The Central Intelligence Agency was ultimately behind the assassination of President Kennedy. Allen Dulles, the former head of the CIA, was an integral member of the Warren Commission. Later reports suggested that the CIA withheld information of Kennedy’s assassination from the commission. The CIA refers to this finding as a “Benign Coverup”. CIA historian, David Robarge, writes that McCone and other top CIA officials were part of a "benign cover-up" to keep the commission focused on what the agency believed at the time was the "best truth … that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone" (“Declassified CIA report concluded director led 'cover up' of Kennedy assassination investigation”). The best truth could have
