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June 15, 2010

Documents: FBI Monitored Sen. Kennedy in 1961
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Newly released FBI documents show the FBI monitored the late Senator
Edward Kennedy in 1961 when he visited Mexico, Central America and South
America. One document shows that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover received a
file from an FBI employee in Mexico City that said Kennedy is
"interested in meeting with 'leftists' to talk with them and determine
why they think as they do." The FBI documents also show Kennedy was the
target of many death threats over the past fifty years. Threats came
from the Ku Klux Klan, the Mafia and other groups.



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