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COMMENT: In a past post, we not­ed the pro­found rela­tion­ship between the pres­ti­gious “pro­gres­sive” lit­er­ary peri­od­i­cal The Paris Review and the CIA.

Exem­pli­fy­ing what is known as “the left CIA,” the agents and assets grac­ing the pages of the Paris Review com­prise a sig­nif­i­cant ele­ment of post-World War II Amer­i­can literati and intel­li­gentsia.

The pub­li­ca­tion was edit­ed by George Plimp­ton, per­haps best known for his book Paper Lion.

The lat­est issue of Van­i­ty Fair con­tains a short  arti­cle about George Plimp­ton. 

In this sto­ry, we find an inter­est­ing and, per­haps, very sig­nif­i­cant detail about Plimp­ton’s career.

Plimp­ton was at Robert F. Kennedy’s elbow at the Ambas­sador Hotel the night he was killed and “dis­armed the attacker”–a pre­sumed ref­er­ence to pat­sy Sirhan Sirhan.

Although one cer­tain­ly can­not draw con­clu­sions from this, it rais­es some inter­est­ing ques­tions:

• Might Plimp­ton actu­al­ly have been CIA him­self?
• Might his pres­ence at the Ambas­sador have been con­nect­ed to the assas­si­na­tion plot?
• One won­ders why this detail has not emerged before–at least we’ve nev­er heard of George Plimp­ton’s pres­ence at the Ambas­sador before. Plimp­ton was note­wor­thy and it is “curi­ous” that this detail has remained eclipsed over all these years. (After the pub­li­ca­tion of this post, a num­ber of readers/listeners sup­plied ref­er­ences to the Plimpton/RFK assas­si­na­tion link. See the com­ments below.
• If, in fact, Plimp­ton was CIA, was he part of the “Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party/Good Guy” CIA (as described by John Lof­tus) or the much larg­er, much more pow­er­ful GOP/transnational corporate/Underground Reich CIA?

We should not fail to note that the assas­si­na­tion of Robert F. Kennedy is again under scruti­ny, and may wind up back in court. 

“Curi­ous George” by A. M. Homes; Van­i­ty Fair; June, 2013.

EXCERPT: . . . .He would sort of pop up around the edges of these impor­tant moments in his­to­ry. For exam­ple, he was stand­ing next to Robert Kennedy when he was assas­si­nat­ed in Los Ange­les, and George lit­er­al­ly helped dis­arm and sub­due the attack­er,” says Bean. . . .