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More on our breaking news. tonight's 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. let's talk more about what's in the files. the cia tried to use mafia figures to kill castro. that's according to a 1975 report that plans to assassinate castro were undertaken in the early days of the kennedy assassination and were led by richard bissell, who also led the pay of pigs operation. what can you tell us about that? >> well,...

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 can't answer that because certainly when i was serving as a dni i had some questions about why after all these years we couldn't release virtually all of this unless there were some specific reason. and i'm speculating here because i don't know, ...

Records. army and navy intel. this is big information. >> it is big information. we need to remember part of what happened is the cia didn't give all of its information as soon as the commission started because they didn't 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-70s, america had no idea this is what our government did. my guess is there will be more of that,...

>> 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. although it is an incomplete document, it doesn't prove anything. it will certainly lead to questions. ...

>> that's the problem. people don't realize it's something that happened. a lot of young people aren't into history. the other thing is, i don't understand why they're now dragging trump through the mud. it's his fault that they're coming out. like you said, you need to have -- our government can't do anything wrong. >> neil: real quickly, do you think one guy, lee harvey oswald, committed this alone? >> i want to say yes but i wouldn't be surprised if i hear no. >> neil: you're a good lawyer. you didn't answer it. >> i want to say yes but if i'm wrong, i won't lose sleep over it. >> neil: don...