Violent Cuban Counterrevolutionary Luis Posada Subject of First Congr'l Hearing

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Violent Cuban Counterrevolutionary Luis Posada Subject of First Congr'l Hearing

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See the press release from Delahunt's office here:

Rep Bill Delahunt to Hold Hearing on Case of Luis Posada Carriles 11/15/07

http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20071112/071577.html

National Security Archive Update - November 14, 2007

http://www.nsarchive.org

For more information contact:

Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000

VIOLENT [COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY] LUIS POSADA

SUBJECT OF FIRST CONGRESSIONAL HEARING

National Security Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh Will Testify

Tomorrow at Delahunt Hearing on the Bush Administration's handling

of Posada's Case

Washington D.C., November 14, 2007 - Two and half years after

the [notorious] violent Cuban [counterrevolutionary] and former CIA

operative Luis Posada Carriles returned to the United States, and six

months after he was freed from immigration detention, Congress will

hold its first hearing tomorrow on how the Bush Administration has

handled his case. Peter Kornbluh, who directs the National Security

Archive's Cuba Documentation Project, will testify before the House

Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human

Rights, and Oversight, chaired by Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA).

The hearing will take place at 3 pm in Room 2237 of the Rayburn

House Office Building. Other witnesses include Roseanne Nenninger,

the sister of a Guyanese medical student killed on the plane, and

journalist Ann Louise Bardach, who interviewed Posada for the New

York Times in 1998. Posada's lawyer, Arturo Hernandez, is also

scheduled to appear.

Kornbluh's testimony and key declassified CIA and FBI documents

implicating Posada in the bombing of Cubana flight 455 in October

1976 that he will analyze will be posted tomorrow on the Archive's

website: http://www.nsarchive.org . The Web site contains multiple

postings of declassified records relating to Posada and the airplane

bombing, as well as his career in the CIA, that provide useful

background for coverage of the subcommittee hearing.

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University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes

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