Top Cuba Exile Leader May Have Funded Ex-CIA Agent

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Top Cuba Exile Leader May Have Funded Ex-CIA Agent
Bookkeeper for former head of top Cuban-American exile group testifies in ex-CIA agent's trial
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas March 3, 2011 (AP)

The bookkeeper for a New Jersey business mogul who was a director of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation retakes the stand in the perjury trial of an elderly ex-CIA operative from Cuba.

Oscar De Rojas begins his second day of testimony Thursday and is expected to discuss efforts by Cuban-American exile leader Arnaldo Monzon to finance longtime anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles (loo-EES' poh-SAH'-duh cah-REE'-lehs).

The 83-year-old Posada spent decades crisscrossing Latin America, working to destabilize communist governments. He faces charges of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud in the U.S. Prosecutors say he lied during citizenship hearings in El Paso after sneaking into the country and asking to be allowed to stay in March 2005.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13044652

[Judi Lynn]

1. Earlier article on one of Posada's benefactors:

In New Jersey Contest, A Senator With Tough Friends
By Jonathan Miller
November 5, 2006 | 7:00 p.m

~snip~
The fund-raiser, Abel Hernandez, and the deceased ally, Arnaldo Monzon, had previously been accused of funding terror attacks in Cuba. Over the years, they have contributed more than $10,000 to Mr. Menendez’s campaigns. And in a separate case from earlier in his career, Mr. Menendez publicly defended and financially supported a man who had been convicted of killing a Cuban official and bombing civilian targets in the United States.

~snip~
But in the past several months, others have implicated Monzon in a deeper role in extremist activities. In June, Jose Antonio Llamas, another former member of the executive board of the Cuban-American National Foundation, declared that he had been a part of a secret paramilitary wing created in the early 90’s within that organization.

For years, the United States government has looked the other way when it came to Cuban terror cases. Just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice released from prison two men who had been convicted in the 1976 car-bombing assassination of a Chilean ambassador and an American in Washington, D.C. Pressure from Cuban exile groups helped gain their release.

Cuban-American politicians have never been shy about supporting Cuban extremist groups. In Miami, officials created Orlando Bosch Day, celebrating a man who has been accused of numerous terrorist activities throughout the world. Officials there have written on Congressional letterhead imploring the release of people accused of terrorist acts.

More:
http://www.observer.com/node/52886

[Vidar]

2. Ah so lovely to see the spooks come home to rest!

[L. Coyote]

3. Sounds like a cover-up in progress for those who actually directed the crimes

Luis Posada Carriles worked for the USA!

[EFerrari]

4. Yup. And Canf contributed to the Obama campaign.

And to the Bush campaigns.

And to the Clinton campaign.

[Taverner]

5. Carriles is a terrorist. Plain and Simple