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Felix Rodriguez, CIA operative who murdered Che Guevara in Bolivia, harbored Posada-Carriles after the prison break. Rodriguez is pals with Old Bush

From a 1985 article:

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Bush ally harbored plane-bomb suspect

WASHINGTON - (UPI) - A key figure in the Iran-contra scandal with close ties to Vice President George Bush has acknowledged harboring a fugitive charged in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane in which 73 people died.

Felix Rodriguez, whose contacts with Bush initially drew the vice president into the Iran-contra affair, said in a series of recent interviews that he harbored the accused bomber, Luis Posada Carriles, shortly after his August 1985 escape from a Venezuelan prison.

Offering the first details of his involvement with Posada, Rodriguez said he agreed to "hide" the fugitive at the request of a wealthy Miami benefactor who he said financed Posada's prison escape. He would not identify the financier.

Senate investigators are pursuing allegations that Posada's prison escape was financed in part by Jorge Mas Canosa, with possible help from White House aide Oliver North. Mas, who heads the Cuban American National Foundation, an anti-Castro lobby group, denied any role in the escape.

Rodriguez, a former CIA operative, offered refuge to Posada while managing a secret White House operation based in El Salvador to ferry weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/posada/posada9-5-88.htm


Felix Rodriguez and Old Bush chilling in the Oval Office.

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From Periodico:

Recently declassified US government documents reveal that the former president of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) made several trips to Venezuela where he organized the escape of arch-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

...On two previous occasions – in 1982 and 1984 – Posada Carriles had unsuccessfully tried to break out of Venezuelan jails. In 1985, however, he managed to escape with assistance from a secret network led by Colonel Oliver North and with the close collaboration of the CANF president, as both Cuban and now US sources have confirmed.

Miami extremists provided the money to bribe prison officials and pay for a twin-engine Cesna airplane which took Luis Posada Carriles to the Ilopango air base in El Salvador – a key logistical supply point for Nicaraguan contra troops.

While the terrorist was in jail, Mas Canosa sent Posada all sorts of goods directly to his jail cell, including money, food, and household appliances.

http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/carriles/jail260505.htm