Final_Judgment

[290] Final Judgment 351
THE INVESTIGATION IS SCUTTLED
In any event, as Robert Morrow notes, later attempts to investigate the
conspiracy further were frustrated by two CIA operatives on the Los
Angeles Police Department's "Special Unit Senator" set up to "inquire" into the
assassination. Morrow says that the operatives were officers Manny Pena
and Enrique Hernandez, both of whom were known to have worked for the
CIA, along with their work for the police department.
This, in essence, is the reconstruction of the RFK assassination
conspiracy which Morrow documents so convincingly in his book The
Senator Must Die.
Much of Morrow's research was supported by information he gleaned in an
interview with one Alexis Goodaryi of Washington, D.C. Although in his
public persona he was the popular maitre de of the exclusive Rotunda
Restaurant on Capitol Hill, Goodaryi was also the immediate SAVAK
superior of Khyber Khan, the West Coast SAVAK operative who
coordinated the RFK murder.
Goodaryi himself was murdered in early 1977—just one month after he
spoke with Morrow. However, although the media described Goodaryi's
murder as a "mob hit," Morrow's sources told him otherwise: it was a
SAVAK operation. 769
THE LANSKY CONNECTION
All of this is quite interesting, particularly in that Morrow notes that
Goodyari told him that during their association, he (Goodyari) introduced
Khyber Khan to a number of his Washington associates in organized crime:
in particular, one C. H. "Jim" Poller. Mr. Poller, according to Morrow,
was the "Washington mob liaison man for [Meyer] Lansky and Santo
Trafficante." 770 Thus, we once again see the specter of Meyer Lansky in the
murky background in the assassination of a Kennedy.
We might even take one further step. During the time that Sirhan
Sirhan was being groomed for his role in the slaying of Robert F. Kennedy,
the young Arab-American worked in the stables of the Santa Anita racetrack.
Santa Anita, in fact, was one of the primary profit-centers for Lansky's
West Coast henchman, Mickey Cohen, rackets boss of Southern California.
We can only speculate that Cohen and his underlings may have had a hand
in some aspect of the RFK assassination.
However, it is not speculation that Iran's SAVAK (which handled the
killing of Robert F. Kennedy) was closely allied with the American CIA.
The record on this is all too clear. The CIA's role in toppling a nationalist
Iranian ruler, Mohammed Mossadegh, and restoring the Shah of Iran to his
throne in 1953 is well-known and widely documented.
What is less-known, however, is the close working relationship
between Iran's SAVAK and the Israeli Mossad. Although Iran, a Persian