Final_Judgment

[406] Final Judgment 503
NUMEC was owned and operated by an American Jew, Zalman
Shapiro, with close and long-standing ties to Israel, and in 1965 an audit of
NUMEC by the Atomic Energy Commission discovered large amounts of
enriched uranium had appeared to have "disappeared" from NUMEC's
inventory during several preceding years.
The immediate suspicion—or so the story goes—was that Shapiro had
used NUMEC' s resources and diverted the enriched uranium to Israel. Over
the following years the NUMEC story became a minor cause celebre
among investigative reporters and within the intelligence community, and
ultimately the story managed—on numerous occasions—to "leak" into the
major media in the United States and around the globe.
But here's the catch: Seymour Hersh has concluded that there's no firm
evidence whatsoever to conclude that Shapiro and NUMEC were, in fact,
responsible for diverting the nuclear resources to Israel. Neither Shapiro nor
his company were ever found guilty of anything.
However, to this day, there are those who continue to insist (and who
evidently believe) that NUMEC was a primary source for enriched uranium
necessary for Israel's nuclear bomb. Yet, as we've noted, there's no real
evidence for this conclusion, however exciting it may be.
In short, it appears—although Hersh never says this himself—the
whole NUMEC story appears to have been a carefully crafted diversion that
was deliberately leaked to provide a cover for the genuine source of Israel's
ultimate nuclear success. Some critics of Israel (always eager to find Israeli
espionage at work) jumped on the story and gave it further widespread
distribution and at least one CIA official staked his reputation on the story.
But there was never—at least according to Hersh—any real basis for the
accusations that had been made.
THE BIG (UNANSWERED) QUESTION . . .
So that leaves us with the big question: where did Israel get the
resources necessary to achieve its nuclear bomb production capability?
As we shall see, publicly available facts (if assembled and examined in
their contextual entirety) do indeed suggest that it was through highlysecretive
cooperation with Red China that Israel succeeded in its long-time
goal of building the nuclear bomb.
It is our contention here, in the pages of Final Judgment, that it was, in fact,
this joint collaboration between Israel and Red China that played a part in the
assassination of John F. Kennedy and the consequences which followed:
the achievement of nuclear capability for both Israel and Red China. With
all of this in mind, let's look at the evidence.
From a historical standpoint, China—perhaps alone among many
nations—was one of the few where the Jewish people were able to thrive
and prosper. Anti-Semitism was never a factor. Reference to any standard
history will confirm that not only was there a small (but freely flourishing)