Blackmailing Rockefeller // The Scandal that Helped Israel Become a State
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Dovie is short for Dov Shiloah. His father was Reuven Shiloah.” Then the light bulb went on. Dov’s father not only founded the Mossad, but he was also a key player in obtaining the extra votes in the United Nations that led to the creation of the State of Israel. He did all that and a lot more.
Jim explained that Dov wanted to talk to me about his father, who had died at the age of 49, when he was only 18 years old. When the video call started, Dov said to me, “I think you may know more about my dad than I do.” How do you deny an 80-year-old man the truth about his father? We began to talk.
Back in 2008, I had written a historical novel about Reuven Shiloah with my Canadian friend and co-author Brendan Howley. Our book, The Witness Tree, was fiction based on fact, but putting it out as a novel made it considerably easier for me to circumnavigate the censors at CIA.
Despite five-star reviews, the only copies ever published were by Random House Canada and are difficult to find in print. Apparently, The Witness Tree is simply too sensitive ever to be published in America, even as fiction. It exposes the families of two CIA directors as money launderers for the Nazis. Worse, The Witness Tree tells the truth about how Reuven Shiloah used his knowledge of those secret Nazi connections to blackmail Nelson Rockefeller into creating the State of Israel.
Dov Shiloah asked how he could corroborate this. There are no Israeli government files about his father’s role in the UN partition.