Luis Posada Carriles

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Luis Posada Carriles was a Cuban exile and anti-Castro militant widely accused of involvement in terrorist attacks, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.


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instanceOf Cuban exile
anti-Castro militant
intelligence operative
person
acquittedOf lying to U.S. immigration authorities
allegedInvolvement assassination attempts against Fidel Castro
bombing of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
series of bombings in Havana tourist sites in 1997
allegedInvolvementDate 1976-10-06
arrestedIn Panama
United States
Venezuela
causeOfDeath throat cancer
chargedWith immigration fraud in the United States
countryOfCitizenship Cuba
United States
Venezuela
dateOfBirth 1928-02-15
dateOfDeath 2018-05-23
detainedAt El Paso, Texas, United States
employer Central Intelligence Agency
Venezuelan intelligence service DISIP
ethnicGroup Cuban
familyName Posada Carriles
fullName Luis Clemente Posada Carriles
givenName Luis
ideology Cuban anti-Castroism
anti-communism
languageSpoken Spanish
legalStatus accused of terrorism by Cuba
accused of terrorism by Venezuela
wanted by Venezuelan authorities for bombing of Cubana Flight 455
militaryRank lieutenant colonel
movement Cuban exile movement
notableFor anti-Castro activities
involvement in violent actions against the Cuban government
occupation intelligence agent
military officer
security consultant
pardonCountry Panama
pardonReceivedFrom Mireya Moscoso
pardonYear 2004
participatedIn Bay of Pigs invasion preparations
placeOfBirth Cienfuegos, Cuba
placeOfDeath Miami, Florida, United States
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Miami, Florida, United States
trainedAt Fort Benning
trainedBy Central Intelligence Agency
trial U.S. federal trial in El Paso on immigration-related charges

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Luis Posada Carriles ("Luis Clemente Posada Carriles")
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