Washington D.C. May 10, 2005 - Declassified CIA and FBI records posted on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University identify Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is apparently in Florida seeking asylum, as a former CIA agent and as one of the "engineer[s]" of the 1976 terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 that killed 73 passengers.
The documents posted include CIA records confirming that Posada was an agent in the 1960s and early 1970s, and remained an informant in regular contact with CIA officials at least until June 1976.
The declassified recordleaves no doubt that Posada has been one of the world's most unremitting purveyors of terrorist violence.
