Reply #15: Here is some stuff on Posada, Rodriguez, Trafficante and CANF

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Is this the group going to meet Bush?
I cannot get the Miami Herald link above for some reason.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/posada/posada-decades.htm
........Basing himself on a series of declassified secret documents, Meldon
bravely describes Posada Carriles’ relationship with the late Jorge
Mas Canosa, founder and leader of the Cuban American National
Foundation (CANF) and frequent guest at the White House under
Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton.
In an article entitled "The CIA’s Dope Smuggling ‘Freedom Fighters,’"
published in December 1998, Meldon explains how the CIA’s ties to
the Cuban-American mafia and its drug traffickers originated with the
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, for which the CIA trained hundreds of
Cuban exiles in addition to seeking out the worst of Havana’s
gangster elements from the ’50s who had taken refuge in the United
States.
A top-secret element of the invasion plan was Operation 40, whose
personnel included Posada Carriles; Felipe de Diego, a former
commercial representative in Cuba of Firestone Tire and Rubber and
future Watergate burglar; Félix Rodríguez, later head of covert
operations and drug trafficker for the Nicaraguan contras; and
various henchman identified by the mafia. That parallel force was to
enter the island clandestinely as the invasion was under way, in order
to carry out various actions aimed at destabilizing the Revolution.
After the invasion’s spectacular failure, the CIA continued to utilize
elements of Operation 40 for various covert missions, until in 1970 a
small aircraft used by the group crashed in Southern California with
several kilos of cocaine and heroin on board............