Personally, I think it would be in the news for a couple days and then most Americans would pretty much forget about it and move on. Some folks on the left would point out this is further proof we need to abolish the CIA. The US Senate responds by a 98-2 vote to increase funding for the CIA, because white suburbanites are now scared the CIA will be eliminated and brown people will start bombing their big box stores.
If they said that they've conducted an internal investigation, punished the culprits and promised to never ever do it again, I'd expect they wouldn't see any consequences.
further loss of 'democratic' legitimacy. it's not in great shape even now but there is no countervailing political force
"Kennedy deserved it for being too communist" would become a widespread opinion.
Zoomers would make surreal TikTok reenactments of it, boomers and talking heads would froth about how the CIA had to be "tough on Cuba" and how it was probably the Chinese's fault anyways, then someone would tweet about how they're rebooting Felix the Cat and making him bi and everyone would collectively lose their minds over that and forget about the news altogether.
One of the agents involved would be a big beltway :LIB: who Democrats would parade around as an example of "real patriotism" to own the Trump voters. Trump would say something awkwardly funny about how Oswald was a tremendous shot or something.
They couldn't do it yet. There's plenty of boomers still alive for whom it was a formative political experience. I think libs would become Outraged Online but then not do anything about it.
I think leftists would become Smug Online and then continue to not do anything about it.
the people involved would go on TV to tell stories about how wild and crazy the CIA was back in those days, and the news anchors and white boomers watching would laugh along with them, sighing "gosh, things were so much better in the good ol' days"
If they were honest about the entire operation it would be pretty catastrophic. The people who did the killing itself would be dead by now, but not their immediate collaborators in what I guess you would call the coup government.
There's just so much stuff down that rabbit hole. It would re-frame the last 100 years of American history as something akin to crypto monarchy.
I'm gonna go with Parenti and say that there's a reason they're still dead set on pushing the official story, because the truth is one of the most subversive things imaginable and actually this would have a huge effect on how people see the government.
Telling that Americans can learn all about how the CIA helped kill a million people in Indonesia and not care, but killing one president is too much so that's what would cause people to question the government.
Yeah, for sure. I think it just completely shatters the illusion of democracy when an elected and pretty popular president can get merked by an unelected cohort of the state.
Not true, sevwral agsnts would get big book deals. There would be a movie about how we had to do it to beat the communists. Only for some reason all the comunists in the movie are mongolian.
Old people that liked Kennedy would be pissed off but most Americans would forget about it after a week
