Declassified documents paint violent picture of Cuban militant

Posada also apparently ran his own guerrilla training camp in Florida. In a statement to the FBI in July 1965, Posada is quoted as saying he built the camp in Polk City, Fla., on private property "for guerrilla warfare in Cuba." A plan for about two dozen men to travel to Cuba in May 1964 failed, however.

The FBI document notes that the property owner, identified as Weir P. Williams, believed that the camp was supported by the U.S. government and that "the uniforms, boots and equipment appeared to be U.S. government issue." Williams also told the FBI that the local sheriff had told him that the camp "was operating with U.S. government approval."
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Posada Carriles, Bosch

MIAMI (AP) - Declassified documents made public Tuesday link a Cuban exile seeking U.S. asylum - long regarded as a violent opponent of Fidel Castro - to a plot to bomb a Cuban airliner in 1976 and indicate he was on the CIA's payroll for years.

One FBI document dated Nov. 3, 1976, quotes a confidential informant saying Luis Posada Carriles was among a group that discussed "the bombing of a Cubana Airlines airplane" before an attack at a hotel bar in Caracas, Venezuela.

Posada, a former senior officer of the Venezuelan intelligence service, denies involvement in the bombing, which killed 73 people, including 24 members of Cuba's national fencing team, according to his lawyer, Eduardo Soto. snip


Other documents say Posada was also a CIA agent in the 1960s and that he was paid about $300 by the CIA while working with an alliance of several groups based in the Dominican Republic that sought Castro's overthrow.

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In early June, 1977, investigation revealed that some Cuban exiles associated with Brigade 2506 in Miami were planning an armed attack against Cuba from the United States. Surveillance of various suspects by U.S. Customs, the FBI, Dade County Public Safety Department, Miami Police Department, U. S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for over 2 months revealed that 7 exiles had 3 boats which they were outfitting for an attack against the Cuban mainland or against Cuban patrol boats on the northern coast of Cuba. After watching these boats make trial runs over a few week period, one person was arrested on August 15, 1977, and was charged with the unlawful possession of firearms and destructive devices. Also arrested at a later date were the Military Director of Brigade 2506, and 2 other persons.

Recovered during this operation were:
2 BAR automatic rifles
1 - 20mm foreign-made cannon
1 - 50-caliber machine gun
1 - 30-caliber air-cooled machine gun

Several M-15 rifles, plus a large amount of ammunition for these weapons. On one of the boats was located several bags of military-type clothing.

After a trial in U.S. District Court in Miami on October 19, 1977, all defendants were found not guilty of possession of automatic weapons. In July, 1978, the Federal Judge said that these persons could not be tried for a violation of the Neutrality Laws as this would constitute double jeopardy. All are now walking the streets of Miami.
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The dialoguers are being threatened. In Puerto Rico, CARLOS MUNIZ, the operator of one of these travel agencies, was shot to death the end of April of this year. His office had been bombed on January 4, 1979.
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Another factor which really upsets the exile community is the fact that on May 1, 1979, the Cuban Government announced that the exiles would not be allowed to take most gifts to Cuba without paying duty at Cuban Customs. These gifts, sometimes bought with thousands of dollars of borrowed money, are a way of showing relatives that they have not been forgotten. The new law imposes taxes and other penalties including confiscation, that in effect limits tourists to "personal effects" during their visit. This infuriated many exiles and particularly the more violence-prone.

As a result of these factors, the terrorists are talking tough. There have been many bomb threats to the airlines flying to Cuba; the terrorists in the various groups are talking about violent actions against these airlines, against the dialoguers, and against "Havanaturs". Dialoguer ESPINOZA, the Reverend, has had a motorcade in Miami protesting violence. The anti-Castros are having marches protesting the dialogues with Cuba.
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http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0073.html

This is an old article, archived at this site, which is very interesting. I believe I've been told the entire site is published in Miami by Cuban-Americans.