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Was Robert Kennedy's
Assassin Brainwashed? by
Gordon Thomas |
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NOTE: “Seeds of Fire: China and The Story
Behind the Attack on America” is available from Dandelion Books –
www.dandelion.com
California’ Supreme Court is considering
ordering a new trial into one of the most sensational crimes in America –
the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of the murdered
President, John F. Kennedy.
The Court has been given explosive new
testimony that Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan,
was “programmed through hypnosis and brainwashed to carry out the crime”.
A new trial will seriously embarrass both the CIA and FBI – under
increasing fire for the cover-up of their failure in last September’s
terror attacks. The most likely date for the trial would fall during
President Bush’s run-up to re-election.
His own father was a
Congressman during the murder of Robert Kennedy and later became CIA
director. Its files on the assassination have never been made public.
Sirhan’s attorney, Lawrence Teeter, a respected Civil Rights lawyer, has
spent eight years gathering evidence which he described last week,
“virtually proves that powerful branches of the U.S. government were
behind the murder”.
In an exclusive interview at his office on
fashionable Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, Teeter said: “When a
powerful branch of government commits such a murder it only makes sense if
top people are involved. In the case of the programming of Sirhan, those
involved, either directly or indirectly, are the Los Angeles police
department, the FBI, and the CIA together with the Pentagon.
“There were good reasons for them to have wanted Robert Kennedy
eliminated. He wanted to end the Vietnam War. He wanted to get to the
bottom of his brother’s assassination. He wanted to break the power of the
Teamsters Union. He wanted to end the wild adventurism of the CIA,” said
Teeter.
That “adventurism” included the notorious MK-ULTRA program
– designed by the CIA to see if it was feasible to use drugs and hypnosis
to create a “programmed assassin”.
Among the doctors secretly
involved in the work was Dr. Louis West, chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles and director of
its Neuropsychiatric Institute.
West’s work for the CIA included
using hypnosis to try and program minds. But his case files were shredded
in the wake of Robert Kennedy’s murder on June 5, 1968. Kennedy was in Los
Angeles to gather votes for his nomination as the Democratic candidate for
President when he was killed.
West died earlier this year before
Teeter could question him.
“That is very convenient for those who
are trying to block the truth emerging,” Teeter said.
While some
50,000 documents relating to the murder of Robert Kennedy are now stored
in an archive at the University of Massachusetts, they do not contain
still-closed FBI files. A number of documents were also destroyed after
the investigation by the Los Angeles police.
Lawrence Teeter
revealed that when Sirhan was a jockey in 1966, he received a head injury
while riding. It happened two years before he assassinated Robert Kennedy.
“As a result he may have become one of the most deeply
hypnotizable people in the world. It will be part of our case at a new
trial that the CIA discovered this when Sirhan was in hospital. We will
show that from that point on, he went into the CIA assassination program.
Part of that program was to ensure that Sirhan would have no recall of how
he had been programmed and by whom.”
Support for this theory has
come from a key medical expert Teeter intends to call. He is Dr Herbert
Spiegal, a New York psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University. He is
regarded as one of America’s leading experts on hypnosis.
In an
affidavit to the Supreme Court, Dr Spiegal writes: “Sirhan, being an
outstanding hypnotic subject, was probably programmed through hypnosis to
shoot Senator Kennedy and to experience a genuine amnesia of the
shooting”.
In other documents, Teeter describes what he calls an
“assassination network”. He said last week: “Sirhan said at the trial he
“thought” he acted alone. But what Sirhan thought is not important at all
when an assassin network was in place. “When I visit Sirhan in prison, he
cannot remember the assassination at all. It is as if a segment of his
memory was entirely erased. The last thing he remembers before the
shooting is having coffee with a woman”.
That woman – known as
“The Lady in the Polka Dot Dress” at Sirhan’s trial – was seen by a number
of eye-witnesses to the murder of Robert Kennedy shortly after midnight in
the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Several people said they saw
the woman – “young and beautiful” according to one witness – standing
close to Sirhan moments before he shot Kennedy.
Then she ran from
the hotel. The police and FBI never found her.
Samuel Dash,
professor of Law at Georgetown University said that a new trial of Sirhan
would have to examine “why the police were so convinced Sirhan acted alone
that they were willing to ignore other evidence”.
Sirhan is
currently held in the high security wing of the California state prison at
Corcoran. His cell adjoins that of murderer Charles Manson. Now in his
mid-fifties, his hair graying, Sirhan spends his day in a fitness regime –
ready for the day he hopes he will be driven through the desert to appear
before the Supreme Court.
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