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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)but the fact that the CIA was stonewalling the HSCA investigation probably threw him for a loop. Once he learned that George Joannides was in charge of the counter-intelligence operation running the DRE, then things probably began to click: Joannides was assigned as liason to the HSCA in order to filter out any knowledge of the CIA's monitoring of Oswald prior to the assassination.
A similar situation existed with John Whitten, who was assigned to investigate the assassination for the CIA. When he discovered that the CIA was hiding information it had on Oswald, Whitten was then replaced by Richard Helms with James Jesus Angleton, the head of counter-intelligence operations. Whitten was the one who discovered the role of George Joannides. Whitten later testified before the HSCA, criticising Richard Helms for not disclosing to the Warren Commission anti-Castro plans for assassinating Castro, specifically involving Rolando Cubela who had connections to Santo Trafficante. Whitten also accused James Jesus Angelton of having connections to organized crime.
Whitten also testified before the HSCA that he believed Oswald might have been involved with the Executive Action plan, the CIA's top secret plan involving the training of mafia assassins to assassinate foreign leaders.
These connections have not really come to light for the general public until the last decade. This is what I refer to as the evolution of thought. Not grasping at straws, but putting together what the experts have discovered in a way that makes sense.