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Octafish

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20. CIA 'worked' with lots of cop shops, such as Los Angeles PD when RFK was assassinated.
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 11:39 AM
Jun 2013

Small world.



The Assassination of Robert Kennedy

BY JESSE VENTURA WITH DICK RUSSELL
TruTV.com

The LAPD, a CIA Lapdog

According to the LAPD logs, the cops were looking for two suspects besides Sirhan within minutes of the assassination. Then they stopped searching within the hour, because "they only have one man and don't want them to get anything started on a big conspiracy. This could be somebody that was getting out of the way so they wouldn't get shot." Huh? That makes no sense at all for an honest investigator to reason.

The fact is, the LAPD had a long history of a "special relationship" with the CIA, from helping out with clandestine activities to training certain officers for double duty. When they formed Special Unit Senator (SUS) to look into the assassination, the two main cops through which all information flowed both had ties to the CIA. "In retrospect it seems odd that… policemen who doubled as CIA agents occupied key positions in SUS, where they were able to seal off avenues that led in the direction of conspiracy."13 They also badgered any witness who didn't support the Sirhan-did-it-alone scenario.

Manuel Pena, a multilingual fellow who'd done special ops for the CIA, saw all the SUS reports and was the man responsible for approving all interviews. His partner, Sergeant Enrique "Hank" Hernandez, handled all the polygraph work, which he'd also done in Vietnam, South America and Europe. Both Pena and Hernandez had been undercover CIA with the Agency for International Development (AID). Later, Hernandez started his own security firm and got rich handling big government contracts.

As soon as Sirhan's trial ended, the LAPD got busy destroying evidence, including the ceiling panels and door frames from the pantry that they'd taken pictures of showing extra bullet holes. Their rationale, when asked later, was that these were "too large to fit into a card file"! Once again, we've got the authorities destroying evidence at a crime scene, just like with the King case. They also burned some 2,400 photographs, supposedly all duplicates, but we know some important ones are still missing—like the pictures taken by a 15-year-old kid named Scott Enyart. He was standing on a table so he could get a good view of Kennedy as he came in and took three rolls of Kodak film that the cops confiscated afterwards and said he could get back—if he came around in twenty years! Enyart had to fight in court to eventually be returned only 18 prints (no negatives), which were then promptly stolen out of the back seat of a car.

CONTINUED...

http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/assassinations/rfk/lapd-cia-lapdog.html



Without the tee vee, who'd ever know history repeats?
NSA isn't the beginning and end of the surveillance state KG Jun 2013 #1
Really this has been common knowledge if your a Ny'er .. Historic NY Jun 2013 #2
So, "Just move along. It's old news. Nothing to see here." AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2013 #4
Correct. Important that it's being scrutinized. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #6
Your last sentence.... Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #9
Not just if you were a New Yorker, but if you were anywhere and paying any attention. harmonicon Jun 2013 #10
so you think what the CIA is doing is okay? nt temmer Jun 2013 #11
No, but I'm not surprised. harmonicon Jun 2013 #12
It's important not to let knowledge... JackRiddler Jun 2013 #17
Yes, I knew about both. harmonicon Jun 2013 #28
Wrong. To the contrary. closeupready Jun 2013 #18
Lets see where we read this before....... Historic NY Jun 2013 #21
Hardly 'common knowledge', as you put it. closeupready Jun 2013 #22
It is if you been following along. Historic NY Jun 2013 #25
I thought the CIA wasn't supposed to operate in the United States? Comrade Grumpy Jun 2013 #3
They aren't supposed to operate inside U.S. borders, premium Jun 2013 #5
In the transitional days prior to and after 9/11 Historic NY Jun 2013 #24
Good luck. That's never been the case. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #7
thank you - uncomfortable truths have to be spoken out temmer Jun 2013 #8
Experts at subverting political systems Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #23
They say this all the time, so it must be true. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #27
They're not supposed to spy on US citizens' domestic activities. geek tragedy Jun 2013 #15
It's not the "current calls" they listen in on... Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #26
Laws and the Constitution are so 20th Century. - nt HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #16
Phil Agee wrote "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" Lugal Zaggesi Jun 2013 #13
This is how the CIA and others follow the law without actually following it askeptic Jun 2013 #14
Law and Democracy is an illusion here in the USA. L0oniX Jun 2013 #19
CIA 'worked' with lots of cop shops, such as Los Angeles PD when RFK was assassinated. Octafish Jun 2013 #20
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