President-elect Donald J. Trump is contemplating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law to function the deputy director on the C.I.A., in accordance with 4 folks briefed on the matter.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, 44, a former C.I.A. officer who’s married to Mr. Kennedy’s son, met with Mr. Trump final week to debate the job, the folks mentioned. The place doesn’t require Senate affirmation, not like the director job.
Mr. Kennedy, who’s the president-elect’s alternative to steer the Division of Well being and Human Companies, is amongst these encouraging Mr. Trump to rent her, in accordance with two folks near the Trump transition staff. Like others interviewed for this text, they spoke on situation of anonymity to debate non-public deliberations.
In an interview in 2023, Mr. Kennedy mentioned it was “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the C.I.A. was concerned within the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963.
Ms. Fox Kennedy, who served as her father-in-law’s marketing campaign supervisor, has raised alarms inside the company and amongst some lawmakers, partially as a result of she revealed a ebook about her time within the C.I.A. in 2019 — whereas Mr. Trump was president — with out going by the prolonged authorities assessment course of required to test that categorised info is just not made public.
Some former officers questioned particulars within the ebook about Ms. Fox Kennedy’s conferences in Pakistan with Islamic extremists.
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