Witness details ex-CIA agent's in helping Contras

[Judi Lynn]

Witness details ex-CIA agent's in helping Contras
By Associated Press
Posted: 03/31/2011 09:13:44 PM PDT
Updated: 03/31/2011 09:13:44 PM PDT

EL PASO, Texas -- A former CIA agent accused of perjury and immigration fraud helped train Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980s amid U.S. fears that the Soviet Union would station submarines in that Central American country, a former Honduran military official testified Thursday.

Jurors in Luis Posada Carriles' trial in Texas got a taste of his Cold War past as they heard from Fernando Lardizabal, who was secretary to the head of the Honduran armed forces from 1984 until 1991. Lardizabal testified that Posada attended high-level security meetings with U.S. intelligence officials in Honduras, after the Cuba-backed Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua in 1979.

Posada, an 83-year-old native of Cuba, spent decades opposing communist governments around Latin America, often with Washington's support, but sneaked into the U.S. in 2005 and now faces 11 counts of immigration fraud, obstruction of justice and perjury.

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[EFerrari]

1. I hope this @sshole goes to his grave knowing that all his crimes

were for nothing. He lost.