4 Nations Join Cuba to Study Crash It Blames on CIA Joanne Omang Washington Post Foreign Service (1974-Current file); Oct 21, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post pg. A22 ?tNations Join Cuba to Study Crash It Blames on CIA By Joanne Omang ing to decide whether to return Bosch poared in the local Spanish.language travell ed wltb Dominican and Costa weaponry and was decorated. He then on suspicion of having bombed fit .. Washlnaton Post Forei~n Sen-Ice to the United States, where he is press. Rican passports a..; wel1. both false, a worked with the CIA among the Cu· Cuban plane. Freddy Lugo and Her­ ',, , Oct. 20- charged with parole violation. He was It was CORU, Cubans here said, fact the conspiracY theorists cite as ban refugees in l\'liarni, according to nan Richardo, had made contact with Representatives of five Caribbean and jailed in l\1iami from 1968 to 1972 for ~'hi('h caIled l\liami news organiz~ proof that he has powerful backers. the conspiracy line, and later came to Posada the day of the crash. - Latin American- governments met in attempting to kill an ')"Bl 'agent, Ri· . ions to claim responsibility for the Chief among Bosch's alleged CIA Venezuela, where he worked for tbe "It all fits together very nicely, al· Trinidad today to discuss a division of cardo Morales Navarrete. ,lane crash. It was reported at the links is , a former government security agency. His de­ most too nicely," said a Venezuelan labor in the escalating probe of a Cu­ The countries sending repre.!:entatives ime that a group called "Condor" Venezuelan Security officer and now tective agenc~ headquarters, police government official in an interview. b.."a Airlines bombing Oct. fL to the Trinidad meeting are Venezuela, :Iaimed responsibility but the Cuban private detective who was arrested here said, contained high·powered ra­ The Chilean government, avowedly 'The crash, which killed 73 persons host Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Bar· ~eftists say this was a mjsunderstand~ here with Bosch Oct., 14. The Cuban dio equipment and antennae. anti·Communist, has been helping to 5'7. of them Cubans, has become th~ bados and Cuba. Jlg. embassy spokesman said Posada In an interview he had in >Septem· finance anti·Castro groups here for foc~ or attempts by Cuban Prime Cubans and other! on both the left On the other hand. the Costa Rican worked in the security forces of for· ber with the Venezuelan magazine several years, according to the official Minister and the Vene­ and the right insist that Bosch has government said Bosch had been ex­ mer dictator Fulgencio Batista and l\lomento, Posada was identified as a and otHer sources. Prominent Chilean zuelan left to prove the existence of a backing from three sources: the CIA, pelled from that country in May, a fled to the United States in 1959, "former employee of the American officials have alIe:;edIy attended gath· hemisphere·wide attack. orchestrated the Chilean government and' anti·Cas· month before the alleged organiza· when Castro took power. police." erings of the CORU anti-Castro group by .the Central .Intelligence Agency, tro Cuban. living in Caracas and in tional meeting, for having a false Chi· He allegedly joined the U.S. Army. Trinidad police said they bad proof In Miami. and Bosch and Posada have against Castro, hIS government and its Miami. He also has been tolerated by lean passport. He reportedly has received training in explosives and that the Venezuelans heing held there visited Santiago on several occasions. friends. The qIA's operatives. accord. the Venezuelan pollee, many of whom ing to the theory. are rightist Cuban are themselves staunch anti-Castro exiles, and their targets have ranged Cuban•. The conspiracy theorist! are from Cubana Airlines offices in pan­ working. hard to establish li~s among ama to formei Chilean Foreign Minis­ Bosch, the Leteller and ter Orlando Letelier. the Oct. '6 plane crash. , Castro's charges against, the CIA According to Venezuelan press re-­ were detailed in the Oct. 15 Havana ports, denied, by ,police bere, Bosch .weech in which he unilaterally can. named the brothers Guillermo and Ig· ~led Cuba's anti -hijacking agree­ nacio N.ovo Samnol, hoth Cuban refu­ ment with the United States. ~ees living in the United States. as : The thrust of Castro's charge rela­ those who, planted the bomb in Leteli· tes to the number of recent acts-he er's car Sept. 21. He wiIs targeted. left­ Usted nim' this \'car-against Cuba. ist Cubans eharge here, as a friend of ...... expressed by the Cuban Embassy's Castro's who they allege organized press attache. Pedro Gomez, it is Chilean recognition of Cuba six years t),tat "so many events. with such so­ ago and as a favor to the current phisticated devices and so many con­ right·wing Chilean junta. nected people-no one but the CIA According to Castro. Bosch united would have the facilities to do it," five anti-Castro groups durin~ a June , At thc ccntcr of the alleged organi· meeting in Costa Rica under the name zation is Orlando B05Ch. 49, a Cuban United Revolutionary organizations refugee leader who remains under ar· Command-CORU in its Spanish acro· rest in Caracas on unstated charges. nym. The group's existence is common Venezuelan authorities were awaiting knowledge in Miami. 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