Final_Judgment

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operative for the Mossad. I realize that's going out on a limb, but I have
never completely discounted this.
While writing Final Judgment I pondered this at length. After all, Shaw
was not exactly a household name in America yet here he was selected to
serve on the board of the Mossad-dominated Permindex company based in
Europe. How was it that Shaw—of all people—was brought on board?
Here's the question: was Shaw more "CIA" than "Mossad" or vice-versa or
was he wearing several hats?
G. Robert Blakey, the former director of the House Assassinations
Committee, and David Scheim, author of Contract on America, both say
that "The Mafia Killed JFK" and suggest that New Orleans Mafia boss
Carlos Marcello was the mastermind of the assassination. Isn't it
entirely possible that it was Marcello who was the prime mover behind
the crime and that he didn't have any Mossad or CIA assistance and
that such CIA assets as Guy Banister and David Ferrie and Clay Shaw
just happened to be in Marcello's sphere of influence in New Orleans?
This is not likely at all. Marcello, of course, was an Organized Crime
protégé and underling of Meyer Lansky and existed as Mafia boss of New
Orleans precisely because Lansky put him there. It's a simple fact that both
Blakey and Scheim never mention. Even Marcello's biographer, John
Davis, writing in Mafia Kingfish points this out (although Davis himself
contends that Marcellos was the JFK assassination mastermind).
Although Marcello, on his own, was one of the most powerful "Mafia
bosses" in the country, he owed his status to Lansky's patronage, and
Marcello's rackets in New Orleans and extending apparently into Texas
were among some of the most lucrative in the Lansky syndicate. So
Marcello would not have single-handedly orchestrated the murder of the
President of the United States without the approval of Meyer Lansky.
Lansky, of course, was tied closely with the Mossad and the CIA (and
we should not fail to mention that Marcello himself was tied, at the very
least, with the CIA in that he was helping finance the CIA's war against
Castro, including, of course Guy Banister's operations in New Orleans.)
And considering the documented fact that Marcellos' own international
business connections were quite far flung on their own, it's inevitable
(considering his ties to Lansky) that he would have actually had Mossad
connections of his own.
But Carlos Marcello was not the mastermind and prime mover behind
the JFK assassination. Marcello is a colorful figure and an easy target for
students of the JFK assassination conspiracy, but despite the fact that
Marcello was a very powerful figure on his own, the conspiracy was far too
broad-ranging (let alone the cover-up) for it to have simply been a product
of the Marcello organization.
The theory that "The Mafia Killed JFK" is enticing, but factually way
off the mark. I have to add—and call it "anti-Semitic" if you will—that my
real belief is that because David Scheim, the author of Contract On