-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:18 am Subject: "Our" Terrorists (Lee Harvey Oswald Included) Are "GOOD" Terrorists You should read "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," by Jefferson Morley and?[Winston's son] Michael Scott?... http://www.amazon.com/Our-Man-Mexico-Winston-History/dp/0700615717/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203870052&sr=1-8 < reviewed in?http://washingtonindependent.com/view/in-federal-court-cia?> CIA Lawyers to Face JFK Questions By Jefferson Morley 02/26/2008 The Central Intelligence Agency will quietly defend its refusal to release a batch of top-secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a Washington courtroom tomorrow. Amid all the headlines about the discovery of a cache of previously unknown JFK material in Dallas, agency lawyers will make their first response to a court order to explain the secrecy surrounding a career CIA undercover officer allegedly involved in the events that led that to the murder of the president on Nov. 22, 1963. For four years, the agency has been battling in federal court to block my Freedom of Information Act request seeking disclosure of the secret operations of a deceased CIA officer named George Joannides. He is a shadowy figure in the complex story of JFK's assassination. At the time of the Dallas tragedy, Joannides was serving as chief of the CIA's Miami-based "psychological warfare" operations against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. In December, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Court of Appeals threw out the many of the agency's decades-old claims of secrecy around Joannides. Circuit Judge Judith Rogers and two colleagues ordered the CIA to search its operational files for more material on Joannides. They also ordered the agency to explain why 17 reports on Joannides' secret operations in 1962, 1963 and 1964, are missing from CIA archives. In legal briefs, agency officials have claimed that more than 30 documents about Joannides's actions in the 1960s and 1970s cannot be made public in any form--for reasons of "national security." Joannides' curious connection to the JFK assassination story was unknown until 2001. Declassified CIA records revealed that Joannides had [controlled] a Cuban exile group that publicly denounced the pro-Castro activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in August 1963. Three months later, Oswald shot Kennedy dead from an office building. Joannides' agents in Cuban Miami shaped the first day press coverage of JFK's assassination by generating [bogus] evidence of Oswald's support for Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The Joannides files could shed light on the question of whether CIA officers manipulated Oswald as he made his way to Dallas. The complete Joannides file has never been public. What remains unknown is the extent of Joannides' control over his agents in the Cuban exile community who sought to link Oswald to Fidel Castro. The day after JFK was killed the Cuban communist leader scorned the reports that Oswald was a supporter of his revolution and suggested?the CIA was behind the charge. The available records show that Castro was right: CIA funds?helped publicize the allegation. Joannides has been?never questioned by JFK assassination investigators ... to learn?WHY Lee Harvey Oswald?was?already under constant surveillance by the CIA in 1963 --BEFORE?JFK was murdered--? and what role "Seven Days in May" and?Operation Northwoods played in the?reasoning behind?the Democratic president's false-flag assassination --?"REGIME CHANGE." ? Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a 'coming-out' in Miami A dinner with 500 Cuban exiles honors the militant and former CIA operative, now 80 and still wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges. "Posada was serving time in a Panama prison when the country's outgoing president?pardoned him -- as a favor to President Bush,?who used it to?rally the Cuban vote in?Florida?for his 2004 reelection." By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times,?May 7, 2008 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-posada7-2008may07,0,1699509.story? MIAMI -- The dapper octogenarian in a crisp blue suit, his face smoothed by plastic surgery, swanned from table to table in the candlelit banquet hall, bestowing kisses and collecting accolades. An aging movie star being feted by fans? A veteran politico taking his bows? ? No, the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago. Posada, 80, has mostly kept a low profile since his release from a Texas prison a year ago and a federal judge's dismissal of the only U.S. charges against him -- making false statements to immigration officials. But recent events like the Friday dinner and an exhibition and sale of his paintings last fall show that the man who spent his life trying to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro has returned to the social forefront of this city's exile community. "We are coming to the end of a terrible stage. The end of our struggle is near," Posada told the crowd of supporters in evening dress, referring to Castro's failing health. Venezuela's ambassador in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, condemned the celebration of Posada as a mockery of justice and evidence of a Bush administration double standard in fighting terrorism. "This is outrageous, particularly because he kept talking about violence," Alvarez said of Posada. "He said that the whole thing now is 'to sharpen our machetes' " for a confrontation with leftist regimes in Latin America. The U.S. government has never given Venezuela a formal answer to its 3-year-old request for extradition of Posada, despite a treaty providing for such cooperation that has been in effect since 1922, the ambassador said. Posada, a naturalized Venezuelan citizen, is alleged to have masterminded the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 on which all 73 on board were killed, including a youth fencing team returning from a tournament in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. He is also suspected of plotting a series of hotel bombings in Havana in the late 1990s, one of which killed an Italian tourist. He has boasted of his many attempts to kill Castro and has allegedly been involved in, according to court documents, "some of the most infamous events of 20th century Central American politics." Posada was serving time in a Panama prison for a 2000 assassination attempt on Castro when outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned him and three accomplices in August 2004 in what some observers saw as a favor to President Bush to rally the Cuban-dominated Florida vote for his reelection. The three other Cuban Americans returned to Miami as heroes; Posada arrived six months later, reportedly fetched from Mexico by a shrimp boat owned by an anti-Castro benefactor. As Venezuela, Cuba and human rights groups clamored for Posada's extradition for trial on the plane-bombing charges, federal authorities here arrested him in May 2005 for illegal entry. A federal judge in Texas ordered him deported, but another judge prohibited his being sent to Venezuela, heeding claims by Posada's lawyers that he could face torture or execution there. None of a half-dozen friendly countries contacted by the State Department would agree to take Posada. An immigration fraud case was brought by federal prosecutors later that year but dismissed in May 2007. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone accused federal authorities of using trickery, fraud and deceit in pursuing a criminal case against him. Federal prosecutors appealed and are waiting for a ruling from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, said Dean Boyd, spokesman for the Justice Department. Analysts speculate that the U.S. government has dodged calls for prosecution of Posada for fear he would disclose details of CIA involvement in coups, assassination plots and scandals, including the Iran-Contra Affair. Peter Kornbluh, head of the Cuba Documentation Project at George Washington University's National Security Archive, has compiled declassified CIA and FBI documents on Posada that show he remained in close touch with Washington handlers throughout his covert service. "The spectacle of a wanted international terrorist being publicly feted as a hero in Miami makes a mockery of the Bush administration's commitment to wage a war on terrorism," he said of Posada's coming-out party. Rep. William Delahunt (D-Mass.) convened a congressional hearing in November on the administration's handling of the Posada case, arguing that there was "compelling evidence" implicating Posada in the plane bombing. Delahunt said Tuesday that "there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm" under the current administration for prosecuting Posada, but that he would push again for legal action against Posada after the fall election. "To have Posada honored in such a way sends a terrible statement to the rest of the world," the congressman said of the tribute. Posada, still under a supervision order with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, entered the banquet to a standing ovation, his face beaming and minus the scar from a 1990 attack by gunmen in Guatemala. "He's a real hero for Cuba. He's been fighting for the freedom of Cuba since the day he arrived in the United States," said Hector Morales-George, a retired surgeon who attended the dinner. Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food.
