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| Declassified CIA Files Reveal RFK Sr, Was a ‘Voluntary Informant' |
| 2025-06-13 |
| [Breitbart] Newly-declassified files reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Sr. served as a "voluntary informant" to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before his 1968 assassination. The CIA released an additional 1,450 pages of "historic material" related to the shooting of then-senator and presidential candidate RFK on Thursday, bringing the total number of declassified pages on the matter from the agency to nearly 5,000, according to a statement from Director John Ratcliffe. Many of the new pages detailed a 1955 trip RFK took to the former Soviet Union along with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, revealing to the public for the first time that he volunteered his on-the-ground experiences while visiting the U.S. adversary to the CIA. "Mr. Kennedy served the Agency as a voluntary informant," receiving briefings prior to and following his trip to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia and other locations around the U.S.S.R., the files state. According to Ratcliffe, that revelation shows the late senator’s "patriotic commitment to serving his country." RFK said in one of his briefings to the CIA, "On 29 Aug 55, while in Novosibirsk, USSR, a friend and I visited a State machine factory. The factory has 3,500 employees, of whom one third are women. The wage scale is between 840 and 2,500 rubles." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Very little new here. High ranking US persons traveling overseas are generally assumed to be potential US intelligence assets ('voluntary or paid informants') by the host country. As such, their activities and contacts are closely monitored. "Travel reporting" is not a new concept. It is a free ticket or conduit for disinformation production and 'intelligence gap' harvesting by the host country. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-13 07:42 |