Final_Judgment

[596] Final Judgment 694
But what McCullough doesn't like to have people mention is the fact—
documented by Israeli writers such as Uri Dan and others (and referenced
in Final Judgment)—that Gehlen also worked closely with the Mossad
throughout the post-war years, despite his previous service to the hated Nazi
regime. That's an uncomfortable little fact of history, to say the very least—
especially for Israel and its supporters—but it does exemplify many of the
uncomfortable facts about Israel that continually emerge in a study of the
administration of President Kennedy, his relations with Israel, and the
circumstances surrounding his assassination.
DID SHERMAN READ THE BOOK?
Sherman Skolnick, the famed conspiracy researcher based in Chicago,
made passing reference to Final Judgment in a report entitled
"Assassinations of the 20th Century—Why?" and then commented that
"The book rejects, out of hand, what others claim, however, that Nazi war
criminals were involved (as documented by the late assassination researcher
Mae Brussell). And the book does not explain how the U.S. Secret Service,
the FBI, and the CIA, being the Protestant/Catholic Establishment—how
and why these espionage entities could have covered up all this for the
benefit of the Jews." [Skolnick's emphasis]
Frankly, I was a little disappointed by Sherman's comments. Over the
years, I have found Skolnick to be right on target on a number of
controversial matters, often sticking his neck out and daring to delve into
subject areas (including the Mossad) that other researchers are afraid to
address. Consequently, I was surprised that Sherman would describe the
FBI and the CIA, for example, as being "the Protestant/Catholic
Establishment"—when it is very clear that the FBI and the CIA have been coopted
into the service of the Mossad on more than one occasion—and then
go on to question my conclusion that they had a part, as he put it, in covering
up the Mossad role in the JFK assassination "for the benefit of the Jews." (And,
of course, the phrase "the Jews" is his term—not mine.) If anything, I believe
that Final Judgment makes it all quite clear and I think that most readers
would agree. But that's Sherman's opinion.
THE BIG GUN MISFIRES
Perhaps my biggest disappointment, in a certain sense, was when the
one critic whom I felt was probably best poised and best capable of refuting
Final Judgment failed to do it.
Of all of those I've encountered who have been killed in marshaling
facts and information in refuting at least certain aspects of a number of JFK
assassination conspiracy theories, there is no question in my mind that Dave
Reitzes is by far the most intelligent and articulate. Reitzes has made
himself a minor celebrity in JFK circles on the Internet where he has quite
energetically worked to demolish Jim Garrison and, in particular, defend