Final_Judgment

432 Agents of Influence [335]
Who were they? What were their political connections? How did they
come on board the commission staff? Kaplan answers some of these
questions—but not all of them. What follows is a summary of Kaplan's
details, and additional information readily available in the public domain.
We can only wonder what other details remain to be told.
THE JEWISH LAWYERS
First of all, a brief look at the basic statistics: of the fourteen assistant
counsel, five were Jewish. Another was married to a Jewish woman. Of the
seven "other staff members" (lawyers and law clerks) named in Kaplan's
article, four were Jewish. This means that of the 22 lawyers in question,
nearly half of them (including the staffer whose wife was Jewish) could be
described as constituting a "Jewish presence" on the commission. However,
as we shall see, the political connections of other staff lawyers suggests that
the "Jewish presence" was even more substantial. Here then are the Jewish
staff lawyers who served on the Warren Commission:
Norman Redlich. A deputy to the commission's chief counsel, J.
Lee Rankin, Redlich was the actual author of the final disreputable
document known as the Warren Commission Report. He was involved at a
high-level in Jewish community affairs prior to service on the Warren
Commission, having been recruited as a member of the American Jewish
Congress committee on law and social action in 1962; later he served as a
member of the board of overseers of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
From 1966 to 1974 he was in the office of New York City's corporation
counsel. In 1974 Redlich succeeded his sponsor, Corporation Counsel J. Lee
Rankin (earlier the chief counsel to the Warren Commission, more about
whom below).
Melvin Aron Eisenberg. Both before and after the Warren
Commission inquiry, Eisenberg was an associate in the New York law firm
of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler which has an intimate history
of associations with Jewish concerns and can generally be described as a
"Jewish" law firm. This firm once represented shadowy conservative
operative John Rees, who is known for his ties to Israeli intelligence. On
the Warren Commission, Eisenberg served as the assistant to Norman
Redlich and was also responsible for analysis of scientific evidence on
ballistics. Modern-day JFK assassination buffs who spend endless hours reexamining
such topics as "where the shots came from" can thank Eisenberg
for his contributions to their debate, although Eisenberg has been eclipsed in
infamy by his Warren Commission colleague, Arlen Specter.
Arlen Specter. Specter was a Democratic assistant district attorney
during the five years prior to his rise to national fame as the inventive
creator (along with Redlich) of the discredited and outlandish "single bullet
theory" which contends that one bullet—purportedly fired by Lee Harvey