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got their hands in the "left wing" pie through their funding of the CAQassociated
Institute for Media Analysis. That we find the Sterns so
intimately connected in so many ways to the circumstances surrounding the
assassination of John F. Kennedy is interesting indeed.
(A FINAL NOTE REGARDING CAQ: Since this was originally
written, CAQ has come under new direction and has been more forthright in
its criticisms of Israel and the intrigues of the Mossad. So we must give
credit where credit is due.)
ANOTHER 'ISRAEL' CONNECTION?
Although the details of Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in New Orleans,
moving in the Banister-Courtney-Shaw-Stern sphere of influence, has been
heavily documented, there are a few mysteries that remain. For example,
when Oswald applied for a room in New Orleans he told what CIAconnected
writer Priscilla McMillan describes somewhat gratuitously in her
book on Oswald as "another of his funny, pointless lies." 837
According to McMillan, Oswald said that he "worked for the Leon Israel
Company of 300 Magazine Street." 838 According to McMillan, "the
company existed, but it was not the company that had hired him." 839 What
we do know is that the Leon Israel Company was engaged in the import of
coffee. What we don't know is why Lee Harvey Oswald claimed that he
worked there. Another thing we also do not know is why JFK assassination
researchers have not devoted more time and energy to exploring the history
and background of this company. Although researchers have gone to great
lengths to study virtually every other picayune detail about the events
surrounding Oswald's stay in New Orleans, there is very little, if anything,
said about this Leon Israel Company.
Evidence suggests that the principal figure behind the Leon Israel
Company, Samuel Israel Jr., was indeed connected to Clay Shaw and the
International Trade Mart during the period surrounding the JFK
assassination—and perhaps for even much longer.
According to Who's Who in America (1964-65 edition), Israel was more
than just a coffee importer. Not only did Israel serve as vice president of the
Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans and on the Council of
the Lower Mississippi River Port Interests (which would certainly put him
in trade executive Clay Shaw's immediate sphere of association), but Israel
also—intriguingly—won the French Medal of Merit for his service in the
U.S. Army transportation corps in Europe. 840
This would have been at the time that Shaw himself was stationed in
France, winning decorations from the French for his own service there. A
good argument can thus be made that Shaw and Israel did indeed know each
other and that their relationship may have gone as far back as World War II.
Is it possible Oswald was promised a job at the Leon Israel Company—
arranged by Clay Shaw himself—or, that, contrary to McMillan,
Oswald, in fact, was employed (in some fashion) by the Leon Israel
Company? If so, precisely how was he employed? Did this company