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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)RFK felt responsible for his brother's death, and RFK came to the conclusion quite quickly that it was an anti-Castro operative who shot his brother. RFK had been placed in charge of the secret anti-Castro operations at the executive level by his brother, and he knew full well that nothing of these plans could be revealed in the course of public hearings, otherwise the CIA might then become compromised. The very fact that there had been plans for assassinating Castro, that the CIA had been recruiting mafia hitmen, and that there had been covert militia groups in training was highly sensitive at the time.
RFK simply knew way too much, but the public demanded a deep investigation into the cause of the assassination. The Warren Commission, working with the guidance of Allen Dulles, gave them what they wanted, without revealing anything about the secret operations. Note that ALL of the witness testimony was published in the WCR, and was not considered secret.