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Total impunity
In Miami, killer Novo Sampoll swears
never to give up violence
JEAN-GUY ALLARD
GUILLERMO Novo Sampoll, the hired killer whom the
CIA used for years to do its dirty work against Cuba
from the United States, and from other areas of the
continent, has sworn that he will never give up
violence and terrorism and will not ask anyone for
forgiveness of his crimes.
In
an interview given to CubaNews, a specialized
bulletin published in Wheaton, Maryland, Novo – who,
along with his brother Ignacio Sampoll, Gaspar
Jiménez Escobedo, Pedro Remón, Dionisio Suárez,
Virgilio Paz, Luis Posada Carriles and others – was
one of the bloodiest killers employed by U.S.
intelligence against Cuba, affirmed that he has no
remorse of any kind for what he has done. “I will
continue believing that this is the way,” he
repeated.
Based in Miami, where he benefits from the impunity
from prosecution granted to Cuban-American
terrorists by the FBI, openly laments that, in 50
years, he has not been able to assassinate leaders
of the Revolution, something which he views as a
failure.
He
regards the “movement” of the so-called dissidents –
trained and financed in Cuba by the CIA via the
USAID – as weak. “They are confused… and live with
constant brainwashing and are not exposed to other
ideas,” declared the criminal, who emigrated to the
United States from Cuba at the age of 15 and
immediately became part of the CIA network of
anti-Cuban terrorist groups.
In
2004, Novo Sampoll was sentenced in Panama for acts
of terrorism together with Posada Carriles, as a
result of plotting to blow up an amphitheater full
of students and members of popular organizations
meeting there to listen to the leader of the Cuban
Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
In
another part of his interview with journalist Tracey
Eaton, the CIA hitman recalled how his father, a
Spanish immigrant representing a U.S. manufacturer
of Max Factor cosmetics, died when the boiler of his
neighbor, who made glue for shoes, accidentally
exploded.
Novo
Sampoll did not say exactly what his participation
was in a whole string of acts of terrorism, but he
did specify what he considers the feats of his
accomplices, who were all trained, instructed and
financed by the Central Intelligence Agency in line
with the Plan Cuba ordered by Eisenhower, the U.S.
president during the initial months of the Cuban
Revolution.
He
took part in a failed bazooka attack on the UN
building in New York with his brother Ignacio, while
Comandante Che Guevara was addressing the
international organization’s General Assembly.
Arrested by local police, he was released on the
pretext of not having been advised of his rights.
As
the capo of the so-called Cuban Nationalist
Movement, he was also involved in the assassination
of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier
in September of 1976 in Washington, and in dozens of
criminal acts throughout the world against Cuban
interests.
In
the course of the interview, Novo abstained from
mentioning his participation in CIA operations in
the Southern Cone, where he acted as a terrorist and
murderer within Plan Condor.
In
Argentina, when the military torturers of the
sinister Orletti Automobiles clandestine garage
invited their “colleagues” from U.S. intelligence,
the CIA sent in Miami Cubans, among them Novo
Sampoll, who was engaged in the so-called “war
through the pathways of the world,” carrying out
attacks and murders in different countries, with
his Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias
(CORU) terrorist organization.
When
those same Argentines kidnapped two young Cuban
diplomats, Crescencio Galañega Hernández, aged 26,
and Jesús Cejas Arias, aged 22, on August 9, 1976,
the FBI and the CIA sent Novo Sampoll to Argentina
to interrogate them, even though he was on parole,
together with the Chilean agent Michael Townley,
currently living in exile in Miami.
The
two young Cubans disappeared forever. It is said
that their bodies were thrown into the wet cement
foundations of a building under construction.
Novo
Sampoll was never questioned by legal authorities in
the United States regarding this horrific crime,
despite the fact that several members of the
military have repented and testified during the
course of official investigations in Argentina,
among them, General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda,
former head of the Chilean DINA, in a statement to
Argentine Judge María Cervini de Cubría.
The
terrorist confided that he is constantly in contact
with Posada Carriles. He believes that Posada should
not be tried. “How many Cubans enter this country
illegally and receive political asylum the next
day?” he asked, shamelessly asserting that the
octogenarian terrorist had nothing to do with the
mid-flight sabotage of a Cuban passenger plane in
1976, which caused the death of its 73 passengers
and crew.
“He
is a happy man,” the thug, now aged 65, asserted.
Novo’s incendiary statements,
given in his home in Mafiosi Miami, were made while
five Cubans, who infiltrated Cuban-American
terrorist circles, like the one to which Novo
belongs, remain sequestrated in U.S. prisons.
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