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Israel’s traitorous CIA point man for both Kennedy assassinations<\/span><\/b><\/h>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angleton, Mossad, and the Kennedy Assassinations<\/h1>\n

Laurent Guy\u00e9not
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Edward Curtin wrote<\/a>\u00a0four years ago on\u00a0Counter-Currents<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps no one epitomized the twisted mind games played by intelligence agencies more than James Jesus Angleton, the notorious CIA Counterintelligence Chief for so many years, in whose safe were found gruesome photos of Robert Kennedy\u2019s autopsy. Why, one may ask, were those photos there, since Angleton allegedly had no connection to the RFK killing and since Sirhan was said to be the assassin? Was Angleton\u2019s work as CIA liaison with Israel in any way connected?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you ask me, I strongly suspect it was. Angleton had been the Mossad\u2019s indispensable ally in John Kennedy\u2019s assassination. So he had personal reasons to cooperate with them again in stopping Robert Kennedy from reaching the White House, a position from which, according to multiple testimonies, Robert intended to track his brother\u2019s assassins.[1]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I summarized the case against Ben-Gurion\u2019s Israel in the assassinations of both Kennedy brothers in\u00a0this article<\/a>, which still turns up regularly among The Unz Review\u2019s \u201cPast classics\u201d. Here I\u2019ll try to show that an inquiry into Angleton\u2019s \u201cwilderness of mirrors\u201d makes the case even stronger.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cWorld War III\u201d Virus<\/a><\/h2>\n

Angleton\u2019s name often comes up in books incriminating the CIA in the 1963 Dallas coup, because he is believed to have engineered the staged visits and telephone calls by an Oswald impersonator to both the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City in late September and early October 1963. Over the phone, this bogus \u201cOswald\u201d referred to an arrangement with Vladimir Kostikov, who was known to the FBI as the officer in charge of assassinations in the United States. These visits and calls were, of course, monitored by the local CIA cell, and would constitute, after November 22, evidence of a Cuban-Soviet conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the most natural and common interpretation, the purpose of staging Oswald as a communist conspirator was to blame the Dallas shooting on Cuba and\/or the Soviet Union \u2014 a classic false flag scenario. Besides getting rid of Kennedy, the theory goes, the motive was to create a pretext for invading Cuba, something that Kennedy had forbidden after the Bay of Pigs debacle and the firing of Allen Dulles. That has become the dominant JFK conspiracy theory, best articulated recently by James Douglass. But it has one major flaw: there was no invasion of Cuba following Kennedy\u2019s assassination. How can that be explained?<\/span><\/p>\n

And why did Johnson, Hoover and the Warren Commission quickly suppress the \u201crumors\u201d of Oswald\u2019s communist profile (already hitting the news on November 23, e.g. the morning front-page of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0titled, \u201cPro-Castro Fort Worth Marxist Charged in Kennedy\u2019s Assassination\u201d[2]<\/i><\/a>), to replace it with his \u201clone nut\u201d profile? James Douglass\u2019s explanation is that Johnson thwarted the plot hatched by the CIA and Pentagon hawks, thus saving us from World War III. \u201cTo Johnson\u2019s credit, he refused to let the Soviets take the blame for Kennedy\u2019s murder; to his discredit, he decided not to confront the CIA over what it had done in Mexico City. Thus, while the secondary purpose of the assassination plot was stymied, its primary purpose was achieved.\u201d[3]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0The problem with this theory is its internal contradiction, since it also affirms that the reason Kennedy was assassinated was that he refused to start World War III: therefore, starting the war was supposedly the primary \u2014 not the secondary \u2014 purpose of the whole plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The alternative explanation is that Oswald\u2019s profile as a Communist assassin was crafted by the conspirators, not for the purpose of starting a war against Cuba and Russia, but for allowing Johnson to bully Federal and State administrations, and even the news community, into closing the investigation quickly, lest the discovery of Cuba and Russia\u2019s responsibility force the U.S. into a global nuclear war \u201cthat would kill 40 million Americans in an hour,\u201d as Johnson kept repeating to everyone from Dallas to Washington. To convince Senator Richard Russell to sit in the Warren Commission, for example, Johnson told him in a taped phone conversation: \u201cwe\u2019ve go to take this out of the arena where they\u2019re testifying that Khrushchev and Castro did this and did that and kicking us into a war that can kill forty million Americans in an hour\u2026\u201d[4]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Besides allowing Johnson to shut down Police investigations and secretly task the Warren Commission with the goal of \u201crebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy\u201d (as recommended by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach\u2019s November 25 memo[5]<\/i><\/a>), the threat of nuclear war kept the American people satisfied that, if they were being lied to \u2014 as many felt they were \u2014 it was for their own good. And so the lie about Kennedy\u2019s assassination was two-sided: on one side was the Cuban-Soviet conspiracy, and on the other was the lone assassin. Both sides of the lie had to be maintained over the years, the Soviet conspiracy remaining in the background in order to keep the Warren Commission\u2019s conclusion, if not credible, at least justifiable. That is why, in a September 1969\u00a0filmed interview<\/a>\u00a0(broadcast on CBS on April 24, 1975), Johnson could calmly declare that \u201cthere might have been international connections,\u201d but that the Warren Commission did a fine job anyway.[6]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Like most JFK researchers, John Newman, a retired U.S. Army major and Political Science professor and the author of\u00a0Oswald and the CIA<\/i>, believes that long before Kennedy\u2019s trip to Dallas, Oswald was maneuvered and his activities \u201ccarefully monitored, controlled, and, if necessary, embellished and choreographed,\u201d so that, \u201con 22 November, Oswald\u2019s CIA files would establish his connection to Castro and the Kremlin.\u201d However, in an epilogue added in 2008 to his book (which Ron Unz has already referred to\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>),\u00a0<\/i>Newman reasons that the real purpose of setting up Oswald as a Communist was not to start World War III, but to create a \u201cWorld War III virus\u201d, used by Johnson as a \u201cnational security\u201d pretext to shut all investigations and intimidate the corporate media. \u201cIt is now apparent that the World War III pretext for a national security cover-up was built into the fabric of the plot to assassinate President Kennedy.\u201d[7]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

After reviewing the steps taken to design this plot, Newman concludes: \u201cIn my view, there is only one person whose hands fit into these gloves: James Jesus Angleton, Chief of CIA\u2019s Counterintelligence Staff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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No one else in the Agency had the access, the authority, and the diabolically ingenious mind to manage this sophisticated plot. No one else had the means necessary to plant the WWIII virus in Oswald\u2019s files and keep it dormant for six weeks until the president\u2019s assassination. Whoever those who were ultimately responsible for the decision to kill Kennedy were, their reach extended into the national intelligence apparatus to such a degree that they could call upon a person who knew its inner secrets and workings so well that he could design a failsafe mechanism into the fabric of the plot. The only person who could ensure a national security cover-up of an apparent counterintelligence nightmare was the head of counterintelligence [Angleton].[8]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As a matter of fact, no one pushed more for incriminating the KGB than Angleton. Michael Collins Piper, who wrote much about Angleton in his groundbreaking\u00a0Final Judgment,<\/i>\u00a0showed that Angleton went to great length to discredit, imprison and torture Russian Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko. who in 1964 claimed insistently that the KGB had decided against trying to use Oswald in any way during his sojourn in Russia, and that the KGB had nothing to do with Kennedy\u2019s assassination. Angleton was also the main source for Edward Jay Epstein\u2019s book,\u00a0Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald\u00a0<\/i>(published in 1978), which laid the blame on the KGB.[9]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Angleton and Counterintelligence<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Angleton was appointed head of the Counterintelligence Staff by CIA Director Allen Dulles in 1954, a position he kept for twenty years. According to Tom Mangold, author of\u00a0Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: the CIA\u2019s Master Spy Hunter\u00a0<\/i>(Simon & Schuster, 1991): \u201cAngleton\u2019s longstanding friendships with Dulles and Helms were to become the most important factor in giving him freedom of movement within the CIA. He was extended such trust by his superiors that there was often a significant failure of executive control over his activities.\u201d[10]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

After Kennedy fired Dulles and his two Deputy Directors Richard Bissel and Charles Cabell in autumn 1961, Angleton was shielded by new Deputy Director Richard Helms, who had survived the purge and would end up as head of the CIA. In 1962, as the CIA moved into its new headquarters in Langley, Angleton\u2019s Counterintelligence Staff had nearly two hundred people.[11]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

As one colleague and friend said, \u201cJim\u2019s central dominating obsession was communism, something that for him was the essence of absolute and profound\u00a0evil.\u00a0<\/i>For him nothing else really mattered, but he would use anyone and anything to combat it.\u201d[12]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0The most secret component of Angleton\u2019s empire was the Special Investigation Group (SIG), tasked with exploring the possibility that the CIA was infiltrated by the KGB. \u201cThe SIG was so secret that many members of the Counterintelligence Staff didn\u2019t even know it existed,\u201d writes Mangold, \u201cand nearly everyone was denied access to it. . . . Secret units within a secret unit were a hallmark of Angleton, the SIG, and the Counterintelligence Staff.\u201d[13]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The tragicomic story of Angleton\u2019s \u201cmole hunt\u201d is told in detail by Tom Mangold. It involves a megalomaniac KGB defector named Anatoly Golitsyn, who, responding to Angleton\u2019s paranoia, convinced him that the KGB had infiltrated the CIA through a high-level source code-named \u201cSacha\u201d, and that all other defectors after him would be phony. Angleton\u2019s quest for Sacha would last seven years. About 40 senior Agency officers were put on the suspect list and many had their careers ruined, while at least 22 genuine defectors were turned away. No real KGB spy was ever caught by Angleton. Meanwhile, the British Soviet agent Kim Philby remained Angleton\u2019s most trusted friend until being unmasked in 1963, and one Counterintelligence agent, Clare Edward Petty, ended up believing \u201cSacha\u201d must be Angleton himself.[14]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0This fiasco is the subject of David C. Martin\u2019s book\u00a0Wilderness of Mirrors\u00a0<\/i>(2018).[15]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0As\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/i>journalist David Wise writes: \u201cIn the end, Angleton never found a mole. But he did more harm to the CIA than even the most talented mole could ever have accomplished.\u201d[16]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

When William Colby, from the Soviet Division, became Director of the CIA, he looked for a pretext to sack Angleton, and fired him in December 1974 after the disclosure by Seymour Hersh in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>of two dubious domestic operations that his Counterintelligence Staff had been conducting in violation of the CIA\u2019s charter: intercepting mail sent between the United States and the Soviet Union(Program HT\/LINGUAL)and spying on American antiwar protestors (Operation CHAOS).<\/span><\/p>\n

When George Kalaris, who replaced Angleton, directed an investigation into Angleton\u2019s files, his team located over 40 vaults that had to be drilled open. It took three years to sort, destroy or classify the discovered materials, which had never been archived into the CIA\u2019s central filing system. And it took CIA officer Cleveland Cram six years to write a report in 12 legal-sized volumes on the activities of the Counterintelligence Staff from 1954 to 1974.[17]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The most important conclusion is that Angleton\u2019s Counterintelligence, which was involved in the preparation for JFK\u2019s assassination, was not the CIA, but rather a \u201csecond CIA within the CIA\u201d (as Peter Dale Scott put it), sealed from scrutiny and accountable to no one, yet supported by almost unlimited budget.[18]<\/i><\/i><\/a>\u00a0During Kennedy\u2019s presidency, John McCone, an outsider, of course had no idea what Angleton was doing or not doing, and Richard Helms, his Deputy, let him do as he pleased.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this Counterintelligence disaster is only half of Angleton\u2019s story. There is another half, rarely told. Tom Mangold only refers to it in an endnote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I would like to place on the record, however, that Angleton\u2019s professional friends overseas, then and subsequently, came from the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence-gathering service) and that he was held in immense esteem by his Israeli colleagues and by the state of Israel, which was to award him profound honors after his death.[19]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, Mangold also writes: \u201cAngleton\u2019s ties with the Israelis gave him considerable prestige within the CIA and later added significantly to his expanding counterintelligence empire,\u201d while stirring \u201cthe utter fury of the division\u2019s separate Arab desks.\u201d[20]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0But that\u2019s all we\u2019ll learn from Mangold about the Mossad-side of Angleton. To know more about it, we must turn to Jefferson Morley\u2019s more recent and thorough investigation,\u00a0The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton\u00a0<\/i>(St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2017). We will learn that Angleton was less \u201cout of control\u201d than we think \u2014 only the people who controlled him were not those who were supposed to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Angleton and Mossad<\/a><\/h2>\n

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When Angleton became chief of Counterintelligence in 1954, he had already been occupying, since early 1951, the CIA\u2019s Israeli Desk, or Israeli Account, as it was called. And he had exclusive authority on the CIA station in Tel Aviv. The Israeli Desk was created for Angleton after the visit of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to the United States in May 1951. Besides launching a drive to raise $1 billion from the sale of Israel Bonds,[21]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0the purpose of Ben-Gurion\u2019s visit was to establish collaboration between U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. Israel\u2019s population of immigrants from the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe made the country a privileged source of information about what was going on behind the Iron Curtain. In exchange for this service, Israel wanted strategic, economic and military support against their enemy Nasser, whom they did their utmost to push into the Soviet camp. Here is Morley\u2019s account of the background for that turning point in U.S.-Israel relationship:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1950, Reuven Shiloah, the founder of Israel\u2019s first intelligence organization, visited Washington and came away impressed by the CIA. In April 1951, he reorganized the fractious Israeli security forces to create a new foreign intelligence agency, called the Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks, inevitably known as the Mossad, the Hebrew word for \u201cinstitute.\u201d In 1951, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion came to the United States and brought Shiloah with him. Ben-Gurion met privately with President Truman and Walter Bedell Smith [director of CIA]. Angleton arranged for Ben-Gurion to lunch with Allen Dulles [Deputy Director for Plans] . . . Shiloah stayed on in Washington to work out the arrangements with Angleton. The resulting agreement laid the foundation for the exchange of secret information between the two services and committed them to report to each other on subjects of mutual interest. Shiloah, according to his biographer [Haggai Eshed], soon developed \u201ca special relationship\u201d with Angleton, who became the CIA\u2019s exclusive liaison with the Mossad. Angleton returned the favor by visiting Israel. Shiloah introduced him to Amos Manor, chief of counterespionage for Israel\u2019s domestic intelligence agency [1953-1963], known as Shabak or Shin Bet.[22]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For almost 25 years, Angleton was the CIA\u2019s exclusive liaison with Israeli intelligence. In this capacity, recalled one of his friends interviewed by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn for their book\u00a0Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship<\/i>, \u201che was getting the benefit of Israeli networks and connections all over the place, not just in the Communist bloc.\u201d[23]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Angleton\u2019s special channel to the Mossad brought little profit to the U.S. in terms of intelligence. In October 1956, no warning came from Angleton about the Israelis\u2019 plan to invade Egypt. As rumors of war were reaching the State Department, Robert Amory, head of the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, called an emergency meeting on October 26. After he presented Allen Dulles with evidence that the Israelis \u201cwere mobilizing to attack someone \u2014 Egypt,\u201d Angleton contradicted him saying, \u201cI can discount what Amory is saying. I spent last night with our friends and they have assured me that they are just carrying out protective measures against the Jordanians.\u201d Amory got mad and said to Dulles: \u201cThe taxpayer lays out $16,000 a year to me as your deputy director for me to give you the best intelligence available. Either you believe me or you believe this co-opted Israeli agent here [pointing to Angleton].\u201d[24]<\/i><\/i><\/a>\u00a0Within days, Israel had invaded Egypt\u2019s Sinai.<\/span><\/p>\n

James Jesus Angleton made his first visit to Israel in October 1951. \u201cBy the mid-1950s,\u201d Morley writes, \u201cAngleton liked nothing better than to leave the cramped office politics of Washington for the austere frontier of the Holy Land. On his visits, Angleton stayed in Ramat Gan, on the suburban coastal plain north of Tel Aviv, the home to many Israeli intelligence officers and diplomats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cHe used to come from time to time, to meet the head of Mossad, to get briefings,\u201d recalls Efraim Halevy, who served as the Mossad\u2019s liaison officer to the CIA station in Tel Aviv in the early 1960s. Halevy escorted Angleton on his rounds and recorded his meetings with Israeli officials. \u201cHe used to meet with David Ben-Gurion, whom he knew for many years,\u201d Halevy recalled. \u201cBen-Gurion ultimately left office [in 1963] and Angleton went down to Sde Boker [Ben-Gurion\u2019s home in the Negev] to meet him. I didn\u2019t attend those meetings. Those were just the two of them. He had business to transact.\u201d[25]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Angleton knew at least six of the men closest to Ben-Gurion and privy to his secrets. Besides Efraim Halevy (on the right in the top picture), he befriended Isser Harel, founder of the Shin Bet and chief of the Mossad from 1951 (\u201cJim had enormous admiration for Isser,\u201d said Halevy). Angleton also enjoyed the lifetime friendship of Amos Manor, director of Shin Bet from 1953 to 1963, of Teddy Kollek, who later became mayor of Jerusalem, and of Meir Amit, head of Mossad from 1963 to 1968. When Halevy accompanied Yitzhak Rabin for his ambassadorship to Washington (1968-1973), Angleton met him as often as five times a week, and had monthly lunches with Rabin, Halevy recalled. Angleton\u2019s friends were among the builders of the Zionist state, and Angleton was the only American authorized to talk to them.[26]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This, coupled with his infatuation with Zionism, gave Angleton a great influence on Washington\u2019s Israeli policy. According to Morley, \u201che was a leading architect of America\u2019s strategic relationship with Israel that endures and dominates the region to this day.\u201d[27]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0\u201cAngleton\u2019s influence on U.S.-Israeli relations between 1951 and 1974 exceeded that of any secretary of state, with the possible exception of Henry Kissinger. His influence was largely unseen by Congress, the press, other democratic institutions, and much of the CIA itself.\u201d[28]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Kissinger, Michael Piper mentions, quoting Deborah Davis\u2019s biography of Katharine Graham, that Kissinger actually moved Angleton\u2019s Israeli desk into the White House, and that both men worked very closely. In one of the most interesting appendixes added to his 1998 edition of\u00a0Final Judgment,\u00a0<\/i>Piper argues that Angleton was the mastermind of the Watergate dirty trick that caused Nixon\u2019s fall, using his longtime ally Ben Bradlee, then\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0editor. According to Piper, Watergate was \u201ca joint CIA-Mossad operation\u2014orchestrated by James Angleton\u2014for the purpose of removing Nixon from the presidency.\u201d Nixon had to be removed because, like Kennedy before him, he had become a threat to Israel\u2019s survival.[29]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dimona and the Stolen Uranium<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Naturally, Angleton\u2019s influence on U.S.-Israeli relationship touched upon the sensitive question of Israel\u2019s military nuclear ambition. Morley again:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Washington, he and Cicely [Angleton\u2019s wife] had spent many evenings with Memi de Shalit, a Lithuanian-born military intelligence officer stationed in the Israeli embassy. Angleton \u201cadored\u201d de Shalit and his wife, Ada, said Efraim Halevy. The de Shalits moved back to Israel in the 1950s, but the friendship continued, and it brought Angleton into the circle of other knowledgeable Israelis. Amos de Shalit, Memi\u2019s brother, was a professor of nuclear physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Tel Aviv. He would be a major contributor to the Israeli nuclear program.[30]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Seymour Hersh, \u201cAngleton\u2019s close personal ties with the DeShalit family and others in Israel made it inevitable that he would learn about the [Dimona] construction in the Negev.\u201d Yet he never reported on the Israelis\u2019 efforts to build a nuclear reactor for military purposes.[31]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0In 1960, Angleton ignored a request from the U.S. Intelligent Board, which reviewed CIA operations on behalf of the White House, that all information regarding Dimona be transmitted \u201cexpeditiously\u201d.[32]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Angleton also failed to notice or to report about the stealing of weapons-grade enriched uranium from a plant of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania. The NUMEC had been created under U.S. government license by David Lowenthal, a Zionist financier, and was run by Zalman Shapiro, the son of an Orthodox rabbi from Lithuania, who was also head of the local chapter of the Zionist Organization of America. Over the 9 years from 1959 to 1968, the Atomic Energy Commission estimated that 267 kilograms of uranium went missing at the Apollo NUMEC plant. One Israeli masquerading as a nuclear engineer who visited the plant was a Mossad agent named Rafael Eitan, who was known to Angleton. \u201cWith the fissile material diverted from NUMEC, Israel was able to construct its first nuclear weapon by 1967 and become a full-blown nuclear power by 1970 \u2014 the first, and still the only, nuclear power in the Middle East. Angleton, it is fair to say, thought collaboration with Israel was more important than U.S. non-proliferation policy.\u201d[33]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAngleton\u2019s loyalty to Israel betrayed U.S. policy on an epic scale,\u201d Morley concludes. \u201cInstead of supporting U.S. nuclear security policy, he ignored it.\u201d John Hadden, then CIA station chief in Tel Aviv, who felt betrayed by his superior Angleton, wrote in 1978: \u201cA crime was committed 10 or 20 years ago, a crime considered so serious that for its commission the death penalty is mandatory and no statute of limitations applies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Angleton had regular professional and personal contact with at least six men aware of Israel\u2019s secret plan to build a bomb. From Asher Ben-Natan to Amos de Shalit to Isser Harel to Meir Amit to Moshe Dayan to Yval Ne\u2019eman, his friends were involved in the building of Israel\u2019s nuclear arsenal. If he learned anything of the secret program at Dimona, he reported very little of it. . . . The failure of the U.S. nonproliferation policy to prevent the introduction of nuclear weapons to the Middle East in the 1960s is part of Angleton\u2019s legacy, and its effects will be felt for decades, if not centuries.[34]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Angleton himself implicitly acknowledged his role to\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>foreign correspondent Tad Szulc, who declared before the Church Committee in 1975:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was told by one of my news sources that a situation had occurred in the 1960s in which the CIA delivered to the Israeli government classified information, technical knowledge, know-how, the services of distinguished physicists and fissionable material in the form of plutonium to assist in the development of an Israeli nuclear weapon at the Dimona Israeli Nuclear Testing grounds. . . I have raised the subject in a private conversation with Mr. James Angleton in the spring of this year [April 1975]. Mr. Angleton told me that essentially this information was correct.[35]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Six Day War and the USS Liberty<\/a><\/h2>\n

According to Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, \u201cThere is a body of opinion within the American intelligence community that Angleton played a leading part in orchestrating the events leading up to the June 1967 war. One long-serving official at CIA\u2019s ancient rival, the code-breaking National Security Agency, states flatly that \u2018Jim Angleton and the Israelis spent a year cooking up the \u201967 war. It was a CIA operation designed to get Nasser.\u2019\u201d[36]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In that period, according to Joan Mellen, author of\u00a0Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspire to Ambush the USS Liberty\u00a0<\/i>(2018), \u201cMeir Amit was Angleton\u2019s chief ally in Israel, but in the United States, he relied on another Mossad operative, Ephraim \u2018Eppy\u2019 Evron, who in 1967, as a Mossad operative as well as deputy Israeli ambassador to Washington, enjoyed greater importance at the Israeli embassy than the ambassador, Avraham Harman. It was Evron who had arranged meetings between Angleton and Moshe Dayan . . . to discuss the feasibility of an attack on Egypt with the objective of toppling Nasser. Lyndon Johnson had authorized Angleton to inform Evron that the United States would not intervene to stop an attack on Egypt.\u201d[37]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In May 1967, Eppy Evron met Johnson at the White House. Evron later said that Johnson told him, \u201cYou and I are going to pass another Tonkin resolution,\u201d in reference to the mock incident in the Gulf of Tonkin that Johnson used to justify the aggression against North Vietnam.[38]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0On May 30, Meir Amit, then head of global operations for Mossad, flew to Washington and met first with Angleton the next day. There is no documentary record of their conversation, but on June 1, Amit reported to Israel: \u201cthere is a growing chance for American political backing if we act on our own.\u201d[39]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt would be Angleton,\u201d says Joan Mellen, \u201cwho would prevail in formulating, with Meir Amit, the configuration of the operation that would culminate in the attack on the USS\u00a0Liberty<\/i>.\u201d[40]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Here a summary of Tom Segev\u2019s account of this meeting in\u00a01967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East<\/i>\u00a0(2007): \u201cAmit\u2019s trip to Washington had ben instigated by Aharon Yariv, and its main purpose was to find out, through intelligence channels, what the Americans would really do if Israel attacked Egypt.\u201d The first person Amit met there was James Jesus Angleton, who introduced him to Helms, head of CIA. Helms \u201carranged for Amit to meet with Secretary of Defense McNamara.\u201d Presenting Israel\u2019s plan to attack Egypt, Amit \u201cheard no objections from McNamara.\u201d McNamara was called out of the meeting twice to talk with Johnson on the phone, and reported to Amit the President\u2019s message: \u201cI read you loud and clear.\u201d Amit reported back to Israel his impression that the Americans would give their blessing to an Israeli strike \u201ccrushing Nasser.\u201d In response to Eshkol\u2019s question, Amit said they might even assist Israel in such a strike. \u201cJim Angleton was enthusiastic,\u201d writes Segev; he saw in Israel\u2019s strike \u201cthe possibility of solving the region\u2019s problems.\u201d He \u201cstressed the issue\u2019s delicacy and asked to preserve complete secrecy.\u201d When corresponding with Eshkol on the phone, Amit acknowledged the decisive importance of Angleton\u2019s support. Angleton, he said, intimated that the Americans \u201cwould undoubtedly look positively on a knockout\u201d on Egypt; \u201cAngleton was an extraordinary asset for us. We could not have found ourselves a better advocate.\u201d He was \u201cthe biggest Zionist of the lot,\u201d insisted Amit.[41]<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In December 1967, having more than doubled their territory, the Israelis threw a big party for Angleton when he visited them on his 50th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Mossad side of Angleton is part of the \u201cunspoken Kennedy truth\u201d that, in Michael Collins Piper\u2019s footsteps, I documented in\u00a0my book<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0this article<\/a>. It is no small part. As Morley writes, \u201cAngleton\u2019s formative and sometimes decisive influence on U.S. policy toward Israel can be seen in many areas \u2014 from the impotence of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy in the region, to Israel\u2019s triumph in the 1967 Six-Day War, to the feeble U.S. response to the attack on the\u00a0Liberty<\/i>, to the intelligence failure represented by the Yom Kippur War of 1973.\u201d[42]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Angleton is remembered in the U.S. as a mentally unstable man who caused irreparable damage to the CIA\u2019s efficiency and reputation. In contrast, he is remembered in Israel as a great benefactor of the Zionist state. Here is an extract from the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i><\/a>\u00a0report about a ceremony held in his honor in Jerusalem after his death. Although it was supposedly secret, a couple of Israeli reporters, including Andy Court of the\u00a0Jerusalem Post,<\/i>\u00a0had been tipped off and attended:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The head of the pathologically secretive spy agency, the Mossad, was there, as was his counterpart with Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service. Five former heads of those agencies and three former military intelligence chiefs were also present. Their mission: to pay final tribute to a beloved member of their covert fraternity \u2014 the late CIA chief of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton. . . . Following the planting [of trees], the group gathered again in Jerusalem behind the King David Hotel at a scenic spot not far from the walls of the Old City that Angleton often visited on his trips here. There they dedicated a memorial stone that read, in English, Hebrew and Arabic: \u201cIn memory of a dear friend, James (Jim) Angleton.\u201d . . . The ceremonies symbolized the respect and affection that the Israeli intelligence community holds for Angleton . . . Although his name appears in few history books about Israel, Angleton played a crucial role in the early years of the young Jewish state. In the 1950s and early 1960s, when most of official Washington was wary of \u2014 even hostile to \u2014 Israel, he helped forge links between the Mossad and the CIA that established the basis for cooperation in intelligence gathering that still exists today. . . . Angleton \u201cwas a friend you could trust on a personal basis,\u201d said Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who spoke at the tree-planting ceremony. Rabin knew Angleton from his days as Israeli Army chief of staff in the mid-1960s and later as ambassador to the United States. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, who rose from his sickbed to attend the ceremonies, told the small crowd, \u201cWe commemorate a great friend, who saw Israel-U.S. relations through their most difficult period in the 40 years of Israel\u2019s existence.\u201d . . . Those who attended, according to Court, included the current heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet, neither of whom can be named under government security laws; former Mossad chiefs Meir Amit, Zvi Zamir and Yitzhak Hofi; former Shin Bet chiefs Avraham Ahituv and Amos Manor, and former military intelligence heads Aharon Yariv, Shlomo Gazit and Binyamin Gibli.[43]<\/i><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is still a mystery about Angleton\u2019s relationship with Israel, a mystery that perhaps Angleton himself could not have cleared up. It is a reasonable guess that most of Angleton\u2019s Israeli friends were well aware of his personality issues and of his delusional worldview, and that they exploited them to the fullest; they convinced Angleton that they were his indispensable allies against Communism. One former Mossad chief said to the Cockburns: \u201cOf course, Jim had some pretty weird ideas, like that one about the Sino-Soviet split [Angleton believed it was a cunning deception]. But I think that he found himself a little more appreciated here in Israel than in Washington. We would listen respectfully to him [here the smirk] and his opinions.\u201d The Israelis, gather the Cockburns, \u201ctook great care to flatter him and bend a respectful ear to his interpretation of events in the shadowy world of intelligence and deception.\u201d Taking a closer look at the Angleton memorial in the Jerusalem forest, the Cockburns point out that, \u201cUnlike the other memorial groves, the inscription here is not carved in stone, but is written on a sheet of plastic screwed to the stone itself. Within a year of the commemoration of the site most of the trees, tiny saplings, were dead or dying. The ground all around was covered in garbage: cans, rags, and, here and there, bones.\u201d[44]<\/i><\/a>\u00a0What kind of memorial is this? A memorial for a useful idiot that can be soon forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was Angleton\u2019s position in the organizational chart of the plotters against Kennedy? If, as John Newman believes, Angleton was the \u201cgeneral manager\u201d of Oswald\u2019s handlers, and the engineer of his mock appearance in Mexico, what did he really know of Oswald\u2019s ultimate function in the plot? There is no indication that Angleton ever felt that he had been used by his Israeli friends, and it is therefore more than likely that he was a deliberate participant in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. What has been shown beyond a reasonable doubt is that Angleton, the central CIA player in the plot to kill JFK, was in reality more controlled by the Mossad than by the CIA itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am happy to see that this conclusion is now becoming more accepted among Kennedy researchers. Peter Janney, author of the acclaimed Mary\u2019s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(2012), in which Angleton figures prominently, honored me with a comment on the Amazon page of my book:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to his book\u00a0JFK \u2013 9\/11: 50 Years of Deep State<\/i>, which was published in 2017, Laurent Guy\u00e9not has given us yet another gem with\u00a0The Unspoken Kennedy Truth<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As the author of \u201cMary\u2019s Mosaic\u201d and someone who has spent many, many years studying the JFK assassination, Laurent Guy\u00e9not takes us where few have dared to tread \u2014 the role of Mossad and Israel in the murders of both Kennedy brothers and very likely in the event of 9\/11 itself. I have been persuaded by both these books and have come to the conclusion that JFK assassination researchers have missed a vital element in understanding the larger role of Israel\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is it a coincidence that there are not just one \u2014 but two \u2014 monuments in Israel to the legendary CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton? Are we anti-Semites for making an indictment against Israel, given Guy\u00e9not\u2019s persuasive argument that is supported by evidence? The answer is no! The truth takes no prisoners\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Phillip Nelson, author of\u00a0LBJ, The Mastermind of JFK\u2019s Assassination<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(2010), the ultimate 720-page indictment of Johnson (followed by\u00a0LBJ: From Mastermind to \u201cthe Colossus\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Remember the Liberty<\/a><\/i>), also wrote a comment that I am proud to quote: \u201cGuy\u00e9not\u2019s short book covers much territory, some of it never so thoroughly explored before. \u2026 He has made a very compelling and persuasive argument for his position and I recognize the truths he has revealed.\u201d Nelson has reservations, however, on the thesis that Ben-Gurion was the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the assassination of JFK.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The major problem with his thesis is that the problems with Dimona didn\u2019t arise and become the hot topic between JFK and Ben-Gurion until 1963. LBJ\u2019s plot to take the White House by the \u201cback door\u201d began in 1958, when he pushed the Texas legislature to allow him to run on both the state ballot and the national ballot at the same time, something it had then prohibited. That was only the first box he had to check-off, five years before the assassination.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In my opinion, it\u2019s more likely that, during that five years, Johnson and Ben-Gurion, with their submissive acolytes, discussed many of their goals and priorities, and that the \u201cBig Event\u201d became a mutually-agreed high priority, with plenty of time to set all the knights, bishops, kings, queens, and pawns, in their place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think Johnson made it on Kennedy\u2019s ticket in 1960 only because the Zionists (Abe Feinberg) wanted him there, as Kennedy\u2019s potential assassin and future \u201cbest U.S. president for Israel ever.\u201d For as I wrote in\u00a0\u201cThe Umbrella Man, the Sins of the Father, and the Kennedy Curse\u201d<\/a>, long before 1960, the Israelis saw the Kennedys as a serious potential threat to their expansionist ambitions, and rightly so. In the organization chart of the plot, I place Ben-Gurion higher than LBJ. But that is open to debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0This has been shown conclusively by David Talbot in\u00a0Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years<\/i>, Simon & Schuster, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0Jefferson Morley,\u00a0Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA,\u00a0<\/i>University Press of Kansas, 2008, p. 207.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a>\u00a0James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Touchstone, 2008,<\/i>\u00a0p. 232.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0Douglass,\u00a0JFK and the Unspeakable,\u00a0<\/i>p. 82.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[5]<\/a>\u00a0Douglass,\u00a0JFK and the Unspeakable,\u00a0<\/i>pp. 82-83.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cLBJ speaks on a conspiracy in JFK murder,\u201d on\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a>\u00a0John M. Newman,\u00a0Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK,\u00a0<\/i>Skyhorse, 2008, pp. 613-637. Excerpts on\u00a0spartacus-educational.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[8]<\/a>\u00a0Newman,\u00a0Oswald and the CIA,\u00a0<\/i>pp. 636-637 (on\u00a0spartacus-educational.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

[9]<\/a>\u00a0Michael Collins Piper,\u00a0Final Judgment<\/a>: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy,\u00a0<\/i>American Free Press, 6th ed., 2005, pp. 166-169.<\/span><\/p>\n

[10]<\/a>\u00a0Tom Mangold,\u00a0Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: the CIA\u2019s Master Spy Hunter,\u00a0<\/i>Simon & Schuster, 1991, p. 52.<\/span><\/p>\n

[11]<\/a>\u00a0Mangold,\u00a0Cold Warrior,<\/i>\u00a0p. 55.<\/span><\/p>\n

[12]<\/a>\u00a0Andrew and Leslie Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship,\u00a0<\/i>HarperCollins, 1991, p. 43.<\/span><\/p>\n

[13]<\/a>\u00a0Mangold,\u00a0Cold Warrior,<\/i>\u00a0p. 57.<\/span><\/p>\n

[14]<\/a>\u00a0Jefferson Morley,\u00a0The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton,\u00a0<\/i>St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2017, p. 229.<\/span><\/p>\n

[15]<\/a>\u00a0David C. Martin,\u00a0Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War\u2019s Most Important Agents<\/i>, Skyhorse, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

[16]<\/a>\u00a0David Wise, \u201cThe Spookiest of the CIA\u2019s Spooks,\u201d\u00a0Los Angeles Times,\u00a0<\/i>December 24, 2006, on\u00a0www.latimes.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[17]<\/a>\u00a0Jefferson Morley, \u201cWilderness of Mirrors: Documents Reveal the Complex \u201cLegacy of James Angleton, CIA Counterintelligence Chief and Godfather of Mass Surveillance\u201d, January 1, 2018,\u00a0The Intercept,\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0theintercept.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[18]<\/a>\u00a0Peter Dale Scott,\u00a0Deep Politics and the Death of JFK,\u00a0<\/i>University of California Press, 1993, p. 54, quoted in Michael Collins Piper,\u00a0Final Judgment<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>6th ed., 2005, p. 63.<\/span><\/p>\n

[19]<\/a>\u00a0Mangold,\u00a0Cold Warrior,\u00a0<\/i>p. 362.<\/span><\/p>\n

[20]<\/a>\u00a0Mangold,\u00a0Cold Warrior,<\/i>\u00a0p. 49.<\/span><\/p>\n

[21]<\/a>\u00a0Cockburn and Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison,\u00a0<\/i>p. 41.<\/span><\/p>\n

[22]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,\u00a0<\/i>55<\/span><\/p>\n

[23]<\/a>\u00a0Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison,<\/i>\u00a0p. 43.<\/span><\/p>\n

[24]<\/a>\u00a0Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison,\u00a0<\/i>p. 65; Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,<\/i>\u00a0p. 78.<\/span><\/p>\n

[25]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,<\/i>\u00a0p. 171.<\/span><\/p>\n

[26]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,<\/i>\u00a0pp. 174, 73; Jefferson Morley, \u201cWilderness of Mirrors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[27]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,\u00a0<\/i>p. 262.<\/span><\/p>\n

[28]<\/a>\u00a0Jefferson Morley, \u201cCIA and Mossad: Tradeoffs in the Formation of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship,\u201d conf for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 2018 May, on\u00a0www.wrmea.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[29]<\/a>\u00a0Piper,\u00a0Final Judgment<\/a>,<\/i>\u00a06th ed., 2005, pp. 461-478.<\/span><\/p>\n

[30]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,<\/i>\u00a0p. 174.<\/span><\/p>\n

[31]<\/a>\u00a0Seymour Hersh,\u00a0The Samson Option: Israel\u2019s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy<\/i>, Random House, 1991, p. 147.<\/span><\/p>\n

[32]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,\u00a0<\/i>p. 92<\/span><\/p>\n

[33]<\/a>\u00a0Morley, \u201cCIA and Mossad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[34]<\/a>\u00a0Morley,\u00a0The Ghost,\u00a0<\/i>pp. 261-262.<\/span><\/p>\n

[35]<\/a>\u00a0Michael Holzman,\u00a0James Jesus Angleton: The CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence,\u00a0<\/i>University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, pp. 167-168.<\/span><\/p>\n

[36]<\/a>\u00a0Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison,\u00a0<\/i>pp. 146-147.<\/span><\/p>\n

[37]<\/a>\u00a0Joan Mellen,\u00a0Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty,\u00a0<\/i>Prometheus Books, 2018, on\u00a0www.worldtruth.online\/<\/a>, p. 50.<\/span><\/p>\n

[38]<\/a>\u00a0Peter Hounam,\u00a0Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty nearly caused World War III,\u00a0<\/i>Vision, 2003, pp. 266-267.<\/span><\/p>\n

[39]<\/a>\u00a0Mellen,\u00a0Blood in the Water<\/i>, pp. 37-40.<\/span><\/p>\n

[40]<\/a>\u00a0Mellen,\u00a0Blood in the Water,<\/i>\u00a0p. 49.<\/span><\/p>\n

[41]<\/a>\u00a0Tom Segev,\u00a01967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East,<\/i>\u00a0Henry Hold, 2007, pp. 329-332.<\/span><\/p>\n

[42]<\/a>\u00a0Morley, \u201cCIA and Mossad\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[43]<\/a>\u00a0Glenn Frankel, \u201cThe Secret Ceremony,\u201d\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0<\/i>December 5, 1987, on\u00a0www.washingtonpost.com<\/a>. Andy Court\u2019s article, \u201cSpy Chiefs Honour a CIA Friend,\u201d\u00a0Jerusalem Post,\u00a0<\/i>December 5, 1987, is not online.<\/span><\/p>\n

[44]<\/a>\u00a0Cockburn,\u00a0Dangerous Liaison,\u00a0<\/i>p. 44.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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