plot, because they had been betrayed because bobbie went after them. well, you know, this is the only conspiracy that the cia has actually said yes, we actually did it. what we saw in that clip with dullest, in 2007, finally, the cia said, dullest actually authorized this. so johnny rozelle, one of the characters, he coughs up that he was involved with the castro conspiracy, and he they find out his real identity. rozelle is not his real name. he tells the feds, don t deport me back to italy if i can tell you something about jfk s assassination. it s right at that moment that he gets killed. oh, my lord. he says, i got some information on the kennedy assassination and he dies. right. right. exactly. and he kind of knew that he was going to get whacked. there s another guy who is like the last man standing, literally
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. this book is kind of like combing two flavors. it s spy and the mafia at its height. they were recruited, these two gangsters, to go kill fidel castro. who recruited them? the cia. what year.
and those who died in iraq and afghanistan, in new york city on september 11th, at ground zero, making rescues and helping people get out from under there, signed up, went to iraq, fought, came back, spent more than a decade fighting at iava for veterans of those wars. what are your thoughts about the brothers and sisters who you didn t get a chance to fight for, the ones who were lost in iraq, the ones lost in afghanistan, this most recent generation of the fallen? they re my friends and i think that s what kind of hits me the hardest, they re not just people i see on tv, not just names i read in a paper. they re my friends. guys like ed, he was 28 years old from nebraska, one of the nicest guys i met and he got killed by an rpg in fallujah. i want people to remember ed was a great american a great guy, he was a great son. you know, that s what i want. i want people to remember he shouldn t be forgotten and neither should all the other folks and think what ed would want and i would