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—which he portrays as strictly a CIA venture and not related directly to the
assassination conspiracy—he would have the reader believe that the
conspiracy against JFK by elements in the CIA went no higher than Shaw.
Morrow's contention is that Shaw headed a "rogue" element based in
New Orleans operating outside the control of the CIA headquarters at
Langley where Angleton's influence was then supreme.
Interestingly—for whatever it's worth—when Morrow was arrested for
his participation in a CIA-orchestrated plan to counterfeit Cuban currency,
the lawyer who handled his defense, Fred Weisgal, immigrated to Israel
within a year after the JFK assassination and quickly became Israel's
Deputy Minister of Justice, a high honor indeed. Perhaps Morrow hasn't
told us everything he really knows and perhaps Weisgal's high post was a
reward for assisting in some fashion in the JFK assassination cover-up.
THE ISRAELI LOBBY RESPONDS
The response of the Israeli lobby to the release of the first edition of
Final Judgment was quite interesting, to say the least. Washington Jewish
Week (WJW), the leading newspaper of the pro-Israel lobby in the nation's
capital, published a vituperative broadside blast at Final Judgment in a
prominently placed full-page attack in its April 28, 1994 issue.
The weekly newspaper savaged the book as a "conspiracy theory" l080
that presents the "latest JFK murder fantasy." 1081 According to WJW, "New
kook-right book blames Israel." 1082
The charge that Final Judgment is somehow "kook-right" in its
orientation is, of course, specious at best, inasmuch as many of the primary
sources for the documentation of JFK's bitter behind-the-scenes fight with
Israel are far from being "right-wing," let alone "kook-right."
Never has anyone ever charged Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh
(now a JFK basher himself), Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, former
Ambassador George Ball, historian Alfred Lilienthal or Stephen Green,
among others, with being "kook-right." And, indeed, none of the JFK
conspiracy theorists cited in Final Judgment have the reputation of being
anything but good, old-fashioned liberals.
Washington Jewish Week claimed that "Piper spends most of his 302
pages quoting out-of-context secondary sources, making unlikely tenuous
connections, and asserting untruths over and over as if their repetition will
magically impart validity. "1083 In short, WJW was suggesting that this
author simply "made up" his facts, pure and simple. WJW said that the
thesis presented in Final Judgment is "speculative [and] "bizarre," 1084 but,
of course, never showed how or why it was.
According to WJW, the book is "anti-Jewish to its core" 1085 which, of
course, is nonsense. In fact, among those who read the book prior to
publication were Jewish authors, attorney Mark Lane, himself the nation's
foremost authority on the JFK assassination, and Dr. Alfred Lilienthal, the