Witness details ex-CIA agent's in helping Contras

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Witness details ex-CIA agent's in helping Contras
By Associated Press
Posted: 03/31/2011 09:13:44 PM PDT
Updated: 03/31/2011 09:13:44 PM PDT

EL PASO, Texas -- A former CIA agent accused of perjury and immigration fraud helped train Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980s amid U.S. fears that the Soviet Union would station submarines in that Central American country, a former Honduran military official testified Thursday.

Jurors in Luis Posada Carriles' trial in Texas got a taste of his Cold War past as they heard from Fernando Lardizabal, who was secretary to the head of the Honduran armed forces from 1984 until 1991. Lardizabal testified that Posada attended high-level security meetings with U.S. intelligence officials in Honduras, after the Cuba-backed Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua in 1979.

Posada, an 83-year-old native of Cuba, spent decades opposing communist governments around Latin America, often with Washington's support, but sneaked into the U.S. in 2005 and now faces 11 counts of immigration fraud, obstruction of justice and perjury.




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[2banon]

1. so much of this history is completely unknown by most of this population

South America, the ME and on and on.. I suspect that's one reason why every single administration is able to maintain the status quo Neo-Liberal/Neo-Conservative policies for generation after generation after generation.. and the "nooze" networks are utterly worthless when it comes to informing American viewers of the FACTS of our History.

Thank you for posting, perhaps it might inspire some to take a little time researching the background beyond the perimeters of this trial.

[hootinholler]

3. The reason Posada is being tried in the US is to keep it that way. n/t

[2banon]

4. Yes, and so it goes..n/t

[rabs]

2. What is lost is that this is an immigration case

Immigration hearings are usually dispatched before a federal judge in a matter of hours.

This Posada case is now in its third month. Before a jury.

But then again Posada is special, as the No. 1 terrorist living in the United States. He only blew up a Cuban jetliner killing all 73 aboard, planted bombs in Havana hotels, plotted to kill Castro in Panama, worked with the CIA in the Contra war and who knows what other dastardly deeds.

So the U.S. puts him on trial for a big tsk tsk -- sneaking into the country.

[2banon]

5. and as noted above thread, point of having the trial here

is to keep the American public ignorant of this history