On the October 11 broadcast of his nightly call-in talk forum on the Republic Broadcasting Network, Michael Collins Piper picked up on previous broadcast discussions relating to the subject of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Piper's thesis, outlined in his book FINAL JUDGMENT, that Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, was a major player in that crime, precisely because President Kennedy was determined to stop Israel from acquiring nuclear weapons of mass destructiion, a fact that was not known by most JFK assassination researchers over the years and one that many of them, to this day, remain hesitant to discuss for fear of being accused of anti-Semitism. For his own part, Piper described three strange incidents (two of them directly interconnected) which led him to believe that behind-the-scenes forces were interested in either stopping distribution of his book or somehow directing or re-directing its message in some way. In one instance, a well-known author with high-level connections in the military and intelligence communities as well as in big business (including a major sponsor with CIA connections) had offered to join Piper as a "co-author" on a future edition of FINAL JUDGMENT (this after the book had already been published). This was a strange offer, considering the fact that Piper knew for a long time that the author had almost certainly been acting (probably unwittingly) as a Mossad asset in a number of international intelligence operations. (And what made this most interesting to Piper was that this well-known author was privately BOTH anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish, Piper emphasizing the difference between the two and noting that this other author was definitively both!) Piper didn't "bite" on the offer, thinking that this was probably an effort by the other author's handlers in the "intel" community to "grab" control of Piper's book literally through the front door. In another suspicious instance, Piper noted that within an eight-to-ten month time period he was contacted by two different individuals (both with acknowledged connections to Sweden) who expressed interest in promoting Piper's book. The one individual was a film-maker; the other was an American who worked for a major corporation. Oddly, Piper noted, both told Piper the same story of how each had been in the Middle East doing a documentary film (one being the photographer, the other being, more or less, the producer) and in both stories, which were practically on point, detail by detail, they described how they were confronted on the Israeli border by Israeli military forces and barely managed to escape. Both emphasized to Piper that they were "anti-israel" and shared Piper's sympathies. However, Piper was astounded to realize, when hearing the second version the second time that the two individuals—who never acknowledged to Piper that they were connected to one another—were obviously connected. Piper says that he doubts that it was a coincidence that "somebody" (perhaps sympathetic to Piper's work, perhaps not) was "arranging" for Piper to be contacted by these two individuals. Whether the individuals told Piper the same story to see if Piper would pick up on the connection between the two and ask about it, or whether they just happened, genuinely by accident, to tell the same story is anyone's guess. Piper says he doesn't know and says he will probably never know. But he used that story to illustrate how strange things swirl around controversial books and issues. Piper went on to describe how a former French intelligence officer—introduced to him by former Congressman Paul Findley, a forthright critic of Zionism and the Israeli lobby—in turn introduced Piper to a wealth of information regarding the so-called French Connection to the JFK assassination. As a consequence of that information, which came to Piper following the writing of the first draft of his book, Piper was forced to "re-think" his findings and do additional new research in several areas that were unfamiliar to him (specifically the intrigues of Israel's Mossad inside French intelligence and, in particular, Mossad manipulation of French military and intelligence connections to the Corsican criminal underworld, as well as how all of this impacted on the controversy in France over President DeGaulle's decisions to stop support for Israel's nuclear weapons program and to give independence to the French colony in Arab Algeria. These decisions caused a rebellion inside France against DeGaulle, with the support of Israel and its adherents, and came at the same time the Israelis were angry at President Kennedy for working (like DeGaulle) to prevent Israel from building the nuclear bomb. Having come across all of this new material, which even further underscored his initial thesis in the original draft of FINAL JUDGMENT, Piper re-wrote the book substantially and found that, as he put it: "The French Connection is really the Israeli connection." Ironically, Piper noted, the very same shadowy entity known as Permindex that was linked to an assassination attempt on President DeGaulle was also linked to the JFK assassination through Clay Shaw, the New Orleans businessman, who served on the Permindex board and who was later prosecuted, unsuccessfully, by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison for involvement in the JFK assassination. In fact, the Permindex chief executive officer was Louis Bloomfield, a Canadian attorney and business leader who was not only a henchman of Samuel Bronfman, the organized crime-connected liquor tycoon (who was also president of the World jewish Congress) but Bloomfield was also part of a select group of millionaires who put up a substantial amount of money to fund Israel's covert nuclear weapons program according to Israeli author Michael Karpin in his new, candid book THE BOMB IN THE BASEMENT. So, as Piper commented, all of the French Connection comes full circle in the JFK affair, noting that the more popular usage of the term French Connection refers to a certain aspect of the international drug trade which, although it is not generally noted, also deeply involves Israel's intelligence service. Piper noted that Mossad operations often "hide in plain sight" and use popular terminology—almost "in your face"—to make fools of their targets. So, Piper said: "Beware the French Connection. It's Really the Israeli Connection."