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Summary of First Congressional Hearing on Terrorist Posada - Nov 15, 2007
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
National Security Archive - Nov 15, 2007
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/index.htm
For more information contact:
Peter Kornbluh: 202/994-7116
peter.kornbluh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CASE OF LUIS POSADA DEBATED ON CAPITOL HILL
Archive Analyst Peter Kornbluh Shares Declassified CIA and FBI
Intelligence Re****ts with House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Wa****ngton DC, November 15, 2007 - In the first Congressional hearing
held on the controversial case of violent Cuban exile Luis Posada
Carriles, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International
Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight invited National Security
Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh to testify on formerly top secret
CIA and FBI intelligence re****ts linking Posada to the October 6, 1976
bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner. In his testimony, Kornbluh argued
that the declassified records demonstrated that Posada had concrete
foreknowledge of the bombing; was in possession of a surveillance
re****t on Cuban targets that included the doomed plane; received coded
messages immediately after the plane went into the ocean from the men
who placed the bombs; and was quickly identified by multiple FBI and
CIA sources in Venezuela as one of two masterminds of the attack that
claimed the lives of all 73 passengers and crew.
Kornbluh called Posada one of the most prolific purveyors of political
violence in recent history and said that the evidence in the plane
bombing was more than sufficient to have detained Posada for acts of
international terrorism under the Patriot Act. Former Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales refused to designate Posada as a terrorist and a judge
dismissed immigration fraud charges against him last spring. Posada now
lives freely in Miami, as does Orlando Bosch, who the CIA and FBI both
identify as a co-conspirator in the plane bombing. The United States
now finds itself in the frankly inexplicable position of having not one
but both men who our own intelligence agencies identified as
responsible for bringing down a civilian airliner living free and
unfettered lives in Florida, Kornbluh told the Committee.
Kornbluh was joined at the hearing by Dr. Roseanne Persaud Nenninger,
the sister of one of the Guyanese teenagers killed on the plane. In her
testimony, Dr. Nenninger said she wanted to put a human face on the
victims of the plane bombing by talking about her brother Raymond
Persaud, a 19-year-old science student on his way to Havana with a full
scholar****p to study medicine. She called on the Subcommittee, chaired
by Congressman William Delahunt, to investigate fully how the Bush
administration had allowed Posada to go free, so that her family and
those of all the other Cuban, Guyanese and Korean passengers could
finally see justice done for their loved ones. Ann Louise Bardach, who
interviewed Posada for The New York Times in 1998 on his involvement in
a string of hotel bombings in Cuba, also testified on her extensive
research into Posadas many violent activities.
Kornbluhs testimony and the five do***ents that he reviewed for the
House Committee are posted below:
Note: The following do***ents are in PDF format.
You will need to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to
view.
"Luis Posada Carriles and the Bombing of Cubana Flight #455"
Testimony of Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive,
Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International
Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, November 15, 2007
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/kornbluh_posada_testimony.pdf
Do***ent 01 - CIA Intelligence Re****t on Posada and Bosch, Oct 14, 1976
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/01-CIA_on_Posada_Bosch.pdf
Do***ent 02 - Ricardo's handwritten Surveillance Re****t
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/02-Ricardo_Intelligence_notes.pdf
Do***ent 03 - Ricardo's detonator diagram
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/03-Ricardo_detonator_diagram.pdf
Do***ent 04 - FBI Cable, Oct 7, 1976
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/04-FBI_cable_19761007.pdf
Do***ent 05 - Kelley letter to Kissinger, Nov 5, 1976
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20071115/05-19761105_Kelley_letter_to_Kissinger.pdf
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