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it. So once again we find Mr. Marwell involved in affairs that are intimately
linked to the state of Israel. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
The activities of the review board provided an interesting distraction
and were, in fact, all part and parcel of the continuing cover-up.
PUBLISHING DISTORTIONS
There are many aspects to the continuing cover-up as I learned when
first trying to get this book published. Knowing that New York-based
Shapolsky Publishers had released two books on the JFK assassination, my
publicist sent an outline of Final Judgment to them. Shortly, we received a
handwritten postcard from Isaac Mozeson, Shapolsky's editorial director.
The ferocity and hysteria in Mozeson's response was unlike anything I
had ever seen. He described the theory outlined in Final Judgment as being
"infantile" and wrote of the "powerlessness" of Israel's Mossad. I was,
frankly, amused by his response, but intrigued at the fury.
It was then I did some checking. The 1992 edition of Writer's Market
reveals that 40% of Shapolsky's publications are of "Jewish interest." 1078
Shapolsky, it turns out, also just happens to be an affiliate of the Israelibased
Steimatsky Publishing House of North America. 1079 Interesting?
Shapolsky's two books on the assassination are worth noting. The first
Shapolsky concoction was David Scheim's Contract on America which is
notable for primarily being a rehash of Lansky Syndicate-linked and CIA
defender Robert Blakey's book, The Plot to Kill the President, which fixes
the blame on "The Mafia."
Scheim, as we noted in Chapter 10, would have us believe that Meyer
Lansky was a little fish in a very big pond—hardly an influence at all. He
also scoffs at Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw—an innocent
bystander who was guilty only of restoring lovely old buildings in the
French Quarter of New Orleans.
The second Shapolsky book, First Hand Knowledge, by former CIA
contract agent Robert Morrow, is subtitled "How I Participated in the CIA-
Mafia Murder of President Kennedy."
This volume, an elaboration of Morrow's previous work, Betrayal,
contains much useful information, beyond question, and obviously was
written by someone who was privy to much of what was happening in the
CIA at the time of the assassination.
However, what is notable about the volume is that Morrow specifically
portrays the CIA's Mossad liaison, James J. Angleton, as somehow being
out of the loop as far as the assassination and the cover-up was concerned.
This, as we have seen, is just simply not true. Morrow even suggested
elsewhere that Angleton and Robert F. Kennedy were famous friends,
without documenting this unlikely scenario.
And while Morrow does flatly accuse Clay Shaw of having been
involved in the assassination conspiracy, even noting the Permindex link