>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [pttp] Fw: Man with CIA links accussed of plotting to kill Castro >Status: > >Forward from mart. > >>Man with CIA links accused of plotting to kill Castro >>By JOHN RICE, Associated Press >>PANAMA CITY, Panama (November 18, 2000 6:36 p.m. EST) - A shadowy former >>CIA agent was being held by Panamanian police Saturday after being >>accused >>of trying to kill Fidel Castro. >>Luis Posada Carriles was detained Friday evening a few hours after the >>Cuban leader accused him of plotting an assassination during the two-day >>Ibero-American Summit, which was to conclude Saturday. >>Police Chief Carlos Bares said police had 24 hours to charge or release >>Posada, who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while awaiting >>retrial >>on charges of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that >>killed 73 people. >>Bares said no weapons were found with Posada or three other people >>detained >>with him at a Panama City hotel. He said Posada had been using a >>Salvadoran >>passport in the name of Franco Rodriguez Mena. He did not identify the >>others detained. >>"The situation of these people is the same. They are being investigated," >> >>Bares said Saturday. >>Castro claimed Posada was working for the Miami-based Cuban-American >>National Foundation, which immediately denied any connection with Posada. >>Castro's dramatic announcement and the subsequent detention of Posada >>overshadowed the summit of 19 Latin American leaders, along with those of >> >>Spain and Portugal. >>As the summit neared a close, the presidents vowed to devote more >>resources >>to the problems of children in Latin America. Venezuelan leader Hugo >>Chavez >>suggested that international lenders should grant partial debt relief to >>poor countries in exchange for investments in schools, hospitals or other >> >>social projects. >>He warned that desperation over continuing poverty "is going to >>destabilize >>the world." >>For decades, Cuba has accused Posada of terrorist acts against the >>communist island nation and assassination attempts against Castro >>himself. >>Born in 1928, according to Cuban sources, Posada fled Cuba after the 1959 >> >>revolution led by Castro and was involved in U.S.-backed efforts to >>topple >>the communist government. >>After working at least briefly for the CIA, Posada went to Venezuela >>where >>he rose to become director of operations for the country's intelligence >>agency, which was monitoring leftist rebels. He lost the job after a >>change >>in the presidency in 1974. >>Prosecutors accused him of masterminding the October 1976 bombing of a >>Cubana de Aviacion jetliner. He was acquitted twice, but officials were >>making a third try to convict him when he escaped from prison in 1985. >>Venezuelan officials say he still faces charges there. >>After Posada's escape, he allegedly helped send guns to the U.S.-backed >>Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Honduran officials also have identified him >>as >>the associate of an alleged arms dealer in that country. >>The Miami Herald reported in 1998 that he had been living off and on in >>El >>Salvador and had close ties with current or retired military figures in >>the >>region. Salvadoran officials said in 1998 they were unable to locate him. >>In a 1998 interview with The New York Times, Posada was quoted as >>admitting >>involvement in the bombing of hotels in Cuba in 1997. A Salvadoran man >>who >>planted one of the bombs, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, was sentenced to death >>for killing an Italian tourist. >>The Herald reported that Posada had been involved in several other >>attempts >>to disrupt Cuba's socialist economy or kill Castro at other international >> >>summits. >>Police in the Dominican Republic intensified security for a Caribbean >>summit in August 1998 after the Herald reported that the FBI had received >>a >>warning that Posada planned to have Castro assassinated at the event. >>------------------------------------- >>Carlos Balin~o Institute >>Albuquerque, NM >>Oviedo, Florida >> > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eGroups eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. 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