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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)the HSCA was not aware that Joannides, the CIA counter-intelligence gatekeeper placed in charge of working with the HSCA, was also a person of interest and had contact with anti-Castro Cubans involved with the DRE. The HSCA was also digging into CIA connections to the mafia, but were deprived of seeing relevent records. One of the main questions might have been: was something larger in the works? If the mafia was going to assassinate JFK anyway, could this be orchestrated as a false-flag operation by Castro's Cuba, thus rallying Americans for a full invasion of Cuba, and possibly full-blown war against the Soviet Union. I know, more "crazy talk", but counter-intelligence has been responsible for some crazy plans, such as Operations GLADIO and NORTHWOODS. Perhaps RFK played a greater role in halting all of this than anyone realizes, after the assassination occured of course.