Final_Judgment

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scenes war with Israel. Cohen has told people that he rejects my theory of
Israeli involvement in the JFK conspiracy, there is no question but that his
book (however unintentionally) gives credibility to my thesis—whether
Cohen likes it or not.
There were many repetitions in Final Judgment. In many instances
you told us what you would be telling us about in later chapters or
referred to in previous chapters. Wouldn't the book be much more
effective if you had an editor who would have deleted those repetitive
references from the book?
This is an interesting question. Of my immediate circle of
acquaintances who read the book either before publication or afterward, the
repetition is something that they have almost all invariably commented
upon when I asked them what they did like—or not like—about the book.
As it was, actually, roughly seven out of ten of them said that they liked the
repetition saying that it tied all of the complex subject matter together.
The book itself is quite detailed and does attempt to tie together matters
that initially do not appear to be related (although they most certainly are).
So in the process of writing the book I made the conscious decision to try to
tie all of these things together as often as possible. It would shorten the
book if these repetitive references were edited, but for someone who was
not familiar with a lot of the details of the JFK assassination, details about
the history of JFK's relations with Israel, details about Organized Crime, it
may have been more difficult for them to understand the whole thesis were it
not tied together in the repetitive fashion that I utilized.
In any case, I do appreciate the critical comments from readers because it
is always interesting to see how others view my work. Still, even in
retrospect, despite some criticism from a number of people I know well and
whose opinions I respect, I believe my judgment in this matter was correct.
In Final Judgment you never precisely state whether it was the CIA
or the Mossad that was the prime mover behind the JFK assassination.
In other words, who do you believe was the "senior partner" in the JFK
assassination conspiracy? You can't have it both ways. Was it the CIA
or the Mossad?
I don't know whether it was the CIA or the Mossad which was the
prime mover behind the conspiracy. I would note that in the realm of U.S.
policy in the Middle East the CIA and the Mossad were, as I've mentioned
earlier, virtually two sides of the same coin. James J. Angleton, the
Mossad's ally at the CIA, turned many CIA agents essentially into Mossad
agents, working on behalf of Israel's interests, not only in the Middle East
but throughout the world.
In many cases there were no doubt many CIA operatives—and CIA
contract operatives, likewise—who were doing the work of the Mossad and
didn't know it, not only in the matter of the JFK assassination but in various