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If it were somehow revealed he was assassinated by the CIA or secret service or some other government agency, what exactly would that do at this point? Give Trump an excuse to dismantle it and authorize the creation of a new intelligence/enforcement agency with deeper and more covert and loyal power tendrils, like a new SS?
Accidental discharge by a hungover secret servicemen is actually a reasonably plausible scenario from what I've read, and yes, you're spot-on.
The current secret service also investigates financial crimes, which is politically unwise under an avowed financial crook president.
Yeah, this is the theory that I've held since seeing a documentary investigating the whole incident. And for the life of me I cannot recall the name.
I find it far easier to believe the CIA would scramble to cover up a colossal fuck-up over any shadowy conspiracy of assassination. Incompetence is more reliable than competence, in a way.
God, can you imagine killing JFK by accident and having to sit on that secret forever because the FBI doesn’t want to get a bad reputation?
And what possible reason would the hungover Secret Service guy have to be pointing a gun at the motorcade in the first place? In case John Connolly or Jackie suddenly went berserk? That makes zero sense.
It's a whole thing, I'm not going to outline the full background and theory here or I'd be late for tomorrow's lunch. If you actually care about this subject you can find that for yourself.
What actually happened then matters to me now only if someone with that intel decides to use it for a specific political aim. That's the conversation I was interested in having.
There is info that the Dr. MLK assassination was linked. The weird thing is that it looks like this is all related to what is happening now. Russia, probably working with people inside the US government, wanted JFK and MLK dead to sow division. Though I think the people involved in the US just wanted power/didn’t like the change JFK and MLK represented, and weren’t in on the sow discord part. But intent or not it did have that effect.
Divided people are easier to control, so maybe they were in on the sow division part and really didn’t care. It would be on brand.
It's pretty amazing FDR was able to stick around for as long as he did. I guess we can thank Major General Smedley D. Butler a little bit for that.