In his new book "The Unspoken Kennedy Truth," the French author Laurent Guyénot referenced numerous other resources in compiling his argument for implicating the highest levels of Israeli leadership (circa 1960-63) -- up to and specifically including David Ben-Gurion -- as being the key suspects behind the assassination of JFK.
For someone whose English is a second language, his narrative comes across with more clarity and coherence than many American authors who've written books on this subject. He has explored many lesser known works on this subject and found more puzzle pieces than were previously known to exist. For example, we have now been informed that, on Air Force One as it returned to Dallas after the murder, Jacqueline Kennedy told her aide Pamela Turnure (JFK's sometimes lover) that "Lyndon Johnson did It." That came from the now-obscure 1950s Hollywood star Eddie Fisher's 1999 autobiography, who got it directly from Turnure sometime later, when they met and became lovers as well. There are many other examples of how he traces other links to "persons of interest", like Louie Steven Witt (the "Umbrella Man") to connect numerous tracks back to Israeli leaders' motives -- in this case through JFK's father Joseph's ties to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement to Adolph Hitler, in the context of "an apple doesn't fall far from the tree." The point of these few vignettes among the many is that Guyénot's short book covers much territory, some of it never so thoroughly explored before.
His POV is (IMHO) that David Ben-Gurion became the "driving force" (my words) behind the assassination of JFK due to his 1963 feud with JFK over allowing US inspectors to verify that the nuclear plant at Dimona was for purely defensive or energy-production purposes. Of course that was never the case, it was a secret but high priority item begun in 1960, and that it became essential for their own "national security" to get a head start on making their own nuclear bombs and missiles. As expected, as soon as LBJ got elected he removed any and all hurdles and other impediments to "give them anything they wanted." (A point I documented in two later books, as noted next).
He has made a very compelling and persuasive argument for his position and I recognize the truths he has revealed. In fact, though not mentioned in my first ("Mastermind") book, I did so in my second ("Colossus") and third ("Remember the Liberty!") books. I delved into the association of LBJ with many Zionists throughout his life and how he had surrounded himself in the Oval Office with the most zealous of the American Zionists. It was with these men he colluded to conduct other covert operations, including the attack on the USS Liberty in which he intended to sink the ship and take the entire crew to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
I agree that the Israeli leadership had sufficient motive and means, but I'm not so sure about opportunity. At the very least, they probably contributed financially and, ultimately, probably had more to do with producing the murderer of the assassin, Jacob Rubinstein (a.k.a. Jack Ruby), as he covers in great detail. Bottom line: Jack Ruby had much greater ties to Judaism than the Mob, according to his thesis.
The major problem with his thesis is that the problems with Dimona didn't arise and become the hot topic between JFK and Ben-Gurion until 1963. LBJ's plot to take the White House by the "back door" 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 the only the first box he had to check-off, five years before the assassination.
In my opinion, it's 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 "Big Event" became a mutually-agreed high priority, with plenty of time to set all the knights, bishops, kings, queens, and pawns, in their place.
The question of who was the primary driver, between LBJ and David Ben-Gurion, and the numerical order of all other primary sponsors, along with the many other entities involved to facilitate the execution of the plan, will unlikely ever be fully answered to everyone's satisfaction. But it must be acknowledged that Laurent Guyénot has, in a short 140-page book, added much probative context into the picture being completed by independent researchers of the real JFK assassination story.
The book’s importance goes beyond the scope of the assassination itself — even the still-present, long-term effects on the direction of the U.S. / Israel alliance which George Washington warned about: a “passionate attachment” that would cause an “illusion of a common interest . . . where no common interest exists.”
Moreover, it was also about how Israel remains, six decades later, outside of the international apparatus for controlling and monitoring nuclear power plants. That part of the dilemma can be traced directly back to other acts by Lyndon Johnson, aiding and abetting Israel to secretly proceed to develop nuclear bombs and missiles, unmonitored and uncontrolled by any other controlling entity.
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Andy Dyer
Stunning - the only book you can find that makes sense of JFK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2024
