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Highest levels of the white house in this bunch released today showing that some of the senior people in the kennedy administration wanted to find a way to use biological agents, their term, to wipe out the crops in cuba to generate a popular rebellion against castro. you know, the exploding cigars weve known about for a long time, and the various ways they tried to kill castro. but this was very inventive. they were hoping that the could you ban people would do it themselves. lyndon johnson alw...

Member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing whats political and start doing whats right. our country depends on it. more on our breaking news. tonights release of thousands of jfk assassination files. hugh was there on that tragic day and i want to hear more about that. first i want to get some more information from larry. lets talk more about whats in the files. the cia tried to use mafia figures to kill castro. thats according to a 1975 report that plans to assassi...

Kennedy first. that was johnsons theory. but again, we dont have evidence. there really isnt hard evidence that if i dell castro did it. theres probably a better case to be made that anti-castro cubans were involved. >> were you agreeing with that, hugh? were you laughing? >> yes, i do agree with it. gosh knows how many people our government tried to kill or did kill during that period of time. and thats why theyre afraid of releasing this because it will hurt. it will hurt the cia particularly ...

Was originally signed on by president reagan in 1981 that specifically prohibits asass nations. >> yeah. i want to ask you. this is about an fbi memorandum. it was from march 6, 1967 where robert kennedy has been informed by the cia. it says that an intermediary had been hired by cia and approached sam gene can that with a proposition of paying $150,000 to hire some gunman to go to cuba and kill castro. he obviously was a mobster. we know about him. why after all these years the cia and other in...

>> well, there were more plots than you can shake a stick at in the kennedy administration to get rid of if i dell castro. it is absolutely amazing. we have found a document at the highest levels at the white house in this bunch released today showing that some of the senior people in the kennedy administration wanted to find a way to use biological agents, their term, to wipe out the crops in cuba to generate a popular rebellion against castro. you know, the exploding cigars weve known about fo...

More on our breaking news. tonights release of thousands of jfk assassination files. back with me now larry sabato and hugh aynesworth. hugh was there on that tragic day, and i want to hear more about that. first i want to get some more information from larry. lets talk more about whats in the files. the cia tried to use mafia figures to kill castro. thats according to a 1975 report that plans to assassinate castro were undertaken in the early days of the kennedy assassination and were led by ri...

Okay? it says that an intermediary had been hired by cia and approached sam giancana with a proposition of paying $150,000 to hire some gunmen to go to cuba and kill castro. giancana was a mobster. we know about him. why after all these years the cia and other intelligence agencies still asking to keep so much of this secret, do you think? >> i really cant answer that because certainly when i was serving as a dni i had some questions about why after all these years we couldnt release virtually a...

Records. army and navy intel. this is big information. >> it is big information. we need to remember part of what happened is the cia didnt give all of its information as soon as the commission started because they didnt want to reveal all the different operations they were involved in in that period. not necessarily as an effort to protect oswald. so there is more information. my guess is a lot of that is going to be more of efforts to kill castro, for example. information, which before the mid...

>> one thing is this memo about how the fbi had information that there was an effort to kill oswald and who was worried about having this information after it happens. another is familiar to historians and people people who lived through the 70s all the different activities the cia was involved in, trying to kill castro, operations overseas, monitoring martin luther king as late as 1967. finally, the cliffhanger memo suggesting connections between the cia and oswald will be front and center. alt...

>> thats the problem. people dont realize its something that happened. a lot of young people arent into history. the other thing is, i dont understand why theyre now dragging trump through the mud. its his fault that theyre coming out. like you said, you need to have -- our government cant do anything wrong. >> neil: real quickly, do you think one guy, lee harvey oswald, committed this alone? >> i want to say yes but i wouldnt be surprised if i hear no. >> neil: youre a good lawyer. you didnt an...