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covert activities globally. I do think the assassination conspiracy was
largely a cooperative effort but I do believe that the Mossad connection was
central to the conspiracy and actively endorsed and carried out with
Angleton's prodding at the CIA in Washington.
The assassination most likely would never have been carried out
without the active collaboration of the CIA and obviously those in the CIA
who were actively involved in the assassination conspiracy (Angleton in
particular) were close to the Mossad or functioning in its sphere of influence
in a number of areas.
For example, CIA man E. Howard Hunt, who was working closely with the
anti-Castro Cubans and Guy Banister in New Orleans, was also a CIA liaison
to the French OAS which, in turn, was working closely with the Israelis.
Likewise with Banister, another major player in at least one aspect of the
conspiracy: specifically the process of creating the legend of Lee Harvey
Oswald, while he was living in New Orleans, as a "pro-Castro agitator."
Then, of course, there's Frank Sturgis, who worked for both the CIA and the
Mossad and who admitted to involvement in the assassination.
So in many key instances where one appears to be finding a "CIA
connection" to the JFK assassination conspiracy, one is also finding that it
is also a very significant Israeli connection: whether you're talking about
Banister, Sturgis, Hunt or—at a higher level—James Angleton.
Not to mention long-time CIA asset Clay Shaw who was connected to
the Israelis through the Mossad-sponsored Permindex operation. In a sense
all of these key players were wearing two hats. In this particular realm of
intelligence intrigue—the JFK assassination—when you are looking at the
CIA you are also looking at the Mossad.
In a situation such as this where you find various power groups
interacting—in this case, a conspiracy to kill the president of the United
States—you might find Ben-Gurion in Israel telling James Angleton at the
CIA in Washington (whether directly or indirectly, of course): "JFK is not
only a threat to Israel, but he's also going to splinter the CIA into a million
pieces and cast it to the wind. He's going to wreck your plans to get deeper
into Vietnam."
At the same time Ben-Gurion's lobbyists might be whispering in the
ears of defense contractors' lobbyists in Washington saying, for example:
"You won't have your big money profits if JFK gets out of Vietnam. And if
LBJ comes into office, we have it on good authority that he's going to begin a
major highly profitable process of arming Israel. But none of this will happen
if JFK stays around much longer." So the defense contractors turn around
and tell their friends in the CIA and the Pentagon: "This son of a bitch
Kennedy has got to go."
This is highly simplistic, of course—but nonetheless instructive—way
of looking at how the process of the assassination conspiracy began
developing.
Obviously, Angleton and his associates at the CIA didn't need Ben--
Gurion to tell them what a problem JFK was for the CIA. But it certainly
didn't hurt for Angleton to know that he'd have the clout and the political