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malaise

(297,981 posts)
Wed May 20, 2026, 02:59 PM 4 hrs ago

Cubana de Aviacin Flight 455

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_455

Background
On 11 June 1976, Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) was founded in the Dominican Republic by Cuban exiles. CORU united five anti-Castro Cuban exile groups,[8] including Alpha 66 and Omega 7. For three months prior to the bombing of Flight 455, CORU waged a campaign of violence against several Caribbean countries which had established links with Cuba.

In July 1976, the same flight was targeted in Jamaica by a suitcase bomb which exploded shortly before being loaded onto the plane.[9] Other bombings in the summer included a number of offices of airlines carrying out business with Cuba, including the offices of the BWIA West Indies Airways in Barbados; of Air Panama in Colombia; and of Iberia and Nanaco Line in Costa Rica.[8]

Other attacks included the murder of a Cuban official in Mexico and two more Cuban officials in Argentina;[8] the September assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.; and "a mysterious fire in Guyana [which] destroyed a large quantity of Cuban-supplied fishing equipment."[9]

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More inversion of reality

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Cubana de Aviacin Flight 455 (Original Post) malaise 4 hrs ago OP
Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush Kid Berwyn 4 hrs ago #1
Indeed malaise 4 hrs ago #2
I remember first hearing you lost a member of your close family. Kid Berwyn 3 hrs ago #5
Cubana vishnura 4 hrs ago #3
OUR terrorist mass murderers go free. Kid Berwyn 3 hrs ago #4

Kid Berwyn

(25,109 posts)
5. I remember first hearing you lost a member of your close family.
Wed May 20, 2026, 03:36 PM
3 hrs ago

The memory still feels like my heart fell out of my chest.

Kid Berwyn

(25,109 posts)
4. OUR terrorist mass murderers go free.
Wed May 20, 2026, 03:34 PM
3 hrs ago
From the National Security Archives at George Washington University:

Washington D.C. May 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today posted additional documents that show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. The Archive also posted another document that shows that the FBI's attache in Caracas had multiple contacts with one of the Venezuelans who placed the bomb on the plane, and provided him with a visa to the U.S. five days before the bombing, despite suspicions that he was engaged in terrorist activities at the direction of Luis Posada Carriles.

Source with additional information and links to government documents:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm

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