Btw there are a ton of new Angleton documents in the recently released JFK files.
Among them were the unredacted testimony he gave to a Senate Committee in the mid 1970s in which he basically admitted he defied JFK and helped Israel get the atomic bomb.
While some of us “conspiracy theorists” had been claiming this for years after Seymour Hersch wrote his book on the Israeli nuclear program it is now a “conspiracy fact”.
If you want to go deeper down that rabbit hole you have to go back to World War II when Angleton was working for military intelligence in Italy and created a quid pro quo with Jews fleeing Europe. He helped them escape but in return got to use them as future intelligence assets.
As a result Angleton and future Mossad leadership had a close personal relationship which predated both the 1947 founding of the CIA and the creation of the state of Israel.
Angleton has a statue in his honor in Israel:
Bottom line: If the JFK assassination seems like a ridiculously complex “hall of mirrors” with a whole bunch of totally legitimate suspects that is at least partially due to the machinations of Angleton. It has his “touch”.
I see. Thanks for the Angleton history, which I didn’t know.
There were also tendrils of WWII history between the Mafia, the Kennedy family, and Joe Kennedy’s no-holds-barred efforts to push JFK over the finish line in 1960.
Didn’t the Israelis launch their nuclear bomb program with U-235 enriched fuel stolen from the US or Canada? I can’t remember. Was it destined for the Shippingport Atomic Power Station?