But outside of serious JFK assassination researchers, few Americans—maybe even RFK, Jr. himself—know that the Soviet Union also had a major role in pushing the CIA-killed-Kennedy theory. With RFK, Jr.’s potential encroachment on the CIA’s vaults via Fox Kennedy, however, everyone should know the full story in case he and his daughter-in-law start spouting a new conspiratorial “truth” about the assassination based on hitherto hidden records they’ve unearthed.
Sadly, nothing you are about to read here is new, the irony-laden details having been available in books and government reports for decades. Thanks to U.S. government sources inside the Cold War-era Soviet Union's Communist Party and the KGB, as well as KGB defectors and their documents, scholars have known for years that the CIA conspiracy theories were nonsense—nonsense created and nurtured for decades by America’s “main enemy,” the U.S.S.R.
There is a nice shout out in Gus's article to my new book, A Heritage of Nonsense:
For more on the Farewell, America charade, see Fred Litwin’s terrific new book, A Heritage of Nonsense. For Garrison’s problems with teen boys, see Patricia Lambert’s False Witness and Prof. Alecia P. Long’s Cruising for Conspirators.
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