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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
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The theory is basically that Oswald was framed as a lone gunman with no other conspirators backing him, and with no connections to any right-wing entities or mafia-related operations. Oswald was obviously THE central figure of the investigations, and a birds-eye view of the investigations demonstrates a lack of will when it came to investigating key right-wing and/or mafia connections.
As I read more and more, it begins to become obvious that much of the evidence for this framing of Oswald comes from Robert F. Kennedy himself, starting with his own investigations immediately after the assassination. RFK had been placed in charge of the secret anti-Castro programs by JFK, and had intimate knowledge of the operations. After the assassination he seemed to know immediately that Oswald was, in fact, involved with the anti-Castro underground affiliated with mafia hitmen. According to David Talbot and Haynes Johnson, RFK told Cuban anti-Castro exile leader Harry Ruiz Williams that "One of your guys did it."
When Ruby killed Oswald, RFK discovered links between Ruby and associates of James Hoffa, then discretely had Senator Moynihan investigate Hoffa. According to William Turner, he then passed on the results of these investigations to foreign intelligence to pursue further leads against elements of his own government, while publically he would not say anything that might compromise the very operations JFK had placed him in charge of.
Also according to Talbot:
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Unredacted_-_Episode_6_-_Transcript
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DAVID: There's good reason to believe that Lisa Howard would have been under surveillance as well because she was in fact being debriefed by the CIA whenever she came back from Havana on these trips.
In any case, Attwood was convinced of this, that the CIA got wind of these secret negotiations <backchannel with Castro>, and he went on to say, even more explosively, that once it did start to leak into some of the more volatile areas of the National Security circles that were very upset with the Kennedys for not being more aggressive against Cuba that this set off a chain reaction that led to Kennedy's assassination.
Here I have outlined areas where the Warren Commission, the FBI investigation, and the CIA investigation were simply not willing to go. Oswald was a person of interest to senior CIA officials prior to the assassination, but this was kept hidden. The CIA was working with many of the same mafia leaders being investigated, on plans involving assassination, but this was kept from public knowledge. The CIA had secret plans to assassinate foreign leaders, but this was kept hidden. The only way J. Edgar Hoover could prevent these secret anti-Communist operations from being exposed in the course of the assassination investigation was to frame Oswald as a lone wolf who was motivated only by his Marxist beliefs. Allen Dulles, sitting on the Warren Commission, ensured the same direction. Dulles had been directly involved in the CIA's original operations against Cuba, and the recruitment of members of the mafia to work for the CIA. He was fired by JFK around the time when JFK made the famous comment about wanting to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds".