Meyer Lansky
Where each worldview places it
The "boss of bosses" of organised crime, "top man in the syndicate" and "above the Mafia", who led the "Kosher Nostra"[1]. Icke places him as a servant of Israel "and therefore the Rothschilds", working hand in hand with the CIA and Mossad[2].
- Aliases
- Israel's GodfatherMaier Suchowjansky
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Born Maier Suchowjansky in Grodno, Russia; mentored by Arnold Rothstein, whose gangsters the ADL was formed to protect[3].
- Dates
- 1960 (direct contact with JFK during the campaign)[4]
- Key events
- Undated: his money and bribes help Roosevelt to power[6]
- Undated: channels funds and guns to the Jewish terrorist underground (Begin's Irgun and the groups of Rabin, Ben-Gurion and Shamir) and the Israeli state[7]
- 1960: has "direct contact" with John F. Kennedy during the campaign, then is double-crossed[4]
- Castro years (undated): loses his Cuban rackets to Castro
- his network is involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion[4]
- 1963: "a key player in the assassination of President Kennedy"[8]
- Members / notable people
- Jack Ruby ("a leading errand boy and operative for Meyer Lansky")Mickey Cohen ("Lansky's man in Hollywood")Bernie Cornfeld (Lansky drug money-launderer)Louis Chesler (operative)Arnold Rothstein (mentor)William Stephenson (connected with Lansky, Mossad and the Rockefellers)Lyndon Johnson (took his bribes from his Texas Senate days)J. Edgar Hoover (they "sometimes broke bread together") (AT-08-3, AT-16-2, AT-16-3)
- Author's claims · 7
- 01"Lansky, Mossad, the Anti-Defamation League, and Israel were as one"[9].
- 02Ruby has been portrayed as a Mafia man "to divert attention from his real employer - Lansky"[10].
- 03Marseille heroin was "transferred to the streets of America by Lansky and Angleton's CIA"[10].
- 04The Operation Phoenix killings in Vietnam were carried out "for Meyer Lansky and the CIA"[11].
- 05Joseph Kennedy became "a bitter enemy of Meyer Lansky"[4].
- 06Banque De Credit International laundered money for "the Meyer Lansky US-based organised crime network"[12]; The Biggest Secret also lists him among crime-syndicate figures[13].
- 07Operation Underworld, the wartime US intelligence use of Lansky and the Mafia, was run from the Rockefeller Center and later became a gun-running centre for the Jewish terrorist underground in Palestine, with William Stephenson (Churchill's adviser and Bloomfield's boss), Louis Bloomfield, Lord Victor Rothschild and Samuel Bronfman[14].