Was Posada Carriles an Agent?
By REINALDO TALADRID HERRERO When the terrorist attack against the Cubana Airlines DC-8 took place on October 6, 1976, was Luis Posada Carriles [one of the two accused masterminds] a CIA agent or not? This is key to the case because if Posada Carriles was an agent at that time then it would be impossible for the US government to say that it had nothing to do with the terrorist crime that killed 73 innocent persons when the aircraft blew up off the coast of Barbados. The CIA says in its official response that it had broken its ties with Posada in February, 1976. And, why did they supposedly severe the ties? One might think that it was because Posada was a poorly performing agent, according to the parameters of the Central Intelligence Agency. But that is not what some declassified CIA and FBI documents say. Those documents, according to a series of articles in The New York Times in July 1998, could be seen in the following light: During the decade of the 1970s, the House of Representati
