{"id":2544,"date":"1976-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1976-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2544"},"modified":"1976-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1976-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"3411051976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1976\/10\/05\/3411051976\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/5\/1976"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Another thing happened under [George H.W.] Bush, not even two weeks after the murder of [Leader of Chilean exile community, Orlando] Letelier in Washington [approx.. October 5, 1976]. Cuban exiles, who had been trained by and worked for the CIA, blew up a Cuban civilian airliner just after it had taken off from Barbados on its way back to Havana. Seventy-three people aboard were killed. This was an exile group under Orlando Bosch, the former pediatrician, who now lives in Miami selling his paintings, and going scot-free-a principal terrorist. That was under Bush as Director of the CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philip Agee, \u201cA Century of War and Bad Faith; Cuba History, and the CIA,\u201d Prevailing Winds Magazine, March 9, 1994, Pages 31-32<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Another thing happened under [George H.W.] Bush, not even two weeks after the murder of [Leader of Chilean exile community, Orlando] Letelier in Washington [approx.. October 5, 1976]. Cuban exiles, who had been trained by and worked for the CIA, blew up a Cuban civilian airliner just after it had taken off from Barbados on […]<\/p>\n

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