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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, National Security Archive <[email protected]>wrote: > National Security Archive Update, January 11, 2011 > > The CIA File on Luis Posada Carriles > A Former Agency Asset Goes on Trial in the U.S. > > For more information contact: > Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7000 or [email protected] > > http://www.nsarchive.org > > Washington, DC, January 11, 2011 - As the unprecedented trial of Cuban > exile Luis Posada Carriles begins this week in El Paso, Texas, the National > Security Archive today posted a series of CIA records covering his > association with the agency in the 1960s and 1970s. CIA personnel records > described Posada, using his codename, "AMCLEVE/15," as "a paid agent" at > $300 a month, being utilized as a training instructor for other exile > operatives, as well as an informant. "Subject is of good character, very > reliable and security conscious," the CIA reported in 1965. Posada, another > CIA document observed, incorrectly, was "not a typical 'boom and bang' type > of individual." > > Today's posting includes key items from Posada's CIA file, including > several previously published by the Archive, and for the first time online, > the indictment from Posada's previous prosecution--in Panama--on charges of > trying to assassinate Fidel Castro with 200 pounds of dynamite and C-4 > explosives (in Spanish). > > "This explosive has the capacity to destroy any armored vehicle, buildings, > steel doors, and the effects can extend for 200 meters...if a person were in > the center of the explosion, even if they were in an armored car, they would > not survive," as the indictment described the destructive capacity of the > explosives found in Posada's possession in Panama City, where Fidel Castro > was attending an Ibero-American summit in November 2000. > > The judge presiding over the perjury trial of Posada has ruled that the > prosecution can introduce unclassified evidence of his CIA background which > might be relevant to his "state of mind" when he allegedly lied to > immigration officials about his role in a series of hotel bombings in Havana > in 1997. In pre-trial motions, the prosecution has introduced a short > unclassified "summary" of Posada's CIA career, which is included below. > Among other things, the summary (first cited last year in Tracey Eaton's > informative blog, "Along the Malecon") reveals that the CIA anonymously > warned former agent and accused terrorist Luis Posada of threats on his > life. > > A number of the Archive's CIA documents were cited in articles in the > Washington Post, and CNN coverage today on the start of the Posada trial. > "The C.I.A. trained and unleashed a Frankenstein," the New York Times quoted > Archive Cuba Documentation Project director Peter Kornbluh as stating. "It > is long past time he be identified as a terrorist and be held accountable as > a terrorist." > > Visit the Archive's Web site for more information about today's posting. > > http://www.nsarchive.org > > ________________________________________________________ > > THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research > institute and library located at The George Washington University in > Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents > acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public > charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is > supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and > individuals. > > _________________________________________________________ > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
