, needless to say, created much controversy among
conservative circles, and in the February 1960 issue of Right, a
clearinghouse for news and views in the "right wing" movement, Verne P.
Kaub, the president of the American Council on Christian Laymen, released
an "Open Letter to Phoebe Courtney" responding to her allegation that
"haters"—or so Mrs. Courtney alleged—had "infiltrated patriotic
organizations for the purpose of creating dissension." 818
Kaub responded to Mrs. Courtney, saying: "Exactly the reverse is true.
These people are not haters. The infiltrators are representatives of
Communist and Zionist organizations and influences. It is these forces of
deception and dissension . . . which raise the false cry of anti-Semitism,
thus resorting to the worst possible form of bigotry.
"Frankly," Kaub told Mrs. Courtney, "I thought you were much too smart
to believe that you could fool patriotic Americans into accepting falsehood as
truth by completely 'reversing the picture' and attempting to make it appear
that the ADL smear bund, for example, is a lily-white organization of
patriots, when, as you well know, ADL is . . . branding all true Christian
patriots as Nazi and Anti-Semite."
For its own part, Right editorially commented further: "That the
Courtneys are kosher-controlled is plain. Courtney has admitted that he will
take 'all the money I can get my hands on' from 'Jewish left-wing sources.'
Furthermore, the New York publishers, Simon & Schuster, are alleged to
contribute to the Courtneys, and Phoebe does not deny this charge. This
outfit is as Red as they come, and merely a front for the Anti-Defamation
League. When the ADL pays the piper, it calls the tune." 819
In fact, there were widespread rumors within the "right wing" that not
only were the Courtneys financed by the Stern family of New Orleans, but
also that Mrs. Courtney was related to the Sterns. Paquita DeShishmareff, a
veteran "right wing" leader, was among those who believed this to be true,