even humorous bishop told me because drew was going to chile. so i went to miami to recruit assessments but when on. the do nothing nothing done. community and remember they trained as cameramen in venezuela so they could get press credentials. if you don't go into the last minute when they decided it wasn't worth risking their own lives. is very uncommon with. maurice bishop then informed vesey i know that castro was planning a visit to quito ecuador on his way home to cuba vesey on a contacted luis posada country less a former but tista policeman and a well known anti castro militant to assassinate castro.

got to know if you are strong was told and stood and it is you who will be your pursuit are assured me he could put a bullet in his forehead i am the but i was a guaranteed escape plan the plot failed. on september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy six i had dinner with orlando the tel year at his house the telly there was a former chilean ambassador to washington and i had invited him to work with me at the institute for policy studies after dinner we went outside and i put my elbows on the hood of his car not suspecting there was a bomb planted in it. thirty six hours later let telly or drove to work with a colleague ronny moffet. the telly or died in the explosion as did ronnie moffat.

shortly afterwards the f.b.i. arrested hosts a deal nice use water ice and guillermo novo the very men they had listed in their assassination report on ricardo alarcon. two weeks later international terrorism took on new dimensions. this is the c.b.s. evening news with walter cronkite that evening nine days ago a cuban passenger jet on route from barbados to a band of crashed into the sea following an on board explosion seventy three persons fifty seven of them cuban were killed.

to cuban soil under bush and lewis pathetic and us were arrested as must to minds of the crime. what's your response to the accusations. i'm not saying as your american say no comment the cia was told that a q a cuban airliner was going to be hit. and didn't notify the cubans which one could argue was criminal. and i haven't met any investigator or agent who did not believe that luis posada was involved in the blowing up of the airline we'll

continue fighting and killing until we women. i don't make the connection between. and use on an airplane how how it went i mean i have children my children are the age of six through. the zero on. that i just imagine only three days after i went after the cuban plane blew up over barbados. in which seventy three people died eight. cia headquarters and asked me. what i knew about fidel castro's trip to angola. because it was angolan independence day. that fidel was

expected to travel there. they were already planning the next attempt to kill fidel and. some exiles use the bombing of the coupon a plane over barbados to raise money for their own cause which was more violence against cuban targets in the united states. i receive a call from the mission. by the radio saying they killed a cuban diplomat. only forty six. was fed ex i took the car i went to the place. it was called completely call omega seven says tonight's killing was an execution

and warns that the next victim would be cuban ambassador to the u.n. role rowe. one morning i left my house. he and my bodyguard told me ambassador there's a little black book that i put by that tree people you know it might be a bomb. going janitor across the street where the tree was. this decided the bomb didn't belong by his tree buddies so long by the tree at that my house is you know you walk through so you look like a he so he put it in front of my house literally two alone because when do you think the bomb expert asked where's the boxes told him the garbage truck took it. so the driver of the truck took the bomb because he thought that it was

a radio something valuable you know every time they see something of value in the trash they separate for them and come in your truck had pulled up in front of the venice walen embassy and within the two blocks away off and even into an. so we arrive. we went to the truck there was the driver i was with would for the i think the dual pickups something like these and that's a yes yes but that's my. that's my and if you lose it i'm sorry but this is for me this mom no no no no no no you know i kidding that's not a bomb. i say listen does it pass a man that yes would you please put it in the door of the of the truck when he placed the language in the door of the drug and he saw that it's the vice state's

there he opened the door and start running it. well the time has come you've seen the map reagan is our projected winner ronald wilson reagan ronald reagan's reelection provided greater impetus for the political plans of anti castro exiles in florida having understood that violence alone could not bring down the cuban government jorge moscow and also founded the cuban american national foundation with political action committees and lobbyists with reagan support moscow and also encouraged cuban americans who shared his agenda to run successfully for congress we are really the voice of the cuban american community in miami and we hope to have to convey to the all that fellow anglos our feelings about communism and why we're here in this country. it's happening in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro and of come. one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the

soviet communist system was very sick but fidel castro refused to give up the berlin wall. the fall of. the soviet union comes to one and in november one thousand nine hundred one. he's going into a freefall and. decide that they have to link. the death tax that they're going to carry out. centaur men to uncover plots against cuba. and where were they planted. in one thousand nine hundred run a gone solace hijack the plane in cuba and flew it to miami. shortly afterwards he joined the others to the rescue he was followed by antonio getting to rome on love

i need know what i do in on this and fernando gonzalez. years later these men would be known as the cuban five cuban intelligence agents whose job was to penetrate violent exile groups. if you could i mean we are gathering information about brothers to the rescue roast of rescue. saving the lives of the people who were there were. you were. dire circumstances many of them were losing their lives in the attempt because they were using you know to be anything that will float. some people might say it was a humanitarian organization. no quite the contrary while they

confided their activity to rescuing rafters they have no problems with cuban authorities the f.b.i. had also infiltrated that organization. there and former fed them information about what the brothers were doing the f.b.i. doesn't infiltrate a humanitarian organization without a reason the unit. we never did anything we saw. the harassment. bring to the problem we prepared or only we. we sent the. plan for nonviolence and confrontation with the government i've given you a normal. in one thousand nine hundred five the migration accords said rafters rescued at sea would not be taken to the us but return to cuba. people stop giving money to bustle to go and his organization why give money if the coast guard

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pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. so mistletoes mission to save lives. and he begin a new mission which was basically to taunt the government of cuba with these overflights throwing we flips out and dropping medals and different kind of you know propaganda out his window. i go if you're bored or established network bustle total claims he successfully tested his new weapon in the everglades. you know.

his plan was to fire at somewhere in cuba. i went to cuba in january of ninety six in the course of a long dinner. president castro raised the issue of the overflights with me. basically saying. you've got to tell your government to. get control of these people that are making these very veiled threats and overflights and please fix the problem to god money don't want to see it acting we talked like one to be cherished. compound our word to stop those posts the editing. and all of that border that i i mean those areas are not. where the story was phased do if you can play some of flight three on the bunker i mean dropping

leaflets i don't want to. loan. i think that is the case then on meet the country can no longer doubt made such a. almost fourteen years after president eisenhower had suggested the cubans just shoot down the airplanes the cuban government seemed to follow his advice they shot down to three brothers to the rescue plane. the plane carrying who saved all soldo returned safely to miami. endos still playing there were four people travelling to warn each plane they were poor for ice by makes in international airspace. best of the shootdown of the brothers to the rescue planes bill clinton's national

security adviser presented him with policy options military strikes against cuba or a bill tightening the already tight embargo on cuba. clinton shows helms burton or the libertad act tightening the embargo. a point you had to make a decision as to on what basis does they call me survive and they said well the only thing that we have immediately we don't depend on anyone is to reason so that the right wing cuban exiles say this is one area that we have to hit and we have to hit they launched a media savvy. campaign to make it unsafe for tourists to come to cuba. by publicly announcing that everything in cuba is a target that cuba has become a free fire zone borrowing this time from be

a. place. but it's ok that the capri you know hotels and another at the hotel cohiba. the person i talked to called himself ignatius. later on i realized he was. me. he asked me if i'd like to visit cuba. the middle east as a tourist. for

placing a few bombs he offered one thousand dollars plus all expenses the whole tourist packets. the movement to me. time a thousand dollars was big money in el salvador. i needed to take a trip for five days three days not barry still not have. some time in this summer of ninety ninety eight feel gusto hands to see him out of his letter to deliver to president clinton because that the two would meet in the white house and in that letter he offers they clinton administration. information that they're willing to

corroborate with the f.b.i. . moving at that moment. president clinton expressed his willingness to do something very well since you asked if we would host an f.b.i. delegation be that if you will that would offer them but they got through it and within two weeks an f.b.i. team goes to heaven this is june one thousand nine hundred eighty three the f.b.i. and the u.s. government did absolutely nothing about these groups but i saw. you have provided all kinds of evidence to the f.b.i. the f.b.i. then see who were the people who were supplying the q uncle i mean the information there are two and nanda swiss charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. and are due in london was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder although no

evidence existed that he had transmitted details of the fatal brothers to the rescue flights so you didn't offer any information that would have helped the cuban government to shoot down the plane no cause not if you broke the record. amount. or. we're going. or everybody knew that you know our priority some of the advice of. the war. judge joan was sentenced to write a hernandez to two terms of life without parole look at the draconian souness's that they got two life sentences plus fifteen years and this is supposed to be because of the brothers to the rescue shoot down and so forth which i have. absolutely no way of knowing the truth about because our government the cuban

american community and others have so clouded the facts and so obvious skated all of the available material on it it's not whether they were sent here because acts of terrorism were being were happening in cuba you do not send people to spy in other countries because you think that they are committing or you say they're committing acts those five that are so you know try to be painted as heroes are murderers all the men were given maximum sentences kept in solitary confinement for more than a year barred from seeing certain family members and what they believe was the most prejudicial they were not granted a change of venue out of miami well there was ample evidence of intimidation of the jury and in fact some of the jurors during the process when they were being selected specifically said that they were afraid for their families if they reached

a verdict in this case that was not acceptable to the exile community in miami i do not understand why the trial proceeded in dade county florida a change of venue to me as a layman is something that is demanded when there is absolutely no chance of the defendant or defendants getting a fair trial in the area where they're going to be tried. but it's a fact it's real it has made the cuban exiles happy today. why the difference of cuba. we can't wait for fidel castro to die for chavez to go crazy or for or. to make mistakes. remember general antonio my sales words. don't beg for freedom.

you win it with a blade of a machete. not all terrorists are treated the same clearly those that are favored by the administration can operate with impunity inside the united states people who want to partake in violent acts against cuba are protected you see individuals who are trying to stop those acts of terror is to try to. make all american law enforcement . aware of these activities and the people who end up being prosecuted.

the people who end up in jail and those who blow up airliners those who blog post tells those who can conduct acts of violence are free the toast of the town because the ministration is paralyzed by their own policy with respect to right to cuba with their own posse would start to work on terror which you see is the level of the pacific that is credible i am posada. in general for you know if his conscience bothered him from his life as. you know a military. and he said no that he slept like a baby we were fighting again the united states again got through again and now do you know where you. mean roger we are fighting anybody body what do you call a person who fights against what do you call that. who fight.

but i mean is that a freedom fighter. in that if i get counseling you want to feel. front i welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate fidel castro and any leader who was suppressing oppressing the people. and i'm glad you didn't shoot me you could have. just if you had neither of us might be here you are you see good dog and the little one has come now you do recall even though you are talking to their side and. you know what's going on during the racial speaking we did a. little but it's very simple if you watch the embargo lifted you can release political prisoners and respect human rights repression and hold free and democratic elections we do business with all sorts of. quote some type of democratic countries where there are free elections there are with us we care because it's small and because there's political benefit to doing there in florida

and you've been to cuba. i've been free cuba also knows one ton of cuba's biggest crime is its desire to be a free unsold for income tree they would forgive cuba for the poor. somebody three of them or every word during the earlier days that had his own foreign policy i didn't do that much i did what any cuban would do and we need to deal with the cuba of today not the cuba that we left not the cuba that we think is there but it isn't we need to deal with the cuba that exist today. and hopefully before. the future of that cuba and the spanish saying on your own you swim and you swim to die on the shoulder. all we did was to use. the created great they tried and taken us on twitter exile community to be honest

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