Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC, New York Public Radio
Underreported: The Acquittal of Luis Posada Carriles
14 minutes Posted Apr 14, 2011 at 10:21 am.
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Eighty-three-year-old Luis Posada Carriles is a former CIA operative. He has been connected to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the funneling of U.S. money to the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s, a series of attacks on Havana hotels in 1997, and the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Posada was acquitted this month of charges that he lied to U.S. immigration officials when he entered the country in 2005. Jefferson Morley, a former editor at The Washington Post and the author of Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, looks at Posada's background and his recent acquittal.