(NewsNation) — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants his daughter-in-law Amaryllis Fox Kennedy to be the deputy CIA director, Axios reported this week.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign manager, but before that she spent 10 years as an undercover CIA agent.
Two Republican sources told Axios that Robert F. Kennedy believes his daughter-in-law will help “get to the bottom” of the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, in 1963.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly wants Amaryllis Fox Kennedy and Trump to help release documents about the JFK assassination. Trump has repeatedly said he would do this, including at a rally in August that he wants to establish a “new independent commission on assassination attempts” tasked with releasing all the remaining documents relating to the killing of JFK.
Although Trump promised he would declassify all of the remaining government records regarding the assassination in his first term, he ultimately bent to appeals from the CIA and FBI to keep some documents withheld.
The former Independent presidential candidate has previously said on a podcast that there is “overwhelming evidence” that the CIA was involved in the death of JFK.
While the CIA has released a few thousand of the records, millions have yet to be fully released.
However, experts told the Associated Press that even if they are, the public shouldn’t expect earth-shattering revelations.
“Anybody waiting for a smoking gun that’s going to turn this case upside down will be sorely disappointed,” Gerald Posner, author of “Case Closed,” which concludes that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, said to the AP.
NewsNation reached out to Trump’s and Robert F. Kennedy’s teams for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.