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(In Chapter 13 and Chapter 14 we shall examine Cohen's own strange and
critical role in the JFK assassination conspiracy and its ultimate coverup—yet
another piece of the puzzle brought together in these pages.)
Ultimately, as we shall see, JFK's war against his former allies in the
underworld, would lead him to the very doorsteps of the real brains behind
the national—and international—crime syndicate, Meyer Lansky.
However, he had already double-crossed his immediate underworld
collaborators. That alone was enough to spell JFK's doom.
JFK MOVES AGAINST THE ISRAELI LOBBY
However, Kennedy was also engaged in some legislative sleight-of-hand
that could also prove dangerous to Israel's political leverage in American
election politics. Angry at his campaign experiences with the Israeli lobby's
fundraisers, Kennedy appointed a bipartisan commission in 1961 to
recommend ways to broaden "the financial base of our presidential
campaigns." 76
According to Seymour Hersh, "In a statement that was far more
heartfelt than the public or the press could perceive, [Kennedy] criticized the
current method of financing campaigns as 'highly undesirable' and 'not
healthy' because it made candidates `dependent on large financial
contributions of those with special interests.'" 77
In 1962 Kennedy submitted five bills to reform campaign financing to
Congress and in 1963 two more such bills. But none of those bills
survived, having been beaten back by the very special interests that Kennedy
sought to counter. 78
SECRET WARS
However, Kennedy was more deeply engaged with Israel than on this
more subtle level. As we shall see in Chapter 5, Kennedy, in fact, was at
war with Israel.
Not only had Kennedy double-crossed his allies in organized crime, but
he had crossed his pro-Israel financiers. Israel, as we shall see in Chapter 7,
was long close to the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate.
And Israel, as we shall see in Chapter 8, was particularly close to the
American CIA. Kennedy, too, by the middle of his presidency, was also at
war with the CIA. This we shall discuss in Chapter 9.
All of these powerful special interests had very special reasons to want
to see JFK removed from the presidency and replaced with Lyndon Johnson.
There was clearly no love lost between John F. Kennedy and the powerful
forces which had helped bring him to the presidency.
A reform-minded President Kennedy also had other long-range plans in
the works. The scion of an independent and essentially self-made man who
"played the game" to gain power and influence—and to get his son elected
president—JFK was indeed very much his father's son. As a consequence, in