Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was an international Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 air
CU-T1201, the aircraft involved in the incident, pictured in April 1976
Billboard demanding justice for Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 in Havana (2011).
Declassified FBI report that reads: "Our confidential source ascertained ... that the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8 was planned, in part, in Caracas, Venezuela, at two meetings attended by Morales Navarette, Luis Posada Carriles and Frank Castro"
This memorial was erected in recognition of the 73 people who were killed in the crash of Cubana Flight 455 just off the coast of Bridgetown, Barbados, in early October 1976.
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intel
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
…were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team. Several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles, among them Rafael De Jesus Gutierrez, a Cuban intelligence officer of the Batista regime turned CIA spy after the Cuban…
George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia
In 2015, under the tenure of John Brennan, the CIA underwent its largest organizational restructuring since its founding in 1947.
The 140 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the CIA headquarters, each representing a CIA officer killed in action
CIA director Allen Dulles on the cover of Time magazine in 1953