This week in 1976, CIA-funded, anti-Castro terrorists, bombed the civilian airliner Cubana de Aviación Flight 455, killing all 73 people aboard, including all 24 members of 1975 Cuban national fencing team, many of whom were just teenagers.
On October 6, 1976, two bombs exploded on the flight 455 headed from Barbados to Jamaica just 11 minutes after take-off. The bomb was disguised as Colgate toothpaste in a suitcase. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2…
The 2 men who placed the explosives on the plane (Freddy Lugo and Hernan Ricardo Lozano,) confessed that CIA-trained terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch were behind the bombing.
CIA was aware of the terror plot as early as June 1976. FBI's attaché in Caracas had multiple contacts with the one of the men who placed bomb on the plane and provided him with a US visa 5 days before bombing.
US Gov document confirms Luis Posada Carriles was paid by the CIA until 1974 and had contact with the CIA up until the year of the terror attack.
Investigations undcovered that Posada and Bosch had hatched their plan during a meeting in Washington. Posada originally tried to defeat Castro by helping organize the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. washingtonpost.com/sports/painful…
In July 1990, Bosch was pardoned of all US charges by George H. W. Bush at the request of his son Jeb Bush, (later Governor of Florida); this pardon was despite objections by the defense department that Bosch was one of the most deadly terrorists working "within the hemisphere."
The US harbored both Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, refusing to extradite them for prosecution to Cuba and Venezuela.
In 2011, Peter Kornbluh discussed the acquittal of Luis Posada Carriles, who he described as "one of the top ten most prolific purveyors of violence over the last 30 or 40 years.”

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