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United states employed a criminal syndicate in an effort to kill the president of cuba. joining us now, best-selling author and investigative journalist thomas mayer, his book "mafia spies, the inside story of the cia, gangsters, jfk, and castro." good to have you. >> what a tangled web we weave in our government. >> sure was. >> we -- very tangled web with the mob. talk about it. >> it's the first time that america got involved with the assassination business. the cia recruited two gangsters johnny rozell, the mob guy in los angeles, hollywood and las vegas, and sam gene, the top mobster. thi...
The kennedys so they wouldn't go after the mob. you know, all these things are played out in fbi files. >> right. mafia spy, the title of the book could be the never-ending story because the linkage between johnny and sam, both whom get whacked, the kennedy assassination, the questions still linger. my question in the course of living this book as you reported and wrote this book, do you think there is a truth out there that the american public does not know and might never know? >> well, you know, fidel castro died at age 90 and you say, well, if there's all these cia attempts to kill him, ho...
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 intelligence agencies still asking to keep so much of this secret, do you think? >> i really can't ans...