The CIA & Organized Crime: Two Sides of the Same Coin - An Overview of Michael Collins Piper's "Final Judgment"
by Victor Thorn
NOTE: The information below is derived from Michael Collins Piper’s Final Judgment. My role is that of a reviewer, and all credit for the research must be given to Mr. Piper. I urge everyone to purchase a copy of this book.
Final Judgment is published by The Center for Historical Review, 132 Third Street, SE, Washington, DC, 20003
Once a researcher strips away the veneer, wades through layers of illusion, disregards years of propaganda & misinformation, and finally sees history in its true perspective, they discover that the entire world-government corporate-controlled global power-structure is actually nothing more than a vast network of interrelated crime syndicates. Yes, CRIME SYNDICATES! In this article, we will briefly examine the Kennedy family’s shadowy past and how certain alliances and betrayals with the Meyer Lansky-led Mob (in conjunction with elements of the U.S. government & CIA) ultimately resulted in JFK’s assassination. As Michael Collins Piper so brilliantly points out, all of these groups – Intelligence, government, and organized crime – are intimately connected and operate outside the law (and public scrutiny) to preserve and promote their self-interests. Regrettably, they all joined forces in 1963 to eliminate the last American president who wasn’t bought, sold, and controlled by the Globalist money interests.
To understand how JFK found himself in such a quandary on November 22, 1963, we must first look back in time at his father, Joseph Sr. As many people know, Old Man Kennedy built his fortune on illegal bootlegging, then by capitalizing on the stock market crash (i.e. inside information). But fewer people realize just how deeply Kennedy was linked with organized crime. To become so incredibly wealthy by running booze, Kennedy had to make agreements with some unseemly characters – agreements that would later come back to haunt him.
Another aspect of Joe Kennedy’s personality that his family tries to sweep under the rug was his pro-Nazi sympathies. DeWest Hooker, a New York City executive in the show business field and mentor or George Lincoln Rockwell (founder of the American Nazi Party) said of Kennedy, “Joe admitted that when he was ambassador to England he had been pro-Hitler. However, in Kennedy’s words, ‘we’ lost the war. By ‘we’ he didn’t mean the United States. When Kennedy said ‘we,’ he meant the non-Jews. Joe Kennedy believed that it was the Jews who had won World War II.” He continues, quoting Kennedy. “I’ve done everything I can to fight the Jewish power over this country. I tried to stop World War II, but I failed. I’ve made all the money I need and now I’m passing everything I’ve learned on to my sons.”
But before Joe Kennedy got his foot in the political door via his ambassadorship, he was a highly successful criminal that made many powerful enemies. One of them was Meyer Lansky, whose associate, Michael Milan, relates the following story in Final Judgment. “Ask Meyer Lansky about Joe Kennedy and you’d see one of the few times that Mr. L. would actually get conniptions. What they said back during Prohibition was that you can’t trust Kennedy to keep his word. He stole from his friends so much that he had no friends. And right before World War II, the sonofabitch turned around and said that we should all get on Hitler’s side; that the Jews could go to hell.”
This enmity between Kennedy and Lansky went all the way back to the 1920’s and their bootlegging days. Michael Collins Piper tells us how Lucky Luciano and Lansky swiped an entire shipment of Kennedy’s shine and killed off all of his guards, thus causing him to lose a boatload of money. Thus, due to Kennedy’s dishonesty and Lansky’s fierce loyalty to his Jewish heritage, Milan said that Lansky cursed the entire Kennedy family with revenge; then passed it down to his sons. Things got so bad that Joe Kennedy’s life was actually on the line due to a Mob-ordered hit. Luckily for Kennedy, Sam Giancana intervened and cut a deal for Old Man Kennedy to make things right with the Mob again. To return his favor, Kennedy told Giancana that once one of his sons made it into the White House, he’d have an ‘in’. To carry through on this promise, though, Old Man Kennedy would once again need Sam Giancana’s help.
If this information is hard for you to accept, remember that one of the most famous women that JFK had an affair with (other than Marilyn Monroe) was Miss Judith Exner. And who was she? Sam Giancana’s mistress! Also, according to David Heyman in A Woman Named Jackie, FBI papers and wiretaps prove that JFK had direct, person-to-person communications with Meyer Lansky during his 1960 presidential campaign. Plus, Sam Giancana himself is quoted as saying, “I help get Jack elected, and in return, he calls off the heat. It’ll be business as usual.”
As we all know by now, Sam Giancana was the key to JFK beating Richard Nixon in 1960 by giving him Chicago (“vote early, and vote often”). Problems arose, though, when, instead of turning their back on what the Mobsters were doing, JFK and his brother Bobby double-crossed them and brought out the heat full-strength.
Now, here’s where things get sticky and we need to use some psychology. By all appearances, the Kennedy brothers going after the Mob was one of the stupidest moves of all-time. First, Old Man Kennedy was a bootlegger with intimate ties to organized crime. He knew how the Mob thought and operated. Plus, he wanted a Kennedy presidential dynasty starting with Jack, followed by Bobby and Teddy. And, with the likes of Sam Giancana behind them, they could rig other elections in the future.
So, with all this in mind, why would Jack and Bobby start trying to throw them all in prison? It seems ludicrous. But y’see, John Kennedy was no dummy – not by a long-shot. He knew that the longer his Presidency extended, the more demands the Mob would make of him. And, being that the Kennedy’s had plenty of skeletons in their closet – Jack’s philandering, plus Joe’s Nazi sympathies and organized crime ties – JFK knew that he would eventually be bribed and held hostage by the gangsters. If he didn’t bow to their wishes, they’d start ‘leaking’ this information to the press. And, considering how many people hated Kennedy, if the Mob felt like they weren’t getting their fair share of the pie (i.e. government graft) they’d simply dangle Kennedy like a marionette on a string with continued threats of exposure. The entire scenario would have been a disaster for JFK, so Bobby and he decided to get rid of them.
Of course the Mob couldn’t overlook Bobby’s efforts as the Attorney General, especially since Joe and Giancana had made a pact. Now the Kennedy brothers were reneging, and such a stance could not be tolerated. Or, as Sam Giancana described the situation: “It’s a brilliant move on Joe Kennedy’s part. He’ll have Bobby wipe us out to cover their own dirty tracks and it’ll all be done in the Kennedy ‘war on organized crime.’ Brilliant.”
Now, all of this subterfuge was bad enough for Kennedy, but when one adds the Mob’s long affiliation with the CIA (who also despised Kennedy), you can see how the flames are getting higher. And although I can’t begin to elaborate on the varied ties between these two entities, Michael Collins Piper relates how the United States government began cavorting with Lucky Luciano and the Mafia during WWII, then progressed to Fidel Castro’s assassination attempts (“Operation Mongoose” and the ZR/Rifle Team), plus transporting and dealing drugs out of the Golden Triangle while the Vietnam War was being waged.
Sam Giancana described the CIA-Mob ties in very succinct terms. “That’s what we are, the Outfit and the CIA – two sides of the same coin.”
Now, some people may wonder why other prominent political figures didn’t expose this horrendous situation. They quite possibly could have except for the fact that they were in as deeply as the Kennedy family was. In Mafia Kingfish published by McGraw-Hill, John Davis relates how Carlos Marcello filtered over $50,000/year in payoffs to Lyndon Baines Johnson, while both James Jesus Angleton and Meyer Lansky had incriminating photographic evidence of J. Edgar Hoover (relating to his homosexuality). Thus, he too was bribed into silence. To make matters even more precarious, Michael Collins Piper points out the ADL’s links to organized crime and to the highly secretive COINTELPRO, where they gathered intelligence reports on high-ranking officials. These Jewish mobsters that operated through the ADL were also the same ones who legitimized and controlled the liquor industry which was run by the Bronfman family.
Now that I’ve mentioned a Jewish link to organized crime, I might as well delve into one of Michael Collins Piper’s biggest contentions in Final Judgment – that Meyer Lansky was the “capo di tuti capi” – the undeniable leader of the vast underworld of organized crime – and that the Jews were the ones who actually called the shots while using the Italians as a front to take the heat and divert attention away from them. In this sense, the Jews were the real brains behind the Mob, while all the other names – Giancana, Traficante, Marcello, etc – were subordinates of Meyer Lansky.
Hank Messick, in Lansky, published by Berkley Medallion Books in 1971, wrote, “The real leaders of crime have remained hidden while the nation’s law enforcement agencies have chased minor punks.” He adds, “Now – Mafia leaders of crime have been hiding behind the vendetta-ridden society [the Italian Mafia] for decades.”
This perception has been reinforced in the public consciousness for years by Hollywood movies and TV shows. It is well-known that the Jews founded Hollywood and still have a huge influence today, perpetrating the Italian mobster stereotype to this day with programs like the Godfather and the Sopranos. For those who don’t believe that Hollywood was founded by those of Jewish descent, look at the names of its founders:
Universal Studios – Carl Laemmle – Jewish
20th Century Fox – William Fox – Jewish
Warner Brothers – HM Warner – Jewish
Paramount Pictures – Adolph Zukor – Jewish
MGM – Samuel Goldwyn – Jewish
MGM – Louis B. Mayer – Jewish
Neil Gabler says in An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood published by Crown in 1988, “The Hollywood Jews created a powerful cluster of images and ideas … so powerful that, in a sense, they colonized the American imagination. Ultimately, American values came to be defined by the movies the Jews made.” Thus, similar to the tactics used by the Controllers where certain groups or individuals are in the forefront, here too, the Italians became the fall guy while Lansky and his cohorts hid behind the scenes.
As Michael Collins Piper shows, Meyer Lansky came to prominence via his drug running operations, which subsequently brought him into contact with the OSS and Naval Intelligence through an endeavor called “Operation Underworld.” The headquarters for this operation were located at Rockefeller Center in New York City and were run by William Stephenson, who Ian Fleming patterned his James Bond character after.
Now, what follows is merely a thumbnail sketch of the interrelatedness between certain Jewish forces, the underworld, and secretive intelligence programs, and I certainly don’t do it the justice that Michael Collins Piper does. Anyway, here goes. William Stephenson came to run anti-Nazi operations with the ADL and FBI, and later helped found the Mossad. (The ADL eventually became an intelligence-gathering and propaganda arm for the State of Israel.) Anyway, Stephenson’s top man was Louis Bloomfield, who was a lawyer for the Bronfman’s (illegal bootlegging and liquor magnates).
Here is where things get wild! Stephenson and Bloomfield were also gun runners for the Jewish underground (in today’s vernacular they would be called terrorists), and they were the same people who BECAME the government of Israel! So, once again this reiterates my point that the governments of the world are nothing more than a vast organized crime syndicate. They’re all criminals!
Anyway, it was Louis Bloomfield who coordinated the gun-running enterprises at the Jewish Sonneborn Institute. And who helped him? The Bronfman’s and Meyer Lansky! Lansky fits specifically into the picture because he set-up the banks that were used to launder money for the Mossad.
As a side-note, if you don’t think that these types of illegal government operations exist today, check out Mike Ruppert’s The Truth and Lies of 9-11. Our government and many others still engage in money laundering, gun running, and drug trafficking on a large-scale. Plus, if you look into the backgrounds of these people who run the world – the Bronfman’s, Kennedy’s, Rockefellers, Bush’s, those who founded Skull & Bones, and many others – you’ll discover that they are ALL criminals. And I don’t mean the laughable Richard Nixon-type criminal, but hard-core real-life illegal-type activities.
Anyway, Meyer Lansky became so powerful that Anthony Summers relates in Conspiracy (McGraw-Hill) how, to protect his gambling, prostitution, and drug interests, he convinced the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to temporarily resign in the 1940s.
Apart from his criminal enterprises (and considering his Jewish heritage), Lansky’s other undying allegiance was to the state of Israel, to which he made enormous contributions. When he saw how incensed David Ben-Gurion was becoming because of JFK’s refusal to assist (or even permit) Israel’s nuclear aspirations, his long-standing grudge against the Kennedy family became deadly. And, considering how Old Man Kennedy was a crook, the Controllers felt a huge sense of betrayal when they went to such lengths to get John Kennedy into office, then he turned and tried to destroy their two strongest enforcement and implementation arms – the CIA and the Mob. Someone like Sam Giancana could never forgive Kennedy for pulling a switch on them, especially when Old Man Kennedy sold his soul to spare his life. By reneging on a long-standing deal, then retaliating with destructive force, JFK literally signed his own death warrant. The Controllers were so irate after being double-crossed that they HAD to kill him. And, since Michael Collins Piper asserts that Meyer Lansky was at the head of the organized crime power structure, he, along with the Mossad and James Jesus Angleton of the CIA, were the driving “operational” forces behind Kennedy’s assassination.
In the end, Sam Giancana best sums up the hit with these chilling words. “The politicians and the CIA made it real simple. We’d each provide men for the hit. I’d oversee the Outfit [Mafia] side of things and throw in Jack Ruby and some extra backup and the CIA would put their own guys on to take care of the rest.”
If you ask me, Michael Collins Piper has fit the pieces of this intriguing jigsaw puzzle together better than anyone!
Next Week: Vietnam, the CIA’s Illegal Drug Trafficking Activities, and JFK’s Assassination
