Luis Posada Carriles person
also: Luis Posado Carriles, Luis Posato Corrales, Luis Posado, Posado, Posada, Luis Carrillas, Luis Posada Pasilas, Luis Posada, Luis Posato
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Claims (9)
Luis Posada Carriles member_of
Inter-Services Intelligence documented
“for unreported association with gangster elements, thefts from the CIA, plus other items. Posada was sent to Venezuela and began working as an official at the Venezuelan intelligence services. He's still working for the CIA, by the way. In …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 22:57
Luis Posada Carriles supplied_arms_to
Norman Rockman documented
“He was recruited by the CIA in the 1960s after years of working on the Castro Project and with Cubans in Miami and was implicated in a number of terrorist incidents conducted by various Cuban terrorist groups. In 1967, CIA records show Posa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 21:58
Luis Posada Carriles member_of
Felix Rodriguez documented
“He spent 10 years in jail. He escaped in the summer of 1985 and went underground. He resurfaced at the airbase in El Salvador in 1986, working as Felix Rodriguez's right-hand man, telling investigators that Rodriguez and other Cuban friends…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 28:04
Luis Posada Carriles trafficked
Venezuela documented
“as back as not far as 1973, that Posada was involved in smuggling cocaine from Colombia through Venezuela into Miami. I'm not just making this shit up, people. These are well-documented instances of how the CIA operates. According to the no…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 25:00
Luis Posada Carriles member_of
CIA documented
“And it's a wonder DEA agent Castillo was hearing rumors about the Contra drug trafficking because it was being ran out of the base. Luis Posada was a veteran CIA agent with a history of involvement in drug trafficking. He also worked with m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 21:31
Luis Posada Carriles supplied_arms_to
Rosenthal documented
“He was recruited by the CIA in the 1960s after years of working on the Castro Project and with Cubans in Miami and was implicated in a number of terrorist incidents conducted by various Cuban terrorist groups. In 1967, CIA records show Posa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 21:58
Luis Posada Carriles carried_out_attack
Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 host_asserted
“He wasn't implicated. He did it. That bomb that he placed on that aircraft killed 73 people. Posado had worked for Venezuelan intelligence in Pinochet's Dina. You know, all in the family. He had been condemned to death in absentee in Venezu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 27:36
Felix Rodriguez recruited
Luis Posada Carriles book_quoted
“and plotting additional bombings. Underground, of course. Isn't all these guys supposed to be underground? Rodriguez arranged for Posado to come to El Salvador under a false passport and got him a new identity. And you know, he only does th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 28:12
Luis Posada Carriles member_of
CIA book_quoted
“to Manley's opponents, the use of selective violence, bombings, and assassinations, covert funding aid to conservative Jamaican Labor Party, the opposing party, and fomenting labor unrest through bribery. You know, the standard shit. One of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 53:44
Mentions (27)
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The Bosch case would resonate for years to some. Cuban officials repeatedly pressed for Bosch and his longtime associates, Luis Posado Carriles, another alleged co-conspirator of the airline bombing, to be extradited to Cuba to stand trial …
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made arrangements to base Eden Pastora's group in that location. Since he could not devote all of his time to North Secret Air Force, Rodriguez wrote, I found someone to manage the base resupply operations on a day-to-day basis at the air b…
▶ 20:57
by his real name, Luis Carrillas. The names are crazy. With men like Luis Carrillas, and he went by Posada, because you know how they do the middle name instead of the last name? Luis Posada Pasilas. So the rest of the book will refer to hi…
▶ 21:31
And it's a wonder DEA agent Castillo was hearing rumors about the Contra drug trafficking because it was being ran out of the base. Luis Posada was a veteran CIA agent with a history of involvement in drug trafficking. He also worked with m…
▶ 21:58
He was recruited by the CIA in the 1960s after years of working on the Castro Project and with Cubans in Miami and was implicated in a number of terrorist incidents conducted by various Cuban terrorist groups. In 1967, CIA records show Posa…
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Miami mobsters Rosenthal and Norman Rockman. Rockman was a close associate of South Florida's mafia chieftain, Santo Trapicana. A memo in Posada's CIA file said Posada may have been moonlighting for Rosenthal. But in late 1968, he was trans…
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for unreported association with gangster elements, thefts from the CIA, plus other items. Posada was sent to Venezuela and began working as an official at the Venezuelan intelligence services. He's still working for the CIA, by the way. In …
▶ 23:26
from Posada was in contact with two Cubans in Miami who were smuggling narcotics into the U.S. Luis Posada for him. According to the informant, Posada was to be the main contact to a major cocaine smuggling operation involving members of th…
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Keep in mind, the guy's working for the CIA in Venezuela and implicating the Venezuela government. Not that that would ever happen. The DEA placed Posada under surveillance and he was observed by agents in Miami to meet with numerous identi…
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The CIA was fully aware of his agent's reported involvement in drug trafficking because they like to embed these people in these organizations so they can, whenever drugs get discovered, they go, oh, they're coming from the Sandinista gover…
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as back as not far as 1973, that Posada was involved in smuggling cocaine from Colombia through Venezuela into Miami. I'm not just making this shit up, people. These are well-documented instances of how the CIA operates. According to the no…
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Volumous CIA file in the late 1970s. Cables in the file indicate concern that Posada was a serious potential liability. Anxious to terminate associations promptly if allegations prove true. By April 1973, it seems sure that Posada was invol…
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seen with known big-time drug traffickers. But after questioning the Cuban about his contacts, the agency found him guilty only of having the wrong kind of friends and continued to employ him. The choice of friends continued to plague Posad…
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for a Dominican military official, which the agency refused to do on grounds that it cannot permit controlled agents to become directly involved in illicit drug trafficking. In other words, you can facilitate it, you just can't be an agent …
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was trading weapons for cocaine with a man the DEA believed is involved in political assassinations. Big surprise. According to records at the National Archive, the CIA formally terminated Posada in 1976. Eight months later, he was arrested…
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The Cuban DCA, which we talked about that had the fencing people in there. So he's in the Venezuela and basically commits a terrorist act because, of course, it was blamed on other people initially. He was never convicted of a crime. He spe…
▶ 28:04
He spent 10 years in jail. He escaped in the summer of 1985 and went underground. He resurfaced at the airbase in El Salvador in 1986, working as Felix Rodriguez's right-hand man, telling investigators that Rodriguez and other Cuban friends…
▶ 28:36
and relocate to El Salvador. Upon arriving in El Salvador, Posada stayed with Rodriguez for two or three days. Rodriguez then helped Posada get a house in San Salvador where he was living for the next year or two, running the airbase for Fe…
▶ 31:37
A one secret 1992 interview with the FBI ex-CIA agent Posada recounted that the resupply project was always looking for people to carry cash from the United States into El Salvador for Posada to disperse. They were always looking and worrie…
▶ 8:54
identified his CIA handler as Ramon Medina, the alias of the Cuban terrorist and suspected drug trafficker. Also was Luis Posada, Carrillas, and Max Gomez. And remember, Max Gomez is Felix Rodriguez. That was his code name for the operation…
▶ 53:44
to Manley's opponents, the use of selective violence, bombings, and assassinations, covert funding aid to conservative Jamaican Labor Party, the opposing party, and fomenting labor unrest through bribery. You know, the standard shit. One of…
▶ 23:26
Eugene Hassan bus had flown with Cooper and Laos. All were nominally employed by a Quarryville, Pennsylvania company called Corporate Air Services. The crews thought that they worked for the CIA and were told that by Luis Posato Corrales. D…
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Felix worried about the gloss that had been put on Project Democracy, thinking it was a Wilson gang back in business. But Rodriguez himself had brought in a questionable character whom he did trust, which was Luis Posado. He had been implic…
▶ 27:36
He wasn't implicated. He did it. That bomb that he placed on that aircraft killed 73 people. Posado had worked for Venezuelan intelligence in Pinochet's Dina. You know, all in the family. He had been condemned to death in absentee in Venezu…
▶ 28:12
and plotting additional bombings. Underground, of course. Isn't all these guys supposed to be underground? Rodriguez arranged for Posado to come to El Salvador under a false passport and got him a new identity. And you know, he only does th…
▶ 28:43
But the CIA doesn't know anything about any of this stuff. There, Posada worked as a helper. He rented three houses in nice districts for Sawyer's pilots and a hotel in San Salvador for visitors and the mechanics. You know, doing logistics …
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at El Opango. Once or twice, Cooper took care of the gas when Posado couldn't make it. But the Cuban gained unquestioned control of the funds from the Americans. And this outraged General Bastillo by dumping wads of cash on his desk like th…