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Was a Short-Lived Cuban Exile Group a Mossad Front?
The Strange Story of Paulino Sierra and Peter Dale Scott
A possible key to unlocking the mystery of how the Mossad used Cuban exile
"false flags" in the JFK conspiracy may well be a comprehensive examination of
Cuban exile Paulino Sierra who popped up in April of 1963, flush with cash,
offering to "unite" the exile factions under the banner of a new entity of his own
creation, the Junta of the Government of Cuba in Exile (JGCE). Numerous JFK
researchers have referenced Sierra's intrigues, as did the late 1970s House
Assassinations Committee. There's much more to the story, as we shall see.
This much is certain: the Chicago-based Sierra was "an unknown quantity to
the Miami exiles," according to Warren Hinckle's Deadly Secrets. Sierra said "Las
Vegas and Cleveland gambling interests" were financing him and, indeed, a
"considerable" amount of money was funneled through Sierra's Chicago employer,
the Union Tank Car Company, although Union disavowed knowledge of the actual
source of the funds.
While the FBI showed little interest in the well-funded Sierra, the CIA noted
two days before the JFK assassination that Sierra "remains somewhat of a mystery
man in terms of his means of support, and indeed, his long range objectives. Perhaps
his mysterious backers are providing him with sufficient funds to keep the pot
boiling for the present." [emphasis added].
Although Sierra distributed funds to a variety of exiles, it has been said the
"money was going down the drain with nothing to show for it." This may not true at
all. In fact, Sierra and his "mysterious backers" funded the New Orleans-based
Cuban exile training camp run by longtime Mossad asset Frank Sturgis where JFK
assassination figures Guy Banister, David Ferrie and Lee Oswald and/or his
"double" were seen in 1963. In the end, hardly more than a month after the events in
Dallas, Sierra closed up shop in January of 1964 and, as Hinckle puts it, "was not to
be heard of again." It appears that Sierra's aim had been accomplished.
In fact, it was Sierra who financed the arms deal—referenced on the first page of
the preface of Final Judgment—about which a federal informant inside the Cuban
groups (one Thomas Mosley) said he was told: "We now have plenty of money—our
new backers are the Jews—as soon as they take care of JFK."
Now—as pointed out in Final Judgment—most JFK writers have carefully
delete the phrase "the Jews" when describing this incident, and/or change the word
"they" to "we" or fudge by noting it was unclear as to whether it was "we" or "they"
who were going to "take care" of Kennedy, the totality of the mysteries surrounding
Sierra—coupled with what Final Judgment documents—points again toward a
likely Mossad role in the JFK conspiracy. Here's why:
Since Sierra was funded by "Las Vegas and Cleveland gambling interests," that
unquestionably points toward Meyer Lansky's chief Las Vegas point man, Morris
Dalitz (formerly Cleveland-based), who was a shareholder in Mossad operative
Tibor Rosenbaum's Permindex entity which, as we have seen, played such a central
role in the JFK conspiracy.
In other words, if—as we contend here—Sierra's short-lived organization was a
Mossad "front" designed to finance and manipulate the New Orleans-based
operations used to orchestrate the JFK assassination —through the activities of
Frank Sturgis, Guy Banister and David Ferrie, not to mention Permindex board
member Clay Shaw—the money was provided by the Lansky syndicate's gambling
ventures, which, as noted, were intertwined with the Mossad's Permindex operation.
In addition, as former National Security Council staff member Roger Morris
has shown in The Money and the Power, his landmark history of the intrigues of Las