On October 6, 1976 a Cuban Airlines flight carrying 73 passengers and crew from Barbados to Jamaica was blown out of the sky by two time bombs. Everybody on board was killed including 24 members of the Cuban National Fencing Team, many of them teenagers. The subsequent investigation revealed several CIA-linked anti-Castro exiles were involved. CIA documents released in 2005 indicate that the CIA knew of various plots to bomb a Cuban passenger plane by anti-Castro terrorists as early as June, 1976. Four men were arrested, two were convicted, one escaped and is now living in the United States (Luis Posada Carrilles) and one, Orlando Bosch, was acquitted and eventually moved to the United States where he died in 2011. The trials were held in Venezuela, and Bosch was acquitted on a technicality that evidence of his involvement could not be admitted.
After he arrived in the US, Orlando Bosch was taken into custody and declared an “undesirable alien”. The Federal Government issued a report linking him to right-wing terror groups suspected in 50 bombings in the US and Latin America, and the Justice Department accused him of personal involvement in 30 terrorist acts. The Attorney General at that time, Richard Thornburg, called Bosch an “unrepentant terrorist”. Despite all the evidence Bosch had significant support from the Cuban exile community in Florida who saw him as some kind of “hero”. Among his supporters at the time was a politically ambitious and wealthy real estate developer, Jeb Bush, whose father George H. W. Bush was the current President. Working with Cuban American leaders and politicians, Jeb successfully lobbied his father to drop the charges against Bosch and allow him to settle in Miami. With the support of the same Cuban-Americans he worked with to obtain Bosch’s release, Jeb was elected Governor of Florida a few years later.
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