THE POSADA FILE: PART II

National Security Archive Update, June 9, 2005

Posada Boasted of Plans to “Hit” Cuban Plane, CIA Document States

Served as Instructor, Informant for Agency for more than a Decade

Other Documents Highlight Creation of Exile Terrorist Umbrella Group;
Subsequent Acts of Terrorism and Violence attributed to Orlando Bosch

For more information contact:
Peter Kornbluh – 202/994-7116 – pkorn@gwu.edu

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. Also posted were five additional documents covering key aspects of Posada’s career, anti-Castro terrorist Orlando Bosch and the organization of violent anti-Castro exile groups in the mid-1970s.

Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, called these documents “part of a trove of intelligence records that provide leads and evidence on major acts of terrorism committed by violent anti-Castro groups.” He called on the CIA to fully declassify its voluminous files on Posada “as a concrete contribution to justice for those who have committed acts of terror.”

Please follow the link below to read the documents posted today:

www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB157/index.htm

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