Luis Clemente Posada Carriles was a Cuban exile militant and Central Intelligence Agency agent. He was considered a terrorist by the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Government o
Luis Posada at Fort Benning, Georgia, US, 1962
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 Navarrete, Luis Posada Carriles and Frank Castro"
Fidel Castro, the target of an alleged failed assassination attempt in 2000
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
Luis Posada Carriles
…Organizations, described by the FBI as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization". Posada and CORU are widely considered responsible for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Posada later admitted involvement in a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots. In addition…
CU-T1201, the aircraft involved in the incident, pictured in April 1976
Billboard demanding justice for Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 in Havana (2011).
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.