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Kennedy family is also being blamed for having had a part in stimulating
JFK-related conspiracy theories in the wake of the assassination.
In on Oct. 12, 1998 opinion piece in Newsweek, the CIA's favorite JFK
conspiracy debunker, Gerald Posner, declared that "the Kennedys may have
inadvertently fed the conspiracy machine" saying that the primary result of
the release of thousands of JFK assassination documents by the
Assassinations Records Review Board "prove there was indeed a cover-up,
but not of the assassination." The cover-up, Posner says, was of the
misdeeds of the Kennedy brothers prior to JFK's assassination.
In a similar vein, Max Holland, author of a new (relatively favorable)
history of the Warren Commission, propounded the idea in the December 6,
1998 issue of the Boston Sunday Globe that "The CIA was no rogue
elephant but rather President Kennedy's personal instrument, for good or ill,
during the Cold War."
The foremost book length work putting forth the theory that the
manipulation of the CIA by the Kennedy brothers was ultimately
responsible for the JFK assassination tragedy appeared in Gus Russo's 1998
volume, Live by The Sword. Russo's thesis—if it can be boiled down
simply—is essentially this:
John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
were bound and determined to kill Fidel Castro. The Kennedy brothers
took complete control of the CIA and that agency became a virtual Kennedy
family fiefdom, with Bobby himself acting as the assassin-in-chief
responsible for the plots to kill Castro.
According to Russo, the CIA-connected anti-Castro elements in New
Orleans surrounding Oswald's associate, David Ferrie, were actually
working for Bobby Kennedy—a fascinating twist indeed!
In the meantime, lone nut Lee Harvey Oswald—who was a
committed disciple of Cuban dictator Castro and not, by any means, under
the control of the CIA—was busy promoting Castro's cause.
Somewhere, somehow, Oswald the Marxist decided to become
Oswald the Assassin. Whether Oswald was acting on behalf of Castro (or
with the Cuban dictator's quiet assistance), Russo isn't quite certain.
Then, after JFK was killed, Bobby Kennedy and the CIA did
everything to cover their tracks and hide the fact that Jack and Bobby
Kennedy were plotting to kill Castro.
John Foster Dulles—the CIA director fired by JFK after the Bay of
Pigs fiasco—emerges in Russo's book as a decent chap whose primary
interest in covering up the truth about the assassination was to protect his
good friends Jack and Bobby Kennedy and their secret war against Fidel
Castro. (This is not facetious. Russo paints Dulles as a Kennedy loyalist!)
As a result of all of that scurrying about by the CIA and the
subsequent cover-up by the Warren Commission, according to Russo, JFK
assassination conspiracy theorists went hog wild and assumed that the
cover-up was an effort by the CIA to cover up its own complicity in the
crime when, in fact, the CIA was actually trying to protect the Kennedys.