Final_Judgment

508 Quid Pro Quo? [411]
that many foreign states insist on doing it the secret way. Fearing leaks to
the press, they refuse to deal with Israel's foreign ministry. They do benefit
from a bilateral relationship, however, and have developed complete
confidence in the Mossad's ability to be the great guardian of secrecy." 1033
And of course, China has been one of those countries, according to Raviv
and Melman. 1034
All of this, of course, does direct us toward a very clear (but longsecret)
Israeli-Red Chinese nexus in the nuclear arena—at the very time
when JFK was not only seeking to stop Israel's nuclear expansion, but
actually planning a military strike against China's efforts.
However, when we nail down the precise name of the individual who
served as the liaison between the Israelis and the Red Chinese during this
critical period, we see indeed that there is a "Chinese connection" (via the
Israelis) to the JFK assassination conspiracy.
THE PERMINDEX CONNECTION . . .
Israel's longtime middleman in the Mossad's secret dealings with
China—Shaul Eisenberg—was so deeply involved in dealings with Red
China that when he dropped dead of a sudden heart attack at age 76 on
March 27, 1997, it was not even in Israel, but in Peking.
Eisenberg—whom we first met in Chapter 7—was closely and directly
connected (at the time of the JFK assassination) to the Permindex operation
which spun the web of conspiracy in the JFK assassination. Once described
by an Israeli writer as "the richest Jew in the world" 1035 Eisenberg was, as
we have seen, not only a key figure in Israel's nuclear development
programs but also a partner of Permindex banker Tibor Rosenbaum in the
Mossad financial operation known as the Swiss-Israel Trade Bank.
Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman describe Eisenberg and his long covert
history as Israel's contact with Red China as follows:
"Israel's wealthiest businessman, Eisenberg was born in Europe and
found refuge during World War II in the Far East. He settled in Japan,
where he married a Japanese woman and made his fortune selling war
surplus and scrap metal.
"Eisenberg quickly established himself as one of the leading middlemen
in the region. He never lost his awareness of being a Jew, however, and
his emotional ties led him to set up businesses in Israel and then to move his
family there. He kept his interests in the Far East and in the late 1970s was
able to pave a pathway to Beijing for Israeli military exports.
"His most formidable tool was his private jet, on which he could ignore
the official hostility between the two nations and fly high-level Israelis
directly to China. Eisenberg made dozens of trips, carrying [security
assistance] officials, army advisers, financiers, and military salesmen for
what the Israelis described as their 'toughest negotiations ever.'