Thread: US seeks to bar anti-Castro extremist to speak of CIA ties

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04/30/07 --- MIAMI (AFP) -- -- The US government is seeking to bar former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for the downing of an airliner, from talking about his links with the agency when he goes on trial in May.

In a nine-page motion filed with a federal tribunal in El Paso, Texas, state prosecutors claimed Posada Carriles's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency ended more than 30 years ago and that as testimony or questioning about those ties were not relevant to his trial on immigration charges.

A fierce opponent of Cuba's communist President Fidel Castro, Posada Carriles was convicted in Venezuela in 1976 of masterminding the downing of the Cuban jet off Barbados, but escaped from prison in 1985.

He was sentenced to eight years' jail in Panama in a 2000 bomb plot to assassinate Castro, and was pardoned four years later.

Posada Carriles was detained by US immigration officials in May 2005 for entering the United States illegally.

He was released on a 350,000-dollar bond on April 19, pending the May 11 start of his trial.

Declassified US documents show that Posada Carriles worked for the CIA from 1965 to June 1976. He reportedly helped the US government ferry supplies to the Contra rebels who waged a bloody campaign to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

Originally Posted by michaelr

By AFP

04/30/07 --- MIAMI (AFP) -- -- The US government is seeking to bar former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for the downing of an airliner, from talking about his links with the agency when he goes on trial in May.

In a nine-page motion filed with a federal tribunal in El Paso, Texas, state prosecutors claimed Posada Carriles's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency ended more than 30 years ago and that as testimony or questioning about those ties were not relevant to his trial on immigration charges.

A fierce opponent of Cuba's communist President Fidel Castro, Posada Carriles was convicted in Venezuela in 1976 of masterminding the downing of the Cuban jet off Barbados, but escaped from prison in 1985.

He was sentenced to eight years' jail in Panama in a 2000 bomb plot to assassinate Castro, and was pardoned four years later.

Posada Carriles was detained by US immigration officials in May 2005 for entering the United States illegally.

He was released on a 350,000-dollar bond on April 19, pending the May 11 start of his trial.

Declassified US documents show that Posada Carriles worked for the CIA from 1965 to June 1976. He reportedly helped the US government ferry supplies to the Contra rebels who waged a bloody campaign to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

I'm not sure on the legality of the CIA in barring his relationship in the trial. But it could be allowed under some claus of the Patriot Act I suppose.

The real issue is that the U.S. is still hunting Castro's head. He is a dying old man now, and is definitly not as dangerous as other dictators anymore. I could understand the CIA's stand if it was against N. Korea's leader.

But Castro is like at the Kids Table at the Dicator Thanksgiving Dinner.

The US is a uniquely open society, we therefore have quite a lot of information about state planning. The basic reasons for US terrorist attacks and illegal sanctions against Cuba were explained in secret documents 40 years ago, when the Kennedy administration sought to bring "the terrors of the earth" to Cuba, as Arthur Schlesinger recounted in his biography of Robert Kennedy, who ran the terror operations as his highest priority.

State Department planners warned that the "very existence" of the Castro regime is "successful defiance" of US policies going back 150 years, to the Monroe Doctrine, which declared the United States would control the western hemisphere. Furthermore, this successful defiance encourages others, who might be infected by the "Castro idea of taking matters into their own hands," Schlesinger had warned incoming President Kennedy, summarizing the report of the President's Latin American mission.

These dangers are particularly grave, Schlesinger elaborated, when "the distribution of land and other forms of national wealth greatly favors the propertied classes … and the poor and underprivileged, stimulated by the example of the Cuban revolution, are now demanding opportunities for a decent living." The whole system of domination might unravel if the idea of taking matters into one's own hands spreads its evil tentacles to other US controlled third world states.

Successful defiance remains intolerable, ranked far higher as a priority than combating terror. In fact, punishing "successful defiance" has been the leading motive for US overt, covert, and indirect interventions since the end of World War II.

If your an imperial superpower people and governments have to be affraid of you if you want to get them to obey orders. Otherwise, they will just do what is in their own interests, and that is usually counter to US neoliberal policies of economic exploitation and control over resources.

US policy in the third world has been to maintain the status quo. Any threat to the status quo is quickly destroyed: Populist governments that improve the standard of living for their populations. This would lead to US corportions having to pay more for their products and then sell the products to American consumers at a higher price which would threaten US economic growth (atleast a little bit) and competitivness with rivals like China.

In other words, American prosperity is at the expense of the third world. We keep them in poverty so we can buy alot of our products at a cheap price. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is currentley on the US hit list for these reasons.

Unless there is relevant information stating that the CIA promised him citizenship for his work there is no need for his service to be brought up in an immigration trial. Would this be an issue if it was the Peace Corps or State Department that used his services?

Now the sanctions against Cuba are illegal. Horhey, what action that the U.S. takes, in your opinion, IS legal?

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Now the sanctions against Cuba are illegal. Horhey, what action that the U.S. takes, in your opinion, IS legal?

Every relevent international forum, including the United Nations has declared the US sanctions and terrorism against Cuba to be illegal.

Originally Posted by Horhey

Every relevent international forum, including the United Nations has declared the US sanctions and terrorism against Cuba to be illegal.

Horhey, I agree with you but you may want to paste some links so that others can validate your posts. Keep up the work young man and take no crap.

U.S. Releases Cuban terrorist and former C.I.A. operative linked to the bombing of a Cuban airliner and hotels

U.S. Releases Cuban Bombing Suspect - New York Times


Luis Posada Carriles

Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is a Cuban born Venezuelan national, an anti-Fidel Castro militant, anti-communist para-military and former CIA operative. Posada has been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner which killed seventy-three people,[1] and has admitted to his involvement in other terrorist plots including a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots.[2][3][4]

By 1961 Posada had relocated to the United States where he was trained in sabotage and explosives at the CIA's School of the Americas for an invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.[12]

After the failed invasion, Posada worked closely with the CIA in Miami and was active in the CIA's Operation 40. He later described his role as that of the agency's "principal agent", informing the organisation about political movements within the exile community and operating anti-Cuban activies.[13] In Florida, Posada also trained members of the JURE, Junta Revolucionaria Cubana, a group which aimed to infiltrate Cuba.[14] CIA files indicate that Posada was involved in a 1965 attempt to overthrow the Guatemalan government. The same year, the CIA reported that Posada was involved in various bombing plans in association with Jorge Mas Canosa.

Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación flight departing from Barbados, via Trinidad, to Cuba. On 6 October 1976 two timebombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board.

Investigators from Cuba, Venezuela and the United States traced the planting of the bombs to two Venezuelan passengers, Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Lozano. Both men were employed by Posada at his private detective agency based in Venezuela, and they both subsequently admitted to the crime.

National Security Archives reveal documents outlining that Posada warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing that fellow exiles were planning such an attack.[17]

According to Posada, the escape was planned and financed by Jorge Mas Canosa, by then head of the Cuban American National Foundation, a group with close ties to the Reagan administration. [18] Mas then helped Posada settle in El Salvador, where he joined the White House-directed operations in the region. [18]

In Central America, Posada was assigned as deputy to Félix Rodríguez, a CIA operative who had overseen the capture and execution of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1967. The pair were to coordinate drops of military supplies to the Contras, a paramilitary collective opposed to the leftist Sandanistas in Nicaragua. Posada was well paid for his role, receiving $3000 per month plus expenses from U.S. Major General Richard Secord, who was directing operations for Oliver North.[13] [17] The subsequent Iran-Contra investigations cast light over U.S. operations in the region, and several of Posada's connections, including Félix Rodríguez were asked to testify.

Though recuperating in Honduras, the FBI believed that Posada was responsible for 41 bombings in the country, Posada himself admitted to planning numerous attacks against Cuba and seeking assistance from the Honduran military to aid his cause, which was not forthcoming. [13]

In 1997, Posada was again implicated in a series of terrorist bombings in Cuba intended to deter the growing tourism trade on the island. An Italian businessman, Fabio di Celmo, was killed and 11 people wounded as a result.

The United States denied Venezuela's extradition request, citing a lack of evidence. Some point out that this could have resulted from the poor relations that the U.S. government has with Chavez's Venezuelan government. However, others have questioned this decision, given the extensive ties between Posada and the US Government, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when he carried out criminal activities with the knowledge of US officials.

The US Government has been heavily criticized in some circles, especially in the context of the so-called "war on terrorism". International law, including the UN Security Council Resolution 1373 of September, 2001, states that countries should not give safe haven of any kind of assistance to people involved in present or past terrorist activities. The final declaration of the XIVth Ibero-American Summit, held in Salamanca in October 2005, includes a demand to "extradite or judge the man responsible for the terrorist blowing-up of a plane of Cubana Aviation in October 1976, which caused the death of 73 innocent civilians".[30]


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Another terrorist supported and harbored by the United States

Orlando Bosch

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Orlando Bosch (also known as Orlando Bosch Avila) is a Cuban exile and former CIA-backed criminal, head of CORU organization, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization". Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called Bosch an "unrepentant terrorist." He has been accused of having taken part in Operation Condor and of a variety of terrorist attacks. Most notably he has admitted, together with another anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, of taking part in the October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner in which all seventy-three people on board were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team. Five people from North Korea were also killed on board the flight. This bombing would have been plotted at the same meeting, attended by Luis Posada Carriles and DINA agent Michael Townley, where Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's assassination, in Washington, D.C. in 1976, was decided.


Orlando Bosch was in contact with CIA in 1962 and 1963, as the agency itself admitted, as recorded in the National Security Archive [2]. At this time, Bosch was the General Coordinator of the Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary Recovery (MIRR). He was a member of the anti-Castro Operation 40.

On October 6th, 1976 Cubana Flight 455 was destroyed after takeoff by a bomb detonation that had been placed in the aircraft toilets in which all seventy-three people on board were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team. Five people from North Korea were also killed on board the flight. This bombing would have been plotted at the same meeting, attended by Luis Posada Carriles and DINA agent Michael Townley, where Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's assassination, in Washington, D.C. in 1976, was decided.

In 1968 Bosch was arrested in Florida for an attack on a Polish freighter with a 57 mm recoilless rifle and was as a result sent to prison for a ten year term. In 1987, almost a decade after the Flight 455 incident, Bosch was freed from Venezuelan charges and went to the United States, assisted by US Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich; there, he was ultimately arrested for a parole violation. Bosch was pardoned of all American charges by President George H.W. Bush on July 18, 1990 at the request of his son Jeb Bush, who later became Governor of Florida; this pardon was despite objections by the then President's own defense department, that Bosch was one of the most deadly terrorists working "within the hemisphere." [1] "Although many countries seek Bosch's extradition he remains free in the United States. The political pressure to grant Bosch a pardon was begun during the congressional campaign run by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, herself a Cuban American, and overseen by her campaign manager Jeb Bush. The resultant pardon reputedly saw huge celebrations in Miami, in what was then called 'Free Orlando Day.'" [2]

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And another

Emmanuel Constant: US Supported Haitian Terrorist/Death Squad Leader

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Emmanuel Constant (nicknamed "Toto", born on October 27, 1956) is the founder of FRAPH, a Haïtian death squad organized in mid-1993 to terrorize supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. After the 1994 U.S. and UN-led multinational occupation restored Aristide to power, Constant managed to escape to the U.S. He was later detained by INS officials in 1995 and prepared to be deported to Haïti to stand trial for involvement in the Raboteau massacre. However, in a December 1995 interview with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes, Constant threatened to divulge secrets about his relationship with the CIA during the early '90s. After this threat, as well as receiving intelligence that there was a plot to assassinate Constant should he return to Haïti, the Clinton administration ordered the INS to release Constant in May 1996.

Notwithstanding pending rape charges, state Supreme Court Justice Michael Mullen at arraignment set bail for Constant at $50,000 cash, despite the protest of prosecutors and human rights groups.

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