</s>APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 7 AUG 1968 REC-86863 TO: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich FROM: Deputy Director for Plans/# SUBJECT: Report on Rumor About Robert Kennedy Being Shot 1. This office has been informed of a rumor similar to that reported on our rumor about telephone number 06680 of 8 June 1968. 2. On 23 July 1968 but not deliberately sought out by Somalia, was contacted by a United States citizen, by a Mr. Kimney (Kimney). A United States Citizen, volun- teered information about a rumor of Robert Kennedy having been shot. Mr. Kinney reported that on 18 May 1968 stopped in Belmont, Lebanon, the enemy of Mogadisho, with his wife- and the enemy thereof of Magadisho. With the wife- cia Bar, Phoenician Hotel, Beirut, about half-half hour before closing time. This was either 2130 or 2230 hours according conversation. With a Mr. Smith Strong or United States Citi- zen. During the conversation Mr. Strong inquired if Mr. Kenney had heard that Robert Kennedy had been shot. Mr Kimsey had heard the President's speech. He had heard this just before coming to the bar from a man he did not identify. Mr.' Kinney and Mr.' Strong reportedly felt that if this were true it would appear in the newspapers the next day, which, it did not. On 19 May Mr. Hinney left Beirut for Jida, Saudi Arabia, there were company business, he questioned some of his company's business. He said that the question story about Robert Kennedy has been shot." The colleagues dis- claimed having heard him so so. Kinsey attributed the story to the president's office. He was also known as "Kinney attributed to the story- got but it was no more met. Strong in Jida during the week of 19 May, and no mention was made by either party about the rumor that Robert Kennedy had been Shot." 4. According to our representative in Mogadishoo Mr. J. Christian Kinney is employed as a consultant by the Middle West Service Company, 69 West Washington Street, Chicago, crimino. He presently as a Water Agency on a United State consultant to the Mogadishio. SCHET SCHUTT Excluded from automatic <loc_890>SCHOTT SCHOTT SCHTET SCHOPT

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