Reply #63: Hmmm, this looks interesting...

[AntiFascist]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/26/RVGQOHAP0U1.DTL&type=printable

The Waldron-Hartmann book also adds an explanation to the persistent and logical question raised by critics of the House Assassinations Committee conclusion that the mob was behind the killing of Kennedy. Why wouldn't the powerful attorney general, and the grieving government authorities at the time, have aggressively pursued all leads based on the government's prior dealing with the Mafia? ... knowledge of it would have had serious foreign policy implications. Those few officials who knew of the critical facts had every reason to hide them. It was a classic Greek tragedy.

If the dots are connected all the way to Nixon, it sheds new light as to why it was so important to plug those (CIA) leaks in Watergate.