The CIA has released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified files about the life and death of Robert F. Kennedy. A senator from New York and former U.S. Attorney General, Kennedy was fatally shot in Los Angeles while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. The 54 newly unsealed documents contain information about his assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, including a psychological profile, memos about the investigation, and a handwritten note from Sirhan that reads, “RFK must fall.” Now 81, Sirhan is serving a life sentence in California for the murder. Also included in the documents is new information about Kennedy’s 1955 trip to the Soviet Union, during which he served as a “voluntary informant” for the CIA, which the agency today called a reflection of Kennedy’s “patriotic commitment to serve his country.” This was the third batch of documents about Kennedy’s assassination to go public this year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January demanding the release of files related to several political assassinations, including John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In a press release this morning, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the release of documents about his father’s murder a “necessary step toward restoring trust in American government.”
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