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Posada has something on Bush, says
expert on Kennedy case
BYJEAN-GUY
ALLARD —Special for Granma International—
WIM Dankbar, a Dutch specialist
on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, suspects
that Luis Posada Carriles has highly discriminating
evidence against Bush Sr. that could be divulged if
the terrorist should die a suspicious death.
In an interview with Granma
International, Wim Dankbaar (www.jfkmurdersolved.com),
who financed a new investigation into the death of
Kennedy in cooperation with retired FBI agents, is
not hiding his shock at the “reappearance” of
international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in
Miami, which: “I cannot understand.”
"This is just astounding. The
apathy of the media even more so", he continues,
"Why isn’t any media source writing that the man was
not pardoned from his sentence for killing 73
people, but that he escaped and is still a convicted
terrorist on the loose?"
Dankbaar, also a Dutch
businessman, who has made a documentary on the
assassination of Kennedy titled Second Look,
has shown how one of the three individuals arrested
by Dallas police shortly after the crime placed Luis
Posada Carriles in Dealey Square in that same city
at the moment of the assassination.
He affirms that Chauncey Holt,
one of three supposed vagrants arrested - in truth,
they were Mafia hitmen in disguise - testified on
the facts in a two-hour video recording made shortly
before his death and which was never transmitted.
“In this recording,” said Dankbaar, ”Holt names a
few Cuban-Americans, including Luis Posada Carriles.
"He
identifies the other two vagrants as Charles Rogers
and Charles Harrelson. Harrelson is a convicted
hitman serving life for another murder, and also
father of
Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson."
Chauncey
Holt was working for Meyer Lansky, notorious chief
of the Havana mafia during the 1950s, and Pete
Licavoli, another U.S. mafia leader.
But Holt,
according to the expert, was also a CIA operative.
His instructions for Dallas came from his undercover
CIA supervisor Philip Twombly of the Fullerton Bank
in California. Those instructions were specifically
to make and deliver secret service credentials to a
rabid anti-Castro militant called Homer Echevarría,
who was a close associate of Cuban exile leader
Paulino Sierra . Holt further relates that he made
ID cards in the names of Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee
Henry Oswald, Leon Oswald, Leon Osborne and Alek
Hidell.
Furthermore
he drove to Dallas from Licavoli’s Arizona ranch in
the company of Leo Moceri and Charles Nicoletti,
both hitmen for mafia moguls Giancana and Licavoli.
Holt’s testimony on the Kennedy plot is therefore
clear evidence of collaboration between the CIA,
organized crime and the Cuban exile community, with
the consent of high-level officials in the US
government. Dankbaar points out that mafia boss Sam
Giancana’s biography - edited by his brother -
discloses the role played by two buddies of former
Havana chief Santos Trafficante, one of which could
perfectly be Posada, according to the description
given.
The research financed by
Dankbaar was led by retired detective Zack Shelton,
who worked for the FBI for 28 years, principally in
Chicago and Kansas City. The film entitled
Second
Look presents
the results of his investigation.
According to
Dankbaar, the presence in Dallas of several small
groups of individuals linked both to the
Cuban-American leadership of the Batista faction and
the Italian mafia could be explained by the CIA’s
compartmentalization of its operations.
In addition to
Posada, the film reveals the presence in Dealey
Square of other known Cuban-American CIA operatives,
such as Frank Sturgis and Orlando Bosch..
Dankbaar
does not discount the possibility that Posada may
have been one of the snipers who fired at Kennedy.
He points
out that
in one
of his
recent televised special presentations, President
Fidel Castro noted that Posada used the code name
Hunter (Cazador) and boasted a certificate as an
expert sharpshooter awarded by a U.S. military
academy from which he graduated as a lieutenant,
according to a declassified document.
"Posada was
almost killed in Guatemala in 1990. It may have
been the work of the CIA. This guy knows too much,
and I don't think it is too exaggerated to assume he
has communicated some type of "insurance," says
Dankbaar.
“Remember how CIA drug smuggler
and Iran-Contra operative Barry Seal was gunned
down? If you believe his lawyer, Seal was in direct
contact with George Bush. And the personal telephone
number of George H. W. Bush was found in the trunk
of Seal's car. They blamed his murder on the
Medellin cartel, but he was scheduled to testify and
there were a lot of rumors that he had a video tape
featuring Jeb and George W. Bush."
The expert
also cites the case of David Morales: “David Sánchez
Morales is another CIA killer involved in the JFK
assassination, who died under suspicious
circumstances. He had secured his house with double
alarm systems, but not against burglars. He
confessed to a friend: ‘It's my own guys I’m worried
about. I know too damned much.’ So it's
possible that Posada could blackmail the Bush
administration... given that fact, it wouldn’t
surprise me if he gets his asylum.”
“And
does the fact that ex-operative Porter Goss, who
admits to having participated in acts of terrorism
against Cuba from the JM/WAVE station, facilitate
Posada’s return?”
“Of course.
The man that Bush selected has been part of CIA
efforts to overthrow the Castro regime and
assassinate its leader," Dankbaar confirms. “Goss is
the ideal man to keep possible scandals under the
carpet for Bush and in particular, for his father.
The two of them are both accomplices in the same
history. ”
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NOVO BROTHERS, BOSCH AND POSADA
MEET UP THROUGH THE COMPANY
In his book El Complot
(The Conspiracy) recently published by Ocean Press,
Fabián Escalante, retired general and ex-chief of
Cuban Intelligence, notes that a report received
from his service in mid-1963 referred to “the
presence of a subject subsequently identified as
(Lee Harvey) Oswald at a meeting of a group of
terrorists of Cuban origin, including the Novo
brothers, Orlando Bosch, “Tony” Cuesta and Luis
Posada, in a CIA safe house on the outskirts of
Miami.”
Escalante likewise disclosed how
Posada Carriles and Guillermo Novo Sampoll, now both
back in Miami, as well as Orlando Bosch, released in
July 1990 by President George Bush Sr, appear on the
list of suspects involved in the conspiracy to
assassinate Kennedy drawn up by the Cuban state
security agencies.
Escalante described how in April
1963, Cuban-American capos in Florida and New Jersey
created an organization called the Junta of the
Cuban Government in Exile (JGCE), involving Carlos
Prío Socarrás, an ex-president of Cuba; Felipe
Rivero and Paulino Sierra González, a U.S. mafia
representative.
One month later there was a
meeting on Bimini in the Bahamas, in the vicinity of
Miami, attended by Carlos Prío, mafioso capo John
Roselli; William Carr, the aide of Colonel King,
head of the CIA Western Hemisphere Division; and
Robert Rogers, the case officer.
Subsequently there were meetings to the same end
that included terrorists like Frank Sturgis, Howard
Hunt, Orlando Piedra, Antonio (Tony) Cuesta, Eladio
del Valle, Joaquín Sanjenis, Manuel Artime, Orlando
Bosch, Antonio Veciano and... Luis Posada Carriles.
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