Operation Condor Must Be Investigated Thoroughly, Says Fidel Castro

Havana, May 28 (Prensa Latina) Operation Condor must be investigated thoroughly, so that the crimes and the terrorist hand of the anti-Cuba counter-revolution can be known, said Cuban President Fidel Castro on Friday.

The statesman urged to bring to the surface all the truth about that, "the most horrendous page in this hemisphere".

Fidel Castro defended "Latin America´s right to judge the crimes against the Latin American peoples", and demanded that none of those acts must remain unpunished.

Speaking at a round table discussion from Havana´s Karl Marx Theater and broadcast live on national radio and television, Fidel Castro denounced the complicity of the US intelligence services, the Miami-based counter-revolutionary groups and the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship with those crimes.

"It is the horrible history of Plan Condor," he said, referring to the wave of murders, disappearances and torture that brought death to several nations in the South American cone.

The Cuban president charged that documents declassified by US security agencies show the participation of Cuban-born terrorists in many of those crimes.

Those texts confirm meetings of those counter-revolutionary groups, supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in the Dominican Republic in May and June 1976, where those terrorist actions were planned.

Orlando Bosch was there, said the statesman, making a decision on the assassinations of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and ex Army Chief Carlos Prats, and on the blowing-up of the Cuban airliner in mid-flight, killing all 73 people on board.

Fidel Castro said that Bosch, who have enjoyed in Miami the pardon granted by President George Bush, the father of the current US president, also planned other assassinations, including that of Chilean revolutionary Pascal Allende in Costa Rica.

The president also spoke about other terrorists, such as Guillermo Novo Sampoll, who participated in the assassination of Letelier and his US assistant Ronnie Moffitt in Washington.

"They are the same people in Panama, the same methods," he said, referring to the group of terrorists commanded by Posada Carriles who planned to blow up a C-4 bomb at an event at the University of Panama in which Fidel Castro was participating during the 10th Ibero-American Summit.