Final_Judgment

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As I pointed out earlier, it wasn't until relatively recently that there was
very much in the public domain about the difficult relations between John
F. Kennedy and Israel. So most people wouldn't even know to look in the
Israeli direction in the first place. When liberal author Richard Reeves
appeared on the Pat Buchanan radio program touting his new history of the
Kennedy administration, I phoned in and asked about JFK's Middle East
policy in the context of possible Israeli involvement in the JFK
assassination. Reeves briefly acknowledged that JFK was engaged in a lessthan-friendly
state of affairs with Ben-Gurion but before I could pursue the
matter further, Buchanan's co-host, Ben Wattenberg, a devotee of Israel,
broke in—cutting me off the air, I might add—and switched the discussion
to the subject of JFK's health. So much for JFK's Middle East policy!
Why didn't New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ever
reveal Clay Shaw's ties to the Israelis and the Lansky Crime Syndicate
through Shaw's membership in the Permindex board of directors?
Garrison certainly knew about Permindex.
I think this comes back to the fact that Garrison himself was evidently
not initially cognizant of the Israeli connection here, nor did he actually
have any reason to suspect Israeli involvement, inasmuch as—at that time
in the late 1960' s—JFK' s conflict with Israel was truly a deep, dark secret.
However, as we now know, according to JFK researcher A. J.
Weberman, Garrison himself evidently later did come to the conclusion that
there was a Mossad connection evidenced by his circulation of a manuscript for
a novel (never published) in which he pinpointed the Mossad as the driving
force behind the assassination conspiracy.
As I have pointed out in Final Judgment, Garrison did not (at least at
first) actually consider Shaw's ties to Permindex to be central to the events
in Dallas. That suggests that Garrison missed the boat in a very big way
since he had stumbled on the key to Clay Shaw's intelligence connections
and evidently did not understand them. One of my biggest regrets is that
Jim Garrison didn't live long enough to read Final Judgment.
As I mentioned earlier, those who did pinpoint the Permindex
Connection such as Dr. John Coleman and Executive Intelligence Review
failed, however, in adequately exploring precisely why the Israelis
themselves would have an interest in eliminating JFK. They did not
examine JFK's Middle East policy and how that policy was reversed upon
JFK's death, not to mention the fact that JFK was trying to stop Israel from
building the nuclear bomb, which, ultimately, was almost certainly the
driving force behind Israel's involvement in the assassination conspiracy.
Actually, after I finished writing Final Judgment I did come across two
very old and relatively obscure published articles that actually pinpointed
the role of the Mossad and the Lansky Crime Syndicate in the conspiracy.
The one article had appeared at some point in the 1980's in Metairie,
Louisiana-based Christian Defense League Report and this article actually