Final_Judgment

426 “Communist Blood Red” [329]
So, although it is unlikely that Edith Stern would have—like Phoebe
Courtney—ordered her steaks "Communist Blood Red," it does seem that
Edith and Phoebe had a few interests in common, one of them being strong
support for the Zionist cause. And this most definitely sheds new light on
the Courtney connection, although it is not something that fits in with the
standard perception of Kent and Phoebe Courtney.
GARRISON AND THE 'RIGHT WING'
And what is particularly interesting to note is something that "liberal"
researchers into the JFK assassination have a difficult time explaining when
they try to suggest that "right wing extremists" were behind the JFK
assassination: in fact, it was none other than The Councilor, a frankly anti-
Semitic and anti-Zionist journal published by the aforementioned Ned
Touchstone, that actually pioneered much of the early work pinpointing the
links between David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the JFK
assassination, 831 providing much support for Jim Garrison's inquiry that led
to the indictment of the Stern family friend, Mossad-connected Clay Shaw.
Although many accounts of the Garrison investigation suggest that
Garrison viewed the JFK conspiracy as some sort of "right wing"
conspiracy, Garrison rejected that thesis when he told Paris Flammonde: "It
isn't really right-wing . . . it's almost a centrist sort of thing. It is a power
which has developed within the government." 832 Garrison pointed out that
"One of the things that really helped me see that was when I began to notice
that we were getting help from individuals who were Minutemen and
members of the John Birch Society. When I saw that, I realized that the
right-wing (aspects of the conspiracy) was right wing more in appearance
than in reality. So, we just kept on digging and we end up with nothing but
a compartment of the Central Intelligence Agency." 833
Garrison added that the CIA had actually penetrated numerous groups
and used them for its own nefarious purposes in the assassination
conspiracy, 834 although Garrison, it might be noted, could just
as easily have commented that Israel's Mossad—through the ADL—had
done likewise. Had Garrison then been cognizant of many of the then-hidden
factors documented in Final Judgment, he may well indeed have uncovered
the Mossad connections that we have uncovered here and which (evidently)
Garrison later did discover on his own.
ATTACKING FINAL JUDGMENT
What is interesting (but not surprising, as we shall see) is that the very
individuals—Ellen Ray and Bill Schaap—whose Sheridan Square Press
published Garrison's memoir, On the Trail of the Assassins, are among
those who have been attempting to discredit Final Judgment despite the fact
that Final Judgment concurs with Garrison's basic conclusions.
The fall 1994 issue of Covert Action Quarterly (a journal edited by
Ray and Schaap) featured a lengthy full-force attack on The Spotlight, the