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*Cuban 5 Member Alters Defense Strategy* Posted By *the editor* On December 27, 2010 @ 12:34 pm In *Recent Posts,Updates* | *No Comments<http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=35114&print=1#comments_controls> * HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 27 Cuban Gerardo Hernández, one of the five prisoners in the United States charged with espionage, changed his defense strategy by highlighting that he was unaware of the intention of the islands government to down the Brothers to the Rescue light aircraft in 1996 and recognizing that the event took place in international waters, according to details of his ongoing appeal reported by the Miami Herald<http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/26/1989507/cuban-spymaster-now-claims-brothers.html> [1], notes IPS. ------------------------------ Article printed from Havana Times.org: *http://www.havanatimes.org* URL to article: *http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=35114* URLs in this post: [1] Miami Herald: * http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/26/1989507/cuban-spymaster-now-claims-brothers.html * ** * Another big story this weekend: Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban xxxxx convicted of conspiring to commit illegal acts, has changed his story in an attempt to undo his conviction. In 1996, the Cuban military shot down a Brothers to the Rescue plane, killing four, and Hernandez became the only one of the five xxxxx convicted of involvement in the incident and the only one to receive a life sentence. In his trial, Hernandez based his defense in part on the assertion that the plane had been shot down over Cuban territory. He now says the plane was attacked outside of Cuban airspace<http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/26/1989189/in-about-face-cuban-spy-says-planes.html>, consistence with U.N. and U.S. government reports, and wants his conviction overturned because of inadequate legal defense. The Cuban five are heroes in the eyes of the Castro government<http://www.cubadebate.cu/series/cinco-cubanos-prisioneros-en-estados-unidos/>( and most of the world-Cort)and have attracted significant international support to get their convictions overturned. Former head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Wayne Smith, has defended the release of the Cuban five <http://www.thenation.com/article/37396/free-cuban-five>, arguing that they were spying on exile organizations planning terrorist acts rather than the U.S. government, and saying they are guilty only of being unregistered agents of a foreign government. Hernandez's new position, however, contradicts the Cuban government's continued assertion that it attacked the Brothers to the Rescue plane over Cuban waters. At the time of writing, the Cuban press had yet to post any articles on the subject. Other Top Stories - Washington won't be closing the military prison<http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/27/1989532/guantanamo-not-closing-soon.html>at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba any time soon, and the Obama administration is reportedly considering an executive order that would allow the some of the 174 prisoners held there to be detained indefinitely. Read more: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/#ixzz19S1V4B4o Monday, December 27, 2010 Jimmy Carter asked U.S.-Cuba documents to be released<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/12/jimmy-carter-asked-us-cuba-documents-to.html> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidLuz-OFI/AAAAAAABA-M/TylHiqbT7i4/s1600/carter.jpg> Screenshot showing Jimmy Carter's request In 2002, former President Jimmy Carter asked the State Department to release previously declassified documents on U.S.-Cuban relations, according to a listing of declassification reviews. Carter made at least 39 additional requests for the declassification of State Department documents in the 1990s. His requests were granted, which I imagine then allowed Carter to make public and write about the documents without violating any secrecy laws. The State Department listing doesn't give details about the documents. I came across Carter's requests in a massive 1,400-page PDF, which was posted on the GovernmentAttic <http://governmentattic.org/> website in October. I am preparing Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, requests in connection with my research into U.S. government programs in Cuba. (See Cuba Money Project <http://cubamoneyproject.org/> for details about that). Scanning FOIA logs and reading letters of others who have made FOIA requests gives me some insight into how these things work. The State Department PDF shows a log of declassification reviews performed from 1974 to 2010. You can download the 77.5 MB document from this GovernmentAttic page <http://governmentattic.org/>. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidMGZLqbI/AAAAAAABA-Q/GixLhtRbZQY/s1600/carter-1.jpg> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidM1eHCnI/AAAAAAABA-U/h962KTYLNWs/s1600/carter-2.jpg> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidOOLZVkI/AAAAAAABA-Y/k3OafVSh_1M/s1600/carter-4.jpg> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidPHmQixI/AAAAAAABA-c/MpxExh0sKzM/s1600/carter-5.jpg> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidP5Bz15I/AAAAAAABA-g/Nyod5VGyErA/s1600/carter-6.jpg> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidQfWfrrI/AAAAAAABA-k/5fb-p-Q3-3o/s1600/carter-7.jpg> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidQwRTG4I/AAAAAAABA-o/uZlPDK0nIHY/s1600/carter-8.jpg> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidRk6hBHI/AAAAAAABA-s/y_dPlfhChRM/s1600/carter-9.jpg> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidS1FjS_I/AAAAAAABA-w/3oDB_PsOsoE/s1600/carter-11.jpg> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TRidTx0Y9uI/AAAAAAABA-0/9iC-co1wnsY/s1600/carter-12.jpg> Posted by Tracey Eaton at Monday, December 27, 2010<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/12/jimmy-carter-asked-us-cuba-documents-to.html> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=2429562120180891547> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=2429562120180891547> Labels: cuba <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/cuba>, foia<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/foia>, jimmy carter<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/jimmy%20carter> Read more: http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/12/jimmy-carter-asked-us-cuba-documents-to.html#ixzz19S2hQEEw * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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