That fact certainly would have led the Mob, collectively, to believe that they had some “help” in Washington. Contrary to their expectations, the Kennedys in general and Robert in particular centered their careers around public attacks on the Mafia. Yet, contrary to this public posture, the CIA continued to enlist the support of the Mafia—and it has been documented that the CIA was working with the Mafia—especially in attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, of which Robert Kennedy, who oversaw the intelligence community’s Operation Mongoose, was to some extent, probably aware. And, in this strange but real dance, that cooperation with the Mob continued even after publication of Robert Kennedy’s book, The Enemy Within, which warned of the venomous dangers of Organized Crime. Yet, at the same time that Robert Kennedy’s Department of Justice was waging war in vigorous prosecutorial efforts against the Mafia on a nationwide basis, others connected to the Kennedy Administration continued to work with them against Cuba.
So another possible scenario is that, rather than being villain and threatening to go public with info about the Kennedys, Marilyn was probably the victim.
The Mob was trying to get at the Kennedys any way that they could and they’d tried a lot of ways; through Sinatra’s friendship with them that the Kennedys finally halted due to Sinatra’s many Mob connections; through trying sexual blackmail by wiretapped conversations catching JFK with another woman; and who knows what else. Setting up Marilyn via blackmail, and/or killing her to implicate a Kennedy, were exactly the type of things they were looking for. Marilyn’s house was bugged for exactly that reason.170
So the notion that Marilyn was going to “spill the beans” on her affairs with the Kennedy brothers or on the plans to kill Castro, doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny, nor does the claim that she was afraid of what the Kennedys might “do” to her.
Quite contrary to her “dumb blonde” screen image, Marilyn was nobody’s fool. She worked hard to construct a career that had taken her all the way to the top of the ladder. Why would she jeopardize that? She had an important career to protect; a career that she’d planned and strategically maneuvered to achieve. She wouldn’t risk that over a jilted love affair; she even cited that fact as the reason that her marriage to Joe DiMaggio could never have worked. Revealing a security secret or an affair with the President, especially in the context of 1960s America, would have sent her entire career crashing down faster than you can say Hollywood scandal. So the rumor that she was “going public” about her affairs, simply doesn’t hold up.
In conclusion, there’s a very good reason that the police always ask if the victim was linked to anyone with a criminal history, and if there’s anyone you can think of who might have wanted to see her harmed for any reason. On those last two notes, you can almost hear Marilyn’s friend, Frank Sinatra, singing:
“Chicago, Chicago ... “
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