He asserted that Monroe was murdered by the CIA due to her association with Robert F. Kennedy, as the agency wanted revenge for the Kennedys' handling of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.[1] Smith had already written about the topic in his previous book, The Men Who Murdered Marilyn (1996).[75] Noting that Smith included no footnotes in his 1996 book and only eight in Victim, Churchwell has called his account "a tissue of conjecture, speculation and pure fiction as documentary fact" and "arguably the least factual of all Marilyn lives".[75] The Miner transcripts were also discussed in a 2005 Los Angeles Times article.[2]