| From: | "Karen Lee Wald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Block Address | Add to Address Book |
| To: | "Maceo Carillo Martinet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
| Subject: | the "good" terrorists |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:25:54 -0700 |
REICH-POSADA-BOSCH
� While five Cuban patriots remain imprisoned in five different penitentiaries throughout U.S. territory for having counteracted the terrorist plans of Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles and others of their ilk, these two terrorists, the most dangerous in the hemisphere, receive high-level support from Otto Reich
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Granma International staff writer)
THROUGHOUT their lives they have pursued their personal interests, within the CIA and its networks, displaying total disdain for their adopted country, which they systematically discredit and deceive. They form the most dangerous axis that has ever penetrated the United States of America, the Axis of Deceit, and one of the many symptoms of a cancer which is slowly but surely leading that country down the road to perdition.
One of them works in the White House. He is Otto Reich, currently assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs � in other words, the U.S. government�s Number One man in Latin America.
The second is "Dr. Death" Orlando Bosch, the "capo" of the most fanatical terrorist grouplets in Miami and the "godfather" of the Commando of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), the extremist secret society responsible for more than 50 murders in the United States, Cuba and other nations. He was "liberated" from a Venezuelan jail and absolved thanks to Number One.
The third, Luis Posada Carriles, is now in a Panamanian prison along with four accomplices in murder. He is another former "godfather" of CORU and guilty of innumerable attacks, was once the head of Venezuela�s political police, is a proven drug trafficker involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and a buddy of all the Miami and Central American mafiosos, and he now awaits his release � announced by his drug-dealing lawyer and financed by dirty tricks conceived by Number One and Number Two.
Of course, they have one common characteristic: in the early 1960s they fell into the clutches of the CIA and became the most rabid of that agency�s Cuban contacts. At the same time, through "the Company" they made fortunes from working for the million-dollar Cuban-American counterrevolutionary cartel, utilizing an impressive set of contacts established through deceit, extortion and terror.
They evolved in different ways: Reich, wearing a coat and tie, concentrated on penetrating the circles of power and palling around with the various capos of the Miami mafia; while Posada and Bosch guided the activities of their murderous organizations from Buenos Aires to Santo Domingo, from Montreal to Madrid and Luanda.
DISCOVERED BY CIA AGENT FRANK CALZONE, A MASTER OF DISINFORMATION
Born "accidentally" in Cuba, as a commentator once put it, of an Austrian father and a Cuban mother, Otto Reich was taken from the island when he wasn�t yet 15 years old, and his family took up residence in Charlotte, North Carolina, a considerable distance from the Caribbean.
He hooked up with the CIA while at the university, having been selected by Frank Calz�n, who would become the CIA�s trusted agent in various disinformation operations. Later on, he would collaborate with Calz�n on the Freedom House project, a supposedly pro-democratic invention of the CIA. A master of disinformation, Calz�n recognized Reich as an able and willing student.
After getting his degree, Reich was anxious to act on his newly declared U.S. citizenship, so he went into the army for two years and was stationed in � guess what? � Panama, the mecca of the counterinsurgency movement.
Otto Reich moved to Miami in 1972, very consciously linking himself to the right-wing Cuban-American circles that were already imposing their terrorist dominion on the city. Moreover, the CIA maintained its most active center of operations there, especially aimed at Cuba and the continent it planned to dominate.
ALL IS FAIR WHEN COVERING UP DIRTY TRICKS
Reich came into the public eye in the United States during the era of Ronald Reagan and the dirty war in Nicaragua. At that time he was chosen to head the Office of Public Diplomacy, conceived by the CIA to carry out officially � under the cloak of the State Department � the cover-up and disinformation he had already been doing covertly.
At that time, former CIA agent and former CIA Director George Bush was Reagan�s vice president and confidant. He took charge of sponsoring Reich�s entrance into those high levels of government, with the same determination he had used as CIA director to approve the creation of the strongest anti-Cuba terrorist organization, CORU, whose chain of crimes is almost endless.
Under the title of State Department Special Counsel for Public Diplomacy, he worked furiously on matters that later helped provoke what is known as the Iran-Contra Scandal, although it should have been called the Narco-Contra Super-scandal.
In Reich�s eyes, any action was justified in the effort to support the mercenary Nicaraguan contras, and of course to cover up the dirty tricks carried out by CIA operatives in that effort.
Today, the whole world knows that the arms sales to Iran were just the tip of an iceberg that included � in much larger proportions and multi-million-dollar profits for the contras � the transfer and sales of drugs (mostly marijuana and cocaine) from South American producers to the U.S. market.
This monstrous drug trafficking operation, engineered entirely by the CIA, utilized the network created in U.S. territory by the members of Operation 40, following the Bay of Pigs invasion. (For more information, see Jerry Meldon, The CIA�s Dope-Smuggling Freedom Fighters, available on the Internet.)
THE SAME OPERATION, FROM WASHINGTON TO ILOPANGO
From his office in Washington, Reich was in constant contact with two Cuban-Americans who were directing the whole operation: F�lix Rodr�guez (alias Max G�mez) and Luis Posada Carriles, both of whom worked out of the Ilopango air base in El Salvador.
Rodr�guez was a Watergate burglar and a trusted confidant of George Bush Sr. In fact, years later, Bush officially received him in the White House, despite his criminal record, with full protocol.
Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch are the terrorists responsible in 1976 for blowing up a Cubana Airlines passenger plane in mid-flight, thereby killing all 73 persons on board. Posada Carriles has also carried out more than 50 assassination attempts, both successful and unsuccessful.
After the CIA and the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) helped him escape from the Venezuelan jail where he was being held in relation to the Cubana airplane bombing, Posada returned to his dirty work, and the CIA recognized his great talent in such activities.
For years, Reich energetically backed the efforts of these two Cuban-Americans with innumerable lies. He knew perfectly well that they were terrorists who had been specially trained by the CIA and utilized in that utterly illegal operation.
A report by the General Accounting Office would later expose to the U.S. Congress the nature of the deceitful maneuvers feverishly perpetrated by Reich, utilizing his government position.
As a result, the U.S. public discovered how, with taxpayers� money, Reich had fabricated news items, with the objective of disinforming both the citizenry and the politicians, claiming that the Sandinistas were persecuting the Misquito Indians, that they had purchased MiG-29s from the Soviet Union and that were preparing attacks on U.S. territory.
To promote these official lies, Reich expressly ordered that false letters of denunciation be written, signed with the names of the mercenary contra leaders.
Refining his methods, Reich used (illegally, of course) government funds to publish requests for donations to the contras. The purpose of this maneuver was to justify the existence of the money that really came from drug trafficking, collected by his cohorts in Ilopango and deposited in bank accounts, in Grand Cayman and Switzerland, belonging to anti-Sandinista mercenaries.
Reich�s collaboration with arch-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was maintained until the Ilopango operation was exposed in October 1986, when a light aircraft belonging to the CIA was shot down. The pilot, Eugene Hasenfuss, not only denounced the drug trafficking operation, but also identified F�lix Rodr�guez and Luis Posada Carriles, the latter a fugitive from Venezuelan justice.
FOR ORLANDO BOSCH, REICH IS LIKE A BROTHER
Given this situation, the Reagan-Bush administration ushered Reich out the back door, suddenly appointing him U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.
In Caracas, Reich was so diplomatic that he was able to continue his activities of official deceit in Washington. Clearly, he was in Venezuela for one purpose: to find a solution, whatever the method, to the case of Posada�s buddy Orlando Bosch Avila, a CIA agent and also imprisoned for the bombing of the Cubana flight. Reich also serviced the Cuban exile mafia, also conspiring to get its piece of the U.S. pie.
Otto Reich was like a brother to Orlando Bosch. Using who knows what subterfuge, he obtained a court order for Bosch�s release, after having prepared his departure to his adopted land, Miami.
But Bosch�s case remained delicate: like Posada Carriles, Bosch had a terrible reputation in the United States. Despite his "exemplary" behavior in the CIA, the killer pediatrician had a long criminal record in that country, identifying him as a terrorist leader and eliminating his chance of being granted a visa.
What�s more, in an interview published in the May 3, 1977, issue of New Times, Bosch admitted to having responsibility for more than 50 attacks executed by CORU.
Having arrived from Cuba on July 28, 1960, with a 30-day visa, Bosch created the Insurrectional Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MIRR), later identified by a representative of the Attorney General�s Office as "an anti-Castro terrorist organization."
On September 16, 1968, Bosch led a bazooka attack on a Polish merchant ship, the Polanica, in Miami harbor. On November 15, 1968, as punishment for that crime and for having sent letters containing death threats to the president of Mexico, the Spanish head of state and the British prime minister, the South Florida federal court sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment.
In 1972, Bosch violated parole by leaving the United States and reappearing in the Dominican Republic, where he and Posada Carriles took the lead in creating CORU. It goes without saying that there, he received not only the CIA�s blessing, but its total assistance.
AS IF LYING WERE AN INFALLIBLE METHOD
Otto Reich took recourse once again in deceit, as if lying were an infallible method.
He told State Department officials that a special team of Cubans were going to Venezuela to kill Bosch and that therefore Bosch had to be taken out of that country as soon as he was released from prison.
But those officials � apparently doubting the word of their former special counsel for public diplomacy � continued to refuse Bosch a visa. So Reich resorted once again to illegal methods.
He organized his prot�g�s exit from jail and sent him directly to the United States, where he was arrested on May 17, 1988, for violating his parole.
Reich, by now a true believer in the power of deception, had to get Bosch out of jail again. It wasn�t so hard for him: he just asked President George H. Bush to spring him.
Even for the man then occupying the White House, and no less a former director of the CIA, obtaining the release of such a confirmed criminal � of a killer who had demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that he had no remorse for his actions, no matter what the outcome � isn�t an easy task.
An astute politician, Bush knew what was politically correct.
If he freed Bosch from prison, he ran the risk of provoking another scandal. But on the other hand, he had to worry about appeasing the Miami mafia, which could even decide the presidency, as Bush�s son proved a few short years later.
In July 1990, after consulting with the CIA and listening to the remarks of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen � always ready to support anti-Cuba terrorism, no matter what the consequences � George Bush Sr. signed the papers releasing the killer pediatrician.
Behind the scenes, "lobbyist" Otto Reich, the man truly responsible for this absurd decision, applauded Bush�s action.
Twelve years later, Orlando Bosch continues to endorse violence as a political solution and doesn�t lose a single opportunity to fan the flames of terror from within the Miami mafia.
In August 2001, three weeks before the criminal attack on the Twin Towers, Orlando Bosch and the most criminal elements of the Cuban-American community published a call to terrorism in the Miami Herald.
And just a few days ago, the man responsible for the destruction of a passenger plane in full flight and the resulting deaths of 73 people, along with more than 50 assassination attempts, several of them fatal, appeared once again on a public tribunal, as the guest of honor of 60 mafia groups and grouplets meeting to share their nostalgia for the Bay of Pigs.
These same terrorist groups hysterically demand the release of Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices from their Panamanian jail. And just last week they celebrated the White House�s official appointment of Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere!
Through all this, five Cuban patriots remain under lock and key at five U.S. penitentiaries, for having risked their lives, fighting to counteract the terrorist plans of Bosch and Posada Carriles. What an irony that the two terrorists who belong to the Axis of Deceit can depend on the total support of that government�s top authorities.
Karen Lee Wald
2175 Aborn Road, apt. 164
San Jose, CA 95121
telephone 408-532-6147
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