A 1976 State Department memo names Posada Carriles as probable terrorist
A 1976 State Department memo names Posada Carriles as probable terrorist
German Piniella • June 6, 2015
An article published June 4 by El Nuevo Herald, under the headline “State Department Considered Posada Carriles as the Likely Author of Bombing of Cuban Airliner,” confirms what many have long suspected: that U.S. government agencies were not totally disassociated — at least by omission — from the so-called “Crime of Barbados,” a reference to the place where someone placed the bomb that destroyed Cubana Airlines’ Havana-bound Flight 455 on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 people aboard.
Most of the victims were members of the Cuban youth fencing team.
According to El Herald, “a document unclassified on Wednesday [June 3] by the State Department, going back to 1976, shows concerns about CIA ties to extremist groups of Cuban exiles and considers Luis Posada Carriles as the most likely author of the bombing of a Cubana de Aviación airliner that year.”
The document, signed by Harold H. Saunders, director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation, and the Assistant Secretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Harry W Shlaudeman, was sent to the then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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Verbatim: The State Department’s references to Posada Carriles
Progreso Weekly • June 6, 2015
The following are excerpts from an Oct. 22, 1976, memorandum to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger from the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Harold Saunders, and the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Harry Shlaudeman. The subject is the bombing of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455, Cuba-bound out of Barbados, on Oct. 6, 1976.
ON THE BOMBING SUSPECTS:
“(Hernán Ricardo Lozano) was arrested in Trinidad on suspicion of having planted a bomb in the Cubana plane. Caracas radio announced on October 18 that he confessed to sabotaging the airliner. A CIA source … reports that Ricardo may have been trained in the use of explosives and investigative techniques by Luis Posada. CIA information also reveals that Trinidadian officials have told the Venezuelans that they have a taped telephone conversation between Ricardo and Posada discussing their participation in the bombing. (…)”
[Editor’s Note: CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency.]
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“Freddy Lugo was arrested in Trinidad with Ricardo on suspicion of having planted the bomb aboard the Cubana plane. […] Lugo, a Venezuelan citizen, is also a photographer employed by Posada’s company.
“Luis Posada Carriles was arrested on October 14 in Venezuela along with Orlando Bosch and three others accused of conspiring to sabotage the plane. Posada, a Cuban exile who is now a Venezuelan citizen, is vehemently anti-Castro and is suspected to having been the main supporter of Bosch during the latter’s stay in Venezuela prior to being arrested in November 1974. Posada was formerly chief of the counterintelligence division of the Venezuelan Intelligence Service, DISIP (Police Intelligence Services Directorate.)
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