THREE SENIOR CIA OPERATIVES REPORTED AT SCENE OF RFK KILLING

BBC - New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA
operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been
brought to light. 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. . .


A 24-year-old Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, was arrested as the lone
assassin and notebooks at his house seemed to incriminate him. However,
even under hypnosis, he has never been able to remember the shooting and
defense psychiatrists concluded he was in a trance at the time.

Witnesses placed Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy but the
autopsy showed the fatal shot came from one inch behind.

Dr Herbert Spiegel, a world authority on hypnosis at Columbia
University, believes Sirhan may have been hypnotically programmed to act
as a decoy for the real assassin.

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. . . 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.

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."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6169006.stm

SHANE O'SULLIVAN, GUARDIAN - Morales was a legendary figure in CIA
covert operations. According to close associate Tom Clines, if you saw
Morales walking down the street in a Latin American capital, you knew a
coup was about to happen. When the subject of the Kennedys came up in a
late-night session with friends in 1973, Morales launched into a tirade
that finished: "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was
in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard." . . .

Working from a Cuban photograph of Morales from 1959, I viewed news
coverage of the assassination to see if I could spot the man the Cubans
called El Gordo - The Fat One. Fifteen minutes in, there he was,
standing at the back of the ballroom, in the moments between the end of
Kennedy's speech and the shooting. Thirty minutes later, there he was
again, casually floating around the darkened ballroom while an associate
with a pencil moustache took notes.

The source of early research on Morales was Bradley Ayers, a retired US
army captain who had been seconded to JM-Wave, the CIA's Miami base in
1963, to work closely with chief of operations Morales on training Cuban
exiles to run sabotage raids on Castro. I tracked Ayers down to a small
town in Wisconsin and emailed him stills of Morales and another guy I
found suspicious - a man who is pictured entering the ballroom from the
direction of the pantry moments after the shooting, clutching a small
container to his body, and being waved towards an exit by a Latin
associate.

Ayers' response was instant. He was 95% sure that the first figure was
Morales and equally sure that the other man was Gordon Campbell, who
worked alongside Morales at JM-Wave in 1963 and was Ayers' case officer
shortly before the JFK assassination. . .

Ayers . . . introduced me to David Rabern, a freelance operative who was
part of the Bay of Pigs invasion force in 1961 and was at the Ambassador
hotel that night. He did not know Morales and Campbell by name but saw
them talking to each other out in the lobby before the shooting and
assumed they were Kennedy's security people. He also saw Campbell around
police stations three or four times in the year before Robert Kennedy
was shot.

This was odd. The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and Morales was
stationed in Laos in 1968. With no secret service protection for
presidential candidates in those days, Kennedy was guarded by unarmed
Olympic decathlete champion Rafer Johnson and football tackler Rosey
Grier - no match for an expert assassination team. . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1952379,00.html

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