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In the summer of 1997, there arose a major controversy, noted in newspapers across the country, surrounding the fact that Michael Collins Piper had been invited to speak at a small com-munity college in Orange County, California on the topic of his book, Final Judgment, which documented the role of Israel’s intel-ligence service, the Mossad, in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The primary force in the effort to prevent Piper from speaking was the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.

What follows is a commentary prepared by Piper in response to the controversy which was subsequently published in The Orange County Register.

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peakers on the JFK assassination have been popular on American campuses for 30 years. Yet the thesis of my book—Final Judgment—is one that some don’t want stu-dents to hear: that Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, played a role with the CIA and the Lansky Crime Syndicate in the murder of President Kennedy.

My book is not yet “banned in Boston,” but it is banned in Orange County, so it seems. The very week (Sept. 20-27, 1997) the American Library Association and the National Association of College Stores sponsored “Banned Books Week,” controversy raged in Orange County because some were upset that Steve Frogue, president of the South Orange County Community College District (SOCCD) trustees, had invited me to discuss Final Judgment at an SOCCD seminar on the JFK assassination.

Although heavy-handed lobbying forced cancellation of the

seminar, there’s now a well-funded drive to remove Frogue from office for believing in our Constitution’s guarantee that Americans have the right to express differing points of view.

Israeli diplomat Uri Palti says Final Judgment is “nonsense.”

Yet, contradictorily, critics still declare my discoveries “danger-ous,” and say that my findings shouldn’t be heard by “impression-able” kids who might take a “crackpot” seriously.

Although Orange County students are evidently not viewed as sufficiently mature to judge my theory for themselves, they are considered ripe enough to join the military and die in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, or other choice places around the globe.

Here’s what’s revealing: my critics (such as Roy Bauer of Irvine Valley College) absolutely refuse to debate. They won’t grab the opportunity to show—point-by-point—where I’m wrong. No wonder—in light of the hysterical reaction to Final Judgment—

that some think maybe the book has indeed “pinned the tail on the donkey,” that my critics “protesteth too much.”

Many in Orange County have heard about La Affaire Frogue, but few actually know anything about Final Judgment—what it says or what it does not.

Final Judgment is 769 pages in length, clearly documented with more than 1,000 footnotes. Content analysis will confirm that 85% of the 111 bibliographic sources are from “mainstream”

publishers and constitute the primary basis for substantive mate-rial cited. Three minor errors—none relevant to the thesis—have been found.

Unfortunately, because of what critics allege, many people believe I “deny the Holocaust” (which is not true). Therefore, the specious argument goes; anything I say about the JFK assassina-tion necessarily has to be—according to SOCCD trustee Marcia Milchiker—“nonsense” and “lies,” even though the Holocaust and the JFK assassination are two entirely unrelated subjects.

This (clever) tactic shifts attention away from what I really do say. However, for the record, my book does not discuss the

Holocaust. Here is what Final Judgment contends:

In 1963, JFK was embroiled in a bitter (then secret) conflict with Israeli leader David Ben-Gurion over Israel’s drive to build the atomic bomb; that Ben-Gurion resigned in disgust, having told JFK that because of JFK’s policies, Israel’s “existence [was] in danger.” Then upon JFK’s assassination, U.S. policy toward Israel began an immediate 180-degree turnaround.

This is all documented by Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh in The Samson Option, by James Cockburn in Dangerous Liaison, and by Stephen Green in Taking Sides—each a respected historian.

Where, then, is the “Israeli connection” to the assassination?

The fact is that when New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuted Clay Shaw with conspiracy in the JFK assassination, Garrison (unknowingly) stumbled upon the Mossad link.

Although (after his acquittal) Shaw was exposed as a CIA asset, Shaw was involved in 1963 in covert activities with high-level Mossad officer Tibor Rosenbaum, whose Swiss bank laun-dered mob money for Meyer Lansky, “chairman” of the crime syn-dicate.

Some say “the Mafia killed JFK.” In fact, the Mafia bosses accused of “whacking” JFK—Carlos Marcello and Santo Trafficante—were not only Lansky subordinates, but also CIA col-laborators in plots against Fidel Castro.

And while many accuse the CIA’s James Angleton of a role in the assassination cover-up, none mention that Angleton, the CIA’s Mossad liaison, was a devoted partisan of Israel.

Why didn’t Oliver Stone mention these details in his film, JFK? Perhaps because JFK was financed by the Mossad’s Arnon Milchan; Israel’s biggest arms dealer.

All this is the tip of the iceberg. In light of the hysteria over Final Judgment, recall JFK’s words: “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

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Publisher’s Note: Ultimately, although the JFK seminar in question was canceled, Piper journeyed to Orange County and visited Saddleback College where the freedom-oriented students on the school newspaper invited Piper to speak at a private seminar in their private classroom—openly defying the “thought police” at the Anti-Defamation League. So Piper—and the students—had the last laugh.

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