Final_Judgment

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primary high-level CIA players behind the scenes in manipulating events
which made it appear that the president's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey
Oswald, was perhaps some sort of "pro-Castro agitator" with ties to the
Soviets, was James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's director of
counterintelligence.
Angleton was not only the number three man in the CIA and one of its
veterans, but he was, more importantly, in our context, very close to the
Israeli Mossad as a consequence of his role as the very jealous guardian of
the CIA's Mossad desk. This is information that has long been in the public
domain. Angleton's ties to the Mossad were no real surprise.
However, the very fact that Angleton was the central player in the
CIA's relationship to the circumstances surrounding the JFK assassination
was interesting to me, inasmuch as over the years although there has been a lot
of research and inquiry into what one might call "who's who in the JFK
assassination?" and the conspiracy and cover-up, Angleton's prominent role
had never been given the scrutiny it certainly deserved. He is mentioned in
some (but not all) of the books on the subject, but generally only in passing. In
fact, Angleton is only looked upon as some sort of "right wing anticommunist"
who was involved in the CIA.
Parenthetically, I might note that a lot of the JFK assassination
researchers who have looked into the CIA's intrigue in relation to the
assassination seem to have this desire to deny any institutional involvement
by the CIA and present those conspirators from the CIA or who were linked
to the CIA and who were involved in the assassination, as somehow being
"rogue elements."
However, as Lane showed in Plausible Denial and as I think I firmly
amplified upon in Final Judgment, these CIA figures were working
institutionally. They weren't "rogue elements" but were working on behalf
of the CIA itself, in collaboration with the Israeli Mossad and elements of
organized crime, to both of which they had long been intimately tied. In any
case, Plausible Denial cemented in my own mind the fact that the CIA
player—in this instance, Angleton—who was involved in the assassination
conspiracy was, in fact, the Mossad's key man at the CIA.
Now during this same time frame there were other things that started me
looking further in the direction of the Mossad. I have to give credit where
credit is due. The Lyndon LaRouche organization's journal, Executive
Intelligence Review, had issued a thoroughly documented book entitled Dope,
Inc. in the mid-1980's and in that volume they did focus on the role of the
Permindex corporation on whose board of directors Clay Shaw served.
Shaw was the New Orleans trade executive whom New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison charged with involvement in the
assassination conspiracy. The Shaw-Garrison trial was, needless to say, the
focus of Oliver Stone's JFK film. In Dope, Inc., the editors highlighted the
fact that two of the prime movers behind this secretive corporation,
Permindex, were Major Louis M. Bloomfield and Rabbi Tibor Rosenbaum.