The Second Gunman Theory Reborn? RFK Assassination Files Hint at Hidden Players, CIA Mind Games

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has cracked open a long-sealed vault in America’s political history, releasing the first tranche of 10,000 previously classified documents related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy — and already, the conspiracy cauldron is bubbling over.

At first glance, the move appears to be a transparent gesture, one that President Trump, in his trademark flourish, called “an act of historic truth-telling.” But to the seasoned decoder of Deep State breadcrumbs, this release might be less about closure — and more about opening doors long bolted shut.

The Ghosts of the Ambassador Hotel

Senator Kennedy was gunned down in the pantry of Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel moments after celebrating his California primary win. Officially, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, pulled the trigger. But the newly released files — along with some “accidentally discovered” CIA and FBI documents — may provide tantalizing support for a theory that has simmered for decades: that Sirhan wasn’t alone, and perhaps not even fully aware of what he was doing.

Among the thousands of files now live on the National Archives website (and already dissected by the keen-eyed sleuths on message boards and X forums), several documents reference “MKULTRA-adjacent techniques” allegedly used in FBI interviews with Sirhan in the 1970s — a possible nod to the CIA’s infamous mind-control experiments. One memo, dated August 1973, cryptically notes: “Subject displays post-hypnotic dissociative episodes when confronted with sensory triggers related to ‘flashing lights’ or auditory stimuli consistent with crowd noise. Further testing postponed.”

Was Sirhan a manipulated pawn? A real-life Manchurian candidate?

The ‘Girl in the Polka Dot Dress’ Returns

Also reigniting is the long-dismissed testimony of witnesses who claimed to have seen a mysterious woman in a polka dot dress fleeing the crime scene yelling, “We shot him!” For years, the LAPD buried those accounts in their final report. But one of the newly declassified FBI memos reveals that an internal task force was quietly re-interviewing these witnesses in 1975 — and deemed two of their accounts “credible and internally consistent.”

A now-declassified interagency letter from the CIA to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, dated March 1976, appears to caution against “public dissemination” of any references to “the polka dot suspect,” citing “potential embarrassment.”

RFK Jr.: The Unexpected Ally

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., currently serving as Health and Human Services Secretary under President Trump, has long questioned the official narrative — even meeting with Sirhan Sirhan in prison and supporting his 2021 parole bid. With this release, RFK Jr. finds himself in the unexpected role of truth-seeker-in-chief.

In a statement issued Friday, he said: “My father believed in sunlight as the best disinfectant. I believe we’re only beginning to understand the truth of what happened that night. The American people deserve it — no matter how uncomfortable it may be.”

When pressed for comment on whether he believed the CIA or another agency may have played a role in the assassination, Kennedy said only: “Let the documents speak.”

A Hidden War of Factions?

Some theorists posit that the newly discovered 50,000 additional pages yet to be released suggest an internal struggle within the intelligence community — one faction trying to keep a lid on Cold War skeletons, the other trying to air the ghosts out. The involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, known for her skepticism of U.S. military entanglements and past dalliances with non-interventionist thought, has only added fuel to this theory.

“The release of the RFK files isn’t just about one murder,” said Dr. Lana Esper, an independent intelligence historian and author of “The Secret Hand: American Assassinations and the Deep State Blueprint.” “It’s about exposing a historical architecture of covert manipulation, psychological operations, and shadow warfare waged not on foreign soil — but here at home.”

The Real Question: What Happens Next?

The real wild card may be the public itself. Will these documents spur a reevaluation of one of the 20th century’s most pivotal crimes? Or will they vanish into the endless void of PDFs and redacted names, buried beneath layers of plausible deniability?

As Esper put it: “If the JFK files showed us how much we didn’t know, the RFK files might show us how much we were never meant to know.”

One thing is clear: in the archives of American history, sometimes the most dangerous truths are the ones labeled “classified for reasons of national security.”

Stay tuned, fellow truth-seekers. The pantry door just creaked open.