John McCone was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. John Kiriakou recounts an account given to him by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[1][2]
The Hickory Hill driveway exchange
Per RFK Jr. via Kiriakou: McCone’s wife had died of breast cancer six months earlier and the Kennedys, fearing he would harm himself, invited him to dinner every night of the week at Hickory Hill, the Kennedy family home in McLean, Virginia. After dinner, McCone and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. would swim together. On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, RFK Jr. was picked up from school early by his mother. As they arrived home he saw his father and McCone standing in the driveway. Walking past them, he heard his father say: “Tell me your people didn’t do this.” McCone’s reply: “I don’t know who did it.”[3][2]
Kiriakou’s gloss: “He didn’t say, ‘Of course my people didn’t do it.’ He said, ‘I don’t know who did it.’ And I think that with what we know now, I think it’s safe to assume that there were elements of the CIA. It was not an official, formal CIA policy … I think there were elements of the CIA that were probably involved.”[4]