Posada’s CIA ties uncovered in papers
Nearly four years after the failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles continued to work for the spy agency, according to CIA files released to The Miami Herald.
His job: ”Training Branch Instructor” for its Miami station, which then was responsible for intelligence-gathering missions into Cuba. He was part of the covert JMWAVE — the code name for the CIA Miami bureau, which at the time operated within the University of Miami.
His tenure: March 26, 1965, to July 11, 1967.
The revelation of Posada’s ties to the CIA’s operations in Miami was contained in documents requested by The Miami Herald as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.
Although some of Posada’s CIA links were known previously, the CIA files released to the newspaper this month add detail about the Cuban militant’s connections to America’s storied and controversial spy agency.
The information comes at a time that Posada, currently detained in El Paso, Texas, is seeking approval of his U.S. citizenship application on the ground that he served the CIA and the U.S. military.
Posada, 78, has been held since immigration agents took him into custody in Miami last year after his surreptitious entry into the United States from Mexico. Posada was detained just hours after holding an ”invitation-only” press conference at a West Miami-Dade County warehouse.
Posada has been denied asylum, although an immigration judge in El Paso prohibited the government from deporting him to Cuba or Venezuela.
Posada has been accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner in the Caribbean in 1976, bombing hotels in Cuba in 1997 and 1998, and conspiring to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000. He has denied all of the allegations.
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