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was the restructured Swiss-Israel Trade Bank, originally founded by
Mossad figure Tibor Rosenbaum. Having done his own research, and as a
regular reader of The Spotlight (the newspaper by which I am employed),
Ray knew that the looting of ABT by Graiver was determined to have been a
classic mob-style "bust out" in which the funds stolen from ABT were
used to finance Israel's secret nuclear arms program.
In fact, if truth be told, according to sources such as J. Orlin Grabbe
and others, many of the savings and loans debacles of the 1980s were, in
fact, covert operations designed to provide looted funds to Israel's nuclear
and national defense programs.
While the New York-based Shapolsky publishers (an affiliate of the
Israeli-based Steimatsky company) issued the well-researched The Mafia,
CIA and George Bush by Pete Brewton, which pointed out CIA connections
to the S & L debacles, the book did not delineate Mossad connections
thereto. In any event, that's a subject for others to pursue, but it is
interesting in light of Ray's having linked David Graiver to the Martin
Luther King assassination conspiracy.
It is also a matter of record (but seldom mentioned by researchers
looking into the King assassination) that prior to the King assassination,
James Earl Ray had been given two numbers by "Raul," that Raul indicated
Ray might contact if necessary. One of the numbers, in New Orleans, Ray
definitely remembered to end with the numbers "8757" and vaguely
remembered to begin with "866," but he wasn't certain.
In fact, Ray later determined on his own the New Orleans number 866-
3757 (during the relevant time) was the number of the Laventhal Marine
Supply company and Ray stated in his little-mentioned, self-written early
appeal of his conviction that "the resident listed in New Orleans was,
among other things, an agent of a Mideast organization distressed because of
King's reported, forthcoming, before his death, public support of the
Palestinian Arab cause." (It is no speculation to suggest the organization
Ray was referring to was the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.)
Later, when Ray testified before the House Assassinations Committee
he referred again to this mystery number and commented, "I don't want to
get into this libel area again and say something that might be embarrassing to—
disservice some group or organizations . . . he [King] intended, like Vietnam,
to support the Arab cause . . . someone in his organization making contact
with the Palestinians for an alliance." Again, Ray was obviously talking about
King taking a stand that would upset the ADL, although he was talking
around the subject without stating it directly.
On his web site, assassination researcher A. J. Weberman—who has
been associated with the pro-Israel Jewish Defense League (which is
effectively an "armed wing" of the ADL)—has suggested that this reflected
Ray's "hatred for the Jews" (in Weberman's words), but Weberman
concluded that Ray "blamed the Mossad" for King's assassination, a fact
that very few assassination researchers seem to be aware of. Ray was
certainly reticent to talk about it, knowing full well that he had enough on