I am not really a conspiracy theorist. I really think most of the time people are too lazy and gossip too much to carry out a really complicated conspiracy. I am pretty inclined to believe the easiest, least convoluted explanations of things. Still, sometimes there are things that should make us suspicious.

BBC's Newsnight is running a Shane O'Sullivan broadcast that claims to show the presence of known CIA agents at the scene of the RFK assassination in Los Angeles at a time when the CIA had no domestic jurisdiction. The story, adding some circumstantial evidence, claims this shows a CIA link to the assassination. I am not so quick to jump to that conclusion. But it does raise an eyebrow:

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...

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.

Much of what is in it seems thin to me, including a discussion of "hypnosis" and "programming" of Sirhan Sirhan, the man who was convicted of the assassination and whose gun was at the scene. The quote from David Morales either should be investigated seriously if there is a witness, otherwise it's mere hearsay. However, I solidly agree with one thing:

Paul Schrade...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."

The CIA had no jurisdiction to be there. Why were they? Even if it was mere surveillance, it was illegal.

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