Final_Judgment

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Mossad assassinations chief Yitzhak Shamir, who contracted out one or
more of the assassins who were deployed in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Here is where perhaps the confusion comes in. The SDECE utilized the
talents of Corsican Mafia figures to combat the OAS. (The Corsican Mafia,
should not be confused with the Sicilian Mafia, which is far better known
and from which some of the Italian-American crime families known as "the
Mafia" are descended.) In turn, the Corsicans were heavily tied up in the
international drug racket out of Southeast Asia and were key players in
cementing the drug network set up by Meyer Lansky who personally visited
the Corsican mob figures to make the necessary arrangements.
These French Corsicans were then later used by DeGaulle's
intelligence forces to fight against the OAS rebels. What's more, these
French Corsicans were also used by the CIA to fight French communist
influence in the post-war era in Europe. And it was none other than the
Mossad's man at the CIA, James Angleton, whose Mossad desk was
responsible for coordinating the CIA's relations with these Corsican Mafia
figures.
Then again, we have the OAS. The OAS was composed of loyal
Frenchmen who were, however, disloyal to Charles DeGaulle. Furthermore,
the CIA itself was lending covert support to the OAS (although the CIA
denies it to this day). This inevitably ties back to James Angleton who
himself maintained long-standing close ties in French intelligence.
So you had an unusual configuration in which Israel had ties to both the
anti-DeGaulle OAS (which opposed Algerian independence) and to the
Corsican Mafia (who were in the Israeli-linked Lansky Syndicate) which
was working to fight the OAS on behalf of DeGaulle. Also, of course, the
CIA was tied to both. Complicated indeed! Add this other element: there is
evidence that the OAS itself became involved in the Lansky syndicate's
drug racketeering to finance its efforts in fighting DeGaulle. So you had
both the OAS and the Corsicans engaged in business deals with CIA-and
Mossad-connected drug smugglers in the Lansky syndicate.
In the end there was a truce between DeGaulle and the OAS and
DeGaulle's own intelligence agency actually arranged work in international
covert action for OAS men who were then in exile. Some of them were
even deployed into the CIA's operations in the Caribbean involving the
Cuban anti-Castro efforts. This perhaps complicates the matter even further.
However, you do find the fingerprints of not only the CIA and the
Mossad and the Lansky syndicate in the activities of the OAS (both before
and after the conflict with DeGaulle) but also in the activities of the French
Corsican Mafia. It's an inter-connecting series of events and personalities
that stem directly from the internal French conflict over Algeria. As a
consequence, it's anybody's guess as to whether it was an OAS assassin or
a French Corsican assassin who was ultimately deployed into Dallas. Your
guess, in short, is as good as mine. There are so many French connections
that go to Dallas, including, of course, an American gun-runner, Thomas Eli
Davis III—who not only had ties to the OAS, but also to Jack Ruby.