strange CIA presence at Bobby Kennedy assassination

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From: Jim Warren <[email protected]>
Date: December 2, 2006 6:44:02 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: fwd: strange CIA presence at Bobby Kennedy assassination

Wonder if we'll ever see any slightest mention of this in the  
mainstream  *U.S.* media ... that the "Right" so-loves to repress  
with howls that it's "liberal"?  --jim

> From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6169006.stm
>
> CIA role claim in Kennedy killing
>
>   New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA
> operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been
> brought to light.
>
>   21 November 2006
>
>   The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on
> BBC Newsnight.
>
>   It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were
> at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after
> the shooting on 5 June, 1968.
>
>   The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and some of the officers were
> based in South-East Asia at the time, with no reason to be in Los
> Angeles.
>
>   'Decoy'
>
>   Kennedy had just won the California Democratic primary on an anti- 
> War
> ticket and was set to challenge Nixon for the White House when he was
> shot in a kitchen pantry.
>
>   A 24-year-old Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, was arrested as the lone
> assassin and notebooks at his house seemed to incriminate him.
>
>   However, even under hypnosis, he has never been able to remember the
> shooting and defence psychiatrists concluded he was in a trance at the
> time.
>
>   Witnesses placed Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy  
> but the
> autopsy showed the fatal shot came from one inch behind.
>
>   Dr Herbert Spiegel, a world authority on hypnosis at Columbia
> University, believes Sirhan may have been hypnotically programmed to
> act as a decoy for the real assassin.
>
>   Evidence
> The report is the result of a three-year investigation by filmmaker
> Shane O'Sullivan. He reveals new video and photographs showing three
> senior CIA operatives at the hotel.
> "What were they doing there? It's our obligation as friends of Bob
> Kennedy to investigate this."
>
> - Paul Schrade
>
> Three of these men have been positively identified as senior officers
> who worked together in 1963 at JMWAVE, the CIA's Miami base for its
> Secret War on Castro.
>
>   David Morales was Chief of Operations and once told friends:
>
>   "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los
> Angeles when we got the little bastard."
>
>   Gordon Campbell was Chief of Maritime Operations and George  
> Joannides
> was Chief of Psychological Warfare Operations.
>
>   Joannides was called out of retirement in 1978 to act as the CIA
> liaison to the Congressional investigation into the JFK assassination.
> Now, we see him at the Ambassador Hotel the night a second Kennedy is
> assassinated.
>
> Memory
>
>   There have been calls for a fresh investigation into the shooting
>   Monday, 20 November would have been Bobby Kennedy's 81st  
> birthday. In
> Los Angeles, his son Max has just broken ground on a new high-school
> project in memory of his father on the old Ambassador Hotel site.
>
>   Paul Schrade, a key figure behind the school project, was walking
> behind Robert Kennedy that night and was shot in the head. He believes
> this new evidence merits fresh investigation:
>
>   "It seems very strange to me that these guys would be at a Kennedy
> celebration. What were they doing there? And why were they there? It's
> our obligation as friends of Bob Kennedy to investigate this."
>
>   Ed Lopez, a former Congressional investigator who worked with
> Joannides in 1978, says:
>
>   "I think the key people at the CIA need to go back to anybody who
> might have been around back then, bring them in and interview them,  
> and
> ask - is this Gordon Campbell? Is this George Joannides?"
>
>   This report was shown on Newsnight on Monday, 20 November, 2006.