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Warren Commission critics point out that its members had never been told about the CIA's scheming with mobsters to assassinate Castro, even though Castro had warned publicly on Sept. 7, 1963, that "U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe." Allen Dulles, a member of the commission who had been the CIA director when the plots were hatched, did not disclose this secret to the investigators. The CIA had told Robert Kennedy, but he too kept this information from the commission. Bobby's apparent acquiescence in the attempts to kill Castro may have added twinges of guilt to his deep grief over his brother's death.
Clearly, those plots were something the commission had every right to know about. If alerted to the CIA-Mafia entanglement, it might have worked even harder to close some of the investigatory gaps through which, 25 years later, the conspiracy advocates still rush with a welter of accusations, speculation and, so far, a dearth of conclusive evidence.