Transcript: Ex-CIA agent said he didn't understand English while admitting Cuba hotel bombings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Canadian Press

Transcript: Ex-CIA agent said he didn't understand English while admitting Cuba hotel bombings
By Will Weissert (CP) – 20 minutes ago

EL PASO, Texas — An ex-CIA operative told immigration officials in 2005 that he was not involved in hotel bombings in Havana that killed an Italian tourist, according to a transcript read at his perjury trial Thursday in U.S. District Court.

Anti-Fidel Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles is facing 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and naturalization fraud, accused of making false statements during immigration interviews five years ago in El Paso, after he sneaked into the United States.

Prosecutors say he lied about how he slipped into the country and also failed to acknowledge his role in 1997 Cuban hotel bombings, even though he had admitted responsibility in interviews with The New York Times.

In the transcript from August 2005, Posada explains that a newspaper interview in which he claimed responsibility for planning them was conducted in English, and he therefore did not understand the questions.



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[Ohio Joe]

1. huh?

Someone asked him something he did not understand so he what... accidentally admitted to the bombing? Thats what I always do when I don't understand a question, admit to blowing something up :crazy:

[DissedByBush]

10. This is good news

He'll be behind bars soon if that's the best defense he's got.

Unless the jury has the intelligence of tree moss.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

3. It would have been impossible for Posada Carriles to NOT have learned English by now.

He has lived in the U.S. far, far too long to have avoided it.

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Big Five Club in Miami supports Luis Posada Carriles legal defense fundraiser
Posted May 04, 2008

One reason several traditional Cuban exile groups organized a tribute dinner to Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile militant, emerged during the Friday night event when one of his closest supporters rose to introduce the guest of honor.

Nelly Rojas, a longtime Posada friend, told the packed banquet hall at the Big Five Club in west Miami-Dade, that supporters will soon be asked to contribute money for the Cuban militant’s legal defense fund.

Rojas said the Luis Posada Carriles Support Group was being “reactivated’’ and that soon it will stage a series of events aimed at raising funds to pay for Posada’s legal expenses.

Rojas said money was needed to cover anticipated “considerable’’ expenses associated with Posada’s pending criminal case stemming from an indictment in El Paso, Texas. The indictment accused him of lying to immigration officials about how he sneaked into the United States in March 2005.

More:
http://havanajournal.com/politics/entry/big-five-club-in-miami-supports-luis-posada-carriles-legal-defense-fundrais/



Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles
Friday, December 17, 2010
Buddies in Arms (and bomb conspiracies)

IT'S a happy picture, the two old friends and comrades in arms meeting in Miami. The man on the left is Orlando Bosch Avila, his buddy is Luis Posada Carriles, and if those names don't ring a bell straight away, because they have not been in the news much here, they will mean something to a lot of people in Cuba and other countries.

On October 6, 1976 Cubana airlines Flight 455 was destroyed, plunging into the sea soon after takeoff from Barbados. Two time bombs had exploded in the aircraft. All 73 people on board the plane were killed, , including young members of the Cuban national fencing team, and five North Koreans.

Earlier that year Orlando Letelier, former Chilean Foreign Minister driven into exile by Pinochet, was murdered by a car bombing in Washington. In 1978 a former CIA agent, Michael Townley, was convicted of carrying out the bombing on behalf of the Chilean secret police, DINA, but he eventually walked free, under the US Federal Witness Protection Programme, having testified against his Chilean associates.

Luis Posada Cariles , and perhaps Orlando Bosch Avila, had attended a meeting with Townley where the Letelier killing was planned. Bosch entered Venezuela in mid-September 1976 under the protection of the then Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez. A CIA document described a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser in Caracas, to support Bosch's activities. The informant quoted Bosch as making an offer to Venezuelan officials to avoid acts of violence in the United States when President Carlos Andres Perez visited the United Nations in November, in return for "a substantial cash contribution to (Bosch's) organization."

More:
http://randompottins.blogspot.com/2010/12/buddies-in-arms-and-bomb-conspiracies.html

[provis99]

8. can't we just cut Miami off from Florida and let it float out to sea?

[davidinalameda]

9. have you ever been to Chinatown in San Francisco

lots of people who have lived there for decades that don't know English because they've never had to learn it

same thing with ethnic enclaves across the country

it's not that far-fetched to believe that he doesn't know English

[KansDem]

4. "ex-CIA?"

I thought "once with the company, always with the company."

How do you become "ex-CIA?"

[Diclotican]

6. KansDem

KansDem

Is not the only way to get out of CIA, 6 feep deep under ground..?:. It like going into a gang, where the rules is simple.. Just not try to leave, then you wil be killed...

Diclotican

[Soylent Brice]

5. K&R

[Festivito]

7. What, none of the kids from the plane he bombed showed to frolic and hug him?

Oh, that's right, they're dead.