exactly.... Jack Kennedy courted Mafia types and his family were bootleggers...the source of all the family money. the Chicago mob probably helped Daley with the Illinois vote theft in the 1960 election....
then brother Bobby decides to get religion and go after them and their buddies in the unions. Can't have it both ways. Sam Giancanna and the Chicago Mob probably set the wheels into motion..
One of the big myths of the Kennedys was they were trying to destroy the Mafia. His grandfather said the Kennedys were trying to get control of The Business, not destroy it.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, one thing they learned was the USSR wasn't a govt as we understand it, but was an organized crime syndicate.
Had the Kennedys gotten control of organized crime in this country with the entire backing of the US govt., they would have been in direct competition with organized crime in the USSR which was backed by the govt.
I believe there was a combination of organized crime and the USSR behind it.