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Most likely he was taken out by the CIA or someone in the State Department. There has always been a big revolving door between the CIA, State Department and the Oil Companies which very often forced presidential policies, particularly when it came to the Middle East. Kennedy was very much aware of it and wanted to reduce their hold on the White House and the country as a whole. He wanted to break up the agency (CIA). Of course the CIA wouldn't have any of it and they came up with a clever plot to eliminate the threat.


If you remember, during the Carter administration, there was an intelligence report produced by the CIA that Soviet Union was running out of oil, and the United States must do whatever it takes to arm the Saudis with the latest US weapons in order to protect them in case the Russians decided to make a move on the region.  President Carter reluctantly based his policies on this report and of course as it was later discovered it was a complete fabrication, designed to raise the price of oil and make Saudi Arabia the dominant force in the Middle East.



BTW, LBJ was very much connected to the oil business as well.


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