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wealthiest men in America ... [who] always insisted that he did not speak
for himself but for the American Jewish community and its elected
leadership." 868 So clearly, as we can see, Fisher was indeed someone to be
reckoned with, to say the least.
More interestingly, in the context of JFK's struggles with Israel that
we have examined in Final Judgment, Goldberg quotes Fisher as saying that
although Jewish voters were more politically inclined toward the Democratic
Party, "Kennedy wouldn't ship any arms" 869 to Israel (although Fisher
added, quite incorrectly, that Lyndon Johnson didn't either)—thus suggesting
that this powerful figure in the American Jewish community was less than
pleased with JFK's attitude toward Fisher's favorite foreign nation.
FISHER, ROSENBAUM AND THE MOB
But Fisher's less public political and financial antecedents—prior to his
rise to prominence—are far more interesting, particularly in light of his
access to the Warren Commission through Gerald Ford.
At the time of the JFK assassination, Fisher was actually a business
partner of longtime Mossad figure Tibor Rosenbaum, the driving force
behind the shadowy Permindex corporation (discussed in depth in Chapter
15) which played a central role in the assassination conspiracy.
In 1957, in partnership with Tibor Rosenbaum's Swiss-Israel Trade
Bank, Fisher bought a controlling interest in Israel's Paz
conglomerate—long owned by the Rothschild family of Europe—which
maintained a monopoly over Israeli oil and petrochemical interests. 870
(As we noted in Chapter 7—quite significantly enough—one of
Rosenbaum's partners in the Swiss-Israel Trade Bank was Shaul Eisenberg, a
longtime Mossad figure and one of the prime movers behind Israel's nuclear
bomb program. But, as we shall see in Appendix Nine there is much more to be
discussed of Eisenberg later.)
However, Fisher's Israeli connections went back much further and were far
deeper. Fisher's mentor—in terms of his role in promoting Israel's interests—
was no less than General Julius Klein, the former American army officer who
played a major role in helping set up Israeli's Mossad and who later served as
president of the Swiss-Israel Trade Bank. Klein himself described Fisher
as "my protégé [whom] I have always kept . . . well informed on all
intelligence matters." 871
In the late 1940's and early 1950's Fisher traveled to Israel with Klein and
was involved in training the Israeli armed forces and intelligence services as
part of the activities of the Sonneborn Institute with which none other than
Major Louis Bloomfield was associated. Later, of course, Bloomfield would
serve as president and chairman of the board of Tibor Rosenbaum's Permindex
operation. 872
In Chapter 8 we discussed the Sonneborn Institute which was
established to provide arms and money and other tactical assistance to the
Jewish underground in Palestine, prior to the establishment of Israel in