Reply #5: God, this is great news! Happy goddamned hunting to them. THEY are doing the world a favor if they

[Judi Lynn]

can find these filthy criminals.

I've heard that Cuban "exiles" from the U.S. participated. They definitely were part of the Condor operation which murdered Chilean diplomat, Orlando Letellier, and his American associate, and wounded her husband in Letelier's car on the streets of Washington, D.C., in BROAD DAYLIGHT.

_{George W. Bush} got right on it after he stole office and pardoned the two Cubans who headed to Miami. It was covered in the papers. Those two scums hardly spent any time in prison, after it was all said and done, for bombing the bejesus out of a perfectly fine person and his American assistant.

One of Posada’s co-conspirators in the Panamanian bomb plot, Guillermo Novo, was implicated, too, in the right-wing terrorism that flared up during George H.W. Bush’s year in charge of the CIA.

Novo was convicted of conspiracy in the bombing deaths of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, who were killed on Sept. 21, 1976, as they drove down Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.

That terror attack, which was organized by Chile’s secret police with the aid of Novo and other anti-Castro Cubans, was the first case of state-sponsored terrorism in the U.S. capital. The bombing was part of a broader assassination campaign ordered by right-wing South American dictatorships under the code name “Operation Condor.”

If the Letelier-Moffitt murders had been solved quickly, there was a danger the revelations could have hurt Republican election chances in 1976, when President Gerald Ford was in a tight race with Democrat Jimmy Carter.

Linking the Chilean government to an audacious terror attack in the heart of the U.S. capital would have revived critical press coverage of the CIA’s role in the overthrow of Chile’s elected socialist government in 1973, a coup that had put in power Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who, in turn, launched “Operation Condor.”

At the time of the Letelier-Moffitt car bombing, Bush’s CIA had evidence in its files that implicated Pinochet’s secret police in the plot to kill Letelier, an outspoken critic of the military regime. But Bush’s spy agency withheld the incriminating information from the FBI and misdirected the investigation away from the guilty parties.
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/042405.html



One of the fine skills honed in this country by some real fine human beings (sarcasm): hiding somewhere and blowing up someone's car without ever being seen.