jurderer who gets caught
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USS.
he 24-year-old Sirhan B.
yho on the morning of
1968, killed Senator Rob-
‘dy with several pistol
Los Angeles hctel did
a quick trial and a rush
testimony, of course,
al clear; hundreds of
w the shooting with
eyes. “It would be ut-
illy to disavow that real-
aid Sirhan’s lawyer, Grant

fa year past before the
trial got started. The
is now to find a posi-
background for the as-
ition. It took many
. Why? Why the slow
? Why has so much time
ed when in fact at least
ple saw the shooting?
nilar cases the murderer
r the shooting would
ne through a lynch-type
ocedure. But not Sirhan
t took all that time to
he mystery of Sirhan’s life,
what he had done since
ted to the U.S.A.
lain question in that trial
did he shoot Kennedy?
r no honest answer has
Bi nm; and so far no psy-
ist has been found to testi-
| to his mental disorder.
Was a psychiatrist at the
6 called Sirhan mentally
) But everyone who
id had anything to do
an had the impression

People “had witnessed
ed firing ‘at’ Senator '

— Conspiracy
in the killing
Robert Kennedy:

that he was an “intelligent and
coolheaded youngster.”

Right after the killing the au-
thorities and the press came out
with a fixed motive: That Sirhan
did it because of hate for Israel;
yet Kennedy was not Jewish; he
was a faithful’ Catholic. And
many prominent U.S. politicians
considered that Kennedy had not
pledged very much assistance
for Israel. But this “reason” for
the killing was given out to satis-
fy the public with some kind of
an explanation.

In court the defense tried to
make it appear that Sirhan saw
Kennedy as a special friend of
the Jews so in his blind hate and
confusion he reached for the
pistol. It had to be sure that
among the jury were some ele-
ments who agreed that no other
motive could be permissible and
that the word “conspiracy” in
court must not fall out. The anti-
Jewish motive was put forward
not by Sirhan but by the defense.
That’s why so far any questions
about Sirhan’s previous life have
been avoided. The official version
by the press of many countries
including the U.S. spoke about
“the road of life of the assassin,”
“Sirhan Bishara (Arab) ‘the
wolf,’ born 1944 in a Jordanian
village Silwan, nea: Jerusalem.”

In 1957 he emigrated with his
whole family to Pasadena, Cali-
fornia. In 1960 Sirhan’s father
went back to the village, Faiyiba,
Jordan, near Jerusalem. His
mother and brother remained in
the U.S. *

In 1961-66 he attended public
school and city college of Pasa-
dena. In 1966 he left college. In
1967 he worked at different firms
and a drugstore. In 1968 he left
his job and moved back with his
mother.

June 5, 1968—pistol assassina-
tion of Senator Robert Kennedy.

That is all? From Sirhan’s
birth to the day he killed Senator
Kennedy, everything is utterly
false.

John Kimche, a reporter for
the Evening Standard of London,
England wrote three articles:
June 13, 17 and 18, 1968. His ex-
periences in the four Arabian
countries, Jordan, Egypt, Syria
and Lebanon are astonishing in-
deed.

Kimche’s reports covering Sir-
han’s life are based on official
facts of the Arab governments.
During tHe years while Sirhan
was said to have been in college
at Pasadena he was actually

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many months in Nahost, south
of Cairo, undergoing military
training.

In his first article the English
journalist disclosed the fact that
Sirhan as a four-year-old child
emigrated with his parents to
the U.S.A., in 1948. In the year
1957, however, the 13-year-old
Sirhan returned to his old home-
land where on June 27, he was
married in the Orthodox Church
of Es Salt to the girl Leila Yussef
Michael. (Sirhan was by no
means a fanatic Moslem).

But the international press

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suppressed his marriage. Soon
after his wedding he went back
to the U.S. and three months lat-
er his young wife followed and
joined him there. But no one is
supposed to hear about or know
anything about Sirhan’s wife
Leila, because to reveal her ex-
istence would be to expose the
official version of the big lie. So
the history of Sirhan’s military
training and marriage, etc. is
trackless, and must sink into ob-
livion.

In the beginning of 1964 Sir-
han’ was again on his way back
to Nahost, Egypt. Kimche’s de-
tailed documentation continues:

End of January 1964 Sirhan
left the U.S. and went via Cana-
da to Beirut, Lebanon, as a 19-
year old. He lived from the 5th
to the 21st of February on the
outskirts of Beirut in a Christian
Arab family, Alquas al Mouishi;
then he moved to Damascus to a
military. Palestinian freedom-
fighter camp. Sirhan, says Kim-
che, had contact with officers
from Irak, Algeria and Palestine.
He lived in Damascus from Feb-
ruary 23rd to March 5th, 1964.

How and when Sirhan went

back to the U.S. was for Kimche
impossible to find out. But he did
find out that Sirhan was hired on
the crew of a ship bound for the
seaport Alexandria. That ship
arrived May 22nd, 1966 and Sir-
han stayed for one week in a
small hotel in Cairo.

All during that period of about
two years he travelled all over
the Middle East and received
good military training in many
Arab countries. On August 3,
1966 he. was sent to military
camp near the city of Gaza. He
stayed there until the end of
September and then went again
to California, again by an un-
known route and means of travel.

Three questions arise here:
How could Sirhan, as an Ameri-
can citizen, be called to get mili-
tary service in almost all Arab
countries, and get away with it?
Why did he start one of the jour-
neys as being aged 19 and make
a detour via Canada? And why
then did an otherwise well in-
formed English journalist in
many cases find it impossible to
trace Sirhan’s journeys or to dis-
cover what means of communi-
cation he used?

Furthermore, why did the Am-
erican government suppress all
these facts and deny that Sirhan,
after his original emigration,
ever visited foreign countries?

Following the appearance of
the first of Kimche’s articles in
the Evening Standard on June 13,
1968, a representative of the

‘ Washington Post rushed to the

U.S. State Department and show-
ed R. J. McCloskey the article
containing the facts about Sir-
han’s marriage. ‘Totally ground-
less,” said McCloskey, and
American authorities have no
knowledge that Sirhan even for
a short time ever left the U.S.

In his second article on June
17, Kimche firmly replied that
the FBI and American officials
of the CIA in foreign countries
were very well informed of all
Sirhan’s movements and develop-
ments. The FBI and CIA pretend-
ed to be anxious to clear away
the so-called “sickening smoke-
screen” which hung over the sec-
ond Kennedy murder.

It was soon proved that the
activity of the FBI and CIA men
did not have the aim of clearing
away the smokescreen but of
making it even thicker and more

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impenetrable so as not to expose
Sirhan’s travels and activities in
1964-66.

What lies behind this myste-
rious business? It is, of course,
the CIA, because the circum-
stances show clearly that Sirhan
is and has been an agent of this
organization. His orders were to
penetrate into the Palestinian
liberation front and to find out
their plans. Sirhan was able to
penetrate in more Arab military
camps. But when things became
smelly and a suspicious matter,
then he was taken home and in
a suitable time given an assign-
ment on the home front.

The CIA allegedly participated
in the murder of a president at
Dallas in Nov. 1963. The action
against Clay Shaw brought no
new light on the assassination of
President Kennedy. The tragedy
of his brother’s death influenced
Robert Kennedy to run for presi-
dent in November 1968, as a De-
mocratic candidate. He probably
would have knocked Nixon out
of the field. But that could not
be permitted to happen without
the CIA risking its own exist-
ence. And so, there was no other
way but to strike, and Sirhan
was the tool.

So it becomes clear, why the
murder at one time; why he went
to a college in Pasadena; and by
some mysterious way, from one
place to another appeared in the
Orient, and then suddenly. disap-
peared again. That is apparently
how agents and some displomats
travel and behave.

Would Sirhan have been able
to make such journeys to his old
homeland and to all neighboring
Arab countries on his own ini-
tiative and at his own expense?
Why then is Washington keep-
ing all those journeys secret? It
would be easier for Washington
and the CIA and FBI to say Sir-
han did it all on his own.

But that would have unmask-
ed him in the court as a CIA
agent. Because of the disclosure
of Sirhan’s travel to Nahost by
an English newspaper, Washing-
ton was forced to set out a
false story to the world: other-
wise Sirhan must admit ‘that he
was under orders of the secret
service. He must answer all the
questions: when, how and why
he made all those journeys? Why
did he join the military training
camps? When did he come back?
And finally, from where did he
get the money to make those
costly trips?

The circumstances prove the
false play the U.S. government
pursued and that Sirhan was em-
ployed in the service of the CIA,
and with all this, the background
of the second Kennedy murder,
everything has been said.

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