RFK Claims Intel Officials Used 'Strategy of Lies' to 'Obscure and Suppress Troubling Facts' About JFK Assasination

Posting for the first time in nearly a month, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took to his X account to say officials in the U.S. used a "strategy of lies" to obscure and suppress troubling facts regarding the assassination of his late uncle and former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

In the past, Kennedy Jr. has pinned his uncle's death on the Central Intelligence Agency, while he has also claimed there is "convincing" but "circumstantial" evidence the CIA was involved in his father's death.

In a long tweet, Kennedy Jr. thanked Trump for signing an executive order on Jan. 23 to declassify the files related to the assassinations of former President Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

In his statement, RKF Jr. thanked Trump for "trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory" which he labelled as government secrecy.

According to the executive order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General will count with 15 days to come up with a plan to release the JFK files and 45 days to release the other two documents.

Trump's nominee for the top healthcare position claims that "secrecy, disinformation, censorship and defamation" tactics used by Intel officials used to suppress facts related to President Kennedy's assassination provided "the playbook for a series of subsequent crises," noting the murder of MLK, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and the COVID-19 pandemic as some examples.

"A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens' ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy," his statement read.

While it is not clear how many documents will be released, experts estimate that between 3,000 and 4,000 documents about President Kennedy's assassination will be released. According to an NBC report, only about 3% of records concerning his assassination remained shielded from public view in 2022.