committee organized to kill oswald. hoover says the fbi shared that information with the dallas police chief, hoover said in 1963 he was assured adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. oswald was shot dead while being escorted out of the basement of the dallas police department. and what about those rumored plots to kill fidel castro, who at the time was the leader of cuba? the new jfk files contained a 1975 document, detailing how then attorney general robert kennedy told the fbi that he learned the cia had hired someone to approach the mob about killing castro. another plot to kill castro detailed in the document s would have involved the cia s use of an american lawyer sent to negotiate with castro for the release of the bay of pigs prisoners. the plan was for the lawyer to give castro who would like to skin dive a dive suit contaminated with a disabling
tweet from friday saying all files would be released except for the names and addresses of anyone still living. later on saturday, he tweeted the nasdjfk files are released ahead of schedule, but no new files have been made public. we had our teams looking through the documents to see what new has been discovered. the documents released. randi kaye has details on some of what we found. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. reporter: weeks before assassinating president john f. kennedy, new released files reveal not only did lee harvey oswald travel to mexico city, but oswald spoke with a kgb officer there at the russian embassy, who worked for a department responsible for sabotage and assassination. adding to the intrigue, a cia memo detailing an intercepted phone call from oswald to the embassy. oswald, in broken russian, asked
between two cuban spies. one says oswald must have a good shot. the other, oh, he was quite good. i knew him. another file describes a phone call weeks before the assassination between a kgb agent in mexico and oswald who is speaking broken russian and asking, anything new concerning the telegram to washington? the soviets themselves thought oswald had help. a source saying they believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ultra right in the united states. an apparent stab at the man who took over for kennedy, lyndon johnson. still another file has a former cia director saying, president johnson used to go around saying that the reason president kennedy was assassinated was that he had assassinated president d.m., the leader of south vietnam. plenty of new details for old theories, sure, but the big secrets, if they re anywhere, they re in the documents we have not yet seen. reporter: yet on and on, the
russia. hundreds of other records were withheld for now, at least, after requests by the telgts agencies. cnn s randi kaye has a look at what we ve learned. reporter: president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. just weeks before assassinated president john f. kennedy, newly released files reveal not only did lee harvey oswald travel to mexico city, but he spoke with a kgb officer there at the russian embassy who worked for a department responsible for sabotage and assassination. adding to the intrigue, a cia memo detailing an intercepted phone call from oswald to the embassy. os ward in broken russian asked if there was, quote, anything new concerning the telegram to washington. the new documents also reveal the president s brother, attorney general robert kennedy, and the fbi had been warned about a new book alleging robert
days leading up to and following the assassination. the memo you just played where we learned that hoover knew someone was out to kill oswald or had information about this and they failed to stop it, that s really interesting. there s a lot of interesting documents. we knew this was happening, but about all the efforts to kill castro and to cause all kind of chaos in cuba, that s interesting to read. so there s some good nuggets and good material filling out how much they were tracking lee harvey oswald in the months leading up to the assassination. there s no smoking gun, though. there s no evidence from what i ve seen so far of a conspiracy. and what about this alleged cuban intel officer? saying that he actually knew oswal oswald? yeah. we know some of this already. this had not all been unseen. there was information there s