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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 key point is that neither the FBI nor the Warren Commission sufficiently pursued what should otherwise have been avenues to pursue. The WCR itself states:
"because of the difficulty of proving negatives to a certainty, the possibility of others being involved with either Oswald or Ruby cannot be established categorically, but if there is any such evidence it has been beyond the reach of all the investigative agencies and resources of the United States and has not come to the attention of this commission."
The report itself, therefore, seems to leave open the possibility that evidence could have been out of reach of investigators if it was deemed too sensitive for purposes of "national security".
The HSCA was later created out of a need to pursue the avenues found lacking in the WCR, but again, as I pointed out, funding was cut and, in this re-opening of the investigation, there has been evidence of CIA tampering and stonewalling of evidence.
The Pet Theory is simply a matter of settling on the most likely explanation of why the Warren Commission would not pursue certain avenues, and what precisely is the CIA hiding. The Pet Theory starts with the theory outlined in a book which I believe reflects RFK's beliefs at the time prior to his own assassination. It is further refined by William Turner and David Talbot who explain the context of why this information was so sensitive in the first place, and why RFK himself was not forthcoming to the American public at the time. I believe the theory will be taken even further once we understand better the role played by CIA counter-intelligence head James Jesus Angleton utlizing the mafia contacts he had maintained ever since the secret WWII operations in Italy, and the pro-fascist/anti-communist elements he fostered while attempting to eradicate every communist mole he was deluded into believing operated within the US government, most likely including the Kennedy brothers. More truth will also come out with a better understanding of the covertly funded militia groups that were being trained to invade Cuba, and the pro-fascist factions of these groups being lead by the likes of General Edwin Walker.
There is the possibility (ever decreasing in my view) that Oswald operated independently of any of these groups, but the emerging evidence that he was connected to them in various ways deserves much more attention.