Marilyn Monroe

A secret FBI document, uncovered by a Los Angeles-based Australian writer and director, suggests that then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was aware – and perhaps participated in – a plot to induce actress Marilyn Monroe to commit suicide, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Monroe, the report says, "often made suicide attempts and ... was inclined to fake a suicide attempt in order to arouse sympathy." Several people, knowledgeable of that, plotted to induce her to make an attempt and left her to die, the report suggests.

The three-page document, hidden among thousands of pages of FBI documents, was obtained by Philippe Mora under the Freedom of Information Act. Received by the FBI on October 19, 1964, two years after Monroe's death, the document, compiled by an unnamed former special agent who worked for then-California Gov. Pat Brown, was titled "ROBERT F KENNEDY" and contained a disclaimer that it could not be sourced or authenticated. It was forwarded to the FBI's five most senior officers, including director J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man.

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The report, hidden as a classified document for over 40 years, details Kennedy's on-and-off affair with the Hollywood actress and discusses an alleged conspiracy, apparently managed by Robert Kennedy's brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford. Monroe's psychiatrist, staff and her publicist are implicated in the plot. All parties are now deceased.

Robert Kennedy

The document does not say why Monroe was killed but "hints it may be linked to her threats to make public her affair with Kennedy."

The report reads: "Lawford is reported as having made 'special arrangements' with Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, from Beverley Hills. The psychiatrist was treating Marilyn for emotional problems and getting her off the use of barbiturates. On her last visit to him he prescribed Seconal tablets and gave her a prescription for 60 of them, which was unusual in quantity, especially since he saw her frequently. On the date of her death ... her housekeeper put the bottle of pills on the night table. It is reported that the housekeeper and Marilyn's personal secretary and press agent, Pat Newcomb, were co-operating in the plan to induce suicide."

The document says that Kennedy checked out of the Beverley Hills Hotel that same day and flew to San Francisco.

"Robert Kennedy made a telephone call from St. Charles Hotel, San Francisco, to Peter Lawford to find out if Marilyn was dead yet," the unnamed special agent wrote.

Peter Lawford

Lawford reportedly called and talked with Monroe "then checked again later to make sure she did not answer." The housekeeper, who had been hired on the psychiatrist's recommendation, called Greenson.

"Marilyn expected to have her stomach pumped out and get sympathy for her suicide attempt. The psychiatrist left word for Marilyn to take a drive in the fresh air but did not come to see her until after she was known to be dead," the FBI report reads.

The document claims Kennedy had told Monroe he would divorce his wife and marry her. He also had promised to intervene with 20th Century Fox after the studio canceled her contract, saying "he would take care of everything." Monroe allegedly called Kennedy at his office when he did not follow through and the two argued.

"She was reported to have threatened to make public their affair," the document reads.

This is not the first time Monroe's suicide has been characterized as death at the hands of others.

As WND reported in October 2006, June DiMaggio, friend of Monroe and niece of New York Yankee Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio who had been married to the actress, claimed her mother was speaking with Monroe when she was killed.

DiMaggio, in her book "Marilyn, Joe & Me," said her mother overheard Monroe blurt out the name or names of her killer as they stormed into her bedroom – a secret she took to her grave.

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