Grave_n_idle
17-04-2007, 12:53
I was just surfing through the tubes of the interwebs, when I happened across a little detail that stuck to my radar. Perhaps everyone already knows all about it - but it seemed interesting to me:
"Posada Boasted of Plans to "Hit" Cuban Plane, CIA Document States.
Washington D.C. June 9, 2005 - Luis Posada Carriles spoke of plans to "hit" a Cuban airliner only days before Cubana flight 455 exploded on October 6, 1976, killing all 73 passengers aboard, according to a declassified CIA document from 1976 posted by the National Security Archive today.
The CIA document described a $1000-a-plate fundraiser in Caracas held between September 22 and October 5, 1976, to support the activities of Orlando Bosch, the head of CORU, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB157/index.htm
Important names here:
CORU: "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations" (which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization")
Orlando Bosch: Cuban exile, opponent of Castro, linked to (but never charged) the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 which killed 73 people.
"According to Cuban authorities Bosch was involved in 78 terrorist attacks on Spain, England, Japan, Mexico, Poland, and other countries that traded with Cuba.
In October, 1968, United States officials arrested Bosch for terrorist activities...
Bosch was freed in 1972. The following year he moved to Venezuela where he joined up with Guillermo Novo and Luis Posada.
In February, 1968, Ricardo Morales Navarrete was arrested and charged with placing an explosive device in the building of a company trading with Cuba. He was eventually released on this charge and agreed to become a FBI informer and went to work for Bosch... Ricardo worked for Posada's security agency in Venezuela and admitted that he and Lugo had planted two bombs on the plane. Ricardo claimed the bombing had been organized by Bosch and Luis Posada. When Posada was arrested he was found with a map of Washington showing the daily route of to work of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, who had been assassinated on 21st September, 1976.
Herman Ricardo and Freddy Lugo were both sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. In 1987 Bosch was freed with the help of Otto Reich, the White House's leading adviser on Latin America. Bosch entered the United States, where he was granted asylum. He was eventually pardoned by President George Bush on 18th July, 1990".
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbosch.htm
Importnant names here:
Orlando Bosch, again.
George H W Bush: The person who issued the pardon for Bosch.
Now - while Bosch has not (yet) admitted openly an involvement in the bombing of Flight 455, an interview last year does suggest very strongly that he was involved:
"If I tell you that I was involved, I will be inculpating myself . . . . and if I tell you that did not participate in that action, you would say that I am lying. I am therefore not going to answer one thing or the other... in a war such as us cubans who love liberty wage against the tyrant, you have to down planes, you have to sink ships, you have to be prepared to attack anything that is within your reach... I saw the young girls on television. There were six of them. After the end of the competition, the leader of the six dedicated their triumph to the tyrant etc etc. She gave a speech filled with praise for the tyrant. We had already agreed in Santo Domingo, that every one who comes from Cuba to glorify the tyrant had to run the same risks as those men and women that fight alongside the tyranny."
http://www.counterpunch.org/pertierra04112006.html
"In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
Jeb Bush sealed his popularity with the Cuban exile community by acting as campaign manager for another prominent Cuban-American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she ran successfully for Congress... She has since lobbied successfully for the release of several exiles convicted of terrorist offences held in US jails but who now live freely in Miami.
Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.
In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a "great Cuban patriot".
Other Cuban exiles involved in terrorist acts, Jose Dionisio Suarez and Virgilio Paz Romero, who carried out the 1976 assassination of the Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, have also been released by the current Bush administration."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,851913,00.html
Important names here:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Cuban-American lobbyist for the release of convicted exile terrorists.
Orlando Bosch: Again.
Raoul Cantero: Nominated as supreme court judge by Jeb Bush. Represented Bosch. Was one of two people to lobby George H W Bush for the release of Bosch.
Jeb Bush: Appointed Raoul Cantero, managed the campaign for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Was one of two people to lobby George H W Bush for the release of Bosch.
How true is all of this? What does it mean? IF CORU is a terror organisation... why are they being 'pardoned', and being given residency?
"Posada Boasted of Plans to "Hit" Cuban Plane, CIA Document States.
Washington D.C. June 9, 2005 - Luis Posada Carriles spoke of plans to "hit" a Cuban airliner only days before Cubana flight 455 exploded on October 6, 1976, killing all 73 passengers aboard, according to a declassified CIA document from 1976 posted by the National Security Archive today.
The CIA document described a $1000-a-plate fundraiser in Caracas held between September 22 and October 5, 1976, to support the activities of Orlando Bosch, the head of CORU, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB157/index.htm
Important names here:
CORU: "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations" (which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization")
Orlando Bosch: Cuban exile, opponent of Castro, linked to (but never charged) the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 which killed 73 people.
"According to Cuban authorities Bosch was involved in 78 terrorist attacks on Spain, England, Japan, Mexico, Poland, and other countries that traded with Cuba.
In October, 1968, United States officials arrested Bosch for terrorist activities...
Bosch was freed in 1972. The following year he moved to Venezuela where he joined up with Guillermo Novo and Luis Posada.
In February, 1968, Ricardo Morales Navarrete was arrested and charged with placing an explosive device in the building of a company trading with Cuba. He was eventually released on this charge and agreed to become a FBI informer and went to work for Bosch... Ricardo worked for Posada's security agency in Venezuela and admitted that he and Lugo had planted two bombs on the plane. Ricardo claimed the bombing had been organized by Bosch and Luis Posada. When Posada was arrested he was found with a map of Washington showing the daily route of to work of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, who had been assassinated on 21st September, 1976.
Herman Ricardo and Freddy Lugo were both sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. In 1987 Bosch was freed with the help of Otto Reich, the White House's leading adviser on Latin America. Bosch entered the United States, where he was granted asylum. He was eventually pardoned by President George Bush on 18th July, 1990".
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbosch.htm
Importnant names here:
Orlando Bosch, again.
George H W Bush: The person who issued the pardon for Bosch.
Now - while Bosch has not (yet) admitted openly an involvement in the bombing of Flight 455, an interview last year does suggest very strongly that he was involved:
"If I tell you that I was involved, I will be inculpating myself . . . . and if I tell you that did not participate in that action, you would say that I am lying. I am therefore not going to answer one thing or the other... in a war such as us cubans who love liberty wage against the tyrant, you have to down planes, you have to sink ships, you have to be prepared to attack anything that is within your reach... I saw the young girls on television. There were six of them. After the end of the competition, the leader of the six dedicated their triumph to the tyrant etc etc. She gave a speech filled with praise for the tyrant. We had already agreed in Santo Domingo, that every one who comes from Cuba to glorify the tyrant had to run the same risks as those men and women that fight alongside the tyranny."
http://www.counterpunch.org/pertierra04112006.html
"In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
Jeb Bush sealed his popularity with the Cuban exile community by acting as campaign manager for another prominent Cuban-American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she ran successfully for Congress... She has since lobbied successfully for the release of several exiles convicted of terrorist offences held in US jails but who now live freely in Miami.
Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.
In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a "great Cuban patriot".
Other Cuban exiles involved in terrorist acts, Jose Dionisio Suarez and Virgilio Paz Romero, who carried out the 1976 assassination of the Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, have also been released by the current Bush administration."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,851913,00.html
Important names here:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Cuban-American lobbyist for the release of convicted exile terrorists.
Orlando Bosch: Again.
Raoul Cantero: Nominated as supreme court judge by Jeb Bush. Represented Bosch. Was one of two people to lobby George H W Bush for the release of Bosch.
Jeb Bush: Appointed Raoul Cantero, managed the campaign for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Was one of two people to lobby George H W Bush for the release of Bosch.
How true is all of this? What does it mean? IF CORU is a terror organisation... why are they being 'pardoned', and being given residency?