John F Kennedy assassination: Robert F Kennedy Jr pushing daughter-in-law for top CIA job to investigate JFK killing

Robert F Kennedy hopes his daughter-in-law can be installed as the deputy director of the CIA to investigate whether the agency had a role in the assassination of his uncle JFK, according to reports.

Kennedy, who has been nominated as Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, is pushing for Amaryllis Fox Kennedy to be chosen as the CIA’s second-in-command before the President-elect takes office next month.

The former environmental lawyer has long suspected that the spy agency had a hand in the assassination of his uncle in 1963 and has already secured a promise from Trump to release CIA files about the incident.

Robert F Kennedy Jr claims the CIA may have had a role in the assassination of his uncle in 1963. Photo / Las Vegas Review-Journal via Getty Images

He told a podcast last year that the evidence “overwhelmingly” suggested that the CIA was “involved in the murder and in the cover-up”.

He also believes Fox Kennedy, who is married to his son Bobby Kennedy III, would be able to “get to the bottom” of the theory and reveal the CIA’s role in JFK’s demise, Axios reported.

Republican sources told the outlet that Kennedy is pushing for her to be appointed deputy to John Ratcliffe, who Trump has already named as the next CIA director – subject to Senate approval.

Fox Kennedy is a former CIA employee and has written a memoir about her experiences. She was previously married to Dean Fox, another CIA officer, while working undercover in Shanghai.

After their divorce, she remarried Kennedy’s son after they met at the Burning Man festival.

Donald Trump has promised to release CIA files about John F Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Photo / Getty Images

CIA-JFK theory gaining popularity again

The decades-old theory that the CIA either orchestrated or covered up the assassination has become popular recently among some Right-wing influencers, including the podcaster Joe Rogan.

Trump has pledged to establish a new commission on presidential assassinations, following two attempts on his life on the campaign trail earlier this year.

The review will re-examine and release papers related to the JFK assassination, he said in August, in a nod to Kennedy’s interest in the issue.

Some CIA officials are reportedly concerned about Fox Kennedy’s appointment because she did not submit her memoir, Life Undercover, to the agency for approval before publishing it in 2019.

Aside from his views on his uncle’s death, Kennedy has expressed support for a number of conspiracy theories, including that vaccines are linked to autism and that Covid-19 spared Jews and Chinese people.