Jean-Guy Allard (Granma): Those Protecting Posada are Same People Who Conspired Against Kennedy

[magbana]

"Those protecting Posada today are the same individuals who conspired against Kennedy

by Jean-Guy Allard
Apr. 18, 2009
Reprinted from Granma Internacional

Fabian Escalante

“IT’S the same gang,” confirms retired Division General Fabián Escalante Font, former head of Cuba’s intelligence services for many years, when asked if those protecting terrorist Luis Posada Carriles today in Miami belong to the same Cuban-American mafia family who conspired to assassinate Kennedy during the 1960s.

For someone who has been investigating every aspect of the assassination of the U.S. president for many years, several of the individuals currently linked with the terrorist mechanism that provides support for Posada, were also members of Operation 40, set up by the CIA at the same time as the failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in order to eliminate the leaders of the Cuban Revolution and crush their supporters.

And among the CIA’s hired killers are several individuals linked to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas.

Last March 1, at the Big Five Club in Miami, Posada presided over a banquet organized by the Alpha 66 terrorist organization, alongside Dionisio Suárez-Esquival, the self-confessed killer of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier, who was released by George W. Bush in 2001; and Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez, leader of the group and successor of Nazario Sargent, another Operation 40 henchman.

“This is the terrorist group par excellence,” affirmed Escalante, referring to the organization funded by the CIA that is still active today - with offices in central Miami – and which benefits from the complacency and protection of the FBI and federal judges.

A DEATH SQUAD WITHIN THE INVASION

Escalante recalls that the individuals selected in Miami by Joaquin Sanjenis, ex-police chief when Carlos Prío was president of Cuba, included several individuals who are alive and well today and still active in the terrorist circles of South Florida.

“Operation 40 was created as part of the preparations for the Bay of Pigs expedition, I believe it was at the end of 1960. It was the mercenary brigade’s police intelligence and counterintelligence apparatus. Sanjenis started to bring in former police officers, former oppressors, people closely linked to the terrorism executed in Cuba during the 1950s, with its repression and assassinations…”

“The Operation 40 mission was planned to go into action behind the invasion and, in while the mercenaries were taking villages, these individuals would seize files and kill officials. Their first task was intelligence and counterintelligence and, after that, pure repression. They were returning to carry on with what they had done in ’58.”

Following the defeat at Playa Girón – the so-called Bay of Pigs – Operation 40 was initially converted into a security apparatus for the Cuban-American mafia in Miami “until those individuals started to have economic power in the heat of Operation Mongoose.”

“They were going to get a lot of money, the millions of dollars invested in the CIA’s so-called JM/WAVE base. By 1963, these people were beginning to transform themselves, at the same time as the Cuban-American mafia. That’s when they started lobbying, trying to impose a Cuba policy.”

“At that time, they were closely linked to the whole subversive and secret structure of the U.S. secret police, the CIA, the FBI, Immigration and the DEA.”

Escalante recalls how, at the end of 1960, all the planes taking weapons, military supplies, and food to the mercenaries in Guatemala and then to Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua, returned to the United States “first, with blood plasma, a business operation set up by Cubans in Nicaragua, friends of the dictator Somoza. Then they brought whiskey from Central America. Later on, they brought marijuana and cocaine.”

COVER FOR LEE HARVEY OSWALD

And so it was that in April 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald – Kennedy’s alleged assassin – turned up in New Orleans “to create a cover as a sympathizer of the Revolution by starting a support committee for Cuba – of which he was the only member. Its offices were in the same building as the Cuban Revolutionary Council, a CIA-backed counterrevolutionary organization. A FBI-funded fascist organization known as Cuba Democrática was also located in the office block.”

“There is not the slightest doubt that there was a plan, a conspiracy…In New Orleans, the only thing that Oswald did was to act as a sympathizer of the counterrevolution and then as a sympathizer of the revolutionary government,” said Escalante, author of several books on the subject.

Besides Posada, other individuals freely walking the streets of Miami today are: Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía, Che’s assassin; Antonio Veciana, founder of Alpha 66; Orlando Bosch, Posada’s accomplice in the sabotage of a Cuban passenger plane; Guillermo Novo Sampoll, linked to the murder of Chilean Foreign Minister Letelier; Virgilio Paz Romero and Jose Dionisio Suárez, who carried out that crime; Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, who murdered Artagñan Díaz Díaz; Pedro Remón Rodríguez, who murdered Félix García Rodríguez and Eulalio Negrín, in New York; Jose Basulto and many more.

“Alpha 66 was part of what the CIA called “autonomous operations,” which gave rise to a long list of terrorist attacks from the 1960s onward. The CIA assigned an officer to take care of them, establish targets, provide them with certain resources, money, weapons, explosives, and then peruse the newspapers later to find out the results.”

IN VENEZUELA, POSADA WAS ALWAYS LINKED TO THE CIA AND DISIP

In Venezuela, Posada was always linked to the secret police and the CIA, confirms Escalante.

“He never left the DISIP. First he was a CIA agent. He worked as an advisor for the DIGEPOL and later founded the DISIP. Later, when the revolutionary resistance had supposedly been crushed, in the 1970s, he grew bored of being a torturer and was already turning his hand to business. He created a private police and paramilitary organization that would execute any action whatsoever.”

And Joaquin Chaffardet, currently resident in the United States, who saved Posada with his ridiculous testimony during his trial at the U.S. immigration court.

“Chaffardet was Posada’s lawyer for all those activities, for his enterprise. When Orlando Bosch arrived, he provided support but it was Posada Carriles who was established there. He had contact with Carlos Andrés Pérez. Posada’s the one who knew Pérez’ chief bodyguard, Orlando García.”

“Remember that Orlando García was from Sanjenis’ group, from the Cuban police force…he was a gangster in the 1940s…”

That group included other notorious figures such as Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, from the U.S. National Security Council…”and it was Quintero who said that if the truth about Kennedy’s death ever came out, it would be the biggest scandal in the history of the United States.”

For Escalante, the individuals surrounding Luis Posada Carriles in Miami today, those who are providing him with logistic and financial support, are the very same “troop” who conspired to assassinate JFK during the 1960s.

“They’re the same people,” he commented. “The same ones who went to Chile for the coup d’état against Salvador Allende and who offered themselves to Augusto Pinochet as thugs for the operation… Orlando Bosch, Dionisio Suárez, Aylwin Ross, the Novo Sampoll brothers, the same band who belonged to Operation 40.”

“They’re the same ones involved in drug-trafficking in the 1970s…to such an extent that Sanjenis ended up dying in very mysterious circumstances. According to DEA declassified documents, Operation 40 adopted various names in order to remain secret and misinform people. Sanjenis died but the mechanism is still there… the same mechanism that was to develop terrorism against Cuba, even in the 1990s, when it supported the Cuban-American National Foundation.”

“They’re the same people…”

Born in Havana in 1940, Fabián Escalante Font directed State Security from 1976 to 1996, when he retired with the rank of Division General. He has published several books relating to the U.S.’ secret war on Cuba: La gran conjura (The Grand Conspiracy), Proyecto Cuba, (Project Cuba) Operación Mangosta, (Operation Mongoose), Acción Ejecutiva, (Executive Action) 1963: el complot (1963: the Conspiracy). •"
http://www.freethefive.org/usTerrorism/USTerrEscalante41809.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. Another good source on why Oswald was in New Orleans creating the appearance of

a pro-Cuba group (the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee"--the real members of which had never heard of Oswald), in the same office building with the anti-Cuba fascist/CIA groups, is James Douglass' "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters." He tracks the two Oswalds all over the world, and examines how and why the CIA was laying the trail to Cuba and Russia. Why was that they intended to pressure LBJ to nuke those countries, after the assassination; they had tried to pressure JFK to do so, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and failed; JFK would have none of it. Douglass says LBJ was innocent of assassination plotting, but agreed to the coverup to fend off pressure to nuke Cuba and Russia for the assassination. LBJ opposed starting a nuclear war, but was okay with the proxy wars. Thus, two days after the assassination, he said, "Now they can have their war." He meant the CIA/Joint Chiefs and Vietnam. JFK had also come to oppose the proxy wars, and was intent upon a plan for nuclear disarmament and world peace at the time that he was murdererd. And that is why he was murdered.

The real Oswald was very likely a patriot who thought that he was preventing the assassination of the president. He was a CIA asset, trained by the Navy to track the U-2 spy plane over Russia. He did what he was told on a "need to know" basis, and was set up to take the blame for Kennedy's death, after he had inadvertently helped lay the CIA trail thru Cuba and Russia back to himself. The other Oswald (a lookalike) was also enhancing that deadly trail (for instance, with phone calls to a top Soviet spy in the Soviet embassy in Mexico, pretending to be Oswald seeking asylum in Cuba). Douglass tracks this sorry tale to Richard Helms, then CIA operations chief. He apparently doesn't have the evidence to finger Allen Dulles (head of the CIA, whom JFK had fired for lying to him about the "Bay of Pigs"), although I'm fairly convinced that Dulles was the ultimate perp. The CIA ops against Castro and the Cuban revolution were one and the same with JFK's assassination. Same players, including the Miami mafia; same methods; parallel plots.

[magbana]

2. And, doesn't all this info suggest that the gusano-terrorists have a hold

over US policy on normalization with Cuba? These guys know so many things about what the US did concerning the assassination of Kennedy -- Posada and his buds were (are) simply the killing machines. We have been told that a Cuban community in Florida and a few Cuban politicians have prevented normalization with Cuba. Bullshit! The community is just too small and to know Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts is to . . . fill in the blanks. No,this huge nest of terrorists knows stuff (and not only about the Kennedy assassination) that would bring US intelligence agencies toppling down. So, its a neat and tidy quid pro quo. The terroist nest said a long time ago, "we will keep our mouth shut, if you, the US, keep the hard line on Cuba. Oh, and you, the US, will look the other way as we commit all manner of terrorist acts." The US' greatest fear is that a few of these guys will end up in court one day and sing like birds --and that's why the biggest terrorist in the Western Hemisphere, Posada Carriles, is kept out of sticky legal proceedings by the US government.

[Judi Lynn]

3. No doubt they would far rather throw Posada Carriles under a real bus than to allow him

to act on the threat he presents by talking again to any more ambitious reporters. As it was, he made a ton of people wildly furious with the interview he gave to the N. Y. Times' Ann Louise Bardach and Larry Rohter: "A Bomber's Tale."

He's a walking timebomb, but then, as you point out, the others are, as well, and all of them probably have shared their information with a host of others, for security's sake.