Why the CIA want to keep dark secret in unsealed JFK files

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Today, Trump is anxious for Mexico's help in stemming the tide of migrants streaming over America's southern border.
57% : Robert F Kennedy Jr meeting Donald Trump at a campaign rally in October.
45% : John F Kennedy waving from his car approximately one minute before he was shotDonald Trump promised JFK's nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, that he would release in full the final remaining documents on the assassination of his uncle (pictured) - a pledge he may come to regretFor years, the gravel-voiced ex-lawyer has been arguing that there is 'overwhelming evidence' that the CIA was involved in his uncle's death, claiming that this is 'beyond reasonable doubt'.
44% : Trump has said that during his first term, his then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (himself a former CIA director) urged him to reconsider an earlier promise to release the papers, insisting 'it needs a little more time'.
42% : In the run-up to this year's US presidential election, Donald Trump promised JFK's nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, that he would release in full the final remaining documents - hopefully solving the mystery once and for all.
42% : RFK Jr, who dropped his own presidential run in favour of Trump and who has been rewarded by being nominated as health secretary in the Trump administration, is no stranger to conspiracy theories, from vaccine safety to fluoride in water.
42% : Oliver Stone based his 1991 film on claims that anti-Castro and anti-Communist elements within the CIA were behind a conspiracy to kill Kennedy that involved Oswald.
41% : Trump claimed the CIA was 'probably' behind Pompeo's request.
39% : Given that Trump is keen to keep RFK Jr close to him, reportedly seeing the ex-Democrat as a way of broadening his support base, he may feel he has no choice but to release the files.
34% : And even if Trump puts his alliance with the eccentric but determined RFK Jr first, and releases all the documents, will that end all the speculation about the assassination?Hardly.
32% : So if the CIA is merely trying to protect itself, does that mean Trump will ignore its objections and publish the files in full?
32% : "'One thing is for sure: in trying to appease the demands of his health secretary-in-waiting, Donald Trump - usually a canny operator - has created an almighty headache for himself.
30% : And if Trump does try to make good on his pledge, experts predict he will face a determined battle from an organisation once notorious for ruthless political scheming and dirty tricks.
26% : Yet Trump may come to regret that pledge.
23% : He has been nominated by Trump to run the Department for Health and Human ServicesHe may calculate that the political risk of releasing this information is too high.

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