The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIA’s defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by its public engagements with Lee Harvey Oswald, just a few weeks before Oswald allegedly killed Kennedy. For over six years a former Washington Post reporter, Jefferson Morley, has been suing the CIA for the release of these documents. [1]
Sometimes the way that a news item is reported can be more newsworthy than the item itself. A notorious example was the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers (documents far too detailed for most people to read) on the front page of the New York Times.
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Long and short? Mob hit to diempower Bobby Kennedy and to get back at him for sending Carlos Marcello out of the country in handcuffs.
Why the secrets? Because to openly discuss the above would have been to openly discuss the coup planned for Dec 1 1963 in Castro's Cuba, and possibly ignite WWIII.
Why for so long? CIA involvement because the CIA had hired the mob to run many other coup attempts (all those youve heard of, like exploding cigars. The JFK planned coup was to hit Castro when he travelled by open jeep to his beach compound. Sound familiar?)
Salon founder, David Talbot has a good review here:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/review/index.html
Talbot is kinder and does not mention Hartmann's CIA ties, and instead just points out that it is a book that uses a lot of artful deception to mask an utterly impossible premise. the entire affair is a rehash essentially of the House Select Committee investigation which tried to blame the mob as the force behind the assassination.
Utter nonsense! But it was clever enough to fool a lot of people, even some experts. I really recommend Talbot's book Brothers or the ames Douglas book, JFK and the Unspeakable (Why he Died and Why it Matters).