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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 you have shed light on an intermediary role played by the Warren Commission. Indeed it was a highly explosive situation where neither a Castro/Soviet-led conspiracy nor a right-wing led conspiracy was allowed to be exploited.
You also need to understand the right wing perspective. The counter-intelligence funded DRE was preparing to fully exploit Oswald's alleged connections to Castro and publish all the manufactured details about Castro orchestrating the assassination. If it hadn't been for RFK continuing to utilize the Soviet back channels, as explained by Talbot, who knows where this could have lead?
The Pentagon had a small window of opportunity to win in a direct conflict against the Soviets. The U-2 spy plane flights had revealed that the Soviets were stalled in their attempts to roll out ICBMs. A few million American lives may have been jeopardized by those missiles that would hit their targets, but to the Pentagon hardliners this was the price to be paid for American freedom.
The Kennedy brothers did not see it this way and Khrushchev recognized this as madness as well. This is why the Kennedys chose to work behind the backs of the intelligence apparatus, putting their own lives at risk.