The "Fake" Attempt on JFK's Life: Or, Great Minds Think Alike

[Charles Drago]

Having failed to take the bate twice before, with the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis, it's hard to beleve anyone would expect him to do so because someone the CIA says is connected to Castro took a shot at him.

Unless, of course, Plan A called for immediate public release of the "Castro was behind this" story and/or RFK was in on it.

Also given their general distrust of the intelligence community at that time, I doubt either RFK or JFK would knowingly go along with such a plan.

Beginner's mistake, I'm afraid. Both JFK and RFK trusted certain intelligence and military officers -- and, for that matter, certain anti-Castro Cubans operating in the U.S. You must understand that governments and their agencies are not ideologically monolithic in nature.

You should also consider the notion that RFK provided protection, in the form of plausible deniability, for his brother.