Final_Judgment

Preface
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Some of JFK's communications with then-Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion were classified for years, until just recently. Not even top-level
intelligence officials with special security clearance were initially allowed
access to those explosive documents.
In fact, prior to these more recent revelations, very little about JFK's
relations with Israel and the Arab world had ever actually been published
anywhere. As historian David Schoenbaum pointed out quite notably in his
book, The United States and the State of Israel:
"Submerged among the high-visibility themes of East-West relations,
the nuclear arms race and the early dawn of a test ban and nonproliferation,
the Berlin and Cuban missile crisis, the perplexities of the newly
decolonized Belgian Congo, buoyant hopes for an Alliance for Progress in
Latin America, and the deepening quagmire in Vietnam, the Middle East is
scarcely even visible in the standard biographies that followed Kennedy's
assassination. Even by liberal estimates, Ben-Gurion and Nasser, Israel
and Egypt appear on only seven each of Theodore Sorensen's 758, and
Arthur M. Schlesinger's 1,031 pages of text." (Emphasis added.)
In short, while JFK assassination researchers were busy probing a wide
variety of areas, they were missing the big picture—the secret picture on the
other side of the jigsaw puzzle.
So it was that the new revelations about Kennedy's relationship with
Israel (and its potential link to the assassination conspiracy) made me
realize that there was an unexplored area of research—never before
considered—that needed examination.
ISRAEL, LANSKY & THE CIA
By this time, then, the long and close relationship between Israel and
JFK's foes at the CIA was something that was now being acknowledged.
And JFK's own war with the CIA was already common knowledge. At the
time of the JFK assassination, however, the depth and breadth of the CIA's
relationship with Israel's Mossad, however, was not so commonly known.
The pieces of the puzzle were all there. They simply needed to be put
together. With a basic thesis now evolving in my mind, I began re-reading
much of the published information about the JFK assassination, his policy
toward Israel and the history of organized crime.
And in so doing, I repeatedly found myself stumbling upon new
information that continued to verify what was initially in my mind just a
theory, but which I now believe to be the truth. By December of 1992 I
realized that I had enough material for a book and I began to write it.
But even as I was already in the process of writing the book, I was
startled by the vast amount of material that I was continually uncovering—
and virtually all of it was in the pages of mainstream sources freely available
to anyone who cared to do the research. I thus began to realize that I had
indeed begun to assemble a remarkable wealth of material that brought my
initial thesis full circle.