Final_Judgment

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Final Judgment
vehemently dismisses any CIA involvement whatsoever. I had read
Scheim's book when it first came out in 1988, but I had not noticed the
reference (or the similarity to the other one) at that time.
What intrigued me, however, was that Scheim's rendition of the quote
deleted the reference to the alleged Jewish backers of the Cuban plotters.
My immediate thought was: "What's Scheim trying to hide?" At that
moment I finally began to see that this unusual (seemingly minor) detail
might, in fact, point toward something much bigger than I had realized.
THE LANSKY CONNECTION
It was at this time that a new biography of organized crime figure
Meyer Lansky was released. Entitled Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the
Gangster Life, the book—prepared in cooperation with Lansky's
family—was little more than a puff piece for Lansky. I realized immediately
that the book still somehow seemed to be missing quite a lot.
It was then that I returned to my library and pulled a book off the shelf
that I hadn't re-read in perhaps fifteen years. It was Hank Messick's
biography of Lansky. Re-reading this important book I began to see that
Meyer Lansky was not just a Mafia advisor as David Scheim, for example,
would have his readers believe. Instead, Lansky was "the chairman of the
board" of organized crime. All of the Mafia figures that had been repeatedly
implicated in the JFK assassination were, in fact, Lansky's front men—his
subordinates, his underlings. In short, if "the Mafia" had a hand in the
killing of JFK, then Lansky had to have been one of the key players.
Yet, as I quickly began to see in reviewing many of the works which
allege that "The Mafia Killed JFK," Lansky's preeminent role was being
ignored or otherwise under-played. I was aware of Lansky's close ties to
Israel. After all, Lansky fled to Israel when the heat was on in the United
States. But how deeply did the Lansky-Israeli connection go? My research
into that question began to turn up some interesting facts.
THE ISRAELI CONNECTION
At this juncture, however, I had no reason whatsoever to think that
Israel would have had any reason to participate in the JFK assassination
conspiracy. However, it was just about the time that I had begun to take a
second look at the Lansky connection—in 1991—that several new works
were released which provided never-before revealed information about the
covert relationship between the United States and Israel.
These books, cited extensively in Final Judgment, made it all too clear
that John F. Kennedy had become embroiled in a bitter behind-the-scenes
battle with Israel. In fact, Kennedy was at war.
JFK's secret war with Israel was something that even long-time JFK
assassination researchers had no reason to know about. Much of the
material had long been classified. It was a secret—a deep, dark secret.