FBI Wiped Out Posada File.
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Havana, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Miami destroyed hundreds of pieces of evidence against international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, Granma daily headlined Friday.
The newspaper quoted US journalist Ann Louise Bardach on the Democracy Now radio program, as saying the original documents in Posada Carriles´ file were wiped out in 2003, while Panamanian justice was trying to gather accusatory facts against him.
"My sources within the FBI were very dismayed, because sometime after 2002, the original files in the evidence room of the Miami FBI were destroyed," the journalist indicated.
Original Western Union cables and faxes were among those documents, stated Bardach, recalling that most courts demand original evidence, not copies or facsimiles.
"Someone made the decision to close the case in 2003, when Posada was fairly much in the news. That is the year we think it happened," the journalist explained.
The original texts in Posada´s file, kept for years in the Miami FBI safe, were destroyed on the orders of Hector Pesquera, then the FBI capo and attorney for South Florida.
When the evidence was wiped out in Miami, the Panamanian Attorney´s Office was readying to try Posada Carriles and his three accomplices for the failed assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro, during the Ibero-American Summit in that country.
Following a bilateral agreement, Panamanian legal authorities had urged the US embassy to hand them over the file of Posada and the Cuban-Americans involved.
After a long wait, they only received a dossier containing obsolete, insignificant evidence, useless for the case.
Documents declassified by the US intelligence service and disclosed over the last few days have corroborated the US government was always well informed on Posada Carriles´ crimes.
He is currently at a detention center in Texas and is only accused of having entered US territory illegally, despite the extradition request by Venezuela to try him for having masterminded the explosion of a Cuban airplane in 1976.
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