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that more than one gun had been fired in the kitchen of the Ambassador
Hotel. Yet, perhaps precisely because of the continuing doubts over the first
Kennedy assassination, public awareness of the serious questions arising
from the second Kennedy assassination did not reach the same level.
What's more, the turmoil of the year 1968 was such that there were
many other things capturing the public's attention: the Vietnam War, racial
violence and rioting, and the heated three-way presidential campaign between
Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George C. Wallace.
Although many believed that the murder of Bobby Kennedy was directly
linked to the murder of his brother five years earlier, no one seemed able to
fit the pieces of the puzzle together.
ENTER SAVAK
In fact, as former CIA contract agent, Robert Morrow, has demonstrated
in his little-noticed (but very important) book, The Senator Must Die, there
are connections between the two events—deeper than one might have
imagined.
Simply put, Morrow's thesis is this: that the murder of Robert F. Kennedy
was a CIA contract hit, carried out through the CIA's long-standing ally in
international intrigue, the SAVAK, the secret police of the Shah of Iran—an
intelligence agency created, in part, by Israel's Mossad itself and tied closely
to the Mossad.
(And as we noted in Chapter 15, information uncovered by Morrow ties
the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate and its Swiss-based Israeli
connection to the conspiracy that snuffed out the life of John F. Kennedy.)
According to Morrow's own extensive investigation, during the final
weeks of Robert F. Kennedy's ill-fated presidential campaign in 1968, one
Khyber Khan, a high-ranking member of the Shah's SAVAK, had infiltrated
RFK's California campaign headquarters.
Khan additionally brought in other SAVAK agents to work on the
campaign. This infiltration was part of the assassination conspiracy. Khan
was in charge of coordinating the hit on RFK.
RFK allowed Khan into his inner circle because he believed Khan to be
an opponent of the Shah of Iran. This conclusion was based upon his
previous dealings with Khan.
In the early 1960's Khan had become embroiled in a feud with the Shah
over a business deal gone sour and in revenge had come to Washington
where he provided then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy with evidence of
the Shah's misappropriation of U.S. foreign aid to Iran. The resulting bad
blood further strained relations between the Kennedy administration and the
Shah which had never been stable.
However, Khan and the Shah had made amends shortly thereafter and an
alliance had been cemented. Khan, in fact, set up SAVAK operations on the
West Coast in 1963—all of this, of course, unbeknownst to Robert F.
Kennedy.