Posada Carriles: CIA Protégé
Havana, Jan 10, 2006. (Prensa Latina) For four decades, the CIA has given notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles carte blanche, beginning in 1962 when he sought exile in an embassy, was trained at Ft.Benning and sent to Venezuela as a murderer and torturer for the DISIP.
In its digital version, Granma recounts the opportunities the CIA has had to protect Posada Carriles, whom the news report compares to a 17th century pirate.
CIA records certify that in Cuba alone, Luis Posada Carriles committed more than 30 violent operations and is directly or indirectly implicated in terrorist actions in more than 25 countries of Europe, Latin America and even in the United States, Granma asserts.
Granma also notes, "It is remarkably striking that Washington chooses to now contract a German to make a documentary again charging Cuba in the Kennedy assassination and incidentally justify what they are about to do: release Posada Carriles."
The slanders broadcast by German TV are presumed to obscure the true goal of favoring terrorist Luis Posada Carriles since a House Committee probe linked Posada Carriles with the terrorist group JURE (Junta Revolucionaria Cubana), one of the Cuban-American groups coupled to the assassination of President Kennedy.
The CIA again protected Posada Carriles when he masterminded the blowing-up of a Cuban plane in 1976 off the coast of Barbados with 73 people aboard and later, when he fled San Carlos Prison in Venezuela rather than face the consequences of this terrorism.
Posada Carriles reappeared covertly at the Salvadoran military base in Ilopango and was sent by the CIA to work with Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia, chief of the secret Iran-Contra operation.
The CIA protected him after that operation and throughout the Senate hearings, and again when he was arrested in Panama for attempting to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro and thousands of students at the University of Panama.
The US government is considering releasing the terrorist on parole after freezing his deportation to Venezuela.
The Miami Herald says despite the criminal record of Posada Carriles--now held at the Texas Customs and Immigration Office -, a new hearing on Jan 24 will only deal with his immigration status.
Immigration told his defense team they will discuss whether the terrorist "threatens the community" and his willingness to report to its officials on a regular basis.
Perhaps a reason the US will keep Luis Posada Carriles happy is to prevent him from saying all that he knows.