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If you are going to conduct an assassination conspiracy—and get away with it you need at a minimum:

—Control at the top of the relevant law enforcement authorities
—Control over mass media coverage

In the case of the US/Kennedy assassination that would only be possible with LBJ, CIA and FBI involvement from day one.

The CIA had Operation Mockingbird for mass media control—and of course the ability to put together assassination teams—lots of practice abroad.

However they could not manage a coverup (which still continues to this day) without LBJ’s cooperation and FBI involvement.

Since LBJ is long dead we need only look to the CIA and FBI to find agencies still linked to the assassination.

If you are going to conduct an assassination conspiracy—and get away with it you need at a minimum:
—Control at the top of the relevant law enforcement authorities —Control over mass media coverage
In the case of the US/Kennedy assassination that would only be possible with LBJ, CIA and FBI involvement from day one.

The CIA had perfected the art of the modern coup d'etat around the world before bringing it home in November 1963. LBJ was given the choice of becoming POTUS, or getting dropped from the ticket in '64. JFK wanted a fundraiser and motorcade in TX before giving LBJ the bad news. He paid for that mistake with his life.

The CIA had Operation Mockingbird for mass media control—and of course the ability to put together assassination teams—lots of practice abroad.

Control of the mass media, both immediately after the assassination and long thereafter, enabled them to keep pushing the lone nut assassin theory which people generally rejected. People didn't believe the Warren Commission's magic bullet theory, buy split on who really killed JFK. Blaming Castro and the mafia deflected from the inside job that the JFK assassination really was.

However they could not manage a coverup (which still continues to this day) without LBJ’s cooperation and FBI involvement.
Since LBJ is long dead we need only look to the CIA and FBI to find agencies still linked to the assassination.

LBJ's successors continued the cover up. Nixon was in Dallas the day of the assassination, and Ford was on the Warren Commission that covered up the truth. Subsequent presidents have refused to release all of the files pertaining the assassination, and 60 years later the justification for that is hard to fathom on national security grounds. It is reasonable to conclude that those files are embarrassing to certain political families and government institutions. Col Prouty maintained that JFK was killed to change U.S. policy in Vietnam to start that war. Some files about Vietnam have been released, but most remain classified.