RFK Jr. Seeks to Demonstrate CIA's Role in His Uncle's Death – Axios
Robert Kennedy Jr. is said to be seeking a CIA appointment to uncover new evidence related to his uncle's assassination. Read Full Article at RT.com.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing for his daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, to become the CIA's deputy director in order to uncover the truth behind his uncle's assassination, as claimed by the Washington outlet Axios.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, with the official investigation naming Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman. Oswald was subsequently killed by Jack Ruby. RFK Jr. has consistently been suspicious of the CIA's involvement in the assassination.
“RFK believes that and wants to get to the bottom of it,” an unnamed Republican source informed Axios on Wednesday, suggesting that this belief may drive the proposal for Fox Kennedy’s nomination.
Fox Kennedy previously managed her father-in-law's independent presidential campaign after the Democratic primaries were effectively closed. RFK Jr. later endorsed Republican Donald Trump, who triumphed in the November election. The former Democrat was nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the upcoming administration, while John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence, has been chosen to head the CIA.
Axios reports that RFK Jr. has been communicating that Fox Kennedy could aid in uncovering the truth about JFK's assassination. She has notable experience at the CIA, having spent nearly a decade as an undercover agent.
In the wake of RFK Jr.'s endorsement in August, Trump vowed to declassify the remaining documents related to the JFK assassination through a new presidential commission.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson in August 2023, RFK Jr. asserted that the CIA possessed the means, motive, and opportunity to assassinate his uncle, implying that the agency may have also been involved in the 1968 assassination of his father.
RFK Jr. contends that the commission examining the Dallas assassination and attributing it to Oswald was not genuinely directed by Justice Earl Warren, but rather by Allen Dulles, who was the long-serving CIA director dismissed by JFK in November 1961.
He argues that the CIA and Dulles held a personal grudge against JFK due to his actions that curtailed their initiatives in Cuba following the 1962 missile crisis with the Soviet Union, and for threatening to dismantle the agency’s planning division.
Sophie Wagner contributed to this report for TROIB News