Robert F. Quotes
See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.
Bonnano claimed that JFK's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, 1888-1969, had made a deal with Mafia leaders that if they supported JFK's bid for the presidency, the elder Kennedy was to keep federal pressure off of organized crime. After Joseph P. Kennedy had a stroke and became disabled, Attorney General Robert Kennedy moved against organized crime.
Freedom Rides were interracial groups of Civil Rights advocates who boarded public interstate busses in Washington and rode South through some of the most segregated communities in the country. As the bus stopped at the segregated rest stops, the Black Freedom Riders would use the “white” waiting rooms, toilets, and other facilities which was against the local custom and law. Racist segregationists often brutalized and assaulted the Freedom riders whose leaders demanded Federal Protection. The Attorney General and others were trying to get the local politicians and law enforcement officials to protect the Freedom Riders, but often these were the worst of the racist segregationists. Kennedy thought if he could have a “cooling off period” for a few days, he could persuade the locals to protect the Freedom Riders from the mobs with the threat of sending Federal Marshalls or troops for the protection. So he asked Farmer and other Freedom Ride organizers to stop the Freedom Rides for a few days. This was Farmer’s famous response. The Freedom Rides continued and forced the Federal Government to respond on a timetable they did not prefer.
The FBI Director had a great dislike for his boss, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who had a dart board in his office. Once when Hoover was visiting, Kennedy missed the dart board and a few darts stuck in the woodwork:
The Shah was a great conspiracy theorist. This quotation is very important in America as there is a conservative cadre which has believed this for many years. Many see the Trilateral Commission as this powerful force. The Shah’s quotation, they take as evidence for their fantasy.
Johnson tasked Clark with finding out what the FBI knew of this story. The story was true. Worse, the CIA had hired members of the Mafia to do the assassination. (The Mafia resented Castro as he ended the Gambling Mecca that Cuba had been when his revolution succeeded. Before the Castro revolution, he Mafia got a “piece” of the profits from each Cuban casino for “protection.”) It might have been that the Kennedy Assassination was retaliation by Castro. However, the CIA withheld this from the Warren Commission and Robert Kennedy never revealed it even though he was a member of the Commission and the Commission had security clearance. See {637465}.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just been shot after winning the California Democratic presidential primary. The president addressed the nation on television:
They did get divided and both staffs exacerbated the differences and past history between the two men. Kennedy ran against Johnson in the Presidential Primaries until he was assassinated in 1973.
