Thread: UNITED STATES: What are Posada’s secrets?

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UNITED STATES: What are Posada’s secrets?

Tom Crumpacker, Miami

The administration led by US President George Bush has done an excellent job of confusing the public about its plans regarding Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative who blew up a civilian Cubana airliner in 1976, killing 73 civilians, mostly Cubans.

In 1986, Posada escaped from a Venezuelan prison, where he was awaiting prosecution for the bombing. Posada is a Venezuelan citizen, and he made the bomb in Caracas. He resurfaced in the US in May, and applied for asylum. While the Venezuelan government has applied to Washington to have him extradited, the Bush administration has not yet agreed, despite its extradition treaty with Caracas.

Instead, he is being held on suspicion of entering the US illegally. A provision in the US-Venezuela extradition treaty says the custodial state can keep the alleged criminal until its own proceedings against him arising from crimes committed there are completed.

Posada's immigration case is now set for hearing before a Homeland Security judge in Texas on August 29. On May 21 Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice indicated the Homeland case might go on for many months and his extradition would be determined on its completion. With motions and appeals and paid lawyers, this might mean years. This is not what the provision was designed for.

So why not just send him to the extradition judge and be done with it? What's the reason for keeping him here? Delay for delay's sake? Aggravate the Venezuelan government? Weaken the US claim to be the world leader in its “war against terror�?

Recently declassified (partially blacked out) CIA, FBI and State Department reports (Recently summarised by Peter Kornbluh and available at <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153>) indicate that in the early 1960s, the CIA trained Posadas in demolition and explosives. He was ostensibly in the US military, February 1963 to March 1964, which was the cover CIA gave its training agents then.

During the 1960s, as a salaried agent he ran a school in Florida training others in his trade, financed by CIA. He also did forays to other countries to do covert bombings and assassinations.

The CIA was using him as an “operative� in Caracas in 1976. When he left Florida for Caracas to work with the Venezuelan intelligence agency DISIP, he had with him a supply of CIA bomb-making materials and explosive devices. On the date of the bombing of Havana-bound Cubana flight 455, October 6, 1976, he had supposedly left DISIP and was operating a private detective agency in Caracas.

The reports suggest that the Cubana bombing was a joint DISIP-CIA project and the CIA was involved in the planning. They refer to meetings in Santo Domingo in the summer and in Caracas in early September involving CIA agent Posada and his partner Orlando Bosch and top DISIP officials, at which discussions were held about bombing Cubana flights. At the time, Bosch was head of CORU, a new CIA-supported umbrella organisation of violent anti-Castro groups in the US.

In late September Posada reported to the CIA: “We're going to hit the Cubana airliner.â€? On October 1, the US State Department â€â€

OH MY GOD!! This is more sickening than I can take at this point. I believe every word of it. Apply this same "procedure" to more recent events in the United States and maybe some answers will come forth for the otherwise inexplicable.

Copuld this be another case of the US training a Terr.....?

I wonder JP?!? Could it be?