How RFK was assassinated

The story is told in the book by Lisa Pease, reviewed in the Washington Post in 2019.

It was an operation coordinated by Robert Maheu, a private spook who did work for the CIA and others, including Howard Hughes.  (CIA told Maheu to work for Hughes...though Maheu and Hughes never met in person, Maheu helped Hughes buy up Los Vegas hotels, for example.)

Someone who did work with Hughes in person believes that both Maheu and Hughes were involved in a plot to assassinate RFK.

Maheu often contracted with mobsters, and the people behind RFK in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel included some of mobster employees.

The autopsy shows RFK was shot from behind, while Sirhan fired a gun in front.

It appears Sirhan was firing blanks according to witnesses.  His gun was never matched to any of the bullets found in Kennedy or the kitchen, one of which has gone missing.

Sirhan was a horse handler at a racetrack owned by a Maheu associated mobster, and according to his friends, Sirhan disappeared for about a month before the shooting occurred.  During this time he was probably being programmed and hypnotized by Maheu associates using CIA developed techniques.

Anyway Sirhan's role wasn't actually to kill Kennedy...he simply wasn't qualified for that...but to be the patsy, so the real assassins, the ones behind Kennedy, could escape (and witnesses saw people behind Kennedy quickly leaving after the shooting).  All Sirhan had to do was fire a gun with blanks on cue, which he did.  He does not remember firing a weapon at all.  He was in a deep hypnotic trance (which it appears to be easy for him even years later).  After he was arrested, he was not nervous at all, it was as if nothing had happened.

Sirhan's public defense attorney decided not to question any of the facts, but merely to give a mental health defense, which ultimately failed.

What was one likely motive of CIA, Maheu, and the mob?  They were afraid that if RFK became President, he'd be able to find out who actually killed his brother JFK.

Plus they didn't trust RFK on a lot of political matters...there was no love lost...just as with his brother.  And after prosecuting the mob for awhile, RFK certainly had enemies in the mob.